Animal Collective - vs- Beta Band

lol, i wonder who will win on ILX in 2009!

ABC

I'm giving Clinic an underdog vote here.

Dig all three, though.

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this is the best thing ever

i'm really digging hot shots II! you guys were right about it all along. i think i played it once when it came out. might have to do with my awesome klipschs. so big and expansive and all that. feel a little dumb cranking them in a used record store....reminds me of jack black.

anyway, i totally get it now. this album. i remember matos and jess loved it? or maybe just one of them. and i couldn't really hear what they heard in it.

this is the best thing ever

― cockles (country matters), Friday, August 7, 2009 11:09 PM (eight years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Hahaha!

Beta band fucking rule, are you kidding me??????

Also beta band don't wear masks they wear spacesuits and robes

No surprises what I would have voted for.

Hot Shots kind of sucks actually
. It's all about the EPs and the s/t

see, that's what i thought. you should listen to hot shots again.

All their stuff holds up, even the last album

Clinic > Animal Collective > Beta Band

Beta Band >>> Clinic >>>>>>> excrement > Animal Collective

Beta Band >>> Clinic >>>>>>> excrement > Animal Collective >>>>>>> Turrican

FTFY

I disagree. Turrican is a great game.

Glad you agree on the placement of everything else, though :)

Used to love AC but now find them deeply irritating like everyone else I suppose.

I feel like AC were an adolescent phase for everyone, including AC.

I like at least some of every Beta Band release.

Seems like I should love Beta Band, but they've never done anything for me. Clinic is v. underrated.

it's the debate that's tearing up 2017!

I'd like Clinic and Beta Band to be more relevant than AC in 2018. Will it happen?

let's hope so!!

i’m on the edge of my fucking seat

I know!!!!

i can't stress enough how important a proper sound system is when it comes to listening to hot shots. it's so big. i did not have this kind of system when i bought it new. it just expands outward in such a cool way when played loud on good speakers. their cinematic british pastoral thing is rivaled only by my beloved Doves. i still listen to doves, beta band, and clinic. i don't have the EP collection anymore though. will have to find a cheap copy. not having listened to hot shots much at all kinda makes it a new album for me. they were really onto something.

the closest i would ever get to listening to an animal collective album would probably be listening to M83 or something. in theory, a pastoral ed banger-esque shoegaze pop is not anathema to me. AC were almost instantly something i ran from.

Tainted Doves

i would love to hear an indie rock album in 2018 that had bass as big as hot shots has. would love to see more geeks influenced by dub in 2018.

Lots of sarcasm in this thread. V. disappointing.

"All their stuff holds up, even the last album"

i totally forgot about this album. did i ever hear it? i might have to splurge on a 99 cent CD online.

Are any of Steve Mason's albums worth checking out? I heard the last one and it was kind of lame imo.

Stop saying AC, I'm thinking of a different band.

i would buy an Aliens CD if i saw one for 5 bucks or less. they were the most beta-esque of post-beta things, right?

i really like boys outside, but it is very subdued in a slightly corny adult contemporary (another AC) way. could see why people would call it lame, tbh.

Stop saying AC, I'm thinking of a different band.

I seem to remember liking the King Biscuit Time album

Aliens were great live, the album was not

would love to see more geeks influenced by dub in 2018.

trust me, you probably don't

These days I would vote for clinic, think internal wrangler holds up pretty well, especially distortions. Beta band are great but they are boring live

ROSS

YOU ARE CRAZY

re bb live

Perhaps my memory is bungled regarding that. They opened for radiohead and it just seemed lacklustre. (Probably the wrong setting for them)

Last Clinic album was kind of dubby. Well, the OPN remix. Good stuff.