Rings Around The World

I dig it

The genre hopping reminded me of Ween, though with a more electronic bent. Most tracks were still close to the indie rock formula.

Did the band have an identity crisis making this album? If so, this listener is here for it. Starting off like any 2001 era band would, this built expectations of alternative rock, but then they went the way of electronica followed immediately by a feel-good anecdotal song in 'Juxtapose with U' with punk elements throughout. It is as though Blink182 forgot about Tom DeLonge and made a happy sounding album at the end with 'Presidential Suite'. Interesting album, but enjoyable nonetheless. It would earn a spot in the rotation for sure with its heavier elements, but if there is need for mix-up to break the monotony and pretend you are listening to random radio, then this album is for you.

Cool.

really diverse album many genres are used altough alternative rock is the main theme, would recommend altough i dont really like it much

3.5 Enjoyed

A bit experimental, post grunge pop-rock of sorts. Shoegaze influences as well

very different than last furry animas album...but I don't feel either should be on this list.

3 1/2

3.5

It's a good, listenable album. Very easy to forget that they were popular back in the day. Didn't find any songs that were too objectionable.

Seems an interesting, diverse landscape of an album. "Rings around the world" and "it's not the end of the world" are a good part of a strong start. The instrumental experimentation is nice, though "no sympathy" was a little too off-kilter for my tastes. Nothing that really calls me back to listen to again, but a pleasant enjoyable album.

Nice one.

Good fun Brit Pop with a little psychedelic.

Songs range from synth & soft rock reminiscent of ELO to standard alt rock and industrial of the era. There's a ton of influence here and there, likentrap in "A Sensitive World" or Velvet Underground and two other bands in "Shoot Doris Day". Got more enjoyable near the end after that industrial nonsense.

Weird, psychedelic. A lot of strange mixes of genres. Had a more solid ending, but I feel like the first part just wasn't for me.

Meh. Some interesting sounds, stereo is a must

Rock with a twist, pretty good 7/10

This was weird, fun but weird. I didn't super love this but far from hating it. Weird mix of ambient background music interspersed with metal/rap/country

Interesting album, had a couple of vibes

A great mix of tunes and songs

Decent

Enjoyable & fuzzy psychedelic rock with a timeless sound

Ok

I liked it, but didn't get the nostalgia I had expected.

It’s not the end of the world is a favourite but the album is uneven.

Seems like one that you need to be in the right state of mind for. I couldn't get into it

Very eclectic. The critics describe it best. A "kaleidoscopic blend of pop, prog, punk, psych, and electronica" and "thematically eccentric" I likedthe delving into electronica, as suprising as it was. "A touch sensitive" sounds like it could be Portisehead while" Juxtaposed with you" and "Presidential suite" sound like early 80s Elvis C.

Distinto. Buenos ritmos. Divertido de escuchar

Strange, but nice... Not too much experimental, not too much classical. I probably not revisit this album again, but it was a nice experience to listen to it.

Fun album!

Some tunes cool some tunes weird

I think its the definition of 2000s rock, very fitting

Rock alternativo. Muy interesante.

Not bad.

Fun I guess. Weird. Lacks focus?

I remember liking this album a lot when it was released. Now, it just feels a little cold and lifeless, more craft than passion.

Another band I've never heard of, and they aren't super popular either. At least their music is different and interesting

Ambitious but unfocused. This postmodern amalgam doesn't really do much for me. Rather listen to their myriad influences.

There are some interesting sounds here, but thematically it falls flat for me. A little too cheese for my tastes.

Pretty good. Vocals sounded a lot like Elvis Costello

Very weird shit. Niet altijd awesome, niet slecht ook.

Ok. Thought I'd recognise more than I did

Alternativ pop, fusion, stemningsfyldt, afslappende

Interesting but never wowed me

Alt rock 😎 Liked the slower songs, up beat songs weren’t for me. V indie, but not always bad.

I have a memory of one of my skateboard friends in the early aughts playing 'Presidential Suite' for me because he thought the lyrics were so funny. If he hadn't pointed out the part I was supposed to hear I don't know if my attention span would have enabled me to hear it. These tracks just plod on for me. I had gotten it in my head at some point that this band was weirder but listening to this all the way through was honestly pretty boring. In terms of the recording quality, skill and performance it's probably 3 or 4 stars but in terms of how I feel about the songs it's a 2.

Not bad but also not good or memorable

Pretty meh

Listens: 3 Standout Tracks: It's Not the End of the World?, Juxtapozed with U Okay, lets get some stuff out of the way. The band probably never predicted that the term Furry would go on to mean something entire different over the course of the past 20 years. But even still, terrible band name. Next, the album cover isn't much to write home about. Psychedelic, but lacking in meaning. Why the gold tooth, lightning bolts and skull? Meh. With the album composition, we're covering a lot of ground in a single album. Progressive rock, trip-hop, a weird song that devolves into some form of metal. If the Gorillaz never existed, Super Furry Animals could have possibly filled the spot. I could have even sworn that it sounded like Damon Albarn on one or two of the tracks. The song Juxtapozed with U (can I just say how much I loathe 90s and early 2000s "internet-style" shorthand writing in music track names) sounds like it could be off an Isley Brother's album soul track. There's even proper autotune... in the year 2000 long before autotune became popular. The whole album put together just makes for an exceptionally bizarre experience. I couldn't ever really anticipate where the album was going next. Kept me on my feet that's for sure. Especially when the death metal bit hit at the end of Receptacle for the Respectable. Should it be on the list? Sure. It's certainly unique. Categorically weird. Will I ever listen to it again? Probably not. I can listen to any number of other bands that focus on a particular genre, and do it better.

