Stupidity

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Product Details

Artist : Dr. Feelgood
Format : Live
Binding : Audio CD
EAN : 5018349021025
Label : Grand
Number of Discs : 1
Product Group : Music
Release Date : 1999-10-01

ASIN : B00000899I

Track Listings for

Disc-1
1. Talking About You
2. Twenty 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. Checkin' Up On My Baby
13. Roxette
14. Riot In Cell Block #9
15. Johnny B Goode

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Editorial Reviews

Album Description

Stupidity captures the relentless, hard-driving energy of Dr. Feelgood at their peak. Comprised of recordings taken from 1975 tours, the music is presented raw and without overdubs, making it clear that the dynamic friction between guitarist Wilko Johnson and vocalist Lee Brilleaux could propel the band toward greatness. These unvarnished and exciting performances reveal the Johnson originals She Does It Right and All Through the City as minor rock & roll classics.

Customer Reviews

Spirit of 75 (2008-09-02)

How to describe this much-praised album? You could say that it captures the UK's best pub band at the height of their powers. You could say that it's stripped down R&B from a time when the term still meant something. You could say that it laid the foundations for the punk explosion that was just around the corner, although there are quite a few claimants to that title. The fact remains that without the visual appeal of the band's performance, with Wilco stalking around the stage like... a mad axe-man? ... the music is just a little bit too dull and predictable to be really great. Although I suppose you do have to admire the sheer damn cheek of the one-note guitar solo on "I'm a hog for you baby". Best enjoyed with beer.

Fundamental reason why this is the BEST Live Album (2008-08-26)

I bought this in the late 70's a few years after it was released. The first time I played it I was totally amazed and and I am still playing it today 30 years on. This is what Rock-n-roll is all about 110% energy exuding from every track, you can feel the sweat rolling off the walls. However there is one fundamental reason why this is the best, all the tracks that were released on the original studio recordings are recorded, here, with so much guts and presence that they surpass their studio versions. This is a feat that I have never heard on ANY other live album. The boys from Canvey Island were absolutely brilliant on the night.

perfect (2007-10-23)

I was still listening to this album yesterday, I have the original vinyl edition and I have decided to buy the cd. This album is raw power, not a single moment of respite, your feet will be tapping, you will sing along, whatever, this is a great album for a bad mood: 100% guarantee to make you smile and enjoy. Must have.

Stupidly good (2007-08-04)

This fabulous live album went to no.1 in the album charts in 1976, which is quite remarkable if you think back to that era. Glam and Progessive Rock had happened and disco & Punk/new wave were about to be huge. So it makes no sense that a rhythm & blues band album should get to no.1.Listen to the album though and you begin to understand why Feelgood were so successful. Its a straightahead R&B album (in the old sense) with an un-schooled and English 'lads night out on the town' feel to it. Yes they certainly were influenced by Muddy Waters, Chuck Berry etc but they brought something new the material, and of course wrote some classics themselves. 'She Does It Right' remains my favourite original with Lee Brilleaux belting out the vocals and Wilko Johnson playing incendiary guitar. Of the covers I'd pick their version of 'Riot on Cell Block No. 9'. The atmosphere on this track captures the live feel brilliantly.Another aspect of Dr Feelgoods success was the visual element. 30 years later its easy to forget the stage presence these guys had. Remember Wilko on tram-lines skating across the stage! Its a shame they didn't film any of these shows from 1975. You can catch film of them performing on the Old Grey Whistle Test DVD, which is pretty good. The CD runs to 47mins, has 15 tracks, with some interesting sleeve notes about the background to their success during the mid 70's.

The best live album ever made (2005-10-24)

I tend to avoid live albums because they usually highlight deficiencies while failing to capture any of the excitement of the event. Even so, I own some superb and well-regarded examples by such as Thin Lizzy, Blue Oyster Cult, UFO and Status Quo. None are as good however as "Stupidity" by the classic original Dr Feelgood line-up.

By the time the booming bass rhythm of "Roxette" starts up, you almost feel as if you're in the audience marvelling at the best three-way rhythm section in British rhythm and blues. This is what the Stones started out doing, but executed with a tighter groove. It builds from a brief, relatively routine version of a Chuck Berry song into a series of classic performances. It's characterised by Wilko Johnson's distinct, choppy guitar playing against Lee Brilleaux's vocal and harmonica, yet also underlined by bass and drums. The band seem to reach a peak with "Going Back Home" from which they never come down.

"Stupidity" is unlike other acclaimed live albums of the 1970s in not being a heavy-riffing, hard rock album nor is it a double-set, though some good bonuses have been added to the CD release. But you'll never hear a better example.

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