There's some thing about the sound and feel of thirty year old, American alt- rock which is doing it for me at the moment. Apropos of nothing I was struck by the desire to hear Belly's 1993 hit Feed The Tree recently and it became an earworm for days...
Belly were Tanya Donelly's band, a breakaway from both Throwing Muses and The Breeders for Tanya (the former with step- sister Kristen Hersh, the latter with Pixie Kim Deal, Kim's twin sister Kelley and Josephine Wiggs). She formed Belly with Chris and Thomas Gorman and Fred Abong in 1991 and released Star in 1993. Feed The Tree is a beaut, with churning indie rock/ folk rock guitars and Tanya's honeyed but slightly weary vocals, chiming into the chorus, 'Take your hat off boy when you're talking to me/ And be there when I feed the tree'.
The album Star also featured this song, Gepetto, which was also released as a single. Geppetto, despite the sweetly sung/ chiming guitars sound, is a bit darker, a song about control and losing your soul.
From Belly it's a short hop back to 1992 and The Lemonheads, a single from the It's A Shame About Ray album and a sparkling showcase for the songwriting talents of Evan Dando.
2 comments:
The first Belly album really is a cracker isn't it! Not as convinced by the follow up mind. Having said that, the reunion album from a few years back is very good too.
Tunes!!!!!
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