THE FEELIES "CRAZY RHYTHMS" 1980 STIFF UK SEEZ 20 STILL SEALED/BRAND NEW OOP LP

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THREE YEARS AGO I LOST ONE OF MY BEST FRIENDS TO CANCER, HE WAS A COOL MUSICIAN A DRUMMER BY TRADE, ORIGINALLY FROM SEATTLE, BUT RELOCATED TO L.A. IN 1985, HE AMASSED A VERY LARGE MUSIC COLLECTION, AND HAD KILLER TASTE FOR ROCK & ROLL, SADLY I AM SELLING OFF A LOT OF HIS COLLECTION ON BEHALF OF HIS WIDOW TO HELP PAY OFF DEBTS INCLUDING BILLS, TAXES AND STORAGE UNIT FEES. I AM NOT TAKING ANYTHING FOR THIS SERVICE, DOING IT FOR MY FRIEND (MISS YOU DAVE!). THIS ITEM IS FROM HIS COLLECTION.

THE PHOTO'S MAY BE A LITTLE BLURRY, HAVE A LITTLE GLARE, SOME REFLECTIONS OR IN SOME CASES YOU MAY SEE SPECKS OF DUST. BUT THE PHOTO'S ARE OF THE ACTUAL ITEM YOU ARE BIDDING ON. I DO COMBINE SHIPPING. BUT I DO NOT ACCEPT “BEST OFFERS”, THE MONIES GO TO MY FRIENDS WIDOW.

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ARTISTS: THE FEELIES

TITLE: “CRAZY RHYTHMS”

TRACK LISTING (SEE PHOTOS & BELOW):

A1

The Boy With The Perpetual Nervousness

Guitar, Vocals, Claves – Glenn*Snare [Snare Drum] – Keith*Timbales [Timbali], Performer [Sandpaper], Claves – Bill*Tom Tom [Tom-Toms] – Andy*

A2

Fa Cé-La

Acoustic Guitar, Vocals, Performer [Can], Rhythm Guitar [Treated] – Bill*Bass Drum, Snare [Snare Drums] – Andy*Bass Guitar – Keith*Electric Guitar, Vocals, Temple Block, Shaker – Glenn*

A3

Loveless Love

Bass Guitar, Backing Vocals – Keith*Drums – Andy*Guitar [Left], Tom Tom, Backing Vocals, Performer [Boxes], Guitar [Exercised And Oboed] – Bill*Guitar [Right], Guitar [Faulty], Vocals, Castanets – Glenn*

A4

Forces At Work

Bass Guitar, Bass [Droned] – Keith*Drum [Drum Kit] – Andy*Guitar [Left], Vocals, Snare – Bill*Guitar [Right], Soloist [Guitar], Vocals, Maracas – Glenn*

B1

Original Love

Acoustic Guitar, Backing Vocals, Guitar [Bridged] – Bill*Bass Guitar, Backing Vocals – Keith*Drums – Andy*Electric Guitar, Vocals, Guitar [Bowed], Maracas – Glenn*

B2

Everybody's Got Something To Hide (Except Me And My Monkey)

Bass Guitar, Tom Tom – Keith*Drums, Pipe, Cowbell – Andy*Guitar [Other], Vocals, Bells, Performer [Coat Rack] – Glenn*Rhythm Guitar, Backing Vocals, Performer [Can] – Bill*Written-By – Lennon-McCartney

B3

Moscow Nights

Bass Guitar, Backing Vocals, Wood Block, Pipe – Keith*Drums [Kit Drums] – Andy*Guitar [6 String], Tambourine, Backing Vocals, Timbales [Timbali] – Bill*Twelve-String Guitar, Vocals, Soloist [Guitar], Castanets, Bells [Sleigh] – Glenn*

B4

Raised Eyebrows

Drum [Anchor], Bass Guitar, Vocals – Keith*Guitar [Treated], Vocals, Drums [Spasmodic] – Glenn*Rhythm Guitar, Vocals, Bells – Bill*Tom Tom [Random], Drum [Drum Kit] – Andy*

B5

Crazy Rhythms

Bass Guitar, Bells – Keith*Drums – Andy*Guitar [Left], Backing Vocals, Shaker, Cowbell, Performer [Shoes], Temple Block – Bill*Guitar [Right], Vocals, Guitar [Galloping], Performer [Reverbed Sticks], Performer [Shoes] – Glenn*

Companies, etc.

