the feelies - classic or dud?

i've always hoped that they'd release a full show from the late 80s -- on one of those promos there are a handful of pro-recorded performances from 1988 I think.

http://www.thefeeliesweb.com/images/disc/4songs.gif
this one has "egyptian reggae" and "everybody's got something to hide" recorded "live at the Roxy, Hollywood, CA"

I've got the yung wu

DAN

Thought revive would be about their involvement in the film Smithereens, which I never knew about until the other day.

They do Walk Upon the Water by The Move and Into the Valley by The Skids. Hasn't this been discussed?

I only got it because a friend of mine invited me to dinner and her mother was there and her partner is a hoboken scenemaker and fan. You know who else was there? Malcom Mooney and Rick Brown.

And Sue Garner.

oh it's been discussed plenty, but i still haven't heard it!
that sounds like a good dinner party to be at ...

I picked up the reissues today. Annoying that the bonus tracks are MP3 downloads.

http://www.popmatters.com/review/the-feelies-only-life-time-for-a-witness/

They did that exact same thing with the Crazy Rhythms and the Good Earth reissues a few years back.

yeah it's a little annoying, but i guess that's just how they like to do it...
reissues sound gooood, but how could they not?

The last batch of Feelies reissues allowed the buyer to download WAV files of the whole album, including bonus tracks. Is that not the case here, or are the bonus tracks really only MP3?

huh I am almost positive that when I bought that Bar None reissue of Crazy Rhythms that the bonus trax were MP3-only, I tend to pay attention to that stuff and I only have it in my MP3 files.

that that that

The Feelies, Beach Fossils
FREE SHOW - July 18 – Monday – 6:00pm – Central Park, Manhattan
http://www.cityparksfoundation.org/event/summerstage-feelies-beach-fossils/

Nice. Saw them play last weekend for nearly 3 hours. Did Stooges, Television, Patti Smith and Modern Lovers covers as part of that.

which Television tune did they do -- "See No Evil"?

yup

Break after first set at Kingston show. No recognizable covers as yet.

Second set underway. Sound mix much improved.

Encore covers ended up being
"She Said, She Said"
"White Light/White Heat"
"Paint It Black"

Think they may have been put off by audience response (and perhaps curtailed show a tiny bit?)
At one point Brenda said "You know, you can talk between songs."

Nobody calling friends, "Guess where I am!", even? Makes me think of the audience in Blow-Up (and one of the decade or so later, mentioned on the Pylon thread, so classic Feelies era too, but maybe they were hoping not to see such an oil painting again).

Notebook mutterings from last year, dipping my toe in deep Feelies at tylwerw's splendid doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com, relevant section(s?) of which is and/or are linked upthread, I think:

Finally getting to these guys, via 1977-80 shows, also The Willies (AKA Feelies), and a recent Feelies performance on YouTube. The '77 set takes off, has to u-turn and grab me up (so far), but that it does; some later boxcar flotation zones me in and out later, a few Willies numbers are too shiny-happy for me, but more often than not, here be meditative momentum, even a few American Dancestand work-outs, and tendrils of sweet potato love in my cellar. The Willies version of "The Great Pretender," between Leggo, Eggo and regggae, has me chanting, "Duke, Duke, Duke." They know about Dick Dale's flaunted Lebanese heritage and why some Creem reviewer once mentioned that early solo Eno "plays synthesizer like the Ventures."

NYC encores were (maybe not in this exact order):

Astral Plane
Paint It Black

White Light / White Heat
Everybody’s Got Something to Hide ‘Cept for Me and My Monkey

See No Evil
Fa Ce La

haven't heard 'em do "astral plane" -- off to youtube!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0KOswC8aBE

not the best quality, but sounds good. feelies could probably just go ahead and cover the entire 1st modern lovers record.

haven't heard 'em do "astral plane" -- off to youtube!

had a great time at this; there was a summer camp of "the art and business of pop music" that came through the venue and i took five of them up to the stage to see what the pit looks like during a show. they lost their miiiiiiiinds

my first Feelies show… I thought it would be cool if they came up with a Suicide arrangement, like "Ghost rider" or "Frankie Teardrop"… no dice…

xpost: "last night was my"

i can hear them doing a suicide cover in my mind, though i get the feeling the feelies aren't a "let's-figure-a-song-out-the-day-before-a-show" kinda band, like, say yo la tengo.

maybe this is the closest (think that's Stan Demeski on drums)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRJWjIVLaOk

speaking of ylt, ira and georgia were in the house last evening. not so much a "house" 'cause it was outdoors. fun fact -- ira wore earplugs, georgia didn't.

i picked up that glenn mercer covers cdr and some yung wu cdr that also has a lot of covers on it (kingdom come!) at the merch table.

