The Feelies connection to the Velvet Underground goes long and deep. As gawky teenagers, Glenn Mercer and Bill Millions put VU on the same tier as the Beatles. Their jittery, drone-y, laconically delivered Crazy Rhythms sounded like no one else, except possibly the Velvets. The band covered “What Goes On” on their 1988 album Only Life, and, about the same time, got a chance to play a show with Lou Reed at the Orpheum Theatre in New York City. Reed himself once told Bill Millions that the Feelies were the only band that ever “got” the Velvet Underground.
The point is that the Feelies weren’t coming to this unprepared. No, they had, in some ways, been training for it all their lives when they turned up at the White Eagle Hall in Jersey City in October 2018. Some Kinda Love was recorded at that gig, tracking the Feelies’ love and understanding of one of rock’s most influential bands over two discs and 18 songs. It’s a blast.
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