the feelies - classic or dud?

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absolute classic! one of my all-time faves. vanished after releasing four outstanding albums (the best being _crazy rhythms_ and _only life_) between 1980 and 1991.

― willem, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I used to love the Feelies and I still own the two albums you praise (sold The Good Earth though, it was kinda bleh) but I can't honestly remember the last time I listened to either one. Still a classic in my book (about 60 million times more interesting than any of their NYC counterparts to boot--better songs, less pretensions, just good music) and their appearance in Something Wild is one of my fave band cameos. This thread will probably inspire me to listen to them when I go home.

― Alex in SF, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

that appearance in "something wild" is indeed a classic as well, how did they end up in that one? btw, would have loved to have had the feelies on one of my highschool-parties!

― willem, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think Demme is from New Jersey. I just assumed he was fan. They have a song in Married to the Mob as well, I think.

― Alex in SF, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

On Crazy Rhythms, they seemed like a guitar band that could only be possible in a time when synths were center stage. They sounded like they were both inspired by recent synth music, and answering to it. I've never heard their albums from after Crazy Rhythms except for bits here and there. I know they list keyboards in the credits, but do they use them prominently?

― Curt, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I love "IT'S ONLY LIFE".. Great lp!!!

― todd, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I bought _Only Life_ back in... 87? 89? I can't remember exactly, but I do remember loving the first song and thinking that the rest of it was unbearably dull. This may have been influenced by all of the industrial music that was obssessing me at the time, though.

― Dan Perry, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

didn't most of them become wake ooloo? i've never heard wake ooloo. are they any good?

― keith, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

keyboards is not an instrument that comes to mind when i think about feelies-albums. so that would mean not so prominent i suppose. i've heard one wake ooloo album a few years back but couldn't be bothered at the time. i just remember thinking it was something like a one-legged feelie (?)

― willem, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think Demme directed the video for "Away," too. I saw them live shortly after the release of Time For A Witness (yet another solid album) and they seemed a little tired of playing for like a dozen people after ten years of touring. I also recall them re-tuning their guitars after every single song. I believe one of the percussionists went on to play in some incarnation of Luna..? Anyway - one of my favorite bands of yore.

― josh, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yes - Crazy Rhythms and the Good Earth are modest classics. I bought Crazy Rhythms and The Bongos album (Can't remember the title - it's a compilation of singles and EPs I think) for £3 each on the same day, and each of them make me instantly happy when I pick them up. Each has a thick, cardboardy sleeve which is important. The Good Earth is less original, and since it was produced by Peter Buck, the inevitable REM comparisons were a little tiresome, but not totally unjust. I didn't like Only Life much.

― Dr. C, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

What Dr.C said. Their music makes me happy as well. I think about riding a train, looking out of the window and seeing lush meadows when I hear Feelies guitars. And "Good Earth" I like a lot whereas "Only Life" I don't.

― alex in mainhattan, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Crazy Rhythms" is fan goddam fucken tastic but all i heard of their later stuff was just this boring REM type of music. why did they stop doing all that crazy drum shit?

― , Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

two years pass...

GLENN: Stiff requested a demo for a second album. They didn't like it. We were doing a lot of home recording, even more in an Eno mode
and less like a rock band. Stiff rejected the songs and we just wrote some more. We weren't playing (live) at that point. Anton was playing
with the Lounge Lizards, doing live shows. He just called up and said "I quit the band." Then Stiff took that that opportunity to drop the
band. One song "The Obediant Atom" was pretty similar to "40 Days" on the first Wake Ooloo record. I think we only had a couple of
songs. We really weren't ready to do another record anyway. It was kind of relief actually.

Has anyone ever heard this!!!??? The demo they made for Stiff???

Does it still exist? Holy Toledo!

And does anyone know why there has never been an actual Smithereens soundtrack released??!!! Was there ever a bootleg??

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 26 July 2004 23:01 (twenty-two years ago)

The Undertow on Only Life is their best song ever!

― David Allen (David Allen), Monday, 26 July 2004 23:20 (twenty-two years ago)

unreleased feelies recordings?! holy shit, i just creamed my jeans.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 02:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Doesn't seem like this has ever surfaced. Here's a Feelies bootleg page with no mention of these tapes. Does mention a 45 minute Trypes demos tape!