No to experimenting for experimenting

Så det er slik desse høyrest ut altså. Juxtapozed with U har eg visst høyrt før, utan at eg hadde eit voldsomt behov for å høyra den igjen. Lite minneverdige låtar som berre glir forbi, medan produksjonen stressar ræva av seg for å få dei til å festa seg. Her må det skje noko heile tida. På sitt beste minnar dei kanskje litt om eit Blur heilt på det jamne, men ikkje noko meir.

Havnet veldig i middelhavsland, den her. De har åpenbart brukt tid med å skru finurlig rundt på detaljer og slikt, og det er en slags psykedelisk inspirasjon som skiller det fra en del annet storbritanisk søl fra samtidige. Men ved et første møte med det her er spørsmålet hvor mange ganger jeg vil gi dette ytterligere sjanser. Hadde vel landet på 5/10 på en litt mer ekspansiv skala.

Var hos min nye fastlege i dag og han skulle jo vite faen meg alt av historikk. Lira av meg de «enkle» tingene; allergi, astma og litt eksem. «Å ja, du er atopisk». Glemte å legge til allergi mot britpop på lista.. burde gjort det i allefall for det tror jeg jaggu jeg har. Enkelt å gjøre noe med dag så lenge man holder seg borte fra sånne prosjekter som det her som trer faenskapen over hodet på en. Dette var attpåtil en skikkelig fæl variant.

Super Furry Animals står nok øverst på listen min over band jeg en eller flere ganger har tenkt at jeg skal sjekke ut, men så har det aldri blitt sånn. Jeg tror vi kunne blitt gode venner om vi møttes på 90-tallet. Utslagsgivende for at det ble litt vanskelig for oss å bli venner, er at jeg hadde bestemt meg for at utgivelsene jeg først og fremst ville ha var singelen The Man Don't Give a Fuck og ep-en Ice Hockey Hair. Tøffe omslag! Raffe titler! Men dessverre ikke så tilgjengelige i butikk de gangene jeg kom på å gjøre noe med saken. På denne plata er ingen av disse med. Det var jo teit. Og litt fint, dermed kan jeg fortsette å leve i trua på at det finnes noe bra SFA der ute et sted.

Neo-prog pop melodies, with some country and death metal thrown in. Jumping around genres makes for an interesting album, but my attention wandered. I'll aim to see them at the upcoming EOTR Festival, but my attention may wander.

Sometime ok sometimes annoying sometimes background music. Probably won't listen again.

Solidly meh. Once you're far along in this list, you feel like you've heard this same type of album a ton.

zu chaotisch, hat mir nicht gefallen

245. ok

This list needs to stop giving me albums I don't like and start giving me albums I do like

Trying to do a lot of different things and none of it really works

This is like being in a space shuttle marvelling at the beauty of the universe, only for all systems to fail at once. Your peaceful glide through the universe is abruptly interrupted by all sorts of alarms going off. You scramble to put out one fire, only for another to start. Occasionally you manage to sort everything and get a second to take a breath, but then a new problem arises. Eventually you come to terms with the fact that you aren’t surviving this. You have one last look out the porthole to Earth, before making peace with God, and ripping the hatch open to get this over with.

Lame ass british electronic pop soft rock 😴.

Just can't get into these guys at all

Yep its no for me Im not sure what it is that I dont like about them I dont think theyre bad, its just that id rather chew off my own feet than listen to them.

This was a rather dull listen. Nothing much else to say really

waarom

🎧It’s like Ween if Ween took themselves seriously (and sucked).

Please just give me one album that isn’t completely mediocre

I was expecting something a bit different, more experimental. So ultimately I'm disappointed. Rather formulaic. Shame.

Tråkigt album. Den enda låten som jag ens minns är Juxtaposed with U som var helt ok. Resten? Meeeh... Snabbt glömt för min del.

Like their first album, they surround ok music with annoying sound instead of making better music.

2 I had high hopes for this one? It looked interesting, was expecting some sort of electronic groove. But overall, long boring and kinda bland.

1.8/5 I liked a fair few of their more rock sounding tracks, but they lost me when they played their more electronic songs.

Yeah, this has been meh. Not sure I get why this is included. It has some variance in style, but you ultimately have to be good in at least one of them, and they just are mediocre in all of them.

I have no idea how this made the list. I should have known from the band name alone that it was kinda gonna suck. It sounds like Blur and Flight of the Conchords had a really crappy baby with none of Damon Albarn's genius nor FotC's humor. It's like they're trying to fill a void that Albarn certainly did NOT leave unfilled, so I'm not really sure where this band fits in music history or why it even exists. Giving it 2 stars, but it's more like 1.5. Favorite tracks (I guess?): [A] Touch Sensitive

Mid

Disappointing false advertisement. It’s not super furry or animalistic. Pretty lame.

