the feelies - classic or dud?

Another Brave New World

"Glenn Mercer's solo debut could be a Feelies reunion. He's just too nice to make it one."

Sorry, same VV link. I wish we could delete posts! I need to buy this. Reckless doesn't have it, so it's either a citywide hunt or order and wait.

"Crazy Rhythms" gets reissued next month. In other honor of that: can we all agree that "Raised Eyebrows" is the greatest thing since the thing that came after sliced bread?

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Great news indeed, it was also mentioned on 'the other Feelies-thread'. Too bad there's no bonus material but maybe that'll come sometime as an extra release?? (esp. a good live gig would be greatly appreciated)

and the Mercer album is very great.

is that Yung Wu record ever gonna get put on CD?...my vinyl copy is all melty...

It's available from Twin/Tone (see higher up in this thread).

aha...thx

Yung Wu show from '87 at the Path Station has been re-seeded on D!mead0zen. Video quite good, sound pretty good. Just in case anyone's curious. Probably best for people who already know Yung Wu via the album. It's not like they or the Feelies were visually that amazing in concert...it was a sonic thing.

Actally, at this point I probably listen to the Yung Wu album more often than anything by the Feelies, which isn't to say I necessarily think it's better than Crazy Rhythms/Good Earth. It does seem to hold up really well though.

this dude's got a the earliest live recording i've ever seen by the feelies up for download ...
nargotheborts-deviant-subculture.blogspot.com/search/label/Feelies
sound is pretty good! and it's nuts that they were doing slipping into something close to ten years before the Good Earth ...

ok so seriously people, you should download that show NOW. it is great. you can certainly hear how the feelies fit into the CBGB post Talking Heads, post Television scene, but at the same time, they sound pretty close to fully formed.

does anyone have the trypes demos? i can't figure out how to do bittorrent, and i'm dying to hear them.

Still waiting to see if the trypes will get reposted. Meanwhile, I was really surprised by how relatively good the '77 show I just downloaded sounds...I kind of gave up on Feelies bootlegs at some point because they never sounded remotely as good as the live band, but this one is pretty interesting.

About twenty years ago(eek- can't be??) I used to probably daily dose on The Feelies.

I had forgotten about them until now. Trouble is it's all on vinyl and it's all still in boxes and that includes Crazy Rhythms which I hear is worth something and I got for £1.

I really need to hear The Good Earth right now though. That was the one?

They were a real alternative to all the other hardcore and guitar skree and skronk I was listening to back then. And probably still am now sadly enough

I've been dying to hear the Trypes stuff. I love that EP to death.

i've got the Trypes demos -- pretty rough quality, but worth hearing. The CDR has the demos + a show at Folk City in 1983. I don't really do the uploading/downloading thing, but if anyone wants to contact me off the board for a physical copy, i'd oblige ...

Thanks for the link, tyler - love the recording. Pretty close to fully formed is quite right, though there are some things that would be more streamlined/better tuned later on. Esp. the drums I think. I don't think it's Fier that's playing on this recording, right?

'77 would've been Vinny DeNunzio on drums..

"Crazy Rhythms" gets reissued next month

will this be on 180gram vinyl?

oh boy
www.idolator.com/370364/the-feelies-to-bring-their-crazy-rhythms-back-this-summer

Oh
my
God

I hope they play more than just a few shows. And record.

yeah seriously! i really would like to see them ...

Saw them three times in Rhode Island in the late 80s. God they were soooooo good.

Be fun to see 'em, for sure.

Greatest cover band ever and inspired funky moves out of white people.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuA-haidvac

yeah, best high school reunion ever.

anybody know what happened to the (crazy rhythms) reissue that was due in Feb. ?

reissue now pushed back to late April. At least the third delay thus far, so who knows when it will actually see the light of day.

Great news. I demand a world tour! :-)

Fa Ce-La

Looks like a new album, more shows may be in the works.

http://www.spinner.com/2008/05/06/the-feelies-reunite-for-shows-new-album/

Glad to hear it! I hope there's a full tour.

last I heard on the reissue of Crazy Rhythms was another bump to the end of this month.

I too hope they tour - at least a few dates outside greater NYC.

Cute photo goes with this article in the NY Times on the reunion. It never ceases to freak me out when musicians age like normal human beings:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/01/arts/music/01feel.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

I'll be at Maxwell's on wed night.

I'm looking forward to Friday afternoon's show with Sonic Youth. I can't believe this reunion is happening. I also can't believe we're asking c/d on The Feelies. They're the Feelies for crying out loud.

And my all-time favorite record from them is "Time for a Witness"!

I'd really like to see them. Twenty years between shows is too long.

It never ceases to freak me out when musicians age like normal human beings:
Bill Million looks like a locksmith.

he looks like a Million bucks.

Dave Weckerman looks like Ruth Buzzi from "Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In."
http://thegolddiggers.files.wordpress.com/2007/07/vlcsnap-12052238.jpg

Glenn Mercer looks like Daniel Clowes, as imagined by Daniel Clowes:
http://www.fantagraphics.com/images/stories/artists/featured/clowes_icon.gif

Damn I wanna live in NYC.

don't we all?

good reason to not live in nyc: 2 tix to the "free" july 4th show going for $185 on ebay.

i get the lotsa like, but not the crazy love

Nice about reunion gigs, but, umm..Crazy Rhythms reissue? PLEASE for fuck's sake?

haha, SO many reasons to not live in nyc! before i visited my old neighborhood a few weeks ago, my friend warned me: 'we will not talk about this tonight. but i want to let you know that there are now a lot of ordinary people around here doing conventional things!' and he was right, alas.

but i'll be going to the july 4 show, and looking forward to seeing the feelies. been almost twenty years since i've seen them, and the same is true for sonic youth, who i'm not sure i'll stick around for.

From the reunion show, Away:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4tkJ1ts9LI