the feelies - classic or dud?

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absolute classic! one of my all-time faves. vanished after releasing four outstanding albums (the best being _crazy rhythms_ and _only life_) between 1980 and 1991.

― willem, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

I used to love the Feelies and I still own the two albums you praise (sold The Good Earth though, it was kinda bleh) but I can't honestly remember the last time I listened to either one. Still a classic in my book (about 60 million times more interesting than any of their NYC counterparts to boot--better songs, less pretensions, just good music) and their appearance in Something Wild is one of my fave band cameos. This thread will probably inspire me to listen to them when I go home.

― Alex in SF, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

that appearance in "something wild" is indeed a classic as well, how did they end up in that one? btw, would have loved to have had the feelies on one of my highschool-parties!

― willem, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

I think Demme is from New Jersey. I just assumed he was fan. They have a song in Married to the Mob as well, I think.

― Alex in SF, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

On Crazy Rhythms, they seemed like a guitar band that could only be possible in a time when synths were center stage. They sounded like they were both inspired by recent synth music, and answering to it. I've never heard their albums from after Crazy Rhythms except for bits here and there. I know they list keyboards in the credits, but do they use them prominently?

― Curt, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

I love "IT'S ONLY LIFE".. Great lp!!!

― todd, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

I bought _Only Life_ back in... 87? 89? I can't remember exactly, but I do remember loving the first song and thinking that the rest of it was unbearably dull. This may have been influenced by all of the industrial music that was obssessing me at the time, though.

― Dan Perry, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

didn't most of them become wake ooloo? i've never heard wake ooloo. are they any good?

― keith, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

keyboards is not an instrument that comes to mind when i think about feelies-albums. so that would mean not so prominent i suppose. i've heard one wake ooloo album a few years back but couldn't be bothered at the time. i just remember thinking it was something like a one-legged feelie (?)

― willem, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

I think Demme directed the video for "Away," too. I saw them live shortly after the release of Time For A Witness (yet another solid album) and they seemed a little tired of playing for like a dozen people after ten years of touring. I also recall them re-tuning their guitars after every single song. I believe one of the percussionists went on to play in some incarnation of Luna..? Anyway - one of my favorite bands of yore.

― josh, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

Yes - Crazy Rhythms and the Good Earth are modest classics. I bought Crazy Rhythms and The Bongos album (Can't remember the title - it's a compilation of singles and EPs I think) for £3 each on the same day, and each of them make me instantly happy when I pick them up. Each has a thick, cardboardy sleeve which is important. The Good Earth is less original, and since it was produced by Peter Buck, the inevitable REM comparisons were a little tiresome, but not totally unjust. I didn't like Only Life much.

― Dr. C, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

What Dr.C said. Their music makes me happy as well. I think about riding a train, looking out of the window and seeing lush meadows when I hear Feelies guitars. And "Good Earth" I like a lot whereas "Only Life" I don't.

― alex in mainhattan, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

"Crazy Rhythms" is fan goddam fucken tastic but all i heard of their later stuff was just this boring REM type of music. why did they stop doing all that crazy drum shit?

― , Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

2 years pass...

GLENN: Stiff requested a demo for a second album. They didn't like it. We were doing a lot of home recording, even more in an Eno mode
and less like a rock band. Stiff rejected the songs and we just wrote some more. We weren't playing (live) at that point. Anton was playing
with the Lounge Lizards, doing live shows. He just called up and said "I quit the band." Then Stiff took that that opportunity to drop the
band. One song "The Obediant Atom" was pretty similar to "40 Days" on the first Wake Ooloo record. I think we only had a couple of
songs. We really weren't ready to do another record anyway. It was kind of relief actually.

Has anyone ever heard this!!!??? The demo they made for Stiff???

Does it still exist? Holy Toledo!

And does anyone know why there has never been an actual Smithereens soundtrack released??!!! Was there ever a bootleg??

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 26 July 2004 23:01 (8 years ago) Permalink

The Undertow on Only Life is their best song ever!

