Wormed by Leonard

Wormed By Leonard is the debut studio-recorded cassette by the band Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, released in 1988 through Thwart Productions.[4] It was reissued on LP and CD in 1995 with six live bonus tracks.[5] The title derives from Roger Worm and Jerry Leonard, two high school classmates of Eickelberg and Davies from West Delaware Senior High School, in Manchester, Iowa.

Wormed by Leonard
Studio album by Thinking Fellers Union Local 282
Released	August 1988
Recorded	1988
Genre	Noise rock, indie rock, experimental rock
Length	54:09
Label	Thwart Productions[1]
Producer	Greg Freeman, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 chronology
Wormed by Leonard (1988) Tangle (1989)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[1]
Spin Alternative Record Guide	6/10[3]

Critical reception

Trouser Press called the album "the band’s most delicate recording, showing an early folky vein."[6] The Spin Alternative Record Guide wrote that the album "contains potentially hazardous levels of low-fi noisemaking and free-association poetry."[3] Reviewing the album's 1995 reissue, SF Weekly wrote that "all of the Thinking Fellers' trademark elements appear in nascent glory, from alternatively tuned string-tornado rave-ups and enigmatic home recordings to quirky pop distillations and jokey goofs."[5]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Thinking Fellers Union Local 282.

Side one

No.	Title	Length
1.	"It's Seven"	1:06
2.	"Hell Rules"	3:07
3.	"Leaky Bag"	3:54
4.	"I Don't Know"	2:23
5.	"Milva Spectre"	2:40
6.	"Nipper"	4:47
7.	"Oregon Trail"	2:11
8.	"Misfits Park"	2:55
9.	"Coming and Going"	1:26
10.	"Mr. Tuna's Big Old Place"	3:41

Side two

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Narlus Spectre"	3:14
2.	"KLTX"	0:43
3.	"Truck Driving Man"	2:20
4.	"Out in the Kitchen"	6:29
5.	"A Serious Matter"	1:21
6.	"Mile Wide"	4:35
7.	"Motorin' Flarey Henderson"	1:49
8.	"Indigestion"	1:34
9.	"Get Off My House"	5:53
10.	"Scraping Skin Off My Shoulder"	0:43

CD issue

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
21.	"Trevor"		2:13
22.	"Superstar"	Bonnie Bramlett, Leon Russell	5:00
23.	"If I Were in a Shoe"		1:55
24.	"Squidder Boy"		2:36
25.	"Fat Christmas"		1:35
26.	"Not in the Popply Dimension"		2:05

Personnel

Thinking Fellers Union Local 282

• Paul Bergmann – instruments
• Mark Davies – instruments
• Anne Eickelberg – instruments
• Brian Hageman – instruments
• Hugh Swarts – instruments

Production and additional personnel

• Greg Freeman – production, engineering
• Margaret Murray – illustrations
• Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 – production
• David Tholfsen – contrabass clarinet on "Get Off My House"

References

1. Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Volume 8: MUZE. p. 124.CS1 maint: location (link)
2. Phares, Heather. "Wormed, By Leonard". AllMusic. Retrieved February 28, 2013.
3. Spin Alternative Record Guide. Vintage Books. 1995. pp. 402–403.
4. "Thinking Fellers Union Local #282 | Biography & History". AllMusic.
5. "Recordings". SF Weekly. October 25, 1995.
6. "Thinking Fellers Union Local 282". Trouser Press. Retrieved 5 February 2021.

External links

• Wormed, By Leonard at Discogs (list of releases)