User Pick of the Day (#65): Crazy Rhythms (CellarDoor)

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Crazy Rhythms by The Feelies
Chart: Top 99 Greatest Music Albums of the 1980s by CellarDoor
Rank on User's Chart: 5
Year: 1980
Rank on BEA Overall: 686
Average Rating: 79/100

Norman Bates Profile
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One of the 20 best records ever made.

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For whatever reason I've never been able to see why it's so well loved. Always just seemed like a more mediocre taste on Television to me. There are solid tracks but the album has a whole never did that much for me. Maybe it's about time I relistened to it though.

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Norman Bates wrote:

One of the 20 best records ever made.

Try Vampire Weekend fam.

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an_outlaw wrote:

fam.

hahahaha

jokes aside, I already know Vampire Weekend, and

1) I don't see the link with The Feelies
2) It's nowhere near as good as Crazy Rhythms

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an_outlaw wrote:

Try Vampire Weekend fam.

You're adorable.
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Norman Bates Profile
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Cymro2011 wrote:

You're adorable.

True. I was maybe a bit sharp in the previous post. Sorry outlaw.

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Just to clarify:

Vampire Weekend is absolutely every bit as great as The Feelies, if not greater. Also MVOTC and Contra are better albums than this (however it is fantastic and one of my favorite albums). Also, yes, those 2 bands can be correlated as I can see they both have sharp, angular guitars and bouncy and lively rhythm parts that are reminiscent of each other. I can imagine VW may have been influenced a bit by The Feelies.

As for this album, "Crazy Rhythms", it's really fucking good. Love it.
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Well, I, for one, will not agree. Not that I don't like Vampire Weekend, they're good (well, mainly their debut). But where their guitar parts come from is totally different. On the one one hand, you've got proto-R.E.M. Velvety Television meet The Byrds/city meets countryside jangly sort of stuff, on the other you've got West African rhythmic guitar sieved through the Indie pop-rock template.

This is not judgment on quality, but while they may use some of the same weapons, they go to totally different directions and I wouldn't even remotely relate those two bands.

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an_outlaw wrote:

Try Vampire Weekend fam.

Not even close... 🤡 Okay, Norman may have overestimated it... I would say one of the 100 best records ever made. You can smell the smoke of those guitar-crazy clean rhythms as freshly today as you did back then - 34 years ago.
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