it opens! it does
http://www.zshare.net/download/53318330ecd202e4/
― nominal, Saturday, 27 December 2008 02:06 (fifteen years ago) link
strawberry jam is totes best animal collection album imo
― ice cr?m, Saturday, 27 December 2008 06:47 (fifteen years ago) link
I have some affection for the hyperactive kids on atease (the Collected Animals folks are 50% insane, 50% dicks, though), but something about them finally getting the album and then spending 50 pages wondering when they'd get a better quality version really fucked me the fuck off. Straw, camel's back, etc., I suppose.P.S. that rickroll, fuuuuuuuuuuck yoooooooou. Although I've bookmarked it, obv.
P.S. that rickroll, fuuuuuuuuuuck yoooooooou. Although I've bookmarked it, obv.
I got rickrolled on Tha Carter III so I feel your pain. The shock when the synths come in is incomparable to most things in life.
― throwbookatface (skygreenleopard), Saturday, 27 December 2008 07:11 (fifteen years ago) link
have some affection for the hyperactive kids on atease (the Collected Animals folks are 50% insane, 50% dicks, though), but something about them finally getting the album and then spending 50 pages wondering when they'd get a better quality version really fucked me the fuck off. Straw, camel's back, etc., I suppose.
links for lols?
― bimble bell rock (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 27 December 2008 07:16 (fifteen years ago) link
really fucked me the fuck off. really fucked me the fuck off. really fucked me the fuck off. really fucked me the fuck off. really fucked me the fuck off. really fucked me the fuck off. really fucked me the fuck off. really fucked me the fuck off. really fucked me the fuck off. really fucked me the fuck off. really fucked me the fuck off. really fucked me the fuck off. really fucked me the fuck off. really fucked me the fuck off. really fucked me the fuck off. really fucked me the fuck off. really fucked me the fuck off. really fucked me the fuck off.
― eman, Saturday, 27 December 2008 07:20 (fifteen years ago) link
fucky fucked me the fuck fuck
― rox qua rox (roxymuzak), Saturday, 27 December 2008 07:23 (fifteen years ago) link
fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuk
― ice cr?m, Saturday, 27 December 2008 07:23 (fifteen years ago) link
fffffffffffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu-
― bimble bell rock (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 27 December 2008 07:28 (fifteen years ago) link
-uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuccckkk
― rox qua rox (roxymuzak), Saturday, 27 December 2008 07:38 (fifteen years ago) link
-.
― eman, Saturday, 27 December 2008 07:43 (fifteen years ago) link
i still don't believe this leak is real. i am waiting till release day, well done rickrollers.
― a hoy hoy, Saturday, 27 December 2008 08:43 (fifteen years ago) link
― bimble bell rock (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, December 27, 2008 1:16 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
atease is registered only. RIP borgan
― choom gangsta (deej), Saturday, 27 December 2008 09:06 (fifteen years ago) link
grady-roxy axis has deftly shown record labels the way to fight piracy
they're not even asking a consultants fee either
― FLEETWOOD COZWN (cozwn), Saturday, 27 December 2008 10:44 (fifteen years ago) link
― ♪☺♫☻ (gr8080), Saturday, 27 December 2008 12:30 (fifteen years ago) link
The Harvard Department of Psychology in collaboration with the Indiana University School of Education performed a study to investigate the possible relationship between measured intelligence & music appreciation. Thirty full length albums were selected that ranged from Rogers and Hammerstein to Malawian tribal healing music.Of the thirty albums somehow Person Pitch made the list. 5000 participants from a wide range of socio-economic, ethnic, & educational backgrounds were selected at random. Male/female and age groups were equally represented. The findings concluded that there is a strong relationship between measured intelligence & appreciation of specific types of musical stimulation. Genre proved to be statistically irrelevant but individual tracks and albums were observed to have a strong connection with various intelligence levels. People grouped in intelligence levels in the upper middle-tier & above were found to have a statistically significant affinity for Person Pitch.
