Felt -- Classic or dud??

Not so much classic or dud as real or imaginary, for me. I'd have to say DEFINITELY imaginary.

-- "KKN = Korruption Kollusion Nepotism"

I've got the 2 ACS compilations. There are some great tracks scattered across them, but also some dreary and pointless meandering. I don't think anything they did was lyrically or musically outstanding, and it's clear from their followers that a lot of the attraction depends on the image of the band as detached outsiders, speaking to their own cult, rather than the work they did.

Denim are better.

'forever breathes...' is ace.
they should do a traditional 'best of' maybe.
his best quote is when he says that, despite
being totally broke that
'if i can't do things my way i'm not interested'.

he's like the polar opposite of moby that fella.

not 'genius' or anything but not a disaster either.

from mojo :

all the felt albums and a live dvd - heads up, world.

...for years the indie legends' back catalogue has only been available on a series of undignified twofers (all in the same grey sleeve). now they are to reissue their entire recorded works through cherry red. the process begins with 'stains on a decade' on may 26, which compiles material from the 10 felt singles released on the cherry red and creation labels, with the original 10 albums released two per month until november. 'the albums were never available as we wanted them' says felt frontman lawrence 'so we've got them back to what they originally were - there's no demos or extras, none of that. they're totally minimal, just like we were.'

most intriguing to fans however is the june 23 release of the concert dvd 'a declaration'. 'that was a concert we did at ulu in february 1987...there's songs off poem of the river, forever breathes the lonely word, we do primitive painters, ballad of the band, a good cross section. and it means that people who never saw us can see what we looked like. there's no extras at all just the concert. there'll be
a whole year's worth of felt so the kids can buy something new every month.'

woo hoo !!

Glad to see Lawrence (who I assume is the author of this quote) hasn't changed much...

he's about to speak !
i have my tape recorder running !!

but i suspect they wont.

...and has nearly finished the second Go-Kart Mozart album, to be released in the Autumn

Felt Re-issues

From the latest Cherry Red newsletter [via e-mail] the first two Felt albums are re-issued [on June 16th]:

Felt
Crumbling The Antiseptic Beauty
CDMRED 25
This seminal album is to be released in a limited edition digi-pack and was Felt’s first studio album. This album was a critical and indie chart success, and has been long sought after in its original format. This is the beginning of a major Felt re-issue campaign with all ten studio albums being released over the coming months, including the long deleted but much sought after Creation albums. Felt are a very influential band around the world with many of today’s bands paying homage to the genius of Lawrence, who contrary to rumors is alive and well and has nearly finished the second Go-Kart Mozart album, to be released in the Autumn.

Felt
The Splendor Of Fear
CDMRED 57
This, Felt’s second studio album was deemed another success for them by both the critics and public alike. A special limited edition digi-pack, this release is part of the Felt re-issue campaign which will see all ten of Felt’s studio albums – including the Creation Records recordings, re-issued by Cherry Red.

also:

Felt
A Declaration
CRDVD 25

The first ever DVD to feature one of the most influential and enduringly popular alternative bands of all time, Felt. Felt were formed in 1980 by their enigmatic leader Lawrence, and went on to achieve huge critical acclaim and a hardcore following of devoted fans. They went on to record ten albums (one a year) through the 1980’s. The albums are being reissued in full by Cherry Red Records over the course of the next few months, so interest in the band will be very strong. “A Declaration” is therefore the perfect accompaniment to the album releases. It features a full length concert, filmed at ULU in 1987, with the band, and Lawrence’s songwriting, at the peak of their powers. Amongst the tracks featured are the Indie Chart top twenty hit “Ballad Of The Band”, and, possibly their most recognised track, the Indie Chart number one “Primitive Painters”. The cover artwork was specially designed by Lawrence, and the DVD also features an extremely rare promotional video shot by Danny Weinstein, who also produced the ULU film.

watch out for vintage footage of The Cocteau Twins on Whistle Test tonite!

The Whistle Test Years: 1984 / 1985

Reminder tonight on BBC 2 it's a trip down memory lane as The Whistle Test years, cover 1984 and 1985.

The Whistle Test Years
Thu 12 Jun, 11:50 pm - 12:30 am 40mins

It's 1984 and 1985 this week with music from REM, Billy Bragg, Lou Reed, Sade, Cocteau Twins, Everything But the Girl, The Kane Gang, The Pogues and Suzanne Vega.

lawrence sounding like a tweed jacketed lecturer shocka!!!

