ALBUMS
Crazy Rhythms
1980 - Stiff Records SEEZ 20
Reissued 1990 - A&M 75021 5319-4/2
Reissued 2009 - Bar/None
BRN-LP-196/BRN-CD-196
Track list:
1. The Boy With The Perpetual Nervousness
(Mercer/Million) 5:09
2. Fa Cé-La (Mercer/Million) 2:01
3. Loveless Love (Mercer/Million) 5:08
4. Forces At Work (Mercer/Million) 7:08
5. Original Love (Mercer/Million) 2:55
6. Everybody's Got Something To Hide
(Lennon/McCartney) 4:09
7. Moscow Nights (Mercer/Million) 4:32
8. Raised Eyebrows (Mercer/Million) 3:00
9. Crazy Rhythms (Mercer/Million) 6:08
10. Paint It Black (Jagger/Richards) 2:54 (*)
Line up:
Glenn Mercer (guitar)
Bill Million (guitar)
Keith Clayton (bass)
Anton Fier (drums)
Notes:
Produced by: Bill Million & Glenn Mercer with Mark Abel for Ballfield Productions
Recorded at: Vanguard Studios, NY
Engineered by: Tom Lazarus and Brooke Delarco
Mixed at: House of Music, NJ
Engineered by: Jim Bonnefond assisted by Julian Robertson
(*) Added as extra-track on the 1990 reissue
Produced by: Bill Million & Glenn Mercer
Recorded at: Mixolydian Studios, Boonton, NJ
Engineered by: Don Sternecke
Crazy Rhythms was rereleased by Bar/None Records (US and Canada) and Domino Records (Rest of the World) on September 8th, 2009
The reissue coincided with the Feelies’ performance at the All Tomorrow’s Parties festival where they performed the album in its entirety. The debut album is a masterwork of perfectly honed minimalist rock that leaps and darts into the corners of the listener's consciousness, a true sonic tour de force that Rolling Stone deemed one of the "100 Best Albums of the 1980s." Fans of the Velvet Underground, Wire and Brian Eno's early solo work will surely appreciate the "forces at work" (to quote a song title!) on this masterpiece.
The rereleased album features deluxe packaging (CD and vinyl LP) with liner notes by Jim DeRogatis. The album has been remastered by Andreas Meyer at Tangerine Mastering from the best available sources, and it includes the original 9 tracks (that is, without the cover of Paint it Black added on the A&M re-release) as well as 5 bonus tracks. As the band considers each album to be a discrete aesthetic artifact, the bonus material (including demos, b-sides, EP tracks and some new live recordings from the reunited group) are included on digital download cards.