Rings Around the World
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Released | 23 July 2001 | |||
Recorded | April–September 2000 | |||
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Length | 52:47 | |||
Label | Epic | |||
Producer | Chris Shaw and Super Furry Animals | |||
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Rings Around the World is the fifth studio album and the
The album, which singer Gruff Rhys describes as "a very ambitious project", was recorded between April and September 2000 at Monnow Valley Studios in Rockfield, Monmouthshire, Wales and Bearsville Studios, New York with the band acting as co-producers alongside Chris Shaw.[1] The majority of the songs on Rings Around the World were written by Rhys on guitar and piano with keyboardist Cian Ciaran contributing "[A] Touch Sensitive" and "Miniature" as well as collaborating with other members of the band on "Run! Christian, Run!", "Alternate Route to Vulcan Street" and "No Sympathy". Ex-Beatle Paul McCartney and former Velvet Underground member John Cale make cameo appearances on the album.
Musically Rings Around the World is an eclectic record incorporating
Origins and recording
Rings Around the World was the Super Furry Animals' first album for
Recording sessions began in April 2000 at
Rhys wrote many of the tracks on the album on
Sessions for Rings Around the World saw the band concentrating on arrangements, particularly their vocal harmonies. On previous albums individual members of the group would "keep singing until [they] came up with harmonies that worked" but,[6] encouraged by co-producer Chris Shaw, for Rings... the band took the time to work out harmonies in advance. The group used piano, keyboards or "whatever was available" to give themselves a starting note before the five band members and staff at the recording studio began trying ideas out.[6] Occasionally Auto-Tune was used to "re-pitch existing lines to see if different versions of them would counterpoint correctly", with the band then learning the new vocal lines and recording them as they did not want to use Auto-Tune on the finished album.[6]
Paul McCartney is credited as providing "celery and carrot" on the track "Receptacle for the Respectable".[13] McCartney is alleged to have performed a similar role over thirty years earlier, chewing celery to form the percussion track of The Beach Boys song "Vegetables" from the album Smiley Smile.[5] The Super Furry Animals had met the ex-Beatle at the NME Awards when a drunk Ciaran persuaded him to let them remix some Beatles material, resulting in 2000's Liverpool Sound Collage album.[8][9] The band asked him to "return the favour" and appear on Rings Around the World, recording his part over the phone.[3][9] Huw Bunford has said of McCartney's contribution: "He took it with good nature. You kind of see how far you can go sometimes ... we figured we already had a bass and singers so we really didn't need any more musicians. So we figured he could crunch vegetables".[14] Former Velvet Underground member John Cale, a "sort of childhood hero" of Rhys's, also makes an appearance on the album, playing piano on the song "Presidential Suite".[3][13] The Super Furry Animals had met Cale in Cardiff when they acted as his backing band for a song which appeared on the film Beautiful Mistake.[3] They originally asked him to arrange strings for "Presidential Suite" but Cale turned them down reasoning that he would simply do what the band do: hum a melody to someone who could write the music down for him.[9]
Musical style
