Fuzzy Logic

something for the weekend rules, rest are really enjoyable definitely 4+ stars

Messy, noisy a bit strange! Might need a 2nd,3rd or 4th listen.

Surprising, fun, upbeat

New

Super Furry Animals…. Not what I was expecting thank god. This album was one of the better ones I’ve heard so far simply because all the songs sounded different. The wide range of sounds and styles made every song feel unique from the last. Some of the sounds can be a bit strange but didn’t feel repetitive which is refreshing if you are in the mood for a bit of variety when it comes to listening to an album. No one song stuck out as a hit, but the album as an entire experience was great. I’ll be listening to this album again for sure especially on a road trip. 8/10

This album is not my favorite Super Furry Animals album, but it was still quite good. It is primarily a Britpop album that has been influenced by psychedelic music, experimental music, and the Madchester scene. The vocal delivery, in pure Britpop form, is reminiscent of the Beatles. There are parts of the album that had almost a pop-punk feel as well.

good stuff. listened to them a little when they came out; wish I'd listened to this album tho

I liked it, reminded me of ween

"Something 4 the Weekend" and "Hometown Unicorn" are stand out tracks. Punky, psychedelic and nonsensical lyrics. 3.5 stars rounded up.

I really was surprised by this band. Quirky, catchy, and a precursor to a lot of modern rock. These guys are innovators and I love it!

I enjoyed this one. Lots of different genres and styles but it all worked. Will listen again.

Feel like I can trace the before and after of this band, with all the fuzzy-power-pop of The Cars and the Replacements, and on the other end you have the likes of Fountains of Wayne and The Dandy Warhols. I like it, I just don't think it keeps up the momentum throughout the whole thing. Favorite tracks: "God! Show Me Magic", "Something 4 The Weekend", "Frisbee"

Really enjoyed this

Aye

Kind of fun

I enjoyed this album a lot. It was a really solid listen and it was very cohesive. It went by so fast I was left wanting more by the end of it. I actually didn't know the album looped when it finished so I listened to the first half again without even realizing it. Overall good album and it put the Super Furry Animals on my radar

Kind of a fun album...maybe on the upper tear as far as brit pop type albums goes. 3.5/5

Weirdly good

Man, I'm really finding that I like these guys quite a bit. Their influence on Random Access Memories is so readily apparent, but I'm also hearing a strange amount of Radiohead in some of these tracks? Pretty cool band. Favorite track: Mario Man

Fuzzy Logic begins in the middle and draws you in from beginning to end. New group for me and quite a treat. So happy to discover this group!

3.5-4

Fan-fucking-tastic. T.Rex for the 90s! I'll be digging in deep with these guys.

Tracks seemed short at first but it grew on me.

In coincidence news that will interest no one, was singing demons off their second album as I was refreshing this page for todays album, imagining to myself if I got that album. You should listen to that album next if you even vaguely like this. This debut album isn't as good, but is still worthy of your time - varied, fun, a bit psychedelic at times, catchy, and doesn't take itself seriously. It has a few weak songs on it but overall it's a breath of fresh air even now. I was amazed to see people on here calling it the worst of British music at the time, it's so much more inventive and fun than most of it. Give me this over oasis and the verve every day of the week! Not sure I can trust anyone who can't enjoy this. I think of this as a post modern album, taking elements of psychedelia, British prog, rock and pop, and deconstructing them. It's also playful and whimsical and endearingly naive, from some young welsh men exploring their influences. It's earnest in its own way; these guys don't have a lot of affectation and their attitude is refreshing. They really hadn't come close to their true powers of songwriting on this album so I was surprised it's on here; I hope radiator and rings around the world is too but I'd be surprised if they had 3 on this list [mwng is also excellent and guerilla very good, even spaced out the b sides is very enjoyable]. That said, I think this album is great and I'm glad this sort of stuff didn't get overlooked on this list in favour of only the very "insisting upon itself" stuff of this era like oasis, verve, blur... Enjoy all the little details in this one, and relax, dont take it too seriously. SFA were a big part of my teen years and one of the first bands I saw live. Tempted to give this 5 stars as a biased retort to all the unfair one star reviews on here, but 8/10 is fairer

Just a whole lot of fun. It's nice to come across a Britpop band that seems to actually enjoy playing music. Best track: Bad Behaviour

A collective of Super Furry Animals. An Animal Collective, if you will.

Every time I put on this debut I forget how much I quote this in my life. Although I got old enough to be more focussed on the Dad rock Sessions of the last Albums from Phantom Power onwards I have to admit that this fuzzy, yelly, bratty whirlwind of a record is super important for my own understanding of what really was important on the waves of so called Britpop.

Another completely new one to me. Feels like British indie in the same vein as The Shins or something. Something 4 The Weekend feels a lot like a Spoon song, but I can't quite place which one. The whole guitar breakdown and composition is identical. I've had this on in the background and have generally enjoyed the vibe. Gathering Moss kind of feels like a Blur song -- standout to me so far. Mostly had this going in the background, and while it didn't command my attention often, it was enjoyable. I give it a 4/5 and deserves another listen.

Had never heard of this band before. But this album is pretty quirky and unique sounding. Really enjoying it. God! Show me Magic was a great start. Have definitely heard Something 4 the Weekend. Jam of a song. Solo on Hometown Unicorn slaps. Gathering Moss could’ve been written by Syd Barrett. Great chill tune. Fun fact: The devil brother from Little Nicky is speaking during the song Long Gone on the answering machine. Overall I really enjoyed this and sounds refreshing af to me. There were some inconsistent parts to it but over really good. Wish I could give it a 4.5 but I’m gonna round down to a 4.

I'm surprised this made it onto the list. It's good, it's like a bit derivative of 1960s music, like a lot of indie was around the mid nineties. It's got some extremely energetic tracks and great use of the theremin! Lovely guitar-based rock. I would listen again. Is it on a par with 'Dark Side of the Moon'? I am still working my head through my scoring system, but 5 is perfect, 4 is excellent, 3 is very good, 2 is ok but not great, and 1 is unlistenable. There almost needs to be a sixth rating to enable more variation between 3 and 1. 3-rated albums will have a big range of listen ability. So I think this is a 3... But it's very good, so maybe it IS a four.

I can't really explain why I liked this but I did.

I forgot about them

Here's another one of those bands I've circled around for years but never properly listened to, and that's a damn shame. This is really fun stuff. Another album I'll definitely be revisiting often and another catalogue I'll have to explore further...