― David Allen (David Allen), Monday, 26 July 2004 23:20 (8 years ago) Permalink

unreleased feelies recordings?! holy shit, i just creamed my jeans.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 02:40 (8 years ago) Permalink

Doesn't seem like this has ever surfaced. Here's a Feelies bootleg page with no mention of these tapes. Does mention a 45 minute Trypes demos tape!

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 03:26 (8 years ago) Permalink

The Trypes ep is fantastic. One of them released a solo single of a song that would be on the Yung Wu record record and it's even better. The Yung Wu record is better then the Wake Ooloo record, last I listened. Anyone who thinks the later albums are boring REM stuff NEED to listen. There's stuff on the Good Earth that's more frenetic and angsty then anything on Crazy Rhythms, just arranged differently. It's reall more of the same thing but even better songs in many cases.

Anyone with info on those early bootlegs please let me know. I've wanted to hear that stuff for years and years. I heard they were really punky originally. Slipping Into Something from 1977? Damn.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 06:51 (8 years ago) Permalink

classic classic classic.
_Crazy rhythms_ is one of the best albums ever - well, almost.
I'd really like to listen to some live stuff (I heard they did _Marquee Moon_) and I love that silly cover of _Fame_ they played on _Something Wild_.

― Marco Damiani (Marco D.), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 07:35 (8 years ago) Permalink

I will join in the involuntary skeet explusion over the possibility of hearing this stuff.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 14:25 (8 years ago) Permalink

Some aspiring record label should re-issue their records, as I think all but "Crazy Rhythms" is out of print.

― Earl Nash (earlnash), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 14:28 (8 years ago) Permalink

A box-set would be nice. With live and unreleased stuff. Does anyone know any rich people?

They were so good live. I saw them open for REM, Lou Reed, and 2 or 3 times in Philly by themselves and they were always wonderful.

I used to have a great bootleg video of a show in new york where either Bill or Glenn (i can't remember who) got sick and had to run off the stage to throw up and they did the rest of the show without him. Even that was great.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 14:53 (8 years ago) Permalink

love love love the feelies and they could be amazing live , play half the songs double time and yer just wiped by the end of the concert. worked on a show with them in 89 where they came out and did 6 3 song encores - basically another full set!

only life is good but i find i actually play good earth much more.

― H (Heruy), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 15:11 (8 years ago) Permalink

always suspected they were better live than on record.
and how great great great is _moscow nights_?

― Marco Damiani (Marco D.), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 15:16 (8 years ago) Permalink

haha I just played that on my radio show a half hour ago!

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 15:19 (8 years ago) Permalink

anthony miccio, you have good taste. :)

― Marco Damiani (Marco D.), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 15:21 (8 years ago) Permalink

The Good Earth is their best album but it's one of those records that sounds worlds better at certain times of the year, in this case in the fall. The first album is great too, especially "Forces at Work."

― Burr (Burr), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 16:07 (8 years ago) Permalink

I will state my love for the Feelies here so you can all think more highly of me.

― artdamages (artdamages), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 16:11 (8 years ago) Permalink

I really do love the Feelies.

― artdamages (artdamages), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 16:12 (8 years ago) Permalink

Not the greatest singers or songwriters, maybe, but still a classic band. The way I always WISHED R.E.M. sounded, tho I didn't hear the Feelies until several years later. I imagine they'd be great in concert. Excellent taste in covers, doing '60s songs THEIR way. Plus, anal types like me wish that more bands did that Eno/Feelies instrumental inventory thing, recounting which bandmember played wood blocks and who played "snake guitar" and "galloping guitar" and so on. (Then again, I suppose MBV-types wouldn't want to reveal their secrets.) And has there ever been an uncooler-looking bunch than the one on the cover of Crazy Rhythms? Well, maybe; but still: Classic!

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 16:44 (8 years ago) Permalink

Some aspiring record label should re-issue their records, as I think all but "Crazy Rhythms" is out of print.

I've been doing my best to get the word out on one of the better kept secretly not out-of-print albums: The Good Earth is in print, via Twin/Tone records. It's on custom burned CD (not CDR) and sounds great. You don't get the cover art...boo hoo. Also available is the Yung Wu album (never before on CD) and that EP that came after The Good Earth. If memory serves, the website is twintone.com.

