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does anyone have the new animal collective song "baby day" that's on the new ep? i can't find it anywhere. some slsk or aim screen names would be great.

― vinnie bobereeno, Wednesday, 28 July 2004 17:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I LOVE THIS SONGGGGGG. if no one else is able to hook ya up with a copy, i can rip it and IM it to ya (though i'm on dialup.)

― Ian c=====8 (orion), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 18:13 (twenty-one years ago)

New E.P.??

― Softly Weeping at the Oki Dog (Ben Boyer), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 18:20 (twenty-one years ago)

So these guys are like a hip Rusted Root?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 18:21 (twenty-one years ago)

More like a sort of God Street Wine-meets-the Track Boys.

― Softly Weeping at the Oki Dog (Ben Boyer), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 18:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks, now I'll drive spikes into my eardrums.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 18:25 (twenty-one years ago)

not EP; it's on the "Who Could Win A Rabbit" single. Ned: This track sounds like beach boys + wolf eyes.

― Ian c=====8 (orion), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 18:59 (twenty-one years ago)

That might not necessarily be an improvement.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 19:00 (twenty-one years ago)

hey johni what's your aim name? mines paboo01.

― vinnie bobereeno, Wednesday, 28 July 2004 19:06 (twenty-one years ago)

i mean "johni72..."

― vinnie bobereeno, Wednesday, 28 July 2004 19:08 (twenty-one years ago)

orion0014;

NED: it's seriously really good. not wolf eyes in a creepy way, but with weird synthetic percussion and floating tones. then crazy harmonies & psychedelic riffs. it's GOOD. and CATCHY.

― Ian c=====8 (orion), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 19:20 (twenty-one years ago)

*waiting for my cable internet to be installed*

― dean? (deangulberry), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 19:25 (twenty-one years ago)

can someone email it to me or something?

― artdamages (artdamages), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 19:29 (twenty-one years ago)

this is beautiful.

― jess, Wednesday, 28 July 2004 19:40 (twenty-one years ago)

beautifully BORING

― Sir Chaki McBeer III (chaki), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 19:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I sense battle-lines being drawn.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 19:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I change my mind about the Animal Collective everytime I listen to them. From hate to love and back and forth like that. ps someone email me this track.

― artdamages (artdamages), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 19:45 (twenty-one years ago)

how long til stencil says somethng about reverb?

― Magic City (ano ano), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 19:46 (twenty-one years ago)

did anyone who's seen them play recently as a 4 piece pick up on the stevie wonder quote in one of the songs?

― Magic City (ano ano), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 19:47 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm all for baby day.

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 19:50 (twenty-one years ago)

okay i am ripping dis trax0r for those who want to hear it.

― Ian c=====8 (orion), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 19:51 (twenty-one years ago)

any chance you could host it ian?

― cºzen (Cozen), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 19:58 (twenty-one years ago)

as a text file? ;p

― dean? (deangulberry), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 20:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Ned is turning into the Pinefox!

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 20:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Are you on crack?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 20:07 (twenty-one years ago)

You did the whole "what is this thing that is called Animal Collective?" / "that sounds quite terrible" thing!

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 20:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I've actually heard of them before, but I wanted to see what the Rusted Root reference would cause.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 20:17 (twenty-one years ago)

MADNESS

― dean? (deangulberry), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 20:19 (twenty-one years ago)

DO NOT FEED THE TROLL

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 20:20 (twenty-one years ago)

sounds like throbbing gristle underneath alan parsons project/toto

― duke seven, Wednesday, 28 July 2004 20:21 (twenty-one years ago)

not a bad thing!

― duke forty, Wednesday, 28 July 2004 20:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Keep in mind I've still not actually HEARD them. So the fact that God Street Wine was used apparently unironically as a reference point fills me with vomit.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 20:26 (twenty-one years ago)

troll
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― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 20:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Gygax is slowly turning into a moderator!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 20:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Ned, listen to "Slippi" and "Leaf House."

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 20:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Ah, but what do THEY sound like? ;-)

My secret fear in all this is that all this will turn out to be is the second coming of Geggy Tah.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 20:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Gygax is slowly turning into a moderator!

I am a moderator on two boards, troll!

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 20:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Good, our plan is working.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 20:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Sorry, Ned -- I assumed your Rusted Root reference was a non-sequitor joke, so I fired one back with the God Street Wine meets the Trackboys thing. Animal Collective sounds nothing like any of that!
In fact, it's really pretty, & quite unique.
Sorry to confuse matters!

That said,
Ian, did you rip it? Is it obtainable?

― Softly Weeping at the Oki Dog (Ben Boyer), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 20:34 (twenty-one years ago)

SHOULD WE BAN NED RAGGETT?

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 20:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Temper, temper.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 20:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Ultimately, I would describe them as having more of a "Medeski, Martin + Wood gets drunk with late period Annie Lennox at a Presidents of the United States of America concert" vibe.

― Softly Weeping at the Oki Dog (Ben Boyer), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 20:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Hmmmm.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 20:38 (twenty-one years ago)

it's ripped, but i can't host it... i'm trying to figure out an appropriate place to do that.

