From this week’s Songs You Need to Hear:
Super Furry Animals, 'Bing Bong'
"Bing Bong," the first single in more than seven years from the band Super Furry Animals, is performed completely in Welsh and sung in support of the Welsh national soccer team. In June, Wales will compete in the UEFA Euro 2016 soccer tournament, the country's first major tournament in almost 60 years. Super Furry Animals, being proud Welshmen and soccer fans, wrote "Bing Bong" as the team's alternative anthem (check out all that fancy soccer footwork in the video below). "Bing Bong" is, according to the band's lead singer, Gruff Rhys, "a Welsh folk idiom that the band have appropriated and paired with the sonic speech motif of the talking robot, Twiki, from the late-'70s sci-fi series, Buck Rodgers in the 25th Century." All that to say, you don't need to be a talking robot, a European soccer fan or speak Welsh fluently to fall in love with the strange cosmic disco that is "Bing Bong."
— Pete Morey (@cbcpetemorey)
