MP3s are good...

[feren]

I need to thank Matt again for mailing me some songs, and introducing me to the Nields in general. Winamp cued this particular song up at just the right time, I think, because the message it carries is powerful, and maybe just the sort of reassuring I need right now.

The ability of music to move the human soul is astonishing.

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[roho.livejournal.com]

The Nields are excellent. I've caught them in person a few times...we should keep an eye out for the next time they show up around here or Champaign (they seemed to play in Champaign fairly often), and make it a Pack Outing!

[duncandahusky.livejournal.com]

I suppose if someone's pointed you to The Nields, it would be superfluous to mention Moxy Fruvous (http://www.fruvous.com/). Their album Bargainville (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000002IXP/ref=pd_sim_music/103-7540485-6672650) is amazing - if you can, check out the Realaudio clips of "The Drinking Song" and "King of Spain".

[aynjel.livejournal.com]

Mmmmm and in my head, I've got a lot of links between Fruvous and the Nields. My first live Fruvous show, the Nields opened for them. And one of the later times I saw Fruvous, they were opening for the Nields.

Anyway... Love love love The Nields Gotta Get Over Gretta and if I had to recommend a *single* Fruvous album, it'd be Live Noise just because it gives you a flavor for more of their range, and gives you the fun bit of their on-stage banter and their improve (and I was at the show at the Met Cafe in Providence where they did the "Lowest Highest Point" improv that's on the album!).

Frü

[frostyw.livejournal.com]

I've been to about three of their live performances, all in the Boston area. When they hang around Boston, it's a pretty safe bet that they'll play at the House of Blues in Cambridge. That's the one place where you have to stand for the entire performance, since they don't have seats.

Another time, they played at a theatre in Somerville. They were able to pack in lots more people, and, yes, they had seats! I still think my friend Larissa bruised her knee while playing percussion to some of those songs. =^_^= At the Drinking Song, I saw a few lighters get, um, lit, even though we were in an older building. Oh, well, nothing burned down, I suppose.

I remember at the Somerville show they talked about the people up in the balcony having the sh!t seats, so they invited some of those people down into the front. Lari, her friend Olga, and I had a blast being in only the fifteenth row back. :D

I think Früvous is a band best heard live. I have to thank my friend Alex for getting me into them. He still likes them, but he's gone onto things like moe.