Rings Around the World is "very cinematic" and falls somewhere between the Super Furry Animals' 1999 album, the "instantaneous, easy to grasp, and almost disposable" Guerrilla, and its "exact opposite", 2000's Mwng. The band combined the technology they used for the former with the simplicity of the latter, which featured "just the band playing in the studio".[3] Singer Gruff Rhys has described the album as the band's "cosmic rock record".[16]
The album is a "kaleidoscopic blend of
The track "Receptacle For the Respectable" reflects the eclecticism of the album as it "undergoes a complete personality change" over the course of its four-minute thirty-two-second duration, veering from prog rock to
Lyrical themes
Singer and chief lyric writer Gruff Rhys has given several explanations of the lyrical themes present on the album. He has claimed that the record is "about Earth, and the pollution of space: it's about debris" and that it was originally going to be a "state of the planet concept album" before the band decided against it.[2] Rhys has also stated that the album is about the human condition, citing tracks such as "Fragile Happiness" and "Receptacle For The Respectable" as examples.[3] Critics have referred to the album as "thematically eccentric" and lacking an "overarching theme" with The Independent claiming it leaps "from religious fundamentalists to modern telecommunications and the old Hollywood star system with disorienting glee".[4][5]
In contrast with 1999's
DVD
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Released | 23 July 2001 | |||
Genre | Indie rock | |||
Label | Epic | |||
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The DVD of Rings Around the World contains the 13 songs featured on the album, along with 5 bonus tracks. These 18 songs are presented in surround sound and are accompanied by "low budget" music videos. The release also includes 16 remixes and interactive menus featuring ambient music created by the band.[26] According to
Ciaran has stated that the Super Furry Animals were "very hands-on" during the making of the DVD. Initially the band were mainly concerned with the sound quality, describing the presentation of the album's tracks in surround sound as "radical, like the change from
Although he enjoyed having so much control over the project Ciaran has claimed that it "sometimes felt like it would never end" and he was glad to get back to "the music side of things" upon the DVD's completion.[26] Singer Gruff Rhys has stated that he found being involved with all aspects of the DVD release "really exciting" and particularly enjoyed working with "so many people".[3]
Release
Rings Around the World was released on
Region | Date | Label | Format | Catalogue |
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Japan | 25 September 2001[31] | Epic Japan | Compact disc | ESCA-8341 |
United Kingdom | 23 July 2001[24] | Epic | Compact disc | 5024132 |
Minidisc
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DVD | 201457 9 | |||
Vinyl record
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United States | 19 March 2002[24] | XL Recordings/Beggars Banquet US | Compact disc | BXL 026 CD |
Critical reception
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Source | Rating |
Metacritic | 86/100[32] |
Review scores | |
Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [4] |
Entertainment Weekly | A−[33] |
The Guardian | [19] |
Los Angeles Times | [34] |
NME | 6/10[18] |
Pitchfork | 8.9/10[35] |
Q | [36] |
Rolling Stone | [37] |
The Rolling Stone Album Guide | [38] |
