I just bought my first Felt record.

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"Me and a monkey on the moon" on el records. £1.25

So, I haven't plated it yet.

Being an indie kid of lots of years standing (hey I bought "Skank Bloc Bologna" when it came out) this 'oversight' probably fills some with amazement, as I see a lot of felt love here, oft.

So, is this one any good or not?

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 28 June 2004 08:26 (twenty-one years ago)

um, why don't you just listen to it, mark?

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Monday, 28 June 2004 08:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I will. Just wondered.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 28 June 2004 08:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I used to have a couple felt CDs. They were pretty good, but I didn't flip out over them or anything-maybe I just bought the wrong ones. "Monkey" is supposedly one of their best albums though, and IIRC, the last one they made. so give it a spin asap.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Monday, 28 June 2004 08:34 (twenty-one years ago)

So, they made that one after leaving Creation?

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 28 June 2004 08:35 (twenty-one years ago)

fuck if i know. I just know that was their final LP.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Monday, 28 June 2004 08:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I think the felt records i had before were CD comps that together comprised the first four albums. They were underwhelming, or at least something that I'd have had to listen to more than I was willing/able to at the time to get into. I think I had just bought the first tindersticks at the same time and was putting all my energy into that. I just looked it up on AMG and they say Felt "went out on a high note", so that bodes well for your purchase.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Monday, 28 June 2004 08:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Guide me into Felt

― Enrique (Enrique), Monday, 28 June 2004 09:22 (twenty-one years ago)

from the other thread:
The last album on Creation (Me and a Monkey on the Moon) is 100% shit.

hahaha, uh oh. Looks like you'll have to make up your own mind.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Monday, 28 June 2004 09:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I shall do, obviously. And will report back, just wanting to get some general 'yeah'/'noh' ness.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 28 June 2004 09:28 (twenty-one years ago)

however:
...and this Me And A Monkey On The Moon-hate is bumming me out too.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Monday, 28 June 2004 09:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Great music for solving insomnia!

― ___ (___), Monday, 28 June 2004 09:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, Monkey is a funny one. Curiously perky, and faintly indicative of what was to come with Denim. Sort of. I personally like it less than the Creation ones.

― Nag! Nag! Nag! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Monday, 28 June 2004 11:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, its the least representative of all of the albums. I've always found it oddly affecting, but have noticed that the people who don't get/like Felt REALLY don't like 'Me and a Monkey'... If you do like it I'd move onto 'Forever Breathes the Lonely Word' or 'Poem of the River' next, which are far more representative of the Creation years, and also recomend the bonkers 15 minute instrumental album 'Let the snakes crinkle their heads to death'.

All the Felt albums have been reisssued by Cherry Red recently.

― flowersdie (flowersdie), Monday, 28 June 2004 11:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I never really liked that one very much. I think the top 3 in this order:
Forever Breathes the Lonely Word
Pictorial Jackson Review
Ignite the Seven Cannons

The first two on the list were released on Creation and are their best in my opinion. The pretentious lyrics are a bit too much to handle at first, but actually they end up being the best part in their own way. Forever Breathes is just an endless series of addictive pop hooks. Quite wonderful. The Pictorial Jackson Review is really only half a Felt album. The other half are two I-don't-know-what Keith Jarrett Koeln Konzert style piano pieces by Felt's keyboardist. However, the real Felt tracks on PJR are some of their best.
I think Dusty Groove sells the reissues on CD for < $12US.

― direct_program, Monday, 28 June 2004 12:23 (twenty-one years ago)

prepare for disappointment, felt, they're crap.

― keith m (keithmcl), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 00:48 (twenty-one years ago)

conversely, they're brilliant, especially the stuff with maurice deebank.

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 00:55 (twenty-one years ago)

"prepare for disappointment, felt, they're crap."

If by "crap" you mean some of the greatest music to be heard in the last 30 years! Then by all means I agree with you.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 00:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I really want to get into them but have not been able to yet (ok i haven't really tried that hard)

Maybe I'm a douchebag for asking, but where are the Felt albums that actually sound like Belle & Sebastian ripped them off ?

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 01:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Sonny, 'Strange Idols Pattern and Other Short Stories' is the nearest sounding, but its not a total rip off.

― flowersdie (flowersdie), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 08:21 (twenty-one years ago)

the singles comp "Stains on a Decade" is almost faultless.

― HEXXY, Tuesday, 29 June 2004 20:04 (twenty-one years ago)

my top 3 Felt studio albums:

#1! Strange Idols Pattern...
=tie Forever Breathes The Lonely Word
=tie The Splendour Of Fear

― Paul (scifisoul), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 05:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Deebank's "A Preacher In New England" is probably my fave Felt ever though, followed by "Dismantled King Is Off The Throne" ("put death in my hands and I will play with it for sure...!") and er something else off Idols like mebbe Crystal Ball (that "knows me too well and I don't know myself at all")

― Paul (scifisoul), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 05:26 (twenty-one years ago)

deebank's solo album is worth a try if you find you like the felt stuff where he plays guitar. such as "a preacher in new england." which is probably one of my favorite instrumentals of all time.

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 05:58 (twenty-one years ago)

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