Thank you very much for the kind words!
You should be very pleased with the results. It's one of my favorite things to come along in quite a while.
― Austin, Wednesday, 20 June 2012 18:59 (twelve years ago) link
the aficionados will already have it, but here's an excellent early feelies show http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/2012/10/04/the-feelies-cbgb-nyc-december-14-1977couple of tracks that never made it to the studio, plus an extremely early slipping into something.
― tylerw, Thursday, 4 October 2012 22:58 (twelve years ago) link
Big Plans did make it to the studio. Was going to be the B-side to the Ork single I think, with Fa Ce La.
― dan selzer, Friday, 5 October 2012 03:46 (twelve years ago) link
has it ever actually been released [bootleg or otherwise] though? i've never heard it...
― tylerw, Friday, 5 October 2012 04:11 (twelve years ago) link
dan you should do an Ork Records comp! look how cool this stuff is. stop what you're doing and make it happen!
ORK 81975 Television - Little Johnny Jewel Pt 1 & 2. ORK 81976 Richard Hell - Another World/You Gotta Lose, Blank Generation ORK 81977 Marbles - Red Light/Fire And Smoke ORK 81978 Alex Chilton - The Singer Not The Song EP ORK 81979 Prix - Girl, Everytime I Close My Eyes/Zero ORK 81980 Mick Farren - Play With Fire/Lost Johnny ORK 81981 Link Cromwell - Crazy Like A Fox/Shock Me ORK 81982 Chris Stamey - Summer Sun/Where The Fun Is ORK 81983 ORK 81984 Feelies - Fa Ce'La/Big Plans (unreleased) ORK 81985 Blue Vein - Get off My Cloud/Connection (unreleased)
ORK NYC 1 Television - Little Johnny Jewel Pt 1 & 2/Little Johnny Jewel Pt 1 & 2 (live) 12" ORK NYC 2 Idols - You/Girl That I Love ORK NYC 3 Revelons - The Way You Touch My Hand/96 Tears ORK NYC 4 ORK NYC 5 Cheetah Chrome - Still Wannna Die/Take Me Home ORK NYC 5 Student Teachers - Christmas Weather/Channel 13
― tylerw, Friday, 5 October 2012 04:14 (twelve years ago) link
I almost did a Student Teachers CD, back in the early days of Acute. Channel 13 is absolutely a favorite song, which I first heard on a Chuck Warner CD. Then there's two songs on that ubiquitous Marty Thau 2x5 compilation, What I Can't Feel and Looks. Past Tense, 1 of 4 songs from the "Easter 78 Halloween 80" EP showed up on the ROIR NY Singles Scene compilation (same place I first heard Theoretical Girls).
They were one of a bunch of great young later CBs bands, I once noted most of which were produced by various members of Blondie. Nervous Rex, US Ape, The Mumps etc.
Anyway, some of the source material quality was pretty spotty and I wasn't as confidant in the restoration abilities at the time, and didn't think in the end that it would attract enough interest. But there's a pretty seriously good CBGB's power-pop type half hour of material there that probably deserves a vinyl release as well.
― dan selzer, Friday, 5 October 2012 05:03 (twelve years ago) link
I'm going to hjack the Feelies thread for a brief look at lesser known CBGBs bands.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOYmwCa4bkc
― dan selzer, Friday, 5 October 2012 05:05 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmnaJQmW5_U&feature=watch_response
― dan selzer, Friday, 5 October 2012 05:06 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yke96ZVxCkc
― dan selzer, Friday, 5 October 2012 05:09 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLRK26IWa48&feature=related
― dan selzer, Friday, 5 October 2012 05:10 (twelve years ago) link
my band opened for u.s. ape once! cbgb. a guy from that band told us "don't let a weekend gig at cbs be your highest goal." hah! we broke up before we ever got a weekend gig at cbs. plus i once played with a guitarist who had dated lauren from nervous rex. and i think one of the student teachers guys was a contemporary of mine at college. don't think i knew him though. there was another campus band called the exhusbands that i did know, and that somehow got inter-tangled in the student teachers family tree. (http://www.snee.com/exhusbands/) please keep hijacking.
