Has anyone else even come close to being this prolific AND this damn good?zeppelin
― kamerad, Thursday, 26 March 2009 14:23 (fifteen years ago) link
Has anyone else even come close to being this prolific AND this damn good?
The Beatles! Recording career of 7 1/2 years!
― nate woolls, Thursday, 26 March 2009 14:28 (fifteen years ago) link
Very few of these records are uninteresting and some are more consistent than others. But Rings is the place where their two defining qualities—their eclecticism and tunefulness—come together best.
― Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 26 March 2009 14:40 (fifteen years ago) link
voted phantom power partly so it'll get a vote and partly because I think it might actually be my favorite. anyway they don't have a bad album imo.
― iatee, Thursday, 26 March 2009 14:48 (fifteen years ago) link
LoveKraft isn't getting a vote, right?
― Mark G, Thursday, 26 March 2009 14:59 (fifteen years ago) link
Love Kraft gets a bad rap unnecessarily, prob bc it has a lot of long, slower orchestral numbers. But I think it's quite good.
― Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 26 March 2009 15:18 (fifteen years ago) link
I should qualify that I meant during the same time period; i.e. since 1996.
― Sickamous Mouthall (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 26 March 2009 15:30 (fifteen years ago) link
Its about time for another SFA love-in, isn't it? I think I'm going to listen to these all today.
― legendary North American forest ape (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 26 March 2009 15:35 (fifteen years ago) link
love kraft is great, I like pretty much every song on it
― iatee, Thursday, 26 March 2009 16:35 (fifteen years ago) link
which I couldn't say about radiator or guerrilla
(it just doesn't have their peaks)
― iatee, Thursday, 26 March 2009 16:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Just burning this for the car:
The Man Don't Give A Fuck 4:50 Super Furry Animals Out SpacedDo Or Die 1:59 Super Furry Animals GuerrillaGolden Retriever 2:28 Super Furry Animals Phantom PowerThe International Language Of Screaming 2:14 Super Furry Animals RadiatorThe Piccolo Snare 6:09 Super Furry Animals Phantom PowerThe Very Best Of Neil Diamond 4:14 Super Furry Animals Dark Days/Light YearsPlay It Cool 3:15 Super Furry Animals RadiatorValet Parking 4:35 Super Furry Animals Phantom Power(Drawing) Rings Around The World 3:30 Super Furry Animals Rings Around The WorldNeo Consumer 2:04 Super Furry Animals Hey Venus!The Teacher 2:31 Super Furry Animals GuerrillaJuxtapozed With U 3:09 Super Furry Animals Rings Around The WorldInaugural Trams 5:20 Super Furry Animals Dark Days/Light YearsNorthern Lites 3:30 Super Furry Animals GuerrillaThe Placid Casual 2:49 Super Furry Animals RadiatorBaby Ate My Eightball 3:35 Super Furry Animals Hey Venus!Hermann Loves Pauline 4:44 Super Furry Animals RadiatorSmokin' 5:03 Super Furry Animals Out SpacedNight Vision 4:41 Super Furry Animals GuerrillaDemons 5:12 Super Furry Animals Radiator
― Sickamous Mouthall (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 26 March 2009 16:37 (fifteen years ago) link
And now I realise that without Ice Hockey Hair, Mwyng, or Fuzzy Logic on my work computer it will forever be incomplete. Must bring and rip them tomorrow.
― Sickamous Mouthall (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 26 March 2009 16:44 (fifteen years ago) link
Hey Mouthy, did you receive the SS links for my additions to your rooms/doors comp a few days ago? I guess there's been some issues with webmail..
― 2 ears + 1 ❤ (Pillbox), Thursday, 26 March 2009 17:00 (fifteen years ago) link
Nope, 'fraid not - did you try sickmouthy at gmail dot com?
― Sickamous Mouthall (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 26 March 2009 17:04 (fifteen years ago) link
Nope. I will resend later today, tho.
