Animal Collective General

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>favorite album
>rank the albums
>favorite member
>favorite sideprojects

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>Hollinndagain
>Everything before CHz > CHz > PW
>Geo tbqh
>Down There

I think everything they put out until very recently was all amazing. Even their new stuff is still good though.

Campfire Songs

>Campfire Songs
>Feels
>Sung Tongs
>Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished
>Prospect Hummer
>MPP
>Strawberry Jam
>Fall Be Kind
>People
>Hollindagin
>Water Curses
>Danse Manatee

Deakin

>Sleep Cycle
>Tomboy

>STGSTV
>Early Anco > Mid Anco > Pop Anco
>Avey
>Freakin with Deakin

>Sung Tongs
>ST>STGSTV>MPP>CS>Feels>HCTI>SJ>PW>CHZ>Hollin>Danse
>idk, either panda or deak
>Sleep Cycle nigga

STGSTV > Sung Tongs > Strawberry Jam > Feels > Hollinndagain > MPP > Here Comes The Indian > Campfire Songs > Centipede Hz > Animal Crack Box > Painting With > Danse Manatee
haven't listened to Live at 9:30 enough to fairly rank it. also if Fall Be Kind counted as an album it'd be above SJ probably
Panda's my favorite member and side projectmen, obviously

>album
sung tongs
>ranking
'no'
>objectively avey. fuck the others really. especially panda
>side projects a shit

I would honestly rank Painting With up there with their best, I think it has an incredibly unique approach to pop and all of the songs are very creative and detailed/well crafted. The only song I don't like is Natural Selection. What's wrong with me?

Also, all of Avey's solo albums are criminally underrated.

>.
pretentious sack of shit. that album is a reeking 0.5/10 holy shit what a steaming pile of fan boy chum chum tier pop music.

kill yourself

>favorite album
MPP

>rank the albums
MPP
Strawberry Jam
Fall Be Kind
Sung Tongs
Water Curses
CHz
Campfire Songs
Prospect Hummer
People
HCTI
Dansee Manatee
PW

>favorite member
Panda

>favorite sideprojects
Avey - STGSTV
Panda - Person Pitch
Deakin - Sleep Cycle
>tfw no Geo album yet

what

What do you guys think of person pitch?

amazing psychedelic dream pop, panda's best

>favorite album
Feels
>rank the albums
Feels> STGSTV> Sung Tongs> MPP and SJ>Campfire Songs> Here Comes the Indian> CHz and PW> Danse Manatee and Hollinndagain
>favorite member
Panda
>favorite sideprojects
Sleep Cycle and Tomboy

I like it too. Nothing else sounds quite like it.

>SJ
>STGSTV
>HCTI
>Feels
>MPP
>ST
>Hollindagain
>CHz
>CS
>PW
>DM

EPs
>Prospect Hummer
>Fall Be Kind
>Water Curses
>the rest

Fave member is avey
Fave side project is Tomboy

thank god

sometimes i think they made it so that people would keep listing danse as their worst

what

Give me your top 5 favorite Animal Collective Songs

B-but user, Painting With has more than five songs... I can't choose

In the flowers
Alvin row
Peacebone
Fireworks
Daily routine

Guess your just gonna have to pick man

Mr Fingers
Tantrum Barb
Daily Routine
Winters Love
Fickle Cycle

5. Water Curses
4. Did You See The Words
3. The Purple Bottle
2. Alvin Row
1. Banshee Beat

Banshee Beat might be my favorite song of all time

Why doesn't Animal Collective ever work with rappers? Are they racist or something?

dude deak's black.

SJ>ST>Feels>STGSTV>MPP>HCTI>FBK>PH>wc

1. Fireworks
2. Leaf House
3. Banshee Beat
4. Purple Bottle
5. Alvin Row

The guy asking for top 5 songs here again. Out of everything that ive heard i cant find anything better than fireworks

ughgh lads i need help. i like anco loads but was not a fan of pw (at all) and the live videos i've seen this tour don't have me hyped at at all (apart from daily routine and bees) but actress is opening on the fall leg and i really don't want to miss that. should i go see them live?

