@@Rock-iw7ov Maybe not back then, but it has been canon for a long time. Rolling Stone Magazine declared it as one of the best records of the eighties.
Yeah this was like the drumming equivalent of 'A Beautiful Mind': the drum parts are like math equations. I've heard he was not the easiest dude to get along with but boy was he respected wherever he went.
Great Bo Diddly style drumming and excellent surf style guitar interplay without the twanginess.This jam makes want to get up and bounce around like a Mexican Jumping Bean.
Wikipedia - Crazy Rhythms is the debut studio album by American rock band the Feelies. It was released in the United Kingdom on February 29, 1980,[1] and in the United States in April 1980, through British record label Stiff. Its fusion of post-punk and jangle pop was influential on the forthcoming alternative rock genre, with R.E.M., among others, citing the album as an influence. Although it was not commercially successful initially, it has remained critically lauded in the decades since its release.
I saw them at Lafayette College in the Marquis dining Hall in the fall of 1987. What a great show, great night. I still remember listening to their album the Good Earth endlessly. Those were the best days.
Loved the band, the original bassist Keith Clayton (DiNunzio) worked for me at Macy's (then Bamberger's) in Wayne,NJ. Great guy, great musician. We saw them a couple of times in Hoboken & Jersey City.
+wrestlingguy That's pretty cool, he did great on fa ce la, do you know why he left the band? Also, wasn't the original bassist some guy called John J.? That's what i've been reading at least.
adhh xgxhhg . Good question, and I don't know the answer. What I can say is that he left his job, and then the band not long after. And yeah, there was another bassist named John Papesca who was there when the band was still called the Outkids, but I don't remember him getting any studio time with the band after they were signed.
This was never what I would think of as a great band, but they made this album: a gem, a masterpiece, one of my favorite albums of all time. They totally geek out on stage, and while it may seem to be a bit of shtick these days, I’m inclined to believe otherwise. If you watch their early performances, they’re hopeless, utterly, until you close your eyes and just listen. Very judicious cymbal work here, keeping the sound spare enough to be filled by single-coil pickup guitars. I just love this album. Way to go, geeks!
Fred Versteeg You're correct, but let's face it this album has incredible re-playable value and these guys helped spur the indie pop and rock movement basically since some of these kids were still swimming lol
Said it's time to go, well alright I don't wanna go, I say alright You never listen to me anyway You're always talking, never much to say You remind me of a TV show That's alright, I watch it anyway I don't talk much cause it gets in the way Don't let it get in the way We'll do our job, we'll get things done Work real hard and get things done It's time to sail but not now Can't relax when there's things to do Big plans stay while the little ones fade It's nice to know when it's part of your life I don't want much and I need even less It's time to sacrifice Crazy rhythms Said it's time to go, well alright I don't wanna go, I say alright You never listen to me anyway You're always talking, never much to say You remind me of a TV show That's alright, I watch it anyway I don't talk much cause it gets in the way Don't let it get in the way
Wikipedia - Although not a commercial success, Crazy Rhythms was critically acclaimed on release. Paul Du Noyer of NME said that the record was "a very good album. I think it might even be a great one." He observed that the band "sound like Jonathan Richman trying to sound like the Velvet Underground", as well as Talking Heads, but that "somehow the way they are so derivative is part of the Feelies' appeal". Du Noyer described the music as "a kind of cleanly suburban rock'n'roll which is simultaneously intense and simplistic" and that the band seemed like "boys next door" but "they're nothing of the sort".[13] In a five-star review in Sounds, Pete Silverton observed that for him, the album only worked when he listened to it alone, not with company, and that it blended "the drive of Richman's 'Roadrunner' and some of the tense meanderings of Television". He summed up the album as "all light and fun over driving but muted city beats - a little jazz here, a little Latin American there and virtually no rock and roll; most every rhythmic play you can hear on New York radio, topped by cool, calm and collected vocals".[14] David Hepworth, in Smash Hits, wrote that the band "have the power to really draw you into their strange little suburban world."[15]
@@scottbussler4041 Sings like Lou or the dude from Television and has bass-y little drum breaks with with weird little synth-y add ons. At least I think so.
@@keyanlund8540 took me a min. to even understand why i left that comment, because you're exactly right. But I think I remember now. I must've read 'violent femmes' as 'velvet underground' and so was like...um same thing dude.
