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.
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!
I remember an interview with them in Newsweek from 1988 where they joked that their primary goal as musicians was being able to quit their day jobs for a few months.
Anyway, I have a lot of Feelies music on my computer. Not just the albums, but EPs, b-sides, the Trypes, Yung Wu, and so on. And I could upload some to Buffistarawk2.
Speaking of, Buffistarawk is almost full. Should we delete some early posts or just abandon it and move on?
Something about their sound just never clicked for me.
Fair enough.
Now if you want to talk about a great run, the first four TALKING HEADS records are pretty impressive back to front,
t nodding along with tommyrot
Plus they did one of the greatest concert films of all time.
They used to run
Stop Making Sense
every now and then at the Michigan Theater in Ann Arbor (a great marquee theater with a beatiful balcony section). Every time they did, you'd have thought you were
at
a concert. Everybody would get up and dance in the aisles and shout and generally have a great time.
