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It’s poppers o’clock as Super Furry Animals unearth their lost 90s cover of The Smiths’ ‘The Boy With The Thorn In His Side’

  • Dork News Desk
  • June 19, 2017
Super Furry Animals have dropped their cover of The Smiths’ ‘The Boy With The Thorn In His Side’.



The band have dropped their 8-minute ravetastic version of the Moz and Marr classic, which features on a new 20th anniversary deluxe remastered reissue of their 1977 album ‘Radiator’.



Originally recorded for a French magazine cover mount in the late 90s, the cover is only now seeing the light of day. Gruff Rhys explains: “We wanted to translate the lyrics of The Smiths track into French, so I spoke to a French friend of mine, who was actually working in Manchester, hence the half-French, half-Mancunian accent on the spoken introduction. It didn’t quite work out that way, although there are elements of the translation on it if you listen carefully, so what we have instead is an instrumental homage. I can’t remember why it didn’t get released, but am glad it hasn’t been lost forever and Furries, perhaps even Smiths fans, can now make their own mind up on how it compares to the original.”



The 20th Anniversary Deluxe edition of Radiator comes alongside a new rarities compilation ‘Clarity Just Confuses Me’ as a 2CD and download package. It’s set for release on 28th July via BMG.



Check out Super Furry Animals’ version of ‘The Boy With The Thorn In His Side’ below.



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