they were so damn awesome Friday night

they came out on stage to a Common/DILLA song, i knew i was in love

i want to impregnate the entire band. even the frumpy one. ESPECIALLY the frumpy one

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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.

http://youtu.be/f6H4OGARJMs

Avey Tare's ( of Animal Collective ) side project, streaming full album.

There are not enough drugs in the world.

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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.

Oh god, I tried listening to Person Pitch last week. What a giant pile of shit.

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Animal Collective is pretty bad as a group.
Somehow, they get worse when they branch out on their own.

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They've had their moments, but Animal Collective as an indie phenomenon circa Meriwether Post Pavilion was absolutely baffling, particularly "My Girls" as this masterpiece anthem of New Sincerity. I get what they're going for, but it works better when it's heavily watered down: namely, Yeasayer and Passion Pit.

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Bagels is going to break up with you over this post.

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Back when Hipster Runoff was also a completely baffling indie phenomenon, this was actually a pretty good piece:

Animal Collective is a Band Created By/For/On the Internet

also I think Hipster Runoff is dead. Grantland claims another

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I'll make it up to him Saturday night.

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terrible, terrible thoughts here..

Person Pitch is one of the best albums of the 00's.


Animal Collective is a truly amazing band



but hey, let's go listen to Chvches or some shit...

omgwtf I let you beat me in the poster tournament for THIS BULLSHIT? I can give you fifty 2000s albums better than this Casio campfire bullshit without even consulting a list!

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I can enjoy Animal Collective and Chvrches...

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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.

Not every body can be Haim.

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Just chillin' like Garret Quillin.

i want to say i have an animal collective album somewhere...my friend was big into them. he was also big into bright eyes, of which every album i wished to douse in gasoline and watch as the fiery tendrils smack and pop each crevice until it is but dust in the wind...

yeah, Bright Eyes is pretty bad

"Summertime Clothes" and "Brother Sport" would be fine songs if they pared down a teensy little bit of the busy bullshit, but then they'd just be Passion Pit songs, wouldn't they? I don't think there's any hope for salvaging FOR MUH GURRRRRRRRRRLLLLZZZ, though.

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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.

It's been a while since I've read either of these but I think I kind of came down on the Shallow Rewards response: https://web.archive.org/web/20110722131 ... op-me.html

Some good points in there.


This is exactly how I felt about chillwave!

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I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning is a pretty amazing album, imo.

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Bright Eyes is at least music, albeit horrible music. I can at least believe that alot of people
play his records at home and like it. But Animal Collective?
Animal Collective is just an insufferable, mega-pretentious psuedo art project.
And this guy should be the president of the "Punch Me In The Face-Face" club:

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Just chillin' like Garret Quillin.

you don't like them, that's fine

but the "project" has stretched over 10 albums, i.e. they aren't some flash in the pan/ flavor of the month

they are actual "musicians", i.e. Panda Bear is an incredible drummer

there was a set i heard about a year ago of songs from Centipede Hz they played acoustic, maybe it would help you to listen to the songs in a more stripped down manner so you can tell that they actually are "songs"

i mean they are a challenging band, yes. it's not Real Estate or something where the music just floats by like a summer breeze

You knockin' my enjoyment of the new Real Estate?

Challenging does not mean good. Some challenges aren't worth taking on. Igor Stravinsky is challenging. Ornette Coleman is challenging. The Residents are challenging. But they're worth it! If I'm going to dig through an aural landfill, I expect to come back out with something better than "decent pop songs." Then maybe write decent pop songs with only 60% of the chintzy synth burbling and clattering. So tired of hearing how this was "our" Pet Sounds. Ugh.

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Is this Ezra Koenig after a bender of molly and gummy worms?

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fair enough

bagels doesn't like real estate now?

I've said this before (as B Rick can surely attest) - but animal collective reminds me of Ross' high school "band" in high school - which was just him playing weird noises on his cheap casio keyboard.

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i like Real Estate ok, they're just bland
like background music, basically
something you listen to and perhaps enjoy, but makes no lasting impression

all the stuff about AC uses blips and beeps/plays on Casio keyboards/etc is just dumb

Yeah, I'm a fan of it as well. Generally find myself liking what Oberst comes up with. That Desaperacidos record was my jam at one point.

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Sex isn't dirty, sex isn't a crime. It's a loving act between two or more consenting adults.

-Hank Kingsley

I just looked at the list of Record Store Day releases for this year. Not very gouda....

http://www.recordstoreday.com/SpecialReleases

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