Thanks for the info.I went back and listen for the first time to Violent Femmes and I see what you ment. The Feelies defenitly took their own and even now I would find it hard to say that this music is that old ,I still have not heard anything like it now.They are still holding ahead in my book.2012.
I loved yeah yeah noh back in the day and clearly this first track influenced cottage industry at the very least and perhaps their whole canon. Never mind, theres nothing new under the sun, except, perhaps, mid period Jonathan Richman..
Ce disque est sorti en 1980 chez STIFF Records (Barclay en France). Le titre LP "Crazy Rhythms" est aussi dernier morceau de l'album. La pochette est pas si mal........
I dont know....I was around when The Feelies became famous and then the talk was all about how much they were obviously influenced by The Velvet Underground.Who really cares?Saw them 2 times at least(bare with me,its been a while)and every concert was so great that I still dont remember!
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Hey Hildaatje,You know I like youTube a lot.I found the band the feelies by pure luck,When I go to you Tube I do not have a clue where I`m going or what I will find as far as musical videos goes,So much to explore and so much good music from any part of the planet, I defenitly will have enjoyment.Thanks for the comment.Besos.
The blue album artwork was inspired by the beach boys, the members of weezer had never heard about the feelies until they got plenty letters saying they had ripped off of the feelies
Nerdiest cover ever.While everyone I knew back then listened to punk and hardcore(well just like me)they wouldnt touch this with a ten foot pole.Always found this a great album.Kicking against the pricks,i.e punks haha
From my understanding they plugged directly into the mixing board, possibly with a DI possibly without. But no guitar amp tone at all, it's a raw take.
this is probably a blasphemous thing to say, but I always thought this song would have been so much better if the midsection/solo part was way shorter. Anybody else feel this way too?
It’s also the last song on the album so you have to end it on a big statement and what better way to end with a long song with a long middle part much like a live show?
I see where you're coming from. The song could be more tightly edited/structured, but as another commenter said, it's the last song on an album chock full of concise, 3-ish minute songs. Why not make your last one a jam to break the pattern? The song definitely has a live feel to it. There's also some subtle interplay in the rhythm section - the bassist isn't just simply looping over the percussion. It's more tightly wound than it lets on. I think the album ending on a less airy jam and more concise song would feel less climactic, but I still respect your opinion.
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2023 and I listen to this song all the time , greetings from Sydney Australia 👍🏼
Crazy Rythms is perhaps THE hidden gem of the albums released in the eighties!
Not hidden at all.
@@gammeltfossil it was certainly not mainstream
@@Rock-iw7ov Maybe not back then, but it has been canon for a long time. Rolling Stone Magazine declared it as one of the best records of the eighties.
REM mentioned them as an influence. Brilliant album
Jesus... Who reads Rolling Stone?
one of the best of all time
My dad showed me this, I miss him
Rest in peace, Anton. Thanks for bringing those crazy rhythms.
Yeah this was like the drumming equivalent of 'A Beautiful Mind': the drum parts are like math equations. I've heard he was not the easiest dude to get along with but boy was he respected wherever he went.
this band was wayyyy ahead of its time,awsome.
Their best and one of the finest songs in Rock.
Great Bo Diddly style drumming and excellent surf style guitar interplay without the twanginess.This jam makes want to get up and bounce around like a Mexican Jumping Bean.
Wikipedia - Crazy Rhythms is the debut studio album by American rock band the Feelies. It was released in the United Kingdom on February 29, 1980,[1] and in the United States in April 1980, through British record label Stiff. Its fusion of post-punk and jangle pop was influential on the forthcoming alternative rock genre, with R.E.M., among others, citing the album as an influence. Although it was not commercially successful initially, it has remained critically lauded in the decades since its release.
wow really sick rhythms never heard those before wow
You could say they're crazy, even.
LMAO
Saw the Feelies at the old TLA theater in Philadelphia in about 1987. Great show.
Lucky you.
I saw them at Lafayette College in the Marquis dining Hall in the fall of 1987. What a great show, great night. I still remember listening to their album the Good Earth endlessly. Those were the best days.
Lucky you!
great band and great sound
Loved the band, the original bassist Keith Clayton (DiNunzio) worked for me at Macy's (then Bamberger's) in Wayne,NJ. Great guy, great musician. We saw them a couple of times in Hoboken & Jersey City.
who F.... cares about ??????
+wrestlingguy That's pretty cool, he did great on fa ce la, do you know why he left the band?