They were probably my favorite live band of all time.

― dlp9001, Tuesday, 27 July 2004 16:45 (8 years ago) Permalink

great band. great guitar sound.

― amateur!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 16:46 (8 years ago) Permalink

"better kept secretly" no idea what that means. It's a well kept secret that this album is still available.

― dlp9001, Tuesday, 27 July 2004 16:47 (8 years ago) Permalink

That Twin/Tone bullshit doesn't count, though. They need to reissue these records proper.

Totally classic. The best New Jersey nerd rock nervous nitwit band ever.

― mcd (mcd), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 16:47 (8 years ago) Permalink

Not sure why it's bullshit. It's a CD, it's a better transfer than the original, and it's cheap. Is a cover booklet that important?

Except for their lousy job of publicising this, it's a great way to keep a back catalog available that might not justify a new printing.

― dlp9001, Tuesday, 27 July 2004 16:49 (8 years ago) Permalink

It does justify a new printing.

― mcd (mcd), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 16:52 (8 years ago) Permalink

morally or financially?

― dlp9001, Tuesday, 27 July 2004 16:53 (8 years ago) Permalink

Whoa, 45 minutes of Trypes demos?? I always figured there were just the four songs on _The Explorers Hold_ and "A Plan Revised."

I have the potential of being a total Deadhead when it comes to Feelies live/demos. Someone really ought to initiate a Dicks Picks-esque series.

― mike a, Tuesday, 27 July 2004 17:05 (8 years ago) Permalink

I got into the Feelies in college thanks to my friends in Spiral Jetty, whose _Tour of Homes_ EP was produced by Million & Mercer. (Get this EP if you ever see it - it's practically a fifth Feelies album.) I must have seen the Feelies two dozen times throughout the '80s. Thinking about it now, they may have been my all-time favorite live act. Wake Ooloo and The Sunburst just don't fill the gap.

― mike a, Tuesday, 27 July 2004 17:08 (8 years ago) Permalink

They don't compare to the Feelies, but I was kind of pleasantly surprised by a couple of the Sunburst songs on their webpage. Worth downloading for free, at least.

― dlp9001, Tuesday, 27 July 2004 17:10 (8 years ago) Permalink

Yeah, they're good - you can't go really wrong with the Baumgartner/Mercer/Paruta/Demeski lineup. I guess I really want to hear "From The Morning Glories" live.

― mike a, Tuesday, 27 July 2004 17:12 (8 years ago) Permalink

I got into the Feelies in college thanks to my friends in Spiral Jetty, whose _Tour of Homes_ EP was produced by Million & Mercer.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 17:16 (8 years ago) Permalink

i mean, i think crazy rhythms is OOP, too. very recently, though - recent enough that after i saw that it wasnt in print last year, i went on a wild internet search, and bought one on walmart's website that mustve been languoring in some warehouse somewhere.

but OMG classic times a million. i like some of the good earth stuff, but anton fier makes the band for me, and so crazy rhythms is the only one thats really brilliant. nonetheless, that is more than enough to get them such highly classic status in my book.

funny that theres a dB's and feelies c/d resurrected in the same day - by the same person? i got into those two groups in the same month or so...

― peter smith (plsmith), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 17:20 (8 years ago) Permalink

morally or financially?

Both.

― mcd (mcd), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 17:40 (8 years ago) Permalink

I got into the Feelies in college thanks to my friends in Spiral Jetty, whose _Tour of Homes_ EP was produced by Million & Mercer.
-- St. Nicholas (naamm...), July 27th, 2004 2:16 PM. (later)

WTF? This cut out my entire second sentence. I said: "Weird. One of the guys from Spiral Jetty was a professor at William & Mary when I was there. They had a minireunion show on campus."

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 18:27 (8 years ago) Permalink

morally or financially?
Both.
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Twin Tone's accountants apparently disagree with part of that. Probably worth noting the sales figures on the Twin Tone site. If you can convince them that they're sitting on a gold mine, though, more power to you.

