
The last set of songs on the Pitchfork 500 list for 1980-1982 takes us back to the States, with music that was in many ways similar to that discussed in my last couple of posts. Shambolic, rumbunctuous, with a definite amateur feel to them, and three of these four bands won't be known to your average man on the street 1 . The other would go on to be one of the biggest bands in the world, selling some 35 million records. Not The Feelies, obviously. The Feelies – The Boy with the Perpetual Nervousness [...]