A strange band, that are highly regarded from the sounds of it. But not for me

Second half started to win me over a bit more but I had to stop and restart 2-3 times to finish this

Album 247. Rings Around The World (https://open.spotify.com/album/6g6WBTqT5gE4fAcwRljpjc?si=Ck3jczHeQuyffP5yNuRA3w) — Super Furry Animals (2001) It's pretty boring rock/britpop 2/5 Liked: — Juxtapozed with U

midd, no sympathy is cool

nothing here remarkable

Of all the albums ever made this is definitely one of them.

meh, not really my thing, I can appreciate the experimentation though

Best Track - "Juxtaposed With U"

Never played an album before that I have absolutely no opinion of. Maybe played it at a bad time. Will re visit it

2.5 rounded down as I just didn't get along with the mishmash of songs in the album, meaning for me it felt like it went on a bit too long

Kind of all over the place hard to be good at something when you’re doing everything.

Couldn't get into it.

Fine, just wondering why it's on the list.

Vocally trash but good instrumentals (get unc off the mic)

I should like this, but it wasn’t great.

It wasn't good enough to cross the line into "quirky-good" and stayed squarely in the "quirky-annoying" realm.

Flaming Lips, but from the pound shop. Album art 4/5

Weird music. Didn't like his voice or the sounds.

Nah

Every once in a while I come across an album that I really inexplicably dislike and this was that one.

Going back and forth on this one. Some of it is pretty good, but it changes too often with no clear throughline of music or emotion. Some folks will be really into this. I was hovering between a 2 and a 3 but then they started whistling x

Meh

Some interesting bits but mostly annoying. Why is this on this list.

One of many bands that picked up 1 element of the Beatles’ sound (triumphant, high energy psychedelic party pop) and ran with it. It’s fine but pretty limited and a bit derivative. A 2.

idk this kind of annoyed me. i feel like if i listened to it a couple more times it might grow on me but,,,,,,,,, i don't want to lol.

Not bad but nothing really great either.

While I don't have great recollection of the prior Super Furry Animals entry, this second album doesn't appear to be in line with what was previously featured. Rings Around The World appears to be an attempt for SFA to get a little too artsy and out of the box. Maybe it was seen as a valid attempt to evolve from Britpop sounds of the 90's upon release, but during this listen I found a lot of it to be messy. At times it seemed like they were trying too hard to break the mold and as a result I think the album was missing some of the fun and cohesion from their debut. As the tracks passed by one by one I found myself mostly unfazed despite their attempts to do something different and diverse. I don't know, not really a miss but also not really a hit for me here on Rings Around The World. Did we really need a song dedicated to the Monica Lewinksy scandal in 2001? 1.90 stars

bom ok nice

4.5/10

Damn but this had moments of good that were absolutely derailed by noisy bullshit crap.

ja ik hoopte op niet per se goede muziek hiervan, maar gewoon iets heel raars. helaas was het gewoon wat middelmatige rock

2.5 - Meh

Not for me. Fairly dull. One good song. Think it's called No sympathy

Oh good. Another album where the big decision rests between a 2 or a 3 The fascinating thing about this one was that most of the songs start out sounding like a good song, and by the end it's not. It's either weird or just plain boring. Run Christian Run eventually veers over into "nice" after being impressively boring to start with. Fragile Happiness was a proper way to end the album. Almost pretty and very boring.

lame-o ish

Overrasket over hvor lite jeg likte denne. Variert i sjangre, men aldri noe særlig bra. Påtatt vimsete, uten å være kul. Jevnt over irriterende. Prøver igjen om 10 år.

Hørt på bussen fra jobb. Holy shiiiit dette er ræva? Jeg ga hver låt 3/4 sjans, men måtte skippe. Klarte oppriktig ikke fullføre en eneste låt lol.

I woke up just in time to avoid choking on this hairball.

Drivel

I didn’t warm to this, but I was never a fan of them at the time. It’s all over the shop! Pick a lane! Trying to be something they ultimately weren’t means that it lands in nothingness. It astonishes me that there are two albums from this entirely forgettable band on this list.

Forgettable. Listened to it an hour ago and can't remember a thing.

Forgettable, odd, and not a must listen.

Bit weird

Its like a bad mix of a john lenon, pink floyd and gorrilaz album. Yet it does nothing of those musicians well and just makes mid juice.

Albums like this make me want to stop doing this list

Nothing new here!

Eh

Do you remember back in school when someone tried too hard to be cool and stuck out inna negative way because of it? This is that in a band form. Everything seems so inauthentic. If they were just true to themselves they could have been great. Instead we get a band that desperately wants to be cool and unique when instead they throw the kitchen sink sonically at every song. Just write and preform good melodies. Everything here is so forgettable.

