Songbook: The Singles, Vol. 1

Released4 October 2004

Recorded1995–2003

GenreExperimental rock

LabelEpic (UK), Beggars XL (US)

Songbook: The Singles, Vol. 1
Greatest hits album by Super Furry Animals
Released	4 October 2004
Recorded	1995–2003
Genre	Experimental rock
Label	Epic (UK), Beggars XL (US)
Producer	Chris Shaw, Gorwel Owen, Mario Caldato Jr, Super Furry Animals
Super Furry Animals chronology
Slow Life (2004) Songbook: The Singles, Vol. 1 (2004) Love Kraft (2005)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	link
BBC	extremely favourable link
Coke Machine Glow	93% link
Drowned in Sound	link
NME	link
Pitchfork Media	8.9/10 link
PopMatters	8/10 link
Rolling Stone	link
Stylus Magazine	A link
Yahoo! Music	[1]

Songbook: The Singles, Vol. 1 collects all of the Super Furry Animals singles released between 1996 and 2004 as well as B-side "Blerwytirhwng?" (which can be found on their 1995 Welsh only debut EP Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch (In Space)). Songbook... was released in the UK in October 2004, debuting at #18 on the UK album charts. The collection was not released in the U.S. until January 2005.

According to bassist Guto Pryce the album was "something that the record company wanted to do, and we were fine with that, but we were in the middle of making ... Love Kraft [so that] was where our heads were at". Despite this they did pick the track listing, a process they found easy. The band performed just two gigs in support of the album as they considered a 'greatest hits tour' "wasn't really us".^[2]