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I Super Furry Animals sono uno dei gruppi piú interessanti della scena britannica.
Nel corso di 5 album (piú la raccolta di b-sides "Spaced Out") la band gallese ha dimostrato una notevole consistenza e una straordinaria capacità di espandere il proprio suono pur rimanendo fondamentalmente se stessa.
Fin dall'inizio la loro forma peculiare di brit-pop si distingue per la capacità di inglobare diversissimi generi musicali tra cui pop, punk, elettronica, disco '70, non di rado passando da un genere all'altro nello spazio della stessa canzone.
Ciò che unifica e rende compatti i loro lavori è il comune atteggiamento parodistico che li porta, piú che a riproporre passivamente i modelli del passato, a citarli con ironia in un contesto diverso.
Radiator rimane forse ancora oggi il loro lavoro migliore (in attesa del nuovissimo album "Phantom Power", in uscita il 21 luglio). Nonostante sia solo il secondo album dei SFA, contiene una valida summa di tutti i loro stili e punti forti, dall'inno pop "Hermann Loves Pauline", al pop-punk di "She's Got Spies", alle melodie cantate in gallese di "Torra Fy Ngwallt Yn Hir" (a tal proposito uno dei migliori album é "Mwng", interamente cantato in gallese, registrato dai SFA con poche migliaia di sterline e divenuto album gallese piú venduto della storia) fino alla ballata sognante di "Down A Different River".
In ogni caso, se si apprezza il genere, vale la pena procurarsi tutti i loro album: la capacità che hanno questi ragazzi di tirar fuori melodie pop è impressionante cosí come impressionante è la grandezza nel saperle destrutturare, allungare, modificare, arricchire continuamente.
In definitiva: sanno intrattenere senza essere mai banali.
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02 The Placid Casual (02:49)
Pawprint marks leave a telltale sign
There's a furry friend loose and commiting a crime
Takes no precaution leaving the fold
For the placid casual have remote control
Fuzz clogs up my video
What do we do now
Now we are free again?
Freetown rocked in Sierra Leone
When Valentine Strasser danced his way to the throne
Gunpowder smoke took a heavy toll
But they weren't placid casual so they lost control
Fuzz clogs up my video
What do we do now
Now we are free again?
03 The International Language of Screaming (02:14)
It's not where you're from
It's not where you're at
It's not where you've been
It's where you're between
It's not what you've been
It's not what you've seen
It's where you're between
It's not what you've seen
It's where you're between...
La la la la
La la la la
La la la la...ooh-oh ooh
La la la la...ooh-oh ooh
From A to B
Then on to C
Don't stop the journey
Till you get to Z
Till you get to Z
There's nothing to see
Don't stop the journey
There's nothing to see
Don't stop the journey
Every time I look around me everything seems so stationary
It just sends me the impulse to become reactionary
Spell it out, rip it up, rearrange it on the contrary
If I scream it, I mean it, I hope you will understand me
La la la la
La la la la
La la la la...ooh-oh ooh
La la la la...ooh-oh ooh
04 Demons (05:11)
Clarity just confuses me
The lines drawn on a map, a strange assembly
When there's northeners in southeners
And westenders in eastenders
And sunny days in January
Left spaces in my diary
But the demons never need to know
What the demons never got to see
As we fall in and out of line
Stay in touch now for a while
Cos I know that apathy only ruined me
Hanging around waiting for calamity
And by the year four million
Our skins will be vermilion
I own a dartboard memory
So I'll forget any felony
But the demons never need to know
What the demons never got to see
As we fall in and out of line
Stay in touch now for a while
Cos I know that you know
That we know they don't know what's going on
But the demons never need to know
What the demons never got to see
As we fall in and out of line
Stay in touch now for a while
But the demons never need to read
What we never got around to write
A flirt with mediocrity comes with a heavy penalty
Cos I know that you know
That we know they don't know what's going on...
07 Play It Cool (03:15)
Dormant vices turned on their devices
Now she's raising money for the sex appeal
And when she grazed her knee upon the astroturf
All her blood turned green as the tv screamed:
"Whatever you want to do, do it now and pay later
Whatever you want to say, say it now and pay later
Whatever you want to clean, wash it now and go later
Whatever you want to do, do it now and pay later"
Cos it's no problem if you play it cool
Things are different if you act a fool
The electric mistress always sounds so bold
She says I'm free to do anything I'm told
I try the latest newsflash, it's sensational
I feel so seduced, tell me to reproduce
"Whatever you want to do, do it now and pay later
Whatever you want to say, say it now and pay later
Whatever you want to pray, pray it now and pay later
Whatever you want to do, do it now and pay later"
Cos it's no problem if you play it cool
Things are different if you act a fool...
09 Chupacabras (01:26)
Chupa chupa chupacabras chupacabras chupacabras!
Chupa chupa chupacabras chupacabras chupacabras!
Have you heard about the bat?
Eats your goat and then your cat
Soon enough you will not smile
When it comes you'll run a mile
It says:
Soy super bien soy super super bien soy bien bien super bien
bien bien super super! Soy super bien soy super super bien
Soy bien bien super bien bien bien super super!
From Mexico it came to me
I saw it down in Miami
It vamps in and out of style
When it comes you'll go loco
It says:
Soy super bien soy super super bien soy bien bien super bien
bien bien super super! Soy super bien soy super super bien
Soy bien bien super bien bien bien super super!
Chupa chupa chupacabras chupacabras chupacabras!
Chupa chupa chupacabras chupacabras chupacabras!
Soy super bien soy super super bien soy bien bien super bien
bien bien super super! Soy super bien soy super super bien
Soy bien bien super bien bien bien super super!
13 Download (03:19)
There are people who think, and people who don't
And the people who don't are the ones who have most
There are people who lie, and others who'll cry
And the people who lie are the ones that get by
In the corporate rush to devour the new
We'll be losing our friends who will number but few
Position yourself on another mans cruise
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