At their best, they sound like Vini Reilly jamming with the Ventures beside a North Carolina campfire.
very well put -- i saw athens, ga: inside out last night and kept thinking of durutti column w/r/t the love tractor stuff.
― shiksa kabab (get bent), Friday, 19 February 2010 21:46 (fourteen years ago) link
The best cover ever is Wake Ooloo soaring through Love Tractor's "Fun to be happy." The original plods, and thinly at that. The cover you could listen to forever. (The Feelies covered it live from time to time, too.)
― Michael Train, Friday, 19 February 2010 21:58 (fourteen years ago) link
the feelies/wake ooloo are spiritual cousins, definitely.
― shiksa kabab (get bent), Friday, 19 February 2010 22:01 (fourteen years ago) link
The original line-up is doing a show in Athens next month
― Brad C., Friday, 22 July 2016 23:21 (seven years ago) link
Jamming Themes from Venus this morning. In the minority here, but I actually prefer the albums with vocals. Love Themes is probably my favorite thing of theirs by quite a ways, though I never did find the second album or venture into any of the reunion records from the 2000s. The title track from Themes from Venus is quite possibly one of the greatest THC-influenced listening sessions I can remember from years ago. Even without the audio enhancement, it's still a monster.
― outside, you're never alone. (Austin), Friday, 10 August 2018 16:50 (five years ago) link