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 03:26 (twenty-two years ago)

The Trypes ep is fantastic. One of them released a solo single of a song that would be on the Yung Wu record record and it's even better. The Yung Wu record is better then the Wake Ooloo record, last I listened. Anyone who thinks the later albums are boring REM stuff NEED to listen. There's stuff on the Good Earth that's more frenetic and angsty then anything on Crazy Rhythms, just arranged differently. It's reall more of the same thing but even better songs in many cases.

Anyone with info on those early bootlegs please let me know. I've wanted to hear that stuff for years and years. I heard they were really punky originally. Slipping Into Something from 1977? Damn.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 06:51 (twenty-two years ago)

classic classic classic.
_Crazy rhythms_ is one of the best albums ever - well, almost.
I'd really like to listen to some live stuff (I heard they did _Marquee Moon_) and I love that silly cover of _Fame_ they played on _Something Wild_.

― Marco Damiani (Marco D.), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 07:35 (twenty-two years ago)

I will join in the involuntary skeet explusion over the possibility of hearing this stuff.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 14:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Some aspiring record label should re-issue their records, as I think all but "Crazy Rhythms" is out of print.

― Earl Nash (earlnash), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 14:28 (twenty-two years ago)

A box-set would be nice. With live and unreleased stuff. Does anyone know any rich people?

They were so good live. I saw them open for REM, Lou Reed, and 2 or 3 times in Philly by themselves and they were always wonderful.

I used to have a great bootleg video of a show in new york where either Bill or Glenn (i can't remember who) got sick and had to run off the stage to throw up and they did the rest of the show without him. Even that was great.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 14:53 (twenty-two years ago)

love love love the feelies and they could be amazing live , play half the songs double time and yer just wiped by the end of the concert. worked on a show with them in 89 where they came out and did 6 3 song encores - basically another full set!

only life is good but i find i actually play good earth much more.

― H (Heruy), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 15:11 (twenty-two years ago)

always suspected they were better live than on record.
and how great great great is _moscow nights_?

― Marco Damiani (Marco D.), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 15:16 (twenty-two years ago)

haha I just played that on my radio show a half hour ago!

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 15:19 (twenty-two years ago)

anthony miccio, you have good taste. :)

― Marco Damiani (Marco D.), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 15:21 (twenty-two years ago)

The Good Earth is their best album but it's one of those records that sounds worlds better at certain times of the year, in this case in the fall. The first album is great too, especially "Forces at Work."

― Burr (Burr), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 16:07 (twenty-two years ago)

I will state my love for the Feelies here so you can all think more highly of me.

― artdamages (artdamages), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 16:11 (twenty-two years ago)

I really do love the Feelies.

― artdamages (artdamages), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 16:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Not the greatest singers or songwriters, maybe, but still a classic band. The way I always WISHED R.E.M. sounded, tho I didn't hear the Feelies until several years later. I imagine they'd be great in concert. Excellent taste in covers, doing '60s songs THEIR way. Plus, anal types like me wish that more bands did that Eno/Feelies instrumental inventory thing, recounting which bandmember played wood blocks and who played "snake guitar" and "galloping guitar" and so on. (Then again, I suppose MBV-types wouldn't want to reveal their secrets.) And has there ever been an uncooler-looking bunch than the one on the cover of Crazy Rhythms? Well, maybe; but still: Classic!

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 16:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Some aspiring record label should re-issue their records, as I think all but "Crazy Rhythms" is out of print.

I've been doing my best to get the word out on one of the better kept secretly not out-of-print albums: The Good Earth is in print, via Twin/Tone records. It's on custom burned CD (not CDR) and sounds great. You don't get the cover art...boo hoo. Also available is the Yung Wu album (never before on CD) and that EP that came after The Good Earth. If memory serves, the website is twintone.com.

They were probably my favorite live band of all time.

― dlp9001, Tuesday, 27 July 2004 16:45 (twenty-two years ago)

great band. great guitar sound.

― amateur!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 16:46 (twenty-two years ago)

"better kept secretly" no idea what that means. It's a well kept secret that this album is still available.