Lawrence says not but seems impressed by quote

Liz Kershaw says birmingham 'Bullring' shopping centre(?) mentioned in review, Lawrence talks about how much he likes it.

it's on the way... "and has nearly finished the second Go-Kart Mozart album, to be released in the Autumn"

More Go-Kart Mozart? That doesn't really answer Jim's question... when is another record coming out?

Bull Ring Shopping Centre: brutalist classic. Is it still there? I think we (me & Cozen & Skidmore) had a little row about this at an FAP the same weekend.

Chuffed for Robin.

Gosh, Nicole, I thought I had sent a note on the reissues around. Remind me to double check on my news-informing abilities, they might be staler than I imagined. ;-)

But Tim, was it a trucker hat? This is U&K.

:-)

am still smiling over how much lawrence sounded like a bumbling, eager to please history teacher.

All of the reissues are out now (except 'Strange Idols' I believe), and I just ordered 'Ignite the Seven Canons' and 'Forever Breathes the Lonely Word.'

Classic btw! But this is not something I can debate rationally - the best bits just add up to something rather more than the some of their parts.

it's really tough to choose, but i think 'poem of the river' very well may be my favorite. 'forever breathes...' is usually singled out as the masterpiece, but i think that 'poem', coming later as it did in the catalog, is a more mature effort overall. i love the lyrics on 'forever', but sometimes they are a tad too precious/pretentious. and musically, i appreciate the more subdued, subtle vibe of 'poem'.

the opening bars of 'silver plane' kill me every time. god, that guitar tone...and then the friggin' hammond rhodes...there's something just so smoooooooth about the way that song kicks in.

'she lives by the castle' is incredible. 'dark red birds' is one of the most beautiful moments to be found on a felt record. 'stained glass windows in the sky' marries the lyrical imagery to the music to wonderful effect; by the end of the song i really feel like i'm sittin right up there on the rooftop with lawrence, watching the raindrops reflecting all the city lights...

i also have a big place in my heart for 'pictorial jackson review'; well, the non-instrumental side, anyway. (i dig most of duffy's instrumentals quite a bit; but that side is just kinda an overlong downer) ...the lovely guitar bit at the beginning of 'ivory past', the blatant lou reedisms/dylanisms in almost every song... and the giddy feeling of 'christopher st.' yeah...what a great one. lyrically, lawrence seems to be most 'lawrence' on this record; if that makes any sense...it's a distillation of all of his previous musings, complaints, defiancy, resignation, romanticism, etc.

what do you folks hear as influences on duffy's instrumentals? i know they vary widely in style...but in at least a couple of them, keith jarrett comes to mind...

i assume it was somebody yanking my chain, because it came from a UK email address and i thought deebank lived in spain. but if it wasn't, wowee!

-- scott seward (skotro...), February 14th, 2004. (scott seward)

see up thread. or is this an irateverything type google laff?

There are some of their records I don't have anymore that I rather wish I did...Snakes being one.

Pulling out Crumbling & Splendour now would be one hell of a freaky trip to the past and my senior year of high school. All my classmates were playing the latest Metallica record over and over and over. And I was there with my walkman listening to Felt & Breathless.

ttlly didn't see that upthread!

google laff? you kiddin' me, "pscott"?

Scott is like the mayor of chilltown.
-- Beth S.

scott seward is the coolest person on ilx. without him, this shit wouldn't even be worth reading, not even for the totally wrong amateurist roffles.
-- hstencil

I was feeling pretty great until that last comment clarified who the recipient of the praise was.

http://www.droppin.com/droppinnew/images/Reality/SurvivorPalau/James.jpg

http://games.telenet.be/images/movies/28/01/125t_feld1_resize.jpg

sorta can't really see the fuss now. weird.

For I do get tired of the self-congratulatory in-crowd of this board, and the overinflated egos that go along with that. It really makes this place much more boring than it has to be, and that's what I was trying to express. Scott's comment seemed to fall right in line with just the kind of thing that I particularly disdain on this board. Don't any of you get tired of this shit? We could be talking about music earnestly but instead we're looking at smart alec pictures of irrelevant crap to the thread in question with unamusing in-jokes to accompany them, or as Hoosteen brilliantly pointed out not too long ago -

"thx to old-skool ilx0rs for letting us have this discussion vs. exasperatedly linking to discussions you've ALREADY HAD DAMMIT about authenticity viz instrumentation.

-- Hoosteen (merlindude0...), November 20th, 2006."

