Redraw of Super Furry Animals - Radiator
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Roedd hynny'r hen fand o Huw Bunford, guitarist yn Super Furry Animals, pan oedd e'n ifanc ac yn yr ysgol. Dyma eu sengl ar gyfer Ankst Records, yn 1988. Wnaeth Emyr Glyn Williams, sylfanydd Ankst Records farw yn gynharach yr wythnos hon, so ro'n i'n gwrando ar y bandiau sy wedi recordio ar Ankst.
Geiriau - ‘Cau fy Llygaid’
Cydio’n dynn ar y lleddfwr perffaith hyn
Dal, dal am byth yn fy ngwrthrych
Cael, cael derbyn yn hael
Rhoi, rhoi yn ddiymdroi
Pan fyddi’n wan pan gria di
Sychaf betalau dy ddagrau di
A phan fyddai’n ddi-asgwrn cefn
Gwna di’r un peth i fi
Daliaf daliaf fel plentyn bach arnat ti fel awyr iach
Daliaf daliaf fel plentyn bach arnat ti fel awyr iach
Pan fyddi’n wan pan gria di
Sychaf betalau dy ddagrau di
A phan fyddai’n ddi-asgwrn cefn
Gwna di’r un peth i fi
Daliaf daliaf fel plentyn bach arnat ti fel awyr iach
Daliaf daliaf fel plentyn bach arnat ti fel awyr iach
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Advert for Virgin Megastores, featuring Primal Scream and Super Furry Animals.
Q Magazine, October 1998. Scanned by me.
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This is gonna be an odd pick, but another one of me gushing about welsh boys in bands: Gruff Rhys from Super Furry Animals. He was REALLY cute in the 90’s!
Very much so!
So far the chances of him making it into the upcoming tournament are kind of slim, but he deserves a shout-out for sure!
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"Phone me, page me, fax me till I'm silly" is a fucking elite line I don't make the rules
also the song is great give it a listen
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Films Watched in 2023:
69. 9 Songs (2004) - Dir. Michael Winterbottom
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We could live it large because we're only old once.
Let's make a difference..
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HONORABLE MENTION
"Best Mindfuck Yet" by Das Koolies
DV:
By far the oldest song we've ever included in SOTY and not one I wanted to bend the rules to add to the list proper, "Best Mindfuck Yet" is also too good to let pass unacknowledged. I say "oldest" because this was a set-closer for Super Furry Animals back in 2001-2002, and I first heard it as a bootleg not long after. But then SFA went back to using "The Man Don't Give a Fuck" as their closer and then they broke up, and it seemed like this would wind up in the same dustbin as songs like "Head First" or never-completed side projects with names like, well, "Das Koolies."
Yet here we two decades later and not only is Das Koolies (all of SFA except Gruff Rhys) now a real group that released an album, they included a pared down version of "Best Mindfuck Yet" on it. The surprising thing to me is that even after all this time, and even stripped of about half the chaos that live version had it still works - anchored by both a hell of a sample in the title and by Cian Ciaran's basic track, which pares things down to the foundation from the turn of the century, while the live instrumentation maintains enough of the anarchy and squelch of the original to still sound wild.
What's interesting about the song, beyond its status as an idiosyncratic banger, is its liminal status. This isn't quite "Best Mindfuck Yet (Das Koolies Version)", because there never was a SFA release for it to replace. It's not quite a "From the Vault" style bonus track, because there was a live version that got bootlegged multiple times and has been widely circulated. And it's also not quite a "performed by the original recording artist" redo that bands have released since at least the 1970s, because as much as Das Koolies are targeting SFA fans, no one's really pretending it's by the "original artist." Yet "Best Mindfuck Yet" is also to some extent comparable to each of these things, even if it's also something entirely different and perhaps unique - a best mindfuck yet in both form and function, which is probably the most SFA-esque thing about it. Whatever it might be, I'm glad to have a fully mastered version of a banger I've enjoyed for most of my life, even if I do wish Das Koolies had fully committed and dropped a fifteen-minute-full-chaos version to outdo the live bootlegs. And ultimately I'm thankful to "Best Mindfuck Yet" for clarifying at least one question, if there was any doubt: Super Furry Animals were absolutely a jam band.
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super furry animals -- she's got spies
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10/8/23.
Every once in a while I'll come across a best of compilation of a band I'd never heard of. The Loves "True Love - The Most of The Loves" is just such an example.
The Loves are based in Cardiff, Wales and have been active since the early 2000s. Given my love of Super Furry Animals, and Gorky's Zygotic Mynci I would have thought I would have at least heard of this band.
The Bandcamp page states that Huw Stephens (BBC session producer for Standard Fare) called The Loves "the indie-est band in the world". Besides Super Furry Animals, I can hear early Wilco, The Aislers Set and Saturday Looks Good To Me.
This is being released by Cardiff based label Daytrip Records.
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Super Furry Animals. Rings Around the World,2001.
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This song is a perfect encapsulation of being frustrated with the mundane.
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Advert for Move, featuring Manic Street Preachers, Super Furry Animals, and The Charlatans
NME, 29 March 2003. Scanned by me.
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