The Feelies, an influential new wave band from the '80s, reunited in 2008, and for much of 2009 they've been playing shows all across the United States. To coincide with a performance at the All Tomorrow's Parties festival in New York, the band has rereleased Crazy Rhythms and The Good Earth. Though they were never hugely popular, The Feelies were a big part of the indie music scene in the 1980...
The Stranger has the story on Bar-None's plans to reissue the first two Feelies' records from the 1980s, Crazy Rhythms and The Good Earth. Will the reissue make my original 'Crazy Rhythms' LP (in pic) more or less valuable?Here's the info:"On Sept. 8, Bar/None Records will re-release 1980's Crazy Rhythms and 1986's The Good Earth, the first two LPs by the Feelies, a New Jersey group who epitomi...
Hey MOGgers, long time no see. I've been keeping my head down ripping my entire collection to flac and struggling with my Qnap NAS and Squeezebox setup. Relistening to much of my collection I've got plenty of things percolatin' in my head I ought to get down.Rumors have been circulating for several years about The Feelies' classic Crazy Rhythms from 1980 and The Good Earth (1986) being reissued...
They have been referred to as "the best thing to come out of New Jersey since the light bulb" ..and I'm not talking about Bon Jovi. Rockers the Feelies are making a comeback after seventeen years of downtime and everyone has Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore to thank for it.The Feelies disbanded in 1991 after the release of their fifth album Time For A Witness. The band didn't play often, but when t...
The Feelies take their rightful place amongst the pantheon of American underground greats with the welcome re-releases of Crazy Rhythms and The Good Earth.It's fascinating that over the course of a single album it slowly becomes clear that disparate bands like Interpol and Vampire Weekend clearly owe debts to the Feelies. Crazy Rhythms (1980) stands as a wildly inventive and influential record ...
In honor of their first show in 17 years, from the archive:The Feelies, Crazy Rhythms (Stiff/A&M) 10 The Feelies, The Good Earth (Coyote/Twin/Tone) 10-Like many teenagers in the eighties, I craved a particular kind of music that I had not yet heard. Before I got to college my access to music was limited, but I'd heard the typical high school music of the Smiths, Cure, Violent Femmes, which had ...
They have been referred to as "the best thing to come out of New Jersey since the light bulb" ..and I'm not talking about Bon Jovi. Rockers the Feelies are making a comeback after seventeen years of downtime and everyone has Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore to thank for it.The Feelies disbanded in 1991 after the release of their fifth album Time For A Witness. The band didn't play often, but when t...
I have always been a big Feelies shill. These tunes, from their third album, released in 1988, were part of the ipod shuffle playlist today. I never argue with the shuffle gods and they did compel me to post. "Cause Wiki sez so:The Feelies are a rock band from North Haledon, New Jersey. They formed in 1976 and disbanded in 1992 after having released four albums. The band reunited in 2008.The F...
Hey MOGgers, long time no see. I've been keeping my head down ripping my entire collection to flac and struggling with my Qnap NAS and Squeezebox setup. Relistening to much of my collection I've got plenty of things percolatin' in my head I ought to get down.Rumors have been circulating for several years about The Feelies' classic Crazy Rhythms from 1980 and The Good Earth (1986) being reissued...
My dearest Moggers, it has been 365 rotations to the day in which I first stumbled upon this place. And though unfortunately I don't have a lot of time at the moment (I'm in the grip of yet another deadline), I do want to say something about how much you all have come to mean to me.This time last year, I believe I was engaging in some wreckless work procrastination, as I am prone to do from ti...