In any case, to go back to the Scott's comment, I mean, to think that all a supposedly intelligent human being can say in this world is essentially "I'm cooler than you because I like both Felt & Metallica" I mean, man, I really ask a lot more out of my message boards than that. But hey, to each his own. You can have him.

'Ballad of the Band' = best single Creation ever released, if not, indeed the best song.

Well, The Splendour of Fear has a very similar feel to Penelope Tree on all its tracks, although is maybe not as poppy in approach. If you like Sunlight Bathed... then do you already have The Strange Idol's Pattern And Other Short Stories? For my money Spanish House and Dismantled King... off that are certainly as immediate as SB.

try reading some of your own posts, from there

Who would have guessed, back in 1986 (or whenever) that Britian would eventually be taken over by Polish Jesus freaks and we would all be hanging out with them?

I think I have just made a C86/UKIP connection.

Hell no, are you kidding?

You can ask a lot out of life, and you can be wayward, but to think anything could compare to "Penelope Tree" is just asking too much.

put on some George Benson or something

hahahahah

I gotta get some sleep, yo!

i shouldn't post on felt threads. i have no critical distance and i get all defensive and weird. i act like everyone who doesn't love lawrence as much as i do is a troll and i must kill them. and that ain't right!

for the record, people cooler than me:

lawrence
werner herzog
hayley mills

so after a longgg time of sorta wondering about felt i bought "absolute classic masterpieces" today and it's really rad! i like the earlier songs better than the "primitive painters"-type stuff i think; the high 80's production on some of that is a little much for me. maybe i'll come around. but man, good guitar jams on a bunch of this.

also scott is such a total bro.

I have a doublecd of "Ignite the Seven Cannons" and "Strange Idol's Patterns", which is rather nifty and I like a lot of the tracks on it. "Primitive Painters" is above and away the song of theirs I love the most though. And it isn't just the Liz Fraser vocal, its the lushness of the arrangements, such a joyous, full, textured song.

A few posts up I notice Zachary has confused Martin Duffy & Martin Denny. I'm sure the former would be flattered.
'Ballad of the Band' = best single Creation ever released, if not, indeed the best song.

-- bham (bham), Thursday, 23 November 2006 08:37 (7 months ago)

responding 7 months later, I say

Hee-Ya!

I have a doublecd of "Ignite the Seven Cannons" and "Strange Idol's Patterns",

Jealous? ME???

Hahah you want me to make you a copy Bimbledear? It'd be a HUEG file tho.

Your opinion, please: 366-band, 411 track 1981 box set

I assume you know the relevance of that thread to this one is nearly nil, RJG.

don't assume

BAHAHAHAHAH

(I feel like I've waiting to say this all my life)

BECAUSE I'LL MAKE AN ASS OUT OF YOU AND ME

you're a bit stupid

Why, because I fail to see the why the link you posted has relevance here?

to be honest there are a few different reasons

I'm well aware you don't like me RJG. You make that clear with an insult or two every time I come across you here. It gets old. So you don't like me? Fine. Not everyone has to like everybody else, you know? Go your own way then and quit this same routine. You seem to be upset with me because of fights I had with people I mended fences with eons ago, and frankly I think *that's* stupid. You even got upset when I made a comment to my friend grimly fiendish thinking it was rude, but actually it was an inside joke between him and I and he knew perfectly well what I meant. These things didn't even involve you, man. Get over it.

Your opinion, please: 366-band, 411 track 1981 box set

Ha! *rolls eyes* Hey, whatever makes you happy, man.

I like felt

vintage

I PULLED OUT PRIMITIVE PAINTERS LOUD ON VINYL AND I KNOW THE NEIGHBORS HATE ME NOW

lawrence of belgravia is gettnig a screening at the barbican

http://www.barbican.org.uk/film/series.asp?id=597&show=info

thanks bob.

fuckin awes, thx for heads-up

the early stuff sounds somewhere in between victorialand-era cocteaus and dire straits.

I PULLED OUT PRIMITIVE PAINTERS LOUD ON VINYL AND I KNOW THE NEIGHBORS HATE ME NOW

― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Monday, May 12, 2008 3:07 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Felt so classic. "Pictorial Jackson Review"! OH.

They're flawed but I find them always a pleasant listen. The early singles are GREAT listenable pop, the albums might be difficult for an initiate.

DON'T GO

TO THE SPANISH HOUSE CAUSE YOU KNOW IT'S A TRAP

I listen to "Forever Breathes the Lonely Word" and "Crumbling the Antiseptic Beauty" a LOT.

The organ parts on FBTLW are so killer, totally makes the album for me.

