Entertainment For Lively Minds
Twelve Stops and Home
I was stuck in a traffic jam on the Hayes by pass on Wednesday, three hours for a 45 minute journey, still at least I made it home in one piece which perhaps the people involved in the hold up didn't. Anyway, I had time on my hands and my iPod so I did my usual flicking through the lists of albums, hovering over the usual suspects but moving aimlessly on. Then a song from a current advert for some perfume or other popped into my head that goes by the name of "Rosé" by The Feeling so I clicked on "Twelve Stops and Home" and listened transfixed while waiting for the traffic to move being reminded of one of the great debut pop albums that to my knowledge has never properly been followed up. Song after song of hooks, harmonies and no humdrum. If like me you enjoy your music on the pop side but not too lightweight, more Monkees than Mahavishnu then search it out there really isn't a duff tune on there and there are 4 or 5 absolute gems. I have seen a few mentions of it on here before, I know our resident Portsmouth dentist has a soft spot for it. You might recognise this from the onslaught on your senses and wallet that is Christmas TV advertising.
"Rosé" The Feeling
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I looooove that album
Find it deeply comforting. When I was going through a rough patch a few years ago, I used to listen to it every day. A lovely, cheery album.
I know what you mean
this is like a musical hug, even if the lyrics could be taken to be a little sad
The Feeling "Kettle's On"
Spot on, Dave
Great pop album. I bought the second one and was underwhelmed. But the debut is adventurous and smart without being clever-clogs. At the time they were being compared to Supertramp and I completely got the reference. Cracking shout. It will accompany me up the M40 tomorrow morning.
The difference...
...between this album and it's follow up(s) is perhaps one of the most striking I can think of. Did they just have only the one great set of tunes in them, I wonder, or did the other circumstances, producer etc, all change and no-one could recreate the magic ?
Another fan here.
A fine fine album. The only blemish is the irritation of a hidden track making the final song nine minutes.
Yes,
but what a hidden track...
A great What If?
The Feeling's first album sold by the truckload, they're a great live band (I've seen them a few times on various bills and as recently as 2010 they played a set which won over the Word tent at Latitude) yet the second album disappointed, the third snook out like a wet fart this year and three weeks ago the best of charted at about number 250. Clearly a contractual obligation for the oh-so-lovely Island Records.
There's a few bands of that vintage who are now struggling (Hard-Fi, Kaiser Chiefs, Keane) but this has been a particularly steep decline. Pity.
Perfect pop
I agree it's a great album and they are terrific fun live too. I saw them a couple of times the year this came out and will never forget the party atmosphere when they played at Hammersmith Apollo. Here they are playing 'Love it when you call'
Totally agree!
Fantastic album. Love it. The follow up was such a disappointment.
I can't fight The Feeling anymore...
No need to fight it Patrick
just embrace it.
By the way, did you see Barney get knocked out of the darts tonight?
I'm afraid I didn't...
I don't have Sky so I never get to see it.
That's a shame
he lost 3-0 to a qualifier, very strange.
Agree with all the above
That first album was a stormer but they just didn't seem to have anything left in the tank.
I remember a while after the first album came out, they put a free track on their website for downloading which was a bit, to put it politely, ordinary. When this turned out to be the title track on their second album I thought, 'Uh-oh...'
Saw them live the once, on one of these 'Forest' tours down the road in Delamere, and they were ace.