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no footnotes|date=January 2010Infobox musical artist| | name = Thinking Fellers Union Local 282| image =| caption =| image_size =| background = group_or_band| origin = San Francisco , California , United States | genre = Experimental rock , indie rock , noise rock | years_active = 1986–2001, 2004, 2011| label = Matador Records|Matador , Communion, Nuf Sed, Ajax, Scratch, Thwart Productions, Amarillo Records|Amarillo , Japan Overseas, Brinkman, Hemiola| associated_acts = Horny Genius, Caroliner , The White Shark, Mr. Hageman, U.S. Saucer, World of Pooh, Sun City Girls , Babe the Blue Ox (band)|Babe the Blue Ox , Fly Ashtray , Job's Daughters, Brown Supper, Supreme Reality, Girl Feelings| website = http://www.tful282.com/ Official website| current_members = Mark Davies Anne Eickelberg Brian Hageman Jay Paget Hugh Swarts| past_members = Paul Bergmann Gino Robair Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 is an experimental indie rock group formed in 1986 in San Francisco, California , though half of its members are from Iowa . Their albums combine lo-fi noise rock and ambient music|ambient sounds (referred to as "Feller filler") with tightly constructed rock and pop songs. The band has a small but intensely loyal cult following. Band members are Brian Hageman, Mark Davies, Anne Eickelberg, Hugh Swarts and Jay Paget. Hageman was also a member of the Iowa City based group, Horny Genius.
The band achieved their greatest critical and commercial success in the mid-nineties when they signed with the influential indie rock label Matador Records . It was during this time that Thinking Fellers produced their most prominent albums, Lovelyville , and the critically lauded college radio hit Strangers from the Universe . They toured the Netherlands , Germany , Switzerland and the United Kingdom|U.K. in 1994 and made an appearance on the John Peel radio show on the BBC. In 1996 they toured briefly as an opening act for the then-popular band Live (band)|Live but were not received well by the Live fanbase. Thinking Fellers has been largely dormant since 1996. They have toured sporadically and released only one full album, '' Bob Dinners and Larry Noodles Present Tubby Turdner's Celebrity Avalanche .
In 2001, author Jonathan Franzen referenced the band in his widely-acclaimed bestselling novel The Corrections . The character Brian, a snobbish fan of "west coast underground bands," listens to the albums of Thinking Fellers while writing the music software that will make him a young millionaire.
On January 7, 2011, the All Tomorrow's Parties (music festival)|All Tomorrow's Parties festival announced a Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 performance at the ATP festival weekend May 13–15, 2011 curated by Animal Collective .
Discography
Studio Albums
Wormed By Leonard Thwart Productions 1988
Tangle (Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 album)|Tangle Thwart Productions 1989 / Scratch Records 1995
Lovelyville Matador Records 1991
Mother Of All Saints Matador Records 1992
Strangers From The Universe Matador Records 1994
I Hope It Lands Communion 1996
'' Bob Dinners and Larry Noodles Present Tubby Turdner's Celebrity Avalanche Communion 2001
Singles and EPs
''2x4's / Horrible Hour 7" Nuf Sed 1990
The Natural Finger 7" Ajax Records 1990
Outhouse Of The Pryeeeeeeee / Wheat Delusion split 7" w/ Sun City Girls Nuf Sed 1991
