While still in high school, pianist/drummer Thymme Jones was browsing the r… Read Full Bio ↴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/
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/
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Brian McKnight Thought and I believed that I will never see you…
Dr. Shinto You know I was down for the madness I know you…
I.D.Ch Stranger in this town Always on the lookout on the run You…
Kau Zee I don´t want to scream I don´t want to hidy Don´t I don´t …
Lacrimas Profundere Time will leave And I will follow You dug my hole while…
Private Line No no no no no! Eye for an eye makes…
Sister Sandy Said she saw a god all alone in a mirror…
The Beatles I look at you all, see the love there that's…
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Find (Norman Mayall & Kent Housman) Some people talk about the bl…
Smile And I can see from your eyes the pain that…
Things And of tolerance Humanist maggots Behave like the scum you …
where you are 星星还是那么亮 月亮还是在天上 似乎一切都没改变只是他不在你身旁记忆中的脸已经变得模糊抽象 而你也不再年轻身材也有些走样…
Your Weak Heart Ever peer into the heart of darkness where an empty…
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karim benslama
glad to be the first one to "like" this video !
(92 views, 20 months after it's been posted on youtube ! - congratulations !)
those ants somehow seem creepy to me (they DO creep, don't they ?) - they remind me a song by Pere Ubu... (and, for some reason, another song, by Deerhoof)
it's nice to write these words, thinking that nobody will read them -
thx to cheer-accident for the good music (i saw them in lyon, on a barge, a few years ago...)
karim benslama
@CHEER-ACCIDENT well, after i posted my comment, i noticed that the same video had gathered more than 1000 views, on a different account (soundoferror) (92 was so ludicrously low !...)
as for the "masses", i guess you're still safe from their assaults...
(did i have the honor of getting an answer from thymme jones himself ?)
CHEER-ACCIDENT
karim benslama It had to happen eventually. You can only keep the masses at bay for so long.
Ghislain Didier
Second !