― Dr. C, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
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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 (nineteen years ago) link
― David Allen (David Allen), Monday, 26 July 2004 23:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 02:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 03:26 (nineteen years ago) link
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 (nineteen years ago) link
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― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 14:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― Earl Nash (earlnash), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 14:28 (nineteen years ago) link
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 (nineteen years ago) link
only life is good but i find i actually play good earth much more.
― H (Heruy), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 15:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― Marco Damiani (Marco D.), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 15:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 15:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― Marco Damiani (Marco D.), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 15:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― Burr (Burr), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 16:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― artdamages (artdamages), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 16:11 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 16:44 (nineteen years ago) link
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 (nineteen years ago) link
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― dlp9001, Tuesday, 27 July 2004 16:47 (nineteen years ago) link
Totally classic. The best New Jersey nerd rock nervous nitwit band ever.
― mcd (mcd), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 16:47 (nineteen years ago) link
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 (nineteen years ago) link
― mcd (mcd), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 16:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― dlp9001, Tuesday, 27 July 2004 16:53 (nineteen years ago) link
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 (nineteen years ago) link
― mike a, Tuesday, 27 July 2004 17:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― dlp9001, Tuesday, 27 July 2004 17:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― mike a, Tuesday, 27 July 2004 17:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 17:16 (nineteen years ago) link
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 (nineteen years ago) link
Both.
― mcd (mcd), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 17:40 (nineteen years ago) link
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 (nineteen years ago) link
― dlp9001, Tuesday, 27 July 2004 18:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 18:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― artdamages (artdamages), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 19:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― mcd (mcd), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 19:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 19:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― tf shaw, Wednesday, 29 March 2006 13:57 (eighteen years ago) link
The Feelies didn't record this one in the studio, but the Feelies-connected band Yung Wu did, on a terrific record called Shore Leave (speaking of records that need to be reissued as soon as possible...)
― James, Wednesday, 29 March 2006 14:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― willem -- (willem), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 14:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― James, Wednesday, 29 March 2006 14:33 (eighteen years ago) link
so anybody heard the new "debut solo album" from Glenn Mercer? Article here: http://www.villagevoice.com/music/0724,trucks,76911,22.html I didn't even know it was out ... Interesting stuff, though I have to say I'm absolutely dismayed by the Counting Crows comparison? I mean, really?
― tylerw, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 15:04 (sixteen years ago) link
Yesterday's reissue of The Bongos' Drums Along The Hudson was very satisfying. I'm ready for Spiral Jetty now. I've been searching for them on slsk for a year with no luck! If anyone has it, I'll trade the 20 mp3s of the Feelies covering the likes of Television and Wire I've assembled.
I bought the T/T CDR of The Good Earth and compared it to the original, and decided it was worth the money. I'll just color copy the old cover art.
I put together a nice
― Fastnbulbous, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 15:41 (sixteen years ago) link
tyler, I ordered it earlier this week (mentioned the release of the album on 'the other feelies-thread'), the tracks on his myspace page sound very good, recapturing the pastoral mood of 'the good earth' if I must give a hint as to what they sound like.
― willem, Thursday, 14 June 2007 10:56 (sixteen years ago) link
Picked up Glenn Mercer's "Wheels in Motion" yesterday. It's very good - similar sound to the Feelies, but more laid back. I also got Wild Carnation's "Tricycle," which I also recommend. Anyone heard their recent album?
― Jazzbo, Thursday, 14 June 2007 12:07 (sixteen years ago) link
Their version of 'Sedan Delivery' is an unadulterated classic.
― cavendish, Thursday, 14 June 2007 13:04 (sixteen years ago) link
Another Brave New World
"Glenn Mercer's solo debut could be a Feelies reunion. He's just too nice to make it one."
― Fastnbulbous, Thursday, 14 June 2007 18:06 (sixteen years ago) link
hmmm that's one of the best band cameos in all of cinema history! here's the Demme / Feelies background, from my big Willies feature in Maggot Brain:
Weckerman: Jonathan Demme came to see us at the Whiskey A-Go-Go in 1981. Pretty soon after that, he wrote Bill a letter saying that he’d love to work with the band. We had no idea — we didn’t even know how to pronounce his name. “Jonathan Demm?” But that year, he was up for an Oscar for his movie Melvin & Howard! So, we thought this guy must be legitimate. He came out to New York and we “did lunch” with him and he told us he wanted to do this movie with The Feelies. It would be set in this small town where most of the people are like zombies — Night of the Living Feelies or something. He seemed to think he could get financial backing for it [laughs]! Of course, eventually, the movie he did make was Stop Making Sense. Talking Heads made a little bit more commercial sense, I think. A few years later, Demme asked us to be in Something Wild — but we were billed as The Willies, even though we’re playing Feelies songs. I can’t really remember why!
