please take board beefs off of the feelies thread — this band has already been confirmed as totally classic, anyone who argues differently is wrong.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 21 March 2018 17:33 (six years ago) link
Which one?
― dan selzer, Wednesday, March 21, 2018 7:48 AM (two hours ago)
The one with the house on the cover, and the cover of VU's "What Goes On" on the album.
(Also - no beef here, I don't know who that guy is...)
― absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Wednesday, 21 March 2018 17:47 (six years ago) link
Their first turned up in my local Oxfam. £1.99. Was dancin'
― Mark G, Wednesday, 21 March 2018 17:57 (six years ago) link
If anything, the Feelies have such an unimpeachable band name that the quality of their song titles are all but irrelevant. Honestly, the only reason I'd expect them to be more distinctive (lately; first album has classic song titles!) is that it might get hard as an old guy to remember anything so generic.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 21 March 2018 18:34 (six years ago) link
idk there's maybe something to that. Crazy Rhythms has a very intriguing sleeve + tracklisting. the other albums I'd never give a second look to. I think The Sea and Cake are sort of like this as well.
― frogbs, Wednesday, 21 March 2018 18:40 (six years ago) link
It's not like the band gets radio play, or even ever gets covered or anything. I think of the Feelies at this point like a big block entity. When I want to hear them I just put them on, I don't put them on for a specific song. I just press play and let them play.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 21 March 2018 18:43 (six years ago) link
Figures the best you could do was, "I know you are but what am I?"― he doesn't need to be racist about it though. (Austin), Wednesday, March 21, 2018 5:30 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
You're such a charmer, Austin. No wonder your wife left you.
― Full of bile and Blue Nile denial (Turrican), Wednesday, 21 March 2018 18:44 (six years ago) link
Another thread please. Before someone's feelies are hurt
― Evan, Wednesday, 21 March 2018 19:18 (six years ago) link
Ah, it's okay - I'm done here. I maybe should check out a Feelies record, though!
― Full of bile and Blue Nile denial (Turrican), Wednesday, 21 March 2018 19:22 (six years ago) link
I don't get what's going on. (kinda like Lou Reed). I figured this is one of those threads where the "D" is like a joke, like saying "Music: C or D".
Go listen to the first two albums back to back, then listen to the Trypes and Yung Wu albums, before making any judgements!
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 21 March 2018 20:06 (six years ago) link
Well, sorry for any bad vibes; I thought I was well within the bounds of a C or D thread, but maybe wasn't worth it.
FWIW, I'm listening to "Crazy Rhythms" right now (one I hadn't heard)... the rhythms aren't all that crazy, but it's sounding good while I work!
― absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Wednesday, 21 March 2018 20:22 (six years ago) link
don't worry your post had very little to do w/the turrican/austin beef which i now know is a thing apparantly
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 21 March 2018 20:24 (six years ago) link
It isn't a thing at all. Austin took a completely unprovoked pop and I reacted is all, but I don't want to fill this thread full of stuff like that, and on the plus side I'm gonna check out a Feelies record.
― Full of bile and Blue Nile denial (Turrican), Wednesday, 21 March 2018 20:28 (six years ago) link
feelies are very fun!
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 21 March 2018 20:32 (six years ago) link
A good band imo
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 21 March 2018 20:44 (six years ago) link
A very good band indeed
― brimstead, Wednesday, 21 March 2018 21:30 (six years ago) link
the other albums I'd never give a second look to. I think The Sea and Cake are sort of like this as well.
― frogbs, Wednesday, March 21, 2018 2:40 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i like a lot of the sea and cake artwork, but it is pretty funny that they now have albums called "Everybody" and "Any Day"
― mizzell, Wednesday, 21 March 2018 21:56 (six years ago) link
yea my first reaction to that title is "wtf they used that one already"
― frogbs, Wednesday, 21 March 2018 22:00 (six years ago) link
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/the-feelies-played-three-nights-at-rough-trade-pics-setlists-videos/Great setlists..
They were selling the Yung Wu reissue, anyone here went and got one?