14 - Super Furry Animals - Rings Around the World - Rating = 2 Not familiar with this band. Opens with a nice soft piano… a little soft ooh coming in… a little sleepy. Gets boring, too long. More interesting / sort of a rocking guitar rift with the airy vocal… still doesn’t really go anywhere. Title track - more upbeat… nice enough if not excellent… annoying end. Now we’re a little more vocal/ballad-y. Receptacle for the Respectable is a fun song, a little annoying at the end. Shoot Doris Day… a little dramatic, not sure… probably not. Miniature is a 7-min song that doesn’t grab you… then with 2 minutes left is starts getting tweaky and weird… no. Just not really a sound or a vibe that I’m going to spend time with. Not offensive but not for me.

No private session for Spotify. There is lot of different genres in this one album, it seemed unfocused and disjoint, sometimes annoying. F autotune.

Best Song: Juxtapozed with U. Apart from the annoying robot voice, the rest of the song is a vibe. Worst Song: [A] Touch Sensitive. Throw it in on the garbage pile of tracks where artists think that by just using sexual noises as samples it means they've done something creative and titillating. Overall: This album feels like it has no idea what it wants to be. I get that it has a semi-experimental vibe, but these experimental fluctuations within and (especially) between songs makes this song completely counter-cohesive when contrasted against the pretty ordinary indie rock that makes the rest of the album. I can't figure out whether I wish the artists had gone more experimental or more conventional, and seemingly neither could they.

I’m not sure I understand why I have to listen to every Brit pop album from the 2000s

Despite a rather unappealing band name, Super Furry Animals have some cred in that scene of 90s British alternative rock. I've already covered acts such as Supergrass and Blur on this list, so what does this one bring to the table. The answer is something inspired by 60s psych and electronica. That sounds like a great concept, but what it ends up being is a little too washed out. I saw the vision of what these songs were going for, I was aiming to give this a 3 in fact. The issue springs from the execution of these tracks. There's too much of a grandiose Oasis-type loudness war feeling here. I did get reminded of things Blur/Gorillaz would do in their discography (the self-titled was around the same time), so I thought that was as neat. But besides any good comparisons, Super Furry Animals leave me feeling confused. Too robotic for my human skull, I guess (5/10, 2/5 on this scale)

I appreciate the ambition but this record is a bit all over the place. Around the time it came out every band was trying to make their Yankee Hotel Foxtrot or Kid A, but unfortunately not everyone had the songwriting prowess to match the trendy sonic theatrics. This band reminds me a bit of a sillier Elbow or Keane: post-Brit Pop also-rans who lost something in translation on this side of the pond. It sounds great and there are plentiful Beatles-y hooks, but there’s something about it that is inconsequential.

I don't even know where to begin with this. It's odd, but not offensively so?

Hmmm... A lot of background music vibes here, and that's the "good" part. Found myself ignoring a lot of this as I worked, forgetting I was even listening to anything. The times it got "interesting" enough to capture my attention was really only because it became insufferably annoying in one way or another. I don't think this music is for me.

Fine, pleasant even, but I don't know why it's on this list. No ear worms here.

No sé lo que he escuchado. No sé si es bueno o malo, a veces parecen Pink Floid, otras Blur y a ratos suenan modernos por el exceso de autotune. En general me he aburrido, creo que ha envejecido mal.

Modern, experimental progressive 70’s easy listening…?

First artist on this list so far who I had no prior knowledge about, so went in blind. A unique sound at first, but as the album goes, everything starts to sound the same and blend. Likes: Sidewalk serfer girl, juxtapozed with u

I'm confused by this album. How many different styles can one band imitate? It really does feel like they are trying to sound like a whole range of different artists in every track. I won't bother to list who they sound like - most tracks make me yawn. Perhaps this makes Super Furry Animals a good live band. The selection box of popular music.

Nope, a couple of goodish songs. But I can't take the voice of someone who sings like they don't care. Couldn't listen to the whole album.

Didn’t love the singers voice. Tunes had a nice beat. Probably won’t revisit anytime soon.

Ok

These guys definitely know their ABC’s- not to mention their ELO’s and XTC’s of post- Beatles Brit-pop but don’t generate anything especially memorable. They often marry it to some expertly crafted yet jarring EDM, a bad trip mixed in with the sunny psychedelic melodies. Overall the effect for me is sensory overload and vague nausea.

I didn't really get into these guys back in the day. The album is interesting, but adrift of what I was listening to then, and probably proggy, if anything, now. High 2s.

It's all over the place. If I didn't know I was listening to the album by the same band, I'd think it was a playlist of different artists and styles. Might be a bit hyperbolic, but it's hard to get my arms around the album. When it was good, it was decent, and when it was bad, it was mediocre.

Not my thing

4 - BAD

Hokey, mostly (That said, I was almost relieved to get a middling Brit poprock album – it's been a minute and I know there may be a hundred more to go...)

Bland and forgettable.

wtf

This never really landed for me. Kinda disjointed, and the consistent elements (the slow synths and the Beatles-ish stuff) are not my jam. There's some talent here, but I was glad when this was over. 2.3

Ok. ★★

I kept forgetting I was listening to this until something weird happened.

