Line #47 Music/Feeder


1	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/feeder_band_facts_3.jpg]]
2	[[caption-width-right:350:Taka Hirose and Grant Nicholas]]
3	->''All by myself\
4	Cause I don't want to drag you down\
5	Hold you down, cause you're a friend''
6	-->-- "'''Just A Day'''"
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8	Feeder are a British alternative rock band, consisting of Grant Nicholas on guitar and vocals, Taka Hirose on bass and Karl Brazil on drums. Past members have been their founding member, Jon Lee, [[DrivenToSuicide who committed suicide in 2001]], and Music/SkunkAnansie drummer, Mark Richardson, who left in 2009 due to Skunk reforming and band differences.
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10	The band, originally named 'Reel', went though quite a few name changes. The band first started as 'Temper Temper', a electro duo formed when Grant and Jon first met in their hometown of Newport, Wales during their teenage years. The duo became a full band called 'Rain Dance' but when both of these acts failed to find record deals, they formed a three piece band called 'Real'. The name was then changed to 'Reel' when they fired the bassist and found Taka Hirose, who placed an advert in a local paper, stating he was a bassist looking for a band. Finally, they changed their name to 'Feeder', after Grant's pet goldfish at the time. In 2010 they changed their name to 'Renegades', and did a miniature tour of the UK under this name, before settling back to the normal band name.
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12	The band have released ten studio albums, with their most recent one, ''Torpedo'', being released in 2022.
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15	!!Discography:
16	* '''Studio Albums:'''
17	** ''Polythene'' (1997)
18	** ''Yesterday Went To Soon'' (1999)
19	** ''Echo Park'' (2001)
20	** ''Comfort In Sound'' (2002)
21	** ''Pushing The Senses'' (2005)
22	** ''Silent Cry'' (2008)
23	** ''Renegades'' (2011)
24	** ''Generation Freakshow'' (2012)
25	** ''All Bright Electric'' (2016)
26	** ''Tallulah'' (2019)
27	** ''Torpedo'' (2022)
28	** ''Black/Red'' (2024)
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30	* '''[=EPs=]:'''
31	** ''Two Colours'' (1995)
32	** ''Swim'' (1996)
33	** ''Seven Sleepers'' (2008)
34	** ''Renegades [=EP1=]'' (2010)
35	** ''Renegades [=EP2=]'' (2010)
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37	* '''Compilations:'''
38	** ''Another Yesterday'' (2000) - a small B-side companion piece to the album ''Yesterday Went To Soon'', released only in Japan.
39	** ''Swim'' (2001) the re-release of the ''Swim'' [=EP=], with five new tracks from the ''Swim''/''Polythene'' sessions.
40	** ''Best Days In The Sun''
41	** ''Picture Of Perfect Youth'' (2004) - a double-disc B-side collection
42	** ''Feeder: The Singles'' (2006) - greatest hits
43	** ''The Best of Feeder / Arrow'' (2017) - greatest hits collection that includes an extra mini-album ''Arrow''
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46	!!Tropes that apply to the band:
47	* AlbumTitleDrop: Most of their albums do this, with only ''Echo Park'' and ''All Bright Electric'' averting it so far.
48	* AudienceParticipationSong: The band turns "Just a Day" into this in every concert.
49	* BSide: ''Picture Of Perfect Youth'', a 2-disc set that covers 36 of their B-sides from the ''Polythene'' to the ''Comfort In Sound' era. Due to how prolific the band was there are still quite a few that were left out of the compilation.
50	* DarkerAndEdgier: While not as heavy as their debut, ''Torpedo'' features more harder and grungy elements compared to their previous albums, with its lyrical content being based on the situation around the world with the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic.
51	* DistinctDoubleAlbum: ''Black/Red'', a double album divided into two sides with nine tracks each, with the "Black" being the grungy hard rock side and the "Red" being the melodic alternative side.
52	* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: ''Polythene'' is much heavier in comparison to the material they would be releasing afterwards, borrowing heavily from the American {{Grunge}} and AlternativeRock scene. Some reviewers at the time alluded them as the UK's answer to Music/TheSmashingPumpkins.
53	* EpicInstrumentalOpener: "Droids" from ''Black/Red'', which is a first for the band.
54	* EpicRocking: "Moonshine", the closer from ''Comfort In Sound'' clock past the six minute mark.
55	** "The Healing" from ''Torpedo'' is also six minutes long, and it also features a darker hard rock passage on the bridge.