And lately I get a little misty about Bimble when I hear "All the People I like Are Those That are Dead".

Read "Song Man" by Will Hodgkinson for very depressing Lawrence stories.

stains on a decade comp is ace

I prefer the two "Absolute Classic Masterpieces" compilations myself. And then went and gathered up the remaining singles tracks for a bit more. "Primitive Painters" still rocks my world but overall I've grown to love all the singles.

Dud. So I decided at the time, and do still now. There's a difference between understatement and plain weakness.

my drunken hate for 'b'wana beast' is indescribable

ahh this is why they created 'suggest ban'

Classic beyond any reasonable definition of the word, and that goes for pretty much every stage of their career. Current obsession (in misty autumnal UK) is with The Stagnant Pool, especially once it settles into its effortless, spectral second half. SO GOOD.

Lawrence meets GIRLS. http://www.magicrpm.com/artistes/girls/videos/girls-meet-lawrence-premier-episode

what's the Felt song playing at around 3:40 into that video?

it's familiar but yeah i'm not sure

lawrence is starting to resemble a bald vini reilly

It's "The World is as Soft as Lace"

the world is soft as lace is a splendid accompaniment to heavy snowfall. sometimes i think the splendour of fear is their best record.

It's really strange watching that interview. I've been a massive fan of his since buying Denim On Ice when it came out but I've never heard him speak before and in a lot of the pictures I've seen he's looked very different.

I would say Strange Idol Patterns is their masterpiece followed by Forever Breathes the Lonely Word. A lot of their best tracks are spread out on one off singles or B-sides that's why the compilations are so essential too.

Yeah, but there's singles tracks they left off the two "Absolute Classic Masterpieces" compilations, which I tracked down and put together:
Break It
Red Indians (single version)
Something Sends Me To Sleep (alternate version)
My Face Is On Fire
A Preacher In New England
Now Summer Spreads Its Wings Again
Mexican Bandits
Sunlight Bathed In Golden Glow (single version)
Cathedral (new version)
Candles In A Church
Rain Of Crystal Spires
Gather Up Your Wings And Fly
Fire Circle
Buried Wild Blind
Female Star
Tuesday's Secret

i've listened to about 7 of the above quite coincidently tonight! snow always brings out the felt in my house...

I only heard the single version of Sunlight Bathed the Golden Glow when I bought the Stains on a Decade compilation last year. It really took me by surprise, it's so beautiful.

I was reading about the Felt discography somewhere recently, it said My Face is On Fire was redone as Whirlpool Vision of Shame which I never knew. I always wondered why it was the only single they left off all of the compilations.

>the world is soft as lace is a splendid accompaniment to heavy snowfall.

otm. I've been hammering ACM Vol 1 all day at home, whilst my workplace is shut and there's a foot of snow outside the front door. I must have listened to The Stagnant Pool five times; I love the way that Deebank's intricate and delicate solo gives way to Lawrence's sparse twangings, but then he comes back at the end to have the final word.

i've listened to about 7 of the above quite coincidently tonight! snow always brings out the felt in my house...

― cw, Wednesday, January 6, 2010 9:17 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

They are a great band to flick through random tracks of and I agree they sound great in the winter. I just played a few and found myself amazed all over again at how strange and wonderful Space Blues is.

Felt - Pick Only 27

anyone know what's happened to the 'Lawrence of Belgravia' film?

there was a screening of a short (20 odd minutes) work in progress of Lawrence of Belgravia last year at the barbican, along with another paul kerry film about dolly mixture. Lawrence refused to attend because it wasn't a proper premiere.

.

Just felt (ha!) like saying that Voyage To Illumination is fucking amazing. Both the song and the title. Who needs lyrics with a title like that anyway?

i'm enjoying this:

http://dominorad.io/show/lawrence_from_felt

Excellent!!! Craving old school radio these days.

That's a really excellent playlist. Old school radio still exists, but it's harder to track down! Google "playlist" and some of your favorite obscure bands, you're bound to find someone on your wavelength.

I do so enjoy artists gushing about their favorite bands, especially when I share their feelings: http://thequietus.com/articles/06604-felt-lawrence-tim-burgess-interview

"she lives by the castle" is so fucking good. you forget people aren't supposed to be good at guitar

how long until those reissues show up?

They're probably coming out the same day as the DVD or the next Go-Kart album. It's very frustrating being a fan at times. I have all those CD reissues that came out 10 years ago. I'd be tempted to try and sell them if I knew the vinyl reissues were on their way.

