| "Just the Way I'm Feeling" | ||||
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| Single by Feeder | ||||
| from the album Comfort in Sound | ||||
| Released | January 13, 2003 | |||
| Format | CD | |||
| Recorded | 2002 | |||
| Genre |
Alternative Rock, Grunge, Indie rock, Post-Britpop. Length = 4 min 22 s |
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| Label | Echo | |||
| Producer | Grant Nicholas, Gil Norton | |||
| Feeder singles chronology | ||||
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"Just the Way I'm Feeling" is the second single to be released from Feeder's fourth album Comfort In Sound. The single was due to be released on 6 January 2003, almost a year to the day the band's drummer Jon Lee committed suicide in his Miami home. Technical glitches on many on the CDs were found when they came back from the pressing plant, which caused a delay in release. To make up for this the band decided to hold an in-store at HMV, which created the biggest in-store signing event in their history, when 1,500 copies were sold of the single (all the store's stock at the time) and were all signed by the band on the same day, with an acoustic set also performed. This saw the store being closed to the general public and was repeated two years later when the band appeared at the same store on Oxford Street for a signing-only event for their 5th studio album Pushing the Senses, when the store was closed yet again.
One of the b-sides "The Power of Love", is a Frankie Goes to Hollywood cover, and was recorded for the NME's War Child charity album "1 Love".
The song was used as part on New Zealand's TV2 on air identity. "Just the Way I'm Feeling" as a single release, also gave drummer Mark Richardson his first UK top 10 single appearance.
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The video shows various colorized clips of 1920's-1950's movies with various shots of the band playing by day and next by night & finally by day.
A lonely woman looks at the window, watching the rain. Her husband comes home from a rainy day from work. But when the woman, seeing that he's home, is about to look at him, the man runs away who finds another woman who is drowning & the man saves her. A crowd is gathered up to see the event. He saves her, but is hallucinated. The next scene shows the same woman having a dream to a city with various people (such as two men fighting, a tiger running away, etc.). Soon the dream turns into a nightmare. Soon the sky turns red, with another woman in a black swimming suit (who is amazed). Next, a clip with Harry Houndini is committed to sacrifice himself. Shortly after that, the same woman wakes up who is happy to the man is home & soon have fun together on a beach. They come to a plane which leaves home. Soon the man and woman hold hands & look at the skyline as the plane leaves. The video ends with a shot of grass & an old-style The End title appears at the screen.
The single itself charted at #10 at the end of its release week, and gained over 15,000 plays on UK radio.[1] It was also a minor hit in Europe making #34 on the Eurochart top 40. The single also helped the parent album Comfort in Sound, sell over 300,000 units in the UK enabling it to certified platinum. The record reached this required number, when follow-up "Forget About Tomorrow" was released. However, frontman Grant Nicholas once said in an interview that it was this single that helped the album become successful.[2]
"Just The Way I'm Feeling" also appeared at a peak of #41 on XFM's X-List in 2004.
B-side "Broken" was remixed in 2003 by Dutch remixer Junkie XL, changing the name to "Clouds". The song was once again influenced by another artist, when in 2006 Italian singer Zucchero released an album in Italy titled "Fly" and included a track titled "L'amore è nell'aria". The track used exactly the same instrumental but was re-recorded by his band rather than sampled from Feeder's own recording. Grant Nicholas was credited with permission given by the record company nine months before the recording was made.[3]
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