"The Gift That Keeps Giving" | ||||
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Single by Super Furry Animals | ||||
from the album Hey Venus! | ||||
Released | 25 December 2007 | |||
Recorded | Miraval Studios, France | |||
Genre | Experimental rock | |||
Length | 3:20 | |||
Label | Rough Trade Records | |||
Songwriter(s) | Super Furry Animals | |||
Producer(s) | Super Furry Animals with David Newfeld | |||
Super Furry Animals singles chronology | ||||
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"The Gift That Keeps Giving" is a song by Super Furry Animals taken from their 2007 album, Hey Venus!. It was given away as a free download single from the band's official website on Christmas Day 2007.[1]
The song was conceived as a Christmas single[2] as part of the band's plans to make a "pop record" in parent album Hey Venus![3] The title stems from sessions in 2004 for the extended live version of "The Man Don't Give a Fuck", at which the group's engineer repeatably used the phrase.[3] Critical response to "The Gift That Keeps Giving" was generally positive with the NME claiming it to be one of the best songs on Hey Venus![4] and BBC Wales describing the track as "brain-bendingly catchy".[5]
A Team D.A.D.D.Y. directed[6] music video was made to accompany the track's release as a single. The video features a spoilt child being showered with Christmas presents while poorer children are shown in tears due to their lack of gifts. Two different endings for the video were produced - in one Santa Claus is shown crucified on a cross while another sees Santa laid on the floor with an arrow through his head.