Spin | 9/10[39] |
Rings Around the World received praise from critics with a score of 86 on
In a review for Stylus Magazine, Scott Plagenhoef wrote that on Rings Around the World, the band are "gleefully working outside of a scene or prototype" and "dabbling in a world of musical influences and Western hegemony, playing the merry prankster to Radiohead's gloom – and all with a smile, and in three-part harmony".[25] Writing for AllMusic, Stephen Thomas Erlewine praised the record, claiming that it "shines brightly" compared to the "dead world of mainstream and indie rock in 2001" but expressed disappointment that it is "the first SFA album not to progress from its predecessor".[4] Rob Brunner of Entertainment Weekly claimed that at its best, the album "recalls a lost Brian Wilson-style psychedelic marvel", but went on to state that it is "at times marred by forced eccentricity", citing the "heavy metal gorgon voice booming through 'Receptacle for the Respectable'" and the "awful lite-rock homage" "Juxtapozed with U" as examples.[33] Q stated that, although songs such as "(Drawing) Rings Around the World", "Shoot Doris Day" and "Presidential Suite" are "excellent", the album features "nothing to change anyone's world",[36] while the NME claimed that, despite containing some great songs, it is the band's worst album.[18] Robert Christgau of The Village Voice singled out "Tradewinds" as a "choice cut",[44] indicating a "good song on an album that isn't worth your time or money."[45]
- Accolades
Publication | Country | Accolade | Rank | Year |
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Eye Weekly | Canada | Albums of the year 2001[46] | 10 | 2001 |
Les Inrockuptibles | France | 2001 Critics Albums[47] | 37 | |
Iguana Music | Spain | Best albums 2001[48] | 6 | |
Mondo Sonoro | Best records 2001[49] | 9 | ||
Rock De Luxe | Best records 2001[50] | 22 | ||
Mercury Music Prize
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United Kingdom | 2001 shortlist[43] | * | |
Mojo | Mojo albums of 2001[41] | 1 | ||
NME | Albums of 2001[51]
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100 Greatest Albums of the Decade[52] | 29 | 2009 | ||
Q | End of year lists[53] | * | 2001 | |
Record Collector | Best of 2001: New albums[54] | * | ||
1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die | United States | 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die[55] | * | 2006 |
Spin | The 40 Best Albums of 2002 [56] | 38 | 2002 | |
The Village Voice | Pazz & Jop Albums of 2001[57] | 126 | 2001 | |
Pazz & Jop Albums of 2002[58] | 29 | 2002 |
* denotes an unordered list
Track listing
Original 2001 Editions
All tracks are written by Super Furry Animals, except "[A] Touch Sensitive" which contains a sample of "Ann" by Dave Alexander, Ron Asheton, Scott Asheton and Iggy Pop
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Alternate Route to Vulcan Street" | 4:31 |
2. | "Sidewalk Serfer Girl" | 4:01 |
3. | "(Drawing) Rings Around the World" | 3:29 |
4. | "It's Not the End of the World?" | 3:25 |
5. | "Receptacle for the Respectable" | 4:32 |
6. | "[A] Touch Sensitive" | 3:07 |
7. | "Shoot Doris Day" | 3:38 |
8. | "Miniature" | 0:40 |
9. | "No Sympathy" | 6:57 |
10. | "Juxtapozed with U" | 3:08 |
11. | "Presidential Suite" | 5:24 |
12. | "Run! Christian, Run!" | 7:20 |
13. | "Fragile Happiness" | 2:35 |
Total length: | 52:47 |
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "All the Shit U Do" (instrumental locked groove) | approx. 0:04 |
Total length: | approx. 0:04 |
