Moog Droog

Moog Droog
EP by Super Furry Animals
Released	October 1995
Recorded	1995
Genre	Experimental rock
Label	Ankst Records
Producer	Gorwel Owen, Super Furry Animals
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Super Furry Animals chronology
Llanfair... (In Space) (1995) Moog Droog (1995) Fuzzy Logic (1996)

Moog Droog is the second EP released by the Super Furry Animals. The EP was originally released in October 1995 by the Welsh Ankst Records but later reissued in May 1997. The EP also has two covers: its original version depicts a stick man brushing dust under a carpet while the 'export' version simply has a red/orange bear drawn on a blue background. Due to their rarity Moog Droog, along with 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, while the second track was later re-recorded for the album Fuzzy Logic and released as a single.

Moog Droog is an ironic anglicised spelling of the Welsh phrase Mwg Drwg ('bad smoke') which is Welsh slang for marijuana, making a pun on the Moog synthesizer (and/or its inventor) and the invented slang word "droog" from A Clockwork Orange. The letter 'w' in Welsh is considered a vowel and its approximate pronunciation in English is made by the letters 'oo' as in 'zoo' or 'too'.

Likewise the 'pamV' on the EP is another anglicised spelling of the Welsh 'pam fi' ('why me') with the word 'fi' ('me') pronounced as the letter 'v' in English.

'Sali Mali' is the name of a popular Welsh children's character which 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.

Track listing

1. pamV?
2. God! Show Me Magic!
3. Sali Mali
4. Focus Pocus/Debiel