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I guess I should post since this is indirectly about me.

AOL were great up until shortly before "White Trash Heroes."


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I don't think they put out a bad album until the live one, but I generally don't like live albums. White Trash Heroes is their last one that I have but I can't remember much of the songs from it. Vee Vee is probably my favorite though.

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Mutes In The Steeple

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they don't sound anything like pavement.

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I dig all the records, but it was definitely Icky MEttle that made me fall in love with that band once upon a time. Their live show was pretty unbelievable back then as well. Whoever suggested you go chronologically is right on the money. The records get more and more tom waits-y as they go along. If you really get curious about more stuff from Eric Bachman the main songwriter you might also check out his Barry Black record after checking out the Crooked Fingers stuff. That Barry Black record was totally ignored and I really liked it at the time. I need to revisit and see if it holds up. It was an instrumental album of klezmer-like music if memory serves me right... anyway if you like Archers, you might want to also check out Polvo at some point. A little noisier bunch of dudes from Chapel Hill at roughly the same time.


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HaqDiesel Wrote:
How did I miss these guys when I was going through my Pavement phase? I just got Icky Mettle from e-music (after browsing ChicagoMike's downloads for things that I've been meaning to try), and I love it. Amazingly, I also couldn't find a single thread with "Archers of Loaf" in the title, so I started one.

Where should I go from Icky Mettle?

Let this be a lesson to anyone else who hasn't listened to this band because their name is kind of stupid, or you keep confusing them with Archer Prewitt (who were rly rly boring when you saw them in Chicago), or for other unrelated reasons: Archers of Loaf are good and they sound like Pavement.


White Trash Heroes is good too.

Great band.. I think from NC tho I could be wrong? Were around when Polvo was playing (from NC). It was a great age for indie music then.


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It wasn't until last year that I heard this band either. Somehow I managed to miss them and Superchunk in the 90s.

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Wow. :shock: :shock:


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I dig all the records, but it was definitely Icky MEttle that made me fall in love with that band once upon a time. Their live show was pretty unbelievable back then as well. Whoever suggested you go chronologically is right on the money. The records get more and more tom waits-y as they go along. If you really get curious about more stuff from Eric Bachman the main songwriter you might also check out his Barry Black record after checking out the Crooked Fingers stuff. That Barry Black record was totally ignored and I really liked it at the time. I need to revisit and see if it holds up. It was an instrumental album of klezmer-like music if memory serves me right... anyway if you like Archers, you might want to also check out Polvo at some point. A little noisier bunch of dudes from Chapel Hill at roughly the same time.


haha...sorry i posted the polvo link without reading this. :oops:


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Guys, they don't sound nothing like pavement. I mean, maybe in the tiny universe of mid-90s sloppy guitar college rock they do, but really they don't.


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The Pinchers of Loaf would have been a better name.

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Wow, Icky Mettle came out in 94. That's 13 years ago. Makes me feel old.

I think this album was my intro to the lackluster Alias Records catalog.


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I think this album was my intro to the lackluster Alias Records catalog.


Knapsack was the only other band I liked on that label.

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Guys, they don't sound nothing like pavement. I mean, maybe in the tiny universe of mid-90s sloppy guitar college rock they do, but really they don't.
really dude, they do(?). other than both being rock bands I really don't know where you're getting this, except for the fact that maybe i know both bands too well (although i've never really listened to pavement much).


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shiv Wrote:
Toilet Duck Wrote:
I think this album was my intro to the lackluster Alias Records catalog.


Knapsack was the only other band I liked on that label.


i think that small 23 had a good song.

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yeah i don't get the pavement comparisons. maybe if pavement wasn't for pussies?

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Icky Mettle is the RAWK. Vee Vee takes a distant second best in my opinion.

I would recommend against The Speed of Cattle. A lot of different versions (read: sloppier with worse recording) of their songs from other albums.

One of the guys from Archers is a new member of Band of Horses for the new album.


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Icky Mettle is the RAWK. Vee Vee takes a distant second best in my opinion.

I would recommend against The Speed of Cattle. A lot of different versions (read: sloppier with worse recording) of their songs from other albums.

One of the guys from Archers is a new member of Band of Horses for the new album.


Matt Gentling. He plays bass like a crazy dude.

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How Eric Bachmann didnt make that whole "100 best living songwriters" thing in Paste last year is beyond me.


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Guys, they don't sound nothing like pavement. I mean, maybe in the tiny universe of mid-90s sloppy guitar college rock they do, but really they don't.


Your double negative has confused me (and apparently others too). Are you saying they do sound like Pavement or they don't?

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archers of loaf sounds like buffalo tom to me, not pavement.

lucky for me, i like archers, bt and pavement.

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HaqDiesel Wrote:
Guys, they don't sound nothing like pavement. I mean, maybe in the tiny universe of mid-90s sloppy guitar college rock they do, but really they don't.


Your double negative has confused me (and apparently others too). Are you saying they do sound like Pavement or they don't?


They do. I don't mean they sound exactly like pavement, but there are plenty of similarities in the guitar sound, vocal delivery, etc..


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jewels santana Wrote:
shiv Wrote:
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I think this album was my intro to the lackluster Alias Records catalog.


Knapsack was the only other band I liked on that label.


i think that small 23 had a good song.


noodles?


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I heard Crooked Fingers first, then his latest solo album, and then Archers of Loaf. I'm a huge Eric Bachmann fan, but when I first heard Archers, it totally wasn't the voice I was used to. Still liked it, though.


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