?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 political activi   [ read more ]

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This comprises of 21 of the band's memorable singles taken from six studio albums: Fuzzy Logic, Radiator, Guerrilla, Rings Around The World, Mwng, and Phantom Power. Also includes the original studio version of 'The Man Don't Give A Fuck', 'Ice Hockey Hair' (never previously featured on an album) and 'Blerwytirhwng', from the band's debut pre-Creation EP llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyndrobwllantysilio-gogogochynygofod (in space).

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