Mother of All Saints

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Mother of All Saints
Mother Of All Saints tful282.jpg
Studio album by
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282
Released1992
RecordedLowdown Studios, San Francisco, California
Genre Noise rock, indie rock, experimental rock
Length69:40
Label Matador
Producer Greg Freeman, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 chronology
Lovelyville
(1991)		Mother of All Saints
(1992)		 Where's Officer Tuba
(1993)

Mother of All Saints is an album by the American band Thinking Fellers Union Local 282. [1] [2] It was released in 1992 through Matador Records. [3] The band supported the album by playing shows with Bailter Space. [4]

Contents

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [5]
Chicago Tribune Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [6]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [7]
The Great Alternative & Indie Discography 6/10 [8]
Spin Alternative Record Guide 8/10 [9]

The Chicago Tribune deemed the album "a sprawling, 23-song, 70-minute heap of fragmented melodies, noise and roundabout backwoods ruralism." [6] The Gainesville Sun praised the "staggering epic weirdness." [10]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Thinking Fellers Union Local 282.

No.TitleLength
1."..." (retitled "The Herald" on YouTube [11] )0:08
2."Gentleman's Lament"2:47
3."Catcher"2:27
4."Hornet's Heart"2:41
5."Star Trek"3:59
6."Tell Me"4:07
7."Heaven for Addled Imbeciles"1:22
8."Hive"4:41
9."Hummingbird in a Cube of Ice"4:04
10."None Too Fancy"2:47
11."Wide Forehead"4:09
12."Infection"5:18
13."Pleasure Circle"1:26
14."Tight Little Thing"1:43
15."Hosanna Loud Hosanna"1:17
16."Tuning Notes"4:08
17."Shuddering Big Butter"2:52
18."1" Tall"4:29
19."Raymond H."5:52
20."..." (retitled "The Toad Submerged" on YouTube [12] )0:49
21."Cistern"4:37
22."El Cerrito"2:48
23."Fish Bowl"1:07

Personnel

Thinking Fellers Union Local 282
Production and additional personnel

References

  1. ↑ "With a great cranky clatter, the avant-garde rock band...". Arizona Daily Star. November 20, 1992. p. 26F.
  2. ↑ Reynolds, Simon (February 6, 1993). "Mother of All Saints by Thinking Fellers Union Local 282". Melody Maker. 69 (6): 33.
  3. ↑ Powers, Ann (November 7, 1992). "Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, from the nonconformist enclave of San Francisco...". The New York Times. p. 1:13.
  4. ↑ West, Phil (April 29, 1994). "TIME FOR A CHALLENGE? STOP BY THE OFF RAMP". The Seattle Times. p. D42.
  5. ↑ Phares, Heather. "Mother of All Saints". AllMusic. Retrieved February 28, 2013.
  6. 1 2 Margasak, Peter (January 21, 1993). "Rave Recordings". Tempo. Chicago Tribune. p. 6.
  7. ↑ "The encyclopedia of popular music". 1998.
  8. ↑ Strong, Martin Charles (1999). The great alternative & indie discography. Canongate. ISBN   9780862419134.
  9. ↑ Spin Alternative Record Guide , page 402-403
  10. ↑ Doherty, Jim (August 11, 1995). "Iowa's Thinking Fellers return Wednesday". The Gainesville Sun.
  11. ↑ "The Herald". YouTube .
  12. ↑ "The Toad Submerged". YouTube .


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