― willem -- (willem), Thursday, 11 May 2006 20:58 (seventeen years ago) link
Classic (It's work-related, boss!)
― nickn (nickn), Thursday, 11 May 2006 21:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tyler W (tylerw), Thursday, 11 May 2006 21:14 (seventeen years ago) link
It's so good to hear some good recordings of their covers. I especially liked the deadpan delivery of Brenda on "Dancing Barefoot" - a great version. The version of "Sweet Jane" is a recording on which the Feelies back up Lou Reed! I've read about this happening but until now I'd never heard recorded proof.
I do hope Coyote/TT are reissueing the albums soon, an extra disc with covers and a live one would be terrific...
Tyler - I'd love to get my hands on one of those bootlegs, esp. the one with Richard Lloyd. Maybe we can arrange something?
― willem -- (willem), Friday, 12 May 2006 10:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― arden delarco (goodone), Friday, 23 June 2006 00:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― nerve pylon (flat_of_angles), Friday, 23 June 2006 00:06 (seventeen years ago) link
I almost fell down from my chair!and what about the Smithereens soundtrack!
― Marco Damiani (Marco D.), Friday, 23 June 2006 05:52 (seventeen years ago) link
Arden, for some info/recordings of live and/or other stuff you might check this site and contact the person who keeps it up.
― willem -- (willem), Friday, 23 June 2006 06:16 (seventeen years ago) link
Just posted some video of the Hoboken gig:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lv7LM_jLUsw&search=the%20feelies
― arden delarco (goodone), Friday, 30 June 2006 19:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 7 July 2006 20:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― nerve pylon (flat_of_angles), Friday, 7 July 2006 20:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― willem -- (willem), Friday, 7 July 2006 21:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― willem -- (willem), Friday, 7 July 2006 21:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― arden delarco (goodone), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 03:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― willem -- (willem), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 04:47 (seventeen years ago) link
arden's activted a myspace-page last year, on which some late 70's live tracks can be heard. www.myspace.com/crazyfeelies
just read on mercer's page(www.myspace.com/glennmercer ) that he's releasing a solo album this week. both tracks that are featured on the page have that gorgeous pastoral the good earth-feel to it. looking forward to late night summer listenings..
― willem, Saturday, 2 June 2007 17:30 (sixteen years ago) link
Wait, I never posted on this thread? What the hell is wrong with me. Then again most everything that needs to be said has been. (I think my AMG review of this is still up, I'm not sure...)
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 2 June 2007 20:42 (sixteen years ago) link
It's been, what, four years since I last heard this? Gen-you-wine classic -- "Moscow Nights," of all things, used to make a few love song comps.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Saturday, 2 June 2007 21:35 (sixteen years ago) link
Nice review of The Good Earth, Ned! It's a record that is a little easy to overrate.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Saturday, 2 June 2007 21:40 (sixteen years ago) link
HEY Y'ALL CHECK IT OUT
http://www.amazon.com/Crazy-Rhythms-Feelies/dp/B000Z7G7KU/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1200960575&sr=8-1
ABOUT FUCKING TIME
― sleeve, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 00:33 (sixteen years ago) link
I can finally actually own this! I lost my burned copy so long ago...
― jonathan - stl, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 04:27 (sixteen years ago) link
so there's nothing extra on this? HMMM.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 04:29 (sixteen years ago) link
This record is greatness. The story I heard was that they'd plugged guitars directly into the mixing board, instead of recording them through miked amps, to get the crisp dry constant tone that's all over this record. Can anyone confirm?
Paint It Black on here has always bugged me. It shouldn't have been tacked on, it's from a later period, is mixed much louder than the rest and doesn't sound like it belongs, kind of sabotages the end of the CD.
― dad a, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 04:53 (sixteen years ago) link
agreed, I would never wanna hear that after the glorious end of this record.
