lets solve this once and for all - whats the best animal collective record so far?

not Strawberry Jam

it's a free country

sj

Awww... I was going to attempt a best song poll... but then all the hardcore fans would moan that I missed some rare live gem.

If we were including EPs I'd have gone for Prospect Hummer, just for the title track, but Sung Tongs it is.

That band sold out on their first record. Their best stuff is the rehearsals from their first week of practice, and Panda Bear's jr high piano lessons.

no Wastered, no credibility

Wastered isn't by Animal Collective, strictly. And come on, it's not very good is it?

campfire songs is my favourite

sung tongs for me, too. Although, if Avey Tare & Panda Bear's Spirit They've Gone, Spirit They've Vanished was included I'd be tempted to go for that.

?

Here Comes the Indian just slightly edging Sung Tongs

Ranked:

Here Comes the Indian
Campfire Songs
Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished
Sung Tongs
Hollinndagain
Feels
Danse Manatee
Strawberry Jam

erm. yeah, I just realized Spirit They've Gone was included. I don't actually know how to read, or how to spell. I don't even know how I'm typing this.

campfire songs
sung tongs
danse manatee
hollindagin
strawberry jam
spirit
feels

campfire songs. i've come to the conclusion that i really don't much like these guys, but that one works somehow.

Campfire Songs. It's in a different league. I can't believe the same people had anything to do this latest album. No really; they all might have played some instruments, but I don't believe the same person/persons who made Campfire Songs could have made Strawberry Jam.

campfire songs yeah. here comes the indian a nose behind.

I love them all, but I've never understood the appeal of Here Comes The Indian - can anyone explain? It's just screaming and bleating and really upsetting white noise to these ears.

Feels for "Banshee Beat"

person pitch

the panda bear songs on sj> person pitch

campfire songs. i've come to the conclusion that i really don't much like these guys, but that one works somehow.

-- GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Tuesday, September 11, 2007 3:54 AM (13 hours ago) Bookmark Link

^^^ i've been saying this for YEARS now.

that said, i still sold it in a recenty CD purge.

Sung Tongs, followed closely by
Sung Tongs,
Sung Tongs, and
Sung Tongs.

Way back there vanishing somewhere in the rear view mirror, Campfire Songs & Here Comes the Indian. Fuck the rest.

Feels for "Banshee Beat"

-- Steve Shasta, Tuesday, September 11, 2007 2:51 PM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Link

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

sung tongs

the only people that don't like this band are steers and queers

haha, love how the backlash gets bigger with each album.

i voted for "feels"

GET REAL
by miles davis

I definitely enjoy Sung Tongs, but the thing that gets me about all this Animal love is that it seems like nobody realizes these guys sound fucking WEIRD. Like so weird that I guarantee you that you, if you think they're great, will listen to them in five or ten years and wonder what you were thinking.
And I'll tell you what you were thinking. You were thinking: it's better for it to sound new than for it to sound good.
The production is abysmal. The singing is often grating. The compositions are strong. The guitar and percussion can be pretty amazing, though.
It's just not enough. If you want to listen to timeless weird, check out "Bitches Brew" and stop listening to music that sounds -- honestly -- like a bunch of kindergarteners on acid stuck in the middle of a black hole.

6:30 AM Wed September 12, 2007

_________ on acid.

but I've never understood the appeal of Here Comes The Indian

This record is beautifully scary and startling and a grade A pot smoking record. I wish they still made records that were more like this.

"Sung Tongs." But I'm the Jam is really growing on me and it might eventually overtake.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

yay!

sung tongs : me :: shins : zach braff

lol