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How am I supposed to be normal about this band.
They went and wrote up a song about Albert Einstein’s parents (MC Square, obviously), about finding biographies on sale at shady service stations and threw in a pun about French bread. How am I supposed to just take that in my stride.
When you're dehydrated, underslept and being forced to explain why you just wrote a song about Albert Einstein's parents
—"Did you go to bed last night?" "Uh, pass." bbg get some rest
He's giving this:
SFA fans, look at this! A baby Huw Bunford, with his school band Edrych Am Jiwlia (Looking For Julia). This was their song from back in 1987, Myfyrio (to ponder), a song that was on their final self-released casette, Gwilym Roberts. Back here, Bunf was the bassist in the band, though within the next five years, he would become Super Furry Animals' lead guitarist, alongside singer-guitarist Gruff Rhys, but you already knew that :)
Watch the full music video:
My brain is actually short-circuiting.
In 2017, Sain Records, yes that Sain, founded by Dafydd Iwan and Huw Jones in the 60s because travelling down to London to record a song was just too much of a bother so the preferable alternative was to set up a record label and eventually a studio of the same name in Wales, which went on to be the label of the protest folk singers of the 60s and then branched off into being one of the major labels putting out and promoting independent and alternative Welsh and especially Welsh-language acts in the 70s and 80s, with its own subsidiary Crai being a big label that a gave an early push to a lot of the 90s Welsh alt rock bands like Catatonia, Gorky's, Super Furries and their previous bands like U-Thant and Ffa Coffi Pawb, Big Leaves, Topper; even popular 80s bands like Y Trwynau Coch and Yr Anhrefn, Llwybr Llaethog recorded** on Sain or a subsidiary like Crai or Rasal Cyf.
**I might be getting some of these wrong, I'll check later
That Sain Records, they made about 7,000 recordings from their archives available in the Wikimedia commons. I'm going to have a field day going through them.
Through a cursory scroll I have seen a lot of male voice choirs (which I am not surprised by, but I didn't know Sain recorded them as much), but I know I'll find something up my alley. I know I will.
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Well there we are! I have to update this post before even hitting publish! I've already found this:
I don't know what band it is, but the Meirion name sounds familiar. I can't tell at this hour though. But yeah, Hey, Ti'n Cwl! [Hey, You're Cool!] The record does seem to fit the time!
When you're dehydrated, underslept and being forced to explain why you just wrote a song about Albert Einstein's parents
—"Did you go to bed last night?" "Uh, pass." bbg get some rest
He's giving this:
How am I supposed to be normal about this band.
They went and wrote up a song about Albert Einstein’s parents (MC Square, obviously), about finding biographies on sale at shady service stations and threw in a pun about French bread. How am I supposed to just take that in my stride.
How am I supposed to be normal about this band.
They went and wrote up a song about Albert Einstein’s parents (MC Square, obviously), about finding biographies on sale at shady service stations and threw in a pun about French bread. How am I supposed to just take that in my stride.
How am I supposed to be normal about this band.
They went and wrote up a song about Albert Einstein’s parents (MC Square, obviously), about finding biographies on sale at shady service stations and threw in a pun about French bread. How am I supposed to just take that in my stride.
All of Camgymeriad Gwych, figured I should post it after talking about it in the Gorky's post:
One of my favourite and maddest songs out there.
Marie Curie was Polish born but French bred... hah! FRENCH BREAD!
Super Furry Animals - Hermann ♥︎ Pauline
I'll tell you something You can dance till you don't exist But it never used to be like this
The sun sets over the water And shines in my eyes The stars and the moon are falling Right out of the skies And when you cry - there is no sky
I post about this song frequently but oh goodness me. The harmonies. The lyrics. The key changes. The flutes. Megan’s violins. The bagpipe (?) solo. The whole entire Barafundle album. Just for the line ‘I’ll tell you something— you can dance till you don’t exist’. Take my whole entire worth, Gorky’s! Starmoonsun!
Hawdd Fel Dydd Llun, which is out now, is an unreleased song written in 1996 that never made it to a release, if I remember right, because Dave took a step back from music to deal with his mental health. It’s now going to be part of a retrospective release celebrating 40 years since Datblygu began: 60 tracks, imagine that! It wasn’t intended to be a post-mortem release of course, but now, hopefully it is a celebration of Dave’s writing, the work Dave and Pat did, their understanding over their music, and the depths of poetry and manifestos Dave wrote out.
Datblygu were so influential on the nascent alternative and independent scene of the 90s in Wales: bands like Super Furry Animals, Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci, Catatonia, wouldn’t have existed if not for the groundwork Dave and Pat laid down in the 80s, the ability to be modern in sound, Welsh in writing and subject, and not always in praise. Real.
The compilation, called Terfysgiaith 1982-2022, is out in Ankst Musik.
Bywyd Mor Hir (Such A Long Life) by Welsh alt rock band Sherbet Antlers
I can't find this anywhere online so I wanted to put it up here
Such a big fan of this song
Hello?? New SFA lore dropped! I haven't come across this video before, but it's part of a documentary on Ffa Coffi Pawb (I consider this SFA lore!) called Allan O'u Pennau, Out of their heads. It's only a 5 minute clip, but I'm gonna sit and watch it tomorrow!
I can't get enough of this band
[Image: A screenshot of the tracks on Super Furry Animals' album Radiator (Deluxe version). The first track, number 18, is titled, 'Let's Quit Smoking'. The next song is titled 'Smoke'. The track after that is titled 'Dim Ysmygu' - Alternate Mix of 'Smoke'. "Dim ysmygu" is Welsh for 'no smoking']
This is the funniest thing, a practical joke thrown into an actual album run, which incidentally is the most SFA thing they could do.
