Stains on a Decade [Import]

Felt (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 3, 2003)
• Original Release Date: July 1, 2003
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Cherry Red UK
• ASIN: B000093CZE
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #145,189 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Something Sends Me to Sleep

2. Trails of Colour Dissolve

3. Penelope Tree

4. Sunlight Bathed the Golden Glow

5. Fortune

6. Dismantled King Is Off the Throne

7. Primitive Painters

8. Ballad of the Band

9. I Didn't Mean to Hurt You

10. I Will Die with My Head in Flames

11. Sandman's on the Rise Again

12. The Final Resting of the Ark

13. There's No Such Thing as Victory

14. Be Still

15. Space Blues

Editorial Reviews

During the 80's Felt released ten albums & ten singles for the Cherry Red, Creation & el labels. For the first time ever, this compilation chosen by enigmatic frontman Lawrence, features the highlights of Felt's career on all three labels & proves they were the decades formative underground challengers. The album includes the indie hit singles 'Trails of Colour Dissolve', 'Penelope Tree', 'Sunlight Bathed the Golden Glow', 'Primitive Painters', 'Ballad of the Band', 'Final Resting of the Ark' & 'Space Blues'. 15 tracks packaged in digipak format. Cherry Red Records. 2003.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Overlooked and Possibly Essential, June 8, 2004

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Tyler Price - See all my reviews

This review is from: Stains on a Decade (Audio CD)

If you're a fan of Belle & Sebastian then you've probably read Stuart Murdoch name drop or even rave about Felt (even ranking them higher than The Smiths or Orange Juice). And if you like the afforementioned artists you'll probably like Felt.

This is an excellent collection for the casual listener (which I am so I'm not sure what it offers for the Felt collector). If you're put off by the Belle & Sebastian reference above I appoligize - Felt will equally appeal to fans of Lou Reed's vocal delivery or Television's guitar interplay (toned down however). Felt is like the missing link to defend your fondness of chamber and twee pop while still maintaining your New York underground and punk collection.

9 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very much like BUBBLEGUM PERFUME but w/out the instrumentals, July 14, 2003

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Todd E. Jones "Music Journalist" (Edison, NJ USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Stains on a Decade (Audio CD)

Very much like BUBBLEGUM PERFUME but w/out the instrumentals.. it's true.. but this is MORE like a cross between ABSOLUTE CLASSIC MAST and BUBBLEGUM... Something Sends me to sleep and Penelope Tree!!! If you have all the PROPER albums and even BUBBLE GUM, this has a unreleased (or rare) version of SUNLIGHT BATHES THE GOLDEN GLOW. There are STRINGS and a female backing vocalist!!! Also, the FORTUNE is NOT the version on CRUMBLING.. it's the one on ABSOLUTE CLASSIC... Also, this has BE STILL, BALLAD OF THE BAND, SANDMAN'S ON THE RISE and SPACE BLUES that was also released on BUBBLEGUM..

No booklet with writings, just songs... brilliant and beautiful songs from FELT... but this is a compilation depending on what you have. If you don't have anything by them, this is a wonderful introduction to FELT.