Name: The Good Earth
Brand: The Feelies

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

BARNO197

Colour

Black

Colour details

Discogs ID

Format multiplier

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2023-08-04

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Scorpio

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

Total Cap

Black LP

Artist

The Feelies

Genre GB

New Wave / Post Punk

Label GB

Bar None

The Feelies are a rock band from Haledon, New Jersey. They formed in 1976, disbanded in 1992, and reunited in 2008. They frequently played at Maxwell's, a live music venue and bar/restaurant in Hoboken in the 1980s.
In 1987, The Feelies gigged around New York and Hoboken under the name [a321515]. This side project was fronted by Dave Weckerman, the percussionist of The Feelies who also sang lead. The line-up included all members of The Feelies plus John Baumgartner on keyboards.

At the turn of the '80s, the Feelies were the quirkiest, most jittery, most over-caffeinated band on the New York / Hoboken pop scene. When they packed it in after the release of a sole album, 1980's Crazy Rhythms, it was like they'd simply run out of steam. The Feelies resurfaced unexpectedly in the mid-'80s in many ways could not have sounded more different than their original incarnation. Stanley Demeski's drums are much more laid-back than Anton Fier's, though he and new percussionist Dave Weckerman still get some good polyrhythms going. Songwriters Glenn Mercer and Bill Million still keep things taut, but there's space and air in the arrangements of folkish pop songs like 'on the roof' and the hypnotic 'slipping into something' which keep them from sounding as claustrophobic and hyper as the band's previous incarnation. The Good Earth is a Hoboken jangle-pop classic.&nbsp;&nbsp;

The Good Earth

Music GB