Hooray for Tuesday

{{Infobox album

| name = Hooray for Tuesday

| type = Album

| artist = the Minders

| cover = Hoorayfortuesday.jpg

| alt =

| released = 1998

| recorded =

| venue =

| studio = Pet Sounds, Denver, Colorado, US

| genre = Psychedelic rock

| length = 27:05

| label = spinART

| producer = Robert Schneider

| prev_title =

| prev_year =

| next_title = Cul-De-Sacs and Dead Ends

| next_year = 1999

}}

{{Album ratings

|rev1 = AllMusic

|rev1Score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite web |title=Hooray for Tuesday Review by Tyson Bjorge |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/hooray-for-tuesday-mw0000043784 |website=AllMusic |access-date=21 May 2024}}

|rev2 = PopMatters

|rev2Score = 8/10{{cite web |last1=Zupko |first1=Sarah |title=The Minders Hooray for Tuesday |url=http://popmatters.com/music/reviews/s/splitsville-minders.html |website=PopMatters |access-date=21 May 2024 |archive-date=3 September 2000 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000903193234/http://popmatters.com/music/reviews/s/splitsville-minders.html |url-status=bot: unknown }}

}}

Hooray for Tuesday is the debut album by Denver-based Elephant 6 band the Minders, released in 1998 on spinART.{{cite book |last1=DeRogatis |first1=Jim |title=Turn on Your Mind: Four Decades of Great Psychedelic Rock |date=2003 |publisher=Hal Leonard |page=594}}{{cite magazine |last1=Troper |first1=Morgan |title=Pop Psychology, Martyn Leaper, and the Minders |magazine=The Believer |date=October 8, 2018 |url=https://www.thebeliever.net/logger/pop-psychology-martyn-leaper-and-the-minders/}} It was produced by Robert Schneider, who worked on it before and after his production work on In the Aeroplane Over the Sea.{{cite magazine |last1=Pratt |first1=Sarah |title=Reviews |magazine=CMJ New Music Monthly |date=Nov 1998 |issue=63 |page=49}}{{cite book |last1=Cooper |first1=Kim |title=Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea |date=2005 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing}}

Track listing

{{Track listing

| all_writing = Martyn Leaper except where noted

| title1 = Hooray for Tuesday

| length1 = 3:11

| title2 = Yeah Yeah Yeah

| length2 = 2:09

| writer2 = M. Willhite

| title3 = Comfortably Tucked Up Inside

| length3 = 2:26

| title4 = Pauline

| length4 = 2:24

| title5 = Our Man in Bombay

| length5 = 2:05

| title6 = I've Been Wondering

| length6 = 1:50

| title7 = More and More

| length7 = 1:48

| title8 = Pass It Around

| length8 = 1:51

| title9 = Joey's Pez

| length9 = 1:53

| title10 = Red Bus

| length10 = 2:40

| title11 = Bubble

| length11 = 1:41

| writer11 = R. Cole

| title12 = Frida

| length12 = 3:52

| title13 = I'm So Low

| total_length = 27:05

}}

Personnel

  • Artwork [Art Direction] – M.Willhite, S. Willhite
  • Artwork [Original Painting, Art Direction] – M. Leaper
  • Bass, Vocals – Marc Willhite
  • Drums, Vocals – Rebecca Cole
  • Flute, Saxophone [Alto] – Merisa Bissinger
  • Guitar, Vocals – Jeff Almond
  • Keyboards, Guitar, Producer, Recorded By – Robert Schneider
  • Photography By – Steve Gjevre
  • Trombone – Rick Benjamin
  • Vocals, Guitar [Rhythm] – Martyn Leaper
  • Written-By – Marc Willhite (tracks: 2), Martyn Leaper (tracks: 1, 3 to 10, 12, 13), Rebecca C. Cole (tracks: 11)

References