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Enter for in depth conversations on the living, breathing legends that is Feeder.
Anything from their early, grungy metal to their present upbeat / uplifting rock. They have contributed to Rock music things that other bands can only dreaming of. By writing their own lyrics and music, only doing live performences and playing their own instruments they put teeniebopper favourite's "S Club 7" in their place.
Having added numerous awards worldwide including "Greatest Heavy Metal Band Album of 1997" for their debut full album "Polythene."
Named the best Live band around, they overwhelm onlookers at festivals and concerts worldwide including in Japan, U.S.A, Germany, Italk, France, Spain and of course, The U.K.
No matter what mood, circumstance or emotional condition you're in, there's always a Feeder song to suit your situation. From the uplifting catchiness of Top 5 hit "Buck Rogers" to the moving and inspirational "Yesterday Went Too Soon."
Whether you like Rock, Pop, Metal, Indie, or Nu Metal, Feeder has a place in their Kingdom for you, and your dinner table is waiting for you to be uplifted by the bands amazing musical talent.
To summarise... God Save Feeder.
Anything from their early, grungy metal to their present upbeat / uplifting rock. They have contributed to Rock music things that other bands can only dreaming of. By writing their own lyrics and music, only doing live performences and playing their own instruments they put teeniebopper favourite's "S Club 7" in their place.
Having added numerous awards worldwide including "Greatest Heavy Metal Band Album of 1997" for their debut full album "Polythene."
Named the best Live band around, they overwhelm onlookers at festivals and concerts worldwide including in Japan, U.S.A, Germany, Italk, France, Spain and of course, The U.K.
No matter what mood, circumstance or emotional condition you're in, there's always a Feeder song to suit your situation. From the uplifting catchiness of Top 5 hit "Buck Rogers" to the moving and inspirational "Yesterday Went Too Soon."
Whether you like Rock, Pop, Metal, Indie, or Nu Metal, Feeder has a place in their Kingdom for you, and your dinner table is waiting for you to be uplifted by the bands amazing musical talent.
To summarise... God Save Feeder.
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SK wrote: Firstly, Andy, you're right, Yesterday Went Too Soon is Feeder's greatest. Noticed Insomnia wan't on your top 3. AAAAAARGH! Are you insane?!?! Kidding! Just saying though, it's worth listening to. Don't know anyone who donesn't like that song.
Yeah its good but I actually missed out Hole in my Head :D
Yeah its good but I actually missed out Hole in my Head :D
is "just a day" on any of their albums? or is it a GT3 exclusive?...*brain wave* ooo mp3
OK, sorry guys but it's gonna have to be a rather short reply simply because I go back to school tomorrow :-( and I gotta sort out my stuff. I'll do a long reply tomorrow.
Firstly, Andy, you're right, Yesterday Went Too Soon is Feeder's greatest. Noticed Insomnia wan't on your top 3. AAAAAARGH! Are you insane?!?! Kidding! Just saying though, it's worth listening to. Don't know anyone who donesn't like that song.
OK misterhappy, you "Feeder fan" you.
Feeder ARE A class act, and they have in NO way betrayed their routes. So they made a couple of lighter songs (Buck Rogers and Seven Days In The Sun) but they came back with "Turn," a much more meaningful and engrossing song that, I'm sure you'll be happy to know, did terrible in the charts (you seem to think that for a band to get credit, thye must have no success). And besides, I don't here you bitching about Insomnia! What a class song, and it's a little lighter in the rock department, yet to most true Feeder fans, it's Feeder's greatest release. Is it that you just don't like light-rock, or summer-rock? Feeder still play the U.K, Feeder constantly give up their U.S, Japanese, German, italian, French, even bloomin Estonian success to come back to tour the U.K. They DON'T claim to be anything that what they are. Back onto the subject of betraying their routs, I'm guessing that you didn't buy CD2 of Turn. If you listen to / watch their "Making Of Echo Park" interview, you'll see that they had Gil Norton for their producer. He wanted to add TONNES of electronic effects, brighter lyrics, and an overall more "pop" sound to the album, but Grant wouldn't let him, hence their tonnes of arguments with Gil. Grant stuck to his vision rather than moving to a Pop enviroment. He says something like "...I'm glad we stook to our vision, because if we'd have gone with Gil's and used a pop sound, we could get a lot more success, but we don't want to be easy on ourselves..."