• Produced For – Ball Field Productions

• Phonographic Copyright (p) – Stiff Records

• Copyright (c) – Stiff Records

• Copyright (c) – Northern Songs Ltd.

• Published By – Stationary Music

• Recorded At – Vanguard Studios

• Mixed At – House Of Music, West Orange, NJ

Credits

• Design [Cover And Sleeve Design Help] – Bill*

• Design [Cover And Sleeve] – Glenn*

• Engineer [Mixing] – Jim Bonnefond

• Engineer [Mixing] [Assistant] – Julian Robertson

• Engineer [Recording] – Brooke Delarco, Tom Lazarus

• Lacquer Cut By – SA*

• Photography By [Photograph And Treatment] – Lynne Pickering

• Producer – Million*, Mercer*

• Producer [With] – Mark Abel

• Written-By – Bill Million (tracks: A1 to A4, B1, B3 to B5), Glenn Mercer (tracks: A1 to A4, B1, B3 to B5)

Notes

Includes printed inner sleeve with credits and photo.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Matrix / Runout (Side A - etched): ci TOUCH SEEZ-20-A| < SA

• Matrix / Runout (Side B - etched): ...AND GO... SEEZ-20-B| SA <
  

LABEL: STIFF RECORDS U.K.

CAT. #: SEEZ 20

YEAR: 1980

RECORD CONDITION: THE RECORD IS STILL SEALED IN IT'S ORIGINAL SHRINK WRAP

SLEEVE CONDITION: THE JACKET STILL SEALED, JUST NOTICED THE TINY DRILL HOLE LOWER RIGHT CORNER (SEE PHOTO)

MORE INFO: THIS RECORD IS CURRENTLY OUT OF PRINT. UK IMPORT, HAS U.K. PRICE STICKER ON IT, I AM NOT SURE WHAT THE RED “SPLOTCH” ALONG THE TOP EDGE IS, I TRIED TO SCRAP A LITTLE OFF, THINKING IT WAS NAIL POLISH, BUT NO, SO MIGHT BE A PART OF THE ARTWORK, BUT TOOK THE PIC SO YOU COULD SEE IT CLOSER IN CASE YOU WERE WONDERING LIKE ME.

MORE ON THE ARTIST & RELEASE:

The Feelies are an American rock band from Haledon, New Jersey. They formed in 1976 and disbanded in 1992 having released four albums. The band reunited in 2008, and released new albums in 2011 and 2017.

Although not commercially successful, the Feelies had an influence on the development of American indie rock.Their first album, Crazy Rhythms (Stiff Records, 1980) was cited by R.E.M. as a major influence on their sound.The Feelies were influenced by the Velvet Underground and Lou Reed.

The Feelies rarely worked with outside producers although Pete Buck (of R.E.M fame) did produce one of their most successful albums. and created shimmering soundscapes with multiple guitar layers and percussion.They frequently played at Maxwell's, a live music venue and bar/restaurant in Hoboken, during the 1980s.

Early history

The band's name is taken from a fictional entertainment device described in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. Glenn Mercer, Bill Million, Dave Weckerman and vocalist Richard Reilly began playing together in 1976 in Haledon, New Jersey in a band called the Outkids. The Outkids evolved into the Feelies with the addition of Vinny DeNunzio on drums and John Papesca on bass.

In 1978, the Village Voice dubbed the then-unsigned Feelies "The Best Underground Band in New York". With the line-up of Mercer, Million, Vinny DeNunzio's brother Keith DeNunzio on bass and Anton Fier on drums, the Feelies released their first single, "Fa Cé-La", on Rough Trade Records in 1979.

The Feelies' debut album, Crazy Rhythms, was released on Stiff Records in 1980, featuring the same line-up as on the "Fa Cé-La" Rough Trade single.

