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Crazy Rhythms is the debut studio album by American rock band the Feelies. It was released in the United Kingdom on February 29, 1980, and in the United States in April 1980, through British record label Stiff. Its fusion of post punk and jangle pop was influential on the forthcoming alternative rock genre, with R. E. M., among others, citing the album as an influence. Although it was not commercially successful initially, it has remained critically lauded in the decades since its release.

On the album, band member Glenn Mercer has said "The sound we were after was a reaction against the punk scene [ ] Being a little older, we felt it had all been done before. We wanted the guitars to be cleaner, and we started experimenting with a lot of percussion."

The first release on CD was in Germany and the United States in 1986. A&M Records released the album on CD in 1990 with a bonus track, a cover of The Rolling Stones' "Paint It Black". The track was recorded in 1990 without Fier or DeNunzio. Bar/None Records reissued Crazy Rhythms on September 8, 2009, while Domino Records reissued the album outside of the U. S. and Canada.

Although not a commercial success, Crazy Rhythms was critically acclaimed on release. Paul Du Noyer of NME said that the record was "a very good album. I think it might even be a great one." He observed that the band "sound like Jonathan Richman trying to sound like the Velvet Underground", as well as Talking Heads, but that "somehow the way they are so derivative is part of the Feelies' appeal". Du Noyer described the music as "a kind of cleanly suburban rock'n'roll which is simultaneously intense and simplistic" and that the band seemed like "boys next door" but "they're nothing of the sort". In a five star review in Sounds, Pete Silverton observed that for him, the album only worked when he listened to it alone, not with company, and that it blended "the drive of Richman's 'Roadrunner' and some of the tense meanderings of Television". He summed up the album as "all light and fun over driving but muted city beats – a little jazz here, a little Latin American there and virtually no rock and roll; most every rhythmic play you can hear on New York radio, topped by cool, calm and collected vocals". David Hepworth, in Smash Hits, wrote that the band "have the power to really draw you into their strange little suburban world." Melody Makers James Truman was less enthused, stating that the band's aim was to achieve a balance of being "intellectual, neurotic cissy" and ironic "Good American", but that at times "Crazy Rhythms pushes too hard to get the balance right and falls uneasily between a send up and a put on, a masterpiece and an attractive, disposable novelty". Truman said that the album had "a fussier, more detailed sound than it needed", and concluded, "Conceptualists will love the Feelies I just wish they'd come on a little less coy and clever." Crazy Rhythms was placed at number 17 in The Village Voices annual Pazz & Jop critics' poll, beating out such notable critics' favorites as David Bowie's Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps), Joy Division's Closer, and The Specials' debut album. In their retrospective review, The Guardian called Crazy Rhythms "one of those albums during whose course you hear the most exciting sound in music: things changing." Crazy Rhythms was ranked number 49 in Rolling Stone's list of the 100 best albums of the 1980s, In 2020, Rolling Stone included Crazy Rhythms in their "80 Greatest albums of 1980" list. In September 2009 the album was performed live in its entirety as part of the All Tomorrow's Parties curated Don't Look Back series.

The cover to Weezer's first album (1994) has been frequently compared to Crazy Rhythms.