Did they ever release the cover songs they did in Something Wild? ("I'm a Believer," "Before the Next Teardrop Falls")

And also Bowie's "Fame". Never released.

They're my favorite band of all time.

So you pro'lly like Luna too, right?

I was bummed when they broke up. But they had a long, productive career.

When I was googling The Feelies, I discovered that I have all four of their albums but not their EP, which I don't think I've heard about before.... Also, I saw them live at least once (awesome show) when they toured behind Only Life.

Those are great songs that come together as a great album!

shrugs They were never more than a "like" band for me. Something about their sound just never clicked for me.

Now if you want to talk about a great run, the first four TALKING HEADS records are pretty impressive back to front, and the last four have a lot of good-to-great songs even if they aren't quite as awe inspiring a LPs. Plus they did one of the greatest concert films of all time.

And given what I've read about the bands internal frictions, I'm amazed they DIDN'T only make 4 or 5 albums.

And also Bowie's "Fame". Never released.

Hmmm, it's too bad we don't have any sound engineers around who could liberate a song from its movie surroundings...

The Feelies' first two albums were out of print, then re-released, and are now out of print again. I shoulda' snagged the re-releases when they came out, but no....

Fun fact: Georgia and Ira from YLT first met at a Feelies show at Maxwell's in Hoboken.

Hmmm, it's too bad we don't have any sound engineers around who could liberate a song from its movie surroundings...

The biggest problem would be that I don't think any of them are heard in their entirety. Amazing, pivotal scene though - a renuion with The Feelies as the band (something I'd only expect from Jonathan Demme), plus the movie goes into the scene as one movie and comes out of it a whole different one.

Now if you want to talk about a great run, the first four TALKING HEADS records are pretty impressive back to front,

Yep yep yep....

Plus, French lyrics!

Yes!

Also, I got the remastered versions of all three albums and HOLY CRAP do they sound good. Crisp, clear, and I think on more than one song I can hear Stewart Copeland fiddling with his sticks just before he starts to play.

There's a man I would have liked to see play drums in his younger days -- all frenetic, flailing limbs and syncopated, unexpected beats that just fill me with joy to listen to. Also, Stewart was one of those drummers who hit hard (Hec and I have discussed the joys of amasing, hard-hitting drummers before). Stewart apparently used to have to tape his sticks to his hands to keep them from flying away. And what's really amazing is that you can't always hear the madness right away. Sometimes Stewart is playing a very simple snare part and the mad flailing is on the high hat, where it's harder to notice.

Apparently Stewart was hitting his drums so hard at the reunion gig for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2003 that he busted his snare head.

The joke with the Feelies was that they had regular jobs and so could only tour on holiday weekends. That eventually changed, but I think I first saw them in the mid-80\'s over a Washington\'s Birthday weekend at a tiny club in Harvard Square called Jonathan Swift\'s.

They were a ferocious live band!