THE FEELIES-CRAZY RYTHMS-UK orig STIFF 1980 NM
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BAND-TITLE
LABEL -YEAR
THE FEELIES-Crazy Rhythms
Label: Stiff Records Catalog#: SEEZ20 Format: Vinyl, LP
Country: UK Released: 1980 Genre: Rock Style: Notes: 1980 Stiff UK Release Crazy Rhythms Studio album by The Feelies Released April 1980 Recorded Vanguard Studios, NY
Spring-Summer, 1979 Genre Post-punk
Jangle pop
College rock Length 43:04 Label Stiff Producer Bill Million and Glenn Mercer with Mark Abel Professional reviews
- Allmusic link
- Robert Christgau (A-) link
(1980) The Good Earth
(1986)
Crazy Rhythms is the Feelies' first album. It was released in April 1980 on Stiff.
The album is known for its dry, clean "upfront" guitar sound (achieved by plugging the guitars directly into the mixing console without the use of an amplifier or microphone) and also its long interstitial passages of drones and improvised percussion.[citation needed] All of the songs were credited to "Mercer/Million", with the exception of a cover ofthe Beatles' "Everybody's Got Something to Hide (Except Me and My Monkey)".
[edit]Critical reception
The album was a critical success, voted one of the best albums of 1980 in the Village Voice's annual Pazz & Jop critics' poll, beating out such notable critics' favorites asDavid Bowie's Scary Monsters, Joy Division's Closer, The Rolling Stones's Emotional Rescue, and The Specials' debut album.[1] It was ranked #49 in Rolling Stone's top 100 albums of the 1980s, and #69 on Pitchfork Media's similar list.
In September 2009 the album will be performed live in its entirety as part of the All Tomorrow's Parties-curated Don't Look Back series.
[edit]Track listing
All songs by Bill Million and Glenn Mercer except as indicated.
[edit]Side one
- "The Boy with the Perpetual Nervousness" – 5:10
- "Fa Cé-La" – 2:04
- "Loveless Love" – 5:14
- "Forces at Work" – 7:10
[edit]Side two
- "Original Love" – 2:55
- "Everybody's Got Something To Hide (Except Me and My Monkey)" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) – 4:18
- "Moscow Nights" – 4:34
- "Raised Eyebrows" – 3:00
- "Crazy Rhythms" – 6:13
[edit]CD reissue bonus track (recorded 1990)
- "Paint It Black" (Mick Jagger, Keith Richards)– 2:54
[edit]Personnel
- Bill Million - acoustic, treated rhythm, lead, bridged, 6-string, "excercised [sic] & oboed"guitars, vocals, timbali, sandpaper, claves, can, tom-tom, snare, cowbell, shaker, shoes, temple blocks, tambourine, boxes and bells
- Glenn Mercer - electric, "faulty," 12-string, lead, rhythm, treated, bowed and galloping guitars, vocals, keyboards, temple block, shaker, claves, maracas, bell, castanettes, sleigh bells, reverbed sticks, shoes, spasmodic drums and coat rack
- Keith De Nunzio - bass guitar, snare drum, anchor drum, tom-tom, woodblock, pipe, bell and background vocals (except on "Paint It Black")
- Anton Fier - drums, drum kit and "kit drums", tom-toms, pipe and cowbell (except on "Paint It Black")
- Brenda Sauter - bass, background vocals on "Paint It Black"
- Stanley Demeski – drums on "Paint It Black"
- Dave Weckerman – percussion on "Paint It Black"
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