― Thus Sang Freud, Friday, 5 October 2012 11:37 (twelve years ago) link
yeah kind of interesting that there was such a power pop thing happening, aside from the db's you don't really hear about any of these bands? or maybe i'm just not looking.
― tylerw, Friday, 5 October 2012 17:57 (twelve years ago) link
& to get back to the feelies, it is irritating that the band didn't take advantage of that crazy rhythms reish a few years back to put out those early singles/sessions. but they must really not like them.
― tylerw, Friday, 5 October 2012 17:58 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smoynB8HWaE
― Thus Sang Freud, Friday, 5 October 2012 18:07 (twelve years ago) link
I've offered to do it hell, I BEGGED!
Maybe they'll do it some time but mostly I think they weren't totally satisfied and preferred to focus on getting the actual releases back out there and work on new stuff.
― dan selzer, Friday, 5 October 2012 18:30 (twelve years ago) link
you didn't beg hard enough. looks like the feelies are playing next spring in baltimore and philadelphia. maybe i'll fly out!
― tylerw, Friday, 5 October 2012 20:03 (twelve years ago) link
https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc7/302650_476923579007799_1438162660_n.jpg
― tylerw, Monday, 22 October 2012 17:09 (eleven years ago) link
Need my brain to be on feelies RIGHT NOW.
― doug watson, Monday, 22 October 2012 19:36 (eleven years ago) link
true story -- the new band i'm playing in is (tentatively) called Forces At Work.
― tylerw, Monday, 22 October 2012 19:44 (eleven years ago) link
you guys better be ruling
― willem, Monday, 22 October 2012 19:59 (eleven years ago) link
i know, that is really my hesitation in calling the band that -- it's a lot to live up to!
― tylerw, Monday, 22 October 2012 20:06 (eleven years ago) link
gah!http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mcrpc41H3v1rxbnrlo1_500.jpg
― tylerw, Wednesday, 31 October 2012 17:18 (eleven years ago) link
anti designer jeans night!
― tylerw, Wednesday, 31 October 2012 17:19 (eleven years ago) link
when that's the degree of attention Alex Chilton could get...
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 31 October 2012 20:35 (eleven years ago) link
ha, i didn't even notice him. did the peppermint lounge turn into some other club or did it just close?
― tylerw, Wednesday, 31 October 2012 20:36 (eleven years ago) link
Was there ever a direct relationship between the Vulgar Boatmen and Feelies? Because I just heard this song for the first time in a while, and, well ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqoYlmPVeAo&feature=related
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 11 November 2012 18:58 (eleven years ago) link
ha, haven't heard that before, but yes, the backing track sounds like it was directly lifted from the only life sessions.
― tylerw, Monday, 12 November 2012 15:48 (eleven years ago) link
"direct" I wouldn't think so (Florida, Walter Salas-Humara etc)
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Monday, 12 November 2012 15:54 (eleven years ago) link
(xp)Vulgar Boatmen and Feelies definitely sound a lot a like, don't know if there was a direct connection
― What Kind Of EOY POLL Do You Look Like Now? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 12 November 2012 15:58 (eleven years ago) link
always thought this one could've been a feelies songhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jTkTukfjZM
― tylerw, Monday, 12 November 2012 16:55 (eleven years ago) link
This is probably common knowledge, but that's REM warming up for The Cramps on that Pep Lounge ad. (I wish alt rock bar ads still looked like that.)
