the old cd is incredibly quiet. anyone have the vinyl?
― artdamages, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 17:24 (sixteen years ago) link
i have the vinyl. sounds fab.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 17:28 (sixteen years ago) link
art, is your CD on Line Records? I know a lot of people with gripes about their dB's reissues.
― dad a, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 17:29 (sixteen years ago) link
er, i have old vinyl. there was a vinyl reissue, wasn't there? mine's on Stiff.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 17:37 (sixteen years ago) link
all my feelies is on vinyl. i need a copy of the last album though. maybe i'll break down and buy a 20 dollar cd on amazon. i had the tape, but it got lost.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 17:38 (sixteen years ago) link
a&m i think (xpost)
― artdamages, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 17:38 (sixteen years ago) link
and i do wanna get the new glenn mercer cd too.
i haven't heard time for a witness in so long it will be like having a new feelies album!
― scott seward, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 17:40 (sixteen years ago) link
best thing about time for a witness is the reversed photo in the cd booklet that makes everyone in the band look like a lefty. that warms my lefthanded heart every time i see it.
second best thing is the la's-esque pop of "doin' it again."
but as feelies albums go, it's very meh.
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 17:51 (sixteen years ago) link
i remember being really excited when it came out, but i didn't play the tape much.
seriously, if there are feelies fans who don't own wake ooloo's hear no evil, they should buy it. i love that album. i'm ashamed to say that i don't own the other two wake albums. i'll get around to it, i swear!
― scott seward, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 17:55 (sixteen years ago) link
i dunno, i'll rep for Time For A Witness -- definitely the most straight-ahead of the Feelies records, but it has a great guitar sound and some nice tunes. But I love everything those guys have done. they should be headlining coachella, amirite? Anybody else pick up the Glenn Mercer solo CD last year? It might have a bit more of a "Feelies" sound than the Wake Ooloo stuff. More subdued than anything else he's done but pretty nice all the way through ... any news on them putting out the pre-Crazy Rhythms stuff mentioned upthread? PLEEEEZE.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 18:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Great band, and one of the most consistently listenable, too. There's rarely a time when they don't fit the mood or setting.
All four records are strong, I can't even pick a favorite.
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 18:04 (sixteen years ago) link
hay i just ripped my cd so i can listen on the computer. it was a conicendece
― the galena free practitioner, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 20:29 (sixteen years ago) link
and what about the Smithereens soundtrack!
I first heard about / saw part of this film last week. Here is one of many notable things about it: at the very end, the van is occupied by a bunch of hookers, among whom is a tranny hooker played by a young Chris Noth.
So if anyone ever challenges you to a degrees-of-separation thing where you have to get from Sarah Jessica Parker to Richard Hell in one move, there you go
― nabisco, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 20:33 (sixteen years ago) link
The Glenn Mercer album is pretty good, though not on the level of The Feelies at their best or Yung Wu. I kind of like the cover of Within You Without You/Love You To. It's on emusic.
― dlp9001, Thursday, 24 January 2008 00:43 (sixteen years ago) link
This album didn't make any sense to me until I played it EXTREMELY LOUD and fairly drunk. Then it became one of my favorite albums ever.
I always recommend this to people who like Marquee Moon, though to me Crazy Rhythms > Marquee Moon by a nose
When the hell is that deluxe vinyl reissue deal supposed to be coming out???
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Sunday, 23 March 2008 01:17 (sixteen years ago) link
see here for that news plus exciting reunion news:
the feelies - classic or dud?
― sleeve, Sunday, 23 March 2008 01:20 (sixteen years ago) link
just posted a Crazy Rhythms-era live show over on the blog: http://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/ so good
― tylerw, Tuesday, 16 June 2009 13:52 (fifteen years ago) link
playing this live in September at ATP of course :-)
― Jamie_ATP, Tuesday, 16 June 2009 14:15 (fifteen years ago) link
GRRRRR!!!!
― Marco Damiani, Tuesday, 16 June 2009 14:30 (fifteen years ago) link
haha, yeah, that's how I feel. wonder how it'll sound? probably great, but it didn't seem like they played all that much off of Crazy Rhythms during the reunion shows last year -- just the title track and "Raised Eyebrows" I think ...
― tylerw, Tuesday, 16 June 2009 14:38 (fifteen years ago) link
Tyler, you have the best blog. Thank you. More feelies!
I seriously considered making a pilgrimage to maxwell's with Mrs. Staggerlee for those shows. Alas, do not have an extra $2000 lying around.
ALAS.
― staggerlee, Wednesday, 17 June 2009 01:17 (fifteen years ago) link
awesome, tylerw, thank you
i went for a run that lasted the duration of 'crazy rhythms' not long ago. i found it exhausting
― thomp, Wednesday, 17 June 2009 01:31 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.tomwarren.com/music/images/feelies_30.jpgcrazy rhythms recording sessions! more here: http://www.tomwarren.com/music/Feelies.html
― tylerw, Monday, 3 October 2011 22:38 (twelve years ago) link
good lord, this band was/is(?) perfect.
― chromecassettes, Monday, 3 October 2011 22:44 (twelve years ago) link
nothing here that hasn't circulated previously, but a cool way to approach the pre-Crazy Rhythms years:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HjrcAhmH_U
― tylerw, Wednesday, 13 January 2021 15:06 (three years ago) link
I was dancing round the shop when I found the Stiff "Crazy Rhythms" in our local Oxfam for £2, early last year.
― Mark G, Friday, 15 January 2021 08:13 (three years ago) link
those ork records version of fa ce la and forces at work are so good
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Friday, 15 January 2021 13:07 (three years ago) link
I think of this record sort of like Wire's Pink Flag - an atypical debut whose style they never exactly returned to.
I saw them opening for Lou Reed in 1989, and if they were not the best band I've ever seen live, they were certainly the best whose music I didn't know before seeing them. They covered "Dancing Barefoot" as someone mentioned above, and either said nothing or no more than "thanks" to the audience.
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 15 January 2021 16:10 (three years ago) link