Sauter: It was kind of an in-joke. Those in-the-know would know that The Willies were The Feelies. The rest of them … wouldn’t!
Weckerman: It turned out to be the highest profile thing we ever did — millions of people have seen this thing. But it’s The Willies and I’m singing [laughs]! People are always saying, “Dave’s in this movie, he’s the singer,” and I have to explain that I wasn’t even the singer in the band. What happened was that we were supposed to be playing only songs from 1976, because the scene is the reunion of the class of ’76. The Eagles were really big then, but we said, “Eh, we’re not going to play the Eagles.” But we did work up a version of the Rocky theme song — like an energetic version that was pretty good. But right before we were due to shoot the scene, Jonathan got a cease & desist letter. Apparently, the Rocky theme song could only be used in a movie that had Rocky Balboa in it. Jonathan said, “How about ‘Fame’ — you guys like David Bowie, right?” We said sure, but Glenn was having a little trouble singing and playing the funky guitar part at the same time. Jonathan said, “How about Dave sings it?” I said, “I’m not really the greatest singer, but hey, it’s your movie!”
― tylerw, Tuesday, 12 September 2023 17:04 (eight months ago) link
best band cameos in all of cinema history!
Amon Düül II in Fassbinder's The Niklashausen Journey
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 12 September 2023 17:14 (eight months ago) link
WANT TO HEAR FEELIES ROCKY THEME
― Cow_Art, Tuesday, 12 September 2023 17:19 (eight months ago) link
What happened was that we were supposed to be playing only songs from 1976, because the scene is the reunion of the class of ’76. The Eagles were really big then, but we said, “Eh, we’re not going to play the Eagles.”
LOL
― birdistheword, Wednesday, 13 September 2023 03:24 (eight months ago) link
Feelies, Bongos, Lenny Kaye at Hoboken Fest yesterday October 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QC5Xh4JfCg
― curmudgeon, Monday, 2 October 2023 16:50 (eight months ago) link
https://thefeelies.bandcamp.com/album/some-kinda-love-performing-the-music-of-the-velvet-underground
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Monday, 2 October 2023 16:55 (eight months ago) link
i went to that. it was very melancholy -- hoboken's administrator for cultural affairs is retiring, after coordinating this twice-yearly free festival for something like 30 years. you'll hear glenn mercer thank "geri" at the end. it was an amazing run.
― Thus Sang Freud, Monday, 2 October 2023 17:02 (eight months ago) link
the two tracks up on BC sound great!
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Monday, 2 October 2023 17:03 (eight months ago) link
a strumfest! sounds great. that feelies VU release is killer — I interviewed Bill Million about it for the latest issue of Uncut.
― tylerw, Monday, 2 October 2023 17:07 (eight months ago) link
The VU cover with all the guests onstage was a nice feel-good closer. The rest of the set was just the Feelies doing - I think - mostly their own material and had more of that trademark jittery energy.
― o. nate, Monday, 2 October 2023 18:15 (eight months ago) link
I saw them earlier this summer when they played Brooklyn Made (just two shows, no tour), and they were amazing. Tickets were also cheap - I guess they live in the NY/NJ area and just do local shows, hence the extremely low overhead?
― birdistheword, Monday, 2 October 2023 20:46 (eight months ago) link
i've been kicking myself all summer for missing those shows, i knew about them and then it just completely slipped my mind. seeing them in woodstock in nov tho :)
― J0rdan S., Monday, 2 October 2023 20:48 (eight months ago) link
the Velvet Underground 2CD is out today - http://www.thefeeliesweb.com/disc/discography.html
― StanM, Friday, 13 October 2023 13:05 (seven months ago) link
grr this is delayed on Bandcamp, gimme gimme
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Friday, 13 October 2023 18:17 (seven months ago) link
Got the vinyl a couple days ago, haven’t had a chance to listen yet.
