A Smoking For Two Christmas (CD)
Smoking For Two
Dismal! Joyous! (Mostly dismal.) Experience the full range of seasonal desperation on one CDr. 11 years in a row of holiday song and letters by Greg Beemster, Thymme Jones and anonymous writer of Christmas letters.
Trading Balloons (1999, Remastered: 2017, CD)
Trading Balloons (1999, CD, Remastered: 2017)
CHEER-ACCIDENT
CHEER-ACCIDENT possibly at their most extreme, a real treasure from the PhilDylanJeffThymme era, newly remastered by Todd Rittmann. Features inscrutably mathematical dissonance, woozy collaging, a bit of lonely wistfulness, a tape hiss segment and a jubilant/anthemic 15-minute (it’s gotta be a world record) fadeout.
Salad Days (2000, REMASTERED: 2017, LP)
Salad Days (2000, LP and CD, Remastered: 2017)
CHEER-ACCIDENT
It’s the lost salvation army band drowning the frail falsetto multiple drumming existential crisis with your final breath exclaiming, “Charles Ive’s gotta tell ya: These are the Salad Days!”
SALAD DAYS (2000, REMASTERED: 2017, CD)
Salad Days (2000, LP and CD, Remastered: 2017)
CHEER-ACCIDENT
It’s the lost salvation army band drowning the frail falsetto multiple drumming existential crisis with your final breath exclaiming, “Charles Ive’s gotta tell ya: These are the Salad Days!”
Putting Off Death
Putting Off Death (2017, LP and CD)
CHEER-ACCIDENT
It had been six years since the previous full-length, so the only real reason that this album exists is because it had to. Drums, guitars, pianos, air organs, violins, brass, woodwinds and the human voice are the tools with which to put off death. Whiling away the hours? No, these instruments are utilized in an incisive manner, taking a three-decade expanse and compressing it into 37 minutes of concision. With a great amount of emotional depth, and a unique, nuanced attention to sonic detail, this is perhaps CHEER-ACCIDENT’s richest consolidation yet. A great place to begin a 35-year journey in reverse.
Listen to Immanence from Putting Off Death.
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Kill Drops
Kill Drops (2014)
A book of poems by Scott Rutledge.
The Eternal In Reverse
glanced into the rearview
unable to go on
for without resistance
at the speed of
what never will
nor ever has
ignorance becomes
absolute
While
While (1996, CD)
Thymme Jones
Five piano “quartets” (recorded on 4-track) with hypnotically intertwining phrases.
Listen to a clip of Open from While.
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Title
Title (1999, 7″)
Cheer-Accident
Recorded in 1998 and 1999, this looks like a single, but is in fact the shortest (and smallest) album ever made:
Seven songs on each side, totaling less than ten minutes. Wistfully sung by a great vocalist who also happens to be a great tennis player. Lyrics by Scott Rutledge. The second to last recording to be engineered by Phil Bonnet. (The last being “Salad
Days.”)
The Goal Of Action Is Contemplation
Thymme Jones – The Goal Of Action Is Contemplation (2014)
Thymme’s first solo album in eighteen years. This one is a bit of a companion to “While” (the
piano fest from 1996), in that it is atmospheric/meditative in nature. And vocals-less. The one
big glaring difference is: It is almost completely lacking in piano. This scarcity is compensated for,
however, with many synthesizers, banjos, air organ and several other sonically strange bedfellows.
Entirely homemade and handwritten.
Stopped Clocks
Stopped Clocks (2012, CD)
CHEER-ACCIDENT
A meeting of the hearts: Scot Ashley (guitar) and Thymme Jones (drums, vocals, trumpet, etc.) come together to craft a delectable collection of meditative/melancholy instrumentals, heavy rockers, and poignant pop songs. Guest spots by bass-playing luminaries Bob Lizik (of Brian Wilson’s band) and Chip Z’nuff.