The Gift That Keeps Giving  "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. The song was conceived as a Christmas single as part of the band's plans to make a "pop record" in parent album "Hey Venus!" 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. 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!" and BBC Wales describing the track as "brain-bendingly catchy". A Team D.A.D.D.Y. directed 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. In a 2008 interview with "Uncut" singer Gruff Rhys stated that "The Gift That Keeps Giving" was written as an "AOR Christmas single" following a visit to Japan where "they celebrate Christmas as a commercial holiday with all the decorations .. in one store they had Santa on a cross hanging from the wall ... so the Christmas single was just an excuse to have Santa on a cross on the cover". Although the cover art did not in the end feature this scene, a crucified Santa does appear in the accompanying music video. Speaking to British music magazine "Artrocker" Rhys offered another explanation as to the origins of the song:  The track was recorded at Miraval Studios, France along with the rest of "Hey Venus!" "The Gift That Keeps Giving" is 3 minutes 20 seconds long and is in the key of D minor. The track begins with a phased guitar melody backed only by synthesizer, hi-hat and occasional guitar chords. Cian Ciaran's piano joins the mix as the song builds up with the introduction of drums at 25 seconds. Gruff Rhys begins singing after 39 seconds and is joined by sleighbells which accompany the lines "all the bells started ringing" shortly before the first chorus which features harmony backing vocals (the first of many in the "falsetto-laden" track) singing the title phrase.