― dlp9001, Tuesday, 27 July 2004 18:36 (8 years ago) Permalink

as a small label guy, I think there is still good reason to put out CDs. I also think when you limit how much you release and put a lot of work into promoting a small catalog, you have a better chance at making your money back. When you're trying to promote 300 bands, it's a different ballgame. If the entire Feelies catalog was out of print and I managed to get the rights to license, each CD would come out with lots of press, in a relatively small amount(probably smaller then TwinTone would press.) However, taking advantage of iTunes and internet sales, and adequate promotion, that small amount would be easily available all over the world. In other words, do I think we'd make our money back on releasing the Feelies stuff? With love and devotion and time, absolutely. TwinTone just seems set in the idea that the CD will be dead shortly and they say they want to be on the cutting edge of digital delivery. Not sure what they see as the failings of iTunes, plenty of other labels seem to have accepted it.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 18:55 (8 years ago) Permalink

They are pretty much defunkt aren't they? I think all they are doing is selling catalog stuff. Probably no time or energy to bother w/anything else.

― artdamages (artdamages), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 19:01 (8 years ago) Permalink

Dan's right. I can think of 100 'post-punk' or whatever reissues that have been released in the last year or two that sell reasonably well and that are not nearly as good as the Feelies records. Should be available in stores and such in my opinion. I just think Twin/Tone is doing a poor job. If they won't release it, they should let someone else release it.

― mcd (mcd), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 19:13 (8 years ago) Permalink

well they are letting people release some stuff, much of the "big" names are being licensed to Restless or whomever. They seem to have the music and the artists best interests in mind, but are, like everyone else, genuinely confused about what's going to happen in the next few years. Selling custom CDs without the art is kinda funny though, in a time when everyone else is trying to say that the art is one reason to NOT download the damn thing!

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 19:19 (8 years ago) Permalink

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my band opened for u.s. ape once! cbgb. a guy from that band told us "don't let a weekend gig at cbs be your highest goal." hah! we broke up before we ever got a weekend gig at cbs. plus i once played with a guitarist who had dated lauren from nervous rex. and i think one of the student teachers guys was a contemporary of mine at college. don't think i knew him though. there was another campus band called the exhusbands that i did know, and that somehow got inter-tangled in the student teachers family tree. (http://www.snee.com/exhusbands/) please keep hijacking.

― Thus Sang Freud, Friday, 5 October 2012 11:37 (7 months ago) Permalink

yeah kind of interesting that there was such a power pop thing happening, aside from the db's you don't really hear about any of these bands? or maybe i'm just not looking.

― tylerw, Friday, 5 October 2012 17:57 (7 months ago) Permalink

& to get back to the feelies, it is irritating that the band didn't take advantage of that crazy rhythms reish a few years back to put out those early singles/sessions. but they must really not like them.

― tylerw, Friday, 5 October 2012 17:58 (7 months ago) Permalink

― Thus Sang Freud, Friday, 5 October 2012 18:07 (7 months ago) Permalink

I've offered to do it hell, I BEGGED!

Maybe they'll do it some time but mostly I think they weren't totally satisfied and preferred to focus on getting the actual releases back out there and work on new stuff.

― dan selzer, Friday, 5 October 2012 18:30 (7 months ago) Permalink

you didn't beg hard enough.
looks like the feelies are playing next spring in baltimore and philadelphia. maybe i'll fly out!

― tylerw, Friday, 5 October 2012 20:03 (7 months ago) Permalink

2 weeks pass...

― tylerw, Monday, 22 October 2012 17:09 (6 months ago) Permalink

Need my brain to be on feelies RIGHT NOW.

― doug watson, Monday, 22 October 2012 19:36 (6 months ago) Permalink

true story -- the new band i'm playing in is (tentatively) called Forces At Work.

― tylerw, Monday, 22 October 2012 19:44 (6 months ago) Permalink

you guys better be ruling

― willem, Monday, 22 October 2012 19:59 (6 months ago) Permalink

i know, that is really my hesitation in calling the band that -- it's a lot to live up to!

― tylerw, Monday, 22 October 2012 20:06 (6 months ago) Permalink

gah!

― tylerw, Wednesday, 31 October 2012 17:18 (6 months ago) Permalink

anti designer jeans night!

