Only Life
Template:Use mdy dates Script error: No such module "Unsubst-infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for conflicting parameters". Only Life is the third album by the American rock band the Feelies, released in 1988.[1][2] It was made with the same line-up that appeared on the band's previous album, The Good Earth.[3] The album contains a cover of the Velvet Underground's "What Goes On".[4]
The album peaked at No. 173 on the Billboard 200.[5] Jonathan Demme directed the video for "Away".[6]
Style
Only Life has been described as an "updated and mature form" of its predecessor, Crazy Rhythms. It features fewer acoustic tracks, with a "greater focus on speedy jangle-strum rockers".[7]
Production
The album was produced by Glenn Mercer, Bill Million, and Steve Rinkoff.[8]
Critical reception
Template:Music ratings Magnet wrote that "the songs grapple with apprehension and the longing for comfort, which the music delivers in the form of indelible hooks and transcendent rave-ups."[9] Rolling Stone wrote: "Driven by the interlocking guitars of Mercer and Bill Million, the band constructs waves of beautiful hypnotic drone, with subtle tempo shifts and percussion accents that ripple through the arrangements."[10] Trouser Press praised the "amazingly exacting sound and performances" and "riveting songs of breathless electricity."[11] USA Today listed the album at number nine on its list of the ten best albums of 1988.[12]
Track listing
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Personnel
- Glenn Mercer – lead, rhythm and slide guitars, lead vocals, keyboards
- Bill Million – electric and acoustic guitars, backing vocals, e-bow
- Brenda Sauter – bass, backing vocals
- Stan Demeski – drums, percussion
- Dave Weckerman – percussion, drums
References
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