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Tradewinds" | 5:13 |
2. | "The Roman Road" | 5:18 |
3. | "Patience" | 4:04 |
4. | "Happiness Is a Worn Pun" | 3:16 |
5. | "Gýpsy Space Muffin" | 3:30 |
6. | "Edam Anchorman" | 3:22 |
7. | "All the Shit U Do" | 2:32 |
Total length: | 27:15 |
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Alternate Route to Vulcan Street" | 4:31 |
2. | "Sidewalk Serfer Girl" | 4:01 |
3. | "(Drawing) Rings Around the World" | 3:29 |
4. | "It's Not the End of the World?" | 3:25 |
5. | "Receptacle for the Respectable" | 4:32 |
6. | "[A] Touch Sensitive" | 3:07 |
7. | "Shoot Doris Day" | 3:38 |
8. | "Miniature" | 0:40 |
9. | "No Sympathy" | 6:57 |
10. | "Juxtapozed with U" | 3:08 |
11. | "Presidential Suite" | 5:24 |
12. | "Run! Christian, Run!" | 7:20 |
13. | "Fragile Happiness" | 2:35 |
14. | "The Roman Road" | 5:18 |
15. | "Tradewinds" | 5:13 |
16. | "Happiness Is a Worn Pun" | 6:14 |
17. | "Patience" | 4:03 |
18. | "All the Shit U Do" | 2:29 |
Total length: | 76:14 |
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Alternate Route to Vulcan Street (Bench Remix)" | 7:05 |
2. | "(Drawing) Rings Around the World ( Brave Captain Remix)" | 4:01 |
12. | "Alternate Route to Vulcan Street (Atmos Remix)" | 4:42 |
13. | "Presidential Suite (Phat Eric Remix)" | 5:16 |
14. | "Fragile Happiness (Pieweighter Remix)" | 4:06 |
15. | "Juxtapozed with U (Lesser Remix)" | 3:22 |
16. | "[A] Touch Sensitive (Force Unknown Remix 2)" | 7:54 |
Total length: | 74:34 |
Deluxe 20th Anniversary Editions
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Alternate Route to Vulcan Street" | 4:31 |
2. | "Sidewalk Serfer Girl" | 4:01 |
3. | "(Drawing) Rings Around the World" | 3:29 |
4. | "It's Not the End of the World?" | 3:25 |
5. | "Receptacle for the Respectable" | 4:32 |
6. | "[A] Touch Sensitive" | 3:07 |
7. | "Shoot Doris Day" | 3:38 |
8. | "Miniature" | 0:40 |
9. | "No Sympathy" | 6:57 |
10. | "Juxtapozed with U" | 3:08 |
11. | "Presidential Suite" | 5:24 |
12. | "Run! Christian, Run!" | 7:20 |
13. | "Fragile Happiness" (ends with hidden track "Receptacle For The Respectable (Maccapella Celery)") | 3:35 |
14. | "Tradewinds" | 5:13 |
15. | "The Roman Road" | 5:18 |
16. | "Happiness Is a Worn Pun" | 3:21 |
17. | "Patience" | 4:04 |
18. | "Edam Anchorman" | 3:22 |
19. | "All the Shit U Do" | 2:30 |
Total length: | 77:35 |
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Gýpsy Space Muffin" | 3:30 |
2. | "John Spex (Outtake)" | 5:13 |
3. | "Miami Vice (Outtake)" | 10:00 |
4. | "Sanitised (Rough Mix)" | 2:58 |
5. | "Chihuahua (Unfinished, Rough Mix)" (ends with hidden track "(Drawing) Rings Around The World (Acapella Phones)") | 6:48 |
6. | "(Drawing) Rings Around The World #1 (Demo)" | 0:34 |
7. | "(Drawing) Rings Around The World #2 (Demo)" | 1:49 |
8. | "(Drawing) Rings Around The World #3 (Demo)" | 1:59 |
9. | "No Sympathy (Demo)" | 4:01 |
10. | "Tradewinds (Demo)" | 3:44 |
11. | "Receptacle For The Respectable #1 (Demo)" | 2:17 |
12. | "Receptacle For The Respectable #2 (Demo)" | 2:20 |
13. | "Happiness Is A Worn Pun (Demo)" | 2:39 |
14. | "Sidewalk Serfer Girl (Demo)" | 0:23 |
15. | "Presidential Suite (Demo)" | 2:53 |
16. | "The Roman Road (Demo)" | 4:24 |
17. | "Patience #2 (Demo)" | 4:23 |
18. | "Shoot Doris Day (Demo)" | 3:45 |
19. | "Edam Anchorman (Demo)" | 2:55 |
20. | "Sanitised (Demo)" | 2:13 |
21. | "Fragile Happiness (Demo)" (ends with hidden track "Tape Rewind") | 3:47 |
22. | "Tradewinds (Acoustic Mix) / Sidewalk Serfer Girl (Unused ’70s Rock Edit Section) / Shoot Doris Day (Excised Third Chorus) / Sidewalk Serfer Girl (Alternate Second Verse)" (unlisted hidden track) | 6:33 |