I remember a colleague raving about this band at around this time; he wasn't the edgiest person, but he was very nice, and quite earnest. So I wasn't entirely surprised by the overall vibe. After an interesting start, with two contrasting tracks, it settled into being too Beatles-esque for me. Any edgier moments (there are some) were soon ironed out by some comforting major chords, descending scales and a bit of trumpet, strings or some ba ba bas. I did think it was well-crafted, though, with nice instrumentation, and for all my grumbling, I wasn't bored*. But: not as cool as they perhaps thought it was, I surmise, and Juxtapozed With U was really awful. *Edit - sorry. I actually was bored by each of the final three tracks. Why bother including them? A star lost.

How these lads have 2 albums on this list is crazy. Its much better than the previous album but it feels forced, the death metal scream and the electronic drum and bass for example. Its ambitious which deserves credit but it certainly doesn't land. I don't think theres a song I'd want to listen to again. 2/5.

Rings Around the World has ambition to spare and moments of genuine invention, but too much of it settles into a mid-paced indie rock comfort zone that's hard to get excited about.

Nothing worth noting on this album. 2 stars or D-.

A couple songs were cool, pretty experimental album. It’s mostly a drag tho

Something about this album irritates me. Maybe it's the turn-of-millennium postmodern poly-stylism. Maybe it's the crypto-prog rock lurking beneath the sunny pseudo-psychedelia. Or maybe I just don't like indie pop. There's a small window of my life (age 15-17) I probably would have liked this album, but I think I would have soured on it by the time I went off to college.

Alternative Welsh band. Different sound. But, good music.

This was a disappointment. I used to like Super Furry Animals, but either this album was a bit of a dud or my tastes have changed. An okay album, but I won’t be rushing back to listen to it.

2 albums in a week, this one even more boring

Not for me.

Not my cup of tea. Too... nineties sound.

Was pleased to get this as liked the single juxtaposed. Not pleased to listen to rest of it. 2001??? You’d never have guessed- tired, old British rock

It's.... fine?

It was.. just eh. Music was ok at timrs but damn that voice was annoying

Wasnt entirely sure why I hadnt listened to SFA when the britpop boom was happening but now I know i wasnt missing much.

It is hard to tell, but it almost sounds like the band wasn't held under house arrest and subjected to psychological deprogramming for a full year eating nothing but soybeans while practicing for this album. I was surprised that I couldn't remember hearing about this band, and as far as I can tell I've not heard any of these songs before. It seems like the kind of thing that I should like but it felt disjointed and I couldn't get into it.

no my cuppa

Not hateful but not for me

Viel zu langes Album

the music isn't really bad or anything, I just felt zero connection to it, which was strange

This is a fascinating album, There is a few redeemable moments, such as the ending to Receptacle for the Respectable where death metal vocals are used out of nowhere, and my attention was grabbed. While the majority of it I feel is pretty cookie cutter pop music which is just not for me, there are moments on this album that really grabbed my attention, such as on the song No Sympathy, that goes full on IDM towards the end.

Borring to death. To be forgotten after listening

I wish I had taken notes while I was listening, because the album just ended and I don't remember any of it. I didn't turn it off, so I'm guessing it wasn't particularly horrible.

There comes a point, and we arrive quite quickly to it, when all brit-pop sounds exactly the same. This is not necessarily a bad album; it's just one more.

Just okay

Kul med nåt jag aldrig hört talas om. Ambitiöst och spretigt i nån sorts Damon albarn-anda, men enda som verkligen fastnar är sidewalk serfer girl. Inte asdåligt, absolut inte asbra. Uppskattar på nåt sätt respektlösheten kring genrer men känner ofta ”välj, för helvete”.

overlong and uninteresting, but at least it's Welsh rather than English

Another obscure UK band, shocker. The album is ok, but absolutely nothing about it seemed particularly great to me.

Monótono, no lo supe apreciar

useless record

Not horrible. But not sure why it’s on any list

I’ll give them credit.. it takes a special kind of talent to make music this stunningly dull.

Very little of this record was appealing.

It's interesting enough for a visit, but quite honestly, I don't care if I ever hear another song from this record again. It's not that it's bad, it's not. It's just that this is one of those alternative rock records that indulges the artist (co-self-produced) and doesn't really do a good job on accessibility, melody or catchiness. Without those factors, it's an art-rock album that becomes one of those critics' choices and they foist on the masses to be "smart" and "relevant" by creating a trend.

*unbelieving stare while pondering what brought the editors to include this, of all albums, in the book* 1.5/5

Kinda boring. Liked the lo fi quality

Copy/paste of my previous SFA album on this list... "I didn't like Super Furry Animals back in 1996 and I don't like them in 2025..."

Inoffensive but mediocre. Bit of a slog to finish. Saved a song: N RYM: N

This is just average and boring and all sounds the same. It’s not terrible. But nothing grabs me either. 2.5

This was just... boring

The highlights on the album elevate the rating to 2 stars however, there are big portions of the album I just did not enjoy. Favourite songs: Sidewalk Serfer Girl, Juxtaposed With U, It's Not the End of the World, Fragile Happiness Lease favourite songs: Vulcan street, Receptacle for the Respectable, Touch Sensitive. Rating 4/10

Not for me at all.

