Wilco LP #7 Posted September 24, 2007 Share Posted September 24, 2007 let's talk about this band Quote Link to post Share on other sites
cryptique Posted September 24, 2007 Share Posted September 24, 2007 We have been, in the "1 beloved album" thread. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Drazil Posted September 24, 2007 Share Posted September 24, 2007 But we could do so even more over here. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
yermom Posted September 24, 2007 Share Posted September 24, 2007 :wub Feelies = Love x 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
GtrPlyr Posted September 24, 2007 Share Posted September 24, 2007 I'll show my appreciation for this band in song: Feelies, nothing more than feelies... Feelies, wo-o-o feelies,woo-o-o, feelies again in my arms Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Oil Can Boyd Posted September 24, 2007 Share Posted September 24, 2007 Love them Feelies. One of my favorite and weird Feelies moments was when they were on Letterman years ago. They didn't have the whole band; they had Glenn Mercer and Bill Million playing guitars and singing with Letterman's band but they also had Dave Weckerman playing tambourine. After they played, Letterman came over and said (and I am paraphrasign here) "if things get tough in the world of the Feelies and you need to have some layoffs, I think I know where to start" and he nodded over at Weckerman. And then it was incredibly awkward for everyone. Does anyone have Mercer's solo album that just came out? I think it is pretty good; probably the best of his post-Feelies work. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jff Posted September 24, 2007 Share Posted September 24, 2007 Love them Feelies. One of my favorite and weird Feelies moments was when they were on Letterman years ago. They didn't have the whole band; they had Glenn Mercer and Bill Million playing guitars and singing with Letterman's band but they also had Dave Weckerman playing tambourine. After they played, Letterman came over and said (and I am paraphrasign here) "if things get tough in the world of the Feelies and you need to have some layoffs, I think I know where to start" and he nodded over at Weckerman. And then it was incredibly awkward for everyone. Ouch. I always hated seeing bands on Letterman with the house band backing them up. They must have had a really lazy soundman or something. How hard is it to mic up a drumset? I wonder if David Letterman ever saw Anton Fig wearing his "Fig not Fier" T-shirt and, if so, if he knew what it meant. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
WaronWar Posted September 25, 2007 Share Posted September 25, 2007 Hey InGlenntion, Didn't I give you "Crazy Rhythms?" And yes, they are very good. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jay Posted November 6, 2007 Share Posted November 6, 2007 http://www.popmatters.com/pm/features/arti...of-the-feelies/ Taking It Slow: An Interview with Glenn Mercer of the Feelies There Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Oil Can Boyd Posted November 6, 2007 Share Posted November 6, 2007 Thanks for posting that. I was just listening to his solo album over the weekend. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MattZ Posted January 3, 2009 Share Posted January 3, 2009 Where does a Feelies newbie like myself go? I guess most of their stuff is out of print? I bought Only Life this wkd on CD (I guess it's been reissued?). I can't stop playing it. I guess Mercer's recent solo album? Where would I go to find the older albums? And no, there's no excuse for why I am discovering them now. Let's just be glad that it happened now. Right? No, I have no idea how I missed these guys. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hardwood floor Posted January 3, 2009 Share Posted January 3, 2009 love love love this band saw 'em many times back in the day and the live shows were just mesmerizing as good as it got for me saw 'em open for REM once in a small theater & it was magical the records haven't held up quite that well for me but i still do enjoy listening to the live shows once in a while Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Oil Can Boyd Posted January 3, 2009 Share Posted January 3, 2009 Where does a Feelies newbie like myself go? I guess most of their stuff is out of print? I bought Only Life this wkd on CD (I guess it's been reissued?). I can't stop playing it. I guess Mercer's recent solo album? Where would I go to find the older albums? And no, there's no excuse for why I am discovering them now. Let's just be glad that it happened now. Right? No, I have no idea how I missed these guys.Three of the four are out of print. As you noted Only Life was just reissued, but you should also track down the first two: Crazy Rhythms and The Good Earth. (If you need help, send me a PM.) I saw them a lot between 1986 and 1991 and was never let down. I also saw them back in October and they've lost nothing off their fastball. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hardwood floor Posted January 3, 2009 Share Posted January 3, 2009 I saw them a lot between 1986 and 1991 and was never let down. I also saw them back in October and they've lost nothing off their fastball. unlike your namesake when i saw him pitch at fenway in 1988! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