Also, wasn't the original bassist some guy called John J.? That's what i've been reading at least.
adhh xgxhhg . Good question, and I don't know the answer. What I can say is that he left his job, and then the band not long after. And yeah, there was another bassist named John Papesca who was there when the band was still called the Outkids, but I don't remember him getting any studio time with the band after they were signed.
I'm not old enough for that mister.
Homeless angry black man Go back to bed little meme-ster.
What a beautiful album.
this album is just a great and timeless piece of Martian ART!!!!!!! bip bip bip bip
This was never what I would think of as a great band, but they made this album: a gem, a masterpiece, one of my favorite albums of all time. They totally geek out on stage, and while it may seem to be a bit of shtick these days, I’m inclined to believe otherwise. If you watch their early performances, they’re hopeless, utterly, until you close your eyes and just listen. Very judicious cymbal work here, keeping the sound spare enough to be filled by single-coil pickup guitars. I just love this album. Way to go, geeks!
That drum track though
Exactly
I tell kids who like Vampire Weekend to try this album out, and they never look back....
Fred Versteeg You're correct, but let's face it this album has incredible re-playable value and these guys helped spur the indie pop and rock movement basically since some of these kids were still swimming lol
dreampop soft surf post-indie protofolk papapa
this and 'Away ' are my favourite tracks ........great memories
cool stuff 🥁
Said it's time to go, well alright
I don't wanna go, I say alright
You never listen to me anyway
You're always talking, never much to say
You remind me of a TV show
That's alright, I watch it anyway
I don't talk much cause it gets in the way
Don't let it get in the way
We'll do our job, we'll get things done
Work real hard and get things done
It's time to sail but not now
Can't relax when there's things to do
Big plans stay while the little ones fade
It's nice to know when it's part of your life
I don't want much and I need even less
It's time to sacrifice
Crazy rhythms
Said it's time to go, well alright
I don't wanna go, I say alright
You never listen to me anyway
You're always talking, never much to say
You remind me of a TV show
That's alright, I watch it anyway
I don't talk much cause it gets in the way
Don't let it get in the way
Wikipedia - Although not a commercial success, Crazy Rhythms was critically acclaimed on release. Paul Du Noyer of NME said that the record was "a very good album. I think it might even be a great one." He observed that the band "sound like Jonathan Richman trying to sound like the Velvet Underground", as well as Talking Heads, but that "somehow the way they are so derivative is part of the Feelies' appeal". Du Noyer described the music as "a kind of cleanly suburban rock'n'roll which is simultaneously intense and simplistic" and that the band seemed like "boys next door" but "they're nothing of the sort".[13] In a five-star review in Sounds, Pete Silverton observed that for him, the album only worked when he listened to it alone, not with company, and that it blended "the drive of Richman's 'Roadrunner' and some of the tense meanderings of Television". He summed up the album as "all light and fun over driving but muted city beats - a little jazz here, a little Latin American there and virtually no rock and roll; most every rhythmic play you can hear on New York radio, topped by cool, calm and collected vocals".[14] David Hepworth, in Smash Hits, wrote that the band "have the power to really draw you into their strange little suburban world."[15]
These guys put a couple great albums out
saw them, great band with husker du a bout 1987 i have totally forgotten about them
Lou Reed meets the Violent Femmes
Um....
@@scottbussler4041 Sings like Lou or the dude from Television and has bass-y little drum breaks with with weird little synth-y add ons. At least I think so.
@@keyanlund8540 took me a min. to even understand why i left that comment, because you're exactly right. But I think I remember now. I must've read 'violent femmes' as 'velvet underground' and so was like...um same thing dude.
@@scottbussler4041 Velvet Femmes. Solid.
Indeed.
Thanks for the info.I went back and listen for the first time to Violent Femmes and I see what you ment. The Feelies defenitly took their own and even now I would find it hard to say that this music is that old ,I still have not heard anything like it now.They are still holding ahead in my book.2012.
❤
0:59 to 5:10 one of the longest slam, along with "vamos a jugar a la playa" of Pixies.
Yup. Masterpiece.
And for you I can only say;you lucky boy!Listening to The Violent Femmes for the first time.........A world awaits you,go get it.And enjoy!
I don't want much and I need even less; its time to sacrifice.
Great ! Of Course !!
Gem!
love me some weezer
this band reminds me Television so much
hector lagos not to mention the Modern Lovers
Its also like Lou Reed joined the Violent Femmes
Έλληνας;
I loved yeah yeah noh back in the day and clearly this first track influenced cottage industry at the very least and perhaps their whole canon. Never mind, theres nothing new under the sun, except, perhaps, mid period Jonathan Richman..
good song!