The interesting instrumentation of this album does not save it from being completely washed out by the most bland singer I have heard. Though, the songs around Juxtapozed with U are decent, it really does not save the album.

5/10

I liked the surfer song, but the rest didn't do much for me.

It’s an album you have on in the background at a dinner party. Someone might ask you who is it by you tell who it’s by and everyone kinda strikes their shoulders and goes back talking.

Trist.

Largely weird and impenetrable. To me at least. Perhaps that's the point.

All this time I misunderstood the purpose of this list. They are giving us a 1001 that we must listen to in order to actually be killed. There ae some great mixed in here to keep you hooked, but all this British stuff is the real lethal mix. Just mindlessly putting us into a irreversible stupor.

More generic brit rock BS. No thanks.

Super Shitty Songs

Some of this is really good, and some of it is really not for me. This album has won me over and lost me and won me back over a few times now. 3 hours for an album seems extra extreme.

I need to read up - sounds like Damon Albarn in there - don't remember enough about them - some tracks are pleasant, most nothing special and it begs our favorite question, 'what's this doing on the list'?

It's fine, but not really standing out to me. It gets lost in the background for me.

Check out the size of my influences. I respect this more than enjoy listening to it. That is the faintest praise I could come up with.

la cosa più mid che abbia mai sentito

3/10 Ok, no thank you... 9-25-2025

The songs range from okay to just… noise. No thanks

Ugh how many times am I going to get something that sounds like Elvis Costello? 2/5

2.23

More like the super boring music

No idea what I was listening to

Kind of a fever dream

A little spacey for me for the most part but it had its moments. “Sidewalk surfer girl” was the highlight.2.7

2.5 I listened to the first few songs after a particularly bad beer league hockey loss and was planning on giving this album a 0.1 rating but gave it another try in a better headspace. Its not really my cup of tea but it is fairly interesting and I could see how it could have some absolute fanatics

I don't get it...

One of those where I'm like "oh yeah I've heard of these, I'm sure I know some of their songs" and then I don't, and the album bores me

Tons of differing influence in this album. Kind of all over the place, but they definitely pull you in with their unique style. That said, the wide differences in their individual songs gives a sense of an identity crisis in the music. Like, they weren’t sure who they are, so they tried on a lot of hats. This leads to some shock going from one track to the next. Each song is interesting, but as an album there isn’t much flow which impacts the enjoyment. Plus, I felt like the vocals were regularly drowned out by everything else.

a little better than meh. 2.5/5

Yeah, nah, not completely awful but not for me.

This honestly just sounds like average boring English pop (I know they're Welsh), with a brief glitch during "No Sympathy". Radio DJs, notorious for having no taste, would have loved this some twenty years ago.

It's quite a diverse album I'd say. It was quite all-right to listen to, but in the end I was happy it was over.

2,3/5

Ehh, very forgettable in my opinion, no songs i really liked but it was not bad except a few songs

auch heute eher negative einstellung gegen das album - beliebiger mix von allem möglichen.

Naja, etwas von allem

Me recuerdan mucho a Blur, más especificamente a Damon Albarn con sus proyectos más experimentales. Los escucharé más detenidamente.

Another band I’ve heard of many times, but never listened to. And once again, I don’t feel like I’ve missed out on anything. It’s ok-ish. Not required listening though.

I have no problems with albums and songs like this because it's easy on the ears and I can go through it, eve enjoy it at the time. But the thing is that is forgetable and sounds all the same after awhile.

Boring. Never heard of this band before. Some of the songs were fine. Nothing I’d want to hear again.

Theres just something about the production i cant stand I cant put my finger on it

Combines the most boring parts of Blur, Supergrass and Mansun into a whole pile of mediocrity

veel willen maar weinig kunnen... zelfs de goeie momenten duren minder lang dan een nummer...

Dette er jeg ikke høy nok til å høre på

Wasn't super impressed. Too electronic for me, and some of the songs were super annoying.

Listened Before? N Meh. Another Oasis clone. Not sure why this is here. Added to Library? N Songs added to playlist: (Drawing) Rings Around the World

Early 2000s Britrock/-pop. Nothing special. Not bad, but if you really like this, I assume you also really like boiled potatoes.

It’s the opportunity cost that makes me sad really. How many amazing albums by incredible artists could have been in this spot instead of a second (!) Super Furry Animals album??

This was a swing and a miss. I wont remember a single lyrical or melodic hook. Somewhere along the way there's a horrible attempt at a psuedo-screamo section, which somehow didnt break the monotony of everything else. I have No Sympathy for the song "No Sympathy", which is a bit of lazy failure to capture the essence of Pink Floyd on the frontside, then a sudden transition to a half-baked Aphex Twin impression on the back half. At least we have Jacob Collier now who can pull off the novelty of genre-bending with some sense of style, substance, and bring on decent collaborators. This album is a nothing burger 2/5

Forgettable

No johan taas oli. Lemmenlaivasta Acid Housen kautta johonkin joka ilmeisesti kuulostaa tältä itseltään

Olihan taas vähän oudon puoleista

Ihan ok, vähä liikaa stimulointia tuli kyllä välillä kaikesta ylimääräisestä piipittelystä.

not for me

While there is lots of ability and experimentation here, it was not enjoyable at all.

