I know YDDD was right. I know that this is going to be incomplete. But here's the best list I could come up with, everything they've got. Stuff not released or on the mp3 site has an asterisk, and anyone with a recording of that song is encouraged to upload it...

(including contributions by jamiecarroll, Tom Foolery, and YaDaDaDa)

Here goes:

The Features Songs
33 1/3
Action
Antigravity Class of 93
Armani Suede
Attention
The Beginning (Week One)
Blow It Out
Bring on the Night
Buffalo Head
Bumblebee
Burma
Button My Shirt
*Captain Williams*
*Christmas* (Thursday re-themed)
Circus
*Could've Been*
D-Con (Radio One)
The Damage is Done
Darkroom
The Design
*Disco*
Discotheque
Don’t Lie to Me
Engine Debris
*Exhibit A*
Exorcising Demons
Extension Cord
God Save Rock ‘n’ Roll
Harold
Hey Lou
*I Won't Let You Down*
The Idea of Growing Old
Jurley
Kari-Anne
Leave It All Behind
Look Out Below
Matt’s Little Ditty
Me and the Skirts
Moonlight
Oh My Love
Paid to Think
*Psycho Santa*
Rabbit March
Roger’s Theme
See You Through
Serious
*"Situation gone bad..."*
*Smooth*
Someway, Somehow
*Soon Discover*
Stagecoach
*Standing By*
Stark White Stork Approaching
*Stick Together*
Temporary Blues
That’s Me
*There's a Million Ways To Sing the Blues (and this ain't one of them)*
Thursday
Treehouse Club
*Try*
Two by Two
*Untitled Christmas Song*
*Untitled Thunder 94 Song*
Waffle House Menu
Walk You Home
*The Way It’s Meant to Be*
*Willie and the Willigers*
Your Smile

Cover Songs
*Allison*
*Femme Fatale*
*Foggy Notion*
Heard It Through the Grapevine
*Hey*
*Hungry Like the Wolf*
*I Feel Fine*
*I'll Be Your Mirror*
*I'm A Boy*
*Jealous Guy*
Jet
Laid
*Like a Virgin*
*M.E.*
Psycho Killer
*Record Stack*
*Sweet Child ‘o Mine*
*Waiting for the Man*
*White Light/White Heat*


So if you know songs that I didn't put on here (and I know you do) then add 'em to it, and we can eventually have something of a full list. Plus this is a good way of determining what songs aren't available on the mp3 site...

Will

(Edited by Wiyum at 8:33 pm on Jan. 12, 2003)

Great job, Wiyum. This will be very helpful when putting together the 2003 FeaturesNCAA Tournament in March.

If we're going to list it all:

I Won't Let You Down (original circa early to mid 2001)
M.E. (Gary Numan cover)
Like a Virgin (Madonna cover)
I'll Be Your Mirror (VU cover)
White Light, White Heat (VU cover)
Femme Fatale (VU cover)
Foggy Notion (VU cover)
Waiting for the Man (VU cover)
I'm a Boy (Who cover)
Hungry Like the Wolf (Duran Duran cover)

Truth be told, YaDaDaDa is probably right. This is likely only the tip of the iceberg. I know that there are lots more covers, and there are surely more obscure older originals, too.

(Edited by jamiecarroll at 7:33 pm on Sep. 24, 2002)

Yeah, I know that as hard as we work, we'll still just have the tip of the iceberg. But we'll at least have that, right?

2003 FeaturesNCAA? This sounds fun.

Will

I would like to add...

an untitled Christmas song from the 12/16/2000 show at the Boro
"Could've Been"
"Soon Discover"
"Standing By"
"Try"
an untitled (possibly impromptu) song played while tuning during the Thunder 94 show

As a side note, is it the goal of the MP3 site to have every known recorded version of each song? For example, I have at least a dozen versions of "See You Through" (two studio versions and ten live versions). Is the site supposed to have all of those or just a generous sampling?

As far as I'm concerned it'd be better to have at least one version of as many songs as we can than a ton of versions of songs that we all have and hear at most shows.

Like this "Stick Together" song. I really wanna hear that. See You Through I know.

Will

Me, too! At the time the band was playing it (summer of 2000, I think), "Stick Together" was my favorite Features song. However, I don't think any recordings of it exist. If someone has it, though, I would go to great lengths to get it.

The last time it was played was 1/12/02 at Blue Cats in Knoxville. That was a re-worked version, though. That song went through a lot of changes.