An interesting mix of different styles and an eclectic collection of strong songs from the band's debut record. This approach can be risky and hit and miss, but fortunately there are more hits than misses. Their music offers a lot of things I like, with a retro 60's sound, modernized for the mid-90's, so I really enjoyed the whole record. I need to explore the rest of Super Furry Animals discography and see how the rest of their career played out. By the way, one of the best band names I've heard in a while!

Lotta fun, might've liked the later one better

I have heard about the band before but never listened to an album before today. It's a great rock album with elements of pychedelic, pop and glam rock. There are many great melodic songs on it which are quite accessible, but not too accessible. I liked it!

Bring back the 90s

Solid rock, a longtime favorite. An interesting flavor to this sort of post-heavy turn-of-the-century era alternative, is it Welshness?

Just like supergrass, very easy to hear where it came from, and what it helped inspire, which happen to be some of my favorite music in both directions.

Great album, very consistent

I don't have the same sort of deep rooted love for this album that I do for "Rings Around The World", but it's still a lot of fun. I think with more familiarity it could rise to a 5.... Fave track - "Something For The Weekend" for the more scuzzy rocky side of things, "Gathering Moss" for the more floaty psychedelic side of things...

This was wild. I liked it though. Frisbee was my favorite - great riff

Really good!

Great album that I didn't even know about!

Didn’t expect to enjoy it as much as I did

Really fun stuff, a bit of a Rocky open for me, but definitely swung an hit its goal after the fact.

Listens: 2 Enjoyed: yeah Something about this doesn't work as an album for me but many of the songs are great as a stand alone. It's psychedelic rock style is excellent

This was consistant and pretty awesome. Great tunes and creative

Really fun album. I would return to this and enjoy it. 4/5

I feel like this list needs to have some album that only had impact in the UK every now and then to feel natural, except this one actually sounds pretty good? I like how weirdly and defiantly punk it is during Britpop’s hey day, and there are some really cool harmonies here. Would like to hear more. B

Fun Welsh rock band. Cool sound

Really cool. Would like to listen to more

Great album. Trailed off at the end but awesome find.

Very solid effort, Beatles, psychedelia, choruses. All good.

Fun listening with Colin. Definitely deserves another listen!

New to me and really enjoyed their sound, will for sure revisit!

Stacks up well against other contemporary bands. Loved the compostions, not the lyrics as much. But a great album.

Surprisingly fun album, I love the mix of genres

Wel vrolijke rock, met veel verschillende instrumenten, maar iets te hip/experimenteel voor mijn smaak

Listened to on 9/4/22 4/5 Favorite song: something 4 the weekend Super upbeat 90s rock but nothing crazy special or standout

Overall an enjoyable album, though some parts were a bit grating through headphones

Fun band. It was a quick and easy listen.

Definitely an album I already had in my library, and reminds me of the mid 90s. Always a good listen.

Never heard of this band but really enjoyed the album. It's easy to detect influences of Bowie, Radiohead, and several others without it feeling derivative.

It's a bit wacky, a bit poppy, a bit retro and a bit futuristic. A solid debut.

Solid album, energetic and fun, love the nods to glam and psychedelic and pop and punk all mixed up

Very nice.

Quite literally it was Something 4 the Weekend!

I like this a lot when it was first released and think it was in my top ten foe year. Revisiting it for this exercise, I find it wears it influences on its sleeves a bit too much. As a result the album comes off as a singles collection with some very good filler. That, in itself, is retro, evoking the 60s. The catchy hooks of the individual tunes, and harmonies push this to a four star review.

I liked this album but not enough to listen again. It sounded a lot like David Bowie and got better with each listen, but I don’t really see what’s special about it. Another British 90s album which could have been cut in favor of a far more relevant Black artist.

this album is all over the place! i do admire when an artist does not confine themselves to any one genre--or two. or three. i liked the range that super furry animals were able to project. it was such a weird listen but an enjoyable one. every song was unique, and somehow the whole album flowed? i wouldn't think this album would work but it does. some songs were absolute bangers ("god! show me magic", "something 4 the weekend") and others were sleepers ("long gone", "bad behaviour") and some weren't as good, but it made for a cohesive listen.

Solid album. I I enjoyed a few songs.

90s mash up of weezer and radiohead

Very solid pop rock album

I love these sort of crazy everything but the kitchen sink albums. One of the best.

Yeah, this was sweet as

Very enjoyable, fun loving criminals but harder?

Great psychedelic pop mixed with britpop. And Gruff Rhys was in that band?! I didn't even know! I will definitely check out their later albums.

That's what I like about indie rock. It's so adventurous and pure. Fuzzy Logic in particular sounds like a pastiche sometimes. I caught stuff from '70s rock to the britpop sounds of the '90s. But it didn't come out as unoriginal nor uninteresting. In fact, it's the most adventurous and fun indie rock album that I heard for a while. It can be messy and all over the place, but it's great rock nonetheless.

Great

Britpop + psychedelia + punk rock? Was this album made specifically for me? Fun and the right amount of stupid. Some songs were a bit forgettable. This band is very much up my alley though, gotta check their other work as well. Shit, they made an entire neo-psychedelic album in Welsh?

Интересно, что эту группу я вообще пропустил и не знал или забыл о ней. А группа стоящая. Не могу сказать, что альбом ровный, но очень достойный внимания. 7 из 10.

Some nice songs here!

Apparently a third of all essential albums are obscure britpop... Pretty good though 4

These guys are tons of fun. I enjoyed the heck out of this!

Liked it a lot. Cool rock/prog rock album, easy listening tunes

Fun et éclectique! Prefs: God! Show Me Magic, Fuzzy Birds, Something for the Weekend, Frisbee, Gathering Moss, Bad Behaviour, Hangin' With Howard Marks, For Now and Ever. Moins pref: Long Gone

Do tego albumu muszę jeszcze wrócić, na pewno o wiele ciekawszy, niż większość tutejszych średniaków. Dobrze się tego słucha, szczególnie na słuchawkach - ktoś długo przesiadał nad masteringiem płyty. I są smyczki, z automatu +1 byczku.

What's not to like? Though I prefer Radiator.

omg i'm such a huge fan of this album. I had never heard of this band before, but they are very up my alley.

Great but nothing super special about this.

Rock, grunge.

