Loveless love – The Field Mice
The Feelies Mice. The Fieldies. This is a really good cover of an in the first place incredible song. The Field Mice very much make it their own, eschewing the arpeggio outro and other guitar sophistry not becoming them, and replacing the franticness of the Feelies with their own special kind.
It is this version i had in my head. It’s the tape warble. It comes from a compilation tape called Something’s Burning In Paradise Again… that came bundled with a zine in 1989. Of course i have neither the tape or the zine, so it is with a heap of gratitude – mine and the many like me who i will never meet because we’re strewn at inconvenient, remote distances across this planet – that someone many years ago compiled a file of Field Mice demos, compilation and live songs. They nearly doubled the amount of Field Mice songs i had by doing so, and that is a great gift indeed. So thank you, person.
