Thinking Fellers Union Local 282: S & D, C or D...

I put together a fan compilation of all the odds and ends, and I'm posting here so the thread will nag me into completion/upload, it's all done.

Did you use this as a starting point? iirc the band chose the tracklist for this one:

https://www.discogs.com/Thinking-Fellers-Union-Local-282-TFUL282/release/1722045

(...although that one omits "Father" which is my absolute #1 favorite song of theirs)

01 Nipper
02 2x4's (7" version)
03 Horrible Hour
04 Outhouse Of The Pryeeee
05 I Am Beautiful, I Am Good
06 Heaven For Real Idiots
07 Strolling Big Butter
08 282 Years
09 Hugh Swarts - Theme From Sunset On Hair Mountain.flac
10 Paul Bergmann - Where Are You Going & Where Have You Been_.flac
11 Jay Paget - Birthday Stew.flac
12 Anne Eickelberg - Sick Of You.flac
13 Brian Hageman - Fruity Fantasies.flac
14 Ed Sullivan.flac
15 Holiday For String
16 The Electrocutioner
17 Electric Chair.flac
18 Everyday
19 Fistful Of Dollars
20 The Kids Are In The Mud
21 Broken Bones
22 Wally and the Ghost.flac
23 Blank Eyed Devil.flac
24 Shiny Pig.flac
25 Entoloma.flac
26 Who Are Parents

(all non-LP stuff, singles, comp tracks, etc._

notes:

1. This song has been vehemently disowned by the band, and they refused to include it on the 2LP/CD reissue of “Wormed By Leonard”, but it was on the original cassette release. If you want to make a CD of these tracks, just delete this one and you’ll have enough room!

2-3. Their first 7” release, different & earlier version of “2x4’s”

4. split single w/Sun City Girls that has never been reissued in any form

5-8. alternate versions and one outtake from Mother Of All Saints - from the “Where’s Officer Tuba?” EP

9-13. solo tracks from each band member, from a Bananafish compilation CD

14. from the compilation series “Lyrics By Ernest Noyes Brookings”

15. from a rare cassette compilation on an obscure Olympia WA label, I’m sure this is a cover but don’t know who wrote it.

16. Residents cover from the “Eyesore” compilation CD

17. compilation track from the “Sidereal Rest” CD on Scratch Records

18-19. 7” released on Amarillo, 19 is an Ennio Morricone piece

20-21. 7” released on Japan Overseas

22. from the CD, this volume of the 7” series was never released as vinyl

23. from a CD compilation included with Badaboom Gramaphone #4 magazine

24. from a CD compilation included with Sound Collector #6 magazine

25. from the “Hangin’ From The Devil’s Tree” compilation CD

26. Shaggs cover!! from the “Better Than The Beatles” compilation CD

links soon

hey that would be awesome thanks

https://shardsofbeauty.blogspot.com/2020/04/oh-hi-i-was-shocked-out-of-my-laziness.html

missed the "odds & ends" part of your OP lol, well done!

I have an almost-as-great CDs worth of otherwise-unreleased live trax, but it needs work

http://sunshinesmilefactory.blogspot.com/2010/02/thinking-fellers-union-local-282-duck.html?m=1

I bought the discs for this comp from the Yahoo group way back when and was wondering if I could find my CD drive to upload 'em--thought I'd do a search first. Links appear to still be good.

wow, thanks!

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very nice too

just got one, thanks for the reminder - it had been on my list for a while

listening to Strangers From the Universe, forget how singular this band is

imago have you listened to this band?

thanks for bumping this thread -- still want to get one of the shirts

I got a comment on my shirt recently - it's like finding yr people, man.

I am wearing the shirt right now

afaik imago has still not properly understood how this band is his platonic ideal of music, I actually thought abt mentioning that to him earlier when I saw him on Slack Zoom but I forgot

imago, listen to this again

Slack Zoom what? ... apparently the shirts are sold out. I kinda feel like there's a link between TFUL and early Charming Hostess (the version with the Idiot Flesh folx)

good call! I never put those together but yeah

This seems pertinent to this thread:

https://bulbous-monocle.bandcamp.com/

yep!! word on the street is that there is a live album coming as well

Very cool! Exactly how limited are those repressings I wonder?

I don't think at all? nothing on the Bandcamp page about a limited press...

Oh weird, I thought I saw it on this thread -- there's a really handy archive.org live overview I rather recommend, Tyler sent it around separately I think

https://archive.org/details/tful292-a-concordance-in-three-parts

Strangers From The Universe specifically I should have mentioned is described twice as: "Limted edition 12" black vinyl LP"

xp

oh hmm. yeah not sure abt that (I have an OG so not in the market)

and Ned thanks so much for that link, had not seen it, some real gems in there

Yer welcome!

Cool new Bandcamp guide here

https://daily.bandcamp.com/lists/thinking-fellers-union-local-282-album-guide

https://open.spotify.com/episode/5lJLy0MSrkgz8UHf3GuepL?si=8c275cfb81184e76
probably on other platforms too

Was kind of amazed to go through the tour dates on their site and see that they only played CBGB once in 1990 - the July 28 show I saw. Feel really lucky to have stumbled across them that night.

By some cosmic miracle they played *three* times in Memphis in 95, each time very much its own thing, each time wonderful. Setlist.fm is no help with this so at least the TFUL site confirms it. The lines for their last 90s tour at the Chicago stop (Lounge Ax) were off-putting and I'd seen them three times recently so I passed, but regret it now. They were the best.

i always wonder exactly how different from primus they were. residents. wackiness. silly voices.
"cistern" & "flames up" till the end, tho

Jeez, I feel old. I just looked back to see if I ever posted about times I've seen them live, and saw that I posted about it in 2003 - 19 years ago!

those reunion shows were so good. in Portland OR a guy got up on stage near the end of the set and just hugged each member in turn wordlessly, there was applause

I guess that Cooler show I saw in winter of '97 was the last time they ever played in NYC. That Bandcamp guide is pretty good but it leaves out 2 of their best albums, Wormed by Leonard and Mother of All Saints.

that's because that are (sadly) out of print, I think

that they

They have them (digitally) on Bandcamp.

oh weird, yeah those should have been in there

Opinion of the writer, I guess!

this is ILX, we can't just shrug it off as "opinion of the writer"

Ty Segall is another possible Fellers grand-nephew. But they’re all from California, so perhaps the thread can be found somewhere along the I-5 corridor?

??? Does the writer not know that Ty Segall was also a SF Bay Area band as well as Dwyer's OCS oeuvre and Deerhoof?

there was another error in that article but I'm not gonna go back to look for it, anything that raises the band's profile makes me happy tbh

I do think there is some truth to the I5 corridor argument, Oregon was very friendly to the Fellers and they had a large and rabid fanbase

(also, Anne and Mark both live in PDX now, so there ya go)

I do think there is some truth to the I5 corridor argument, Oregon was very friendly to the Fellers and they had a large and rabid fanbase

― sleeve, Saturday, October 29, 2022 4:20 PM (fifty-five seconds ago)

there's def Oregon/Bay Area crossover in terms of that aesthetic for sure ... well, probably going up to Seattle with Sun City Girls. ...even though SF is not close to I-5. It's definitely an odd turn of phrase when you are choosing 3 SF Bay bands to connect to a band "from" the SF Bay Area.

Anyway -- I think I am going to just agree with what you said about "anything that raises the band's profile making me happy" because yeah.

lol I always forget SF is not actually on I5, sorry