Liked it! Some catchy recognizable songs on here

For now and ever

Love this from Gruff and the boys, some bangers on here of Course "Something 4 The Weekend" is a Britpop classic and reminds me of that Mid 90's optimism which we could so do with now, what a different world we are living in now! Favorite tracks "Fuzzy Birds" The aforementioned "Something for the Weekend" and "Long Gone". Terrific stuff

Eclectic album that I liked but not much stood out to me. Poppy and likeable.

I liked right away that "hamster" was a lyric in the first two songs. This was fun and Welsh. The subject matter of the songs has to be some of my favorites ever. It's a bit of a crazy mix of styles, but always made me smile.

It seems like these guys make music because it's fun. I like it. Musically at least it's light and poppy --- I didn't have a chance to dig deep into the lyrics so maybe they're talking about serious stuff but I was having a good time. Even Long Gone, which is melancholy, if not outright sad, isn't overly earnest or dramatic, just serious enough. Nice.

The first two songs feature hamsters. The band is called Super Furry Animals. I’m interested… This album has a real 70s vibe that I found quite fun. Some good rock with a lot of interesting bits thrown in. Flute and trombone solo? Check. There are little delights to be found all over this musical funhouse. Really enjoyed it! I love how the ending ends with a “we’ll be together” anthem. A wonderfully corny conclusion that appeals greatly to me! Favorite tracks: God! Show Me Magic, Fuzzy Birds, Something 4 The Weekend, Gathering Moss, For Now and Ever

Very nice SFA album - they made so many, none of them grabbed me completely but this one comes very close (just like Outspaced, their b-side compilation album).

Hei täähän ihan jytää! Harva ysärillä tullut rokkilevy on positiivinen. Ei se turhaan ollu grungen valtakautta. Mut tää kyl on aika hyväntuulista ja tällasta glämärihenkinstä psykevetkutusta. Homma toimii ja pituutta koko laikallakin on 40 min joten eri hyvä. Tulee paljon mieleen 2000-luvun alussa vaikuttanut brittibändi the Darkness. Jatkoon. Hyvä nimi bändillä.

Had some moments that I thought it sounded like Smash Mouth? Overall, a smooth and relaxing vibe.

Aika suoraviivaista rokkia. Tykkäsin levyn tunnelmasta, leppoisan reipasta, hyväntuulista menoa. Sellainen maaliin pääsemisen tunnelma ja sen jälkeinen hyvä olo, varsinkin levyn lopussa.

I enjoy the Super Furry Animals. I could probably have this on all day long with no problems, and enjoy it all the way though. It's not gonna be one of my top favourite albums as it hasn't really got that oomph that I need to really get it there. Falls somewhere between a 3 and a 4 for me, but as I can really see myself listening to this on repeat and there's not a single song that I dislike I'll give it a 4.

Both relaxed and more intense songs, liked it.

Banging music. I loved Bad Behaviour

So much better than I remember. Lots of killer pop/rock songs that I didn't appreciate as a metal/goth kids in the 90s. My only issue is that it seems to bounce around the place and for me doesn't feel tied together, but still hugely enjoyable.

What’s not to love about these guys? Proper welsh wizardry. It’s certainly not their best album, but it’s still a corker!

Muy buen disco en conjunto 3.5

Really good. Never heard of the band before but I will certainly listen to more.

Very energetic and fun album. I was pleasantly surprised by it.

Debut sólido. Desde la neo psicodelia, pasando por el Power Pop, el Indie Rock e incluso tintes de Britpop, el debut de los Super Furry Animals encapsula buena parte de los sonidos clásicos noventeros. No será el álbum más aclamado de la banda, pero indudablemente es un sólido trabajo lleno de canciones directas y efectivas. Un punto débil yace en la interpretación vocal, la cual posee influencias muy identificables al punto en que se siente poco propositiva a momentos. Sin embargo, hay que tener en cuenta que es un problema recurrente más aun cuando de álbumes debut se trata. Para mí un sólido 7/10

Never heard of this band before. Nice indie-pop guitar driven rock, liked it a lot even though I could only understand like 60% of the words they were saying

there’s some cool soundscapes? I think I need to improv to this

Not familiar with this band. Enjoyed it. Liked the 90s groove and the “noise”. 4.0

Really enjoyed this one! Very easy listen that seemed to go by too quickly. Guitars were a little heavy and distracting at times but for the most part it was great melodies and composition on an emotional ride through each song without being too heavy or dramatic. Definitely putting this album into the regular rotation.

Fun album. Not very memorable, but solid pop.

El vocal me recordó mucho a Pete Townshend, muy fresco el álbum :))

Weird welsh indie. BT: Something 4 The Weekend, If You Don't Want Me To Destroy You, Bad Behaviour

Conocía la de Rings Around the World y ya. Este disco está muy verga. Además me sirvió para descubrir otra influencia de la música de un amigo. Paz en el mundo.

guitar driven punky rock. pretty good. dunno if i'd seek this exact album out. after progressing through may return sooner than expected. but I enjoyed it and will probably pop back to sometime, or sprinkle in playlists

I knew about them but never listened to them properly. Surprisingly good. Thinking to give them 3.5 stars (I'll decide tomorrow). I think I really liked it (I hope not to be biased because they are from Cardiff...)

Nice one, like the many- sided styles. Some track very much TGTBaTQ

Something 4 the weekend!

Jamás había oído de este grupo antes

Wow, nothing like getting off to a loud start! It was okay. Didn’t love it, didn’t hate it.