― 2 ears + 1 ❤ (Pillbox), Thursday, 26 March 2009 17:11 (fifteen years ago) link
Wicked, thank you.
― Sickamous Mouthall (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 26 March 2009 17:11 (fifteen years ago) link
Mwng, edging out the first two. The rest all seems good enough to listen to if need be...
I never did manage to hear the hidden track on Guerilla, and have to get around to that someday.
― dlp9001, Friday, 27 March 2009 02:44 (fifteen years ago) link
I love Love Kraft; the only track I don't like is "Back on a Roll." "Lazer Beam" was a weak-ass single, but is worth it for the intro rant.
― Simon H., Friday, 27 March 2009 03:04 (fifteen years ago) link
Rings or Guerilla for me, though I had to pick one and chose Rings. Love Kraft has always been very underrated, it was just too similar and not as as good as what they did on Rings a few years before.
I see their reputation in the coming years becoming that of XTC today: viewing them as sort of pop maestros who produced great songs with such versatility and consistency that you would've thought they were under pressure to keep up the quality - only to find out that they weren't under such "biggest band in the UK" pressure but that they just made being classic look effortless.
― Cunga, Friday, 27 March 2009 03:22 (fifteen years ago) link
RATW.
I see their reputation in the coming years becoming that of XTC today
i feel this is an excellent comparison, yet discouraging to me. sfa are better. and i like xtc an awful lot.
― iro with the brown bag (Hunt3r), Friday, 27 March 2009 03:35 (fifteen years ago) link
I know, ideally they'll be recognized as the greats they are by all who love wonderful pop music, but XTC seems to have had a similar career path.
― Cunga, Friday, 27 March 2009 03:37 (fifteen years ago) link
I should qualify that I meant during the same time period; i.e. since 1996are you serious? pj harvey? justin broadrick?
― kamerad, Friday, 27 March 2009 04:27 (fifteen years ago) link
Well, since 1996 PJ Harvey has released Louse Point, Is This Desire, Stories, Uh Huh Her, White Chalk, and (next week) A Man A Woman Walked By. That's 6 compared to 10, and while the quality of those albums is very high, I think SFA are as good if not better, and they also never had a fallow period with no new material as long as PJ did between Stories and Uh Huh Her / Uh Huh Her and White Chalk (3-4 year gaps each). SFA did an album a year for the first five years of their career, and one ever two years like clockwork since then.
Justin Broadrick I've never even heard of, so...
― Sickamous Mouthall (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 27 March 2009 07:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Justin Broadrick is dude from Godflesh, Jesu, and others.Kind of hard to compare as he's an entirely different can of soup
― turtles all the way down (Face of Wolf), Friday, 27 March 2009 07:45 (fifteen years ago) link
My ranking:
RadiatorPhantom PowerRings Around The WorldLove KraftFuzzy LogicGuerrillaHey VenusMwngOut Spaced
― Geir Hongro, Friday, 27 March 2009 10:32 (fifteen years ago) link
it would go something like this (been a fan since the beginning):
1. Radiator2. Guerrilla3. Rings Around The World4. Mwng5. Phantom Power6. Fuzzy Logic
7. Love Kraft8. Hey Venus!
leaving out Out Spaced because i own all those singles and have never heard that compilation. if i made a b-sides compilation it would probably rank number one.
― Bee OK, Sunday, 29 March 2009 04:43 (fifteen years ago) link
Radiator is the best and probably always will be. Phantom Power second and Rings Around the World third (since I prefer the pastoral PP stuff to the string-drenched RATW stuff like "Presedential Suite". The new one will go in second or third I think. Guerrilla is obviously amazing in places but to me doesn't carry off stylistically diverse but coherant as well as the above.
― if, Sunday, 29 March 2009 11:25 (fifteen years ago) link
I'd go:
Rings Around the WorldMwngRadiatorGuerillaLove KraftPhantom PowerHey Venus!Out SpacedFuzzy Logic
Not sure where to place the new one yet.
