Super Furry Animals - Rings Around The World

Customer Reviews:

best DVD i own.......2006-04-21

This is, hands down, the favorite DVD in my stash. It sounds the best (even better than DVD-A and SACD 5-channel mixes on other discs such as Talking Heads' Brick), and I use it to test out my stereo or to annoy the neighbors. The most inventive use of 5+ channels I've ever heard, and one of my favorite albums t'boot. Some of the videos are better than others, but the overall quality is tip-top. The remixes are pretty great too. Sometimes the menus hang up and the remote takes awhile to convince them to move along, but all is forgiven when the music starts -- the clarity of the highs and lows are exceptional in DTS. Hope they make another album this good, and I hope they slap it on DVD when they do. (For another transporting musical DVD experience, try "Point" by Cornelius.)

Perfect visual complement to their varied music.......2005-11-02

If you ever wondered what the potential of the DVD medium was when it came to presenting an album , the Super Furry Animals will show you on this DVD .

It is nothing less than a complete set of songs each with their own supporting piece of video .

If you like your music with a lot of creativity , then you will find that here . If you like visually stimulating images , then this is the DVD for you .

If you really like the songs , you can buy the CD too .
Perfect - pick it up today and you will see your TV turn into a strange reception device .

Fascinating take on great songs.......2003-01-10

This DVD is absolutely amazing. Each song from the album is represented by video done by a commisioned artists. Pete Fowler's "Monsters" pop up in the DVD as well as Ministry of Truth's "Run Christian Run" - perhaps the greatest video of all time. A brave offering of a DVD by a brave band. This DVD goes to show that anything this band releases is one step ahead of its musical peers. Even if you have no idea who this band is, buy this DVD. It's like nothing you have seen before.

The people writing reviews about this are silly........2002-12-06

I've been searching for 'Rings Around the World' for a long time now, in record stores and bookstores. I finally chanced upon a copy today.

The DVD in the front room would not play the songs along with the videos. Being upset, I went to 'Settings', then to 'Audio Settings'. Not only is there a Dolby Digital Surround Sound option, which I chose and found the ENTIRE DISC TO BE FAULTLESS (so the people writing articles about defective audio seem pretty stupid to me) but there is a default setting of DTS, which most players from pre-2000 can't deal with. If you can hear it's default DTS setting, then I imagine you're in for a real treat.

The music videos themselves are all very pretty stylised visual experiments by companies like Broad Snout and that Peter Fowler guy. It's all very neat.

It's an acquired taste however, as the tracks are all very different, and the moods change frequently. The moods are all helped along by the spanky clean animations and videos matching style of the band.

The whole DVD is fun to navigate, I enjoy just flicking through it randomly without any song selections. *grin*

All in all, I'd suggest this DVD be given to adults and SFA fans, the content is, in places, a little naughty; the furries are in touch with all their senses, and the music reflects a sound knowledge of every medium. You can't go wrong here.

Intelligent music, ambient visuals.......2002-09-19

I'd seen the brilliant mechanical puppetshow video for "It's Not the End of the World" on the 2002 Siggraph reel. After reading rave reviews for this DVD, I picked up a copy. On it, the visuals for "End of the World" consist exclusively of mushroom cloud archive footage - a major letdown. On my first attempt I couldn't hear any music on the disc, which further crushed my expectations, but reading the reviews here, I tinkered with my player's settings and was finally able to hear the entire disc.

The visuals are experimental to say the least. The music is genuinely brilliant, and creates a wonderfully reflective mood. The imagery is best suited to ambient background dressing at a party, though a couple of the videos become surprisingly thought-provoking. The music is first rate, the visuals a bit less so. Though if that other brilliant video by Partizan/Midi Minuit ever turns up, by all means watch it. THAT was absolutely fantastic animation, and was a much more powerful accompaniment to the song than even the best this disc has to offer.

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