Felt -- Classic or dud??

i shouldn't post on felt threads. i have no critical distance and i get all defensive and weird. i act like everyone who doesn't love lawrence as much as i do is a troll and i must kill them. and that ain't right!

for the record, people cooler than me:

lawrence
werner herzog
hayley mills

so after a longgg time of sorta wondering about felt i bought "absolute classic masterpieces" today and it's really rad! i like the earlier songs better than the "primitive painters"-type stuff i think; the high 80's production on some of that is a little much for me. maybe i'll come around. but man, good guitar jams on a bunch of this.

also scott is such a total bro.

I have a doublecd of "Ignite the Seven Cannons" and "Strange Idol's Patterns", which is rather nifty and I like a lot of the tracks on it. "Primitive Painters" is above and away the song of theirs I love the most though. And it isn't just the Liz Fraser vocal, its the lushness of the arrangements, such a joyous, full, textured song.

A few posts up I notice Zachary has confused Martin Duffy & Martin Denny. I'm sure the former would be flattered.
'Ballad of the Band' = best single Creation ever released, if not, indeed the best song.

-- bham (bham), Thursday, 23 November 2006 08:37 (7 months ago)

responding 7 months later, I say

Hee-Ya!

I have a doublecd of "Ignite the Seven Cannons" and "Strange Idol's Patterns",

Jealous? ME???

Hahah you want me to make you a copy Bimbledear? It'd be a HUEG file tho.

Your opinion, please: 366-band, 411 track 1981 box set

I assume you know the relevance of that thread to this one is nearly nil, RJG.

don't assume

BAHAHAHAHAH

(I feel like I've waiting to say this all my life)

BECAUSE I'LL MAKE AN ASS OUT OF YOU AND ME

you're a bit stupid

Why, because I fail to see the why the link you posted has relevance here?

to be honest there are a few different reasons

I'm well aware you don't like me RJG. You make that clear with an insult or two every time I come across you here. It gets old. So you don't like me? Fine. Not everyone has to like everybody else, you know? Go your own way then and quit this same routine. You seem to be upset with me because of fights I had with people I mended fences with eons ago, and frankly I think *that's* stupid. You even got upset when I made a comment to my friend grimly fiendish thinking it was rude, but actually it was an inside joke between him and I and he knew perfectly well what I meant. These things didn't even involve you, man. Get over it.

Your opinion, please: 366-band, 411 track 1981 box set

Ha! *rolls eyes* Hey, whatever makes you happy, man.

I like felt

vintage

I PULLED OUT PRIMITIVE PAINTERS LOUD ON VINYL AND I KNOW THE NEIGHBORS HATE ME NOW

lawrence of belgravia is gettnig a screening at the barbican

http://www.barbican.org.uk/film/series.asp?id=597&show=info

thanks bob.

fuckin awes, thx for heads-up

the early stuff sounds somewhere in between victorialand-era cocteaus and dire straits.

I PULLED OUT PRIMITIVE PAINTERS LOUD ON VINYL AND I KNOW THE NEIGHBORS HATE ME NOW

― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Monday, May 12, 2008 3:07 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Felt so classic. "Pictorial Jackson Review"! OH.

They're flawed but I find them always a pleasant listen. The early singles are GREAT listenable pop, the albums might be difficult for an initiate.

DON'T GO

TO THE SPANISH HOUSE CAUSE YOU KNOW IT'S A TRAP

I listen to "Forever Breathes the Lonely Word" and "Crumbling the Antiseptic Beauty" a LOT.

The organ parts on FBTLW are so killer, totally makes the album for me.

And lately I get a little misty about Bimble when I hear "All the People I like Are Those That are Dead".

Read "Song Man" by Will Hodgkinson for very depressing Lawrence stories.

stains on a decade comp is ace

I prefer the two "Absolute Classic Masterpieces" compilations myself. And then went and gathered up the remaining singles tracks for a bit more. "Primitive Painters" still rocks my world but overall I've grown to love all the singles.

Dud. So I decided at the time, and do still now. There's a difference between understatement and plain weakness.

my drunken hate for 'b'wana beast' is indescribable

ahh this is why they created 'suggest ban'

Classic beyond any reasonable definition of the word, and that goes for pretty much every stage of their career. Current obsession (in misty autumnal UK) is with The Stagnant Pool, especially once it settles into its effortless, spectral second half. SO GOOD.

Lawrence meets GIRLS. http://www.magicrpm.com/artistes/girls/videos/girls-meet-lawrence-premier-episode

what's the Felt song playing at around 3:40 into that video?

it's familiar but yeah i'm not sure

lawrence is starting to resemble a bald vini reilly

It's "The World is as Soft as Lace"

the world is soft as lace is a splendid accompaniment to heavy snowfall. sometimes i think the splendour of fear is their best record.

It's really strange watching that interview. I've been a massive fan of his since buying Denim On Ice when it came out but I've never heard him speak before and in a lot of the pictures I've seen he's looked very different.

I would say Strange Idol Patterns is their masterpiece followed by Forever Breathes the Lonely Word. A lot of their best tracks are spread out on one off singles or B-sides that's why the compilations are so essential too.

Yeah, but there's singles tracks they left off the two "Absolute Classic Masterpieces" compilations, which I tracked down and put together:
Break It
Red Indians (single version)
Something Sends Me To Sleep (alternate version)
My Face Is On Fire
A Preacher In New England
Now Summer Spreads Its Wings Again
Mexican Bandits
Sunlight Bathed In Golden Glow (single version)
Cathedral (new version)
Candles In A Church
Rain Of Crystal Spires
Gather Up Your Wings And Fly
Fire Circle
Buried Wild Blind
Female Star
Tuesday's Secret

i've listened to about 7 of the above quite coincidently tonight! snow always brings out the felt in my house...

I only heard the single version of Sunlight Bathed the Golden Glow when I bought the Stains on a Decade compilation last year. It really took me by surprise, it's so beautiful.

I was reading about the Felt discography somewhere recently, it said My Face is On Fire was redone as Whirlpool Vision of Shame which I never knew. I always wondered why it was the only single they left off all of the compilations.

>the world is soft as lace is a splendid accompaniment to heavy snowfall.

otm. I've been hammering ACM Vol 1 all day at home, whilst my workplace is shut and there's a foot of snow outside the front door. I must have listened to The Stagnant Pool five times; I love the way that Deebank's intricate and delicate solo gives way to Lawrence's sparse twangings, but then he comes back at the end to have the final word.

i've listened to about 7 of the above quite coincidently tonight! snow always brings out the felt in my house...

― cw, Wednesday, January 6, 2010 9:17 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

They are a great band to flick through random tracks of and I agree they sound great in the winter. I just played a few and found myself amazed all over again at how strange and wonderful Space Blues is.

Felt - Pick Only 27

anyone know what's happened to the 'Lawrence of Belgravia' film?