I first heard this song when I had my fourth child who was sadly incompatible with life. We bought a Mojo magazine at the hospital with a free CD and this song was on the CD. It's the 9th anniversary of his passing today and I came to listen to this song, always reminds me of the precious time we had together. A great song to remember him by.
@@BruceUrquhart Thank you so much for remembering my child, it really touched my heart ❤! I can't believe it's been 10 years already, he was such a special boy.
I had this CD from MOJO. Classic opening line, your trying to fool someone but you end up fooling yourself. Your reading from the book of the dead, but you don't know what it's about. Sorry for your loss. Didn't realise it was a decade ago, shows how fast time goes.
I met Lawrence many times, before I knew how great his achievements, in a small flat, humble gentle man, let me play his guitar, showed me stuff on it, chat nonsense, oh my, the best and only truly genius artist I ever met
The most sublime song of the 80s, along with The Cure's Just Like Heaven. And perhaps All The Way by New Order. And before that, Another Girl Another Planet by The Only Ones. They are all my favorite song; they are all variations on the same perfect song.
There will never be another Felt. Like many others here I hadn't heard this version. The album version is my favourite Felt track, Strange Idols is packed with melodic classics. A work of such beauty.
This is so cool! I have never heard the single version. Thank you SO much for posting it. Felt is one of my favorite bands of all time, and I have some extremely powerful memories attached to this music.
Felt and Lawrence has Japan written all over him. The Japanese have very good taste and love fashion. Lawrence is, like Bowie, a music God and a fashion icon.
I remember buying this when it first came out. The production values are really good - it sounds really lush. I loved this era so much. Thanks for sharing.
+Still Pop Ha ha, no! I was just paraphrasing Lawrence. You know, come to think of it, a lot of my favorite records came out in the 80s: ‘Psychocandy’, Sonic Youth’s ‘Sister’ / ‘Confusion…’ (take your pick), The Cure’s ‘Faith’ / ‘Kiss Me…’ (take your pick), Siouxsie’s ‘Kaleidoscope’… Nick Cave WAS the 80s, Cocteau Twins WERE the 80s… Hell, even later stuff like Dinosaur Jr or Pixies? That came out in the late 80s as well! Oh, and let’s not forget a little band from Birmingham called Felt - I hear they released some of their best stuff in that very decade as well.
it's sublime. i'd never heard this until you played it the other week. i like the lyric change too. the book of the dead became seasons in hell. felt were magnificent. should've been bigger than the beatles as well. i can't make love to you anymore makes me cry. rose mcdowall sings on it, what can i say? as does she lives by the castle. i adore the final resting of the ark, the bitter end and textile ranch. the poem of the river and strange idols pattern are their masterpieces. i saw them twice. at fury murrays of all places in 1986 and the following year at rooftops. at the rooftops gig they showed my all time photo of oscar wilde as a back projection. i experienced une petit mort. i didn't manage to make it to their final Scottish gig in Greenock. there was a guy who put on a lot of gigs there. i met him but i can't recall his name. chris something maybe. there was a really great fanzine too from Greenock called Slow Dazzle. loved it!
Only found out this weekend my Uncle Mike was on bass in this fantastic band I'm listening to for the first time now. Very proud to know he was a part of it - music which seems to have inspired so many artists
The good ones will cite them as an influence. One of Belle & Sebastian's albums has text in the liner notes that almost rant about the excellence of Felt. I have to admit, they'd probably be my first choice if I was looking for a contemporary band to cover this song.
Find it ironic you posted this Sean.. one of the reasons I know about Felt is because I bought 'Back in Denim' one day when I was @ the shop lookin to see if there was any new SD stuff out. I first grabbed it soley because the cover reminded me of Hotwired. Gave it a quick listen in store and picked it right up.
I made a booboo in another comment - this is the one that played at the end of Episode 2, Season 1, 'Lodge 49' while they're sitting on the couch and staring at the TV
Me too. The first one I saw was a cover and I was so disappointed, then searched for the title and found this. Never heard of Felt before, looking forward to hearing more.
Robert Smith obviously used this when he wrote Just Like Heaven. No problem really, that's what alternative rock was about, 'borrowing' a riff, a tune or a sound and then mixing them with your own reality and making them your own. But it's so sad to think that some alternative rockers ended up millionaires, and Lawrence ended up nowhere, still living in poverty and still being mercilessly mocked, usually in that unsufferably patronizing, almost gentle manner.