― willem, Tuesday, 17 April 2018 14:59 (six years ago) link
I got one in the mail.
it came a bit damaged which was a bummer!
They did include the original Dave Weckerman single....but for some reason did it as both songs on one side of a flexidisc, instead of repressing the actual single.
They shoulda also included a download code for the Yung Wu covers CD-R they've occasional sold but alas.
Regardless, for some reason I always used to consider Yung Wu the lesser of the three major groupings but the more I listen to it the more I realize I was an idiot and it's as good as everything else and different enough and at times more what I want to hear! Those songs are sooooo good.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 17 April 2018 15:07 (six years ago) link
yeah it really is a classic
― tylerw, Tuesday, 17 April 2018 15:08 (six years ago) link
Plus, especially at the time, the Eno cover was the deepest of cuts.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 17 April 2018 15:09 (six years ago) link
even "child of the moon" was probably a pretty deep cut in the 80s ... (powderfinger not so much, but it's still awesome)
― tylerw, Tuesday, 17 April 2018 15:14 (six years ago) link
I was at the shows but didn't pick up the Yung Wu reissue because I have one on order.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 02:06 (six years ago) link
Don't know anything about the Yardbirds, really, but I was struck by a loose resemblance here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDabDDEDcME
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 4 June 2018 20:47 (five years ago) link
nice
― dan selzer, Monday, 4 June 2018 21:52 (five years ago) link
First Wake Ooloo album reissued, first time it's available on vinyl.
― willem, Wednesday, 27 November 2019 12:57 (four years ago) link
Fitting that this announcement is made on the eve of the anniversary of their traditional Maxwell's shows.
― henry s, Wednesday, 27 November 2019 13:42 (four years ago) link
would love to get that, but jeez at the price tag. i don't have any of these albums what a poseur i am.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Wednesday, 27 November 2019 18:02 (four years ago) link
From Dromedary, which sports a lot of venerable hipsters' releases, incl new stuff---dunno how much actual Feelies input this latest single has, but might be worth checking:Another beautiful song from the wildly inventive series of monthly pandemic releases from Speed the Plough, our first release with the band since the 2011 CD Shine. STP is a NJ chamber-pop band that has been together since 1984, rising out of the ashes of The Trypes. At various points, Speed the Plough has included most members of The Feelies. They're joined here with guest vocals by Mayssa Jallad of the Beirut-based band Safar, along with guitar contributions from Matt Davis (The Campfire Flies) and bass from Dan Francia.Stream it here:http://dromedary-records.com/news/out-today-broken-glass
― dow, Monday, 22 February 2021 18:57 (three years ago) link
So I drunkenly bought tickets to see the Feelies in November, thinking we were going to be in at least a non-catastrophic place re: the pandemic this fall. My thinking has changed and I’m not inclined to undertake an international trip at the moment. I’ve cancelled my flights, but the tic are non-refundable. Anyone want discounted tix for the show on Nov 6 in Jersey City?
― "The Pus/Worm" by The Smiths (hardcore dilettante), Monday, 4 October 2021 16:46 (two years ago) link
looking forward to this in the new Maggot Brain, by a learned Feelies scholar: ...a big in-depth, lyrical feature on the Feelies ambient offshoot who have never been written on in-depth. The band’s connection to Downtown minimalism has never been written on this way, and basically you will for the first time understand how the band morphed from the first record into the second, and at least part of why there was so much time in between. We’re not worthy!
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Thursday, 23 June 2022 15:27 (one year ago) link
hey that learned Feelies scholar ... is me! i had wanted someone to write this story for awhile, but no one else would do it. I think feelies heads will like it.