2,5

The Good: We are living on Saturn… The Bad: it seems to be inhabited by Super Furry Animals… The Ugly: Imagining all those Super Furry Animals in zero gravity doing what them furries do… Never heard of the band before, which shouldn’t come as a surprise as I, as an old fart, know very little about anything released after Y2K. So, yeah… don’t know. Not my cup of tea. It’s neither here, nor there. It’s not meat, nor fish… And I can’t get past the band’s name… There’s nothing on this album that made me sit back and listen, there’s nothing on this album that I can even recall having sat through… I guess the poor furries are getting a low score today… 2*

** 1/2 Strange Wall of music and a mellow singing: no

Your typical Britpop. Very Blur/ Daman Alban like (which in my case is not a good thing). It feels more like listening to the radio than to an album. Nothing offensive, a few somewhat catchy pop songs. Not a "must hear" album for me.

4/10…neo psychedelic / britpop

This was definitely a up and down album to me. Some songs were intriguing while others were horrible. I’m definitely in the middle about this one and ai think that’s all I have to say. It wasn’t good enough to spark an interest- It felt bland, lacking, then a couple songs were just scratchy and bad.

It's just rock.

Another band from my part of the world. I've heard lots of hype for them over the years but had never actually listened to them until now Sorry to say though it was shit. Lots of noise 2 ⭐️

Super dull. Likely good music, but not in my zone.

It's sort of like Coldplay but boring No don't double-take, I said what I said

Pretty garbage but this list has had worse. Some songs really sound like Blur.

im trying to not give three 1/5's in a row

Only a couple songs I liked on this album. Otherwise it was not that good

I mean this is music, but pretty forgettable. Not sure why it's included on this list and definitely think it's the British bias setting in again. 4.75/10 (2.375/5)

Just because you have the idea to blend five different genres doesn’t mean you can execute that idea successfully. And that’s with a guest appearance by Sir Paul on the album, no less! It was too all over the place for me to be a coherent listen. There were moments in songs, but nothing that I want to listen to again. 2⭐️

Experimental - not my thing.

Bad

The title track was far and away the best track on the album, the rest really wasn't up to much. A bland but ok 2

Never been a huge fan of theirs, this album didn't change that. It's not bad but not memorable either, didn't have any of their hits I knew either. Feel like a fake Brit I've been rating the UK albums low but not been the best choices.

Never quite took for me.

A bit weird at times. Would probably have liked to hear them sing it all in Welsh.

The flaming lips if they were worse and British. Theres not much of note here just some sub par neo-psych 4/10 Favourite: None Least Favourite: Alternate Route to Vulcan Street

The sound was so fuzzy that I couldn’t tell what was happening. I like noise rock but the noise needs to work within the musicality of the piece; I’m afraid this one got overwhelmed.

Fine.

Eeeeeh. This was fine for a brit pop record. But I wouldn't say it's iconic in any way

Proof positive that the shadow of the Beatles looms large over British rock music, the first half of this album takes its cues not only from late-period Beatles albums but also from post-Beatles progeny like ELO, without building on either of them in any significant way, though. As the record progresses, it trades the Beatles influence for other touchstones from pop and rock history. "No Sympathy" steers towards Blind Faith territory (albeit with a bizarro electronic coda). "Juxtaposed with U" is a string-heavy number that swipes its lush arrangement from Philly soul. This is obviously an ambitious record, but to pull off an enterprise like this, you need more ideas than to just stripmine British rock from the past few decades. If singer Gruff Rhys at least had an interesting voice, it might have provided a solid center to these songs, but absent that, the record comes off as hollow.

Some songs were unlistenable for me.

This was an odd listen. Not sure how to describe it; I liked parts of mostly every song, and also disliked parts of mostly every song. I enjoyed the more unique sound of blending rock with lo-fi eldctronica, but the songs go on for way too long and lose themselves in the longer runtimes. Would be much better if it was just more concise

Litt interessant kanskje, men først og fremst irriterande

I liked the first track. Rings Around The World felt really chaotic for me - it may have been the mood I am in. I have found the entire album a bit aggravating, I can't quite put my finger on why.

Ummm…

Um okay! It was kind of silly. It’s like rock artists who are silly. I would zone out and then be like… what am I listening to?

I was expecting electronica based on the band name, the album name, and the cover art, but was immediately surprised when I started listening. I enjoyed Alternate Route to Vulcan Street, but the second track was at least a minute too long and then I genuinely disliked the third. The fourth and fifth did not get any better until the outro of the fifth song. I did enjoy the instrumental sixth song, A Touch Sensitive, but then the 7th and 8th songs were entirely forgettable. Starts getting interesting again at No Sympathy (there's the electronica I was expecting!), then we go straight off the rails (in a bad way) with Juxtapozed with U. I kind of checked out after the last one, but Run! Christian, Run! was actually pretty good. Probably my favourite on the whole album. I want to like it, I really like the background noise and instrumentation, but I just can't stand the singing, the lyrics, or the songwriting. Overall, I think what I've learned most during this project so far is that I don't like britpop. Also, I was surprised to see the Paul McCartney made a cameo on this album, but turns out it was just some samples of him eating carrots and celery? Yeah, that tracks. Favourite tracks: Alternate Route to Vulcan Street, A Touch Sensitive, Run! Christian, Run!

