"Something 4 the Weekend" is the third single by

Super Furry Animals Super Furry Animals are a Welsh rock band formed in Cardiff in 1993. For the duration of their professional career, the band consisted of Gruff Rhys (lead vocals, guitar), Huw Bunford (lead guitar, vocals), Guto Pryce (bass guitar), Cian Ciar ...

. The title track is a slower paced, more mellow reworking of the song "Something for the Weekend" from the band's debut album '' Fuzzy Logic''. The original faster paced version is included as the last track on the CD single. It reached #18 on the

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on its release in July 1996. "Something 4 The Weekend" replaces the original album version of the song on the American release of ''Fuzzy Logic''. The packaging of the single features a quote in Welsh, 'Bydded Ara deg mae dal iâr', which roughly translates into English as 'Slowly is the way to catch a chicken'.

Track listing

All songs by Super Furry Animals. *CD (CRESCD235) *#"Something 4 the Weekend" – 2:52 *#"Waiting to Happen" – 2:15 *#"Arnofio/Glô in the Dark" – 3:57 *#"Something for the Weekend" – 2:32 *Cassette *#"Something 4 the Weekend" – 2:52 *#"Waiting to Happen" – 2:15

Personnel

Gruff Rhys Gruffudd Maredudd Bowen Rhys (; born 18 July 1970) is a Welsh musician, composer, producer, filmmaker and author. He performs solo and with several bands, including Super Furry Animals, which obtained mainstream success in the 1990s. He formed ...

– vocals,

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Huw Bunford Huw "Bunf" Bunford (born Huw Cennydd Bunford; 15 September 1967 in Cardiff, Wales) is a musician best known as the guitarist in Super Furry Animals. Biography Bunford studied at Lanchester Polytechnic (now Coventry University) and worked as a te ...

– guitar, backing vocals *

Guto Pryce Guto Dafydd Pryce ( Welsh pronunciation: ; born 4 September 1972) is a Welsh musician best known as bass guitar player and songwriter in the band Super Furry Animals. With them he has recorded nine UK Albums Chart Top 25 studio albums, plus num ...

–

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* Cian Ciaran – keyboards, backing vocals *

Dafydd Ieuan Dafydd Ieuan (born 1 March 1969) is a Welsh musician and producer, best known as the drummer with the band Super Furry Animals, The Peth and The Earth (band). Ieuan played with Gruff Rhys in their early band Ffa Coffi Pawb. He was a drummer f ...

– drums

Singles chart positions

References

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