Wormed by Leonard

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Wormed by Leonard
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Studio album by
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282
ReleasedAugust 1988
Recorded1988
Genre Noise rock, indie rock, experimental rock
Length54:09
Label Thwart Productions [1]
Producer Greg Freeman, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 chronology
Wormed by Leonard
(1988)		 Tangle
(1989)

Wormed by Leonard is the debut studio-recorded cassette by the band Thinking Fellers Union Local 282. [2] It was released in 1988 through Thwart Productions. [3] It was reissued on LP and CD in 1995 with six live bonus tracks. [4] The title derives from Roger Worm and Jerry Leonard, two high school classmates of Eickelberg and Davies from West Delaware Senior High School, in Manchester, Iowa.

Contents

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [5]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [1]
Spin Alternative Record Guide 6/10 [6]

Trouser Press called the album "the band’s most delicate recording, showing an early folky vein." [7] The Spin Alternative Record Guide wrote that the album "contains potentially hazardous levels of low-fi noisemaking and free-association poetry." [6] Reviewing the album's 1995 reissue, SF Weekly wrote that "all of the Thinking Fellers' trademark elements appear in nascent glory, from alternatively tuned string-tornado rave-ups and enigmatic home recordings to quirky pop distillations and jokey goofs." [4]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Thinking Fellers Union Local 282

Side one
No.TitleLength
1."It's Seven"1:06
2."Hell Rules"3:07
3."Leaky Bag"3:54
4."I Don't Know"2:23
5."Milva Spectre"2:40
6."Nipper"4:47
7."Oregon Trail"2:11
8."Misfits Park"2:55
9."Coming and Going"1:26
10."Mr. Tuna's Big Old Place"3:41
Side two
No.TitleLength
1."Narlus Spectre"3:14
2."KLTX"0:43
3."Truck Driving Man"2:20
4."Out in the Kitchen"6:29
5."A Serious Matter"1:21
6."Mile Wide"4:35
7."Motorin' Flarey Henderson"1:49
8."Indigestion"1:34
9."Get Off My House"5:53
10."Scraping Skin Off My Shoulder"0:43
CD issue
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
21."Trevor" 2:13
22."Superstar" Bonnie Bramlett, Leon Russell 5:00
23."If I Were in a Shoe" 1:55
24."Squidder Boy" 2:36
25."Fat Christmas" 1:35
26."Not in the Popply Dimension" 2:05

Personnel

Thinking Fellers Union Local 282
Production and additional personnel

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References

  1. 1 2 Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 8. MUZE. p. 124.
  2. ↑ Coley, Byron (November 1989). "Underground". Spin. Vol. 5, no. 8. p. 110.
  3. ↑ "Thinking Fellers Union Local #282 | Biography & History". AllMusic.
  4. 1 2 "Recordings". SF Weekly. October 25, 1995.
  5. ↑ Phares, Heather. "Wormed by Leonard". AllMusic. Retrieved February 28, 2013.
  6. 1 2 Spin Alternative Record Guide. Vintage Books. 1995. pp. 402–403.
  7. ↑ "Thinking Fellers Union Local 282". Trouser Press. Retrieved 5 February 2021.
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