Cheer-Accident

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Sun Dies 05:48 Tools
Mescalito 01:06 Tools
Blue Cheadle 05:47 Tools
And Then You Realize You Haven't Left Yet 01:32 Tools
According to the Spiral 02:50 Tools
The Autumn Wind Is a Pirate 22:32 Tools
Disenchantment 03:42 Tools
The Day After I Never Met You 02:43 Tools
Smile 05:00 Tools
Camp o' Physique 04:05 Tools
Zervas 03:34 Tools
Humanizing the Distance 06:52 Tools
The Carnal, Garish City 04:17 Tools
Your Weak Heart 09:41 Tools
(The) Men's Wide Open 03:02 Tools
While 03:54 Tools
Find 22:27 Tools
Keep in Touch 03:30 Tools
Insomnia 03:04 Tools
A Shallow Stream 02:04 Tools
The Law of Attraction 02:34 Tools
Go Gone Green 03:07 Tools
Vacuum 07:55 Tools
Garbage Head 03:14 Tools
God's Clinic 01:31 Tools
Failure 06:49 Tools
Small World 06:02 Tools
Muffy Needs a New Pair of Rose-Colored Glasses 03:32 Tools
Done 02:12 Tools
Nefarious Designs, Inc. 03:58 Tools
Everyone's Ugly Up Close 04:36 Tools
Birdeater 03:14 Tools
Frozen 07:23 Tools
Even Has A Half-Life 09:32 Tools
A Hate Which Grows 07:42 Tools
Grow 04:17 Tools
Drag You Down 04:32 Tools
IMMANENCE 04:12 Tools
The Reenactment 04:50 Tools
Desert Song 13:05 Tools
Whitewash 03:56 Tools
Dismantling the Berlin Waltz 07:37 Tools
The Mind-Body Experience 04:18 Tools
Sleep 03:48 Tools
Graphic Depression 11:18 Tools
Filet of Nod 00:04 Tools
Monsters 06:38 Tools
Surviving A Methodology 03:02 Tools
Crisis Management 02:00 Tools
The Family Business 01:26 Tools
Exit 02:23 Tools
Fat Dog's Gonna Hatch 06:31 Tools
Elbow Deep in Turkey 03:06 Tools
This Is The New That 04:58 Tools
Trial Of Error 04:34 Tools
Modestly Clothed, Did She Trouble You? 04:14 Tools
Nutrition 05:14 Tools
Metaphysical 04:06 Tools
Done With The Eternal 03:08 Tools
All Over 06:36 Tools
Barely Breathing 03:18 Tools
Salad Days 19:20 Tools
Ice Cream And Lies 07:02 Tools
30 Seconds Of Weightlessness 10:59 Tools
Pre-Somnia 01:27 Tools
Post-Premature 02:08 Tools
You Know You Know 06:18 Tools
I'm Just Afraid 01:32 Tools
Life In Pollyanna 03:19 Tools
Cynical Girl 02:12 Tools
Crazy 04:23 Tools
Empty Province 04:41 Tools
King Cheezamin 04:01 Tools
Simple Life 04:13 Tools
Death By Pollyanna 03:21 Tools
Drug You Down 00:44 Tools
Arise & Shine 02:53 Tools
Salad Dies 04:08 Tools
Post-Somnia 01:11 Tools
No Cavalry 04:04 Tools
High Score 05:09 Tools
Provincial Din 05:12 Tools
Last But Not Lost 03:02 Tools
ART LAND 00:30 Tools
Trying To Comfort Mary 00:30 Tools
HOUSE OF DOWSE 06:38 Tools
Grow II 02:27 Tools
The Moe Moes 06:18 Tools
The Mystery Treasures of the San Miguel Apartments 03:02 Tools
Evan Had A Shelf Life (Mix: MC Shapoopy) 01:59 Tools
Do I 01:40 Tools
Fight For Innocence 05:57 Tools
learning how to fly 04:45 Tools
Caboose 00:30 Tools
1/30/94 02:07 Tools
sub herbs 02:59 Tools
Language Is 01:32 Tools
Nobody's Home, Nobody's Still Home 04:19 Tools
So Sorry About China 04:05 Tools
Death And Taxes 04:53 Tools
Time for More Walking 11:16 Tools
Notary Public 04:05 Tools
WISHFUL BREATHING 01:32 Tools
today today today 03:03 Tools
Truth Laid Bare In the Weak Glow of Grow Lights 03:49 Tools
Avoid The Invisible 09:17 Tools
Uncle Dale 03:02 Tools
Dimantling The Berlin Waltz 07:35 Tools
transposition 02:08 Tools
Non Smoking Floor 05:56 Tools
facialization 05:07 Tools
FALLING WORLD 05:07 Tools
you never bothered to know me 03:14 Tools
Severed 04:45 Tools
Cutting Off My Arm So I Don't Have To Shake Hands 04:08 Tools
MORE AND LESS 03:35 Tools
driving a nail with a clock 02:27 Tools
Graceful Beautiful Animal 03:32 Tools
Heaven 07:05 Tools
LIFETIME GUARANTEE 03:35 Tools
man of the house 04:13 Tools
Tree Dies 03:35 Tools
Ride on, Drink Beer, Get Clean 04:04 Tools
where you are 03:26 Tools
post script 02:56 Tools
Black And White 02:29 Tools
the answer 02:32 Tools
HYMN 02:12 Tools
When Clowns Go Bad 05:37 Tools
pockets 02:12 Tools
dead man's float 02:56 Tools
People Are Props 00:00 Tools
Elementary 01:40 Tools
