Vs the Greatest of All Time explained

Greatest of All Time
Type:Ep
Artist:Archers of Loaf
Cover:Vs the Greatest of All Time cover.jpg
Released:September 19, 1994
Recorded:1994
Genre:Indie rock
Length:17 minutes
Label:Alias Records
Prev Title:Icky Mettle
Prev Year:1993
Next Title:Vee Vee
Next Year:1995

Archers of Loaf vs. The Greatest of All Time (often shortened to either "Greatest of all Time" or simply GOAT) is the first EP by North Carolina indie rock band Archers of Loaf. The EP was recorded shortly after their first album Icky Mettle, and the styles are very similar.

The cover art for the EP includes a photograph of former Toronto Maple Leafs star King Clancy.

Critical reception

Robert Christgau gave the EP an A− grade, writing that the Archers of Loaf "...sound like a live band ready to service a living audience, their gleeful anger felt rather than assumed." When asked if this remark meant that the Archers of Loaf had fooled Christgau through their performance on the EP, the band's frontman Eric Bachmann told CMJ New Music Monthly, "Yeah...it probably just means we're good at it."[1] In 2012, Pitchfork Medias Paul Thompson wrote that the EP ranked "among indie rock's finest short-players", describing it as "17 utterly riveting minutes of bloodletting."[2]

Track list

All songs written by Eric Bachmann, Eric Johnson, Matt Gentling and Mark Price.

  1. "Audiowhore"
  2. "Lowest Part Is Free!"
  3. "Freezing Point"
  4. "Revenge"
  5. "All Hail the Black Market"

"Freezing Point" and "Revenge" are also features on The Speed of Cattle LP.

The song "Greatest of all Time" was not featured on this release but rather their second full length, Vee Vee.

Notes and References

  1. 1995 . This Month's Model . CMJ New Music Monthly . 20 . 17.
  2. Web site: Reissues Review . Thompson . Paul . Pitchfork Media . 2012-08-14.