I'll make a more thourough bashing of your Feeder comments tomorrow, right now I gotta get my stuff for school ready for tomorrow.
Firstly, Andy, you're right, Yesterday Went Too Soon is Feeder's greatest. Noticed Insomnia wan't on your top 3. AAAAAARGH! Are you insane?!?! Kidding! Just saying though, it's worth listening to. Don't know anyone who donesn't like that song.
OK misterhappy, you "Feeder fan" you.
Feeder ARE A class act, and they have in NO way betrayed their routes. So they made a couple of lighter songs (Buck Rogers and Seven Days In The Sun) but they came back with "Turn," a much more meaningful and engrossing song that, I'm sure you'll be happy to know, did terrible in the charts (you seem to think that for a band to get credit, thye must have no success). And besides, I don't here you bitching about Insomnia! What a class song, and it's a little lighter in the rock department, yet to most true Feeder fans, it's Feeder's greatest release. Is it that you just don't like light-rock, or summer-rock? Feeder still play the U.K, Feeder constantly give up their U.S, Japanese, German, italian, French, even bloomin Estonian success to come back to tour the U.K. They DON'T claim to be anything that what they are. Back onto the subject of betraying their routs, I'm guessing that you didn't buy CD2 of Turn. If you listen to / watch their "Making Of Echo Park" interview, you'll see that they had Gil Norton for their producer. He wanted to add TONNES of electronic effects, brighter lyrics, and an overall more "pop" sound to the album, but Grant wouldn't let him, hence their tonnes of arguments with Gil. Grant stuck to his vision rather than moving to a Pop enviroment. He says something like "...I'm glad we stook to our vision, because if we'd have gone with Gil's and used a pop sound, we could get a lot more success, but we don't want to be easy on ourselves..."
I'll make a more thourough bashing of your Feeder comments tomorrow, right now I gotta get my stuff for school ready for tomorrow.
I liked Feeder until they sold out and started making almost Pop tunes. songs like insomnia and Polaroid are brilliant, but there latest stuff hasn't really done much for me, stuff like Buck Rodgers.
On the broken bones front.. Others have done better than Feeder...
A member of the avalanches jumped off a speaker stack and broke his leg. He continued to play with the broken leg and was then rushed to hospital as soon as the band finished.
Casey Chaos from US punk band 'Amen' has chronic lung problems and plays tour date after tour date despite constant pain. He also tried to play on after jumping off a speaker stack and knocking himself out on the ceiling.
But to top it all off... The drummer from Def Leppard only has one arm, I mean you don't get much more rock 'n' roll than that do you?! Broken cheekbones.. pah, others laugh in the face of feeder's injuries!
A member of the avalanches jumped off a speaker stack and broke his leg. He continued to play with the broken leg and was then rushed to hospital as soon as the band finished.
Casey Chaos from US punk band 'Amen' has chronic lung problems and plays tour date after tour date despite constant pain. He also tried to play on after jumping off a speaker stack and knocking himself out on the ceiling.
But to top it all off... The drummer from Def Leppard only has one arm, I mean you don't get much more rock 'n' roll than that do you?! Broken cheekbones.. pah, others laugh in the face of feeder's injuries!
Personally, SK, I think your last line sums up Feeder perfectly, "i don't want to be a hero but I don't want to be a zero". Where does that leave us? A middle of the road rock band. Don't get me wrong I do like Feeder, YWTS is a great album but since they have done nothing even half as good. So echo park gets voted the best album, well that's hardly surprising since most of the people who voted it up there will only own that album. Most of Feeder's fans will know them only from their recent stuff. Why do you think they've re-released Polythene? It's asensible marketing ploy when you suddenly get a load of new fans. I have seen Feeder live recently and I must say I have seen better bands live. I suppose it depends what you are judging them by, what benchmark you use. If you're comparing them to S-Club 7 then Feeder rock my world, if you're honestly saying that Feeder are a better live band than radiohead then sorry you are sadly mistaken.
The reason High did so well is that it was on a movie soundtrack. There's nothing wrong with that. My favourite band of the moment 'Jimmy Eat World' got their break when 'Lucky Denver Mint' was put on the 'Never Been Kissed' Soundtrack. But such things show how meaningless chart success is. You can listen to bands who are leagues and leagues ahead of Five yet who gets the number one? And when absolute drivel like the rhombus-faced Sophie Ellis-Bextor gets to number one you really have to ask if a chart position counts for anything.