― tylerw, Wednesday, 31 October 2012 17:19 (6 months ago) Permalink

when that's the degree of attention Alex Chilton could get...

― dan selzer, Wednesday, 31 October 2012 20:35 (6 months ago) Permalink

ha, i didn't even notice him. did the peppermint lounge turn into some other club or did it just close?

― tylerw, Wednesday, 31 October 2012 20:36 (6 months ago) Permalink

Was there ever a direct relationship between the Vulgar Boatmen and Feelies? Because I just heard this song for the first time in a while, and, well ...

― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 11 November 2012 18:58 (6 months ago) Permalink

ha, haven't heard that before, but yes, the backing track sounds like it was directly lifted from the only life sessions.

― tylerw, Monday, 12 November 2012 15:48 (6 months ago) Permalink

"direct" I wouldn't think so (Florida, Walter Salas-Humara etc)

― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Monday, 12 November 2012 15:54 (6 months ago) Permalink

(xp)
Vulgar Boatmen and Feelies definitely sound a lot a like, don't know if there was a direct connection

― What Kind Of EOY POLL Do You Look Like Now? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 12 November 2012 15:58 (6 months ago) Permalink

always thought this one could've been a feelies song

― tylerw, Monday, 12 November 2012 16:55 (6 months ago) Permalink

This is probably common knowledge, but that's REM warming up for The Cramps on that Pep Lounge ad. (I wish alt rock bar ads still looked like that.)

― By the end of my second term, Gingrich said... (Dan Peterson), Monday, 12 November 2012 17:01 (6 months ago) Permalink

vulgar boatmen are a good find, ty

― 乒乓, Monday, 12 November 2012 17:08 (6 months ago) Permalink

Vulgar Boatmen always referenced New Order as well as the VU, and if you squint when you listen to that above track you can definitely hear the NO influence.

― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 12 November 2012 17:13 (6 months ago) Permalink

my ears don't squint tyvm

― 乒乓, Monday, 12 November 2012 17:19 (6 months ago) Permalink

whoah that Lou song has serious Feelies vibes. Returning the favor I guess.

― dan selzer, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 01:38 (6 months ago) Permalink

2 weeks pass...

I know Carlos has been mentioned, but this aspect was news to me:

Initially, Assayas planned to use several songs by The Feelies on the soundtrack but shortly before post-production was completed he was informed that members of the band did not want their music associated with terrorism. The director remembers, "We ended up managing to keep one song for a scene that did not involve any kind of terroristic activity. But I had to completely reinvent the whole score".[36] He ended up using several songs by Wire. The soundtrack includes:

Loveless Love by The Feelies
Dreams Never End by New Order
Terebellum by Fripp & Eno
All Night Party by A Certain Ratio
Ahead by Wire
Forces at Work by The Feelies
Sonic Reducer by The Dead Boys
Dot Dash by Wire
Drill by Wire
The 15th by Wire
Sharing by Satisfaction
Pure by The Lightning Seeds
La Pistola y el Corazon by Los Lobos
El sueño americano by La Portuaria
Muwashshah by Hamza El Din

― dan selzer, Friday, 30 November 2012 17:56 (5 months ago) Permalink

Wire has no problem with terrorism. They're down with the cause.

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 30 November 2012 17:57 (5 months ago) Permalink

feelies are totally ok with purse snatching too.

― tylerw, Friday, 30 November 2012 18:00 (5 months ago) Permalink

that movie did have a cool soundtrack, assayas is good at that stuff.

― tylerw, Friday, 30 November 2012 18:04 (5 months ago) Permalink

I was totally shocked and surprised hearing those songs while watching Carlos. It was strange as historically it doesn't make sense. The chronology doesn't fit, the setting doesn't fit, but it was awesome. Something fit. I guess that's filmmaking!

― dan selzer, Friday, 30 November 2012 18:29 (5 months ago) Permalink

I found it totally distracting. Iirc, I turned off the movie and put on the Feelies. Dunno if I ever finished "Carlos."

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 30 November 2012 18:32 (5 months ago) Permalink

ha. To each their own!

