The sun's not out at the moment, it's freezing, and it's blowing a gale outside, but inside my heart it's Summer. Why? Cos I'm listening to The Super Furry Animals, that's why!
I've done this mix, a kind of "best of" SFA, and it was hard going narrowing the tracks down to include. I put all the albums on my MP3 player and rocked them back to back and I was surprised at the consistency. Before listening to them I was of the opinion that they tailed off towards the last few, but on relistening they're all pretty amazing, all having two or three absolutely essential tracks. The newest album has quickly become one of my favourite albums of theirs (shown by the number of tracks I felt had to be in the mix off it, though maybe that's because they're still fresh - but then again, every SFA track sounds fresh). Which is extraordinary for a group of such long standing. I also wanted to represent the side projects, thus increasing the amount of tunes I had to choose from. Plus b-sides. And all down to 80 minutes or less. I wasn't helped by my decision to bookmark the entire mix with Neon Neon's "Stainless Style": a personal indulgence, a track for the way I feel right now... I also decided to have at least one track from each album, which wasn't much of a problem, given the quality throughout. My one regret being that I couldn't fit on any Gruff Rhys solo stuff, but something had to give.
Here's the tracklist (all by SFA except where stated, also included where they can be found)
Neon Neon - Stainless Style (from Stainless Style)
Fire In My Heart (from Guerilla)
Fuzzy Birds (from Fuzzy Logic)
Acid Casuals - "Y Ferch Ar Y Cei Yn Rio" (from Omni)
Gwreiddiau DWFN Mawrth Oer Ar Y Blaned Neifion (from MWNG)
Neon Neon - Dream Girls (from Stainless Style)
Inaugural Trams (from Dark Days/Light Years)
Lazer Beam (from Love Kraft)
Wrap It Up (from The International Language of Screaming single)
Out Of Control (from Phantom Power)
Calimero - (from Hermann Loves Pauline Single)
Bad Behaviour (from Fuzzy Logic)
The Man Don't Give a Fuck (from Outspaced)
Chewing Chewing Gum (from Guerilla)
Where Do You Wanna Go? (from Dark Days/Light Years)
Ice Hockey Hair (from Ice Hockey Hair EP)
Suckers (from Hey! Venus)
(Drawing) Rings Around The World (from Rings Around the World)
Neon Neon - Michael Douglas (from Stainless Style)
Pric (from Dark Days/Light Years)
The Undefeated (from Phantom Power)
Neon Neon - Stainless Style (from Stainless Style)
And here's the link - enjoy - http://rapidshare.com/files/213331051/sfamix.mp3
I've done this mix, a kind of "best of" SFA, and it was hard going narrowing the tracks down to include. I put all the albums on my MP3 player and rocked them back to back and I was surprised at the consistency. Before listening to them I was of the opinion that they tailed off towards the last few, but on relistening they're all pretty amazing, all having two or three absolutely essential tracks. The newest album has quickly become one of my favourite albums of theirs (shown by the number of tracks I felt had to be in the mix off it, though maybe that's because they're still fresh - but then again, every SFA track sounds fresh). Which is extraordinary for a group of such long standing. I also wanted to represent the side projects, thus increasing the amount of tunes I had to choose from. Plus b-sides. And all down to 80 minutes or less. I wasn't helped by my decision to bookmark the entire mix with Neon Neon's "Stainless Style": a personal indulgence, a track for the way I feel right now... I also decided to have at least one track from each album, which wasn't much of a problem, given the quality throughout. My one regret being that I couldn't fit on any Gruff Rhys solo stuff, but something had to give.
Here's the tracklist (all by SFA except where stated, also included where they can be found)
Neon Neon - Stainless Style (from Stainless Style)
Fire In My Heart (from Guerilla)
Fuzzy Birds (from Fuzzy Logic)
Acid Casuals - "Y Ferch Ar Y Cei Yn Rio" (from Omni)
Gwreiddiau DWFN Mawrth Oer Ar Y Blaned Neifion (from MWNG)
Neon Neon - Dream Girls (from Stainless Style)
Inaugural Trams (from Dark Days/Light Years)
Lazer Beam (from Love Kraft)
Wrap It Up (from The International Language of Screaming single)
Out Of Control (from Phantom Power)
Calimero - (from Hermann Loves Pauline Single)
Bad Behaviour (from Fuzzy Logic)
The Man Don't Give a Fuck (from Outspaced)
Chewing Chewing Gum (from Guerilla)
Where Do You Wanna Go? (from Dark Days/Light Years)
Ice Hockey Hair (from Ice Hockey Hair EP)
Suckers (from Hey! Venus)
(Drawing) Rings Around The World (from Rings Around the World)
Neon Neon - Michael Douglas (from Stainless Style)
Pric (from Dark Days/Light Years)
The Undefeated (from Phantom Power)
Neon Neon - Stainless Style (from Stainless Style)
And here's the link - enjoy - http://rapidshare.com/files/213331051/sfamix.mp3
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