Hometown Unicorn

"Hometown Unicorn" is the debut single by Super Furry Animals, released on Alan McGee's Creation Records label on February 26, 1996. It reached #47 in the UK Singles Chart and was voted as "Single of the Week" in the NME magazine.

The packaging of the single features a quote in Welsh, 'Bydded goleuni!', which means 'Let there be light!' in English. This practice of including Welsh quotes was followed by every subsequent SFA single up to, and including, the release of "Demons" in 1997.

The song's lyrics make reference to Franck Fontaine, who claimed to have been abducted by aliens in 1979. A photograph of Fontaine appears on the CD single and in the sleeve of Fuzzy Logic.

Critical response

The track appears in Garry Mulholland's book This Is Uncool, a list of the "500 greatest singles since punk and disco".^[1]

Track listing

All songs by Super Furry Animals.

"Hometown Unicorn" – 3:35
"Lazy Life (Of No Fixed Identity)" – 2:15
"Don't Be A Fool, Billy!" – 4:17

Personnel

Gruff Rhys – vocals, guitar
Huw Bunford – guitar, backing vocals, cello
Guto Pryce – bass guitar
Cian Ciaran – keyboards, backing vocals
Dafydd Ieuan – drums, backing vocals

References

↑ "This Is Uncool". RockListMusic. Retrieved 2008-08-04.

External links

Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics

Super Furry Animals

Gruff Rhys Huw Bunford Guto Pryce Cian Ciaran Dafydd Ieuan Rhys Ifans Dic Ben

Studio albums	Fuzzy Logic Radiator Guerrilla Mwng Rings Around the World Phantom Power Love Kraft Hey Venus! Dark Days/Light Years

Compilations and remix albums	Out Spaced Phantom Phorce Songbook: The Singles, Vol. 1

EPs	Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch (In Space) Moog Droog Ice Hockey Hair Slow Life

Singles	"Hometown Unicorn" "God! Show Me Magic" "Something 4 the Weekend" "If You Don't Want Me to Destroy You" "The Man Don't Give a Fuck" (first release) "Hermann ♥'s Pauline" "The International Language of Screaming" "Play It Cool" "Demons" "Northern Lites" "Fire in My Heart" "Do or Die" "Ysbeidiau Heulog" "Juxtapozed with U" "(Drawing) Rings Around the World" "It's Not the End of the World?" "Golden Retriever" "Hello Sunshine" "The Man Don't Give a Fuck" (second release) "Lazer Beam" "Show Your Hand" "Run-Away" "The Gift That Keeps Giving" "Mt."

DVDs	Rings Around the World Phantom Power Songbook: The Singles, Vol. 1

Related articles	Discography Cardiff music scene Liverpool Sound Collage Ankst Creation Records Ffa Coffi Pawb Neon Neon The Peth Pete Fowler Keiichi Tanaami Placid Casual

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