MPP

MPP > STG > hcti > sj > feels > ST > Pw > CS > DM > Chz

Avey because i think everyone praises Panda and that Avey is actually the superior musician

Person Pitch

Have you listened to live at the ritz? If you don't like that, don't bother

yes. at least you have the chance, they're not coming to where i live, i think i might never see them live ever

1. In the flowers
2. Alvin row
3. Also frightened
4. Infant dressing table
5. Spirit they've vanished

go, you have nothing to lose

no, but i'll check it out

sorry m8 :( hope you get the chance

>tfw lives in Sweden
Just end it now

Where do you live?

>MPP > Sung Tongs > SJ > CHz > Painting With > Feels > Spirit > HCTI > Hollind > CS > Danse

>Panda (happy birthday Noah)

>Person Pitch and Sleep Cycle

Brazil

Think they came here once during MPP era, but back then i didn't even knew them

>pw above spirit

Person Pitch vs. Sleep Cycle vs. STGSTV Poll and Thread

>Hollinndagain
the only anco i dont love
what do you like about it?

>favorite album
strawberry jam

>favorite member
avey
he wrote the most good songs

>favorite sideprojects
recently been loving pandas first

where you at bro?

I like spirit a lot but pw is just so much fun and it's very sentimental to me because it's the 1st record I've been a fan for and I saw the live show, so it means a lot to me

Hi again dudes. Im working on a Banshee Beat cover

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Im not great at guitar, mostly just trying to sing it well enough and practice it enough to post a video to my channel. How does it sound? Thanks a bunch

I can get that

1. Daily Routine
2. Spirit They've Vanished
3. Winter Wonderland
4. Good Lovin' Outside
5. Bagels in Kiev

Why isn't DM well liked? I enjoyed it.

Fuck off

Looks pretty good, man, you actually sing really well, you go from the high pitched to the more low tone voice that Avey does in the song really well, if it were me i would crack up real easy lol
The playing is fine too. A few slips here and there but it sounds pretty good.

I like it, just isn't as good as most of their other albums.

Also

>favorite album
MPP

>rank the albums
MPP > FBK > Prospect Hummer > Campfire Songs > HCTI > STGSTV > Sung Tongs > Painting With > Feels > Water Curses > Danse > SJ > People > CHz

>favorite member
Favorite in Context to the Band: Geologist
Favorite in Context to Solo Work: Deakin or Panda
I love you too Avey

>favorite sideprojects
Sleep Cycle

Wow thanks user!! Im glad to hear that. I agree with the slip-ups. Im still trying to not screw up the lyrics, also working on getting general spacing down, knowing good times to play the guitar harder etc. Thanks for listening!

>album
spirit my man
>rank
spirit>hollin>hcti>cs=chz>mpp=sung=feels>sj>danse>>pw
extremely consistent discography though, besides pw none below an 8
>member
avey
>sideprojects
sleep cycle/person pitch

Strawberry Jam
I can't rank all of them fuck that, but right now i'm really diggin Prospect Hummer and Sleep Cycle
Tough, probably Panda
Pullhair Rubeye

>loves MPP
>SJ one of the least favorite

what

not him, but SJ is a more frenetic album than MPP, and I'd say it's more similar to CHz, which he rated last.

What is the chance of them doing any more early tracks on the 2nd leg of this tour?

The appearance of Kids on Holiday gives me hope. What tracks would y'all like to see?
Personally I think Bat You'll Fly would be fantastic on this tour

I honestly think that while it's great they're reviving these old tracks i have to admit that they don't sound as good as i thought they would live...

