Good Feeling

by

Travis

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Travis debut album is rock music by the numbers. The band aren't concerned with new trends or the styles of the day but just with making straight up rock music. This is why the album is so good.

The singles All I Want to do is Rock (more rockier Radiohead song), U16 Girls (Stonesesque sleaze), Tied to the 90's (Britpop in 1994), Happy (simplicity) and More Than Us (lovely folk) are all excellent. Tied to the 90's especially is a wonderful stand out on the album.

The first half of Feeling is the rockier bit. It is all good with the exception of Midsummer Night's Dream. The second half is lovely, morose, introspective music. More than Us, Falling Down, and especially I Love You Anyways are among the albums high points.

Overall Good Feeling is the sign of a great band with even greater things to come. When I saw them at the Reading Festival they played a new song, Flowers in the Window which showed a lot of promise.

Good Feeling should be big in the States but once again, pig headed radio dj's can't seem to play anything British. It's a shame because it's all better music.

Noel Gallagher claimed Travis were genius and with this album you can see why.

Buy it now!

I became a Travis fan after seeing and MTV2 clip of Why Does It Always Rain On Me? I bought THE MAN WHO and fell in love with the melodic, acoustic, free-spirited songs. So naturally I bought GOOD FEELING. I was disappointed. It's hard for me to belive it's the same band. While THE MAN WHO is lyrically strong, sounds polished, and well produced; GOOD FEELING sounds more like an unrehearsed English grunge band. No doubt, it's great rock and roll with some toe tapping tunes. But if you are searching for more of what you love about THE MAN WHO, I don't think you are going to find it on this disk. I took the time to listen to all the Real Audio clips on amazon.com and failed to trust my instincts.