Fun listen

I think I might have liked this more if I paid more attention to it but honestly I had other things going on today. I'll put it on a list to revisit sometime maybe

It drives me a little batty when bands like this (and Cake, and OK Go, and Talking Heads) never take their music seriously -- lyrically anyway -- but then they play their instruments and write the melodies and I'm like damn, that's catchy as hell. That's why I'm split down the middle on my rating. If they sound this good just "playin' around", imagine what would happen if they actually took their songwriting seriously.

its ok. pretty good psych pop rock. its cool but i'd never return to it

Fuzzy Logic Super Furry Animals 1996 Genres: Rock Styles: Britpop, Alternative Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Indie Rock, Experimental 1. God! Show Me Magic (★★★★☆) -Contexto: Habla de un "trasplante de alma" porque su "bypass" no funcionaba, y le pide a "Dios" que le muestre magia. Cuestiona lo que el diario no muestra, lo que la tele no dice, y hasta "lo que comieron mis hámsters hoy". Es una sátira absurda sobre la desconfianza a los medios y la búsqueda de algo trascendente en medio de lo mundano, envuelta en apenas 1:50 de pop-punk. 2. Fuzzy Birds (★★★★☆) -Contexto: Metáfora de un hámster en su rueda que pide comida/energía para poder funcionar, comparándose con una batería y un dinamo ("el mundo me tiene dando vueltas a los gritos en mi rueda"). Se lee como una alegoría sobre sentirse atrapado en una rutina agotadora, dependiendo de algo externo para tener fuerzas. 3. Something 4 the Weekend (★★★★☆) -Contexto: Narra "la primera vez", "la segunda vez", etc. de haber probado algo que "me subí a la lengua y tragué", con efectos que se intensifican ("las cosas se ponen más fáciles", "esto me está poniendo hippy dippy") y un estribillo obsesivo sobre tener a alguien/algo metido en la cabeza todo el tiempo. Reseñas de la época la describen como una celebración con guiño irónico de la cultura del éxtasis y las salidas de fin de semana de los 90. 4. Frisbee (★★★☆☆) -Contexto: Letra surrealista ("estamos ahogándonos en helado de diseñador", "el futuro está pixelado") combinada con imágenes agresivas de un frisbee "afilado y cromado" que "decapita y entierra tus juguetes" y "trae el ruido". Se percibe como una crítica velada al consumismo y a la saturación mediática/tecnológica. 5. Hometown Unicorn (★★★⯨☆) -Contexto: Está basada en el caso real de Franck Fontaine, un adolescente francés que desapareció en 1979 y reapareció una semana después alegando haber sido abducido por extraterrestres. Su foto apareció en el sencillo y en el disco. 6. Gathering Moss (★★★★⯨) -Contexto: Habla de estancamiento vital y económico: "capacidad perdida para el infinito", "campos de industria, muerte por miseria", gente "unida por facturas detalladas" y "falsa seguridad". Es un retrato melancólico de la inercia y la ansiedad económica cotidiana, del tipo "vivir en piloto automático". -Fav 7. If You Don't Want Me to Destroy You (★★★★☆) -Contexto: Usa la "gravedad" como metáfora de una fuerza que sostiene y ata ("me sostenés tan silenciosamente", "me tirás hacia abajo, hacia la tierra"), mezclando amenaza ("si no querés que te destruya") con vulnerabilidad y necesidad del otro. El single se promocionó con el célebre tanque azul que la banda compró y llevó a los festivales de 1996 como gesto contra la Criminal Justice Act de 1994 (ley que perseguía la cultura rave), aunque la letra en sí no es explícitamente sobre eso. 8. Bad Behaviour (★★★⯨☆) -Contexto: Autorretrato nostálgico y desenfadado de travesuras de juventud: "hacer lío solía alegrarme el día", "metí el puño por una ventana", "la amnesia nunca se me cruzó por la cabeza", "la amigdalitis era mi coartada", "hacerme la rabona era mi vocación". Humor autoparódico sobre la rebeldía adolescente, sin mayor trasfondo político. 9. Mario Man (★★★☆☆) -Contexto: Relato nonsense/absurdista sobre un personaje con desventuras disparatadas: agujeros en su chándal, una cirugía en Everton, un casamiento con "la hija del idiota del pueblo", una luna de miel en Chipre donde ella agarra un virus, la vuelta solo en una freidora ("chip pan") navegando hasta la Isla de Man, y quedar atrapado en un vórtice con una campera Gore-Tex. Puro humor surrealista sin mensaje directo aparente, típico del estilo lírico de la banda. 10. Hangin' with Howard Marks (★★★⯨☆) -Contexto: Tributo/retrato del contrabandista galés de drogas Howard Marks (alias "Mr. Nice"), a quien la banda invitó a Rockfield durante la grabación. La letra mezcla imágenes de amistad ("somos los tres mosqueteros") con jerga de mercado bursátil ("comprá, comprá, vendé, vendé") y despedidas. Gruff Rhys dijo después que Marks representaba "un nuevo contexto para la cultura galesa", un antihéroe que usaba el idioma galés como código para despistar a las autoridades. 11. Long Gone (★★★★☆) -Contexto: El tema más largo del disco (5:20), con una letra escueta y repetitiva sobre la ausencia y la pérdida ("no hay sombra donde estuviste", "te encontraría si pudiera", "si creyera, rezaría"). Tono fantasmal y melancólico. Cierra con un mensaje real de contestador dejado por los ex integrantes Rhys Ifans y Dic Ben, como un gesto casi documental de despedida a esa etapa de la banda. 12. For Now and Ever (★★★☆☆) -Contexto: Cierre breve y luminoso del álbum, que menciona a Siân Lloyd (conocida presentadora del clima de la TV galesa) anunciando que "el sol va a venir a jugar". Es una declaración de amor simple y optimista: "vamos a estar juntos hasta el final, por ahora y siempre". -TOTAL = ★★★⯨☆ (3,6)

Es ist wie ein überdrehter, neonbunter Zirkus, der gleichzeitig genial und leicht verpeilt wirkt. Die Super Furry Animals werfen Psychedelia, Britpop und schrägen Humor in einen Mixer, drücken auf Turbo – und manchmal fliegt der Deckel eben weg. Einige Songs sind brillant verspielt, andere stolpern über ihre eigene Exzentrik.

Decent; not amazing. An extremely assured debut, though, and more exciting than the later album of theirs that I've already reviewed on here. It has a sense of fun, but to me the best tracks are the ones that also have a sense of urgency. I don't like the more whimsical tracks much; I feel like this band were at their best when they were being noisy (God Show Me Magic, Bad Behaviour). I did have to admire the rhyming of vortex and Gore-tex, however. Hanging With Howard Marks is a good track - probably all the best elements of this band combined.

I had never heard this before, but I enjoyed it! Fuzzy guitars and lots of vocal effects. I don't know if this album is essential, but it was a decent listen this morning.

This is a tight knit band with some fun lyrics. An easy listen and an ambitious recording.

Meh

Didn't love this nearly as much as "Rings Around the World". This is more of a standard britpop record unfortunately. Still not convinced that this band wasn't just another of Damon Albarn's side projects. Favorite track: For Now and Ever

Had some nice moments. I'm pretty sure I would've liked it more had their old singer, Rhys Ifans, still been with the band.