It's my opinion that Feeder's latest stuff has been entirely bland and hackneyed, Buck Rogers has no meaning please do not try to justify that song's lyrics. Yes it is a catchy song but it is just that. Personally I like music with meaning, I like Feeder too because many of their songs have meaning but Buck Rogers has none whatsoever. Maybe that's its point. A sideways swipe at the meaningless pop crap that charts highly. If you can sing about lemons and devon and chart where Buck Rogers did then maybe all it needed was to get rid of the good musical bits and it would have cruised in at number one.
Do yourself a favour.. Download stuff off Weezer's first album, "The Undone Sweater Song", "Say it Ain't So". Get some songs by "Jimmy Eat World". There comes a time when you have to leave a band to trundle along in relative anonymity and find something fresh and exciting. I do like Feeder but I think they've betrayed their roots. If they wrote another YWTS I would welcome them back with open arms. I don't think it's likely though as which album has done better, Echo Park or YWTS? Echo Park has. Which root are they going to choose, success or good songs? Oh what's that? Success and good music aren't linked.. what is happening to the taste in music?
The reason High did so well is that it was on a movie soundtrack. There's nothing wrong with that. My favourite band of the moment 'Jimmy Eat World' got their break when 'Lucky Denver Mint' was put on the 'Never Been Kissed' Soundtrack. But such things show how meaningless chart success is. You can listen to bands who are leagues and leagues ahead of Five yet who gets the number one? And when absolute drivel like the rhombus-faced Sophie Ellis-Bextor gets to number one you really have to ask if a chart position counts for anything.
It's my opinion that Feeder's latest stuff has been entirely bland and hackneyed, Buck Rogers has no meaning please do not try to justify that song's lyrics. Yes it is a catchy song but it is just that. Personally I like music with meaning, I like Feeder too because many of their songs have meaning but Buck Rogers has none whatsoever. Maybe that's its point. A sideways swipe at the meaningless pop crap that charts highly. If you can sing about lemons and devon and chart where Buck Rogers did then maybe all it needed was to get rid of the good musical bits and it would have cruised in at number one.
Do yourself a favour.. Download stuff off Weezer's first album, "The Undone Sweater Song", "Say it Ain't So". Get some songs by "Jimmy Eat World". There comes a time when you have to leave a band to trundle along in relative anonymity and find something fresh and exciting. I do like Feeder but I think they've betrayed their roots. If they wrote another YWTS I would welcome them back with open arms. I don't think it's likely though as which album has done better, Echo Park or YWTS? Echo Park has. Which root are they going to choose, success or good songs? Oh what's that? Success and good music aren't linked.. what is happening to the taste in music?
Your'e right it's grown on me already i'm listening to it right now! :D
My three fav tracks if I had to choose would be.........
(In no particular order)
Anasthetic
Hole in my head
waiting for changes
there all good really :D
I dont think ill be getting swim or polythene because there supposed to be heavy stuff and I dont really like that much.
My three fav tracks if I had to choose would be.........
(In no particular order)
Anasthetic
Hole in my head
waiting for changes
there all good really :D
I dont think ill be getting swim or polythene because there supposed to be heavy stuff and I dont really like that much.
Whoa! Sorry guys, I haven't been reading this forum over the last few days because I've been staying at a good friend's house. Andy, you're probably more used to Feeder's new, pop-rock music, that's why you prefer Echo Park. Keep listening to YWTS and you'll learn to love it. What's your fave track? Mine is "Hole In My Head." I think it's the greatest song ever created in the history of mankind! Great song! Amazing guitar play in the music, backed up with excellent drumming, and lyrics that describe my life perfectly! Let me know what you're fave track is!
Best on the album (In no particular order):
Day In Day Out
Picture Of Perfect Youth
Waiting For Changes
Yesterday Went Too Soon
Hole In My Head
Bubblehead (Secret Track after Paperfaces)
Anaesthetic
Best on the album (In no particular order):
Day In Day Out
Picture Of Perfect Youth
Waiting For Changes
Yesterday Went Too Soon
Hole In My Head
Bubblehead (Secret Track after Paperfaces)
Anaesthetic
I got Yesterday went too soon today havnt had much time to listen to it but...........methinks Echo Park is better.
Nothing wrong with YWTS though it's good :D
Nothing wrong with YWTS though it's good :D
about the long message YEAH!
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