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anybody else listen to them? i just found out. i like it. weird, but good.

2/14/2006 5:14:34 PM

http://www.thewolfweb.com/message_topic.aspx?topic=375554

http://www.thewolfweb.com/message_topic.aspx?topic=226759

2/14/2006 5:17:34 PM

goddamnit, i thought i was cool

2/14/2006 5:18:46 PM

i've known about em for a while. can't quite get into them though.

2/14/2006 5:28:15 PM

bump

1/27/2009 12:58:36 PM

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"i've known about em for a while. can't quite get into them though."

ahahahahaha what a noob

1/27/2009 1:00:00 PM

lol, famous last words wilso

ill just copy/paste from Music of 2009 to start off

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"i asked qntmfred to bump either of the AC threads instead of starting a new one, as ill admit i only check this thread every day for news about them im MORE excited about their next release than I was for MPP, i've only been listening since right before Feels but I still feel it is not as good as that or SJ, hell I'd rank it behind the EPs too (Peacebone, People, Water Curses). but anyways, check out one of their most recent live shows, for one song the sample is jerry garcia. http://www.archive.org/download/acollective2009-01-21.nyctaper.Neumann_KM150.16bit/AnimalCollective2009-01-21_NYCTaper_t03_vbr.mp3 the entire show is on archive.org and its top quality, by the infamous nyc taper ALSO, i just wanted to add that seeing AC live was incredible, especially with the set they have currently with the 5 or 6 colored strobes going off at different points. That set + Daily Routine = incredible. I don't know if theres a great video of that but one of my other favorites is the Malta Festival which there is video of"

i wish i could have seen them during Feels live, did anyone get to?

1/27/2009 1:00:17 PM

in my defense, up to that point i had only listened to sung tongs.. i much prefer electronic-era AC.

1/27/2009 1:07:18 PM

i saw them at the Cradle in 2004 when they were playing mostly Feels stuff... really good show, definitely a different experience than seeing them now. a lot more psychedelic/droney

1/27/2009 1:08:47 PM

yeah i definitely like the reverb laden, guitar droning AC much more than earlier (acoustic, pitch raised) and current (bass heavy, catchy)

what song got everyone into it and if you had to pick one to play for a friend who'd never heard, which one would you play?

i got hooked on Kids on Holiday, just went randomly to it on my ipod sophmore year and never looked back, it fared very well with my friends when we were high but not very well sober, lol

i think Did You See The Words is the one I play for most people

1/27/2009 1:15:45 PM

there's a good article in spin with them. i'm excited about

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"Their next project, planned for release on theater screens or DVD later this year, is a "visual record," with short filmic vignettes and all new music conceived to interact with the images. "We see it as the next Animal Collective record," Weitz says, "but we don't know if it will be received like that, because a lot of it is pretty weird and abstract.""

http://spin.com/articles/animal-collective-scientists

1/27/2009 1:35:44 PM

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"yeah i definitely like the reverb laden, guitar droning AC much more than earlier (acoustic, pitch raised) and current (bass heavy, catchy)"

Yep. "Banshee Beat" and "Loch Raven" ftw.

1/27/2009 1:39:27 PM

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"what song got everyone into it and if you had to pick one to play for a friend who'd never heard, which one would you play?"

probably peacebone. although i did like some songs from sung tongs, especially leaf house. visiting friends is a pretty nice chill track. if i were to pick a song for a friend, though, it'd definitely be my girls.

1/27/2009 1:51:50 PM

i have barely scratched the surface of Animal Collective. and i mean barely.

1/27/2009 2:32:57 PM

i'd say the new album is definitely a good starting point.. it's by far their most accessible album

1/27/2009 2:47:41 PM

I just want four walls and adobe slats for my girls.

1/27/2009 3:05:08 PM

yeah MPP is the only one i've got my hands on.

1/27/2009 3:06:00 PM

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"Yep. "Banshee Beat" and "Loch Raven" ftw."

