Stupidity

Stupidity Artist: Dr. Feelgood
Label: Grand Records
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Format: Live
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
EAN: 5018349021025
ASIN: B00000899I


Release Date: 1999-02-09

Stupidity


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Tracks:

  1. Talking About You
  2. 20 Yards Behind
  3. Stupidity
  4. All Through The City
  5. I'm A Man
  6. Walking The Dog
  7. She Does It Right
  8. Going Back Home
  9. I Don't Mind
  10. Back In The Night
  11. I'm A Hog For You Baby
  12. Checking Up On My Baby
  13. Roxette
  14. Riot In Cell Block No. 9
  15. Johnny B. Goode

Similar Items:

  1. Malpractice
  2. Down By The Jetty
  3. As It Happens
  4. Going Back Home

Album Details

Recorded in 1976 this 15 Track Album Reached No One in the UK and features Vintage Dr Feelgood Tracks of the Same Vintage as Down by the Jetty Grandcd5

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Irresistable!.......2003-07-08

Dr Feelgood was at their best playing live, and even though most of these live versions stick close to the originals, they are played with so much energy and nerve, making this one of the very best Dr Feelgood albums.

Now, live recordings often suffer from a slightly "airy" sound...particularly the drums, which never seem to have the punch of a good studio cut. But on these 28-year-old recordings Dr Feelgood and co-producer Vic Maile have somehow captured the biggest drum sound I have ever heard on a live album - on "Roxette" and "I'm A Hog For You Baby" in particular, the imposing John Martin, "The Big Figure", lays down a thundering beat.

This is down and dirty R&B with crunchy stop-and-go guitar riffs. Lee Brilleaux' vocals sound even more rough and gravelly than usual, and his harp playing is sharp as shards of broken glass. The performance of the band gels perfectly, and on "Stupidity" the Feelgoods actually managed to capture the ferocious power of their live shows.

"Stupidity" is some of the best and juiciest rock n' roll you're ever likely to hear. Why the Feelgoods never made in the US is beyond me.
4 1/2 stars - highly recommended.

5 out of 5 stars "Malpractice" Is Out Of Print?.......2001-04-11

Since it appears that Dr. Feelgood's magnum opus "Malpractice" goes in and out of print on a regular basis, and unless you can find a used copy somewhere, "Stupidity" may have to be where you'll have to discover the guitar genius of Wilko Johnson. Forget the tired old cliches about "pub rock," this is gritty, down-in-the-dirt R&B, featuring Johnson coaxing huge, chunky, fat, boxy-sounding chords from his battered Telecaster in a staggering pyrotechnical display of rhythm guitar. And to think the guy didn't even use a pick... Wow! Add in Lee Brilleaux's croaking vocals and one of the tightest rhythm sections ever in John Sparks and The Big Figure, and you've got quite a potent brew which may prove to be unhealthy for children and small animals. BUY THIS SINCE IT'S AVAILABLE, THEN MAKE IT A MISSION TO FIND "MALPRACTICE."

5 out of 5 stars Doctor Mott.......2001-02-17

Before there was Punk Rock, there was pub rock, the same raw energy, but twice the fun. Top of the pile was Dr. Feelgood, Sparks on bass, & the Big Figure on drums, knocking out the rhythm like a turbo charged hammer drill. Standing out the front in a cheap suit was Canvey island hard man Lee Brilleaux, couldn't sing, couldn't dance, couldn't play the Harmonica, but you wouldn't dare tell him, and then running all over the stage like a demented puppet on a bad hair day was Wilko Johnson, the bands wicked lead guitarist & main song writer. "Stupidity" caught them live on home territory in Southend, and remarkably was a number one album for the Feelgoods. Alternating between home grown classics like "Back in the Night" & "Roxette" with covers like "Riot in cell block number nine", "Johnny B Goode" & my personal favorite "Walking the Dog", this album is what Rock `n' Roll is all about, close your eyes and you could be down the Coach & Horses in Islington or Tahitian Queen Happy Hour on Friday with Clive. Buy it or else. Mott the Dog.

5 out of 5 stars The missing link between cockney r&b and punk.......2000-08-21

This is the chance to hear the most underrated english band of the seventies.Caught between the dinosaur-rock of Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, etc. and the back-to-basics approach of Punk.The feelgoods developed a unique blend of rythm and blues musicianship with protopunk attitude.The first thing that catches your attention is the percusive sound of Wilko Johnson's guitar, a totally original approach to traditional r&b numbers like Chuck Berry's "Talking 'bout you".Then you have Lee Brilleaux's distinctive cockney growl and Sparko and the Big Figure providing the most solid drum and bass combination till the arrival of ACDC.This is a great live recording that captures the Feelgood at their best.

5 out of 5 stars

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