― Cow_Art, Friday, 13 October 2023 18:19 (seven months ago) link
needless to say, i think this is fantastic
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 15 October 2023 17:19 (seven months ago) link
Stan proudly displaying his copy on facebook next to his copy of VU and Nico signed by the 4 members of that album that weren't Nico, presumably signed while Luna was opening up for VU.
― dan selzer, Sunday, 15 October 2023 21:29 (seven months ago) link
I also got Wild Carnation's "Tricycle," which I also recommend. Anyone heard their recent album?― Jazzbo, Thursday, June 14, 2007
― Jazzbo, Thursday, June 14, 2007
... On Tricycle, the pastoral quality of their most beautiful ballads was captured perfectly, while retaining enough of the rawness of the live experience. Waves of critical acclaim followed, from now defunct publications (CMJ Jackpot! Raygun, Trouser Press) followed, including this one by Jack Rabid of The Big Takeover (Still going strong!), written for All Music Guide:"While the hook line for this new local trio would have to be that bassist/leader Brenda Sauter used to be a member of the later-'80s incarnation of the famous Feelies (and it's notable offshoot, The Trypes), even if you didn't worship at the altar of that group (and especially if you did!), Wild Carnation is a revelation. While the persistent, pumping beat and hard-played jangle guitars of most of the tracks here emanate from her previous band and from their forerunners, the Velvets (especially), Television,and the Byrds - Sauter's beguiling voice is perfect for the ultra-appealing pop hooks the group writes as well as the thoughtful lyrics she composes. Trading the occasional Feelies drone for sugar-sweet melodies (yes!) and utilizing the pretty ring of the guitars to maximum effect, songs such as Wings are the perfect pop confectionery, too honeyed and delightful to miss capturing your bending heart and too consistently insistent and edgy to be wimpy, kind of like Reckoning-era R.E.M. It's all so well captured with pristine production, with balls to match the heart, too! And though the 12 tracks are largely cut from a similar mode, all seem special just the same on their own. A truly shining, first-rate effort, along with Lotion's and Nyack's early EPs and the last Flower LP, the best release to come out of a New York group this decade, and exceptionally crafted at that! Do not miss."
"While the hook line for this new local trio would have to be that bassist/leader Brenda Sauter used to be a member of the later-'80s incarnation of the famous Feelies (and it's notable offshoot, The Trypes), even if you didn't worship at the altar of that group (and especially if you did!), Wild Carnation is a revelation. While the persistent, pumping beat and hard-played jangle guitars of most of the tracks here emanate from her previous band and from their forerunners, the Velvets (especially), Television,and the Byrds - Sauter's beguiling voice is perfect for the ultra-appealing pop hooks the group writes as well as the thoughtful lyrics she composes. Trading the occasional Feelies drone for sugar-sweet melodies (yes!) and utilizing the pretty ring of the guitars to maximum effect, songs such as Wings are the perfect pop confectionery, too honeyed and delightful to miss capturing your bending heart and too consistently insistent and edgy to be wimpy, kind of like Reckoning-era R.E.M. It's all so well captured with pristine production, with balls to match the heart, too! And though the 12 tracks are largely cut from a similar mode, all seem special just the same on their own. A truly shining, first-rate effort, along with Lotion's and Nyack's early EPs and the last Flower LP, the best release to come out of a New York group this decade, and exceptionally crafted at that! Do not miss."
Greatly expanded reissue, incl. demos & live etc., all streaming here:https://delmorerecordings.com/album/tricycle-remastered-expanded-edition
― dow, Wednesday, 18 October 2023 16:55 (seven months ago) link
^So yeah I was listening to my copy and reflecting on how this might be the most tuneful album from the whole Haledon NJ scene! I think that every time I've put it on over the years, but I finally got a reasonably priced copy of the reissue recently.
Love The Feelies but if I'm not in the mood for them, in those moments, I find the "let's see how fast we can strum and switch back and forth between G chords and D chords" to not always draw me in melodically. Wild Carnation on the other hand, all that no-brakes nervous folk/jangle strummage channels into tight pop compositions with focused melodic development.