I seperated Features Songs from Cover Songs as best I could. However, where I screwed up, let me know.

I figured they should be seperate. And Hey Lou may be a cover, but I don't list it as such.

Will

I'm the bad guy?? Actually, I'm big on record-keeping and organization and archives and those sorts of things. Yes, it is a difficult undertaking, but the effort is talley ho! to me.

Jealous Guy should be among the covers. I would also add the song "Christmas", which is "Thursday" with slight, interesting lyric changes. Other than that, it looks good to me.

I've always said a study could be made of Features songs played once or twice and then never played again or morphed into something new. A lot of those songs listed on there are just that. There are countless more.

The main thing holding this list back is the sheer fact that none of us mega-fans have been following the Features much before 99, and they were a very different band before that point. They did have full sets back then, and I'm sure that just like now, the number of songs written far outnumbers what people remember or have studio recordings for.

The list looks as complete as it can be, though.

I remembered 2 more covers. At the Pixies cover show at the Boro, the Features played:

'Hey' & 'Allison'

No, you're not the bad guy. You just said that it couldn't be done. Which is true, but we're doing it anyway.

Hopefully it all works. I've been a fan since '97, but didn't get to see them live until this summer, so yeah, I've no clue whats in their history. It'd be interesting to see how far back everyone here goes, and in what capacity.

How far back does the band go? I remember Spongebath PR that suggested that they started playing in middle school. And I've always thought that Antigravity Class of '93 was played at their/Matt's high school graduation. I know that if Matt is a reliable narrator he would have graduated in '93 because in Serious he claims that he was a sailor in 1982 and that he was only 7. I was born in 1982 and I graduated in 2000, 7 years after 1993... The things I think about sometimes scare me...

Will

The other song that probably isn't on here was a song played in the past year and a half that I've only heard described by the name of the artist who the song reputedly sounds like. I don't think the official title was ever known, but I remember reference to it, if anyone remembers it.

Will

Do you mean 'Disco'? I used to put in the setlist that it sounded like Rod Stewart...

That'd be it.

Will

I think since age 14-15? But not as "The Features". One early name included something bizarre & Latin-sounding that had the initials X.Z. or Z.X. "The Features" was definitely the best choice.

Thats amazing. Were Roger and Parrish involved way back then?

Good God, that's like, half of their lives in this band. What an acheivement...

Will

Matt and Roger have been there since the start.

I have a recording of a song called "boy" too. i don't think that was mentioned.

Are you referring to the cover of "I'm a Boy" on the Thunder 94 show?

I met a guy at Maryville College who remembered the Features playing when he was in high school. I've read the Spongbath PR thing, too. I imagined Roger and Matt and Don Sergio being the core, with Jason Taylor and Parrish joining in as they picked up steam. Maybe it's because of the beard, but Parrish seems a little older than the rest. Rollum is around 22.

Back to this topic...

I listened to an old bootleg this morning during my commute, and I had totally forgotten that they covered Fluid Ounces' "Record Stack", or at least the "La Da Da Da Da" part. Add that to the list.

I edited it to include Record Stack, now you must convert this bootleg into a listenable format. I mean goodness, Fluid Ounces by the Features?

Will

sweet jesus, i need those VU covers

someone please post them!!!!!

Parrish is a year younger than Roger and Matt if I'm correct (and if I'm not up too late and crazy). Roger is definitely 27. I was shocked to hear Parrish was younger. When I first saw the band I thought he was in this 30s. Weird... and that was 7 years ago now!

(Edited by BrianW at 1:01 am on Oct. 3, 2002)

I didn't think Parrish was that old but I did think Rollum was the youngest . I'm so partial to drummers especially ones that kick as much Arse ad Rollum:)

That'd be a pretty short list in my book.

Will

Added "Exhibit A" and "Situation gone bad..." (for lack of an official title) to the list, and took "Me and the Skirts" off of "needs to be mp3'd" status...

Any other bookkeeping to be done, as far as anyone can tell?

Great show tonight, huh?

Will

(Edited by Wiyum at 3:30 am on Dec. 21, 2002)

Added "...Million Ways to Sing..." and "Way Its Meant to Be"

Will

Thanks, Will.

Welcome.

Soon enough, once my life slows down for more than a minute, I'm going to do the afformentioned html version of the song list, complete with first and last appearences of all songs that we have said info for. But it may be awhile before I can take the time to do it. I'm still updating my word document, tho, as far as first and last performances are concerned.

Will