Super Furry Animals

Whenever we drive south to visit my wife's family, we bring along a stack of CDs to help kill the time. (Pointless side note: Some people like driving; I'm not one of those people.) While looking through my completely unorganized collection prior to leaving, I stumbled across this old promo of a 1997 Psychedelic Furs compilation, Should God Forget. I wrote a blurb about it when it was released and, for some reason, didn't pay much attention to it since. Oops. Hearing it this weekend brought back some great, vinyl-era memories of discovering the band in college. The first three records--now remastered--are outstanding, and while they started to lose it around '84's Mirror Moves (which is sort of Furs-lite), even that one has some good stuff on it. The Furs are definitely on the short list of best bands of the '80s.

Speaking of stuff(ed), I ate too much on Thanksgiving. So it goes...

And to tie everything together, there's a photo of this site's namesake. It's more for test purposes, but come on, he is cute.