Matador Records, Year Three: 1992

Apologies to Railroad Jerk's "Raise The Plow," which I missed and should've been included as a choice here.

Feel sorry for any of these who aren't Slanted & Enchanted.

that is iirc the best thinking fellers record

Golden era for the label. I love Bailter Space (amazing live band btw) and yes that TFUL282 is great, but 11:11 has gotta be one of my favourite guitar records of the 90s and carried such a heavy emotional clout for me back then. 'Off To One Side' still gives me goosebumps tbh.

Otoh I don't think I've ever heard Circle X or Tommy Keene or Fire In The Kitchen. Were the last one Cosloy's own band or am I misremembering?

Bullet Lavolta, haven't thought of that band in forever

This is harder than I expected, Slanted would have been an easy vote 10 years ago, but I've really grown to love that Come record (11:11) and that's a good TFUL282 record, though not my favorite of theirs.

i only know of bullet lavolta as clay tarver's pre-chavez band

Circle X

Oh man, some great EPs here - Bettie Serveert, Bailter Space, Tommy Keene. I liked bits of Come, Eitzel and Toiling Midgets, too. Never got the love for Pavement, though.

Voted Tommy Keene, that EP is power pop perfection.

Thinking Fellers by a mile for me here

OK maybe 500 yards ahead of Slanted, not a mile

I gotta say tho I love both, putting side by side like that, I think I "prefer" Watery Domestic--love the guitar on it, songs are perfect. S&E is great too but I dunno. Something about the concise nature of the rooster

Is this the thread to show off my "Shoot the Singer" tattoo?

Fire In The Kitchen featured the guy from Tono-Bungay iirc and were a pretty decent band

Watery, Domestic is perfect. If it were 8 songs instead of 4 it'd be the easy vote here.

and R.I.P. Tommy Keene

Mother of All Saints is a desert island record for me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-F-3IoK2QvI

this song used to get stuck in my head all the time

anyways I go for watery domestic thx

The only one I've heard all the way through is the Thinking Fellers album and it's pretty weak in comparison to Lovelyville. Might just abstain.

OK as a TFUL282 fanatic I see yr point altho I would never think that, to me this record is where they really came into their own

also unperson you might like some aspects of Bailterspace? basically a NZ version of Loop in some ways imho

that is iirc the best thinking fellers record

― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson)

also let me send up the BradNelson batsignal here and say that most people seem to rate Strangers From The Universe a bit higher but I will happily talk your (or anyone's) ears off in the artist thread(s) about why the last one is the best

also, when the FUCK are these TFUL282 records gonna get reissued? starting to think it might be a band issue.

hmmmm don't know if this is "real" or not

reissues of TFUL 282 coming in 2022 via Hisham Mayet...

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I like "Mother of All Saints" but I think it would have been better if they resequenced all the weird fart joke bits to the end like they did with "Lovelyville" and the "Crowded Diaper" bonus tracks. This is a pretty easy vote for "S+E" for me.

xp omg that is great news, thank you

I like Funeral Pudding quite a bit (Waited Too Long! And omg - Heavy Head!), But yeah, Strangers is the one I've listened too most. Can't remember much about Mother of All Saints

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Voted Watery Domestic because its perfect but yeah those top three are fine