― dlp9001, Tuesday, 27 July 2004 16:47 (twenty-two years ago)

That Twin/Tone bullshit doesn't count, though. They need to reissue these records proper.

Totally classic. The best New Jersey nerd rock nervous nitwit band ever.

― mcd (mcd), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 16:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Not sure why it's bullshit. It's a CD, it's a better transfer than the original, and it's cheap. Is a cover booklet that important?

Except for their lousy job of publicising this, it's a great way to keep a back catalog available that might not justify a new printing.

― dlp9001, Tuesday, 27 July 2004 16:49 (twenty-two years ago)

It does justify a new printing.

― mcd (mcd), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 16:52 (twenty-two years ago)

morally or financially?

― dlp9001, Tuesday, 27 July 2004 16:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Whoa, 45 minutes of Trypes demos?? I always figured there were just the four songs on _The Explorers Hold_ and "A Plan Revised."

I have the potential of being a total Deadhead when it comes to Feelies live/demos. Someone really ought to initiate a Dicks Picks-esque series.

― mike a, Tuesday, 27 July 2004 17:05 (twenty-two years ago)

I got into the Feelies in college thanks to my friends in Spiral Jetty, whose _Tour of Homes_ EP was produced by Million & Mercer. (Get this EP if you ever see it - it's practically a fifth Feelies album.) I must have seen the Feelies two dozen times throughout the '80s. Thinking about it now, they may have been my all-time favorite live act. Wake Ooloo and The Sunburst just don't fill the gap.

― mike a, Tuesday, 27 July 2004 17:08 (twenty-two years ago)

They don't compare to the Feelies, but I was kind of pleasantly surprised by a couple of the Sunburst songs on their webpage. Worth downloading for free, at least.

― dlp9001, Tuesday, 27 July 2004 17:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, they're good - you can't go really wrong with the Baumgartner/Mercer/Paruta/Demeski lineup. I guess I really want to hear "From The Morning Glories" live.

― mike a, Tuesday, 27 July 2004 17:12 (twenty-two years ago)

I got into the Feelies in college thanks to my friends in Spiral Jetty, whose _Tour of Homes_ EP was produced by Million & Mercer.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 17:16 (twenty-two years ago)

i mean, i think crazy rhythms is OOP, too. very recently, though - recent enough that after i saw that it wasnt in print last year, i went on a wild internet search, and bought one on walmart's website that mustve been languoring in some warehouse somewhere.

but OMG classic times a million. i like some of the good earth stuff, but anton fier makes the band for me, and so crazy rhythms is the only one thats really brilliant. nonetheless, that is more than enough to get them such highly classic status in my book.

funny that theres a dB's and feelies c/d resurrected in the same day - by the same person? i got into those two groups in the same month or so...

― peter smith (plsmith), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 17:20 (twenty-two years ago)

morally or financially?

Both.

― mcd (mcd), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 17:40 (twenty-two years ago)

I got into the Feelies in college thanks to my friends in Spiral Jetty, whose _Tour of Homes_ EP was produced by Million & Mercer.
-- St. Nicholas (naamm...), July 27th, 2004 2:16 PM. (later)

WTF? This cut out my entire second sentence. I said: "Weird. One of the guys from Spiral Jetty was a professor at William & Mary when I was there. They had a minireunion show on campus."

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 18:27 (twenty-two years ago)

morally or financially?
Both.
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Twin Tone's accountants apparently disagree with part of that. Probably worth noting the sales figures on the Twin Tone site. If you can convince them that they're sitting on a gold mine, though, more power to you.

― dlp9001, Tuesday, 27 July 2004 18:36 (twenty-two years ago)

as a small label guy, I think there is still good reason to put out CDs. I also think when you limit how much you release and put a lot of work into promoting a small catalog, you have a better chance at making your money back. When you're trying to promote 300 bands, it's a different ballgame. If the entire Feelies catalog was out of print and I managed to get the rights to license, each CD would come out with lots of press, in a relatively small amount(probably smaller then TwinTone would press.) However, taking advantage of iTunes and internet sales, and adequate promotion, that small amount would be easily available all over the world. In other words, do I think we'd make our money back on releasing the Feelies stuff? With love and devotion and time, absolutely. TwinTone just seems set in the idea that the CD will be dead shortly and they say they want to be on the cutting edge of digital delivery. Not sure what they see as the failings of iTunes, plenty of other labels seem to have accepted it.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 18:55 (twenty-two years ago)

They are pretty much defunkt aren't they? I think all they are doing is selling catalog stuff. Probably no time or energy to bother w/anything else.

