These Things Remain Unassigned (singles, compilation tracks, rarities & unreleased recordings)

by Thinking Fellers Union Local 282

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ps0m These sound great. Different and great. And Brian Hageman wrote about my girlfriend's panties in his tour diary. :p

Otis Nugatory "The alpha and omega of great ideas in rock music," as someone put it in the '90's. Weird music for weird people, strongly recommended for the adventurous. Odd yet compelling, smart yet gutsy: TFUL were one of the unacknowledged legends. Favorite track: Ed Sullivan.

M.G. Turnis Fantastic comp of some hard to find classics from the Fellers! Don't pass up on this one if you see it in a record store! Favorite track: Blank Eyed Devil.

a culler We will hope that the fact of the first EP and the mighty "Trevor" being left off this comp means Wormed By Leonard is coming :);):);)

gdegewater The final piece in the TFUL282 puzzle. God I love this band!

dashKam* With a band whose discography already feels like a heap of hidden gems, this collection of hidden gems among hidden gems closes the gap between the endearingly familiar and the beguilingly alien. Art rock earworms, psych freak outs, sound collage, b-movie scuzz, and unabashed oddball personality find "Union" here, and it's liable to flood dopamine as much as it'll fry synapses. Favorite track: Strange Mail.

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Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 - These Things Remain Unassigned
(Singles, compilation tracks, rarities & unreleased recordings)

Bulbous Monocle focuses its lens further into the legacy and archives of the Thinking Fellers Union Local 282. These Things Remain Unassigned — a phrase coined by Brian Hageman, one of the band’s musical snake appendages emanating from its Medusa crown — is presented by Bulbous Monocle as a double LP (gatefold jacket with a twelve page libretto). BM-03 gathers together the band’s singles, compilation tracks, outtakes and never before released gems encompassing the arc of TFUL’s musical corpus. Every track has been surgically remastered by Mark Gergis (Porest/Sublime Frequencies/Mono Pause) with his signature craftsman approach.
This collection is an auditory and visual feast. The extensive booklet included features band ephemera, concert flyers, photographs, and commentary about each track from Mark Davies. Beyond the rare singles and unreleased tracks from the TFUL archives, are cover versions from such disparate artists and composers as: Ennio Morricone, Krzysztof Komeda, The Residents, The Shaggs, Caroliner Rainbow and Pérez Prado.

“…In addition to these compilation one-offs, there were also a few studio recordings that were never quite completed or released. Throw in an alternate mix or two and the handful of singles that came out on various labels over the years, and you end up with what I feel works well as itsown body of work, a bunch of adopted oddballs that somehow fit together as a family. I hope youʼll agree with me that these things are now no longer unassigned, but part of a somewhat cohesive whole, stitched together into something mysterious and glistening —Mark Davies (2023)”

Track listing:
Side A:
2x4's
Every Day
Strange Mail
Blank Eyed Devil
The Electrocutioner

Side B
Horrible Hour
Selections from “A Fistful of Dollars”
The Kids Are In The Mud
Wally and the Ghost
San Remo

Side C
Ed Sullivan
Entoloma
Electric Chair
Flames Up Yours
Outhouse of the Pryeeeee

Side D
Selections from “Rosemary's Baby”
Sponge Dilrod
Shiny Pig
Who Are Parents
Broken Bones

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1.	2x4s 04:51	buy track
2.	Every Day 01:59	buy track
3.	Strange Mail 04:27	buy track
4.	Blank Eyed Devil 03:18	buy track
5.	The Electrocutioner 03:29	buy track
6.	Horrible Hour 04:23	buy track
7.	Selection from A Fist Full Of Dollars- Ennio Morricone 06:27	buy track
8.	The Kids Are In The Mud 02:54	buy track
9.	Wally And The Ghost 02:38	buy track
10.	San Remo 01:58	buy track
11.	Ed Sullivan 03:04	buy track
12.	Entoloma 03:53	buy track
13.	Electric Chair 01:21	buy track
14.	Flames Up Yours 02:58	buy track
15.	Outhouse of the Pryeeee 05:09	buy track
16.	Theme From Rosemary's Baby OST. 06:03	buy track
17.	Sponge Dilrod 02:40	buy track
18.	Shiny Pig 01:32	buy track
19.	Who Are Parents 04:26	buy track
20.	Broken Bones 03:45	buy track

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Limited edition gatefold double LP. Includes 12 page booklet of liner notes, photos, band ephemera and other visual miscellanea.

