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Rings Around the World (Expanded Edition)

Super Furry Animals

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Simply genius

Mojo's Album of the Year for 2002, Rings Around the World is massively ambitious, and never disappoints. Along with Phantom Power, perhaps the greatest example of BritPop in the last 20 years. Stellar tracks such as Alternate Route to Vulcan Street, Sidewalk Serfer Girl, Presidential Suite, and Run Christian Run show a depth of production, arrangement, harmony and overall creativity that is not to be found anywhere else. If you do not love this album, adore this album, you do not love pop music. Sitting in a pub in London the night after seeing SFA at the Roundhouse, I start talking to a Welshman, and we get to SFA. He can't believe an American has them as his favorite band, let alone even knows of them. Finally, we both agree that Run Christian Run might be our favorite song of the last decade. It's that simple. SFA Okay!

One of the Greatest Albums of All Time

I rank this up there with Beach Boys Pet Sounds. This album is luscious and smart -- some of the best pop music ever written. This album was my first brush with Super Furry Animals, their older material doesn't match this, and their new stuff just doesn't have the magic that this album has. But this, this is PURE genius. Do yourself a favor and really sit down and listen to this record, you'll be doing yourself a favor.

Super Fantastic

A long time ago I bought this CD based on a review I had read. On the way home I popped it into the player, listened for a bit and then said to myself "Self, That was a waste of $11.00." But one song stuck in my head so I started to listen to the album for that one tune. Long story short, this thing grew on me like crazy. It soon became one of my faves. I have purchased almost all their albums since this one and a few of their previous works, I enjoy them all, but Rings Around the World is my fave. Seriously, now 7 years later and this album is one of them "stranded on a desert isle" records. So listen to it then listen again and again.

Biography

Formed: 1993 in Cardiff, South Glamorgan, Wales

Genre: Alternative

Years Active: '90s, '00s

Super Furry Animals were one of the first post-alternative bands, fusing together a number of disparate musical genres — including power pop, punk rock, techno, and progressive rock — creating a shimmering, melodic, irreverent, and willfully artsy rock & roll. As one of the leading bands of the mid-'90s Welsh movement, they were already tagged as outsiders by their tendency to sing entire songs in their native tongue, but their very approach was unique, full of both whimsy and left-wing...
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