Maybe it's the lack of sleep last night, but this shit makes my head hurt. The early 2000s has a lot to answer for - I guess britpop was running out of steam so when damon albarn zigged, these guys zagged? Boring boring boring. Dig the JSRF lookin' cover, though. Wish the music lived up to it.

The only way I see my self enjoying this is- it’s a live show Danny got us free tickets for and when we get there one of his friends with a name like Ebo, Cho Cho, Scruffy or Surge is in the parking lot with a nitrous tank and the year is 2009.

The constant mingling of genres makes this hard to listen from all the whiplash. The one constant is the Costello-esque vocals. Like a George Lucas film, there is so much here but someone should have steered the ship to a direction instead of answering yes to every idea.

I didn’t overly enjoy much on this album, but I appreciated it keeping me guessing. Auto tune-laden poppy tunes, Beatles-esque British lilting, techno it’s all here. I particularly appreciated “Receptacle for the respectable” developing into ween-level weird at the end. While there were good moments, at the end of the day I couldn’t ride a wave long enough to consider myself surfing.

I wish I was able to find the "original" version of this and not the 20th anniversary that's 3 hours long...

Ok. [A] Touch Sensitive is a great song 2/5

i’m good on that thanks though

I’m familiar with the title track. It’s fine I guess. All was fine, until “Receptacle for the Respectable." Then things kind of went off the rails in genre experimentation. Those experiments in mashing in other genres are also obnoxious and bad examples of those genres.

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Tod langweilig

I kind of admire the variety of styles, but nothing stood out.

I’ve never been a fan of Super Furry Animals, so I expected this to be a tough listen. After not enjoying Fuzzy Logic at all, I was surprised to see them get a second album on this list—this band has just never clicked with me. "Alternate Route to Vulcan Street" has potential but never really gets going. From there, Sidewalk Serfer Girl follows, offering little more than standard UK rock of its time. It’s a dull start, and the album never picks up or improves from there. To be fair, the band experiments with different sounds throughout, but none of it really lands for me. Favorite song: Touch Sensitive—one of the few tracks I enjoyed. Juxtapozed With U was also a good one. These two tracks alone push the album to a 2/5 for me. Least favorite song: Receptacle for the Respectable—what an awful noise. Minature is also completely pointless. Album artwork: The cover gives off an electronic music vibe, but that’s not what you get at all. That said, it’s a great cover.

The lead singer cant decide if he's Damon Albarn or Elvis Costello, and the band itself seems like they tried to bring the sixties british semi-psychadelic style rock to a then-modern 2001 with poor results. Too much going on here, and none of it flows together, and overproduced as hell. If they were going for that 60's feel like I think, its missing all of the warmth, for whatever sense that makes.

I guess I just wasn't in the mood for this one. Had I heard this back when it came out, I think I would have enjoyed it. But today, I struggled to care. It seems fine enough: well thought out and lots of care put into it and all that. But it failed to find purchase in my excitement bin.

Maybe if I was British I would enjoy this more. Just nothing. Give me song 2 over and over again please. I should listen to blur

Groupe inconnu. Le premier morceau commence mal avec son orchestre de cordes, son rythme très mou et la voix trafiquée. Le morceau suivant n'est guère original, même si l'instrumentation est devenue plus standard. Des morceaux peu inspirés succèdent à d'autres morceaux peu inspirés. Une exception : "No Sympathy" m' a un peu surpris avec une seconde partie électro très inattendue (+1). Sinon j'ai trouvé l'album globalement ennuyeux (et trèèèès long), même si il n'est pas désagréable à écouter. =>2/5

This one is a real 🤷‍♂️ to me. It’s an early 2000s rock album and I listened to it

Caring very little, yet wanting to move this along, I punted my review to ChatGBT: Super Furry Animals’ Rings Around the World promised a groundbreaking journey through experimental rock, but unfortunately, the result feels more like a convoluted mess than a cohesive album. While their ambition is undeniable, the execution falls short, with tracks that seem more preoccupied with quirky sound effects and abstract arrangements than with any semblance of melody or structure. The album lacks the emotional depth or clear direction that made their earlier work memorable. Instead, the listener is left to wade through layers of overproduced noise and disjointed experimentation, which ultimately distracts from any real impact. For all the flashes of creativity, the album feels like it’s trying too hard to be weird without a solid core. While a few moments stand out—like the upbeat “Juxtapozed With U”—they’re few and far between in an album that overstays its welcome. It’s an ambitious attempt, but it feels like it’s trying to do too much, without ever delivering something truly satisfying. For fans of experimental rock, Rings Around the World might seem like an interesting curiosity, but it’s far from a must-have in the genre. If you’re looking for substance along with the style, you might want to look elsewhere.