Oil Can Boyd Posted March 30, 2008 Share Posted March 30, 2008 Brooklyn Vegan (and others) reporting that the Feelies will be playing some shows this summer, including opening for Sonic Youth in Central Park. Man, I would travel to see that ... Brooklyn Vegan Quote Link to post Share on other sites
yermom Posted March 30, 2008 Share Posted March 30, 2008 Neato. Sonic Youth is playing a festival here in Arkansas this year. It'd be sweet if the Feelies came along too. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
PigSooie Posted March 30, 2008 Share Posted March 30, 2008 Neato. Sonic Youth is playing a festival here in Arkansas this year. Say what? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
yermom Posted March 30, 2008 Share Posted March 30, 2008 Yessir! Dickson Street Music Fest in Fayetteville! Slim chance I'll make it but I'm keeping my fingers crossed. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hardwood floor Posted March 30, 2008 Share Posted March 30, 2008 Yessir! Dickson Street Music Fest in Fayetteville! Slim chance I'll make it but I'm keeping my fingers crossed. that would be so cool i saw open for REM back when REM didn't suck great double bill love the feelies i posted on dime once that it seemed like no feelies shows on dime included the song "Higher Ground," which I love. and i wondered why within an hour, their drummer posted and found me a few available shows that included it that's damn cool Quote Link to post Share on other sites
PigSooie Posted July 15, 2008 Share Posted July 15, 2008 The Feelies are on Sound Opinions this week. It's the reunion Jim and Greg have been waiting for: The Feelies live in Hoboken, NJ. Tune in to hear their conversation with the art-punk pioneers, as well as a sampling of their exclusive performance recorded at the music club Maxwell's. Then Jim and Greg rate the new albums from Nas and Girl Talk. http://www.soundopinions.org/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/soundopinions...57605960659918/ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
brown eyes dreaming Posted July 16, 2008 Share Posted July 16, 2008 The Feelies are on Sound Opinions this week. http://www.soundopinions.org/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/soundopinions...57605960659918/ Thanks for sharing. I was at the July 2nd show at Maxwell's - what a great night Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hardwood floor Posted July 16, 2008 Share Posted July 16, 2008 amazing to me how so many of these 80s bands are bigger now than they were when they were together the first time feelies are great remember seeing them open for REM back in the mid-1980s. great stuff Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jay Posted July 16, 2008 Share Posted July 16, 2008 It may have been mentioned in another thread, but Only Life is back in print. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hardwood floor Posted July 16, 2008 Share Posted July 16, 2008 It may have been mentioned in another thread, but Only Life is back in print. way to rock the GBV, Jay i was just listening to Universal Truths & Cycles today Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jay Posted July 17, 2008 Share Posted July 17, 2008 Uncle Bob! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hardwood floor Posted July 17, 2008 Share Posted July 17, 2008 Uncle Bob! God bless GBV I'm seeing Bob in NYC this fall, but it ain't the same. It ain't GBV. disarm the settlersthe new drunk drivershave hoisted the flagwe are with you in your angerproud brothersdo not fretthe bus will get you there yetto carry us to the lakethe club is openthe club is opencome on, come on, the club is opencome on, come on, the club is o-ooo-ooo-penyeah, yeah ... yeah yeah!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Oil Can Boyd Posted August 2, 2008 Author Share Posted August 2, 2008 Two new shows just announced: 09.20 - Music Hall of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY09.21 - Bowery Ballroom, New York, NY Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Oil Can Boyd Posted August 22, 2008 Author Share Posted August 22, 2008 And two more shows: Northampton MA October 10Boston October 11 (tickets are on sale) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LouieB Posted August 23, 2008 Share Posted August 23, 2008 I just picked up a Feelies LP the other day. LouieB Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jay Posted October 7, 2008 Share Posted October 7, 2008 They Were on a Break: An Interview With the Feelies http://www.popmatters.com/pm/feature/62759...th-the-feelies/ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Oil Can Boyd Posted October 7, 2008 Author Share Posted October 7, 2008 Thanks for posting that.I'm going to see them on Saturday. