the feelies - classic or dud?

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.

I'm going to hjack the Feelies thread for a brief look at lesser known CBGBs bands.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOYmwCa4bkc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmnaJQmW5_U&feature=watch_response

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yke96ZVxCkc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLRK26IWa48&feature=related

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.

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.

& 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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smoynB8HWaE

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.

you didn't beg hard enough.
looks like the feelies are playing next spring in baltimore and philadelphia. maybe i'll fly out!

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Need my brain to be on feelies RIGHT NOW.

true story -- the new band i'm playing in is (tentatively) called Forces At Work.

you guys better be ruling

i know, that is really my hesitation in calling the band that -- it's a lot to live up to!

gah!
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anti designer jeans night!

when that's the degree of attention Alex Chilton could get...

ha, i didn't even notice him. did the peppermint lounge turn into some other club or did it just close?

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

ha, haven't heard that before, but yes, the backing track sounds like it was directly lifted from the only life sessions.

"direct" I wouldn't think so (Florida, Walter Salas-Humara etc)

(xp)
Vulgar Boatmen and Feelies definitely sound a lot a like, don't know if there was a direct connection

always thought this one could've been a feelies song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jTkTukfjZM

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.)

vulgar boatmen are a good find, ty

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.

my ears don't squint tyvm

whoah that Lou song has serious Feelies vibes. Returning the favor I guess.

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 Feelies
Dreams Never End by New Order
Terebellum by Fripp & Eno
All Night Party by A Certain Ratio
Ahead by Wire
Forces at Work by The Feelies
Sonic Reducer by The Dead Boys
Dot Dash by Wire
Drill by Wire
The 15th by Wire
Sharing by Satisfaction
Pure by The Lightning Seeds
La Pistola y el Corazon by Los Lobos
El sueño americano by La Portuaria
Muwashshah by Hamza El Din

Wire has no problem with terrorism. They're down with the cause.

feelies are totally ok with purse snatching too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qe2kMuWLddE

that movie did have a cool soundtrack, assayas is good at that stuff.

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!

I found it totally distracting. Iirc, I turned off the movie and put on the Feelies. Dunno if I ever finished "Carlos."

ha. To each their own!

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.

I loved Carlos, the film and the soundtrack. "Dreams Never End" may as well be renamed "Carlos' theme," at least to me.

It definitely helped me reestablish a love for Wire's Ahead.

true story -- the new band i'm playing in is (tentatively) called Forces At Work.

― 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.

ha, i saw that. i'm just ignoring them for the moment.

THUMB-WRESTLE YOU FOR IT

we already have this tumblr, i believe that gives us legal rights to the name in perpetuity forever and ever. http://forcesatwork.tumblr.com

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.

this is pretty great, a write-up of Red Buckets, a Philly band with some Feelies involvement: http://tapewrecks.blogspot.com/2013/01/red-buckets-cover-your-eyes.html
also the subject of a yo la tengo tune.

Dear Feelies,

Please tour. If Burma can do it, so can you.

Thanks,

Josh

ha, yeah, at this point, i'm thinking i'll just have to bite the bullet and fly out to hoboken for one of these shows....

Drop by Philly for the show here. I'll buy you a beer.

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