Jamais écouté avant. Le son d'un groupe qui semble n'avoir pas encore trouvé sa voix, et qui semble donc mixer toutes ses influences (le psychédélisme des années 1960, le glam des années 1970, le punk, la musique électronique...) sans trouver de ligne directrice. Ça fonctionne parfois, mais ça tourne souvent au pastiche calqué d'un peu trop près. Néanmoins, les quelques morceaux qui surnagent me laissent penser qu'il y a du talent, et je ne fais pas une croix sur le groupe. À suivre, donc. Top : Something for the Weekend Flop : Long Gone

I don't know if I love or hate this album. It has moments of really amazing creativity, some solid pop song writing, yet leaves me largely indifferent. Probably in that Teenage Fanclub bracket of bands everyone is supposed to love, but I struggle to connect with.

Average Brit indie

Totally fine, a couple of stand out songs

Not bad but very much not my style, indie sort of music never really was my thing

terug britpop... beter dan Oasis, maar dat is het dan ook

First Listen Favorites: Something 4 the Weekend God! Show Me Magic If You Don't Want Me to Destroy You Honorable Mentions: Mario Man

Weird Welshmen play psychedelic pop and art rock

I have never heard this band. Very 90s, in a very good way.

It’s crazy how basic yet experimental this album is. This is so 90’s coded. This would totally be the soundtrack to those teal paper cups from the 90’s. Like really, there’s not much going on here. It’s just a breezy rock record that doesn’t take itself seriously. Yeah it’s Brit Slop at times, but it made for an easy & enjoyable listen. There’s worse offenders on here for sure.

Reminds me of Blur. It's catchy at times

The 90s Brit Pop scene continues the search to reestablish its relevance. Nothing really unique or special here, just a bunch of tracks that make the listener wonder which band from which previous era they're listening to, only to find out that Fuzzy Logic is a band and ELO/Bowie/Costello/Oasis/etc. probably already did it better.

SFA passed me by originally so this was a first listen. Not bad but didn't get hooked

Another mediocre band making mediocre music.

Pleasant enough but pretty banal mid-90s Britpop. It sounds like hundreds of other albums that came out at the same time. Not bad background music, and their hit single “Something 4 the weekend” is definitely an earworm.

Not bad! 3.5/5

Not as good as beauty and the beat.

Pretty good

Maybe it's YABA (yet another british album) that this list is weirdly plagued with, but some of it was weirdly up my alley. Some of it reminded me of Elvis Costello. 3*

I like Super Furry Animals but didn’t care much for this album specifically. Their other one on here was much better.

Normalito. Agradable, nada wow. 6/10

2.5

So… is this British? Just a guess. A stab in the dark… though the Monty Python line up on the album cover DOES kinda give them away. If they were trying to hide from anyone, that is. Yeah. So I don’t hate this like others seem to. I actually like it quite a bit. I don’t think I am going higher than 3. But… yeah it doesn’t in any way belong on the list. And that’s not just the British bias. White Denim doesn’t either. There’s a lot of this sludge on here. It’s good sludge, actually, but not stuff I would recommend to anyone in terms of them needing to hear it before they die. For any reason. 3 Boolean: FALSE

Puedo decir que este álbum si me impresionó, lo había subestimado y poco a poco y me fue gustando más creo que es un álbum que estaba bastante adelantado a su época con canciones bastante indie, podría decirlo

Hmm. Sometimes fun mix of Sgt. Pepper's psychedelia (honestly, I don't really get the Syd Barrett flavor much) and 90s rock, Songs are generally catchy, but it feels more like a collection of singles and attempts at singles than an album. There's never really a moment of Oh I see what they're doing here, I understand their sound, I get it. More like Well that's another one. Of its time, but I wouldn't list it.

This was cool. 3.7

It was okayish

Not bad but nothing great and better than others in its class on this list.

First listen: it’s fine. It’s another album that is a decent listen, but I have no clue why it’s on the list. Doesn’t seem particularly special or historic or classic. Just a mid-90s album that reminds me a little of Supergrass (although maybe that’s just the “super” piece). Second listen: getting some Blur - Leisure vibes in a few of the songs. “Something 4 The Weekend” is a highlight.

The rare 90s modern rock gem that I just completely missed. Got turned on to this a few months ago and while I don’t always love long doses of Britpop, I found lots to enjoy here.

did not move me, but i enjoyed having it on

It was something for the weekend. Favorite Track: "Fuzzy Birds".

This album is all over the place. They can't really figure out what they want to be. "Fuzzy Birds" is basically a David Bowie song. "Something 4 the Weekend" sounds like an end-stage Beatles tune. Really, the closest thing to a through-line stylistically is that the singer really wants to be David Bowie. Maybe in later albums the influences get blended a bit more, but here they're a bit like throwing a pile of soup ingredients in a bowl without cooking them, or even stirring them for that matter. Still, it wasn't terrible. I'd say it was straight-up-the-middle average at 2.5 stars that I'll round up to 3. 3 stars

Never heard of these guys before. It was fine. Thank you!

Solid enough second-tier Britpop, some good ones, some a bit indulgently weird

Just a pretty average britpop album to be honest. There's nothing inherently wrong with that at all, just a few guys coming together and rocking out on their debut album. Sure, it's a but messy and lacks the focus and production that a great album typically has, but either way is still an interesting listen. There's still that infectious britpop energy that no genre really does it quite like this one. And it really comes through in the way the album is arranged and performed as it really does feel like they are having fun making this. It's interesting hearing this after having already had a Super Furry Animals album and absolutely hating it. I don't exactly love this, and I'm not surprised that on later albums they got a lot more generic (the unfortunate fate of most britpop bands), as this very youthful and energetic vibe is hear impossible to replicate sincerely.

A little bit better than some of the other generic sounding brit pop/rock. The second half of the album contained some actual interesting songs. But it's a generous 3 stars

There are elements of the Super Furry Animals' debut that give it character. The guitars are fuzzy, and there is some zany theatricality that makes it a lot of fun. Despite those things, it mostly sounds like a typical 90s alternative rock album. Later in their career the band would get weirder, but this one - probably because it's their debut - plays it safer. There's a noisy outro on "Bad Behaviour" and a few songs with group vocals, but there's nothing that weird. There's tons of energy, and you're never left waiting for something to happen. But overall the writing isn't strong or interesting enough to elevate it over the band's contemporaries.

