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Product Details

  • Audio CD (July 4, 2000)
  • Original Release Date: June 20, 2000
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Flydaddy Records
  • ASIN: B00004T8J5
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #142,951 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Disc: 1
1. Drygioni (Badness)
2. Ymaelodi A'r Ymylon (Joining the Periphery)
3. Y Gwyneb Iau (Liverface)
4. Dacw Hi (There She Is)
5. Nythod Cacwn (Beehives)
6. Pan Ddaw'r Wawr (When Dawn Breaks)
7. Ysbeidiau Heulog (Sunny Intervals)
8. Y Teimlad (The Feeling)
9. Sarn Helen
10. Gwreiddiau Dwfn (Deep Roots) and `Mawrth Oer Ar Y Blaned Neifion' (Cold Mars on Neptune)
Disc: 2
1. Cryndod yn Dy Lais
2. Trons Mr Urdd
3. Calimero
4. Sali Mali
5. (Nid) Hon Yw'r Gan Sy'n Mynd i Achub yr Iaith

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars How can this be?, July 6, 2000
How can an album entirely in Welsh, a language I do not understand a word of, strike a chord and sound as beautiful and meaningful as The Beach Boys, The Beatles and Neil Young? The Furries might be most loved for being the psychedelic Welsh Kinks, but this is their most beautiful moment to date. Fan or not, you can't help but be seduced by these tunes. Gruff's voice is at its finest and the melodies on this album bring to mind Brian Wilson, Lennon & McCartney, Scott Walker and later day Byrds.

Best thing about this record? Apart from the twinkling delicate beauty of the music, you can always sit back, skin up and imagine you know exactly what they're singing about.

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars What else would you expect from SFA but brilliance?, June 26, 2000
After 1999's brilliant Geurilla (album of the year? probably) I couldn't wait for Mwng (translates as Mane, as in the mane of the lion-a super furry animal!). This album is in their native language of Welsh and in the style of the 1960's.

Whether it is the opening (Badness) punkish stomper or the Beatles/Beach Boys/Love haunting of 'Joining the Periphery' you're listening to (or any of the other numbers) you'll soon find yourself singing along (doing your best with the Welsh words) because you may not understand what you're saying, but its SO catchy.

Many of the more contemporary sounds we've come to expect of the Furries aren't present (there is no techno stomper on the level of the last album's 'Mobile Phone') but do make some cameos, ie the vocoded bits on 'Sunny Intervals.'

That said, if you like exciting and interesting music that is breaking new ground or just super catchy pop or if you really loved the more traditional numbers on Guerilla like 'The Turning Tides,' 'Northern Lites,' 'The Teacher,' or 'Fire in my Heart' you should love this.

Strangely, the SFAs have yet to dent the POP! market outside of England (maybe Gruff's thick accent is why). If you give them a chance, they should dent your conscience and you're heart. Before you know it you'll be walking around saying things like "Ysbeidiau Heulog." Stranger things have happened.

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Welsh wizardry, June 21, 2000
By Alun Jones (Y Felinheli, Wales) - See all my reviews
Mwng is Welsh band Super Furry Animals' fourth studio album, but their first solely in their native Welsh language, and it's absolutely brilliant. Musically mature, and lyrically bizzare (as usual). What sets this album apart from the others are the melodies which seem to come in an endless supply.

Highlights are Track 6 'Pan ddaw'r wawr' (When dawn breaks) which has what is musically the Super Furry Animals' gene sound. Highlight of the second half is the blinding finale 'Gwreiddiau dwfn, Mawrth oer ar y blaned Neifion', translation too bizzare to mention here. It is an epic of early Neil Young proportions.

Buy this CD and get a taste of Welsh culture through the eyes of doped up twenty first century radicals. Long may they run.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Rare Welsh Bits
In the notes to the second song, Ymaelodi A'r Ymylon (Joining the Periphery or Banished to the Periphery) Gruff says "It's partly about our experiences of doing taboo moves like... Read more
Published on September 8, 2004 by Michael Crowley

5.0 out of 5 stars Basic Animal Instict
Recorded in their native tongue Welsh and on a shoe-string budget financed by their very own label, this record represented a back to basics policy for the furries - in comparison... Read more
Published on August 12, 2002

5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant...absolutely brilliant...
When I first got this CD, I was like "Eh, not gonna listen to it." But one day, on a whim, I put it in, and there was Gruff's voice singing with soul and passion and all... Read more
Published on February 26, 2001 by quiet_tempest

2.0 out of 5 stars they've lost it...
I bought this record hoping to receive a bit of weirdness and originality and having now listened to it I have to say that it really labbs big time! Read more
Published on August 25, 2000 by The unbelievable truth

5.0 out of 5 stars "MWNG" - translated - BRILLIANT!
Well this band continues their run of coming out with original, heartfelt, fun, dynamic, and truley alternative music. Read more
Published on June 26, 2000 by Cary S. Whitt

5.0 out of 5 stars Another Psych Pop Masterpeice
Super Furry Animals Return with yet another outstanding pop album. MWNG continues on in their tradition of taking pop based songs and infusing all different styles. Read more
Published on June 26, 2000 by goatkilla

4.0 out of 5 stars joining the periphery
the furry's have done just that with the first ever all Welsh record (that i am aware of ha ha ha). however, just because only about a million people in the world can understand... Read more
Published on June 24, 2000 by M. D. Wainwright

5.0 out of 5 stars i want $50!
it's the new SFA album, and it's belated US release is compensated by an excellent bonus cd containing SFA's best b-sides not on their b-sides compilations. Read more
Published on June 23, 2000 by calimero

4.0 out of 5 stars Breaking communication barriers thru the language of sound!
Although not as "hard" rockin' as their English albums, the Welsh group Super Furry Animals' latest release, "Mwng," is definitely worth listening to! Read more
Published on June 21, 2000 by lori

4.0 out of 5 stars The Placid Casual
If you aren't a follower of super furry fuzzy logic Mwng isn't the best place to start. Sung entirely in Welsh Mwng is SFA continuing down their different river. Read more
Published on June 21, 2000 by ancil

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