Earlier offshoots

After Crazy Rhythms, Fier and Keith DeNunzio left the band. With the Feelies in limbo, Mercer and Million collaborated with other local New Jersey musicians, forming one of a number of Feelies offshoots, The Trypes, featuring some once and future Feelies members, including Brenda Sauter, Dave Weckerman and Stanley Demeski of pop band Luna, as well as John Baumgartner, Marc Francia and Toni Paruta. The Trypes, quieter and more psychedelic than the Feelies, played regular live gigs around the New York/Hoboken scene at clubs such as Maxwell's and Folk City. In 1984, Coyote Records released the Trypes 12" EP, Music for Neighbors, produced by Million and Mercer, The Explorers Hold, featuring three original songs (credited to Mercer alone or with other band members), plus a cover of the George Harrison song, "Love You To", which originally had appeared on The Beatles' Revolver. The Trypes also contributed a Million/Mercer-produced original song, "A Plan Revised", to the 1985 Coyote anthology of Hoboken acts, Luxury Condos Coming To Your Neighborhood Soon. Some members of the Trypes later formed the band Speed The Plough. In 2012, Acute Records reissued the Music for Neighbors LP, which quickly sold out and is now only available through their digital release on iTunes and Spotify.

Million, Mercer, Sauter, Demeski and Baumgartner also gigged around New York and Hoboken under the name, Yung Wu, which was fronted by and featured the songs of Feelies' percussionist Dave Weckerman, who also sang lead. Yung Wu released one album on Coyote Records in 1986, titled Shore Leave. It featured Weckerman originals, plus covers of "Big Day", "Child of the Moon", and "Powderfinger", a staple of their live gigs.

The Willies, also known as The Willies From Haledon, were yet another Feelies offshoot that played around the New York/Hoboken clubs in the early 1980s. The Willies shared a similar lineup as the later Feelies, but their live sets consisted mostly of cover songs, extended instrumentals and psychedelic jams, such as "Third Stone From the Sun" and "Sedan Delivery". The Feelies' appearance in Jonathan Demme's Something Wild was credited to the Willies.

Later Feelies

The members of the Feelies never stopped playing and collaborating in the 1980s, earning them the distinction of being "the New York area's best-loved underground rockers since the late 1970s", according to Jon Pareles of The New York Times in 1986. The band occasionally even performed under the name "The Feelies", often on holidays at Maxwell's. At least one such gig featured a reunion of the Crazy Rhythms line-up of Million, Mercer, DeNunzio and Fier. By the late 1980s, the band re-emerged from their self-imposed exile with new members and their first new album in six years.

Reformed as a quintet featuring Mercer, Million, Weckerman, Sauter and Demeski, the Feelies recorded The Good Earth in 1985 with Peter Buck of R.E.M. on board as co-producer with Mercer and Million. The album was released in 1986 and featured ten original Mercer/Million compositions. The band toured in support of the album as an opening band for Lou Reed as well as R.E.M. that year.

Crazy Rhythms is the debut studio album by American rock band The Feelies. It was released in April 1980, through record label Stiff. Its fusion of post-punk and jangle pop was influential on the forthcoming alternative rock genre, with R.E.M. among others citing the album as an influence. Although it was not commercially successful initially, it has remained critically lauded in the decades since its release.

Background

On the album, band member Glenn Mercer has said "The sound we were after was a reaction against the punk scene [...] Being a little older, we felt it had all been done before. We wanted the guitars to be cleaner, and we started experimenting with a lot of percussion.

Although not commercially popular upon release, Crazy Rhythms was a critical success, coming in a number 17 in the Village Voice's annual Pazz & Jop critics' poll, beating out such notable critics' favorites as David Bowie's Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps), Joy Division's Closer, The Rolling Stones's Emotional Rescue and The Specials' debut album. David Hepworth, in Smash Hits, wrote that the band "have the power to really draw you into their strange little suburban world."

In their retrospective review, The Guardian called Crazy Rhythms "one of those albums during whose course you hear the most exciting sound in music: things changing."[5] Rolling Stone branded it "a landmark of jangly, guitar-driven avant-pop, and its shimmering sound can still be heard in bands like R.E.M."PopMatters wrote that the album "stands as a wildly inventive and influential record that stands shoulder to shoulder with some of the best music of the American post-punk era. With their very first album, The Feelies managed to speak directly to the zeitgeist of the American independent underground without becoming overexposed or repetitive." Tiny Mix Tapes wrote, "Crazy Rhythms, released in April 1980 amongst a veritable shitstorm of like-minded groups, stands grinning madly at the top of the pile – a shining monument to new wave at its quirky best."

Crazy Rhythms was ranked number 49 in Rolling Stone's list of the 100 best albums of the 1980s, and number 69 on Pitchfork's list.

In September 2009 the album was performed live in its entirety as part of the All Tomorrow's Parties-curated Don't Look Back series

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