― cozwn, Saturday, 27 December 2008 13:20 (fifteen years ago) link
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― ATM Cash Smiles (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Saturday, 27 December 2008 13:50 (fifteen years ago) link
http://animalcollectin.6.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?t=4047
― cozwn, Saturday, 27 December 2008 14:27 (fifteen years ago) link
it's real enough. the songs are great! http://www.zshare.net/download/53318330ecd202e4/
i looked at that first post of that link, cozwn
that's nothing to get too happy about, just luck!
― nominal, Saturday, 27 December 2008 16:23 (fifteen years ago) link
but i did like the sig of the one contributor:
open up your,open up your,open up your coke
― nominal, Saturday, 27 December 2008 16:26 (fifteen years ago) link
played this right through twice, which is more than I've managed for any previous project (obv. exception PP) but I'm still confused by this band a little... I'm often not sure what my response is supposed to be emotionally to them? and fuck knows the lyrics (feel like putting that in quote marks tbh) don't help.
I dunno, compare with MBV, Slowdive etc... and I still wonder really, is it just the cool sounds they make that trumps all or are they really just a bit like, bogus?
First listen blew me away fwiw, but the second.. old feelings returning as I was hoping to get deeper into the "songs".
Dunno, help me out here :/
― fandango, Saturday, 27 December 2008 16:50 (fifteen years ago) link
It *really* helps that this record appears to have actual balls (bass?) for once mind you. Suddenly, finally they actually feel not so desperately indie and that's a great thing.
― fandango, Saturday, 27 December 2008 16:52 (fifteen years ago) link
fuckit! ignore last post! listening again en kitchen (streaming off laptop through lovely punchy mono radio, clears up the vocal mix a bit) and well, okay tracks 1-4 are ringing out clear as a bell :X more spins required deffo.
(maybe there's some canned weirdness later on? I don't recall right now and I need to go throw the beetroot in the pan anyway...)
― fandango, Saturday, 27 December 2008 18:21 (fifteen years ago) link
safraz Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2008 1:28 pm that's a gay study and gives lame hipsters something else to be pretentious about
― rox qua rox (roxymuzak), Saturday, 27 December 2008 21:15 (fifteen years ago) link
nah, b. summertime clothes is the best song on the album, hands down.
its dance-able, and the lyrics are amazingggggggggggggggggggggg
Merriweather Post Pavillion
― nominal, Saturday, 27 December 2008 21:42 (fifteen years ago) link
o thats rich "ice cr?m"
― ilxor, Sunday, 28 December 2008 06:00 (fifteen years ago) link
i rather like this album and I don't like anything else by them very much except for the vashti bunyan album and I only like that because of her.
― akm, Sunday, 28 December 2008 06:22 (fifteen years ago) link
I think that, if you're going to compare them with bands like that, a better band to compare Animal Collective with would be early Mercury Rev. There are obviously major differences in their sounds but they have a lot in common w/ the psychedelia background and the attitude.
― Cunga, Sunday, 28 December 2008 07:01 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah, I've thought of and compared them to Mercury rev in the past. I guess I always felt like the approach to lyrics with this band was always just a bit too distant and considered to really actually feel I dunno, honest, genuine "true" those kind of corny qualities ILM likes to stamp on with a boot. Whatever they were doing it just didn't work for me. All the while I could tell they had more creativity invested in it than some other charlatans...
Funny thing is it seems like the more universal the sentiments they sing about lately (here, Person Pitch) the better this weird angle works (Tim describes really well on his round-up thread atm).
― fandango, Sunday, 28 December 2008 13:13 (fifteen years ago) link
This album is also absolutely brilliant btw.
lol @ people raging against the "fucking font choices" and the title upthread :D geeez
― fandango, Sunday, 28 December 2008 13:17 (fifteen years ago) link
I agree and think that one of the things that makes Animal Collective intriguing is that they know how to amplify their own mystique. They do for psychedelic loopiness what Radiohead does for alienation, which may explain why both bands seem to attract a similar type of fan, if not similar people.
The other thing about AC is that, though their influences seem vast, they are very much a part of the general pop culture trend which is looking to late 60s hippie-ism/mysticism with a more romantic eye than the previous generations have.