They were at a show I went to last year, LaLa Brooks at a folklore museum in Queens, and it seemed to me that Ira's hearing was pretty bad. Unless the reason that he couldn't hear was that he had his earplugs in.

hey, new album!
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/the-feelies-announce-new-lp-in-between-listen-to-been-replaced/
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/files/2016/12/feelies.jpg

Hell yes.

Aw, yeah!

here's Mercer/Million on the record:

"On the new record we did a lot of it at my house in my home studio with extra equipment. It's the same room where we rehearsed. We've been here since we reformed and a little bit prior to taking the hiatus in the 90's. So it's a room we're really familiar with and feel comfortable in. We also did some recording at an engineer's studio, so it was all done very low key. We refer to it as "off the clock" when you're not paying an hourly rate, so in that sense it was a lot more relaxed. I don't think anyone would notice a drastic change in the sound or the vibe of the record. I think it sounds a lot more relaxed and laid back."

"I think all of our albums reflect a certain degree of reaction to the work that we previously did and In Between is no exception," continues Bill Million. "We liked the sounds and the feel of the demos for this album and we thought it would be difficult to capture that in a recording studio. So that was our starting point and it evolved in a much more relaxed way that loaned itself to more creative interplay. Time wasn't a component. If you let it, music can take on a life of its own and we wanted to allow the songs to develop with that idea in mind."

Grew up loving the Feelies, but I'd really rather see a new Yung Wu album at this point. Not sure what's up with Omi Palone (Morrissey probably responsible for their name), but as of 2014 they were doing the Feelies better than the Feelies (while putting a Feelies poster in their video). New Feelies album cover highly reminiscent of Flydaddy reissue of Moles "Untune The Sky."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQcyz1IbThg

http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0002/459/MI0002459819.jpg?partner=allrovi.com

Ran to listen to Omi Palone. Ooooof, just a little too on the nose for enjoyment, IMO.

At first I thought the Omi Palone song was cute (especially the bit with the Feelies poster), but it's grown on me a lot, the way it builds to a too-short climax. I'm not sure what a band like Feelies is supposed to do, actually. They're so painted into a corner (and again, this is a band I seriously love) that the idea of just having other bands take over for them doesn't seem like the worst thing in the world. And again, that's why what I really want is more Yung Wu.

Yung Wu fans might enjoy "Rock And Pillars" from the recent Bats album.

The new Feelies album is really great. I always had a problem with <em>Only Life</em> and <em>Time For A Witness</em> because in the process of trying to beef up their sound they became a bit too generic alt rock and lost some of the magic of the first two albums. This one does.

Jangle Pop: The Feelies, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, Real Estate, The Bats, The Black Watch

Ordered it online yesterday. Really anticipating it's arrival.

Couple tracks I heard sound good from the new record.

I think the later two albums like 'Only Life' and 'Time for a Witness' really are more a result of being more of a 'live band'. I saw them live and got into them around Time for a Witness and they were really groovy live. Crazy Rhythms was at that point a different band or where they started compared to '91 when they were gigging and touring. The first record is iconic, but I think part of that was the shock of "oh man, we are making a record" and they just did it, but what was there wasn't exactly what they became like as a live band over time. Or at least that would be my guess...

On a personal note, I think it's pretty damn admirable how many of the punk/postpunk/indie musicians from the 80s and on especially some of the cats that didn't cash in on the golden ring are still going for it and applying their musical minds a few decades down the line. And there is a LOT of them doing so. Got to tip the hat for that.

this is hitting me much more than Here Before did. really really enjoying it. and the last track was a pleasant surprise

also I highly recommend Rolling Blackouts CF too

On artistic grounds, it's too bad they didn't release this as the follow up to Good Earth. I'm not sure if it would have helped their career, but it would have been a really satisfying 1-2 punch. Easily the 3rd best Feelies album.

ha, i don't know about that (i love only life and witness), but yeah, this album is really solid throughout. glad they are still at it.

Kind of want to see them revisit the first album style next, just to see what they can do, as this is generally Good Earth part 2 (though as we now know, Slipping was an early composition...)

yeah interesting that the first album is kind of the outlier in their catalog now, even though it's the "iconic" record.