― Ian c=====8 (orion), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 20:39 (twenty-one years ago)

w~z@rd!5hungry

― dean? (deangulberry), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 20:39 (twenty-one years ago)

since jon's computer troubles last year, permissions are all fucked up and i'm not even sure i have webspace on there anymore. if anyone ELSE can host it, i'll be glad to AIM the file to you (though, again, i am on dialup and slow.)

― Ian c=====8 (orion), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 20:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Ned, "Slippi" sounds to me like a bunch of freaks with a vague west-Africa fetish recorded a cover of a Giant Steps-era Boo Radleys song but then realized they accidentally set the levels too high and everything distorted out. "Leaf House" sounds to me like someone aimed the Microphones' studio and songwriting approach to material that was a lot more fun and vibrant and interesting and less forced. These are both very subjective descriptions mostly aimed at catching your interest. I do think both are good or at least interesting and "important" enough that you should at least put that six minutes into listening.

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 20:41 (twenty-one years ago)

They also kind of have a "Prince Be of PM Dawn jamming on some Mountain cover tunes with Ken Nordine (but with a heavy stutter) and a more urban Angelo Badalamenti" type sound.

― Softly Weeping at the Oki Dog (Ben Boyer), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 20:42 (twenty-one years ago)

These are both very subjective descriptions mostly aimed at catching your interest.

And on that level it works! (Everything else was giving me the fear.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 20:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I can host the file

lukasb at google mail

― Lukas (lukas), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 20:43 (twenty-one years ago)

God Bless You, Lukas.

― Softly Weeping at the Oki Dog (Ben Boyer), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 20:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Somebody's going to have to email it to me though, cuz work won't let me get files through AIM.

― Lukas (lukas), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 20:53 (twenty-one years ago)

so is this sung tongs style badness or is it worthwhile

― prima fassy (mwah), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 21:03 (twenty-one years ago)

sung tongs style badness!

actually, i haven't heard it.

― vinnie bobereeno (vinnie bobereeno), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 21:06 (twenty-one years ago)

i emailed teh file to lukas!

― Ian c=====8 (orion), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 21:28 (twenty-one years ago)

www.inevitablebacklash.com/media/babyday.mp3

― Lukas (lukas), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 21:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Thank you so much -- Ian, Lukas - you made my day

― Softly Weeping at the Oki Dog (Ben Boyer), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 21:37 (twenty-one years ago)

verse chorus verse

what good is a pop song without a bridge?

― Lukas (lukas), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 21:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Ned, listen to "Slippi" and "Leaf House."

Wow, nabisco in picking my two favorite Animal Collective songs out of thin air shocker.

― dleone (dleone), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 21:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Can you rename it as a .txt file, please? :)

― dean? (deangulberry), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 21:50 (twenty-one years ago)

txt file .. why?

― Lukas (lukas), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 21:57 (twenty-one years ago)

ok done

www.inevitablebacklash.com/media/babyday.txt

― Lukas (lukas), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 21:59 (twenty-one years ago)

IN YOUR FACE WEBSENSE

― bill stevens (bscrubbins), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 22:01 (twenty-one years ago)

so where can i get it again?

― glenny g2003 (glenny g2003), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 22:08 (twenty-one years ago)

so does this song just SOUND like an mp3 glitch over and over?
or is animal collective playing a dirty trick?

i wouldnt put it past them

― emma cleveland (emma cleveland), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 22:15 (twenty-one years ago)

sung tongs style badness.

― cºzen (Cozen), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 22:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I haven't heard the song.

― cºzen (Cozen), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 22:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Ian, Lukas - thanks a lot.

The song sounds okay. It definitely seems to fit in with Sung Tongs theme-wise but the arrangement sounds a bit weak to me, especially when compared to the excellent but all too brief "College." It might benefit from having a non-vinyl release, imo, because it sounds like the bells/chimes? clash with the harmony ... but that could also be due to the ripping / compressing. Either way, it sounds pretty decent. Definitely more Beach Boys than Wolf Eyes.

― dean? (deangulberry), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 22:29 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, the rip is pretty poor; sorry, my fault. and it does have a non-vinyl release; i ripped it from the CD.

― Ian c=====8 (orion), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 22:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks to incessant repeating, I'm warming up to it but it still seems to me to be a fairly easy vocal arrangement, which is probably why it is on the single. It makes me wish even more that "college" was more fleshed out.

― dean? (deangulberry), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 22:43 (twenty-one years ago)

dean, animal collective is a punk band, they don't have time for complicated arrangements!

― Ian c=====8 (orion), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 22:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, I had no idea that there was a CD version of this. Is the art nice or is it a takeoff on the Sung Tongs art?

― dean? (deangulberry), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 22:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, that Campfire Songs is PUNK AS FUCK. (xp)

― dean? (deangulberry), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 22:47 (twenty-one years ago)

i don't know what the sung tongs art looks like. i think this is a still from the who could win a rabbit video.

― Ian c=====8 (orion), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 22:48 (twenty-one years ago)

campfire songs is my favorite animal collective album!

