Active: 90's, 2000's Formed: 1993 in Cardiff, South Glamorgan, Wales
Syd Barrett, Pink Floyd, The Sex Pistols, Meic Stevens, The Beatles, David Bowie, Mott the Hoople, The Beach Boys, Manic Street Preachers, The Zombies, The Undertones, Sly & the Family Stone, Buffalo Springfield, MC5, The Flying Burrito Brothers, The Flaming Lips, Electric Light Orchestra, The Byrds, The Kinks Blur, The Flaming Lips, The Polyphonic Spree, The Coral, Thirdimension, Golden Shoulders, My Computer, The Sleepy Jackson, Midlake, HAL, Islands, El Goodo, The Universe, The Little Ones, Like a Fox, Malajube, Secret Machines, A Band of Bees, Mercury Rev My Computer, The Blizzards, The Kazoo Funk Orchestra, Hybrasil, Envy & Other Sins, Plutonic Love, Super Extra Bonus Party, Golden Silvers, The Capes, Real Ones, Umbrella Sequence, Simple Kid, Champion Kickboxer, Lightspeed Champion, Attack! Attack!, Guillemots, Mystery Jets, British Sea Power |  |
Super Furry Animals were one of the first post-alternative bands, fusing together a number of disparate musical genres -- including power pop, punk rock, techno, and progressive rock -- creating a shimmering, melodic, irreverent, and willfully artsy rock & roll. As one of the leading bands of the mid-'90s Welsh movement, they were already tagged as outsiders by their tendency to sing entire songs in their native tongue, but their very approach was unique, full of both whimsy and left-wing political activism. What set them apart from their fellow Welsh bands were their infectious melodic sensibilities and their wildly irreverent attitude, which peers like Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, 60 Ft. Dolls, and Catatonia lacked. Super Furry Animals' 1996 debut album, Fuzzy Logic, became a major English hit, charting in the Top 40 and placing in the Top Ten of many year-end critics' polls.
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