Just the Way I'm Feeling

"Just the Way I'm Feeling" is a song by Welsh rock band Feeder, released as the second single from their fourth album, Comfort in Sound. The song reached number 10 on the UK Singles Chart, giving drummer Mark Richardson his first UK top-ten appearance with the band.

"Just the Way I'm Feeling"
Single by Feeder
from the album Comfort in Sound
Released13 January 2003[1]
Recorded2002
Genre
Length4:22
LabelEcho
Songwriter(s)Grant Nicholas
Producer(s)
Feeder singles chronology
"Come Back Around"
(2002)		 "Just the Way I'm Feeling"
(2003)		 "Forget About Tomorrow"
(2003)

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.

Music video

The video shows various colourised clips of 1920s-1960s movies with various shots of the band playing by day and next by night and finally by day. The man in the suit and kiss of life sequence are taken from a public information first aid film called "Don't let him die".

Synopsis

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 and 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 Houdini is committed to sacrifice himself. Shortly after that, the same woman wakes up who is happy to the man is home and soon have fun together on a beach. They come to a plane which leaves home. Soon the man and woman hold hands and look at the skyline as the plane leaves. The video ends with a shot of grass and an old-style "The End" title appears on the screen.

Reception

The single itself charted at number 10 at the end of its release week, and gained over 15,000 plays on UK radio.[2] The single 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.[3]

"Just the Way I'm Feeling" also peaked at 41 on XFM's X-List in 2004.

B-side: "Broken"

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.[4]

Track listings

Charts

References
  1. "Australian-charts.com – Feeder – Just the Way I'm Feeling". ARIA Top 50 Singles. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
  2. Feeder Anorak Forget About Tomorrow promo single inlay 2003 Archived 15 December 2007 at the Wayback Machine
  3. "Band info". feederweb.com. Archived from the original on 7 February 2005. Retrieved 1 March 2007.
  4. proboards forum - Feeder Anorak Feeder Fan Site message board discussion thread
  5. Just the Way I'm Feeling (UK DVD single). Feeder. Echo Records. 2003. ECSDV 133.CS1 maint: others (link)
  6. Just the Way I'm Feeling (Australian & New Zealand maxi-single liner notes). Feeder. Echo Records. 2003. ECSCD133.CS1 maint: others (link)
  7. "Eurochart Hot 100 Singles" (PDF). Music & Media. Vol. 21 no. 6. 1 February 2003. p. 11. Retrieved 30 July 2020.
  8. "Official Scottish Singles Sales Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 5 December 2018.
  9. "Official Singles Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 5 December 2018.
  10. "Official Independent Singles Chart Top 50". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 5 December 2018.
  11. "The Official UK Singles Chart 2003" (PDF). UKChartsPlus. Retrieved 5 December 2018.
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