Moog Droog
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| Moog Droog | ||||
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| Released | October 1995 | |||
| Recorded | 1995 | |||
| Genre | Neo-psychedelia | |||
| Length | 15:08 | |||
| Label | Ankst | |||
| Producer | Gorwel Owen, Super Furry Animals | |||
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| AllMusic |   [1] |
Moog Droog is the second EP by the Super Furry Animals.[2][3] It was originally released in October 1995 by the Welsh label Ankst Records, and reissued in May 1997. The two releases have different covers: the original version depicts a faceless humanoid brushing dust under a carpet, while the "export" version simply has a red/orange bear drawn on a blue background.
Title and meanings
[edit]"Moog Droog" is an ironic anglicised spelling of the Welsh phrase mwg drwg ("bad smoke"), slang for marijuana, making a pun on the Moog synthesizer (and/or its inventor) and the slang word "droog" (based on the Russian for "friend") from A Clockwork Orange. The letter w can be a vowel in Welsh, and in the phrase mwg drwg it is pronounced approximately like the English oo in "zoo" or "too" (although the name "Moog" is more correctly pronounced /moʊɡ/, rhyming with "vogue").
Likewise, the track "pamV" is an anglicised spelling of the Welsh pam fi ("why me"), with the word fi ("me") pronounced like the letter v in English (IPA: [viː]).
"Sali Mali" is the name of a popular Welsh children's character who appears in books and has a series on Welsh television. She runs a cafe in the fictional village Pentre Bach ("small village"). Many Welsh-speaking children (and one assumes members of SFA) learnt to read by reading Sali Mali books.
Availability
[edit]Due to their rarity, Moog Droog and the previous EP Llanfair... (In Space) are two of the most sought-after Super Furry Animals releases.
The first and fourth tracks have since been released on the compilation album Out Spaced, and the third track on re-issues of the album Mwng. The second track was later re-recorded for the album Fuzzy Logic and released as a single.
Track listing
[edit]| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | "pamV?" | 3:57 |
| 2. | "God! Show Me Magic" | 1:51 |
| 3. | "Sali Mali" | 4:33 |
| 4. | "Focus Pocus/Debiel" | 4:46 |
Personnel
[edit]- Gorwel Owen and SFA - cynhyrchu/production
- Placid Casuals - cynllun/design
- David Hann - typographic Design