Yeah, you're right, it's just that these 2 happen to be my 2 favorites

For me STGSTV and Centipede Hz suffer from some of the same problems. While I love some tracks (Winter Wonderland and the B-Side Safer) there are a lot of tracks that do absolutely nothing for me on SJ.

MPP is a very soothing, spacey and dream like record almost even though it has a decent amount of energy on a lot of the tracks.

>STGSTV
I meant SJ

I was massively fucking disappointed when I finally saw anco live this year after a decade of avid listening. Really what a huge letdown it was.

They suck live

And the whole not playing any old music thing is just a big fuck you to their fans

ugh

>painting with over feels, SJ, water curses

triggered

>fav album
SPirit They've Gone Spirit They've Vanished

>rank albums
Spirit They've Gone Spirit They've Vanished
Here Comes the Indian
Strawberry Jam
Sung Tongs
Feels
Merriweather Post Pavillion
Campfire Songs
Danse Manatee
Painting With
Centipede Htz

>fav member
Idk that's tough, probably Avey

>fav side projects
Down There, Person Pitch, and Sleep Cycle are all great.

I think both have the same summer feel to me so that's why i compare them a lot, but yeah, they're very different records. I would say MPP is more concise as a whole

Fireworks
Alvin Row
Leaf House
Turn Into Something
#1

>favorite album
Feels
>rank the albums
1. Feels
2. Campfire Songs
3. Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished
4. Here Comes the Indian
5. ODDSAC
6. Merriweather Post Pavilion
7. Sung Tongs
8. Strawberry Jam
9. Hollinndagain
10. Danse Manatee
11. Centipede Hz
12. Painting With
>favorite member
Avey Tare
>favorite sideprojects
Pullhair Rubeye (non-fucked-up version)
Sleep Cycle
Person Pitch

1. La Rapet
2. Hey Light
3. Reverend Green
4. My Girls
5. Visiting Friends

Don't be silly, that shit is just a thing with music in general. In Sup Forums you can see people making the same "Death Grips is shit" posts all the time yet people are always making threads about them, and that's just an example.
The thing with Animal Collective tho is that their work is really vast and each album might havea completely different sound so there's always something for everyone. In the end we are all reunited because we still fucking love the band

the best anco related project beside Feels

Sorry, just how I feel.

>Strawberry Jam
>Rank albums
SJ
MPP
STGSTV
Feels
Sung tongs
Painting With
Campfire Songs
CHz
HCTI
Danse Manatee
>fav member
Avey
>Side project
Sleep Cycle/Person Pitch

>sung tongs

>ST
>feels
>SJ
>MPP
>FBK
>campfire songs
>Painting with
>here comes the indian
>prospect hummer
>CHz
>danse manatee

Panda Bear
Person Pitch, PBVSGR, sleep cycle

Why didn't they ever do Prog-noise-pop like Spirit ever again?

I feel like they could make a fantastic album in that style again but they drifted so far away from that sound

The things is, that was Avey's album

I really hope that we see the effect Person Pitch had on MPP with Sleep Cycle and AnCo's next album. Imagine all four of them working on something with that album's super space-y sound. Also I'd really love to hear AnCo as a group do more of that almost Math Rock sound that was on Footy.

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>favorite album
Sung Tongs
>rank the albums
Sung Tongs
Hollinndagain
STGSTV
Here Comes the Indian
MPP
Strawberry Jam
Danse Manatee
Painting With
Campfire Songs
Feels
CHz
>favorite member
I couldn't pick a favorite, but my least favourite Deak (from a musical contributions standpoint, not as a person)
>favorite sideprojects
Person Pitch, Pullhair Rubeye, Slasher Flicks, Young Prayer
>top 5 songs
Meet The Light Child
Pride and Fight
Winters Love
Visiting Friends
The Burglars
if anco did more like Footy it'd be pretty great, by far the best thing off Sleep Cycle

Visiting friends
Summing the wretch
De Soto De son
Brothersport
I think I can

No particular order

>"objectively correct"
>posts perhaps the worst rankings in the thread

gonna need bigger bait there bud

what's wrong with them, and what're your rankings my plebby user friend?