― dan selzer, Friday, 30 November 2012 18:39 (5 months ago) Permalink

yeah, historically a lot of it didn't fit, but i think the vibe was right? i dunno, assayas ends Summer Hours with an incredible string band song, which on paper sounds totally wrong, but i thought it was kind of magical.

― tylerw, Friday, 30 November 2012 18:43 (5 months ago) Permalink

I loved Carlos, the film and the soundtrack. "Dreams Never End" may as well be renamed "Carlos' theme," at least to me.

― Trip Maker, Friday, 30 November 2012 18:43 (5 months ago) Permalink

It definitely helped me reestablish a love for Wire's Ahead.

― dan selzer, Friday, 30 November 2012 18:46 (5 months ago) Permalink

true story -- the new band i'm playing in is (tentatively) called Forces At Work.

― tylerw, Monday, October 22, 2012 1:44 PM (1 month ago)

I was going to call my new band that! But there's a German nu-metal band who've already scooped it.

― DJ Smoove Groothe (staggerlee), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 03:15 (5 months ago) Permalink

ha, i saw that. i'm just ignoring them for the moment.

― tylerw, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 05:04 (5 months ago) Permalink

THUMB-WRESTLE YOU FOR IT

― DJ Smoove Groothe (staggerlee), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 06:19 (5 months ago) Permalink

we already have this tumblr, i believe that gives us legal rights to the name in perpetuity forever and ever. http://forcesatwork.tumblr.com

― tylerw, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 23:30 (5 months ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

dunno if anyone is in the hudson valley, but if so!
Night of the Living Feelies: Yung Wu, East of Venus, Wild Carnations; Saturday, January 19; 8 p.m., $12/advance, $15/door, 18 & over, BSP, 323 Wall Street, Kingston; (845) 481-5158, www.bsplounge.com.

― tylerw, Thursday, 17 January 2013 18:40 (4 months ago) Permalink

this is pretty great, a write-up of Red Buckets, a Philly band with some Feelies involvement: http://tapewrecks.blogspot.com/2013/01/red-buckets-cover-your-eyes.html
also the subject of a yo la tengo tune.

― tylerw, Wednesday, 23 January 2013 16:03 (3 months ago) Permalink

Dear Feelies,

Please tour. If Burma can do it, so can you.

Thanks,

Josh

― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 23 January 2013 20:10 (3 months ago) Permalink

ha, yeah, at this point, i'm thinking i'll just have to bite the bullet and fly out to hoboken for one of these shows....

― tylerw, Wednesday, 23 January 2013 20:13 (3 months ago) Permalink

Drop by Philly for the show here. I'll buy you a beer.

― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Thursday, 24 January 2013 04:10 (3 months ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

― tylerw, Tuesday, 19 March 2013 14:21 (2 months ago) Permalink

that is awesome, tyler. maybe ira k took that subscription bait?

http://thequietus.com/articles/11644-yo-la-tengo-ira-kaplan-favourite-albums?page=4

― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 19 March 2013 14:37 (2 months ago) Permalink

haha, i wouldn't be surprised if ira k wrote that subscription bait.
by the way, the best place to find feelies ephemera like this is here: http://zippy49.tumblr.com/

― tylerw, Tuesday, 19 March 2013 14:45 (2 months ago) Permalink

I like how they offer a 'scrip without the album. Why on earth wouldn't anyone pay 50 cents for any album? Even if it sucks, you can sell it! Even if you have it already you can give it to a friend! I guess if you're a misanthrope with no friends and every album known to man... Which describe a lot of music critics actually, so never mind.

― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Tuesday, 19 March 2013 14:51 (2 months ago) Permalink

The show this evening was phenomenal... No support, two and a half hours (with an intermission) of Feelies goodness.

Set lists (before and after intermission):

They encored with three tracks that I was too busy dancing to to take note of what they were... I suck.

That comeback album they did was also quite good. If all reunion-after-years-apart projects were as solid as that, the stigma of such projects sucking would be totally gone. Love this song best:

― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Saturday, 23 March 2013 04:34 (1 month ago) Permalink

thanks for posting the set!
yeah the new one is solid. apparently they're working on another lp too.

― tylerw, Saturday, 23 March 2013 16:56 (1 month ago) Permalink

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