Rating 3.75/5.00
Where Mozart's Symphony # 40 is number 5
Formed in 1976...jittery, thump-wump-thump drums, funny and opaque - here are the Feelies!
The Feelies are (as the name suggests) - funny and sensitive and cynical and sarcastic at the same time...they're boys and men and whatever comes in-between. To top it all, in this album they do a version of Everybody's Got something to Hide (except me and my monkey) which makes me like them even more :-)
Now now...this is too short...too short...shorty shorty shorty short...
That line made it longer...the review I mean but what can really elongate it is if I talked about all the other music I've heard. I've been listening to a lot of Mozart nowadays....it'll take time and sweat to understand the technicailities but the music is ethereal..it is stunning. In addition, two albums that have really impressed me are -
Buena Vista Social Club - which is music from the other side in a way. RY Cooder goes to Havana, gets hold of musicians who have never been heard outside of Cuba and records an album with this assorted group. The music takes you on a short holiday while driving to and from work...it really does!
Elephant by the White Stripes - A rock record can't be better than this - paranoid, progressive, angry, ambivalent. This is what I should have heard when I was in college instead of repeat listens of Queen's I want to Break free.
Allmusic Link to the Feelies here
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