― Evan, Thursday, 2 November 2023 20:14 (seven months ago) link
Crazy Melodies
― enochroot, Thursday, 2 November 2023 23:47 (seven months ago) link
Yeah the VU thing is really fantastic, exceeding my already high expectations.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 7 November 2023 22:38 (six months ago) link
Really digging the Wild Carnation! I’ve rarely been inspired to pick up Feelies side-project/adjacent stuff but this is really worthwhile.
― The land of dreams and endless remorse (hardcore dilettante), Wednesday, 8 November 2023 00:21 (six months ago) link
You're not saying you've skipped The Trypes and Yung Wu are you? Because that would be INSANE.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 8 November 2023 02:22 (six months ago) link
I have a Yung Wu record. I only listened to it once. Should give it another spin, 20 years on from the first.
― The land of dreams and endless remorse (hardcore dilettante), Wednesday, 8 November 2023 04:31 (six months ago) link
Wasn’t bowled over by the VU record. I would have loved to have been at that gig (s?) and would probably have lost my mind. But as an album? Eh. Mercer isn’t in top voice (to put it mildly), they mostly he’s to the original arrangements (even the guitar solos!) and there aren’t even many surprises in the song selection. Doesn’t add much to the appreciation of either party, IMO.
― The land of dreams and endless remorse (hardcore dilettante), Wednesday, 8 November 2023 04:37 (six months ago) link
I think you will regret ignoring that Yung Wu record all these years. And the Trypes! So good I bought the company (for a few years).
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 8 November 2023 04:46 (six months ago) link
dan knows exactly what he's talking about, btw.
― "another slice of death, please." (Austin), Wednesday, 8 November 2023 04:56 (six months ago) link
He’s well known as a man of … uh .. sumpin .. and taste!
― The land of dreams and endless remorse (hardcore dilettante), Wednesday, 8 November 2023 05:09 (six months ago) link
saw them in woodstock last night... they opened w/ an acoustic set, then there was an intermission, then they played an electric set w/ 4 encores. no opener, even excluding the intermission they played well over 2.5 hours. vocals were a bit of a fight w/in the mix at this age if you know what i mean but otherwise they sounded absolutely fantastic, still completely locked in as a band
― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 24 March 2024 14:27 (two months ago) link
srsly your loving the Feelies is like learning that Joe Biden likes Road House. But I know you like strummy-jammy Velvet-y stuff.
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 24 March 2024 14:29 (two months ago) link
Once saw them in Cambridge and they did six encores. The last three were unsolicited.
― TO BE A JAZZ SINGER YOU HAVE TO BE ABLE TO SCAT (Jazzbo), Sunday, 24 March 2024 19:07 (two months ago) link
the guy who was tasked with switching out the guitars for every subsequent encore, who was employed by the venue, was visibly annoyed by encore three
― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 24 March 2024 19:50 (two months ago) link
haha a booker friend of mine in the late 80s got so mad at them when she dealt with their fancy rider, "hummus must be home made not store bought" etc, she dubbed them the Unfeelies. the shows were still fantastic tho.
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Sunday, 24 March 2024 20:18 (two months ago) link
Dammit, if being one of the most influential and also probably perpetually broke bands of the past 50 years can’t get you some homemade hummous, I don’t want to be in that band.
― It was on a accident (hardcore dilettante), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 04:43 (two months ago) link
What’s that you say? The invitation still hasn’t arrived?
― It was on a accident (hardcore dilettante), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 04:44 (two months ago) link
They did 5 or 6 encores last night At Black Cat in DC. They did the opening 50 minutes set as their own opening band, sitting down on chairs and playing acoustic mostly. Then left stage for 20 minutes and came back and did a 55 minutes set standing, and then the 6 encores. Cover songs through the night included Jonathan Richman "Egyptian Reggae" , Buddy Holly "Everyday", Mc5 "Shakin Street", a couple of Beatles songs, Stooges I wanna be Your Dog, Wire's "Mannequin " from Pink Flag, Rolling Stones Painted Black
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 14 April 2024 16:04 (one month ago) link
If the instrumentals were things like the Obedient Atom, Eno, Hendrix etc, that would be the Willies.
― dan selzer, Sunday, 14 April 2024 19:36 (one month ago) link
Hmmm, maybe not. Here’s how someone listed the setlist for DC
https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/the-feelies/2024/black-cat-washington-dc-3a8bdc7.html
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 14 April 2024 21:39 (one month ago) link
Or maybe yes.
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 14 April 2024 22:49 (one month ago) link