Lawrence was often mocked for for his OCD disorder, his obsession with becoming rich and famous while sabotaging any such possibility, for not being a 'good singer', for ending up having a drug problem despite he had been straight-edge in the 80s, for his fey and literary persona in Felt that never seemed to add up to his 'real' personality, for being absurdly tyrannical with the other band members... And more... Like every human being, he's full of contradictions... But he just won't hide it. Well, it's even in a Felt song "My mind was like a theatre, I was playing ten different roles" ... ;) But in 2018 Lawrence has a new album out and the reissues of the first 5 Felt albums, so doesn't look too bad for him I think.
No you don't. Stuff like this was not being played on the radio, which play mostly stuff best forgotten. You really had to know the right people and records stores and such to hear this. At least today, the internet makes this stuff available to you, even the really obscure stuff that you would've had to take on a second mortgage to pay for.
It's about 3 minutes. No but yeah but no but seriously, I think he's singing about himself and his self-involved drama and contradictions, disappointments and pretensions. Good tune though.
Wikipedia is your friend: Lawrence Maurice Deebank Gary Ainge Nick Gilbert Mick Lloyd Marco Thomas Martin Duffy Tony Willé Neil Scott John Mohan Richard Left Robert Young B. J. Cole Rose McDowall Pete Astor
god how many ATP bands rip off FELT...THE GREATEST INDIE BAND EVER......10 long playing albums in ten years-1980=1990.....Todays indie bands all over make a living stealing from FELT-
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I first heard this song when I had my fourth child who was sadly incompatible with life. We bought a Mojo magazine at the hospital with a free CD and this song was on the CD. It's the 9th anniversary of his passing today and I came to listen to this song, always reminds me of the precious time we had together. A great song to remember him by.
❤
@@BruceUrquhart Thank you so much for remembering my child, it really touched my heart ❤! I can't believe it's been 10 years already, he was such a special boy.
❤
I had this CD from MOJO.
Classic opening line, your trying to fool someone but you end up fooling yourself.
Your reading from the book of the dead, but you don't know what it's about.
Sorry for your loss.
Didn't realise it was a decade ago, shows how fast time goes.
I met Lawrence many times, before I knew how great his achievements, in a small flat, humble gentle man, let me play his guitar, showed me stuff on it, chat nonsense, oh my, the best and only truly genius artist I ever met
nice
He is one of a kind.
I'VE NEVER HEARD THIS VERSION BEFORE! It was worth waiting 30 years to hear it.
Wow! I snatched this off a live radio request before hopping a flight to San Francisco Ça when it first came out.
Lawrence is a genius!!! Love Felt so much, they have one of my top 3 songs, Primitive Painters w/ Elisabeth Fraser, Cocteau Twins singer, and i'm old!
it is one of the most beautiful songs ever written....
I just spoke with Lawrence on the telephone (he buys records from us), and told him had a demo version of this on a 45, and even HE did not have one!!
So, did he buy it or did you give it to him?
The most sublime song of the 80s, along with The Cure's Just Like Heaven. And perhaps All The Way by New Order. And before that, Another Girl Another Planet by The Only Ones. They are all my favorite song; they are all variations on the same perfect song.
A brilliant comment! All precious, beautiful sounds
Lol
Just Like Heaven was clearly inspired by this song.
Just heard this song at the end of the show Lodge 49, season 1 episode 2.
Came here because of the AMC show Lodge 49
Same
Any good???
@@a.nobodys.nobody…YES! It was great
Same. I can’t find this version on Spotify. It’s better.
There will never be another Felt. Like many others here I hadn't heard this version. The album version is my favourite Felt track, Strange Idols is packed with melodic classics. A work of such beauty.
An absolutely stunning record. Never gets old.
one of the best if not THE best of the 80's. so pure.
Fantastic song. Bass is incredible. 80's memories flowing.
This is so cool! I have never heard the single version. Thank you SO much for posting it. Felt is one of my favorite bands of all time, and I have some extremely powerful memories attached to this music.
Amazing Sounds 😎
hifisean - never, ever a truer word said - thank you very much for posting this gem of a song, took me right back to August 1984. A beautiful record.
I'd like to write that there is also a fan of FELT in Japan.
Two!
Thank you very much! I'd like to hope so, too.
Felt and Lawrence has Japan written all over him. The Japanese have very good taste and love fashion. Lawrence is, like Bowie, a music God and a fashion icon.
Brazilian fan reporting in ; )))
Peru!