Artists going at a similar pace to the Furries:
Deerhoof (ten albums since '97)Drive-by Truckers (seven albums since '98, including a double album)Centro-Matic/South San Gabriel (eleven albums, including a double, since '96)Of Montreal (ten 'proper' albums and a whole bunch of other crap since '97)
― Simon H., Sunday, 29 March 2009 13:46 (fifteen years ago) link
also, Animal Collective - seven LPs since '02 or so.
― Simon H., Sunday, 29 March 2009 13:50 (fifteen years ago) link
Anyway, the worst SFA has ever done stil >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that Gruff Rhys solo album. Dunno what was wrong with him then, but the album lacks everything that is great about SFA, even though you can hear it is the same guy.
― Geir Hongro, Sunday, 29 March 2009 16:56 (fifteen years ago) link
I remember when Love Kraft came out thinking it was a bit generic, but later listens suggest it has a real depth to it. I still voted for Radiator, though.
How many SFA albums do you need? At this stage I have five, and don't really feel like I need any more, unless I get Mwng sometime.
― The Real Dirty Vicar, Sunday, 29 March 2009 17:41 (fifteen years ago) link
Having gorged myself on all the albums and pretty much all the b-sides for the last fortnight, I feel like I still need more.
― Sickamous Mouthall (Scik Mouthy), Sunday, 29 March 2009 17:42 (fifteen years ago) link
yah if you like what you've heard, you should hear 'em all (with perhaps the controversial exceptions of fuzzy logic and hey venus)
ESPECIALLY "Mwng", that album rules so so hard
― Stop relegating Hull you miserable gits! (country matters), Sunday, 29 March 2009 17:47 (fifteen years ago) link
Well it certainly wins for my favorite all Welsh language album.
― Too Into Dancing to Argue (ENBB), Sunday, 29 March 2009 17:49 (fifteen years ago) link
Greatest working band in the world as far as I'm concerned. Their bad tracks are rarely bad. I think people tend to get a bit hyperbolic about how "overrated" some of their albums are--Rings in particular. I love everything they've done. And both of Gruff's solo albums are fantastic. What's wrong with them?
― teflon monkey, Sunday, 29 March 2009 18:51 (fifteen years ago) link
And Love Kraft is an album that gets better with age. Very misunderstood IMO. I think part of the pleasure in listening to the band is seeing them develop through their career. How did they go from "God! Show me Magic" to "Walk You Home" to "White Socks/Flip Fops"
what is your order for their albums teflon monkey?
― Bee OK, Sunday, 29 March 2009 19:29 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm still tussling over LK vs PP for my 5th-favourite
― Stop relegating Hull you miserable gits! (country matters), Sunday, 29 March 2009 19:30 (fifteen years ago) link
I have to say i'm starting to look forward to my (chronological) reassesment of Love Kraft. And the last one. Picking a favourite won't get any easier mind. Disappointed in the growing Fuzzy Logic lack of love on here though.
― chord simple (j.o.n.a), Sunday, 29 March 2009 20:43 (fifteen years ago) link
"Disappointed in the growing Fuzzy Logic lack of love on here though."
Me too. There are perhaps one or two slightly weaker tracks in the second half of the album, but it's pure genius, especially the first 7 songs = nearly all of them 10/10.
― zeus, Sunday, 29 March 2009 20:50 (fifteen years ago) link
I KNOW YOU CARE ABOUT MY ORDERING SYSTEM SOGuerrillaRadiatorPhantom PowerFuzzy LogicDark Days/Light Years (and rising, might be one of my fave raves so far)MwngOut SpacedRings Around The WorldLove KraftHey Venus
― Haikunym Mark II (Dimension 5ive), Sunday, 29 March 2009 21:58 (fifteen years ago) link
GuerrillaMwngFuzzy LogicRings Around the WorldOutspaceLove KraftHey VenusRadiator
I really like the new one a lot. And I think that I enjoy Radiator the least of their albums. The production gets tiring on my ears.
