I discovered The Feelies in the summer after high school. I was screwing around on allmusic.com looking at Pavement’s page when I noticed the “Influenced By” section. At the time (and not much has changed) I was totally obsessed with Pavement. I figured, why not give some of these bands a shot that supposedly influenced them? As it turns out, the list was a gold mine. I recognized some bands, but that list introduced me to Wire, Can, Swell Maps, Half Japanese, Pere Ubu, oh, and The Feelies. I downloaded their 1980 debut (I was a poor-ass college kid…I’ll make up for it later). “Crazy Rhythms” became one of my most listened to albums of that year. Continue reading
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