The Feelies : Crazy Rhythms
Dubbed the "Best Underground Band in New York" by the Village Voice a year earlier, The Feelies finally get signed to Stiff Records in September of 1979. Using The Velvet Underground's "What Goes On" as a musical starting point, the Hoboken, New Jersey band rarely rehearsed and were rarely seen in clubs. Drummer, Anton Fier was always threatening to quit. Glenn Mercer and Bill Million seemed more interested in jogging than dealing with the people who run things like record labels and music clubs.
When they did play together, most often at Maxwell's in Hoboken, the results could be pulsating and hypnotic. The songs all sounded like variations on each other. What kind of album would the band make? The world would have to wait until April of 1980 for the release of Crazy Rhythms.
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