56	* GreatestHitsAlbum: ''The Singles'' which contained three new tracks. ''The Best of Feeder/Arrow'' count as well.
57	* HiddenTrack: The original pressings of ''Yesterday Went Too Soon'' have "Bubblehead" hidden after the closer "Paperfaces". It doesn't resemble ''anything'' on the album, sounding more like the songs from Music/{{Beck\|Musician}} or Music/SoulCoughing. This was later subverted once the album was released on streaming services.
58	* LighterAndSofter: ''Pushing the Senses'' and, to a lesser extent, ''Comfort in Sound'' are this to their first three albums, mostly due to Jon Lee's suicide.
59	* LyricalDissonance: "Just a Day" with its uplifting energetic instrumental and its desperate lyrics.
60	* MinimalisticCoverArt: The cover for ''Black/Red'', which is the two colours of the titled being divided diagonally.
61	* MinisculeRocking[=/=]SingleStanzaSong: "20th Century Trip" from ''Polythene'' and the interlude track "Space" from ''Silent Cry''.
62	* MoodWhiplash: Taken to the extreme in ''Comfort in Sound'' with "Godzilla", a noisy grunge song sandwiched in between two softer tracks.
63	* NewSoundAlbum: ''Yesterday Went Too Soon'' trades the fuzzy guitars from ''Polythene'' for a more introspective indie sound while retaining the rockier moments from their debut. ''Echo Park'' leans more towards arena rock. ''Comfort In Sound'' and ''Pushing the Senses'' are softer in comparison to the previous three, [[GriefSong as a response to Jon Lee's suicide]]. With ''Silent Cry'', the band has tried to encompass everything that they have done by that point and since, with ''All Bright Electric'' deviating a bit from the formula by having more folksy elements and ''Tallulah'' and ''Torpedo'' bringing their grungy elements more to forefront in the context of their modern sound.
64	* NothingIsTheSameAnymore: The death of Jon Lee had a massive impact on the band and his legacy still informs the band and their music to this day. The ''Comfort in Sound'' album in particular contains many dark and reflective songs about the tragedy.
65	* PerformanceVideo: The videos for "Pushing The Senses" and "Comfort In Sound".
66	** The video for "Just a Day" takes an interesting spin on this: it's fans miming along to the song in their bedrooms.
67	* PrecisionFStrike: Feeder have only sworn once in a studio recorded song: the single "Day In Day Out" has the lyrics "Taste the ''bullshit'' on a plane, we just pissed our lives away".
68	* ProtestSong: "We Are The People" was seen as an example of this, but "In Times of Crisis" could be seen as a protest to the war in Iraq.
69	* RearrangeTheSong: Whilst it still rocks, the single mix of Shatter was remixed to be less raw and more radio friendly, when compared to the original B-Side/Japanese bonus track version. Noticeably it's less distorted, the percussion panning is different, and the remix removed some shouted lines from the chorus.
70	* SanitySlippageSong: "Descend" from ''Polythene''.
71	* ShoutOut:
72	** [[Music/{{Blondie\|Band}} Debbie Harry]] and actor [[Creator/SteveMcQueenActor Steve McQueen]] in "Under The Weather".
73	** Music/BlackSabbath in "Circles"
74	** In several concerts, the band started "Lost and Found" by playing the riff of Music/FooFighters' "All My Life".
75	* RereleaseTheSong: Two of the band's hits, "Just A Day" and "Shatter", were originally released as B-Sides, but then released as singles in their own right for the ''[[VideoGame/GranTurismo Gran Turismo 3 soundtrack]]'' and ''The Singles'' respectively. At the time of their B-Side releases, fans regarded them as [[WastedSong wasted songs]] and though unrelated, there were band petitions asking for them to be singles.
76	* StopAndGo: "Just a Day" does this, to the point that it's made fun of in the video, which consists entirely of fans rocking out to the song in their bedrooms, and has a group of fans pausing the song at that exact point to have a quick cup of tea before resuming the head banging.
77	* SurrealMusicVideo: ''YOU'' try to make sense to what is happening in the "Buck Rogers" music video.
78	* TitleTrack: "Yesterday Went Too Soon", "Comfort in Sound", "Pushing the Senses", "Silent Cry", "Generation Freakshow" and "Tallulah". Subverted with "Polythene Girl", however.
79	* TwoPartTrilogy: [[WordOfGod According to Grant]], the double album ''Black/Red'' is this, with ''Torpedo'' being the first part of the trilogy.

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