Crazy Rhythms - 96/100The Good Earth - 82/100
City Mouse, Country Mouse: Hoboken’s Finest re-release their first two albums, recorded six years and stylistic worlds apart
Three decades after zooming down New Jersey’s Route 3, through the Lincoln Tunnel and into the cold, bright glare of the City, what suburban über-nerds The Feelies accomplished on their debut reads simply enough on paper: the Velvets’ "Sister Ray" played with the complexity of Television’s Marquee Moon. But if it had only amounted to that, 1980’s Crazy Rhythms would’ve been nothing more than an interesting post-punk period piece, rather than the indie-rock talisman it ultimately was for groups such as R.E.M., Weezer (check out the cover art similarity between Crazy Rhythms and The Blue Album), Sebadoh and Yo La Tengo. Frontmen Glenn Mercer and Bill Million—if that’s what you can really call these reluctant anti-heroes—were the ultimate white punks on dope,...
City Mouse, Country Mouse: Hoboken’s Finest re-release their first two albums, recorded six years and stylistic worlds apart
Three decades after zooming down New Jersey’s Route 3, through the Lincoln Tunnel and into the cold, bright glare of the City, what suburban über-nerds The Feelies accomplished on their debut reads simply enough on paper: the Velvets’ "Sister Ray" played with the complexity of Television’s Marquee Moon. But if it had only amounted to that, 1980’s Crazy Rhythms would’ve been nothing more than an interesting post-punk period piece, rather than the indie-rock talisman it ultimately was for groups such as R.E.M., Weezer (check out the cover art similarity between Crazy Rhythms and The Blue Album), Sebadoh and Yo La Tengo. Frontmen Glenn Mercer and Bill Million—if that’s what you can really call these reluctant anti-heroes—were the ultimate white punks on dope,...
- 9/8/2009
- Pastemagazine.com
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