this dude's got a the earliest live recording i've ever seen by the feelies up for download ... nargotheborts-deviant-subculture.blogspot.com/search/label/Feelies sound is pretty good! and it's nuts that they were doing slipping into something close to ten years before the Good Earth ...
― tylerw, Sunday, 3 February 2008 23:59 (sixteen years ago) link
ok so seriously people, you should download that show NOW. it is great. you can certainly hear how the feelies fit into the CBGB post Talking Heads, post Television scene, but at the same time, they sound pretty close to fully formed.
― tylerw, Monday, 4 February 2008 16:37 (sixteen years ago) link
does anyone have the trypes demos? i can't figure out how to do bittorrent, and i'm dying to hear them.
― mike a, Monday, 4 February 2008 16:40 (sixteen years ago) link
Still waiting to see if the trypes will get reposted. Meanwhile, I was really surprised by how relatively good the '77 show I just downloaded sounds...I kind of gave up on Feelies bootlegs at some point because they never sounded remotely as good as the live band, but this one is pretty interesting.
― dlp9001, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 20:55 (sixteen years ago) link
About twenty years ago(eek- can't be??) I used to probably daily dose on The Feelies.
I had forgotten about them until now. Trouble is it's all on vinyl and it's all still in boxes and that includes Crazy Rhythms which I hear is worth something and I got for £1.
I really need to hear The Good Earth right now though. That was the one?
They were a real alternative to all the other hardcore and guitar skree and skronk I was listening to back then. And probably still am now sadly enough
― Fer Ark, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 21:18 (sixteen years ago) link
I've been dying to hear the Trypes stuff. I love that EP to death.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 21:31 (sixteen years ago) link
i've got the Trypes demos -- pretty rough quality, but worth hearing. The CDR has the demos + a show at Folk City in 1983. I don't really do the uploading/downloading thing, but if anyone wants to contact me off the board for a physical copy, i'd oblige ...
― tylerw, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 21:57 (sixteen years ago) link
Thanks for the link, tyler - love the recording. Pretty close to fully formed is quite right, though there are some things that would be more streamlined/better tuned later on. Esp. the drums I think. I don't think it's Fier that's playing on this recording, right?
― willem, Thursday, 7 February 2008 10:22 (sixteen years ago) link
'77 would've been Vinny DeNunzio on drums..
― willem, Thursday, 7 February 2008 10:30 (sixteen years ago) link
"Crazy Rhythms" gets reissued next month
will this be on 180gram vinyl?
― micarl, Thursday, 7 February 2008 17:52 (sixteen years ago) link
oh boy www.idolator.com/370364/the-feelies-to-bring-their-crazy-rhythms-back-this-summer
― tylerw, Friday, 21 March 2008 14:31 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh my God
― Jazzbo, Friday, 21 March 2008 14:40 (sixteen years ago) link
I hope they play more than just a few shows. And record.
― Jazzbo, Friday, 21 March 2008 14:42 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah seriously! i really would like to see them ...
― tylerw, Friday, 21 March 2008 14:46 (sixteen years ago) link
Saw them three times in Rhode Island in the late 80s. God they were soooooo good.
― Jazzbo, Friday, 21 March 2008 14:53 (sixteen years ago) link
Be fun to see 'em, for sure.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 21 March 2008 14:59 (sixteen years ago) link
Greatest cover band ever and inspired funky moves out of white people. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuA-haidvac
― Jazzbo, Friday, 21 March 2008 14:59 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah, best high school reunion ever.
― tylerw, Friday, 21 March 2008 15:30 (sixteen years ago) link
anybody know what happened to the (crazy rhythms) reissue that was due in Feb. ?
― outdoor_miner, Friday, 21 March 2008 16:19 (sixteen years ago) link
reissue now pushed back to late April. At least the third delay thus far, so who knows when it will actually see the light of day.
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 21 March 2008 20:23 (sixteen years ago) link
Great news. I demand a world tour! :-)
― willem, Friday, 21 March 2008 20:36 (sixteen years ago) link
Fa Ce-La
― factcheckr, Friday, 21 March 2008 21:31 (sixteen years ago) link
Looks like a new album, more shows may be in the works.
http://www.spinner.com/2008/05/06/the-feelies-reunite-for-shows-new-album/
― Jazzbo, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 14:44 (sixteen years ago) link
Glad to hear it! I hope there's a full tour.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 14:51 (sixteen years ago) link
last I heard on the reissue of Crazy Rhythms was another bump to the end of this month.