The Butterfly Effect 09:37 Tools
Head of Gumby 04:57 Tools
Ignorance Moving Sideways 05:05 Tools
Big Secret Airshow 05:06 Tools
Calling Blue 03:54 Tools
How Do You Like Your Eggs? 05:15 Tools
Lineage 04:01 Tools
Playschool 05:53 Tools
Flies in the Amber 08:59 Tools
You're It, Motherfucker 03:26 Tools
Snakewoman Of Burgundy 04:32 Tools
I Feel Sick 00:00 Tools
Corn King 01:21 Tools
Aung Sang 04:13 Tools
The Dark Side Of The Tracks 03:03 Tools
Preamble Ramble 06:01 Tools
86 Career Man 01:40 Tools
Repossession 03:16 Tools
Theme from Shaft 05:21 Tools
Sima 01:29 Tools
Gratuity 03:03 Tools
Whitey: 4th Down and 10 02:45 Tools
1/30/1994 02:06 Tools
As Explained to Cancer 05:38 Tools
Mock Rejection 03:20 Tools
Watched You Glow 01:21 Tools
Turquoise Upholstery 01:34 Tools
Won't You Sew The Crevice Please? 01:17 Tools
Feed Gray One 04:58 Tools
Persimmons And A La Mode 01:34 Tools
Paranoid 00:37 Tools
You're It Motherfucker 01:34 Tools
When You Cough 01:27 Tools
Freedom 02:02 Tools
transposition (same mix) 02:09 Tools
Neo-Vivification 04:33 Tools
Anybody Has No 03:52 Tools
Society At Large 02:29 Tools
You Know, You Know 06:16 Tools
Graphic Depression (Remastered) 06:48 Tools
Tiger With A Woman's Head 07:37 Tools
Gauze 10:57 Tools
Await 04:06 Tools
Running From Nothing 01:18 Tools
Practically 01:45 Tools
Insomnia (Remastered) 03:33 Tools
The Middle Age 06:14 Tools
A day in the sun 00:00 Tools
Societal demands 00:00 Tools
Carnal, Garish City 04:18 Tools
Thither 06:48 Tools
Someone Else 00:00 Tools
Meal 00:00 Tools
Meat 02:40 Tools
Glass Holiday 00:58 Tools
And You're Still Letting Them Work On Your Brain? 04:51 Tools
Hit The Showers 01:19 Tools
Post-Premature (Remastered) 02:57 Tools
The Stars 02:16 Tools
Obsessed 03:07 Tools
Made Happier Easier 04:51 Tools
Graphic Depression 2 (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
History will never be what it used to be 00:00 Tools
War Is a Warrior 00:00 Tools
Trying the night 00:00 Tools
Fundamental Decency 05:56 Tools
All Passion Spent 00:39 Tools
Almost An Afterthought At This Point 02:35 Tools
I Hope I Don't Kill Myself 04:14 Tools
In The Wings 02:52 Tools
November 00:00 Tools
SITE 00:00 Tools
Circumventing Goodbye 04:04 Tools
Trading Balloons 03:33 Tools
Glass Holiday (Reprise) 01:55 Tools
The Mystery Treasure of the Sa 04:51 Tools
December 00:00 Tools
Inevitable 00:00 Tools
the carnal,garish city 04:51 Tools
Feed Grey One 04:59 Tools
Salad Days (Remastered) 04:08 Tools
Eyes Will Alter 04:21 Tools
Graphic Depression (2) 00:00 Tools
Coming Of Age 05:31 Tools
Intimacy 05:31 Tools
The Head Works As An Inhibitor 02:57 Tools
Like Something To Resemble 02:57 Tools
The Autumn Wind is a Pirate (excerpt) 00:00 Tools
Makes You Begin 03:14 Tools
Cinema In The Park 03:01 Tools
A Hunger Artist 01:51 Tools
Track 29 04:21 Tools
Bird Eater 00:00 Tools
Life Rings Hollow 00:00 Tools
Trying To Comfort Mary (CD Bonus Track) 01:25 Tools
Final Act 09:24 Tools
Diatoms 09:24 Tools
Caboose (CD Bonus Track) 03:02 Tools
Vacate 03:26 Tools
Sentenced 03:40 Tools
Incantation 03:33 Tools
The Post-Literate Age 00:58 Tools
Dana 04:17 Tools
Go Gaunt Green 09:24 Tools
I Don't Believe 09:24 Tools
Information 04:08 Tools
Gosh 03:07 Tools
With Every Breath 02:30 Tools
Anachronism 01:31 Tools
after 09:24 Tools
Art 02:06 Tools
Unconscious 04:21 Tools
Hope 04:18 Tools
Plea Bargain 04:18 Tools
Meaning Slips Away 02:22 Tools
Cost Of Living 01:27 Tools
Transposition ( Same Mix ) 02:09 Tools
And Then You Realize You Haven 01:32 Tools
The Certanties (Don't Brush Against) 01:25 Tools
David We Could 01:32 Tools
Beautiful 03:45 Tools
Whitey: 4th Down and 10 02:45 Tools
Alone 01:25 Tools
Things 01:25 Tools
Trading Balloons (Remastered) 04:18 Tools
Feel Sick 01:51 Tools
1.30.94 04:18 Tools
GQ Gone Green 03:07 Tools
Autumn 03:07 Tools
Slowly For Awhile 03:07 Tools
Carnal, Garish City, The 04:18 Tools
Concrete + Steel 02:58 Tools
3-I Feel Sick 03:34 Tools
2-The Butterfly Effect 03:34 Tools
