Mother of All Saints
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{{Infobox album
| name = Mother of All Saints
| type = Album
| artist = Thinking Fellers Union Local 282
| cover = Mother Of All Saints tful282.jpg
| alt =
| released = 1992
| recorded = Lowdown Studios, San Francisco, California
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = Noise rock, indie rock, experimental rock
| length = 69:40
| label = Matador
| producer = Greg Freeman, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282
| prev_title = Lovelyville
| prev_year = 1991
| next_title = Where's Officer Tuba
| next_year = 1993
}}
Mother of All Saints is an album by the American band Thinking Fellers Union Local 282.{{cite news |title=With a great cranky clatter, the avant-garde rock band... |work=Arizona Daily Star |date=20 Nov 1992 |page=26F}}{{cite journal |last1=Reynolds |first1=Simon |title=Mother of All Saints by Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 |journal=Melody Maker |date=Feb 6, 1993 |volume=69 |issue=6 |page=33}} It was released in 1992 through Matador Records.{{cite news |last1=Powers |first1=Ann |title=Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, from the nonconformist enclave of San Francisco... |work=The New York Times |date=7 Nov 1992 |page=1:13}} The band supported the album by playing shows with Bailter Space.{{cite news |last1=West |first1=Phil |title=TIME FOR A CHALLENGE? STOP BY THE OFF RAMP |work=The Seattle Times |date=April 29, 1994 |page=D42}}
Critical reception
{{Music ratings
|rev1 = AllMusic
|rev1score = {{rating|3|5}}{{cite web |first=Heather |last=Phares |url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r178818|pure_url=yes}}|title=Mother of All Saints |publisher=AllMusic |date= |accessdate=February 28, 2013}}
|rev2 = Chicago Tribune
|rev2score = {{rating|3.5|4}}{{cite news |last1=Margasak |first1=Peter |title=Rave Recordings |work=Chicago Tribune |date=21 Jan 1993 |department=Tempo |page=6}}
|rev3 = The Encyclopedia of Popular Music
|rev3score = {{rating|3|5}}{{cite web | url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofp007lark/page/5390/mode/2up | title=The encyclopedia of popular music | date=1998 }}
|rev4 = The Great Alternative & Indie Discography
|rev5 = Spin Alternative Record Guide
|rev5score = 8/10Spin Alternative Record Guide, page 402-403
}}
The Chicago Tribune deemed the album "a sprawling, 23-song, 70-minute heap of fragmented melodies, noise and roundabout backwoods ruralism." The Gainesville Sun praised the "staggering epic weirdness."{{cite news |last1=Doherty |first1=Jim |title=Iowa's Thinking Fellers return Wednesday |work=The Gainesville Sun |date=August 11, 1995}}
Track listing
{{Track listing
| all_writing = Thinking Fellers Union Local 282
| title1 = ...
| length1 = 0:08
| note1 = retitled "The Herald" on YouTube{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9ZO8WnWEwY|title = The Herald|website = YouTube}}
| title2 = Gentleman's Lament
| length2 = 2:47
| title3 = Catcher
| length3 = 2:27
| title4 = Hornet's Heart
| length4 = 2:41
| title5 = Star Trek
| length5 = 3:59
| title6 = Tell Me
| length6 = 4:07
| title7 = Heaven for Addled Imbeciles
| length7 = 1:22
| title8 = Hive
| length8 = 4:41
| title9 = Hummingbird in a Cube of Ice
| length9 = 4:04
| title10 = None Too Fancy
| length10 = 2:47
| title11 = Wide Forehead
| length11 = 4:09
| title12 = Infection
| length12 = 5:18
| title13 = Pleasure Circle
| length13 = 1:26
| title14 = Tight Little Thing
| length14 = 1:43
| title15 = Hosanna Loud Hosanna
| length15 = 1:17
| title16 = Tuning Notes
| length16 = 4:08
| title17 = Shuddering Big Butter
| length17 = 2:52
| title18 = 1" Tall
| length18 = 4:29
| title19 = Raymond H.
| length19 = 5:52
| title20 = ...
| length20 = 0:49
| note20 = retitled "The Toad Submerged" on YouTube{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q1NNGFjoEA|title = The Toad Submerged|website = YouTube}}
| title21 = Cistern
| length21 = 4:37
| title22 = El Cerrito
| length22 = 2:48
| title23 = Fish Bowl
| length23 = 1:07
}}
Personnel
;Thinking Fellers Union Local 282
- Mark Davies – guitar, bass guitar, banjo, percussion, French horn, organ, vocals
- Anne Eickelberg – bass guitar, percussion, vocals
- Brian Hageman – guitar, erhu, viola, mandolin, tape, percussion, vocals
- Jay Paget – drums, vocals
- Hugh Swarts – guitar, piano, percussion, vocals
;Production and additional personnel
- Paul Bergmann – drums on "Tight Little Thing"
- Gail Butensky – photography
- Kim Campisano – photography
- John Frentress – harmonica on "1" Tall"
- Greg Freeman – production, engineering
- Bren't Lewiis – tape on "Tell Me"
- Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 – production
References
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External links
- {{Discogs master |master=95070 |name=Mother Of All Saints}}
{{Thinking Fellers Union Local 282}}
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