Mercury Rev did something similar with crazed psychedelia early in their career but Mercury Rev's post-Baker albums revealed MR to be a bit smartass and self-conscious about their surrealism. I remember reading that "Snowflake Midnight," as a title, is a meant to be self-parody. AC has yet to let up on the distancing effects and take the mask off, which is one of the reasons their fans seem to be endlessly fascinated by them. They also benefit greatly, as I alluded to earlier, from the fact that today's college students are too young to remember much original psychedelia - or even the comeback the genre made in the late 80s and early 1990s. Everything that was old is new again, and a band like AC have done a great job repackaging the content.
― Cunga, Sunday, 28 December 2008 21:51 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh, and can I get a link to the round-up thread? Is that the tracks and albums nominations thread?
― Cunga, Sunday, 28 December 2008 21:56 (fifteen years ago) link
I meant this - 2007 that was (by Tim)
:)
― fandango, Sunday, 28 December 2008 22:55 (fifteen years ago) link
this is pretty awesome. Thought i was past having to listen to these chufters after Strawb. jam, but the Pitchfork shame continues.
― what U cry 4 (jim), Sunday, 28 December 2008 23:41 (fifteen years ago) link
Pitchfork is hilarious. and ridiculous. I don't really trust their reviews for, well, anything. AllMusic is great though.
― nominal, Monday, 29 December 2008 02:13 (fifteen years ago) link
what a beautiful record. totally worth all the rickrolling and viral shenanigans. the closest analog i hear (besides 'tusk' as mentioned upthread) is later boredoms, especially the euphoric looping of vcn. i have no idea how they make these sounds. i'm curious how sample-based it is, whether along the lines of 'person pitch' or what
― kamerad, Monday, 29 December 2008 03:06 (fifteen years ago) link
This album is pretty self-centered and misoginyst: agree/dissagree
― ♪☺♫☻ (gr8080), Monday, 29 December 2008 14:39 (fifteen years ago) link
its almost racist in its opaque self regard
― ice cr?m, Monday, 29 December 2008 14:43 (fifteen years ago) link
the only content i've been able to decipher is panda talking about his kids having shoes and stuff. that seems nice?
― schlump, Monday, 29 December 2008 15:23 (fifteen years ago) link
his kids are named adolf hitler bear and aryan justice bear, so no, its not nice
― eman cipation s1ocklamation (max), Monday, 29 December 2008 15:23 (fifteen years ago) link
i was also a little concerned about its pavilion-centric iconography
― choom gangsta (deej), Monday, 29 December 2008 19:42 (fifteen years ago) link
upon repeated listening, i'm pretty sure "also frightened" is the best track on this.
― Creeztophair, Monday, 29 December 2008 21:57 (fifteen years ago) link
There are some great songs on here, esp. Brothersport, but seriously did they have to make every single song sound like it was recorded underwater? I mean, I'm fine with hella reverb, but jeez switch it up sometimes
also, I do not get anyone's hate for Strawberry Jam
― HPSCHD, Tuesday, 30 December 2008 04:36 (fifteen years ago) link
I do not hate Strawberry Jam. It's just that every once in a while one of those songs will come up on my ipod, and I pretty much always have to make it go away. This is not hate.
― served by boot-face (contenderizer), Tuesday, 30 December 2008 04:54 (fifteen years ago) link
innit. you'd think it was a forty minute record consisting solely of symbol sounds that some people found a little too tinny. such a catchy, lively record
― schlump, Tuesday, 30 December 2008 05:21 (fifteen years ago) link
most people dont like it because it's animal collective doing "indie rock"
― "made smashable" (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 30 December 2008 06:12 (fifteen years ago) link
most people that dont like it dont like it because
― "made smashable" (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 30 December 2008 06:13 (fifteen years ago) link
i lurv strawberry jam.
― Creeztophair, Tuesday, 30 December 2008 06:50 (fifteen years ago) link
interesting. I wonder what exactly about the sound of SJ hits people's INDIE button that's so diff. from this album (or Feels for that matter)
― HPSCHD, Tuesday, 30 December 2008 06:53 (fifteen years ago) link
this is growing on me...i really love the middle of the first track
― "made smashable" (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 30 December 2008 06:58 (fifteen years ago) link
ya this is great and will prolly be their biggest album, but they were so much better when you couldn't understand the fuck they were saying.
― Cosmo Vitelli, Tuesday, 30 December 2008 07:47 (fifteen years ago) link