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what do people think of Let the Snakes Crinkle Their Heads to Death? Short, instrumental, poppy, I really like this record and was surprised to read a scathing AMG review of it.

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Friday, 13 February 2004 20:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Let The Snakes Crinkle Their Heads to Death is classic!!! One of the greatest instrumental l.p.'s of the last 25 years. whoever wrote that review is deaf, blind, AND dumb.

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 13 February 2004 20:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Tommy?

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Friday, 13 February 2004 20:43 (twenty-two years ago)

The singer in the band was bad and mediocre. The guitarist was good - even outstanding. The result was a combination of those contrasting factors.

― the bellefox, Saturday, 14 February 2004 15:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Where you been? ain't seen you for weeks/ You been hanging out with all those jesus freaks/ Oh yeah and I feel like giving in/ And
where were you, when I wanted to work? you were still in bed/ You're a total jerk/ There's a place for abstract and there's a place
for noise and there's a place for every kind of sound so come on now and tell me why there's a void/ It's all my fault, yes I'm to
blame/ Ain't got no money, ain't got no fame/ And that's why, I feel like giving in/ And all those songs, like crystal ball,
dismantled king /You know I love them all/ But oh, I still feel like giving in.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 14 February 2004 15:17 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

Can I just say that feels like the start of the summer now and I've fallen in love with 'Let the snakes crinkle their heads to death' all over again.

― flowersdie (flowersdie), Thursday, 14 April 2005 16:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I have only heard one song. I think the Pinefox overstates things a bit, but is essentially right. The bass player is good too. They appeal a touch to the jam band fan in me.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 14 April 2005 16:24 (twenty-one years ago)

i bought Stains on a Decade and it sux royal. Just slskd some stuff from their real albums and its so much better. i need to give it a better listen, but i'd say Classic anyway for inspiring the Clientele.

― AaronK (AaronK), Thursday, 14 April 2005 16:28 (twenty-one years ago)

six months pass...

I discovered FELT through the internet radio station "flashbackalternatives dot com2 (you can tune iN via itunes) ... and I am sure I will get a huge addict real soon (if I'm not already) and grab everything available.

― sCat, Sunday, 16 October 2005 12:33 (twenty years ago)

sorry for the typing... it is "flashbackalternatives dot com" and you can request quite alot of FELT songs there, as well as loads of other 80ies music....

― sCat, Sunday, 16 October 2005 12:36 (twenty years ago)

sorry for the typing... it is "flashbackalternatives dot com" and you can request quite alot of FELT songs there, as well as loads of other 80ies music....

― s Cat, Sunday, 16 October 2005 12:37 (twenty years ago)

sorry for the typing... it is "flashbackalternatives dot com" and you can request quite alot of FELT songs there, as well as loads of other 80ies music....

― cutty (mcutt), Sunday, 16 October 2005 13:31 (twenty years ago)

I thought this thread was about Minneapolis's Sean 'slug' daley of atmosphere's side project Felt: A tribute to Christina Ricci

― orbX, Monday, 17 October 2005 06:05 (twenty years ago)

since a felt thread has been revived, i'll take the opportunity to mention that last week i got an email purporting to be from maurice deebank about the uncanny accuracy of a comment i had made about primitive painters on an ILM thread a couple years ago.

i assume it was somebody yanking my chain, because it came from a UK email address and i thought deebank lived in spain. but if it wasn't, wowee!

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Monday, 17 October 2005 06:31 (twenty years ago)

Why didn't I nominate Primitive Painters for the 80s thread?

― Cunga (Cunga), Monday, 17 October 2005 06:44 (twenty years ago)

PP is good because you hear hayward RAP.

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 17 October 2005 10:05 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

I can't find the lyrics to "Ballad of the Band" anywhere. Any help?

― wordy rappinghood (roxymuzak), Saturday, 18 November 2006 20:22 (nineteen years ago)

http://felt.planetaclix.pt/Lyrics/bubblegum.htm

― svend (svend), Saturday, 18 November 2006 21:25 (nineteen years ago)

-- scott seward (skotro...), February 14th, 2004. (scott seward)

see up thread. or is this an irateverything type google laff?

― pscott (elwisty), Saturday, 18 November 2006 21:26 (nineteen years ago)

and Felt are GREAT. i consign everything said on this thread written by scott seward.

― pscott (elwisty), Saturday, 18 November 2006 21:26 (nineteen years ago)

I only have Forever Breathes the Lonely Word. I like everything about it except the keyboards. Played by Martin Duffy, I believe? I am not into the keyboards at all.

― Zachary Scott (Zach S), Saturday, 18 November 2006 21:38 (nineteen years ago)

What a timely revival -- I just snagged the reissues of Crumbling, Splendour and Let the Snakes earlier today.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 18 November 2006 21:50 (nineteen years ago)

For someone who enjoys everything about Felt on Forever Breathes except for the keyboard playing, which would be a good album to get next? Which is the best pre-Denny Felt record?

― Zachary Scott (Zach S), Saturday, 18 November 2006 21:52 (nineteen years ago)

Ignite The Seven Cannons is nearly perfect.

There are some of their records I don't have anymore that I rather wish I did...Snakes being one.

Pulling out Crumbling & Splendour now would be one hell of a freaky trip to the past and my senior year of high school. All my classmates were playing the latest Metallica record over and over and over. And I was there with my walkman listening to Felt & Breathless.