"gather up your wings and fly" would have done keith emerson proud

Cherry Red have posted a couple of things about the upcoming Felt reissues. Can't wait to see exactly what they are.

https://twitter.com/CherryRedGroup?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

wow thanks

So this latest round is strictly vinyl? Tch, I could go for expanded CDs with all the attendant non-lp tracks.

Is there a link with full details of titles, format and release date?

Not yet. There's just the two posts on Cherry Red's twitter hinting the news is coming soon. Looks like it will be vinyl as they labels say the albums come with a 7" single. Hopefully they'll bring out something on CD and vinyl and it's not too limited.

awesome. i was just looking at prices of forever breathes the lonely word on discogs and was horrified

For years I was content with just the two "Absolute Classic Masterpieces" compilations (plus the other missing singles tracks) but I just bought the first 4 albums on 2 CDs and am very glad I did so*. The juxtaposition of the instrumental pieces with Lawrence's tortured Verlaine-esque vocal tracks is really a key feature to the albums proper.

Next up I think I'll pick up the "Forever Breathes The Lonely Word / Poem Of The River" two-fer.

*I was hoping for expanded reissues from Captured Tracks but they said they're only working on vinyl.

I think it's only the first four albums that came out on those two-fers. I don't think the albums on Creation got the same reissue treatment.

i own a forever/poem two-fer, might be german or something

this one: https://www.discogs.com/Felt-Poem-Of-The-River-Forever-Breathes-The-Lonely-Word/release/436453

I feel like Lawrence would not approve of that rejigged cover design

Oh, I didn't know that issue existed. I've got all the 2002-3 reissues in those thin cardboard cases. Probably going to sell those on once they announce the vinyl reissues. I had those original Cherry Red two-fers of the first four albums but sold them years ago.

train above the city and pictorial jackson got a similarly tacky two-fer reissue back then too.

I feel like Lawrence would not approve of that rejigged cover design

That's why I replace the covers in my digital library. ;-)

There's a Japanese CD that combines "poem" and "let the snakes", which is pretty weird imo. Was "let the snakes" on creation? A twofer with "let the snakes" and "forever" would make sense chronologically and I think musically the former would make a nice prelude to the latter. And it'd only be like 45 minutes total.

as a side note, "A wave crashed on rocks" is so so good, maybe my favorite Lawrence lyric. Still haven't heard the last two albums, though.

Let The Snakes was their first album on Creation. Probably not the kind of record Alan McGee was expecting when he signed them.

haha otm

I love it to death, though. It inspires me greatly

It's grown on me a lot over the years but I'd still say it's one of my least favourite Felt records. It is much more enjoyable than Train Above the City.

For me, the melodies and arrangements really evokes a really heavy/'fragrant' wood-y/manicured forest atmosphere, kind of similar to the clientele (although the clientele are more straight up 'forest-y', imo). one of those 'album hits you at an intensely vulnerable part of your life' thing probably

The slower, bluesier stuff I've heard from Train is good (one for the out of context thread). There's definitely a zillion jazz solo piano albums that run circles around it, obviously

I'm going to have to go back to it now you've compared it to The Clientele.

They're a really hard band to rank. Right now I think I'd put their albums in this order. The top two are set in stone and Train will always be my least favourite but I'm always changing my mind about the others.

1. The Strange Idol Patterns
2. Forever Breathes the Lonely Word
3. Poem of the River
4. The Splendour of Fear
5. Me & a Monkey on the Moon
6. Ignite the Seven Cannons
7. The Pictorial Jackson Review
8. Crumbling the Antiseptic Beauty
9. Let the Snakes Crinkle
10. Train Above the City

the first two albums are my favorite. That grey twofer "changed my life" or whatever back in high school

it was like "oh wow, a band decided to make albums based on that penultimate track on joy division's closer. And they added beautiful heart-stopping guitar playing, and the singing is by a fey Tom Verlaine, I am So down, These are my guys!"

ya know i thought seven cannons was my favorite album until i realized just now that the album i was listening to on spotify was a twofer and that all my favorites were actually on strange idols

Anyone know the back story behind Liz and Robin backing Lawrence on "Primitive Painters"?

umm because guthrie produced the album?

wtf happened to those reissues? surely Lawrence needs some more heroin. he should be reissuing everything.

