Friday, June 27, 2008

Speed Folk



Back in the mid-eighties, Velvet Underground disciples The Feelies and Yo La Tengo rose up out of the same scene at Maxwell's in Hoboken. In 1986, The Feelies releases their second LP, The Good Earth, with REM (another VU influenced band) guitarist Peter Buck producing. After another two albums, they disbanded, but have re-united in 2008 for some shows in New York with Sonic Youth. I had a chance to see them open for Lou Reed on the New York tour and dug'em. Thir version of The Beatles' Everybody's got something except for Me and my Monkey brought the house down. It was the first show of the tour, in Boston, and I remember that Lou couldn't memorize his own lyrics and had them taped down all over the stage.

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DOWNLOAD EVERYBODY"S GOT SOMETHING TO HIDE EXCEPT ME AND MY MONKEY

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