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Oil Can Boyd Posted October 13, 2008 Author Share Posted October 13, 2008 I know this properly belongs in After the Show but I know this thread was already here.The Feelies show was excellent. I was going to write something but my friend Mark who I went with reviewed it for the Boston Globe. Feelies play like they never were away By Mark Shanahan, Globe Staff | October 13, 2008 It's unreasonable to expect a band that gets back together after a prolonged absence to sound like its old self. Or is it? The Feelies, performing in Boston for the first time in more than 15 years Saturday, proved it's at least possible. Playing to a shamefully sparse crowd at the Roxy, the Feelies looked neither fat nor happy after the long layoff, and their sound was just as fierce. The two-guitar attack of Glenn Mercer and Bill Million was as manic as ever, but also muscular. If anything, time away has enhanced the band's kinetic charm. The group, which released four fine records before breaking up in the early '90s, could not have been heartened to see so few faces in the crowd, but if they were disappointed, they didn't show it. Mercer and Million, backed by metronomic drummer Stanley Demeski, bassist Brenda Sauter, and percussionist Dave Weckerman, crafted a chiming cacophony worthy of their pre-punk progenitors the Velvet Underground. It took a few songs for the Feelies to uncoil completely, but they finally did on "Deep Fascination," with Mercer's sneering vocal and snarling fret work in perfect proportion. As they implicitly acknowledged with their encore cover of "Paint It Black," the Feelies do not have a broad musical palette. Like VU, they are a jam band in the best sense: They settle into a groove and then dig deeper. It's a testament to their talents that the Feelies did not immediately trot out chestnuts from "Crazy Rhythms," their seminal 1980 LP. Instead, the band drew heavily from their later LPs, "The Good Earth" and "Only Life." (By our count, the band played just two songs, "Doin' It Again" and "Sooner or Later," from their final album, released in 1991.) The strongest songs of the band's fevered, 90-minute set - "Away" and "Slipping (into Something)" to name two - featured rhythms that were indeed crazy, with Demeski's drumming and Weckerman's wood block keeping a maniacal beat while the unsmiling Mercer bounced around in his oversize "Street Hassle" shades. (The between-song small talk was handled by Sauter, who promised that the band would not stay away so long next time.) After a frenzied version of "Too Far Gone," which sounded like the "Batman" theme on mescaline, the band reached back to its influential first LP, playing potent versions of "Raised Eyebrows," "Crazy Rhythms," and "Fa Ce La." Their thirst not quite quenched, the crowd called the Feelies back to the stage two times, and were treated to covers of the Velvet Underground's "What Goes On," Wire's "Outdoor Miner," Jonathan Richman's "I Wanna Sleep in Your Arms," and "She Said She Said" by the Beatles. With that, the Feelies waved goodbye again. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ms. yvon Posted October 15, 2008 Share Posted October 15, 2008 the crowd called the Feelies back to the stage two times, and were treated to covers of... Jonathan Richman's "I Wanna Sleep in Your Arms,". i don't know anything about the feelies, but THAT makes me want to check them out. came in here to post that the feelies will be opening for Yo La Tengo on new year's eve in new york! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Oil Can Boyd Posted October 15, 2008 Author Share Posted October 15, 2008 i don't know anything about the feelies, but THAT makes me want to check them out. came in here to post that the feelies will be opening for Yo La Tengo on new year's eve in new york!I recommend that everyone know a lot about the Feelies. Their cover of I Wanna Sleep in Your Arms is great. It's a lot like the Modern Lovers's version only about 33% faster. And just to clarify, the Feelies/Yo La Tengo show on New Year's Eve is actually in Montclair, New Jersey. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ms. yvon Posted October 15, 2008 Share Posted October 15, 2008 thanks, ocb! i got the email from bowery presents and just made the nyc leap. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Oil Can Boyd Posted January 15, 2009 Author Share Posted January 15, 2009 Two more shows: Philadelphia March 13Washington DC March 14 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Oil Can Boyd Posted November 1, 2010 Author Share Posted November 1, 2010 via pitchfork: The Feelies Plan First Album in Two Decades Fans of ancestral indie rock, get excited. In 2008, New Jersey postpunk pioneers the Feelies reunited to play a few shows and reissued their classic out-of-print albums. They must've liked the way things went, since they're now getting ready to release a new album, their first since 1991's Time for a Witness. The new LP is due next spring on Bar/None, produced by band members Bill Million and Glenn Mercer. As of right now, the band has finished recording the album's basic tracks. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ghost of Electricity Posted November 1, 2010 Share Posted November 1, 2010 oh, joy! oh rapture! i knew 2011 was going to be better than 2010. unless, of course it is a half-ass sucky disappointment. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tinnitus photography Posted November 1, 2010 Share Posted November 1, 2010 i had no idea that Bar/None still operated. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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