― Umpire Teen (Bimble...), Saturday, 18 November 2006 23:11 (nineteen years ago)

i listened to both metallica and felt endlessly in high school, but then i was always very very cool. (er, you know, in the mid-80s, when metallica were cool. felt will always be cool.)i still wanna get a felt tattoo and i still haven't settled on a font.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 19 November 2006 04:44 (nineteen years ago)

Oh give me a break "I listened to both Metallica and Felt so I was endlessly cool". Right. Declaring oneself to be cool is not the same as actually being so. Get a grip.

― Umpire Teen (Bimble...), Sunday, 19 November 2006 06:21 (nineteen years ago)

no way, i REALLY am cool!

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 19 November 2006 06:40 (nineteen years ago)

ask anybody.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 19 November 2006 06:46 (nineteen years ago)

I agree. He really is cool. Then again, really cool people (like myself) can easily spot other really cool people.

― Zachary Scott (Zach S), Sunday, 19 November 2006 06:47 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah Scott's hellzy cooly

― 808 the Bassking (Andrew Thames), Sunday, 19 November 2006 12:00 (nineteen years ago)

if you can't stand the hammond organ (and i really can't imagine why that would be), the strange idols pattern and other short stories is the one for you. ignite the 7 cannons is a little bit patchy, the production is rum in places and it has organ all over it. crumbling the antiseptic beauty is similarily fine. poem of the river is pretty much perfect: looser with longer songs but lots of dappled sunlight organ i'm afraid

― cw (cww), Monday, 20 November 2006 09:50 (nineteen years ago)

bimble weren't YOU the one claiming a distinction for yourself as a renegade high-school feltist? sheesh

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Monday, 20 November 2006 10:58 (nineteen years ago)

see up thread. or is this an irateverything type google laff?

ttlly didn't see that upthread!

google laff? you kiddin' me, "pscott"?

― wordy rappinghood (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 00:32 (nineteen years ago)

google laffs! yr man pablo is king of them foolin in the kids for test papers, felt lyrics are a right turn but y know it could happen...

― pscott (elwisty), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 00:42 (nineteen years ago)

Scott is like the mayor of chilltown.

― Beth S. (Ex Leon), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 01:00 (nineteen years ago)

felt are completely boring imo

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 01:23 (nineteen years ago)

scott seward is the coolest person on ilx. without him, this shit wouldn't even be worth reading, not even for the totally wrong amateurist roffles.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 01:25 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah Scott's hellzy cooly
-- 808 the Bassking

Scott is like the mayor of chilltown.
-- Beth S.

scott seward is the coolest person on ilx. without him, this shit wouldn't even be worth reading, not even for the totally wrong amateurist roffles.
-- hstencil

I was feeling pretty great until that last comment clarified who the recipient of the praise was.

― Zachary Scott (Zach S), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 01:28 (nineteen years ago)

sorry dude, no one beats the seward. NOBODY!

http://www.droppin.com/droppinnew/images/Reality/SurvivorPalau/James.jpg

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 01:31 (nineteen years ago)

unfortunately i can't find a screenshot of the seinfeld wiz any more.

http://games.telenet.be/images/movies/28/01/125t_feld1_resize.jpg

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 01:34 (nineteen years ago)

It's so heartwarming when stence and I agree on something!

― Beth S. (Ex Leon), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 15:40 (nineteen years ago)

god i didn't half love me some FELt back in the day.

sorta can't really see the fuss now. weird.

― pisces (piscesx), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

"Ballad of the Band" and "Primitive Painters" are SO good. I've never heard anything else from Felt that seemed anywhere near as good.

― I.M. From Hollywood (i_m_from_hollywood), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 19:32 (nineteen years ago)

the bimble guy's weird

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 23:08 (nineteen years ago)

sunlight bathed the golden glow is at least as good as ballad and is much better than the overrated primitive painters

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 23:45 (nineteen years ago)

Call me weird, RJG? Why that's not too far from "eccentric"! I must say I'm flattered! :)

For I do get tired of the self-congratulatory in-crowd of this board, and the overinflated egos that go along with that. It really makes this place much more boring than it has to be, and that's what I was trying to express. Scott's comment seemed to fall right in line with just the kind of thing that I particularly disdain on this board. Don't any of you get tired of this shit? We could be talking about music earnestly but instead we're looking at smart alec pictures of irrelevant crap to the thread in question with unamusing in-jokes to accompany them, or as Hoosteen brilliantly pointed out not too long ago -

"thx to old-skool ilx0rs for letting us have this discussion vs. exasperatedly linking to discussions you've ALREADY HAD DAMMIT about authenticity viz instrumentation.

-- Hoosteen (merlindude0...), November 20th, 2006."

In any case, to go back to the Scott's comment, I mean, to think that all a supposedly intelligent human being can say in this world is essentially "I'm cooler than you because I like both Felt & Metallica" I mean, man, I really ask a lot more out of my message boards than that. But hey, to each his own. You can have him.

― Only The Stones Remain (Bimble...), Thursday, 23 November 2006 07:45 (nineteen years ago)

Nothing of theirs grabbed me immediately like "Sunlight bathed..." and 'penelope tree" did. Does anything else compare?

― Spanky McGee III (Spanky McGee III), Thursday, 23 November 2006 08:24 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

x-post

Well, The Splendour of Fear has a very similar feel to Penelope Tree on all its tracks, although is maybe not as poppy in approach. If you like Sunlight Bathed... then do you already have The Strange Idol's Pattern And Other Short Stories? For my money Spanish House and Dismantled King... off that are certainly as immediate as SB.

― Bill A (Bill A), Thursday, 23 November 2006 08:40 (nineteen years ago)

STRANGE IDOLS is the one i keep going back to, though i have to really be in the mood for that band -- not like an everyday listen, for me.

― yetimike (McGonigal), Thursday, 23 November 2006 09:09 (nineteen years ago)

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