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Bob Dinners and Larry Noodles Present Tubby Turdner's Celebrity Avalanche
Studio album by Thinking Fellers Union Local 282
Released	April 16, 2001
Recorded	Lowdown Studios, San Francisco, California
Genre	Indie rock
Length	50:20
Label	Communion
Producer	Greg Freeman, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282
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
Source	Rating
AllMusic
Alternative Press
The Boston Phoenix
Robert Christgau
The Great Alternative & Indie Discography	4/10
Pitchfork Media	8.6/10

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.

Production

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

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." 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." 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." CMJ New Music Monthly wrote that "an immense, haunting radiance erupts from tortured instruments."

Track listing

All tracks are written by Thinking Fellers Union Local 282

Personnel

Thinking Fellers Union Local 282

• Mark Davies – instruments
• Anne Eickelberg – instruments
• Brian Hageman – instruments
• Jay Paget – instruments
• Hugh Swarts – instruments

Production and additional personnel

• Whitney Cowing – photography
• Saul Downs – design
• Greg Freeman – production, engineering
• John Golden – mastering
• Earl Kuck – design
• Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 – production

References

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. ^ 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.

External links

• Bob Dinners And Larry Noodles Present Tubby Turdner's Celebrity Avalanche at Discogs (list of releases)

• 2001 albums
• Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 albums