Album 1001... and I get the most underwhelming possible album that I could've gotten. I'm not even going to say "arguably" this time. Of the 89 albums I had remaining before today, this is the single most underwhelming album that I could have gotten as album 1001. Like, I was so excited being like "Oh I can't wait to see what I get for album 1001!" and then I get a band that previously gave me a 2/5. Just my luck, am I right? But yeah, we've reached album 1001! This is where I would be done if I was just doing 1 version of the 1001 Albums book, but I'm not, so I still have 88 more days to go after this. I can't believe I've made it this far though. Look, I love this website and I'm so grateful for all of this, but I am ready to be done. I am getting tired of this project for a number of reasons, and unnecessary repeat artists are one of them. Why the hell are there two Super Furry Animals albums on this list? Was one not enough? Did we really need this or was there some bias a-brewin'? As previously mentioned, I gave the other album of theirs, Rings Around the World, a 2/5. I actually re-listened to it a couple of months ago for a sub-project of sorts that I've been working on occasionally throughout this year so far, and I still didn't care for it. But you know what? I actually liked this one more. Fuzzy Logic isn't a bad album. It's not great by any means, but I don't hate it. It's average, which is an improvement from Rings which I felt was below-average. But why do I prefer Fuzzy Logic? I'm not sure. At least, I'm not sure of the full list of reasons. I can try to explain why, I guess. I think this album's energy is a bit more interesting to me personally. The worst moments on here aren't as bad as the worst moments on the other album. The album is 10 minutes shorter. That's probably the biggest reason why I liked this more than Rings Around the World. I still have issues with this album, obviously. The mixing isn't very good and I'm still not huge on the vocals or writing, but this album isn't a bad experience. Dare I say that there were moments that I actually kind of enjoyed somewhat. "God! Show Me Magic" was a decent opener. "Mario Man" is a fun concept. Fuzzy Logic is a fine enough debut album from a band that I still don't really care for. It's not my cup of tea, but I can at least see the appeal of this, you know? Still not a good way to celebrate album 1001, but it could definitely be worse. Light 3/5.

Interesting, chaotic, not unpleasant but I wanted to like it more achos Cymru am byth.

An odd lot, aren't they? Early tracks sound like they could have been used in Welcome to Wrexham. Some call to mind The Beatles.

I don't think this era of SFA has aged very well: the songwriting is solid, but it sounds too 90s, a bit like the first Supergrass album. Both bands got a lot better with time! I much prefer their later stuff like Rings Around The World.

Fuzzy Logic is filled with a youthful energy that verges on chaos at times. On their debut album, the Welsh band Super Furry Animals combine the prevailing Brit pop sound of the time the fuzzed out energy of punk and classic power pop of the 70s and 80s. The poppy single "God! Show Me Magic" kicks things off energetically. Hit single "Something 4 the Weekend" is reminiscent of Electric Light Orchestra with choppy, rhythmic verses that carreen into a soaring pop chorus. A final standout is "If You Don't Want Me to Destroy You" boasts a different sound with strings and an effective use of falsetto on the chorus.

Fell asleep again but no bad dreams

not bad

6/10

Landfill indie before we started calling it that. Good album but not exactly breaking new ground for me. Kind of forgot it was on while listening to it.

Just straight to the album with God! Show me magic like I thought it was ease me into the album, it really pushed me into it.

mostly enjoyable. the highs are really high but the lows are just as low

This album confirms my suspicion that I clearly don't understand the Britpop phenomenon at all. Far more than the other Super Furry Animals in this collection, I would have guessed this fit neatly into the Britpop category, with its largely retro-pop orientation (and that several of the songs reminded me strongly of Blur and Pulp, especially "God! Show me magic" and "Something 4 the weekend", and maybe "Bad behavior"). Weird too to read that the band thought the album would be an antidote to Britpop's backwards-looking musical vision, since that's pretty much describes *all* of the songs I've heard so far by them. Regardless, although I was skeptical that having another Super Furry Animals in the collection was going to add much, I think I enjoyed this album a bit more than "Rings around the world", and also appreciated it that the few tracks that had videos were at least seemingly connected to the songs.

Interesting but not nearly as good as Rings Around the World or Phantom Power which are terrific albums.

Ehhhh. Ehhhhhhhhhh. Even right after listening, my memory is a little fuzzy, so my logic on rating this album might not be totally sound. It's serviceable, it has more good points than bad, although I know what people mean when they whinge about british albums on this list.

Has a sort of blur sound but a bit more psychedelic, mostly fine but nothing too exceptional here 3.5*

Sorprendió.

When I saw the album title and artist name I thought it was an album from The Muppets - and it actually sounds like it, too... It's very rough, with a lot of elements mixed together and creative ideas, but often it just sounded too chaotic and crowded to me.

Didnt sound like anything special to me. Dont get me wrong, it isnt awfull but it doesnt do mutch diffrent in my opinion. I feel like the rock gerne has been so overexplored over the years that doing anything that isnt basicly an other gerne sounds simular. For the time probably great but kinda just rock now.

Une autre affaire correctdinaire qui va glisser dans mon oubli comme une lettre à la poste.

I think this is an interesting band. I haven’t listened to them since I got my last album of theirs in Jan 2025, but they’ve grown on me since then.

Enjoyed it.

Meh

Fun ride. But a little all over the place with the genre of the songs. I'm missing a general through line.

Пулп, суеде, зевёрв, оазис кор(также известный как брит-поп)

I feel like I've heard of these guys, but between them, Supergrass, and Supertramp I'm not sure. Definitely didn't know they were Welsh (and man, do they have some Welsh names!) This was a pleasant listen late Saturday night with a buzz.

Not bad, reminds of Pulp (big fan of Pulp) and Blur, it's going in a good direction you know, some great songs and moments on this, but some lesser tooooo. If you're really dying for more glam-ish sounding britpop, I'd recommend this, clever stuff.

Something 4 the weekend é divertidissima e tá sempre na minha rotation. 3,5+

“Fuzzy logic” is why this album is on this list

Welsh creativity and a certain sense of style - can’t say it’s exactly for me, but I can appreciate it

Great if you're looking for more Psychedelic British rock/ pop. They have a solid sound and I've never heard of the band before. A few of the ending songs lose my interest with the majority of the best stuff in the first half. A couple songs will be saved to highlights.

totally fine alt rock album with 70s/psychedelic influences. i would listen again when in a better mood. sorry but this isn't groundbreaking so 3

i liked it aber auch ns. 3.45 sterne

Me gustó

Taki britpop. Ani ziębi, ani grzeje. Porządne 3

Quite strange. Not really sure what the genre is. Reminds me of lots of different things all at once. Not sure if like.