The Cocteau Twins were fans of Felt and invited us to tour with them in 1984. We became friends and Robin Guthrie said he'd like to produce us.

this interview is pretty exhaustive on how Guthrie came to produce Ignite, and the recording of Primitive Painters:

http://www.uncut.co.uk/blog/the-view-from-here/an-interview-with-lawrence-primitive-painters-was-this-great-big-statement-felt-were-going-to-be-massive-69839

Over the years I’ve collected some of the master tapes and on the reissues that are coming out, I’ve tried to extract the Cocteau Twins from my record

hmmm...

i emailed cherry red about the reissues 6 months ago and they said it was looking like sometime in 2017, then i tweeted at them the other week and they said they had no news

Just checked earlier in the thread and it was last July when they first posted those tweets suggesting the reissues were on their way. I'm sure they even put up pictures of Lawrence signing them.

When the last Go-Kart album came out, my first order of the vinyl seemed to get lost in the post. When I contacted Cherry Red about it they said Lawrence would happily send out a replacement copy but "it might be a while to get it signed as Lawrence has disappeared on us again". I'm guessing that he's behind the delays.

Thanks for that Uncut link, exactly what I was looking for!

There are some days "Primitive Painters" is the most perfect song ever.

https://www.mixcloud.com/WEEKEND_Festival/weekend-mixtape5-lawrence/

Many of the songs in this podcast, which Lawrence recorded exclusively for Week-End, will only be known to aficionados, yet they lay bare the foundations on which indie and Britpop was built. An unusual history lesson by an indie icon who rarely talks, but who turns out to be a very eloquent speaker.

Listened to Felt all day today. Perfect for a rainy winter day.

just browsing France Castle's Instagram (love Clay Pipe & her artwork), and check out this post.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BNR-vtbhaw8/

https://mobile.twitter.com/wrongsreversed/status/802558977020198916

Another view of that incident, this one from a camera behind the goal.

christ Lawrence Of Belgravia is really boring and awful-looking and depressing as all hell. if they showed it in schools to young musicians they'd all go off and do accountancy or something.

Totally agree. I thought it was a massive letdown after the long wait to see it. It really didn't seem as interesting as it could have been.

"Felt reissues, sweet!"
Oh... $40 LPs and $45 CD+7" boxes... no extra tracks... ok so downloads it is.

Felt's entire discography in one place.

no singles *thumbs down*

Yeah, weird

nah, just lazy

Why did they change the name of Crinkle, I wonder?

Lawrence hated the name

I can think of at least a dozen other Laurence-related songs/band names that are more worthy of "hate"

Let the Snakes Eat Crinkle-Cut Fries

there's a bit that really stuck with me in the David Cavanagh book about Creation records where Lawrence talks about Bobby Gillespie asking him if the forthcoming Felt album had a title yet, Lawrence replying that it was going to be called 'Let the Snakes Crinkle Their Heads to Death' and Gillespie responding with incredulity - "Crinkle? What sort of word's that?"

that's a bit rich coming from a Scottish dude

https://assets.fontsinuse.com/static/use-media-items/91/90112/full-1080x1350/5d48314c/60455432_2492647757656739_3307904735600062668_n.jpeg?resolution=0

Never forget
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/63/Primal_Scream_-_Chaosmosis.png

.

he changed the name and before that he cropped the cover art. was he embarrassed at his headwear?

maybe just realized it was totally un-felt like to have an actual band photo for a cover

or ended hating one of the former members

RIP Martin Duffy

Aww man RIP teenage genius.

Awww, creator of some of the most beautiful music. Waaaaay too young.

Incredibly sad. Martin's playing sparkled over Felt's best records and added a lustre to every musical situation he was involved in. a true keyboard wizard.

Totally agree with that. The Felt albums he played on are the best. He was also one of the people responsible for bringing back keyboards as a "rock" instrument. There hadn't really been any fresh & distinctive keyboard players outside of synth-pop since maybe Una Baines.

I mean, come on!
Here's the link to the song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulTQW6oFoTs

Whoops wrong ling. I mean this... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-9bv1FO72A

Ling link whatevs. Ok I'm going to bed. RIP Mr. Duffy. A great keyboard player!

How rare was it for that generation of musicians to use organ rather than synth in the mid-80s? I can only think of Talk Talk as an example.

It wasn’t super-common but also by no means unheard-of, most often involving acts who were more or less 60s / beat inspired - off the top of my head you can expect to hear organ on records by the likes of the Prisoners, Makin’ Time, TVPs, Jasmine Minks, bit later on the Sea Urchins, Inspiral Carpets.

Interesting, though if Duffy was using a Hammond, that's a lot more trouble to take on the road than a more compact "garage-rock" style organ.

Identify the keyboard, nerds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuXIMylGQKo