| Bob Dinners and Larry Noodles Present Tubby Turdner's Celebrity Avalanche | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 |
| Cover: | Bob Dinners tful282.jpg |
| Released: | April 16, 2001 |
| Recorded: | Lowdown Studios, San Francisco, California |
| Genre: | Indie rock |
| Length: | 50:20 |
| Label: | Communion |
| Producer: | Greg Freeman, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282[1] |
| Prev Title: | I Hope It Lands |
| Prev Year: | 1996 |
Bob Dinners and Larry Noodles Present Tubby Turdner's Celebrity Avalanche is the final album by Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, released in 2001 through Communion Records.[2]
Akin to past albums, the band recorded hours of rehearsals and then cut and pasted together musical passages to create songs.[3]
SF Weekly called the album "the band's most layered recording yet, with no shortage of keyboards, overdubs, vocal harmonies, and perplexing noises."[4] The East Bay Express wrote that "strange and ordinary instruments converge to make a blend of music that is at once identifiable but yet vastly different from anything you've ever heard before."[3] Portland Mercury wrote: "Stooges riffs clash with mechanical clicks; quivering melodies frame John Bonham-style percussion blasts, then melt Velveeta-smooth into cracked-out vocal asides."[5] CMJ New Music Monthly wrote that "an immense, haunting radiance erupts from [the band's] tortured instruments."[6]