Bob Dinners and Larry Noodles Present Tubby Turdner's Celebrity Avalanche

Bob Dinners and Larry Noodles Present Tubby Turdner's Celebrity Avalanche is the final album by Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, released in 2001 through Communion Records.[8]

Bob Dinners and Larry Noodles Present Tubby Turdner's Celebrity Avalanche
Studio album by
ReleasedApril 16, 2001
RecordedLowdown Studios, San Francisco, California
GenreIndie rock
Length50:20
LabelCommunion
ProducerGreg Freeman, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282[1]
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 chronology
I Hope It Lands
(1996)
Bob Dinners and Larry Noodles Present Tubby Turdner's Celebrity Avalanche
(2001)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
Alternative Press[3]
The Boston Phoenix[4]
Robert Christgau(2-star Honorable Mention)(2-star Honorable Mention)[5]
The Great Alternative & Indie Discography4/10[6]
Pitchfork Media8.6/10[7]

Production

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Akin to past albums, the band recorded hours of rehearsals and then cut and pasted together musical passages to create songs.[9]

Critical reception

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SF Weekly called the album "the band's most layered recording yet, with no shortage of keyboards, overdubs, vocal harmonies, and perplexing noises."[10] The East Bay Express wrote that "strange and ordinary instruments converge to make a blend of music that is at once identifiable but yet vastly different from anything you've ever heard before."[9] Portland Mercury wrote: "Stooges riffs clash with mechanical clicks; quivering melodies frame John Bonham-style percussion blasts, then melt Velveeta-smooth into cracked-out vocal asides."[11] CMJ New Music Monthly wrote that "an immense, haunting radiance erupts from [the band's] tortured instruments."[12]

Track listing

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All tracks are written by Thinking Fellers Union Local 282

No.TitleLength
1."Another Clip"3:51
2."Sno Cone"5:14
3."You Will Be Eliminated"0:12
4."Holy Ghost"6:30
5."Everything's Impossible"4:06
6."Birth of a Rock Song"0:34
7."You in a Movie"5:01
8."Boob Feeler"1:02
9."In the Stars I Can Sizzle Like a Battery"3:11
10."El Cerrito"4:38
11."'91 Dodge Van"1:37
12."Reminder"0:41
13."The Barker"3:49
14."He Keeps Himself Fed"10:06

Personnel

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Thinking Fellers Union Local 282
  • Mark Davies – instruments
  • Anne Eickelberg – instruments
  • Brian Hageman – instruments
  • Jay Paget – instruments
  • Hugh Swarts – instruments
Production and additional personnel

References

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  1. ^ "Thinking Fellers Union Local 282". www.furious.com.
  2. ^ Way, Brian. "Bob Dinners and Larry Noodles Present Tubby Turdner's Celebrity Avalanche". Allmusic. Retrieved February 28, 2013.
  3. ^ columnist (July 2001). "Thinking Fellers Union Local #282: Bob Dinners and Larry Noodles Present Tubby Turdner's Celebrity Avalanche". Alternative Press: 77.
  4. ^ "The Boston Phoenix April 20-26, 2001: Vol 30 Iss 16". Boston Phoenix. 20 April 2001.
  5. ^ Christgau, Robert. "Thinking Fellers Union Local #282: Bob Dinners and Larry Noodles Present Tubby Turdner's Celebrity Avalanche". Robert Christgau.com. Retrieved February 28, 2013.
  6. ^ Strong, Martin Charles (1999). The great alternative & indie discography. Canongate. ISBN 9780862419134.
  7. ^ Tangari, Joe (March 20, 2001). "Thinking Fellers Union Local 282: Bob Dinners and Larry Noodles Present Tubby Turdner's Celebrity Avalanche". Pitchfork Media. Retrieved February 28, 2013.
  8. ^ "Thinking Fellers Union Local 282". Trouser Press. Retrieved 9 February 2021.
  9. ^ a b Turner, Michelle (11 May 2001). "Union, Si!". East Bay Express.
  10. ^ "Collective Cacophony". SF Weekly. May 2, 2001.
  11. ^ Hiller, Joan. "Family Reunion". Portland Mercury.
  12. ^ "Reviews". CMJ New Music Monthly. CMJ Network, Inc. April 9, 2001 – via Google Books.
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