I too hope they tour - at least a few dates outside greater NYC.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 15:00 (sixteen years ago) link
Cute photo goes with this article in the NY Times on the reunion. It never ceases to freak me out when musicians age like normal human beings:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/01/arts/music/01feel.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
― dlp9001, Tuesday, 1 July 2008 08:51 (fifteen years ago) link
I'll be at Maxwell's on wed night.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 1 July 2008 16:39 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm looking forward to Friday afternoon's show with Sonic Youth. I can't believe this reunion is happening. I also can't believe we're asking c/d on The Feelies. They're the Feelies for crying out loud.
And my all-time favorite record from them is "Time for a Witness"!
― Kublakhan61, Tuesday, 1 July 2008 16:43 (fifteen years ago) link
I'd really like to see them. Twenty years between shows is too long.
― Jazzbo, Tuesday, 1 July 2008 17:20 (fifteen years ago) link
It never ceases to freak me out when musicians age like normal human beings: Bill Million looks like a locksmith.
― Jazzbo, Tuesday, 1 July 2008 17:22 (fifteen years ago) link
he looks like a Million bucks.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 1 July 2008 17:46 (fifteen years ago) link
Dave Weckerman looks like Ruth Buzzi from "Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In." http://thegolddiggers.files.wordpress.com/2007/07/vlcsnap-12052238.jpg
― Jazzbo, Tuesday, 1 July 2008 18:47 (fifteen years ago) link
Glenn Mercer looks like Daniel Clowes, as imagined by Daniel Clowes: http://www.fantagraphics.com/images/stories/artists/featured/clowes_icon.gif
― henry s, Tuesday, 1 July 2008 19:35 (fifteen years ago) link
Damn I wanna live in NYC.
― willem, Tuesday, 1 July 2008 20:33 (fifteen years ago) link
don't we all?
― henry s, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 00:14 (fifteen years ago) link
good reason to not live in nyc: 2 tix to the "free" july 4th show going for $185 on ebay.
― mizzell, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 00:24 (fifteen years ago) link
i get the lotsa like, but not the crazy love
― Hunt3r, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 00:47 (fifteen years ago) link
Nice about reunion gigs, but, umm..Crazy Rhythms reissue? PLEASE for fuck's sake?
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 00:48 (fifteen years ago) link
haha, SO many reasons to not live in nyc! before i visited my old neighborhood a few weeks ago, my friend warned me: 'we will not talk about this tonight. but i want to let you know that there are now a lot of ordinary people around here doing conventional things!' and he was right, alas.
but i'll be going to the july 4 show, and looking forward to seeing the feelies. been almost twenty years since i've seen them, and the same is true for sonic youth, who i'm not sure i'll stick around for.
― edb, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 01:55 (fifteen years ago) link
From the reunion show, Away:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4tkJ1ts9LI
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 3 July 2008 16:35 (fifteen years ago) link
I thought they had reissued Crazy Rhythms? Did it get delayed or something? I already have it so I haven't been paying attention.
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 3 July 2008 16:38 (fifteen years ago) link
the band owns the masters and has been planning on a reissue for a while, i think. it hasn't happened yet.
― mizzell, Thursday, 3 July 2008 16:41 (fifteen years ago) link
My hope would be they delayed it because they decided to reissue it properly, as a double disc chock full of early tracks and the awesome covers they did in that era. I doubt it though.
― Fastnbulbous, Thursday, 3 July 2008 17:32 (fifteen years ago) link
kornrulez, thanks for the video! great stuff.
― stephen, Thursday, 3 July 2008 17:40 (fifteen years ago) link
so jealous
― tylerw, Thursday, 3 July 2008 18:05 (fifteen years ago) link
hope this turns into a full-fledged Mission of Burma style reunion, with touring, recording, etc. i kinda doubt it, but I guess the new songs they're playing bodes well for something beyond the shows this week. and hey, maybe Bill Million, after being a security guard at Disney World, has realized that being in one of the best rock bands of the last 30 years is pretty sweet.
― tylerw, Thursday, 3 July 2008 18:13 (fifteen years ago) link
I have two tickets to this, but my date for the day doesn't want to go. I'm quite pissed.
― jonathan - stl, Thursday, 3 July 2008 18:19 (fifteen years ago) link
>:8
― tylerw, Thursday, 3 July 2008 18:20 (fifteen years ago) link
(that was some kind of angry emoticon in solidarity with you)
― tylerw, Thursday, 3 July 2008 18:21 (fifteen years ago) link
It's okay. If I were a real man I'd do something manly and forceful. Too bad I'm not...
Feelies rule!
― jonathan - stl, Thursday, 3 July 2008 18:27 (fifteen years ago) link