what's next, Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band?

I bought a few of their CDs over the years because I like a song or two, but I rarely played them in their entirety. Their material just wasn't strong or interesting enough to me. Sadly, Little Feat is one of those groups that works better on a "Greatest Hits" CD.

The obvious choice missing from your list is "Waiting for Columbus," their live double album that's always been one of my favorites. Go listen to it right now and tell me I'm wrong.

The correct answer to this is always "go ask your dad and then sit down for the 30 minute lecture on the missed genius of Little Feat."

@ 3 - spot on - "Waiting for Columbus" is their best album . . Rollllll another one. . .

@3 100% correct. It's a great live performance of their greatest hits. They really were/are a live band, not a studio creation.

The Stranger music "criticism" is more concerned with style over substance. That is the image of the Musicians versus the actual music.

e.g. Instant dis-qualifiers: Not punk or post punk, Dad Music, musicians without tattoos and musicians who might not be cool to affluent hipsters.

rural rock = country music.

I'm not the biggest fan of country music.

@8 agreed. I love music, but I go to Absolute Punk, Metacritic, Allmusic or Pitchfork to read about it. I'd read about the Replacements reunion show in July, but I will never have enough time to read a recap of the Little Feat catalog. I'll read a hundred Brissey posts about nothing, but I was looking for the I don't give a fuck option in this poll.

Jesus, what a waste of 6 hours.
Find something useful to do Mike.

Great live band. I think Lowell also produced The Dead's Shakedown Street. Another band that, with a a few exceptions, sucked in the studio but were fun live. Most of the time.

Along w/the other... LaborGoon has it right: Waiting For Columbus is the best (and, really, the only Little Feat album you need).

As Sir Vic notes, LF was a live act not a studio one.

Little Feat must be listened to at a kegger in a corn field. Otherwise they are pointless.

@4 my dad was a greaser in the '50s. If we talk music we talk about rock-a-billy and black R&B; everything '50s is "dad music" to me so nothing late '60s or '70s pop makes me think "dad"...Rumors era Fleetwood Mac, Graceland, nor James Taylor was heard in my house.

@8 see my response regarding this "dad music" you speak of. I'm a dad myself and easily 15 years old than most hipsters. In fact, when I was a kid hipsters were low hung flairs.

@3 & @5 I'll check it out WfC - I figured there MUST be a reason the group kept their label's interest, even during the early '70s when EVERYONE seemed to make a record on Warner, only a few made it past the also-ran tag. THANKS for the heads up.

Best album? Probably "Paris 1919" by John Cale, on which members of Little Feat played.