Super Furry Animals

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    alanbeeb Grumpy young fogey

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    Just heard their latest album, persuaded to buy by rapturous reviews and fact I quite liked Rings Around The World 4 years ago.

    Hmmm.... fantastic sound, best quality pop recording I've heard, especially SACD layer.... music is very clever but there is not a single original note or idea in it, just lots of clever pastiche of familiar tunes and songs served up with loads of production. What does anyone else think?

    However.. still beats most of current crop of pallid bleeding heart guitar bands by some way.
     
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    leonard smalls GufmeisterGeneral

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    I think it's spoiled a bit by excessive use of strings..
    Gives it an unpleasant saccharine quality imho!
     
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    domfjbrown live & breathe psy-trance

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    Not all pallid bleeding heart acts use guitars as such - look at that tool James Blunt for example - loathsome!
     
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    mr cat Member of the month

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    I've got a dvd by these - forget the name of it, but the intro is some computer animation of flying through space...the musics ok, nothing special...hasn't inspired me to buy anything else by them
     
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    that will be rings around the world mr cat.. their best IMO so if you don,t like that your not gonna like the rest . as for the new cd its the only one i haven,t gone and bought on its release .... the single was terrible i thought and the other tracks i,ve heard are as mentioned earlier over produced by what sounds like simulated orchestration... we,ll see
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    mr cat Member of the month

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    yeah, thats the one...there is one good track - it's a slowish one, I t hink the video is of 2 guys fighting in the snow..?
     
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    Anex Thermionic

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    Not listened yet, bought it before I went away for the week, probably listen tomo, its a great cover though :) What a pointless post.
     
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