March 14, 2017 Playlist

"Crazy Rhythms" by The Feelies (1980)
CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK
The Feelies "Crazy Rhythms"  1980 (USA)
The Feelies have just released their sixth album, the second since the group's 21st century reunion. (How many bands of yesteryear have not reformed? Husker Du remains the holdout!) This, their debut album, came out 37 years ago, back in the days when punk rock had just ceded to "new wave" but MTV hadn't come along yet. "Indie rock" was still a few years away, but one of the quintessential founding records of the golden age of indie was Crazy Rhythms. Their debt to The Velvet Underground was obvious from their first album; by the time of their third album the influence of The Stooges was equally obvious. The third piece of the puzzle was Talking Heads: I don't know of any direct lineage between Heads and Feelies (other than the greater New York area in the late 1970's), but David Byrne and his preppie friends were the ones who made it safe for nerds in sweaters to rock. The utter unflashiness of The Feelies in fact prefigures the alterna-grunge non-style-style of the following decade (Kurt Cobain and that Weezer guy also rocked in sweaters), and their manic guitar explorations on one and two-chord grooves has similarly proven a blueprint for the ages.
(N) = New Release
   
Artist Song Album Year Country
The Sons Of ChamplinBlack And Blue RainbowLoosen Up Naturally1969USA
Rare BirdNatures FruitRare Bird1969UK
Rare EarthIn BedGet Ready1969USA
Ty Segall The Only One
Ty Segall (N)2017 (Drag City)USA
Sleater-Kinney A New Wave (live)Live In Paris (N)2017 (Sub Pop)USA
Ghost King Melting Sky
CD single (N)2016 (Ghost King)USA
 
 
Wolf People Not Me Sir
Ruins (N)2016 (Jagjaguwar)UK
Moon Duo Cold FearOccult Architecture, Vol. 1 (N)2017 (Sacred Bones)USA
Mr. Elevator & The Brain Hotel Are You Hypnotized?When The Morning Greets You (N)2017 (Rad Cat)USA
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard Anoxia
   / Doom City
Flying Mictrotonal Banana (N)2017 (ATO)Australia
   
 
The WhoInstant Party (Circles)The Who Sings My Generation1966UK
The MonkeesCircle SkyHead1968USA/UK
William S. FischerCircleCircles1970USA
SpiritCircleSon Of Spirit1975USA
   
 
The Feelies Crazy Rhythms Crazy Rhythms
CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK
1980
USA
The FeeliesMoscow NightsCrazy Rhythms
CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK
1980
USA
The FeeliesForces At WorkCrazy Rhythms
CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK
1980
USA
The Feelies When To GoIn Between (N)2017 (Bar None)USA
   
 
Suns Of Thyme KirwaniCascades (N)2016 (Napalm)Germany
A Tribe Called Red Indian CityWe Are The Halluci Nation (N)2016 (Radicalized)Canada
Six Organs Of Admittance Taken By AscentBurning The Threshold (N)2017 (Drag City)USA
Purling Hiss Everybody In The USAHigh Bias (N)2016 (Drag City)USA
HeartSing ChildDreamboat Annie1976
USA
CheetahN.I.T.E.Rock & Roll Women1981
Australia/UK
Nina Hagen BandWir Leben Immer Noch (Lucky Number)Nina Hagen Band (10" EP)1980
Germany
   
 
Miles DavisOn The Corner / New York Girl / Thinkin' One Thing And Doin' AnotherOn The Corner1972
USA
Boredoms7777777Rebore Vol. 02001
Japan
NEU!Lila Engel (Lilac Angel)NEU! 21973
Germany
 
  
Carlos Santana & Buddy MilesEvil Ways
    / Faith Interlude /
Them Changes (live)
Live!1972
USA
      
   
   
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