Un peu trop pop pour moi.

I’m saddened to listen to this and remember that this was indie edgy not mainstream? And now it just sounds mid?

하드락... 그린데이, 마이 케미컬 로멘스깔이 좀 있다 좋다

Decent enough, but their music never really stays with me.

Context is important. The first track “God! Show Me The Magic” sounded amazing immediately after the last track on Ray Price’s NIGHT LIFE. (Then again, most anything would.) Pleasant enough, and I definitely have a soft spot for Britpop from this era.

Fuzzy Logic felt like a grab‑bag Britpop trip where a couple tracks really pop and the rest slide into “nah,” so it lands as a “glad I tried it, but yeah…

Theresa a lot of OK mixed with NOT OK in this album, and its mixed together at times.

some fun 90s welsh rock that was so nostalgic.

Fine. Sounded more rocky and more Britpop than I was expecting, having only know Juxtapozed with U by them. Probably a 3+.

This one punched above its weight for sure. Did not expect much going in, but was very entertaining and dynamic. Definitely worth one listen at least.

Creepy cover dude. Not cool. I give up with this shit. Most the albums are not what I must hear. Hey, Alexander, you're a wanker. Go fuck yourself.

Skemmtilegt og smá fjölbreytt.

6/10

Maes B chills. Instantly back to the late 90s. Has worn well. Cymru does Britpop.

🙂

no se que es mas raro el disco o el nombre del grupo

I'm sad that I didn't know about this in the 90s.

A+ for name, eh B- for tunes

Fun enough. Carly relates to the band name

It's fine. It's one of these days were listening to an album in this project feels like a chore, but the record itself has is alright.

Ok but nothing special

i was expecting some weird album about animals, but it's a quite fun and energetic album that happens to have some songs with animal-related lyrics. It was alright

I never took Super Furry Animals seriously. Not in a “I didn't think they were good enough to be taken seriously” kind of way, more that I always thought there was an element of intentional comedy or parody to their music. And some of the resemblances I hear don’t exactly help me shake that impression. On “Frisbee”, it sounds like Adam Buxton has been drafted in to provide his trademark “hoo hoo ha ha”s. “Hometown Unicorn” sounds like Flight of the Conchords doing Bowie. But, much like Buxton or The Conchords, that doesn’t really matter when the songs themselves are this enjoyable. There’s a proper retro 70s vibe running through the album, along with some really catchy melodies and great guitar tones. I don’t think it’s the kind of album that'll stick in my head or that I'll feel compelled to go on about, but it was good craic. Every song is enjoyable, and there’s something very easy and likable about the whole thing. I’m still not fully sure how seriously I’m meant to take it, but I enjoyed it enough that I don’t really care. 3.5 stars

super british 90s pop rock

Overall Rating - 3.21/5 (6.42/10). Solid album. Nothing special, but nothing bad.

Was fine.

A mixture of neo psychedelia, britpop and power pop (among many other styles), and yet, quite forgettable. Starting from the positives, I think this album is quite playful, fun and even shows some ambition thanks to the mix of many styles, making most of the songs feel unique in their own. It also can be sometimes quite catchy, but it isn't their strongest point, as they occasional fall into the very generic melodies of popular British music from that period. Another aspects I really like are the guitar work and distortion. The instruments sounds super noisy and play some occasional good riffs. What they don't really have are good solos. They basically play or experiment with the guitar, making super noisy sounds just for the sake of it and not really contributing to the music. What this album really suffers from is being a product of its time and not aging the best due to, as already said, some melodies being a bit too generic and forgettable. In addition, regardless of pointing out the mixture of genres as a positive thing, they aren't truly crafting something truly impactful or that interesting. Still, I think it is a decent album, and certainly a fun experience even if it isn't super special.

I was surprised this is from 1996, the music feels older not in a bad way just they style. Its an ok album with good mixing and interesting songs. Not something that I will seek up to listen to again though.

First listen (somehow). Bit of a retro Britpop sound, but it’s apeing music I like so that’s ok by me. If you don’t take it too seriously its a decent album. 3

This was fun but it never grabbed me

5.5/10

Well done Britt pop type stuff some weird flourishes make it pretty fun ultimately kind of left me cold though. Sounds are better than the song ideas sometimes.

Catchy, fun. Not immediately memorable. 3

cool

Mostly tolerable. It's kinda weird what passes as "psychedelic."

Favorite Track: Something 4 the Weekend

mid 3.5. É um bom álbum que mistura bem britpop com psyrock, mas as vezes soa um pouco repetitivo. Tem inspirações claras, algumas músicas o vocal lembra muito Bowie. Destaques: Hometown Unicorn, Bad Behaviour, Mario Man, Hangin W/ Howard Marks

A new one for me, don't know that I've ever heard one of their songs. A little surprised they didn't get more US radio play in the late 90's. Would have fit okay on standard alt rock radio of the time. There really is an unconscionable quantity of Brit-pop on this list. For me this is just okay, fun enough listen. Nothing on it feels special or groundbreaking, but I like it. A lot of Brit pop is full of highs and lows to me. Oasis for example has some great songs, and many songs that I hate and can't get through. This on the other hand is a consistent B+. By the end I was a bit tired of it even if the songs remained okay. This has to be 3 stars, incredibly middle of the road.

Mid. Had potential it felt like at the start. But mid for me.

Pretty good... reminds me of Fountains of Wayne or something like that. Could be a 4 on a re-listen.

I enjoyed this one more than their other stuff. Still wasn't great though I enjoyed the random Welsh parts in it, and the heavy accent while singing. Was quite funny A very mid album 3 ⭐️

Britpop was just one big party with bands that sounded exactly the same

Not really my style of rock, idk about the rest of the band

A more accessible but more forgettable Flaming Lips

3 - ok album

Very mid all round.

I don't really have an opinion? It was fine. Brit pop with no emotional soul.

This is all fine. Nothing exciting. Probably more background music than anything else, though.

