The Feelies - the Good Earth
I went to high school and college during the 1980s. I also spent 6 years working in a record store - the first three being 1987-1989. I like to think of it as the Golden Age of Indie Rock: Creation Records at its peak, Manchester swaggering in and grunge still on the rack at the Salvation Army. Record companies were still making LPs at this point - CDs were becoming the defacto standard but nonetheless, three formats were still being produced (cassettes being the third). When you work in a record store, it goes without saying that you play cool music in the store. One such record that I came to know was The Feelies - The Good Earth, produced by Peter Buck himself - at the time the godfather of American indie rock. The Good Earth represented everything that was good about music: no pretense, quiet and noisy, subtly complex, reverent to its influences (Velvet Underground, Television and Big Star), awe-inspiring. I can think of no record save for the Stone Roses first record - that I ha...