SUPER FURRY ANIMALS

Glad I caught them live when I did (once at a record store show around Guerilla and then twice on separate Rings Around the World dates), even though all three shows were good rather than tear-your-head-off great. It does all seem very distant now.

Turrican and afriendlypioneer otm. It's something that's been riling me for the last year. I've religiously seen them on every tour since 1999, collected all the vinyl. Even forked out the high cost of the tix for the 'comeback' show. Which admittedly was brilliant. But when the legacy of that tour is new material in the shape of bing bong (an old studio offcut) and nothing else I'm feeling a little bit had.

I don't want to deny them their opportunity to enhance their pension plans but when it's done in the sort of corporate way that they always seemed to eschew in the past it leaves a slightly sour taste.

I suspect Gruff is the one that doesn't want to make more music and the rest are open to it (Gulp is moderately successful, I guess), but if they're not gonna be an active band I'd rather they just say they're not ever making music again instead of exploiting nostalgia. Radiator is going to be reissued and I really hope they don't do another nostalgia tour 'cause I'm definitely checking out if so.

Sense of betrayal here is palpable and weird.

Just hate seeing the merch flogging going on on their Twitter/Facebook. It's depressing me.

https://twitter.com/superfurry/status/848199583473840129

Children's raves with The Orb, acceptable use of social media.

Another reissue is coming out next month.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B071XBL1SJ/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1497797954&sr=1-2&pi=CB192561891_AA75&keywords=Super+Furry+Animals#featureBulletsAndDetailBullets_secondary_view_div_1497797962411

Interesting to see the fabled Smiths cover on the track list.

Hopefully this is the end of the nostalgia mining, but I do like hearing unreleased stuff.

Probably tour too

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— super furry animals (@superfurry) June 18, 2017

Man, they already toured Radiator in full last year. I really hope the cash grabs are ending. Kind of a sad way for them to go out. Listened to DD/LY a couple days ago and still think it rips.

Nostalgia mining? No way, I'm stoked there'll be a vinyl issue I don't have to pay $150+ for. BRING ON RINGS.

Of course I'm buying it, but it's been nine years since ther last album and they reformed so they could hawk old albums and keep touring old songs? Just seems a little too cynical for one of my favs.

I'm not buying it at all.

Here's the "cover"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-m38RRIx_fY&feature=youtu.be

One of those cases where the mystery was probably more exciting than the reality...

Oh, that's just the three-minute version. There's an eight-minute version as well. lol

https://soundcloud.com/salvolabel/the-boy-with-the-thorn-in-his-side?in=salvolabel/sets/super-furry-animals-the-boy

I remember Gruff talking about this in interviews in the late '90s/early '00s ... it was designed to piss off precious Smiths fans.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osceMOFBic8

They're really pulling up scraps this time.

record new stuff or fuck off forever you hypocrites

I think they're cooked, man. Just giving listless interviews about their past and dismissing any kind of future. Gruff's probably recording another world documentary at the moment.

*sighs*

Gruff's Twitter is actively pushing lots of stuff about Ffa Coffi Pawb lately, so expect that to be next in line.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHQzrL9DnuI

Lot of studio fuckery this time. I guess they were messing around a bit more than they did with Fuzzy Logic.

This "Play it Cool" demo si actually pretty interesting:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0mB5252Nz4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=84&v=G6XK_vIR7eY

oh my, skip to 1:25

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHmBy1QfvzU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=84&v=G6XK_vIR7eY🕸

oh my, skip to 1:25

Maybe it's cos I just turned 50 or cos Chris Martin doesn't do it for me but I can't make out much more than Manchester and let's sing someone else's song. Help an old duffer out here.

Sorry. It's at 45 seconds.

It's difficult to imagine the band being thrilled with that.

I heard Gruff was actually at the show. :\

The mellowing of the mellow.

really strange to see this happening to a band that always seemed so full of ideas and potential

I think it's just easy money for a band that stopped being commercially viable after the early 2000s. Not that puzzling, but sad to see regardless. In any case, I think the majority of people reading this thread think their best days ended in the early 2000s, so... (I'm obviously not one of them)

Next month will mark the 10th anniversary of the release of... Hey Venus!

Christ.

Speaking of that..

Kliph

I have heard the early mix of Baby Ate My Eightball and it is very noisy and distorted and compressed. The whole album was mixed this way before Chris Shaw was brought in to remix it. Some of the songs work being all blown out and distorted and some don't. I'm hoping to do a deluxe Hey Venus! someday and include some of those because I think they're interesting to hear and I think that album never got its just desserts and is due a reappraisal.

:)

To be honest, I wouldn't really want a louder version of that album - the thing is loud enough as it is.

yeah seriously, "Suckers" is tough to listen to in particular (though I kind of like it even though Gruff hates it, iirc?)

'Suckers!' is the only track that didn't get remixed!

lol in that case I really do not need to hear the rest of the album done in that style

I agree... from the sounds of it, Chris Shaw saved the record from being a sonic travesty.

It was mixed by the guy who produces BSS, right?

I like the album a lot. It's much better than Love Kraft. Got a couple duds, but I think it's held up better than its predecessor.

Yeah.

If I'm going to listen to anything by this band, and I very rarely do these days, it's gonna be stuff from 1994-2004.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=84&v=G6XK_vIR7eY🕸

oh my, skip to 1:25

Ah thanks. Destroy has to be up there in the top 5 SFA songs. Would be happy to run a ballot poll but stuff seems locked down for an eternity hence already.

Still rep for HV and DDLY. Love Kraft can go eat a turd.

I prefer LK to either of those :/

prefer Love Kraft to all their other albums

hopefully there will now be multi-post breakdown explaining why this opinion is factually wrong

Normally I would, but... meh, I'm struggling to find the enthusiasm to do so. They were a phenomenal band up to that point, though - in hindsight, it was perhaps a bit naïve of me to think they could have kept up that quality forever.

Love Kraft is probably their worst album, but still very good. "Zoom" is up there with their best songs. A lot of the rest of the album is just a bit flat, there's not a whole lot that really stands out, though I enjoy it anyway and certainly listened to the album a lot back when it was released.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VXsAiNdelk

I wish Gruff could write songs as good as this again. There was a period where he really was one of our greatest living songwriters.

Whoops:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQGnXbeO8AU

'Slow Life' was where it peaked - in hindsight, that would have been the best place to leave it.

A Would be happy to run a ballot poll but stuff seems locked down for an eternity hence already.

― wtev, Tuesday, July 18, 2017 1:42 PM

i hope you do this. they became my favorite band after The Boo Radleys broke up and love them immensely. i almost added this to the artist ballot list but backed out because i'm not sure how much interest there would be for this poll. to tell you the truth i signed up for Suede instead. don't worry about the back log as many people have dropped off and you might be able jump the queue. wtev, have you posted under a different name on ILx? you sound like you have been around...