It's like the Velvet Underground, circa The Velvet Underground, but in a really, really good mood. Or like an interested Beat Happening.
The Feelies advocate following the high road, whether moral or literal.
After brief explorations and adventures, it is time, the Feelies suggest, to return home. And that is just what they do in their music: tentative explorations and a comfortable, satisfying homecoming. The Feelies like home, and as they approach, their growing anticipation and excitement is mirrored by the increasing density of percussion: more bass drum and then shakers. Sounds like New York country.
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Eno - "Needle In The Camel's Eye"
The drummer plays as if this is a normal rock song, even though he knows that it's not. The guitars are completely haywire; electric shocks flying off in all directions. Eno's voice is urgent, sprawling and multi-tracked (there are Enos everywhere).
Sounds like an out of control subway heading straight for us. "Bye bye bye."
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Happy Birthday to my editor, Max Maki. You are so old, it boggles the mind.
(Note: Please send gifts via Jordan to 3622 Durocher, Apt. PHB, Montreal, QC, H2X 2E8. My birthday is on Sunday, so please keep that address. I don't want to have to repeat it.)