Total length: | 79:08 |
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Alternate Route to Vulcan Street (Bench Remix)" | 6:56 |
2. | "Sidewalk Serfer Girl (Catatonia Remix)" | 1:54 |
3. | "(Drawing) Rings Around The World (Happy Chapel Remix)" | 3:31 |
4. | "It's Not the End Of The World? (Force Unknown Remix)" | 3:50 |
5. | "Receptacle For The Respectable (Destructable Mix)" | 2:09 |
6. | "[A] Touch Sensitive (Force Unknown Remix)" | 7:47 |
7. | "Shoot Doris Day (Wauvenfold Remix)" | 4:06 |
8. | "Miniature ( Brave Captain Remix)" | 4:01 |
14. | "DVD Menu Music Medley" (unlisted hidden track) | 25:12 |
Total length: | 79:55 |
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Alternate Route to Vulcan Street" | 4:31 |
2. | "Sidewalk Serfer Girl" | 4:01 |
3. | "(Drawing) Rings Around the World" | 3:29 |
4. | "It's Not the End of the World?" | 3:25 |
5. | "Receptacle for the Respectable" | 4:32 |
6. | "[A] Touch Sensitive" | 3:07 |
7. | "Shoot Doris Day" | 3:38 |
8. | "Miniature" | 0:40 |
9. | "No Sympathy" | 6:57 |
10. | "Juxtapozed with U" | 3:08 |
11. | "Presidential Suite" | 5:24 |
12. | "Run! Christian, Run!" | 7:20 |
13. | "Fragile Happiness" | 2:35 |
Total length: | 52:47 |
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Tradewinds" | 5:13 |
2. | "The Roman Road" | 5:18 |
3. | "Patience" | 4:04 |
4. | "Edam Anchorman" | 3:22 |
5. | "All the Shit U Do" | 2:30 |
6. | "Gýpsy Space Muffin" | 3:30 |
7. | "Happiness Is a Worn Pun" | 3:21 |
8. | "John Spex (Outtake)" | 5:13 |
9. | "Miami Vice (Outtake)" | 10:00 |
10. | "Sanitised (Rough Mix)" | 2:58 |
11. | "Chihuahua (Unfinished, Rough Mix)" | 4:51 |
Total length: | 49:50 |
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Alternate Route to Vulcan Street (Bench Remix)" | 7:05 |
2. | "Alternate Route to Vulcan Street (Atmos Remix)" | 4:43 |
3. | "Alternate Route to Vulcan Street (Will Wells Remix)" | 4:24 |
4. | "Sidewalk Serfer Girl (Catatonia Remix)" | 4:02 |
5. | "Sidewalk Serfer Girl (Catatonia Remix 2)" | 6:33 |
6. | "(Drawing) Rings Around The World (Happy Chapel Remix)" | 3:35 |
7. | "(Drawing) Rings Around The World (Hunan Laddiad Remix)" | 3:42 |
8. | "(Drawing) Rings Around the World ( Brave Captain Remix)" | 4:05 |
26. | "Tradewinds (Bench Remix)" | 3:31 |
Total length: | 116:16 |
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "(Drawing) Rings Around The World #1 (Demo)" | 2:05 |
2. | "(Drawing) Rings Around The World #2 (Demo)" | 1:53 |
3. | "(Drawing) Rings Around The World #3 (Demo)" | 2:03 |
4. | "No Sympathy (Demo)" | 4:03 |
5. | "Tradewinds (Demo)" | 3:44 |
6. | "Receptacle For The Respectable #1 (Demo)" | 2:16 |
7. | "Receptacle For The Respectable #2 (Demo)" | 2:20 |
8. | "Happiness Is A Worn Pun (Demo)" | 2:39 |
9. | "Sidewalk Serfer Girl (Demo)" | 0:23 |
10. | "Run! Christian, Run! (Demo)" | 4:08 |
11. | "Presidential Suite (Demo)" | 2:53 |
12. | "The Roman Road (Demo)" | 4:24 |
13. | "Patience #1 (Demo)" | 4:21 |
14. | "Patience #2 (Demo)" | 4:23 |
15. | "Shoot Doris Day (Demo)" | 3:44 |
16. | "Edam Anchorman (Demo)" | 2:55 |
17. | "Sanitised (Demo)" | 2:13 |
18. | "Fragile Happiness (Demo)" | 2:34 |
Total length: | 53:01 |
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "DVD Menu Music Medley" | 25:12 |
2. | "(Drawing) Rings Around The World (Acapella Phones)" | 2:00 |
3. | "Receptacle For The Respectable (Maccapella Celery)" | 1:00 |
4. | "Tradewinds (Acoustic Mix)" | 4:15 |
5. | "Sidewalk Serfer Girl (Alternate Second Verse)" | 0:42 |
