Animal Collective

retired_fineat42 · 12-06-2007, 02:38 PM

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Originally posted by RedefiningForm:
Banshee Beat off Feels is the best thing they've ever done. Other than, possibly, Peacebone.

Banshee Beat is great. Peacebone so addictive though. There is something in the twisted samples and easy beat set against the mundane lyrics that really intrigues me. And what a cool video

retired_fineat42 · 12-06-2007, 02:40 PM

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Originally posted by Dangerous Dave:
#1 is the beautiful

Reminds me of Moby's "God Moving Over The Face of The Water", but a nice relaxing song.

trotamundos · 12-06-2007, 02:42 PM

Hmmm, BSS and Panda mentioned in the same thread as these guys. Intrigued enough to investigate.

retired_fineat42 · 12-06-2007, 02:49 PM

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Originally posted by Herman Bloom:
Hmmm, BSS and Panda mentioned in the same thread as these guys. Intrigued enough to investigate.

Check out their songs "Peacebone" and "Fireworks", Herman. You won't regret it :thup:

retired_kishnata · 12-06-2007, 02:52 PM

I only own "Feels" after seeing them at T in the Park last year. One of the performances of the weekend.

I never really got into checking them out anymore. I should really.

retired_gulkis · 12-06-2007, 03:58 PM

sung tongs is good but i've recently decided feels is better based on the overall mood. i've recently been putting the amazing and rather dreamlike triplet from that album of...

1. banshee beat
2. daffy duck
3. loch raven

...on repeat for ages on end. simply never gets old. strawberry jam is good too. i find it hard to choose between their last three albums really. and then i've got a couple of songs and early albums which have their moments but are a bit patchy overall. actually, if anyone wants a copy of 'spirit they've gone, spirit they've vanished / danse manatee' then send me an e-mail because i got given a spare a month or so back. can't be arsed to ebay it.

in terms of the best song they've ever done, then it's obviously leaf house.

retired_gulkis · 12-06-2007, 04:02 PM

did anyone here get avey tare's 'backwards' album? i couldn't summon up the pretension

retired_kimmymarlo · 12-06-2007, 04:04 PM

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Originally posted by tim1000000:
did anyone here get avey tare's 'backwards' album? i couldn't summon up the pretension

that's how I feel about 90% of AC's discography, frankly.

just doesn't get it going for me.

retired_assy22 · 12-06-2007, 04:35 PM

Who Could Win A Rabbit is awful, it's a couple of guys messing about on a guitar and whining random **** into a microphone.

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God bless Animal Collective, but they really have, in their own strange way, made indie rock a much more conservative place than it should be. If you can create intellectual distance from your work, then critics will feel clever for getting it and give you good marks; if you create music that ****ed-up 13-year-old girls might enjoy, then critics will feel like you're trying too hard and not give you good marks. The Pitchfork phenomenon in particular is bizarre because it seems to have altered the fundamental way in which people get into music. I really do think that people should probably lose their virginity before they start writing reviews for Pitchfork. You should keep things in order in your life before you become an éminence grise—you should do some drugs and fall in love, and then start judging people. Because then you'd actually know something about life, as opposed to just being afraid of it and, you know, thinking Menomena are important.

Torq Campbell with a bit of wisdom there, I tend to lump early Animal Collective (and related spinoff acts) and Menomena in the same bracket, there must be some point in arbitrarily creating music nobody understands and yet adores that I don't grasp.

retired_heidus17 · 12-06-2007, 04:39 PM

what is there to understand? It sounds good, I like listening to it, what else does there need to be? I don't know what half the Animal Collective songs are on about, but I dont find that really matters.

Animal Collective

Grab a beer, sit back and relax.

Animal Collective