― teflon monkey, Tuesday, 31 March 2009 12:35 (fifteen years ago) link
OutspacedLove KraftPhantom Power
Just obtained DD/LY today: Holy Shit, this is GOOD.
― SORCEROUSES..roll on stage! (Pillbox), Wednesday, 22 April 2009 00:40 (fifteen years ago) link
Yes to ^^^^ this! I haven't heard SFA's whole discography yet, but if there are a lot of SFA albums better than DD/LY front-to-back then this group is beyond amazing. The Very Best of Neil Diamond and Trams are on nonstop repeat for me these days.
― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 22 April 2009 00:47 (fifteen years ago) link
Really, really trying to hold out for the U.S. physical release (I'm sort of OCD about buying physical copies of favorite bands when I already have the rest of their discography), but I just saw it isn't due until the end of May now!
― homage is parody gone sour (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 22 April 2009 00:57 (fifteen years ago) link
Really, really wish "Mt." didn't exist...still, a very good record, despite the 2nd track completely destroying all the gloriously-attained momentum of "Crazy Naked Girls". The way that song takes 5 minutes of weirdly-lumbering stop-start chanting and guitar heroics to find its pulsating groove is just magnificent. But before we can get too much of a good thing...we plunge straight into the clunker. Ugh.
Fortunately, they spend the rest of the album making up for it. Only really "Cardiff In The Sun" numbers amongst their VERY best songs, but there's remarkable consistency at play here.
― Young Chizzy (country matters), Wednesday, 22 April 2009 01:52 (fifteen years ago) link
I like Mt. better than Crazy Naked Girls. Better groove, a narcotic-vibe, and less abrasive. But this part -- "there's remarkable consistency at play here" -- I'll happily cosign.
― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 22 April 2009 02:23 (fifteen years ago) link
guess i'm a sucker for welsh. "lliwiau llachar" is my favorite on the new one, and mwng is still my favorite album of theirs. can't say why for sure except maybe cuz gruff's vocals sound even more to me like robert wyatt's when he's not singing in english, and i'm a sucker for robert wyatt too
― kamerad, Wednesday, 22 April 2009 03:49 (fifteen years ago) link
Man, how did Mwng only get 2 votes??
― groovypanda, Friday, 1 May 2009 07:53 (fifteen years ago) link
"Everyone's second favourite syndrome", isn't it?
― Sickamous Mouthall (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 1 May 2009 08:29 (fifteen years ago) link
Surprised at the love for Fuzzy Logic. It's not bad, but it just seems so... amateurish compared to everything else they've done, in terms of consistency.
― Sickamous Mouthall (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 1 May 2009 08:30 (fifteen years ago) link
I panic voted for Fuzzy Logic, as I thought it would be under-represented, and I really couldn't choose between any of the first six - I think a lot of it just comes down to what was going on when the album came out, and how I feel about that now. Incidentally, just noticed that apart from the new one and the compilations, all their albums have been released between May and August.
― new drone spider (j.o.n.a), Friday, 1 May 2009 09:09 (fifteen years ago) link
They're a summer band.
Wasn't the new one released just after clocks went forward?
― Sickamous Mouthall (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 1 May 2009 09:12 (fifteen years ago) link
Ya and it also brought a heatwave with it
― sorry for british (country matters), Friday, 1 May 2009 11:55 (fifteen years ago) link
The correct answer, of course, was Love Kraft
― PaulTMA, Monday, 6 September 2010 02:42 (fourteen years ago) link
they are so old and dull now. although i got in trouble for saying that before but i can't imagine them doing anything exciting ever again. maybe that's the point of being old. you just make middle of the road competent things that will get you features in mojo.
― keythhtyek, Monday, 6 September 2010 03:19 (fourteen years ago) link
They're older now...
― Mark G, Friday, 27 February 2015 09:26 (nine years ago) link
and by the looks of it, not releasing a new record either.
― You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Friday, 27 February 2015 09:31 (nine years ago) link