― artdamages (artdamages), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 19:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Dan's right. I can think of 100 'post-punk' or whatever reissues that have been released in the last year or two that sell reasonably well and that are not nearly as good as the Feelies records. Should be available in stores and such in my opinion. I just think Twin/Tone is doing a poor job. If they won't release it, they should let someone else release it.

― mcd (mcd), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 19:13 (twenty-two years ago)

well they are letting people release some stuff, much of the "big" names are being licensed to Restless or whomever. They seem to have the music and the artists best interests in mind, but are, like everyone else, genuinely confused about what's going to happen in the next few years. Selling custom CDs without the art is kinda funny though, in a time when everyone else is trying to say that the art is one reason to NOT download the damn thing!

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 19:19 (twenty-two years ago)

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If they open with an acoustic set, especially if they’re sitting down, especially if they play instrumental covers,and especially if any Trypes are pitching in, that’s the Willies.

― dan selzer, Sunday, 14 September 2025 04:28 (one year ago)

They play so much around NYC that it's easy to take it for granted: White Eagle Hall in March, The Racket and the Bowery Ballroom before that...

― birdistheword, Sunday, 14 September 2025 04:36 (one year ago)

Come to LA, we'll make it special for them!

― nickn, Sunday, 14 September 2025 04:45 (one year ago)

xxpost Huh, if I knew about the Willies guide I'd forgotten, but the other night pretty much seemed like the Feelies acoustic. Not that stranger or different, just quiet, like Yo La in acoustic mode.

― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 14 September 2025 13:26 (one year ago)

The Willies don’t sound that different from the Feelies. A few years ago the billed the Willie’s as the opening act for the first time since the 80s probably and that’s what it was. Obv doesn’t matter what they call it, but that’s what the Willies are. The Feelies playing acoustic instrumental music opening for the Feelies.

― dan selzer, Sunday, 14 September 2025 13:32 (one year ago)

Do they ever play or open as the Trypes or Yung Wu? Yung Wu is where I first heard that great Eno/Manzanera cover.

― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 14 September 2025 14:00 (one year ago)

Ahem, acoustic Feelies is not the Willies — the Willies are electric / instrumental. I think that show at white eagle hall in late 2022 is the only time they’ve done a full Willies set in the 21st century.

― tylerw, Sunday, 14 September 2025 15:38 (one year ago)

Yung Wu pops up occasionally but not often. I think the Trypes have only played a handful of times in the past two decades though (around the time Dan put out that great reissue?)

― tylerw, Sunday, 14 September 2025 15:40 (one year ago)

They are billed as the Willies in Something Wild, right?

― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 14 September 2025 15:42 (one year ago)

Yes!

I’ll plug my epic Willies oral history, still available— https://thirdmanrecords.com/products/issue-9?srsltid=AfmBOorU1OX9PGIdun2cvSETneLp1xay_UeFUlp5P0yb9fnSRWHHAM1t

― tylerw, Sunday, 14 September 2025 15:57 (one year ago)

I was at that white eagle set. Assumed if they were still opening up doing instrumental it was Willies. I defer to Tyler! Around the time of our reissue, there was a Trypes/Yung Wu show at the elks lodge in South Orange. It was wonderful. I’m also the only time I’d ever met Stan who I only knew from Facebook. We made eye contact and I went to introduce myself figuring he didn’t know who I was but he must’ve because he walked up shook my hand and said “where’s my royalties mother fucker.”

Trypes also played one of the Yo La Tengo Hanukkah shows a few months before that I think. Chris Elliot was the comedic guest, he just played a cartoon he had made that was about to premiere.

― dan selzer, Sunday, 14 September 2025 19:16 (one year ago)

I enjoyed listening to this: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/life-of-the-record/id1487396757?i=1000710040883🕸
I hope this podcast covers more LPs I’m interested in.