― tylerw, Thursday, 23 June 2022 15:38 (one year ago) link
oh wow that sounds cool
― dan selzer, Thursday, 23 June 2022 15:45 (one year ago) link
ha yeah i saw that was you tyler (i'm never sure who is ok with having their irl byline referenced & who is not.) great idea for a piece, i never got around to that Willies stuff & am excited to learn about it
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Thursday, 23 June 2022 16:30 (one year ago) link
there are a few recordings to check out here — i love this stuff (obviously). https://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/tagged/the%20willies
― tylerw, Thursday, 23 June 2022 18:46 (one year ago) link
Yeah, I got the idea from some of sets you've posted there over the years, of the Feelies x recombinant combo iterations, about the band’s connection to Downtown minimalism, and thought of it again while recently reading Tim Lawrence's awesome Hold On to Your Dreams: Arthur Russell and the Downtown Music Scene, 1973-1992: Arthur totally upset the minimalist apple cart by booking The Modern Lovers at the Kitchen, and then he and Ernie Brooks upset other applecarts, incl. indie rock ones, over the years---and that was only one vein of Arthur's own rock-times-this-and-that extensions (also, though he says he was shocked when Arthur brought in the Lovers, Rhys Chatham also says that was what eventually led him to the composition of "Guitar Trio" and working with Branca in Theoretical Girls, while others, like Peter Gordon and Julius Eastman, were encouraged to bring their own pop-rock-etc. tendencies out of the avant closet). Could totally see Arthur (considering his jangly singer-songwriter albums, for one kind of example) working with members of the Feelies family, though apparently he didn't (who knows what may turn up, though). Maybe he and they encouraged each other by example, anyway.
― dow, Thursday, 23 June 2022 19:27 (one year ago) link
yeah I don't think the Feelies and Russell ever interacted in a meaningful way but I'm sure they were aware of one another. Details in the Maggot Brain piece, but one of the Willies' first live appearances was at this massive Kitchen 10th anniversary thing at Bonds Casino in Times Square, which probably deserves its own huge oral history.
https://gallery.98bowery.com/wp-content/uploads/kitchen10-662x1024.jpg
― tylerw, Thursday, 23 June 2022 21:48 (one year ago) link
Chatham didn’t play with a theoretical Girls. His lost no wave rock band was the Gyneacologists with Nina Canal I think.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 23 June 2022 22:32 (one year ago) link
lol at VEDO (an anagram)
― mizzell, Thursday, 23 June 2022 22:47 (one year ago) link
whooo could it be???
― tylerw, Thursday, 23 June 2022 22:49 (one year ago) link
Danny DeVedo
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 23 June 2022 22:53 (one year ago) link
I think it was DOVE (the Band of Love)?!?
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 23 June 2022 23:06 (one year ago) link
xxx[post, sorry, that was my bad, not Lawrence's. He does make the point, with my brain filling in rong detail, that Chatham and Branca took the rock thing in a massively high-volume direction (in some contrast to other downtown peers),after serpent Arthur brought it to the Kitchen's Garden of Eden (also says that Arthur, as he got more into using effects on his cello, became fascinated with "certain metal guitarists": wha, were they too dorky to name?)
― dow, Thursday, 23 June 2022 23:28 (one year ago) link
Most of the artists on that 10th Anniversary poster are in the book!
― dow, Thursday, 23 June 2022 23:32 (one year ago) link
re: chatham could be confusion with Jeffrey Lohn, the third of the extended minimalist guitar rock thing. Jeffrey and Glenn formed Theoretical Girls, all three came from art music backgrounds (and theater), Jeffrey heard the Dead Boys and things were never the same.
― dan selzer, Friday, 24 June 2022 00:24 (one year ago) link
― dan selzer, Thursday, June 23, 2022 5:32 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
iirc he also collaborated with Nina's father, Bert
― budo jeru, Friday, 24 June 2022 01:18 (one year ago) link
https://www.mixcloud.com/Radio_Nul/the-feelies-doornroosje-nijmegen-waaghals-2-12-1986/No idea if this has been available before - recording of a 1986 live show in the Netherlands
― willem, Friday, 13 January 2023 11:55 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_0Hok-2Prs
― The Lubitsch Touchscreen (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 29 April 2023 19:32 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLE_QXJpCY4
― The Lubitsch Touchscreen (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 29 April 2023 19:37 (one year ago) link