Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion - a thread that's actually ABOUT this bloody album

at some point someone should start a thread that's actually about this bloody album

― Beatrix Kiddo, 19:14 יום שישי 26 דצמבר 2008 (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

as inappropriate as the title and sentiment are for these climes, i'm already stuck on "summertime clothes".

my bloody animal collective

thanks

now i just need to hear the final version! but that'll come in time. promos have gotta go out at SOME point. meantime i've been all about the live versions.

also: revisited Strawberry Jam for comparison's sake a few days back, and every reason i didn't like most of that album came flooding back to me - it just seems too...contained, structured. i think that's part of why MMP appeals so much, it's like they took the washing waves of synth ball and ran with it, let it all loose, let it flow...

Why haven't you heard the final version? It's all over the internets.

it's way better than Strawberry:
the vocals arent shouted, and the songwriting is consistently great through the whole thing.
plus, it takes more or less one path of production style and goes with it all the way through the record, which might sound boring after a while, but it doesnt.

at first impression: tracks 1-5 are the poppier, accesible side of the record, and all of them are amazing.
after that, it takes some digging to "get" the songs, but it gets accesible again from Lion In A Coma, through the Buckingham style ballad No More Runnin' to Brothersport.

http://luckyoungmatador.blogspot.com/2008/12/animal-collective-merriweather-post.html

DUDE.

just found it, finally. get it while you can.

zeno, was it you mentioning buckingham influence on the record in the other thread? i don't really know where to start with his stuff but am kinda curious.
side b of the record is pretty special.

i would start with a little band called FLEETWOOD MAC

", it's like they took the washing waves of synth ball and ran with it, let it all loose, let it flow..."

yeah i think that adds to the clssic PSYCHEDELIC atmosphere they tried to acheive,sometimes it reminds me of that 60's band - White Noise

about solo Buckingham - i like Under The Skin best -
"someone's gonna change your mind" could be an AC song, for example.or the opposite.

with fleetwood mac - Tusk of course

And of course the sublime Buckingham Nicks album.

all of them are the musical sons of Brian Wilson.

btw if "no more runnin" could be a Buckingham song - also frightend is an outtake of Piper at the gates

Must've been a pretty lousy Christmas Day for the Web Sheriff, huh?

they knew he would celebrate and took the advantage

Did anyone read the interview with them in the wire where they claimed not to really care about the Beach Boys, except for Dennis Wilson.

Thanks for an actual link Beatrix. Wasn't that email sent by the geologist fake tho? I recall reading it was sent by a fan who hacked his account.

it's also on slsk but you have to dig it out carefully among all the live versions

get a life morans

no problem!

Beatrix, thanks for the link. Nice to hear streaming versions of these.

i feel really sorry for this terrible band

Why how empathetic of you

dudes i just got off im w/stevie nicks and she informed me that animal collection are indeed not even allowed to hold her dick while shes pisses - and brian wilson gives u all the finger

about solo Buckingham - i like Under The Skin best -

thanks y'all. i know a couple of fleetwood mac lps but the only buckingham stuff i've heard is off the last one. which is very ac ish in parts. thanks x

I downloaded the one song I really liked from the listening party and now don't like it as much on second listen >:(

omg stop crying hav u heard this band animal collection i think theyll really cheer u up

Can someone please recommend one song on this album I can look up on You Tube so I can satisfy my curiosity and most likely confirm that I do not care about this band? Thanks.

bluh-ee ell

on acid

It says "embedding disabled by request", ice cream. Name the song.

"embedding disabled by request"

i didn't have to work today so i slept in, then took two hits off a joint and went on a great ~4 mile run, listening to this album. I came up a hill to the river levy just as Daily Routine climaxed and the drone part began. It was pretty amazing.

i just can't get over the sound of this album, meaning that there are some cool ideas but i hate listening to it.

great running album. it's good for me on shuffle because whenever brosport comes on all of a sudden there's five, six minutes of turbo sprinting

I still haven't even heard this album. Honestly, I've only heard parts of I think 2 songs from it, and Animal Collective is without a doubt one of may favourite bands (due to somewhat obsessive compulsive reasoning, I never download full albums, and won't download something off an album if I know I'm going to buy it. I just never got around to getting the album, and have since forgot).