― sleeve, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 05:24 (sixteen years ago) link
i saw the feelies open for rem @ the felt forum (LOL), must've been 87 or so. they were a little dull, and rem were ok until someone got smei-crushed because people were crowding the stage and michael stipe left in a huff. that's pretty much the moment i stopped giving a shit about rem.
― gershy, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 06:12 (sixteen years ago) link
semi
― gershy, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 06:13 (sixteen years ago) link
I was at that show and in that pit! REM did a cover of Set Me Free that was pretty sweet. But confirming your take that the Feelies were dull that night I had totally forgotten that they were the openers. Weirdly I was more impressed watching Yung Wu do a few songs off Crazy Rhythms a couple years later.
― dad a, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 06:48 (sixteen years ago) link
wau, small world. the Felt Forum is like the greatest venue name of all time.
― gershy, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 07:30 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, dad a, I believe they did record the guitars that way.
xxxpost
One thing I love about this album is the liner notes, the way they painstakingly itemize every instrument used and who-played-what. Anal folks like myself LOVE having all that information at their fingertips.
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 07:38 (sixteen years ago) link
Thanks MVB! (So gershy, I suppose you're not in love with Felt Forum's current rebranding as the WaMu Theater at Madison Square Garden?)
― dad a, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 07:51 (sixteen years ago) link
oh, i haven't lived in nyc for years, last i heard it was the paramount. aren't there plans to build another msg a few blocks over?
― gershy, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 07:55 (sixteen years ago) link
Listened to it today! "Raised Eyebrows" ftw!
― Cunga, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 08:02 (sixteen years ago) link
That's news to me gershy. The Felt Forum Feelies/REM show was the only one I ever saw at MSG so I can't say I'd feel sentimental about the loss, especially since the place was so square they handed out Stagebill-type programs before the show, listing an unimaginably bad season lineup of concerts, just to make it clear that good shows were the exception and not the rule.
The cover art to Crazy Rhythms is like a perfect arty counterpoint to the Ramones NYC-brick-building four-on-a-wall debut.
I lived in Montclair for a year and got pretty excited to find that there's a record store called Crazy Rhythms in Verona. My excitement instantly evaporated when I asked the proprietor if there was any connection and he made clear that no, he didn't care for the Feelies or about them. Do not shop there.
― dad a, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 08:42 (sixteen years ago) link
here's an awe-inducing clip of the feelies performing crazy rhythms in 1980
― m coleman, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 10:43 (sixteen years ago) link
I've got the old CD - is there much difference between that and this reissue? Any plans to reissue the later albums? I need The Good Earth as well.
― Colonel Poo, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 10:55 (sixteen years ago) link
i havent listend to this awesome record for too long. now it's time.
― Zeno, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 15:19 (sixteen years ago) link
The Feelies are probably my all-time favorite live band, but I can definitely see them losing something in an arena setting.
― mike a, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 16:17 (sixteen years ago) link
i saw an rem/feelies arena show at that time in...connecticut, i think. and feelies were great. not nearly loud enough, obviously. but they were definitely into it. saw them open for lou at the tower in philly and that venue was AWESOME for them. smaller, but still really big and the sound was great.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 16:21 (sixteen years ago) link
i was really hoping they would bust out what goes on or something at that lou show, but nothing doing.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 16:24 (sixteen years ago) link
Saw them three times — all amazing shows. Last time was at the Blue Pelican in Newport (which, before it closed down, was the ONLY reason ever to venture into that lame city, besides the folk and jazz fests) with the late, great Boston band Lifeboat opening. They all jammed on "What Goes On," which was also in Lifeboat's repertoire.
― Jazzbo, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 16:32 (sixteen years ago) link
Crazy Rhythms was in Montclair but closed years ago.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 16:33 (sixteen years ago) link
I was there last June. From my one visit I gathered that it's the same guy running it, same store name (he named it after the jazz standard), just moved further up Bloomfield Ave to a hole in the wall in Verona.
― dad a, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 17:04 (sixteen years ago) link
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