Re: Album of the day (#5437): Crazy Rhythms by The Feelies

DommeDamian — Fri, 7 Nov 2025 16:23:52 GMT

Author: DommeDamian

Posted: 11/07/2025 21:23

Love this album. Few months back walked into a record store, and stopped my own music cause they played it.

Album of the day (#5437): Crazy Rhythms by The Feelies

BestEverAlbums — Fri, 7 Nov 2025 16:00:34 GMT

Author: BestEverAlbums

Posted: 11/07/2025 21:00

Today's album of the day

Crazy Rhythms by The Feelies (View album | Buy this album)

Year: 1980.
Country:
Overall rank: 648
Decade rank: 103
Year rank: 12
Discography rank: 1 (out of 8 albums on BEA)
Average rating: 79/100 (from 437 votes).

Tracks:
1. The Boy With The Perpetual Nervousness
2. Fa Cé-La
3. Loveless Love
4. Forces At Work
5. Original Love
6. Everybody's Got Something To Hide (Except Me And My Monkey)
7. Moscow Nights
8. Raised Eyebrows
9. Crazy Rhythms

Top voted comments:

"A New York indie album of its time through and through. It's all there; Television's spooling guitar lines, the nervous energy of the Talking Heads, The Lou Reed (and occasionally Iggy Pop) vocal inflections, and more than a hint of the 60s freak folk that kicked all this off."
- jstreets
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"'Crazy Rhythms' is a folk-rock and 'bubblegum' classic. The overall sound is icy and alienating, like an android clone of the Byrds. The playing is almost amateurish in its simplicity of delivery but paradoxically geometrically complex in its structure. The strumming guitars are played frantically, whilst the melodies have the feeling of being electronically 'processed' to create a neurotic rhythm and decadent minimilist trance that has delusions of the Velvet Underground with hints of Jonathan Richman. The jingle-jangle of British guitar bands of the 1980s like Orange Juice, the Only Ones and the Pooh Sticks clearly adopted the Feelies approach. But what sets 'Crazy Rhythms' apart is the fluency with which the band merge traditional genres such as vaudeville and country & western while injecting Eastern pastoral elements allied to lethal doses of the modern elements: bursts of psychedelic guitar, obsessive repetitions of patterns, hypnotic vocals and exasperated percussion. Probably the highlight is the 'acid' jam of the title track. The song combines a demonic quality to tight arrangements which oscillate between transcendence and ecstatic detached decadence. It also appears as a kind of alien 'drama' without climax or end. The vocal harmonies are humble, and the sound so ascetic as to be sometimes more similar to the Gregorian canon than to rock music."
- hairymarx1
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Re: Album of the day (#5437): Crazy Rhythms by The Feelies

Album of the day (#5437): Crazy Rhythms by The Feelies