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Sep 16, 2016 By Christopher Roberts Gruff Rhys

Britpop outliers and survivors Super Furry Animals are celebrating the 20th anniversary of their weird and wonderful 1996 debut album Fuzzy Logic with a 20th anniversary reissue. It comes with 35 bonus tracks, including the album’s B-sides, two separate 1995 demo sessions, and their set at the 1996 Phoenix Festival. Now they have released a previously unreleased demo version of “The Man Don’t Give a Fuck,” a song that didn’t actually appear on Fuzzy Logic but was released as a standalone single after the album was out. The demo tapes were nearly destroyed in a fire at the studio, so we’re lucky to be hearing this at all! Check it out below, followed by the reissue’s full tracklist and the Welsh band’s upcoming U.K. tour dates in which they will be performing their first two albums (Fuzzy Logic and 1997’s Radiator) in full back-to-back. The band is also releasing on November 4 a new 2-CD best of entitled Zoom! The Best of Super Furry Animals 1995-2016 and that tracklist is below too.

Frontman Gruff Rhys had this to say about the reissue in a press release: “The reissue is radically different to the original, some songs have alternative beginnings and endings and people will notice the difference in definition, especially in high resolution digital and the new vinyl cut. 1995/6 was an overwhelming whirlwind of touring, gimmickry, and mayhem for us so it’s been a real treat to take some time to relive and reassess all these songs and compile everything that we recorded in that short, magical period in one place. In the unfamiliar environment of a big studio, Fuzzy Logic didn’t end up sounding anything like what we’d had in our heads for those years of songwriting building up to it, but it does have that undefinable vigour and energy of youth which isn’t included in the price of hiring a multitrack studio.

“At the first opportunity we returned to Gorwel Owen’s own studio, Stiwdio Ofn, to re-record ‘Something 4 the Weekend,’ the version that’s included here, as it was on the original U.S. version. The demos included are just that - rough sketches - often with repeated, rough lyrics - but they do offer a key to understanding where the songs came from, where we were at, what was to come, and sometimes, what could have been.”

Super Furry Animals archivist Kliph Scurlock added: “What’s here as a result is just vastly superior in every way. It’s less compressed and has more dynamic range than the original release. The full frequency range that was on the tapes has been maintained, so it’s not just high and low end with very little in between as was on the original mastering. As such, you can actually hear a BAND playing and the air in the room they recorded it in.”

Fuzzy Logic 20th Anniversary Reissue Tracklist:

Fuzzy Logic 2016 Remaster:

1. God! Show Me Magic
2. Fuzzy Birds
3. Something 4 The Weekend (re-recorded single version, added to later pressings)
4. Frisbee
5. Hometown Unicorn
6. Gathering Moss
7. If You Don’t Want Me To Destroy You
8. Bad Behaviour
9. Mario Man
10. Hangin’ With Howard Marks
11. Long Gone
12. For Now And Ever

Fuzzy Logic B-Sides & More:

13. Lazy Life (Of No Fixed Identity) - B-Side of ‘Hometown Unicorn’
14. Don’t Be A Fool, Billy! - B-Side of ‘Hometown Unicorn’
15. Death By Melody - B-Side of ‘God! Show Me Magic’
16. Something For The Weekend - Original UK album version
17. Dim Bendith - B-Side of ‘God! Show Me Magic’
18. Waiting To Happen - B-Side of ‘Something 4 The Weekend’
19. Arnofio/Glô In The Dark - B-Side of ‘Something 4 The Weekend’
20. Guacamole - B-Side of ‘If You Don’t Want Me To Destroy You’
21. The Man Don’t Give A Fuck - Single A-side
22. (Nid) Hon Yw’r Gân Sy’n Mynd I Achub Yr Iaith - B-Side of ‘If You Don’t Want Me To Destroy You’

BONUS DISC - Lost On The Bypass Road:

Summer 1995 Demo Session:

1. Frisbee (Released as 12” Promo)
2. Something For The Weekend
3. Hangin’ With Howard Marks
4. Sali Mali

October 1995 Demo Session:

5. Bad Behaviour
6. Lazy Life (Of No Fixed Identity)
7. Mario Man
8. Death By Melody
9. Hometown Unicorn
10. Waiting To Happen
11. If You Don’t Want Me To Destroy You
12. Gathering Moss
13. The Man Don’t Give A Fuck
14. Fuzzy Birds
15. For Now And Ever

Live at Phoenix Festival, 20 July 1996:

16. Frisbee
17. Organ Yn Dy Geg
18. Fix Idris
19. Something 4 The Weekend
20. Hometown Unicorn
21. If You Don’t Want Me To Destroy You
22. Focus Pocus/Debiel
23. Bad Behaviour
24. Mario Man
25. God! Show Me Magic

Zoom! The Best of Super Furry Animals 1995-2016 Tracklist:

CD1

Slow Life
(Drawing) Rings Around The World
Bing Bong
Organ Yn Dy Geg
Run-Away
Northern Lites
Inaugural Trams
Demons
Ice Hockey Hair
Juxtapozed With U
The Gift That Keeps Giving
The International Language Of Screaming
If You Don’t Want Me To Destroy You
Fire In My Heart
Run! Christian, Run!
The Piccolo Snare
Zoom!

CD2

Night Vision
God! Show Me Magic
Hello Sunshine
Hermann ♥‘s Pauline
Patience
Do Or Die
YsbeidiauHeulog
Show Your Hand
Something 4 The Weekend
Smokin’
The Citizen’s Band
It’s Not The End Of The World?
Play It Cool
Golden Retriever
Lazer Beam
Receptacle For The Respectable
Hometown Unicorn
Mt.
Mountain People
• The Man Don’t Give A Fuck

Super Furry Animals Tour Dates Performing Fuzzy Logic and Radiator Back to Back:

Wed 30 Nov - Belfast Limelight
Thu 1 Dec - Dublin Olympia
Sat 3 Dec - Llandudno Venue Cymru
Sun 4 Dec - Norwich UEA
Tue 6 Dec - Bristol O2 Academy
Wed 7 Dec - Bournemouth O2 Academy
Thu 8 Dec/Fri 9 Dec - London Roundhouse
Sat 10 Dec - Birmingham 02 Institute
Mon 12 Dec - Edinburgh Usher Hall
Tue 13 Dec - Brighton Dome
Thu 15 Dec - Leeds 02 Academy
Fri 16 Dec - Nottingham Rock City
Sat 17 Dec - Cardiff Motorpoint Arena