brianjeremy Posted January 3, 2009 Share Posted January 3, 2009 I would start with Crazy Rhythms and go from there. I found all of them used for my brother over the years and all were pretty cheap too. I have only started to get them for myself. Crazy Rhythms is probably the easiest to find. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ghost of Electricity Posted January 4, 2009 Share Posted January 4, 2009 usually i'm against reunions, but when i heard these guys were back together for a few shows last year and there was talk of recording, i was obliged to make an exception. Anyone heard further rumors about this? Crazy Rhythms is, as the name implies, laced with over-caffeinated slightly socially dysfunctional rhythms, the Good Earth brought them into more ethereal territory and the Only Life and Time For a Witness are more straight up rock, but no less good. Pick them all up if you can find them. P.M. me if you can't. Also worth checking out is the Yung Wu side project stuff, and i imagine the other feelies-related stuff must be good too, though i haven't heard it. In my memory Letterman said "God forbid if the Feelies should go through cutbacks, you'd have to think that the tamborine player would be the first to go. God Forbid." And i thought he had said it after the commercial break. But alas, my memory is flawed. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MattZ Posted January 6, 2009 Share Posted January 6, 2009 From NYE: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Oil Can Boyd Posted January 6, 2009 Share Posted January 6, 2009 From NYE: Good stuff.I can remember seeing (a relatively young) Yo La Tengo open for the Feelies in the late 1980s. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MattZ Posted January 6, 2009 Share Posted January 6, 2009 I can't think of two better songs for them to do. Everything comes together right there. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
PopTodd Posted January 6, 2009 Share Posted January 6, 2009 I've just started getting into Crazy Rhythms and am loving it."Fa-Ce-La" is too much fun. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Oil Can Boyd Posted July 23, 2009 Share Posted July 23, 2009 Via pitchfork: Back in 1980, New Jersey postpunk originators the Feelies dropped Crazy Rhythms, their classic debut. Crazy Rhythms was a short, sharp shock of spiky guitars and sidelong grooves, the sort of album destined to become an influential but underappreciated relic, which is exactly what happened. You can hear bits and pieces of Crazy Rhythms all over American indie rock from the 1980s, especially in the first few R.E.M. albums, but the band's history was plagued by commercial failure and frequent breakups. The LP has been out of print forever. That's about to change. The Feelies are back together now, playing shows when they feel like it. And on September 8, Crazy Rhythms and the band's 1986 sophomore effort The Good Earth will finally be reissued. The reissues will be out on Bar None in the U.S. and Canada and Domino everywhere else. Both remastered albums will be available on CD and 180 gram vinyl, and both will come with bonus tracks. But there's a twist. The Feelies didn't want to mess with the original documents at all, so the bonus tracks don't appear on the physical versions of the reissued albums. They will be available only digitally; the CD and LP versions of the reissues will come with download cards containing access to the full albums plus bonus tracks. The Feelies have also gone so far as to omit their cover of the Rolling Stones' "Paint It Black", which was added by the band's old label, A&M, to an earlier reissue of Crazy Rhythms against the band's wishes. Also, Insound will carry a limited edition 7" reissue of "Fa cé-La", the band's 1979 debut single. Crazy Rhythms: 01 The Boy With the Perpetual Nervousness02 Fa cé-La03 Loveless Love04 Forces at Work05 Original Love06 Everybody's Got Something to Hide (Except Me and My Monkey)07 Moscow Nights08 Raised Eyebrows09 Crazy Rhythms Crazy Rhythms bonus tracks: 01 Fa cé-La (single version)02 The Boy With the Perpetual Nervousness (Carla Bley demo version)03 Moscow Nights (Carla Bley demo version)04 Crazy Rhythms (live)05 I Wanna Sleep in Your Arms (live) (Modern Lovers cover) The Good Earth: 01 On the Roof02 The High Road03 The Last Roundup04 Slipping (Into Something)05 When Company Comes06 Let's Go07 Two Rooms08 The Good Earth09 Tomorrow Today10 Slow Down The Good Earth bonus tracks: 01 She Said, She Said (Beatles cover)02 Sedan Delivery (Neil Young cover)03 Slipping (Into Something) (live) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tangara Posted July 23, 2009 Share Posted July 23, 2009 Cool. I only have Crazy Rhythms, never been able to find The Good Earth. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
moxiebean Posted July 23, 2009 Share Posted July 23, 2009 That's great news - I can finally score a cd copy of The Good Earth Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hardwood floor Posted July 23, 2009 Share Posted July 23, 2009 great great great band Quote Link to post Share on other sites
brianjeremy Posted July 23, 2009 Share Posted July 23, 2009 This is great. I have their first one but none of the others in a physical format. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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