How the fuck do I get into Animal Collective and start seeing them as the geniuses most people on this board claim they...

How the fuck do I get into Animal Collective and start seeing them as the geniuses most people on this board claim they are?

lobotomy?

The only people who see them as geniuses are pot head avant teens

AnCo sux tho doe

Animal Collective is legitimately one of the worst bands of all time.

This is what happens when a bunch of faux-artsy numales really want to be cool and different but are too dumb and uninteresting to do it any way possible and also think they're too good for anything that conveys any kind of emotion. Or is catchy. Or is written well. Or has anything redeeming.

Listening to this god-awful band is like having an 8th grader beat me over the head with a finger painting. It is so contrived it's agonizing. These guys so hard to be artsy it sounds like the members have veigns popping out of their forehead.

It goes out of its way to be different because it has no other ways to be interesting and the way it's different is just random bullshit. It's lame as fuck and them cranking that factor up to 11 doesn't change that.

I don't expect any kind of rebuttal because their fans are the worst kind of hipsters that act like babies when someone doesn't like what they like and think insulting someone is an argument.
The problem is that Animal Collective are a special kind of unlistenable; their albums don't reward active engagement, but they don't make good background music, either. Their brand of twee is cloying and grating like an attention-starved, sugar-crashing eight-year-old who wants you to admire his finger painting, while you're trying to wash the dishes.

I know this is pasta, but

>think they're too good for anything that conveys any kind of emotion

Nigga what

this pasta is 100% correct

spot on.

OPEN UP YOUR

>they're too good for anything that conveys any kind of emotion

Really not that good of a band. merriweather post pavillion is when they went from okay to snooze fest.

start by listening to them

no they really are one of the most influential bands of the 2000's no matter how hard the memes persist. they fronted the experimental noisey pop movement (followed by deerhoof, dan deacon, lightning bolt, etc.) + continued to refine their sound & balance its difficult and accessible elements.

- avey's melodies are intricate & catchy almost without exception
- panda rocks the drums, has a the most PURE voice and his solo career does a lot w/ very little
- deakin's guitars on here comes the indian, feels and strawberry are thiccc & beautiful
- geo mixes it altogether + adds flourishes of sound that on repeat listening make it fresh

people just don't like them because they think music can't be fun or emotional while also being dense.

They're discography and talent is so superior to every other band that people become really annoyed a bunch of private school, druggies who look like virgins have more musical talent than their favorite band.

the under-ages make an appearance

Anti Anco posters are even worse than the fans. The fans are usually just gay as fuck but otherwise nice, but the haters are consistently the true tryhards and snobs. See: this thread.

Anco are as chill as the day is long. The members are just having a good time. It these contrarians ever met one of them then they'd know that.

this is a perfect description of anco

when did board get so painfully dismissive instead of engaging in an actual discussion

It depends on what sort of music you already like

Campfire Songs and Sung Tongs are what made me like them, and I really disliked them just like everybody else itt before I listened to them

The person who wrote this only listened to mpp, he says so in the article. And he wrote a book called "original gangstas"

A long time ago. I just love how timely that guy proved my point that the people on the hate bandwagon are far more elitist and underage than the fans (or how they attempt to portray the fans).

anyone who posts their fav band on this board every day is obnoxious, not just anco fans.

this board is actually usually the worst place on the internet to talk about music

reminder:
people on this board calling them hacks or memes or whatever buzzword they use to dismiss musicians because they don't actually have an opinion on or passion for anything haven't listened closely enough to:

safer
banshee beat
good house
the softest voice
alvin row

yeah
grimesfags and dgfags tell the same

>comparing anco to shit like death grips and grimes
fuck off

still

Merriweather Post Pavilion then idk, Strawberry Jam?

They look like such huge faggots. I miss the days back when rockstars where supposed to be paragons of Masculanity. for Christsake, soy products are truly killing the West.

I still don't understand why Avey is dressed like that

Max comfy

>rockstars
well there's your problem

yeah same, i cant listen to good music unless the singers get my dick hard