Artist – Album: Super Furry Animals – Fuzzy Logic
Released: 20th
May 1996
Sounds Like: The
band don’t give a f**k about anybody else
The importance of grammar cannot be understated. For
example, there are Supergroups, such as Derek and the Dominos, Humble Pie and
Them Crooked Vultures; there are super groups, such as The Beatles, The Beach
Boys and Spoon; and there are Super- Groups – Supergrass and Super Furry
Animals. That’s not to say you can’t fall into more than one of these
categories: Broken Social Scene and Cream are both collections of already
established stars that just so happen to also be super. Likewise, whether they’re
actually furry, or indeed animals, is up for debate, but SFA fully deserve at
least the first of their third word label.
Performing guitar based rock and demonstrating a love for
the sixties, the band quickly assimilated itself with the Britpop movement.
However, being from Cardiff, they were far removed from their London/North West
focused contemporaries, and the band quickly developed their experimental rock
and psychedelic tendencies into much more interesting places. Next to the
straightforward, catchy punk pop of ‘God!
Show Me Magic’, there’s the indie anthem ‘Something for the Weekend’ and the beautiful psychedelia of ‘Hometown Unicorn’ and ‘If You Don’t Want Me to Destroy You’.
With a song about Howard Marks and the self same infamous
drug smuggling Mr Nice making up the album cover collage, as well as lyrics
such as “first time, I did it for the hell of it, stuck it on my tongue and
then swallowed it”, prolific drug use is never from the menu. At times the
songs are hallucinogenic and the album can be patchy – fuzzy if you will – but it
remains one of the best debut albums of the nineties.
Albumaday... rating: 8/10
1. God!
Show Me Magic – 1:50
2. Fuzzy
Birds – 2:27
3. Something
for the Weekend – 2:34
4. Frisbee
– 2:21
5. Hometown
Unicorn – 3:33
6. Gathering
Moss – 3:22
7. If
You Don’t Want Me to Destroy You – 3:17
8. Bad
Bahaviour – 4:26
9. Mario
Man – 4:07
10. Hangin’
with Howard Marks – 4:20
11. Long
Gone – 5:20
12. For
Now and Ever – 3:32
Listen to ‘Hometown
Unicorn’: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zxXF0B_SyM
Also released on the 20th May:
1997: Foo Fighters – The Colour and the Shape
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