Yes so right you are and this song is an utter gem by Felt. Kinda reminds me of "Just like heaven" by The Cure
I remember buying this when it first came out. The production values are really good - it sounds really lush. I loved this era so much. Thanks for sharing.
In the 80s I was just a kid. Still I knew what it was all about. I soaked it in, now it’s all dripping out.
+Still Pop Ha ha, no! I was just paraphrasing Lawrence. You know, come to
think of it, a lot of my favorite records came out in the 80s: ‘Psychocandy’,
Sonic Youth’s ‘Sister’ / ‘Confusion…’ (take your pick), The Cure’s ‘Faith’ / ‘Kiss
Me…’ (take your pick), Siouxsie’s ‘Kaleidoscope’… Nick Cave WAS the 80s,
Cocteau Twins WERE the 80s… Hell, even later stuff like Dinosaur Jr or Pixies?
That came out in the late 80s as well! Oh, and let’s not forget a little band from
Birmingham called Felt - I hear they released some of their best stuff in that
very decade as well.
Simply one of the best bands to have ever been.
lovely such a great tune and one of Lawrence´s one of many many great songs
I heard this version for the first time.
I was impressed very much.
This sound source is wanted to be set to CD.
Yes, you've got right, it's the intricate bass that makes this song unique.
Great version. Great band.
it's sublime. i'd never heard this until you played it the other week. i like the lyric change too. the book of the dead became seasons in hell. felt were magnificent. should've been bigger than the beatles as well. i can't make love to you anymore makes me cry. rose mcdowall sings on it, what can i say? as does she lives by the castle. i adore the final resting of the ark, the bitter end and textile ranch. the poem of the river and strange idols pattern are their masterpieces. i saw them twice. at fury murrays of all places in 1986 and the following year at rooftops. at the rooftops gig they showed my all time photo of oscar wilde as a back projection. i experienced une petit mort. i didn't manage to make it to their final Scottish gig in Greenock. there was a guy who put on a lot of gigs there. i met him but i can't recall his name. chris something maybe. there was a really great fanzine too from Greenock called Slow Dazzle. loved it!
This version brings out the very best elements in this wonderful song
Sublime
Who that young knows what IS book of a dead...magic
love this version. thanks for posting!
Mick Lloyd on bass.. great bloke and sadly missed 💙✌
Only found out this weekend my Uncle Mike was on bass in this fantastic band I'm listening to for the first time now. Very proud to know he was a part of it - music which seems to have inspired so many artists
TEMAZOOO i love Felt!!!!!!
Wow! THIS VERSION IS EVERYTHING!
great song
FELT and Lawrence are and have always been fucking amazing
The good ones will cite them as an influence. One of Belle & Sebastian's albums has text in the liner notes that almost rant about the excellence of Felt. I have to admit, they'd probably be my first choice if I was looking for a contemporary band to cover this song.
Why is this band so fucking good? Love them but still ask myself why.
Because they influenced jangle pop a lot. Kinda like the smiths before the smiths.
Love this track
THANK YOU MOJO MAGAZINE FOR TURNING ME ONTO A TRUE BAND FROM THE ERA ! ''JUST LIKE A DREAM '' CAME LATER ! HEE!
大好きな曲ですyo!
wow! excelente
Love it
that bass!
Bought the 1st CD in 1980 I loved it so much.
Deebank & Marr... cut from the same cloth... Magic!
Lodge 49 took me here
One of my favourite songs. Precisely this version
Near perfection.
tears of Joy my friends, tears of Joy...
An article in The Guardian brought me here..brilliant tune
After knowing (and loving) this version so well, I found it difficult to listen to the "official" version.
Thanks for that, he was in the band after all then : )
Find it ironic you posted this Sean.. one of the reasons I know about Felt is because I bought 'Back in Denim' one day when I was @ the shop lookin to see if there was any new SD stuff out. I first grabbed it soley because the cover reminded me of Hotwired. Gave it a quick listen in store and picked it right up.
I made a booboo in another comment - this is the one that played at the end of Episode 2, Season 1, 'Lodge 49' while they're sitting on the couch and staring at the TV
Just I’ve discovered This Greatest band. Thanks @ Lodge 49 E2\S1 . Pioneers of the indie music of the 80’s. I’m a spanish Smiths fan.
Me too. The first one I saw was a cover and I was so disappointed, then searched for the title and found this. Never heard of Felt before, looking forward to hearing more.
it's very easy to like both versions - not heard this version but it is great
so good
Oh my God best bass ever
That is because the bass line was written by Maurice Deebank. He wrote them all in fact in earlier Felt.
sun bath perfection
Well at least you were born then, that's just as good!
