After years of being out-of-print, and available for the first time as digital download, Yep Roc Records will reissue the original three Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet albums—Savvy Show Stoppers, Dim The Lights, Chill The Ham, and Sport Fishin’:  The Lure of the Bait, The Luck of the Hook—September 16. The albums are now available for pre-order.

Each album includes bonus tracks with expanded artwork, liner notes by Bon Von Wheelie, Bry Webb and Scott McCaughey, and contextual essays by band associates and a chihuahua. Translated from Latin, the albums were remastered from first-generation tapes by Grammy Award-winning engineer Peter J. Moore.

Twenty-plus years after their last reverb trail dissipated, the remains of Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet have reconstituted. The Men were first reanimated in 2012, and have been semi-active since, revealing a stature and distinct influence that has only grown since their original incarnation.

Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet existed originally between 1984 and 1995. Having released three albums and 12 singles, the band appeared on numerous compilations (including the formative It Came From Canada series), toured extensively throughout North America and England, and were one of the first Canadian bands to record a Peel Session for BBC D.J John Peel. Additionally, they beat David Foster out of one of the two JUNO Awards they were nominated for, backed B-52’s vocalist Fred Schneider on his Just Fred album, and scored a couple of feature films and the television series Kids in the Hall.

Recent years have seen them named as finalists in Toronto’s daily newspaper, as the “Best Toronto Band Ever,” and be indicted into the mysterious Independent Music Hall of Fame, for being “true Independent pioneers.”

Founding members Brian Connelly (guitar) and Don Pyle (drums) are joined by extended family member Dallas Good, of The Sadies, playing bass guitar for the foreseeable future, with select tour dates throughout 2016. Shadowy Men bass player Reid Diamond died in 2001, after a battle with cancer.

Savvy Show Stoppers

Side A

01 Good Cop Bad Cop

02 Musical Interlude

03 Theme From T.V.

04 Zombie Compromise

05 Malfunction

06 Shake Some Evil

07 You Spin Me Round ‘86

08 Vibrolux Deluxe

09 Run Chicken Run

Side B

01 Bennett Cerf

02 Egypt Texas

03 Customized

04 Our Weapons Are Useless

05 Shadowy Countdown

06 Harlem By The Sea

07 Having An Average Weekend

Bonus Tracks (on CD version and digital download included with LP)

– Big Saxophone Lie

– Misty

– Summer Wind

– Big Baby

– Customized (Sax Tape)

Dim the Lights, Chill the Ham

Side A

01 Dim the Lights, Chill the Ham

02 Reid’s Situation

03 I Know a Guy Named Larry

04 Exit From Vince Lombardi High School

05 Aunt’s Invasion

06 Running Meredith

07 Bang Bang

08 Hot Boxcar

09 In My Room

10 Dewy Drops of Spring

11 5 American 6 Canadian

12 Who Painted Whistler’s Mother

13 Case of the Missing Lady Fingers

14 Jackpot

Side B

01 D. Tour

02 Hunter S. Thompson’s Younger Brother

03 Misogomy & the Object

04 Ben Hur Picked Off in a Gazebo

05 Who’s Afraid of Alison Hymer/Wow Flutter Hiss

06 You Spin Me Round ’86

07 Babakganoosh

08 Siesta Cinema

09 Dim the Lights, Chill the Ham Reprise

10 Thanks for Buying Our Vinyl

Bonus Tracks (on CD version and digital download included with LP)

– The Alouette (She Was Canada’s First Satellite, Way Before the Americans Even)

– Tired Of Waking Up Tired

– Rover And Rusty

– Foreign / Aft

– Santa’s Compromise

– Winterfresh

– Deck The Halls

– Having An Average Weekend ’78

Sport Fishin’:  The Lure of the Bait, The Luck of the Hook

Side A

01 Unwatchable A

02 Spend A Night, Not A Fortune

03 Three Piece Suit

04 Fortune Tellin’ Chicken

05 Relax You Will Think You Are A Chicken

06 Plastics For 500, Bob

07 That Wuz Ear Me Callin’ A Horse

08 The Singing Cowboy

09 Farbs

10 Spy School Graduation Theme

11 Cheese In The Fridge

Side B

01 Unwatchable B

02 Mecca

03 Haig, Earl

04 Algoma Reflections

05 We’re Not A Fucking Surf Band

06 Peas Porridge Rock

07 Honey, You’re Wasting Ammo

08 They Don’t Call Them Chihuahuas Anymore

09 Off Our Back Conrad Black

10 We’ll Be Right Back

11 What I Like About Grease

12 Memories of Gay Paree

13 Babywetsitself

Bonus Tracks (on CD version and digital download included with LP)

– Lick (feat. Fred Schneider)

– Sugar In My Hog (feat. Fred Schneider)

– The Last Of My Hiccups

– The Jehrney

– Song of the Lobster

– Underground Sounds

– 16 Encores