Lovelyville

Lovelyville
Studio album by Thinking Fellers Union Local 282
Released	December 12, 1991
Recorded	Lowdown Studios, San Francisco, California
Genre	Noise rock, indie rock, experimental rock
Length	57:17
Label	Matador
Producer	Greg Freeman, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 chronology
Tangle (1989) Lovelyville (1991) Mother of All Saints (1992)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Robert Christgau	(B-)[2]

Lovelyville is the third album by Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, released December 12, 1991 on LP and CD through Matador Records. The CD contains bonus tracks entitled "The Crowded Diaper."

Recording

In between the studio recordings on Lovelyville are a great number of lo-fi snippets of what the band calls "Feller filler"—"murkier meanderings recorded in rehearsals on a four-track or boom box."^[3] A few bits of Feller filler are lo-fi version of the band's single "2×4s", and the song "Mother Uncle Delicious Tasty" is a sped-up voice speaking over a slowed-down recording of the song "Change Your Mind" from the band's previous album. Also present on the album are snippets of dialogue between Peter J. Haskett and Raymond Huffman from the Shut Up, Little Man! tapes that had been circulating in San Francisco.

Lovelyville also features a cover of "Green-Eyed Lady" by Sugarloaf.

Track listing

Lovelyville

All songs written and composed by Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, except "Green-Eyed Lady" by Jerry Corbetta and Dave Riordan. 

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Four O'Clocker 2"	3:25
2.	"Not This World"	1:13
3.	"Nail in the Head"	6:04
4.	"Green-Eyed Lady"	3:44
5.	"Mother Uncle Delicious Tasty"	0:55
6.	"Street's Vibrated With the Traffic and Power Tools"	0:16
7.	"Mark My Words"	0:40
8.	"Push"	0:32
9.	"More Glee"	6:16
10.	"Big Hands"	2:45
11.	"The Marshall"	1:29
12.	"Sinking Boats"	4:48
13.	"Motorin' Flarey Jenkins"	2:34
14.	"2x4s"	4:25
15.	"Nothing Solid"	7:18

The Crowded Diaper

No.	Title	Length
16.	"Maverick"	1:36
17.	"Wonderbread Display"	0:33
18.	"The Meat Display"	1:31
19.	"Strife Is Good"	2:08
20.	"The Marshall's Boonts"	0:32
21.	"The World Is Changing for Good"	0:53
22.	"The Demise of Craig"	3:40
23.	"Horrible Hour"	4:17

Personnel

Thinking Fellers Union Local 282

• Paul Bergmann – drums
• Mark Davies – bass guitar, guitar, Casio synthesizer, drums, euphonium, vocals, trombone on "Nothing Solid"
• Anne Eickelberg – bass guitar, vocals
• Brian Hageman – guitar, viola, tape, vocals, mandolin
• Jay Paget – drums
• Hugh Swarts – guitar, vocals

Production and additional personnel

• Paul Bergmann – accordion on "Nothing Solid"
• Chris Clougherty – clarinet on "Nothing Solid"
• Greg Freeman – production, engineering
• Margaret Murray – illustrations, oboe on "Nothing Solid"
• Chas Nielsen – illustrations
• Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 – production
• David Tholfsen – contrabass clarinet on "Nothing Solid"

References

1. Phares, Heather. "Lovelyville". Allmusic. Retrieved February 28, 2013.
2. Christgau, Robert. "Thinking Fellers Union Local #282: Lovelyville". Robert Christgau.com. Retrieved February 28, 2013.
3. Clements, Paul. "Thinking Fellers Union Local 282". Perfect Sound Forever. Perfect Sound Forever. Retrieved 6 November 2014.

External links

• Lovelyville at Discogs (list of releases)