Super Furry Animals / Radiator / 20th anniversary deluxe reissue
Following last year’s reissue of Fuzzy Logic, BMG will release a 20th anniversary deluxe edition of Super Furry Animals‘ second album, Radiator next month.
Both vinyl and CD editions will feature a brand new remaster of the album but whereas the 2LP set is album only, the two-CD deluxe edition features a massive 30 bonus tracks, including an unheard cover of The Smith‘s The Boy With The Thorn In His Side which the band recorded for a covermount CD of a French magazine. Speaking of this track, Gruff Rhys says “We wanted to translate the lyrics of The Smiths track into French, so I spoke to a French friend of mine, who was actually working in Manchester, hence the half-French, half-Mancunian accent on the spoken introduction. It didn’t quite work out that way, although there are elements of the translation on it if you listen carefully, so what we have instead is an instrumental homage. I can’t remember why it didn’t get released, but am glad it hasn’t been lost forever and Furries, perhaps even Smiths fans, can now make their own mind up on how it compares to the original.”
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19 of those 30 bonus tracks are previously unreleased, and the work of cataloguing the archive material and remastering fell to ‘head archivist’ Kliph Scurlock and Donal Whelan. Scurlock explains that “Taking a more natural approach to the mastering process allows more of what the band did back then to shine through, rather than coat it the unnecessary gloss of nineties mastering techniques. Delving further into the archives, the unreleased tracks, b-sides and demos have had only the faintest of touches to bring them up to a quality the band is happy with, but still puts us in the rehearsal room or studio with them.”
Radiator will be released on 2LP vinyl (album tracks only) and the two-CD deluxe on 28 July 2017
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Radiator (2017 remaster) – 2CD deluxe edition
CD 1 – Album plus bonus tracks
- 1. FURRYVISION™
- 2. THE PLACID CASUAL
- 3. THE INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGE OF SCREAMING
- 4. DEMONS
- 5. SHORT PAINKILLER
- 6. SHE’S GOT SPIES
- 7. PLAY IT COOL
- 8. HERMANN ♥’S PAULINE
- 9. CHUPACABRAS
- 10. TORRA FY NGWALLT YN HIR
- 11. BASS TUNED TO D.E.A.D
- 12. DOWN A DIFFERENT RIVER
- 13. DOWNLOAD
- 14. MOUNTAIN PEOPLE
ICE HOCKEY HAIR E.P.
- 15. SMOKIN’
- 16. ICE HOCKEY HAIR
- 17. MU-TRON
- 18. LET’S QUIT SMOKING
ETC.
- 19. SMOKE
- 20. DIM YSMYGU
- 21. THE BOY WITH THE THORN IN HIS SIDE
CD 2 / CLARITY JUST CONFUSES ME (BONUS TRACKS)
B SIDES & SUCH
- 1. CRYNDOD YN DY LAIS
- 2. HIT AND RUN
- 3. FOXY MUSIC
- 4. PASS THE TIME
- 5. CALIMERO
- 6. B SIDE
- 7. CARRY THE CAN
- 8. WRAP IT UP
- 9. TRÔNS MR. URDD
- 10. nO.K.
- 11. PLAY IT COOL (U.K. ALBUM MIX)
- DEMO SESSION, BIG NOISE STUDIOS, CARDIFF, DECEMBER 1996 (CD ONLY)
- 12. SFA THEME (DEMO)
- 13. THE INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGE OF SCREAMING (DEMO)
- 14. TORRA FY NGWALLT YN HIR (DEMO)
- 15. DOWN A DIFFERENT RIVER (DEMO)
- 16. SHE’S GOT SPIES (DEMO)
- 17. HIT AND RUN (DEMO)
- 18. MOUNTAIN PEOPLE (DEMO)
- 19. PLAY IT COOL (DEMO)
- 20. BASS TUNED TO D.E.A.D (DEMO)
- 21. NAFF GN (DEMO)
- 22. THE PLACID CASUAL (DEMO)
- 23. MUSIC BOX (DEMO)
Radiator (2017 remaster) – 2LP vinyl
Side 1
1. Furryvision (2017 Remastered Version)
2. The Placid Casual (2017 Remastered Version)
3. The International Language of Screaming (2017 – Remaster)
4. Demons (2017 Remastered Version)
Side 2
1. Short Painkiller (2017 Remastered Version)
2. She’s Got Spies (2017 Remastered Version)
3. Play It Cool (2017 Remastered Version)
4. Hermann Loves Pauline (2017 Remastered Version)
Side 3
1. Chupacabras (2017 Remastered Version)
2. Torra Fy Ngwallt Yn Hir (2017 Remastered Version)
3. Bass Tuned to D.E.A.D. (2017 Remastered Version)
4. Down a Different River (2017 Remastered Version)
Side 4
1. Download (2017 Remastered Version)
2. Mountain People (2017 Remastered Version)
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