Luv my Euro bands
wow, never actually heard this version
Robert Smith obviously used this when he wrote Just Like Heaven. No problem really, that's what alternative rock was about, 'borrowing' a riff, a tune or a sound and then mixing them with your own reality and making them your own.
But it's so sad to think that some alternative rockers ended up millionaires, and Lawrence ended up nowhere, still living in poverty and still being mercilessly mocked, usually in that unsufferably patronizing, almost gentle manner.
Could you elaborate further (Lawrence being mercilessly mocked)? I just found out about Felt, and am puzzled by their relative obscurity.
Okay, maybe, but Robert Smith had been recording music for 8 years before Lawrence English... So who ripped off who?
Lawrence was often mocked for for his OCD disorder, his obsession with becoming rich and famous while sabotaging any such possibility, for not being a 'good singer', for ending up having a drug problem despite he had been straight-edge in the 80s, for his fey and literary persona in Felt that never seemed to add up to his 'real' personality, for being absurdly tyrannical with the other band members... And more... Like every human being, he's full of contradictions... But he just won't hide it. Well, it's even in a Felt song "My mind was like a theatre, I was playing ten different roles" ... ;) But in 2018 Lawrence has a new album out and the reissues of the first 5 Felt albums, so doesn't look too bad for him I think.
Lawrence released his first record in 1979. Lawrence English wasn't in Felt. This was released in 1984. the cure song in1987. Just sayin'..
You guys know that both Lawrence and Smith ripped the intro from a Wire song, right?
Ye gods this is good!
amazing damned they were so food
so, so food
so very food.
As food as can be
I wanted live in 80's..
I LISTENED TO YOU NOW BABY YOU LISTEN TO ME.
first step to enter lodge 49
I agree with you, but for me those years were golden
No you don't. Stuff like this was not being played on the radio, which play mostly stuff best forgotten. You really had to know the right people and records stores and such to hear this. At least today, the internet makes this stuff available to you, even the really obscure stuff that you would've had to take on a second mortgage to pay for.
very intense lyrics if you listen closely, it's a break-up song. Band originated in SPAIN
Isn't this the same bass guitar melody The Cure used a few year later? I wish I were able to remember the song title. Anyone?
Just like Heaven.
Lawrence! Xx
Lawrence is the INDIE god.
Why isn’t this version available to buy?!!
it is on apple music you can buy it
So either 2 versions of the song one the lyrics say book of the dead the other season in hell or there is mandela effect on felts song🤔
ooOOOooooooo!!!
2022
Was there a band member in Felt named Marco Thomas?
Give him one then.People take enough off him..Oasis you know what im talking about
Is this the version from The Strange Idols Pattern and Other Short Stories??
Thanks for the upload, I came here looking for this. The covers just don't do it.
ha ha, just like heaven ; )
1:54
head full of cheap 80's acid and this long before mdma. kicked the smiths asses.
This is music that has lasted, no doubt- and not enough people know it.
But it does not kick The Smith’s assess.
@written12 you are correct in every respect.
the version on strange idols is way better.. imo
this reminds me of the cure?? contemporaries???
i like the album version a lot more
Anyone know if this version is available on CD?
it will be in the reissue campaign that's forthcoming.
Thanks. It is in fact included on Stains on a Decade.
Joseph, when are said reissues coming out?
I know..should we start a protest?
this is not Just Like Heaven - not as much as New Order's All The Way is, at least.
Anyone know what this song is about?
It's about 3 minutes.
No but yeah but no but seriously, I think he's singing about himself and his self-involved drama and contradictions, disappointments and pretensions.
Good tune though.
what album?
It appears to be clipping
Joy division for a few seconds at the start.
Wikipedia is your friend:
Lawrence
Maurice Deebank
Gary Ainge
Nick Gilbert
Mick Lloyd
Marco Thomas
Martin Duffy
Tony Willé
Neil Scott
John Mohan
Richard Left
Robert Young
B. J. Cole
Rose McDowall
Pete Astor
nah, Lawrence
cure ou pas cure ?
god how many ATP bands rip off FELT...THE GREATEST INDIE BAND EVER......10 long playing albums in ten years-1980=1990.....Todays indie bands all over make a living stealing from FELT-
Beautiful. Still prefer the album version, though.
Similar to New Order 'All the way'. Not sure which came first but I don't really care.
8 people will rot in hell