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

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Bob Dinners and Larry Noodles Present Tubby Turdner's Celebrity Avalanche
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Studio album by
ReleasedApril 16, 2001
RecordedLowdown Studios, San Francisco, California
Genre Indie rock
Length50:20
Label Communion
Producer Greg 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
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The Great Alternative & Indie Discography 4/10 [6]
Pitchfork Media 8.6/10 [7]

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]

Contents

Production

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

Critical reception

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

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

Thinking Fellers Union Local 282
Production and additional personnel

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