Bulbous Monocle focuses its lens further into the legacy and archives of the Thinking Fellers Union Local 282. These Things Remain Unassigned — a phrase coined by Brian Hageman, one of the band’s musical snake appendages emanating from its Medusa crown — is presented by Bulbous Monocle as a double LP (gatefold jacket with a twelve page libretto). BM-03 gathers together the band’s singles, compilation tracks, outtakes and never before released gems encompassing the arc of TFUL’s musical corpus. Every track has been surgically remastered by Mark Gergis (Porest/Sublime Frequencies/Mono Pause) with his signature craftsman approach.

This collection is an auditory and visual feast. The extensive booklet included features band ephemera, concert flyers, photographs, and commentary about each track from Mark Davies. Beyond the rare singles and unreleased tracks from the TFUL archives, are cover versions from such disparate artists and composers as: Ennio Morricone, Krzysztof Komeda, The Residents, The Shaggs, Caroliner Rainbow and Pérez Prado.

“…In addition to these compilation one-offs, there were also a few studio recordings that were never quite completed or released. Throw in an alternate mix or two and the handful of singles that came out on various labels over the years, and you end up with what I feel works well as its
own body of work, a bunch of adopted oddballs that somehow fit together as a family. I hope youʼll agree with me that these things are now no longer unassigned, but part of a somewhat cohesive whole, stitched together into something mysterious and glistening —Mark Davies (2023)”

credits

released October 22, 2023

Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 is:

Paul Bergmann - drums, accordion
Mark Davies - guitar, bass, vocals, keyboards, banjo, Optigan, trombone
Anne Eickelberg - bass, keyboards, vocals
Brian Hageman - guitar, vocals, tapes, viola
Jay Paget - drums, keyboards, guitar
Hugh Swarts - guitar, vocals

John Frentress contributes vocals on Ed Sullivan.

Acknowledgements

With tracks from so many different releases, finding original or optimal tape sources for all these was a pretty monumental undertaking, and I was pleasantly surprised at how accommodating everyone was, scouring long forgotten boxes in the backs of storage spaces around the world. It was also wonderful to reconnect with a lot of cool people as part of the process. Special thanks to the following individuals for all their help with this:

Tim Adams
Gibbs Chapman
Peter Davis
Daniel Gill
Seymour Glass
Ben Goldberg
David Greenberger
Gary Held
Brandan Kearney
Dren McDonald
Filippo Salvadori
Shoei from Japan Overseas
Mark Szabo
Gregg Turkington

And none of this would have been possible without the devotion and expertise from Peter Conheim, who transferred miles of tapes from countless sources - baking, editing, and advising throughout the process. Truly a creative contributor to this project, and a savior of tapes making future releases possible.

The following songs were composed by Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Enablers Music, BMI:

2x4s
Horrible Hour

The following songs were composed by Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Accomodators Music, BMI:

Every Day
Strange Mail
Blank Eyed Devil
The Kids Are In The Mud
Wally and the Ghost
Electric Chair
Flames Up Yours
Sponge Dilrod
Shiny Pig
Broken Bones

“The Electrocutioner” was composed by the Residents, The Cryptic Corp/Pale Pachyderm Pub., BMI.

“A Fistful of Dollars” was composed by Ennio Morricone, BMI.

“San Remo” was composed by Pérez Prado, BMG.

The words to “Ed Sullivan” were written by Ernest Noyes Brookings. Music composed by Thinking Fellers Union Local 282.

The words to “Entoloma” were written by John Cage and sampled from “Indeterminacy: New Aspect of Form in Instrumental and Electronic Music”, by John Cage with David Tudor, Folkways. Music composed by Thinking Fellers Union Local 282.

“Outhouse of the Pryeeeee” was composed by Caroliner Rainbow Hernia Milk Queen, Kind Cataracts.

“Rosemary's Baby” was composed by Krzysztof Komeda, Famous Music Corporation, ASCAP.

“Who Are Parents” was composed by Dorothy Wiggin, Third World Music, BMI.

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