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

the spirit theyve gone/danse manatee double pack blew my mind though id choose spirit as the best. I can only dream what would have happened if theyd had the silly money to spend on that record that they have on the last couple

it's sung tongs, hands down.

sometimes i wish they'd be a bit less prolific to be honest. it took me months to truly understan dthe power of sung tongs and campfire songs, and i still feel as though i'm yet to digest strawberry jam and already they've got merriweather out.

here's a tip dude: you don't have to "keep up" with the band, you can just move on to the next album when you're ready

Eh, they're only putting out one album a year. It's not like they're Acid Mothers Temple or something.

sticking with sung tongs, here.

campfire songs

the only one i can stand, really

n/a, i know but i like them a lot so i like to know what's out there.

feels>sung tongs+mpp>spirit+strawberry>the rest

I think on different days I could choose any of the last four records. I'm leaning towards Feels right now but I'll probably think differently tomorrow.

Feels

gott punch OTM. campfire songs is a good record and it's a shame they decided to move away from that sound. everything else is kinda shit imho.

Campfire Songs is the only one I haven't heard, guess I'll have to check that out. Need to listen to Her Comes The Indian again too, cos I really couldn't get my ears around that at all in 2003.

feels by quite a bit

Campfire songs or Sung Tongs probably, although I am enjoying Merriweather a lot too and it's the first release of theirs that I can fully rep for since Sung Tongs.

here comes the indian. it kind of makes me want to break into a cemetery in the middle of the night and just knock over some headstones.

you and every misfits fan in the USA.

havent heard MPP yet, but yeah i mean my first concert was tom petty and the heartbreakers at MERRIWEATHER POST PAVILION in 1995 so yknow it will be special im sure.

umm so also two things:
- sung tongs uber alles. i like campfire songs, and a few songs on feels, but sung tongs is the perfect distillation of their bucolic, burbly electroacoustic psych sound IMHO
- where is WASTERED??? that is a tight release.

sung tongs is the only one i ever really got into

sung tongs is where it started going sour. Who could kill a rabbit is their first genuinely annoying song and the noisy bits are non existent, a vague burble over that pointless long guitar track (and im a big fan of longform guitar drone). I was gutted when I heard it but it did grow on me.

sung tongs was when they went full blood indie

Can't stand anything by these guys anymore

Hollinndagain

i'm def not a fan of MPP where their Negativland-esque experiments with the "found art"/cultural appropriation of Rick Astley I personally found to be sophmoric and short-lived.

Voted Strawberry Jam but really not sure between SJ, Sung Tongs and the new one.

I think the Avey and Panda solo records could've been included here, too.

Would make the revote a bit more interesting.

yeah, young prayer would sweep the board!

Voted Strawberry Jam

young prayer

ew these albums are so bad, please no one vote for them! i voted for merriweather post pavilion because it's new and i'm in love with it but otherwise feels would have won. i think the solo albums should have been included. it would be a very close call between feels, person pitch, sung tongs and merriweather post pavilion.

Most of them are pretty great, sometimes in quite different and incommensurable ways. I pass.

This is a tough one. I have a lot of love for Feel555555555555555533333322222222222
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Ahem, my cat seems to disagree...

I love Feels, but voted for Sung Tongs, the ultimate AC record. I like MPP, but really, it's way too early to include that one in a poll like this.

can't say i'm a fan of this band
something about them irks me maybe their silliness or trying to be too serious about their albums or something or their indie cred or who they're associated with
i prefer his solo project "panda bear" much more
or gimme some dinosaur

So the whole idea of this poll is to see whether MPP wins, right?

Voted MPP because i simply can't stop listening to it. Feels is still close though.

SJ. some all-time songs, none i'd skip. they're all fantastic, though, except for possibly Danse Manatee

"Sung Tongs, the ultimate AC record."

how can any record by them be ultimate when almost all of them sound different?

"So the whole idea of this poll is to see whether MPP wins, right?"

no. they have many new compared to 2 years ago, also the perspective of their catalouge might change for people who dig their older stuff only recently

"new fans compared...

danse manatee is fantastic though probably a bit noisy and tribal for post feels pfork bedwetters

Feels: "Grass", "Banshee Beat" & "Purple Bottle" are the band at their apex, imo. I'm very bad at remembering song titles but among the rest on that album there's not much filler. Sung Tongs not far behind. Prospect Hummer is somewhere up there too. Didn't like (didn't spend much time with it either so maybe haven't given it enough of a chance) Strawberry Jamm. Can't get into MPP.

yes but what about their pre-indie pop sellout work?

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here comes the indian holds up surprisingly well. campfire songs and spirit they're gone... don't sound bad, either

They've made a lot of good records, and Feels may be my second favorite, and I don't hate the new album anywhere near as much as ILM seems to, but Sung Tongs is just a goddamn masterpiece.

(I just put it on again to double check that I didn't misspeak. Nope, there it is. Perfect.)

I don't hate the new album anywhere near as much as ILM seems to

when it wins musically's 2009 poll and places inside the decade top 50, i'll remind you of this

must be a short album kenan!

I only need the first few notes, and it all comes back to me.

After Sung Tongs, Feels was the next record in the playlist, and at least the first half of it is just as good. "Bees" annoys me for some reason, though.

I still don't really get Sung Tongs. I played it another three or so times this week, it's pleasant enough, a bit out there, but I don't get the extreme love for it. I'll take Feels, SJ or MPP over it any day.

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i'll listen to feels again. i gave it a good chance i think but it felt perfunctory and therefore super tedious after sung tongs.

Thank god we sorted this out

everyone loves them some rick astley