| 16. Super Furry Animals,
“Sidewalk Serfer Girl.” Every mix has an original impetus,
which is usually submerged: some point from which the entire project
originates, which tries to conceal itself and usually does so fairly
successfully, since a one-song mix tape would be pretty lame. Our
impetus today was to see if Super Furry Animals were anywhere near
as good as people are saying they are. On the evidence of the two
songs here, they are: this one in particular is a glimmering cubic
zirconia of a song, all multi-faceted artifice with its heart buried
too deep for anyone to find it. Magnificent, gorgeous, incapable of
concealing itself. Once we meant something by it, and now here we
are. As with all mixes, there can’t really be any conclusion to it; what is there at the end of a mix tape, other than the sense that somebody was trying to say something and failed? So it is here. The original point had something to do with the submerged sense of menace in Super Furry Animals, but where did we wind up? Right back where we started. There are some exciting metal CDs out about which I’ll tell you soon. In the meantime hit Audiogalaxy and see what you think of the songs we’ve been listening to tonight. We’ll see you next week. |
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