Crazy Rhythms

by The Feelies

Crazy Rhythms cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: February 29, 1980
  • Label: Stiff, Stiff America
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 45:39
  • Community rating: 4.54/5 from 9 ratings

Artists on this release: Glenn Mercer, Bill Million, Anton Fier, Keith De Nunzio

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The Feelies' debut album 'Crazy Rhythms' offers a definitive fusion of post-punk and jangle-pop, characterized by clean, interlocking guitar lines, minimalist vocals, and a driving, complex percussive foundation. Rejecting the dominant punk ethos for a sound that is both nervously energetic and meticulously arranged, the album explores a tense, suburban ennui through its spidery guitar work and insistent, layered rhythms. Its unique synthesis of avant-pop sensibilities and quirky intensity established 'Crazy Rhythms' as a landmark recording that proved highly influential on the subsequent American alternative rock movement.

Genres

Descriptors: jangly, rhythmic, motorik, lo-fi, percussive, guitars, intricate, melodic

Tracklist

  1. The Boy With The Perpetual Nervousness (05:11)
  2. Fa ce-La (02:03)
  3. Loveless Love (05:05)
  4. Forces At Work (07:05)
  5. Original Love (02:55)
  6. Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey (04:06)
  7. Moscow Nights (04:24)
  8. Raised Eyebrows (02:59)
  9. Crazy Rhythms (06:10)
  10. I Wanna Sleep In Your Arms (Live) (01:55)
  11. The Boy With The Perpetual Nervousness (Demo) (03:46)

Credits

  • Glenn Mercer - lead, rhythm, 12-string and bowed guitars, vocals, keyboards, temple block, shaker, claves, maracas, bell, castanets, reverbed sticks, shoes, drums, coat rack
  • Bill Million - lead, rhythm, and acoustic guitars, vocals, timbales, sandpaper, claves, can, tom-tom, snare, cowbell, shaker, shoes, temple blocks, tambourine, boxes, and bells
  • Keith De Nunzio - bass guitar, snare drum, tom-toms, wood block, pipe, bell, and background vocals
  • Anton Fier - drums, tom-toms, pipe, cowbell
  • Brenda Sauter - bass guitar, background vocals
  • Dave Weckerman - percussion
  • Stanley Demeski - drums
  • Mark Abel - producer
  • Brooke Delarco - engineer
  • Tom Lazarus - engineer
  • Jim Bonnefond - engineer
  • Julian Robertson - engineer
  • Lynne Pickering - photography

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