Very Proud of Ya

Biography

This would be the first time AFI would work with a producer (and since it was a horrible experience they wouldn't work with one again until 2000's The Art of Drowning). The album, although 24 songs in length (hidden track on the CD, and 3 vinyl only tracks) actually only consisted of 14 new songs, one of which is the hidden instrumental "No Dave Party" before "He Who Laughs Last..." on the CD version of the album. 8 songs had all been previously released on AFI's earlier 7"es and 2 more were on...

This would be the first time AFI would work with a producer (and since it was a horrible experience they wouldn't work with one again until 2000's The Art of Drowning). The album, although 24 songs in length (hidden track on the CD, and 3 vinyl only tracks) actually only consisted of 14 new songs, one of which is the hidden instrumental "No Dave Party" before "He Who Laughs Last..." on the CD version of the album. 8 songs had all been previously released on AFI's earlier 7"es and 2 more were on their first LP, 1995's Answer That and Stay Fashionable. 8 of the previously released songs were re-recorded for this release with the intent of getting the songs out to people who may have missed out on the earlier years of the bands career, thus not being able to have purchased those limited 7"es that the songs originally appeared on. The other two were re-recorded because they were Dexter's favorite songs off of Answer That and Stay Fashionable, so he asked them to do 'em again. Trivia: - US Edition (error pressing)(no CD image/artwork)(quantity unknown - only ONE (1) is known to exist) - US Edition (test pressing)(23 Tracks - no Theory Of Revolution, track 1 is No Dave Party, contains Vinyl Only tracks) (quantity unknown) - A copy of Very Proud of Ya has just been discovered on Opaque Dark Green Vinyl with slight Black and White Marbling! This rare find has the songs for Side B pressed on both sides of the record. The labels are correct, with a Side A label on one side, and a Side B label on the other side, but "Fishbowl" is the first track on both sides. - AFI made their first ever music video for this album. - AFI have never played "No-Dave Party", "Cult Status", "Soap-Box Derby", "Charles Atlas", "Take the Test", or "Shatty Fatmas" live. - Adam was always against the title of the album. - They were influenced by RANCID and how they had around 20 songs on their albums, so AFI followed their lead and did the same. - Geoff left after this album, at the end of the Sick of It All/Snapcase tour. - Hunter started touring with AFI on this album, but was not an official member yet. - This record is the first AFI release to continuously stay in print with no breaks in production. - The vinyl version includes three songs not originally available on CD version of the album. - This is the first AFI release to exist in its entirety in demo form prior production. All tracks found on the album were recorded as demos before actual recording began, some of which have subtle differences in performances and/or arrangements. These demo recordings remain unreleased. - The hidden pregap track on the CD version of the album, "No-Dave Party", was intended to feature lead vocals from all members of AFI except Davey Havok (hence the song's title), yet only made it to the point of having the instrumental tracks recorded. The vocals were left unfinished due to time constraints in the studio. - Several additional tracks that were intended to appear on the album made it to the point of having all instrumental tracks recorded, but the vocals were left unfinished due to time constraints in the studio. These songs were subsequently completely re-recorded in their entirety at a later recording session. - Again, due to time constraints in the studio, VPOY is not presented in its complete form as intended, at least in the case of several songs in which many of the guitar solos were omitted from the recording sessions in order to ensure the completion of the vocal tracks. - Even at the time of the release of VPOY, some members of the band were disappointed with the "finished" product, having felt that the recordings were not a fair representation of the band or the song selection, based on the limited amount of time allotted for developing the songs before the album sessions began and the methods utilized during the production of the recordings. It was felt that the band was given too short an amount of time to write and finalize new songs before entering the studio, hence the re-recording of several previously released songs from various EPs and compilations. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.