Songbook: The Singles, Vol. 1 [EXPLICIT LYRICS]

Super Furry Animals

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 25, 2005)
• Original Release Date: January 25, 2005
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Explicit Lyrics
• Label: Xl Recordings
• ASIN: B000784WE0
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #120,492 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com
Super Furry Animals are not a band for the frail hearted. Sure, they might have an adorable name and endearingly shaggy manes. Some of their songs even start out sounding a little bit soft and gentle like Coldplay. But then singer Ghruff Rhys throws on an astronaut helmet, starts waving around a light sabre (literally) and soon the whole thing goes ballistic. The psychedelic Welsh quintet has made a career of taking perfectly good pop songs and inverting them violins, horns and magic dust. Songbook: The Singles 1 serves as an introduction to the wobbly world of the group's first six albums, punctuated by odd classics like "Golden Retriever," "Hometown Unicorn" and "Juxtapozed With U" - all of which are indeed actual titles to actual songs. For anyone that thinks they've heard it all, they haven't until they've heard this. --Aidin Vaziri

Product Description
This comprises of 21 of the band's memorable singles taken from six studio albums: "Fuzzy Logic", "Radiator", "Guerrilla", "Rings Around The World", "Mwng", and "Phantom Power". Also includes the original studio version of "The Man Don't Give A Fuck", "Ice Hockey Hair" (never previously featured on an album) and "Blerwytirhwng", from the band's debut pre-Creation EP "llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyndrobwllantysilio-gogogochynygofod (in space)". "Songbook" is also available as a DVD, featuring all the band's videos and a previously unseen 40 minute on-the-road documentary.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

16 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars SFA=OK, February 8, 2005

By	Jakeymon (San Francisco, CA United States) - See all my reviews

The Super Furry Animals are the most important band in the history of music, everywhere, for all time, forever. NO OTHER BAND has made the kind of musical leaps and bounds from album to album while preserving their very own voice. NO OTHER BAND could make otherwise head-bobbing wastrels sing along to songs in Welsh. NO OTHER BAND could make such joyfully depressing songs and be so very right all the time about everything.

People who do not enjoy the Super Furry Animals do not enjoy music. I feel sorry for those people, because not being able to enjoy music is like not being able to see the sun come up.

Some people say that the Super Furries are merely brit-pop, as if they produced the kind of throw-away trash you'd hear on a Blur or Oasis album. These people are foolish. They have been tricked, or misinformed. Take any two SFA albums and listen to them; expand your mind; and learn to sing Beach Boys-type harmonies, in Welsh. Don't listen to silly people who dislike layered music, who don't bother to listen full to SFA before talking about them.

This collection is as good a place to start listening to SFA as any. Everyone should enjoy listening to SFA once and a while or even more often than that. Listen early, and listen often.

SFA=OK

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A greatest hits for SFA...I must be getting old, February 15, 2005

By	MEWZIK - See all my reviews

How can this not be five stars, ya know? I have followed them since Fuzzy Logic and really, they've done no wrong. Their b-sides are better than some bands'a-sides. I am about to purchase the dvd instead with the videos and documentary. As much as I am a fan, listening to their full lengths will always sound better. If you are newly keen on this band, the greatest hits is a great start. If you want to try more, "Radiator" or "Rings Around The World" are definite must-owns.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Irreverent Goodness, March 22, 2005

By	Bret Easton Ellis "AmericanPsycho" (New York, NY USA) - See all my reviews

I had heard about these Welsh guys a long time ago. Entertainment Weekly loved Phantom Power, but I didn't pay attention. Lo and behold, several years have passed and I found out they had a greatest hits cd out. So I preordered it and got it two days ago. Their music has few similarities to bands before them, except for the Beach Boys at times. If the Beach Boys had done this many drugs, maybe I would have liked them too. But Super Furry Animals form very innovative music in the vintage soundscapes they create. I recommend scanning over their razor-sharp witty lyrics while listening. In fact, now I want to learn to speak Welsh just to figure out what exactly they're saying on "Yesbeidiau Heulog", and "Blerwytirhwng?". I'm definitely going to join the SFA cult and if you like music at all, you should too.

Oh, and don't forget to blast "The Man Don't Give A F*ck" down neighborhood streets ;)