This was great! Thanks, Tim.

― dentist looking too comfortable singing the blues (hardcore dilettante), Sunday, 14 September 2025 23:54 (one year ago)

eight months pass...

Writer Michael Azerrad in his Substack says the May weekend gigs the Feelies just did at the White Eagle in Jersey City may be their farewell gigs

― curmudgeon, Monday, 25 May 2026 02:53 (four months ago)

They did say those are their only gigs this year. So I guess at least in theory, it could be the end.

― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 25 May 2026 03:05 (four months ago)

oof. they sounded epic. I skipped them this time.

― dan selzer, Monday, 25 May 2026 03:18 (four months ago)

I did see them at Brooklyn Made a few years ago. Wish I saw them at MHOW - White Eagle is just way too far for me. Brooklyn Made closed up last year and I heard White Eagle is closing after this year (as if we needed a greater sense of finality here).

― birdistheword, Monday, 25 May 2026 03:22 (four months ago)

Bill Million was interviewed by Mark Caro - it sounds like it could be the last ones because of the difficulty of getting together, but only in the sense that it plays out that way, not because they want to designate this as their farewell and end the band.

https://www.caropop.com/caropopcast/episode/2b4056ce/bill-million-the-feelies

― birdistheword, Monday, 25 May 2026 03:27 (four months ago)

(Man, I haven't seen or thought about Mark Caro in years, had no idea he was married to Mary Dixon #insidebaseball)

― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 25 May 2026 14:18 (four months ago)

His podcast has everyone on it, and I think he’s back to occasionally writing for the Trib.

― Strait of Merzbow (Eazy), Monday, 25 May 2026 14:53 (four months ago)

Dunno — in a recent Mercer interview he suggested they were working on a new album (slowly of course). It
But who knows! They are all getting older. Clips from last weekend’s shows looked/sounded great.

― tylerw, Monday, 25 May 2026 15:20 (four months ago)

tbf since they do so few shows (and of late, it's been like one or two in the NYC area every year, i.e. they aren't going anywhere else), it's good to motivate people to come to these shows if they want to see them while they're still playing and healthy, but given the way the band's set up, I don't think there's any need to officially break up or not. It's only a small part of their lives - important, but not something that dictates what they do on a day-to-day basis, so they're basically free to come together whenever they're able to.

― birdistheword, Monday, 25 May 2026 19:43 (four months ago)

They do occasionally play Philly/D.C./Baltimore (even Bethlehem!) as well, which is how I’ve seen them five times.

― spastic heritage, Tuesday, 26 May 2026 09:55 (four months ago)

relistening to Crazy Rhythms now for the first time in ages. I admit when I first heard it I associated it with Weezer due to the cover which made me think all the weird decisions like the severe undermixing of the vocals (at least on the first track) were supposed to be ironic but listening to it now, I think they just didn't like hearing their voices on tape! such a cool album, especially knowing its such an outlier in their all-too-brief discog

― frogbs, Tuesday, 26 May 2026 20:29 (four months ago)

actually it makes me think of an ancedote about the Barenaked Ladies, apparently they would record one song every album buck naked, so there was always one track at a sort of insane tempo compared to everything else, because everyone was trying to do their part as fast as possible, anyway every song on this album sounds like it might've been recorded that way

― frogbs, Tuesday, 26 May 2026 20:57 (four months ago)

― Cow_Art, Wednesday, 27 May 2026 02:12 (four months ago)

four months pass...

I've heard Crazy Rhythms maybe twice over 20 years but it's never hit until now. Oh well. Now I'm going through their entire catalogue and I'm up to Time for a Witness and everything is just perfection. His voice sounds like a cross between Lou Reed and Roger McGuin which is a-ok in my book.

― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Wednesday, 14 October 2026 23:46 (one week ago)

Don’t skip Trypes and Yung Wu.

― dan selzer, Thursday, 15 October 2026 01:21 (one week ago)

Thanks. I will check them out next.

― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Thursday, 15 October 2026 13:40 (one week ago)

they definitely seem like a band designed specifically for ILX, always surprises me to find out there are people here who still don't know 'em

― frogbs, Thursday, 15 October 2026 13:44 (one week ago)

Side 1 Time for a Witness may be peak Feelies

― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 15 October 2026 14:46 (one week ago)

Side 1 Time for a Witness may be peak Feelies

Amen.

― Blood On The Knobs, Thursday, 15 October 2026 15:00 (one week ago)

man I wish the A&M albums were on their Bandcamp page

― Serfin' USA (sleeve), Thursday, 15 October 2026 15:07 (one week ago)

Side 1 Time for a Witness may be peak Feelies

― kornrulez6969

^^^

― boners for bombs (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 15 October 2026 15:08 (one week ago)

Yeah, Time for Witness was what prompted me to post. The added beefiness to the production served them surprisingly well. The album is smoking.

― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Thursday, 15 October 2026 15:26 (one week ago)

Time for a Witness was my introduction to The Feelies. I bought it on cassette the day I turned 16 -- which was also the day I got my license. It's still an essential road trip album for me. I love them so much.

― Blood On The Knobs, Thursday, 15 October 2026 15:58 (one week ago)

I had Only Life on repeat on the drive to my (first) wedding. That marriage didn't last but my undying love for The Feelies did

― sawdust lagoon, Thursday, 15 October 2026 17:46 (one week ago)

Well ok I’ve been a crazy rhythms and good earth guy. For no good reason I never listened to the later albums. Will have to remedy that pronto

― that's not my post, Thursday, 15 October 2026 17:50 (one week ago)

Only Life might be my favorite these days

― tylerw, Thursday, 15 October 2026 18:06 (one week ago)

I heard Time for a Witness when it came out and was disappointed (other than "For Now" which might be my all-time favourite Feelies song with the previous album's "For Awhile"). The vocals coming to the surface really emphasized the banality of the words, which I couldn't ignore anymore.

― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 15 October 2026 18:18 (one week ago)

the closing songs on the good earth are peak Feelies to me but it's all good

― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 15 October 2026 21:50 (one week ago)

xp it's true, mercer can be an impressively uninspired lyricist

― tylerw, Thursday, 15 October 2026 22:29 (one week ago)

Poetic lyrics would only distract from the vibe

― sawdust lagoon, Friday, 16 October 2026 00:03 (one week ago)

looking into the archives, the first four albums have been individually polled, but their albums overall have not. in the past i probably would have voted good earth because that's the one i heard first, but these days i might be a total dunce and pick here before. "bluer skies" is definitive soft rock feelies vibe imo.

― austinato (Austin), Friday, 16 October 2026 00:19 (one week ago)

Best live rock ‘n’ roll band.

― spastic heritage, Friday, 16 October 2026 02:44 (one week ago)

it's a shame they hate touring, I have resigned myself that I'm never going to see them live

― Colonel Poo, Friday, 16 October 2026 12:40 (one week ago)

nothing wrong with Here Before, I listen to that and Glenn's solo Wheels In Motion record as much as anything else in the main canon

― waste of compute (One Eye Open), Friday, 16 October 2026 14:28 (one week ago)

mercer can be an impressively uninspired lyricist

― tylerw, Thursday, October 15, 2026

In that Bernard Sumner tradition

― stopping by billy woods on a snowy evening (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 16 October 2026 14:31 (one week ago)

yeah I guess he is kinda like that!
I really like the post-reunion records, but that lyrical tendency is even more ramped up. A lot of "tonight" / "night" / "all right" rhymes. doesn't actively bug me but once you start paying attention ...

― tylerw, Friday, 16 October 2026 14:34 (one week ago)

Best live rock ‘n’ roll band.

― spastic heritage, Thursday, October 15, 2026 10:44 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

first time i ever heard "how many more times" was in an encore of theirs, and i bet zeppelin themselves never did it better

― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 16 October 2026 17:31 (one week ago)

this only life promo was in the jacket of my copy of in between. i preordered the album direct from bar none, so it was around the time they reissued the third and fourth albums.

(revive prompted a revisit to in between and it's good, like a spiritual sequel to good earth)

― austinato (Austin), Friday, 16 October 2026 17:59 (one week ago)

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