/ Go Gone Green 03:07 Tools
/ Keep In Touch 03:31 Tools
Track-02 The law of attraction 03:02 Tools
Track-04 Dismantling the berli 06:38 Tools
Manwich 03:34 Tools
Surviving a Methopology 03:02 Tools
/ Nefarious Designs, Inc. 03:59 Tools
/ You Know, You Know 06:18 Tools
Truth Laid Bare In The Weak Glow Of The Grow Lights 03:31 Tools
Black & White 01:32 Tools
And then you realize you have 01:32 Tools
Camp O Physique 01:27 Tools
/ Done With The Eternal 03:09 Tools
/ Surviving A Methodology 03:02 Tools
Dream Girl 06:38 Tools
I DON'T WANT IT BACK 03:02 Tools
Nefarioius Designs, Inc. 03:59 Tools
The re-enactment 04:14 Tools
postscript 02:54 Tools
/ All Over 06:38 Tools
Immanence [from 'Putting Off Death'] 04:14 Tools
The Certanties (Pt. II) 04:12 Tools
/ Crisis Management 02:00 Tools
/ Crazy 04:24 Tools
/ Arise And Shine 02:54 Tools
/ Simple Life 04:14 Tools
Fat Dog's Gonna Watch 00:30 Tools
4-When Clowns Go Bad 02:58 Tools
Track-05 Failure 02:58 Tools
a10-Flies in the Amber 04:14 Tools
Dead Mans Float 02:58 Tools
Cheer_Accident_birdeater 02:58 Tools
Cheer-Accident-Insomnia 02:58 Tools
5-People Are Props 00:30 Tools
7-Playschool 00:30 Tools
A Wait 00:30 Tools
Maison de Velours Ecureuil 00:30 Tools
DO I? 00:30 Tools
Cheer_Accident_HighScore 00:30 Tools
The Certainties (Don't Brush Against) 01:28 Tools
Track-01 Vacuum 04:12 Tools
High Ambient (11/11/08) 01:28 Tools
Muffy Needs a New Pair of Rose 01:28 Tools
Track-06 God's clinic 01:28 Tools
9-Ignorance Moving Sideways 00:30 Tools
8-Big Secret Airshow 01:28 Tools
Fundamentl Decency 05:56 Tools
You Weak Heart 00:30 Tools
A TURN ON THE HILL 04:12 Tools
Fillet of Nod 04:12 Tools
In Some Fictional Place 04:12 Tools
Fuzzy Camp 04:12 Tools
Chet 04:12 Tools
Spread 01:28 Tools
Keep Us Afraid 01:28 Tools
That Man's Whistle 01:28 Tools
Track-07 A hate which grows 01:28 Tools
Fettered 01:28 Tools
Parrot Fun 01:28 Tools
Life In Polyanna 01:28 Tools
Congo Vomit 01:28 Tools
Post - Premature 01:28 Tools
6-Head of Gumby 01:28 Tools
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While still in high school, pianist/drummer Thymme Jones was browsing the racks at a Hallmark store when he noticed a category of greeting cards labeled "CHEER-ACCIDENT." Since then, six lineups have passed through Jones' band CHEER-ACCIDENT, and it has endured the loss of one of its members (Phil Bonnet, d. 1999). Throughout the decades, their diverse musical output has ranged from intricate and off-kilter pop, to densely orchestrated, Henry Cow-influenced avant-progressive epics, and abrasively complex "noise rock"/"math-rock" along the lines of bands such as Rapeman and Don Caballero. To date, they have released sixteen albums and a handful of singles on labels such as Complacency, Pravda, Skin Graft, and most recently, Cuneiform. It was during the first few moments of 1981 at a New Year's party when Jones, vocalist Jim Drummond, and drummer Mike Greenlees decided to form a band. Jones couldn't get his Hallmark memory out of his mind and called the band CHEER-ACCIDENT. Various contributing musicians helped the band with the recording of their first album, "Life Isn't Like That". After the album came out in 1986, Greenlees and Drummond left to pursue other full-time interests. The next lineup of CHEER-ACCIDENT consisted of bassist Chris Block and guitarist Jeff Libersher, whom Jones had met in the mid-'80s while attending Northern Illinois University. They recorded their first nationally distributed release, "Sever Roots, Tree Dies", with Phil Bonnet at Solid Sound Studios in Hoffman Estates, IL, from April through July of 1988. They released the album on their own label, Complacency, that same year. Other material from the session went on a cassette LP on Complacency called "Vasectomy". Following the releases, the band reentered the studio with Steve Albini to record the EP "Dumb Ask". The English label Neat Records was so impressed by the album that