This is far from my favorite psychedelic album, and it’s not in the top 25, but it was pleasant and enjoyable. I think most of the songs are forgettable or at the very least not impactful on my listen. But the moments I liked throughout the album redeemed the album as a whole. The best tracks for me were Mario man, Hometown Unicorn, hanging with Howard marks, and God! Show me magic. I wouldn’t be opposed to listening to this album again in the future but I’m definitely gunna forget most of the tracks.

It was okay. A little funky.

This sounds like standard issue Brit Pop. I struggled to hear anything distinctive beyond the general 90s sound of lots of these bands.

Right down my alley og jeg har aldrig hørt det før. Eneste MEN er at der er andre bands gør meget af det samme - bare lidt bedre.

meh

et par fede numre, og generelt et interessant og habilt album, men også lidt ensformigt

The ~audacity~ of this site to give me my second Super Furry Animals record in the same week - the first being 2001's Rings Around the World. In my opinion, RAtW shows that this band really shines when their songs are a bit longer in length (5-7 mins), whereas most of the songs on Fuzzy Logic are shorter, averaging 2-3 mins, and it feels like they end before reaching their full potential. This album didn't command my attention nearly as strongly (read: hardly at all) as RAtW did. But I get it, it's a debut full-length LP, and still a fine one at that.

Britpop lavet af folk som ikke vil være britpop. De kunne ikke lide den der selvhøjtidelige del af cool brittania osv. Det er åbenbart et meget eventyrfuldt univers med enhjørninger og stoffer. teksterne er åbenbart næsten helt børnebogsagtigt og de spiller langt mere på psychedelia delen af genren og også techno-tinted classic pop delen som åbenbart er præget af techno ind i klassisk pop. Jeg har svært ved at høre techno-delen for some reason. Synes det var et godt album, man føler det har energien af britpop i hvert fald og også en smule sexpistols i attituden på en eller anden måde? Der står også det er neo psychedelia punk.

Fun, but I didn’t pay super close attention to it.

There’s a good band hiding behind a terrible vocal performance.

Good fun record

The guitars were pretty harsh and noisy but the drums were clear and beautiful. Why? The songs were not offensive, but were not memorable for me either. For example, "Hangin' with Howard Marks" starts great IMO, but goes nowhere. That's how the whole thing felt to me.

God! Show Me Magic Something 4 The Weekend Frisbee Bad Behaviour

6/10

Struggling to remember what this was but I gave it a 3 so I guess it's fine.

5/10 Best songs: Something 4 the Weekend, If You Don't Want Me to Destroy You This is a wildly inconsistent album. Sometimes it's brilliant, sometimes it's barely listenable. This occurs both song to song and also, in some cases, in the same song. I think it works best when it's rockier, dancier, more forceful. When it slows down and the lead singer's frankly weak voice takes center stage it gets pretty awful. But again - one of the songs I find the best musically I also find the worst due to the vocals (If You Don't Want Me to Destroy You).

Some bangers, some a bit too much

This was a cute, standard album, not bad, not outstanding.

It's a pretty generic rock album. Nothing wrong with it per se, but I'm not sure why it's on this list.

Something so obviously influential

Nice

I was not previously familiar with the artist or album. Based on the year, I guessed this might be Britpop, and sure enough, I was right. Like most Britpop, this is very much unobjectionable but there's also not much special about it either. The guitar work and vocals are fine, but there's nothing particularly memorable for me. That being said, I would listen again.

At first I wasn't a fan. I felt like they were trying so hard to be quirky random not like other boys. I gave it another listen and it grew on me a lot. There's a lot going on though and it's a bit all over the place. I think this was their first album which makes sense. Their influences aren't subtle, 'If you don't want me to destroy you' just sounds like a Bowie song. I'm interested to hear their later stuff, this was a really fun first album. My favourite tracks are 'Fuzzy birds' and 'Hometown unicorn'.

rock bastante animado, algunas mejores que otras, nada muy relevante, está bien, se deja escuchar, 3/5

Couple of pretty good tracks on it, some brit pop sorta sounded album reminds me of blur a bit.

this literally sounds like music made for commercials aimed at tween boys

Particular Tiene canciones con buen uso de instrumento No tienen un estilo tan definido, o al menos no en este momento de su carrera, o capaz ese es su estilo innovar y experimentar Estuvo bien

Another cool 90s Brit pop British band. I recognise some songs that I've heard unwillingly, like on radio and such. I like 'Long Gone' and maybe 2 others. Again, not my cup of tea but I appreciate it. Once lol.

Kinda cool, kinda all the same. I like a little pop mixed with Psych Rock.

They sounded better than The Beatles.

Songs I saved: Something 4 the weekend Hometown unicorn For now and ever

It was so-so.

ui this is fun, chönt alles bis jetzt (3. Song) inere britische Romcom laufe als Feelgood song. vorallem something 4 the weekend. super. irgendwie gueti mischig us punkig unorganisiert und poppig spassig. haha frisbee isch uuuhuere silly. liebs. uf gathering moss hets am schluss sones cowboy lick woni nöd chan zueordne huere geil. hm. es bliibt irgendwie nöd soo viel hange vo dem album merki. s isch catchy, chaotisch glichzitig aber mengmol doch zu simpel irgendwie. gad so de letst song.

wetsch mi zieh, nie im lebe muss ich 2 albe vo dene glön glost haa ui isch das en lärmige ahfang oke es isch recht chaotisch und sie mached vill aber es macht na spass? pop-punk, glam synthi alles something 4 the weekend het mich teilwiis ad beatles erinnered?? mit chli pop-punk chords?? jz isches wie the clash?? würkli soo vill passiert jooo wenigstens isches nöd so lang es isch eig kohärenter gsi als mer denkt bi so vill verschiedene element. so als erfahrig cool aber glaub nöd, dassi bock han zum das nomal lose ussert something 4 the weekend slappt na

Britpop wannabe bowie

Interesting music. Nice harmonies. A good album overall.

not very known which i really like, love the song bad behaviour

What an interesting album especially from guys named "Super Furry Animals." Ive said before I like continuity in albums without being one note. These songs didnt feel like they fit together. Not bad. Not cohesive.

sounds very raucous and uninhibited, which is good to start with but it gets a bit muddy and unfocused as it goes on.

Favorites are probably "hometown unicorn" and "gathering moss" and "mario man". I liked this album, it had a cool groove.

It’s a nice album. I would give it a 3.5 if i could.