I knew I liked you for some reason

1/27/2009 3:14:21 PM

ive chosen one or two songs from most of the albums to try and give some of the people who havent heard a taste, although its not necessarily an overall representation of the album, just my favorites of the past

Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished (2000)
"April And The Phantom" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9F4TEqXmZNs
"Someday I'll Grow To Be As Tall As The Giant"
http://www.last.fm/music/Animal+Collective/_/Someday+I%27ll+Grow+to+Be+as+Tall+as+the+Giant

Danse Manatee (2001)
"Throwin The Round Ball" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_fpZxsAsbc

Campfire Songs (2003)
"Doggy" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UO5NT3aBvFo

Here Comes The Indian (2003)
"Native Belle" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eDKWVJCUK0&feature=related
"Slippi" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vkl6vebnDzI

Sung Tongs (2004)
"Kids On Holiday" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_ZbFjPlD4A
"Good Lovin' Outside" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcoeepwGhgA

Feels (2005)
"Did You See The Words" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gazFEelQRVc
"Banshee Beat" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jj-0vMrZJbo

Strawberry Jam (2007)
"#1" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQ2_Tf4h1nI
"Fireworks" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6KPDWNAPBU&feature=related

1/27/2009 4:24:10 PM

BBC Session from two days ago

http://www.bansheebeat.com/ac/Stuart%20Maconies%20Freak%20Zone,%20BBC%206%20-%2025.01.2009/1.%20Animal%20Collective%20-%20What%20Would%20I%20Want%20Sky.mp3

1/27/2009 5:08:43 PM

someone requested the other song from the BBC session, Lion In A Coma

http://www.bansheebeat.com/ac/Stuart%20Maconies%20Freak%20Zone,%20BBC%206%20-%2025.01.2009/2.%20Animal%20Collective%20-%20Lion%20in%20a%20Coma.mp3

1/27/2009 6:39:10 PM

i will never see them. it is like, impossible. SOMETHING always stands in my way. this is probably, out of all the shows i could go to, the one i want to go to most. because i've never been to an AC show and i want to and i wish (honestly) that i had gotten to see them before this album (not that i don't love the album, because i do). but i didn't because i'm cursed and there is always something thats impossible to get out of standing in my way.

i mean the dc show is sold out, but i couldn't have gone anyway because of exams. i forget what happened when they played at cradle last year. some stupid school shit. and then they played in aville and charlottesville not too long ago and again, i could NOT go.

and i don't care if it is super indie or hipster or whatever to like them. def one of my favorite bands. i enjoy all albums. i really like MPP and agree with what has been said in here, it is their most accessible album yet. though i thought strawberry jam was pretty accessible; however, i also enjoy their entire collection from their "weirdest" albums to stuff like strawberry jam and MPP. so i guess i am biased.

i guess what i like the most, and this is probably just me, is how unclassifiable they are. i know people throw around the term "freak folk" but when i think freak folk i think more like joanna newsom. i mean i know genres are broad. but i just think there's so much there--when you look at their entire catalog. like its folky, its poppy, its psychedelic. i just really enjoy this band. and i don't care if that makes me lame.

kanye likes them (apparently), so how lame can i be really.

oh but i'm also interested to hear the transition and thought process of people who just picked up MPP or even Strawberry Jam and have worked their way "backwards" or whatever through the catalog. i just think its interesting. you can listen to a song like my girls and then go pick up the sung tongs album and i feel like some people are going to be like "what??" or maybe not. maybe they'll really like it. i just am interested.

/blog (kinda)

1/29/2009 8:13:59 PM

newest interview says Deakin will be back in a major way for LP10 and hopefully some touring in the later part of the year close to here

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"Animal Collective are about to embark on a colossal tour that will take them well into the summer of 2009, after which, possibly with Deakin back on board, Portner thinks this recapturing of days gone by should continue. “I think we might try and write some stuff all together and do as much of a record at one time rather than set it out over a long period of time. All together in the same place and actually try and write everything together. That’s not something we’ve done in a while, just written everything from scratch together.”"

http://www.tourdates.co.uk/LondonTourdates/issue-041/2009/02/27/1434-Animal-Collective-Animal-Magnetism

3/16/2009 8:06:27 PM

they really need to drop all the name bullshit (avey tare, geologist, etc).. it was cute a few albums ago, but come on

3/16/2009 8:22:23 PM