the imprint offered the band a two-record deal in 1990. The first album of their contract was shown to the band after pressing, and according to Jones, it was over-compressed, edited in an obscene fashion, and loaded with misspellings. The band was angered and the contract was over. They continued to release material on Complacency and also hired their engineer/producer Phil Bonnet (known for his work with Will Oldham, U.S. Maple, the Smoking Popes, Bobby Conn, and Eleventh Dream Day) to be their second guitarist. By 1991, CHEER-ACCIDENT had begun holding recording sessions for its fourth album, "Babies Shouldn't Smoke", in the upstairs studio of the Pete WAY room in Chicago. Shortly after the sessions came to an end, Pravda approached the band with the offer to add a track to the label's "20 Explosive Dynamic Super Smash Hit Explosions!" compilation. The group added their own take on "Theme From Shaft". Lineup shifts occurred once again in 1992 when bassist Block was asked to leave CHEER-ACCIDENT after he came to a disagreement over the band's musical style. The group also began work on material with new bassist Dan Forden. The following year was spent recording, as well as developing a Chicago cable access television program titled Cool Clown Ground. In July of 1994, Albini was brought back into the studio to help CHEER-ACCIDENT record "Not a Food", which would become it's sixth full-length album. It was not released until February 19, 1996. Ex-Flying Luttenbachers bassist Dylan Posa replaced Forden after he got married in August of 1994. The band decided to go for a completely straight-ahead pop approach to their next full-length record, "The Why Album", which was recorded from 1992 until 1993 and released in November of 1994. With the addition of Posa and his background in the volatile Luttenbachers, he brought an intense feeling to CHEER-ACCIDENT's 1996 and 1997 performances. Members of the band would also begin to add contributions to other groups around that time, which included U.S. Maple, Dot Dot Dot, Yona-Kit, Bobby Conn, Gastr Del Sol, and Smog. In 1997, CHEER-ACCIDENT appeared on the split 7" single, "His Ass Was His Only Feature" on the Super 800 label with the group Star Star. In April, the band released material they'd been working on for the last five years as their seventh full-length record, "Enduring the American Dream". It was the band's second release for Pravda and culled tracks from studio sessions recorded in Hoffman Estates, Streamwood, Schaumburg, and Palatine, IL. The following month, the group recorded a 52-minute song called "Trading Balloons". After the studio session was finished, the band went on hiatus until September of 1998, when they reconvened to play with the Flying Luttenbachers and the Bells at Lounge Ax in Chicago. Tragedy struck CHEER-ACCIDENT at the beginning of 1999. Just two weeks after performing a show at the DeKalb, IL. club "Seven Dead Arson" on January 22, and just two days after recording the basic tracks for their eighth full-length release "Salad Days", Bonnet was found dead of a brain aneurysm. Unsure of their desire to continue, the band met and agreed that Bonnet would have wanted them to forge ahead without him. By the middle of May, all of the recording and mixing for "Salad Days" was finished. Seeking an additional guitarist to fill the position left vacated by Bonnet, Jones recruited his friend Jamie Fillmore, who had performed on the Antje album "Big Open Sky". Once the lineup was stabilized, the band self-released "Trading Balloons" as an EP. This was followed by their eighth full-length LP, "Salad Days", in October of 2000. As of 2001, CHEER-ACCIDENT was finishing up the final touches on its ninth full-length release and was playing live on a consistent basis in the Midwestern United States. - amg Official Website: http://www.cheer-accident.com/ Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.