6. | "Shoot Doris Day (Excised Third Chorus)" | 0:53 |
7. | "Sidewalk Serfer Girl (Unused '70s Rock Edit Section)" | |
22. | Untitled | 0:40 |
Total length: | 34:42 |
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Alternate Route to Vulcan Street (Instrumental)" | 4:42 |
2. | "Sidewalk Serfer Girl (Instrumental)" | 4:06 |
3. | "(Drawing) Rings Around the World (Instrumental)" | 3:35 |
4. | "It's Not the End of the World? (Instrumental)" | 3:30 |
5. | "Receptacle for the Respectable (Instrumental)" | 4:34 |
6. | "[A] Touch Sensitive (Alternate Mix)" | 2:44 |
7. | "Shoot Doris Day (Instrumental)" | 4:06 |
8. | "No Sympathy (Instrumental)" | 5:06 |
9. | "No Sympathy, Part 2 (Alternate Mix)" | 2:32 |
10. | "Juxtapozed with U (Instrumental)" | 3:10 |
11. | "Presidential Suite (Instrumental)" | 5:24 |
12. | "Run! Christian, Run! (Instrumental)" | 7:17 |
13. | "Fragile Happiness" | 2:35 |
14. | "Tradewinds (Instrumental)" | 5:16 |
15. | "The Roman Road (Instrumental)" | 6:03 |
16. | "Patience (Instrumental)" | 4:05 |
17. | "Edam Anchorman (Instrumental)" | 3:31 |
18. | "All the Shit U Do (Instrumental)" | 2:31 |
19. | "Gýpsy Space Muffin (Instrumental)" | 3:40 |
20. | "Happiness Is a Worn Pun (Instrumental)" | 6:11 |
Total length: | 84:38 |
Personnel
All track numbers refer to the CD version of Rings Around the World unless otherwise stated.
- Band
- Gruff Rhys – lead vocals, rhythm guitar, keyboards, harmonica
- Huw Bunford – lead guitar, keyboards, backing vocals, pedal steel
- Guto Pryce – bass guitar
- Cian Ciaran – keyboards, backing vocals
- Dafydd Ieuan – drums, backing vocals, co-lead vocals on "Receptacle for the Respectable"
- Additional musicians
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- Recording personnel
- Super Furry Animals – production, string arrangements on tracks 1, 4, 7, 10, 11
- Sean O'Hagan – string arrangements on tracks 1, 11
- Marcus Holdaway – string arrangements on track 1, 11
- Sonia Slany – string arrangements on tracks 4, 7, 10
- Chris Shaw – production and engineering
- Eric Tew – engineering
- Damian Shannon – engineering assistant (Bearsville Studios)
- Richard Wilkinson – engineering assistant (Metropolis)
- Stuart Hawkes – mastering
- Julian Lowe – mastering
- DVD production
- Mike Gillespie – production
- Super Furry Animals – executive production, DVD sound effects and music
- Anthony I.P. Owen – DVD authoring
- Coffeecup New Media – DVD interface design
- No Brake Visual Engineering – DVD interface design
- John Mark James – DVD interface icon design
- Robert Burnett – video encoding
- Crispin Murray – audio encoding
- Mike Jones – film compilation
- Artwork
- Pete Fowler – illustration
- Simon Pike – illustration
- John Mark James – logos and fonts
Album chart positions
Chart | Peak position |
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UK Albums Chart | 3[29] |
U.S. Independent Albums | 32[59] |
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- Notes
- ^ Although many publications have suggested that Rings... was originally going to be called Text Messaging is Destroying the Pub Quiz as We Know It this may not have been the case. According to the BBC the phrase was written on an "ideas wall" in the studio during recording sessions and was spotted by an NME journalist who simply assumed it was going to be the album's title.[8]
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External links
- Rings Around the World at YouTube (streamed copy where licensed)
- Rings Around the World at Metacritic
- Rings Around the World at MusicBrainz