― By the end of my second term, Gingrich said... (Dan Peterson), Monday, 12 November 2012 17:01 (eleven years ago) link
vulgar boatmen are a good find, ty
― 乒乓, Monday, 12 November 2012 17:08 (eleven years ago) link
Vulgar Boatmen always referenced New Order as well as the VU, and if you squint when you listen to that above track you can definitely hear the NO influence.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 12 November 2012 17:13 (eleven years ago) link
my ears don't squint tyvm
― 乒乓, Monday, 12 November 2012 17:19 (eleven years ago) link
whoah that Lou song has serious Feelies vibes. Returning the favor I guess.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 01:38 (eleven years ago) link
I know Carlos has been mentioned, but this aspect was news to me:
Initially, Assayas planned to use several songs by The Feelies on the soundtrack but shortly before post-production was completed he was informed that members of the band did not want their music associated with terrorism. The director remembers, "We ended up managing to keep one song for a scene that did not involve any kind of terroristic activity. But I had to completely reinvent the whole score".[36] He ended up using several songs by Wire. The soundtrack includes:
Loveless Love by The FeeliesDreams Never End by New OrderTerebellum by Fripp & EnoAll Night Party by A Certain RatioAhead by WireForces at Work by The FeeliesSonic Reducer by The Dead BoysDot Dash by WireDrill by WireThe 15th by WireSharing by SatisfactionPure by The Lightning SeedsLa Pistola y el Corazon by Los LobosEl sueño americano by La PortuariaMuwashshah by Hamza El Din
― dan selzer, Friday, 30 November 2012 17:56 (eleven years ago) link
Wire has no problem with terrorism. They're down with the cause.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 30 November 2012 17:57 (eleven years ago) link
feelies are totally ok with purse snatching too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qe2kMuWLddE
― tylerw, Friday, 30 November 2012 18:00 (eleven years ago) link
that movie did have a cool soundtrack, assayas is good at that stuff.
― tylerw, Friday, 30 November 2012 18:04 (eleven years ago) link
I was totally shocked and surprised hearing those songs while watching Carlos. It was strange as historically it doesn't make sense. The chronology doesn't fit, the setting doesn't fit, but it was awesome. Something fit. I guess that's filmmaking!
― dan selzer, Friday, 30 November 2012 18:29 (eleven years ago) link
I found it totally distracting. Iirc, I turned off the movie and put on the Feelies. Dunno if I ever finished "Carlos."
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 30 November 2012 18:32 (eleven years ago) link
ha. To each their own!
― dan selzer, Friday, 30 November 2012 18:39 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, historically a lot of it didn't fit, but i think the vibe was right? i dunno, assayas ends Summer Hours with an incredible string band song, which on paper sounds totally wrong, but i thought it was kind of magical.
― tylerw, Friday, 30 November 2012 18:43 (eleven years ago) link
I loved Carlos, the film and the soundtrack. "Dreams Never End" may as well be renamed "Carlos' theme," at least to me.
― Trip Maker, Friday, 30 November 2012 18:43 (eleven years ago) link
It definitely helped me reestablish a love for Wire's Ahead.
― dan selzer, Friday, 30 November 2012 18:46 (eleven years ago) link
― tylerw, Monday, October 22, 2012 1:44 PM (1 month ago)
I was going to call my new band that! But there's a German nu-metal band who've already scooped it.
― DJ Smoove Groothe (staggerlee), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 03:15 (eleven years ago) link
ha, i saw that. i'm just ignoring them for the moment.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 05:04 (eleven years ago) link
THUMB-WRESTLE YOU FOR IT
― DJ Smoove Groothe (staggerlee), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 06:19 (eleven years ago) link
we already have this tumblr, i believe that gives us legal rights to the name in perpetuity forever and ever. http://forcesatwork.tumblr.com
― tylerw, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 23:30 (eleven years ago) link
dunno if anyone is in the hudson valley, but if so!Night of the Living Feelies: Yung Wu, East of Venus, Wild Carnations; Saturday, January 19; 8 p.m., $12/advance, $15/door, 18 & over, BSP, 323 Wall Street, Kingston; (845) 481-5158, www.bsplounge.com.
― tylerw, Thursday, 17 January 2013 18:40 (eleven years ago) link