Cheer-Accident is an American indie rock ensemble led by Thymme Jones. Jones took the band name from the Hallmark Card shopping display, and first formed the group in 1981 with singer Jim Drummond and drummer Mike Greenlees.
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Biography
The first album of Cheer-Accident, Life Is not Like That , was released in 1986, after Drummond and Greenlees left the group. They were replaced by bassist Chris Block and guitarist Jeff Libersher. The group's second release, 1988's Sever Roots, Tree Dies , produced and engineered by Phil Bonnet.
Their 1990 EP, Dumb Ask , was produced by Steve Albini, and after this the group signed a contract with the British label Neat Records. However, the album was poorly pressed and the group broke with the label, and returned to the record for Complacency Records with Bonnet, who at that time had joined the group on the guitar. The band left the block in 1992 and was replaced by Dan Forden, after the group returned to the studio.
In 1994, the group released The Why Album and helped launch a local Chicago public access television show called Cool Clown Ground. Albini recorded the group's next release, Not Food (recorded in July 1994 and finally released in 1996). Shortly after this session, Forden left the band and was later replaced with Dylan Posa (formerly of The Flying Luttenbachers). At the moment, Cheer-Accident members collaborate regularly with other Chicago indie artists such as Maple AS, Bobby Conn, Gastr del Sol, and Smog.
In January 1999, Phil Bonnet died of an aneurysm brain while the group recorded material for her eighth album, Salad Day . The group decided to continue Jamie Fillmore filling the role of Bonnet as a guitarist. Also, the 1997 recording session, which produced a 52-minute song called "Balloon Trades", was released as an EP. Salad Day was finally released on Skin Graft Records in October 2000.
The group serves as an occasional live backup band for Harvey Sid Fisher. In 2001, Fischer and the band collaborated on the cover of "52 Girls" for the B-52 tribute album, Wigs on Fire! , which was released on Nihilist Records. In 2003, the group recorded another long track for Skin Graft, Introducing Lemon , and a soundtrack CD to a comic book titled Gumballhead the Cat . In 2006, Cheer-Accident performed at North East Sticks Together in Boston.
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Discography
- Life Is not Like That (Record Complacency, Cassette, 1986)
- Sever Roots, Tree Dies (Complacency Records, LP, 1988, Reissue CD on Freakshow, 2007)
- Vasectomy (Note Complain, Cassette, 1989)
- Dumb Ask (Complacency Records, 1990. reissued by Neat Metal and Pravda Records)
- Baby Does not Have to Smoke (Record Complaint, CD, 1991)
- The Why Album (Record Complacency, CD, 1994)
- Not Food (Pravda Records, CD, 1996)
- Holding the American Dream (Pravda Records, CD, 1997)
- Trade Balloons (self-released CD-R, 1999)
- Salad Day (Skin Document, CD, 2000)
- Variations On A Old Goddamn (Vol 1, Pravda Records, CD, 2002)
- Introducing Lemon (Skin grafting archive, CD/LP, 2003)
- Gumballhead the Cat (Skin Graft Record, CD and comic book, 2003)
- Younger than You Are Now: 1981-1984 (Pravda Records, CD, 2004)
- Variations On A Old Goddamn (Vol 2, Pravda Records, CD, 2005)
- What is a Sequel? (Pravda Records, 2006)
- Variations On A Old Goddamn (Vol 2.1, Pro Janitor Records, CD-R, 2007)
- Variations On A Old Goddamn (Vol 3, Complacency Records, CD, 2008)
- Frightened Draw Misfortune (Kuneiform Record, 2009)
- Almost Breathing b/w Cynical Girl (7 "Single, Rampage Recordings, 2010)
- No Ifs Ands Or Dog (Cuneiform Note, May 2011)
- Teenage Yothers and Nine Others (Thrill Jockey Records, August 2014)
- Putting Off Death (Cuneiform Records, CD/LP, May 2017)
- Fade (Skin Document, May 2018)
References
External links
- The Cheer-Accident Official Website at Cheer-Accident.com
- Recorded Skin Records page
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