Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story
Rod the Mod finds his solo footing, headed for stardom, with the Faces in his wake.
6:00 AM GMT 22/06/2011
Features Disc of the day
Super Furry Animals
Radiator
(Creation, 1997)
Second album of trend-blind, genre-deaf head-pop from Welsh-speaking druid-wombles.
Just now, with Gruff Rhys solo projects stacking up and drummer Dafydd Ieuan indulging the human wreckage that is Rhys Ifans in vanity glam overreach The Peth, there’s a suspicion of winding-down chez SFA. You could say they’ve earned a breather after a phenomenal burst of creativity established them as the UK’s first properly post-techno psych-rock band. Radiator is proof enough of their first-flush brilliance, its garish and devil-may-care genre-stew throwing prog keyboards, dance beats and singalongaglamfolk into witty and joyous juxtapositions, all serving a think-for-yourself, cool’s for fools manifesto eloquently dispensed by the whimsical, adenoidal Rhys. Later, they would sandpaper the joins of their soundworld and deliver Rings Around The World (legendary working title: Text Messaging Is Destroying The Pub Quiz As We Know It) – utterly beautiful in a Pet Sounds redux kind of a way (it was MOJO’s album of the year, 2001 – trouncing Dylan’s “Love And Theft” among other heavyweights). But for those who preferred them cheekier, more gauche or simply (as in the case of The International Language Of Screaming) rocking like crazy Clangers, there will always be Radiator.
Danny Eccleston
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 6:00 AM GMT 05/11/2008
Further Listening
Super Furry Animals – Rings Around The World (Epic, 2001)
Supergrass – In It For The Money (Parlophone, 1997)
Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci – Barafundle (Fontana, 1996)
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An overlooked small wonder from an unpredictable career.
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Causa Sui - Summer Sessions Vol 1-3
Epic Danish jams, for when the neighbours get you down.
6:00 AM GMT 12/05/2011
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mon the furries!!! mountain peolpe, possiblt their finest hour!!!
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