Thanks for writing this.
This album is on my Top 100 list of All Time, and if you disagree, then don’t come over. It’d be awkward.
thank you
Ce disque est sorti en 1980 chez STIFF Records (Barclay en France).
Le titre LP "Crazy Rhythms" est aussi dernier morceau de l'album.
La pochette est pas si mal........
I dont know....I was around when The Feelies became famous and then the talk was all about how much they were obviously influenced by The Velvet Underground.Who really cares?Saw them 2 times at least(bare with me,its been a while)and every concert was so great that I still dont remember!
5.10 oooh yehhh !!
yes.
love ir.
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Hey Hildaatje,You know I like youTube a lot.I found the band the feelies by pure luck,When I go to you Tube I do not have a clue where I`m going or what I will find as far as musical videos goes,So much to explore and so much good music from any part of the planet, I defenitly will have enjoyment.Thanks for the comment.Besos.
Who else is here because of Santa Cruz's "Till The End" skate video?
Weezer from the eighties or velvet underground from the eighties?
Crazy rhythms, crazy rhythms! I love how this Feelies, haha.
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Extrait du LP éponyme sorti en 1980 dans une relative indifférence (la pochette hideuse y est peut-être pour quelque chose). A (re)découvrir.
That;s a totally Jonathan Richanmesque endiinjg.
Hairbrained FTMFW!!!!!
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y'all should listen to some Eddy Current Suppression Ring, particular Ice Cream. Feelies are an obvious influence
The album cover that Weezer didn't copy
the one thing i gotta do before i die ...
Surf Wax America, here's your daddy.
Also, blue album artwork, here's your daddy.
The blue album artwork was inspired by the beach boys, the members of weezer had never heard about the feelies until they got plenty letters saying they had ripped off of the feelies
This album is the original blue album
Patrick sent me here
Get your name from Brave New World?
This song needs more cowbell.
And more skin flute.
*Wrong band and wrong snl character**
it sounds like strings from their first album
weezer
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Anyone else getting a bit of a Kraftwerk vibe from this one?
Definitely, there's that "motorik" rhythm.
More of a Neu vibe, if we're talking 'motorik'
lots of CAN too
Dance
These guys loved The Velvet Underground, didn't they?
Slightly sped up version of the Modern Lovers doing a sped up version of VU
furieux
i can see that. ~_~
Nerdiest cover ever.While everyone I knew back then listened to punk and hardcore(well just like me)they wouldnt touch this with a ten foot pole.Always found this a great album.Kicking against the pricks,i.e punks haha
Apparently they didn't listen to this song enough
this remind me a song from blink 182 at 2:30, any?
Ana Avila blink 18who?
On m'a signalé combien la pochette de l'album bleu de Weezer de 1994 ressemble à celle-ci, mais en mieux!
Does Weezer like this album????
It's one of the reasons Rivers started a band.
they were Weezer before Weezer.
bill gate?
Alt J something good
Is this weezer
w-weezer?
This guitar tone...FUCK
From my understanding they plugged directly into the mixing board, possibly with a DI possibly without. But no guitar amp tone at all, it's a raw take.
They've also compressed it quite a bit.
Ramones without that cranked Marshall sound... kinda... and without Joey on vocals
David Byrne called: He wants his voice back.
very clever
the guy on the right looks like bill gate...
Its Gordan Ramsay that needs the therapy..
Uhh... stolen from The Fall - City Hobgoblins
Just needs the kazoo Because they also stole the cowbell?!!!
nerd music
thank fuck for buddy holly
oooo weeee oooooooo
this is probably a blasphemous thing to say, but I always thought this song would have been so much better if the midsection/solo part was way shorter. Anybody else feel this way too?
amazing amazing band though. Of course
It’s also the last song on the album so you have to end it on a big statement and what better way to end with a long song with a long middle part much like a live show?
I see where you're coming from. The song could be more tightly edited/structured, but as another commenter said, it's the last song on an album chock full of concise, 3-ish minute songs. Why not make your last one a jam to break the pattern? The song definitely has a live feel to it.
There's also some subtle interplay in the rhythm section - the bassist isn't just simply looping over the percussion. It's more tightly wound than it lets on.
I think the album ending on a less airy jam and more concise song would feel less climactic, but I still respect your opinion.
kool Man