― Ian c=====8 (orion), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 22:48 (twenty-one years ago)

haha I downloaded this a few days ago after seeing ian's thing on stylus (while looking for areal 12" reviews; "alphafrog" roxx)!! it's my favourite animal collective track! tho I've only heard "who could win a rabbit" & spirit they've gone..., I suppose. guess I better grab "slippi" & "leaf house", tho.

― etc, Thursday, 29 July 2004 08:18 (twenty-one years ago)

this band has joined the ranks of Creedence, in that I used to really love them, then woke up one morning inexplicably unable to stomach any of their music. Maybe the tide will turn again, but it may vey well be years. I'm just starting to allow Wifey to not change the station when a Creedence song comes on in the car

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Thursday, 29 July 2004 08:29 (twenty-one years ago)

DID YOU EBAY YOUR LIVE LP AND MAKE MAD LOOT?

― Ian c=====8 (orion), Thursday, 29 July 2004 15:41 (twenty-one years ago)

i did. $200.

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Thursday, 29 July 2004 19:49 (twenty-one years ago)

i cant make up mind about these guys... "who could win a rabbit?" is really good, but im never convinced theyre all that great... i guess if i spend some more time, i might like them more. i guess i feel like some of their stuff is too diffuse and liable to just fall apart - "WCWAR?" sounds more like it hangs together, like its real psych-folk, not just bleh ether-ica.

prove me wrong, children. prove me wrong.

― peter smith (plsmith), Thursday, 29 July 2004 19:54 (twenty-one years ago)

some people feel the opposite, and don't care for "rabbit" all that much. not that i'm one but i've noticed

― duke ether, Thursday, 29 July 2004 20:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I found with Sung Tongs that it's the vocals that decide whether I love or hate the song. After having "Winter's Love" stuck in my head the other day (and driving me crazy) I had to delete it so I'd never hear those annoying voices ever again. However some of the other tracks have really great singing like "Kids on Holiday."

― Joseph Pot (STINKOR™), Thursday, 29 July 2004 20:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I tend to go for the wcwar/leaf house side of animal collective, more than the side represented by the last three tracks of Sung Tongs, and I'm still not convinced with Campfire Songs. I know a lot of people like that record, but to my ears, it shares a lot with indie versions of psych-folk that I've never really liked, and probably would have kept me from investigating more AC had it been the the first thing I'd heard. However, even if you only took into account Sung Tongs and Here Comes the Indian, it's hard for me not to at least be impressed by this band. Right now, it seems like they can pretty effortlessly sling out dissimilar sounding takes on primitivism/euphoria (like, when I first heard Indian, I would never have thought I'd be comparing their stuff to Smile outtakes like I think to do re: this thread's song). That people are calling Sung Tongs "pop" somehow even makes it seem more interesting.

peter smith, I've said this on other threads, but I urge you to search out Bob Drake if you like the wcwar side of AC. It's similar to that, but more detailed and less flailing (which is not to say it's necessarily better).

― dleone (dleone), Thursday, 29 July 2004 20:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Can I just mention how surprised / weirdly-non-surprised I was to notice that these guys recorded Sung Tongs in Lamar, Colorado? This is a very small brown town down in the southeast Kansas / New Mexico corner of the state, maybe an hour and a half from where I grew up. The last time I was in Lamar, Colorado, my friend Dave and I were spontaneously moved to start banging away on the top of some big plastic tubs, which only reinforces my vague idea that Lamar, Colorado was the only sensible place for them to have recorded those songs.

This has no bearing on or interest for any of the rest of you, please carry on.

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 29 July 2004 20:59 (twenty-one years ago)

'danse..' is the record that sparked a whole (admittedly NYC-based) recent school of thought, and it doesn't often get pointed out as such.
???

― duke manna, Thursday, 29 July 2004 21:03 (twenty-one years ago)

err, care to elaborate on that, duke manna?

― Joseph Pot (STINKOR™), Friday, 30 July 2004 03:45 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, that's totally untrue. what about tower recordings, hall of fame, jackie-o, nnck...?

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Friday, 30 July 2004 03:49 (twenty-one years ago)

i read dan's statement as fairly derogatory, and in that context, it makes much more sense. but i could also be reading it incorrectly.

― Ian c=====8 (orion), Friday, 30 July 2004 03:58 (twenty-one years ago)

So today I had "Kids on Holiday" stuck in my head, really damn annoying but I suppose that's proof positive that they are 'pop.' If this keeps up, I won't be able to listen to this record anymore! I guess it's better than having McDonalds "I'm Lovin' It" jingle on internal brain loop... but still, too much of anything gets tiresome.

― Joseph Pot (STINKOR™), Friday, 30 July 2004 03:59 (twenty-one years ago)

i certainly didn't mean anything derogatorily (?). i'm just saying that as someone who feels that record and its release were very much overlooked.

― duke service, Friday, 30 July 2004 05:29 (twenty-one years ago)

i would say further that it def. spiked things up a bit from the cooler/ pink pony scene as much as i respected all that

― duke east, Friday, 30 July 2004 05:31 (twenty-one years ago)

and as well it put others off too, obv.

― duke ludlow, Friday, 30 July 2004 05:33 (twenty-one years ago)

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