Felt -- Classic or dud??

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!

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

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

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.

ttlly didn't see that upthread!

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

'Ballad of the Band' = best single Creation ever released, if not, indeed the best song.

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.

try reading some of your own posts, from there

Who would have guessed, back in 1986 (or whenever) that Britian would eventually be taken over by Polish Jesus freaks and we would all be hanging out with them?

I think I have just made a C86/UKIP connection.

Hell no, are you kidding?

You can ask a lot out of life, and you can be wayward, but to think anything could compare to "Penelope Tree" is just asking too much.

put on some George Benson or something

hahahahah

I gotta get some sleep, yo!

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!