>Sung Tongs / HCTI depending on time of year
>see above > feels > stgstv > strawb = merry > Campfire Songs > CHz > Danse Manatee (still not sure where PW fits in honestly)
>Geo
>All of them are pretty great

STGSTV > MPP > Feels > SJ = CHz > ST = PW > HCTI > CS >= DM > Hollinndagain

Panda

Down There or Person Pitch

>feels second lowest despite it being anco's best album
>deakin "most contributing" member despite him randomly being absent from the group's most important works

Yeah, that actually would be great, they would still maintain that pop-esque sound but grab that folk sound from the past. I think they can make an amazing album with that, Sleep Cycle was fuckin great

Feels is mediocre, and reread what I said about Deak friendo, he's my least favorite

this is the best opinion

ok, then that's fine about deak, but I still think you're not giving feels enough credit. even if you don't think Purple Bottle is worth its reputation (it isnt really) you cant deny that Banshee Beat, Loch Raven, Turn into Something and Grass aren't fantastic.

the rest of your rankings are pretty good though

I was pretty disappointed to find out that the guitar riff in the later part of Bros is just a long cat stevens sample over and over (can panda even play guitar?), but otherwise Person Pitch is a god damn masterpiece, 9.5/10

Loch Raven and Turn Into Something are the two best tracks on the record and even then they don't touch the highs on their absolute best work. they're still pretty good though.

ah it's you again i remember you from an old thread
panda plays guitar but i don't know why finding out that a sound on a sample based album was a sample detracts from how good it is

>not realizing Person Pitch is sample based
>not knowing Panda can play guitar from Young Prayer, Campfire Songs, Sung Tongs, etc
what
I'm in all of these baiting with my taste, but every time I post it's completely genuine

what songs off ST (your top rated) would match Loch Raven and Turn Into Something?

I would say maybe Leaf House is on the same level...? the kitties part is kind of awful though. We Tigers is certainly good too. Kids on Holiday is imo lower tier, the last three tracks are a snooze fest, VF is too, Sweet Road and College are amazing but they're like songettes not really songs

Winter's Love

I was just joking obviously but yeah it's sample based but still, woulda been cool if he did the riff himself

Off topic but is anyone else itt getting seriously sick of the Grimes obsession here? Art Angels is decent, it gets annoying after two listens, and her personality is tumblr tier trash. And she's not attractive either (armpit hair seriously...?)

Sorry but I just fail to see how Winter's Love is a better piece of music than Banshee Beat. It's great but feels has songs that are better than it.

i wasn't him and i think Banshee Beat is far better than Winter's Love but i think that's probably the example he would have given because its easily the best on Sung Tongs

I wish Leaf House was longer
Like 8+ mins

Winters Love, Sweet Road, College, Visiting Friends, Mouth Wooed Her, maybe Who Could Win a Rabbit and Good Lovin Outside all beat them easily
disagree on the kitties part being bad, agree on Kids on Holiday (it's my least favorite of the album,) disagree on the last three tracks though I can see why people say that
completely unrelated, but yes, very
there's genuinely no part of Winters Love that isn't beautiful, and it might have the single best melody I've ever heard. Banshee Beat is beautiful throughout as well, but it's not mondblowingly so like Winters Love

idk man. Whenever I sit down to listen to Sung Tongs I just get burned out after We Tigers when I hear that "I started playing the game..." and I seriously just can't make it through the last three tracks. In a vacuum they are decent tracks sure but in context of the album they just imo add a ton of weight onto the end that is unnecessary... the album is heavy enough with VF.

That being said, I think Feels and Sung Tongs are roughly equal in quality, sung tongs might edge it out just because I'm a sucker for folksiness but I love Feels as well.

And yeah I finally got around to filtering "grimes" and "chvrches" feelsgoodman