I can’t believe how good this song is after not hearing it for years. Either this or Grass as my all time fav of theirs. Pop geniuses right here folks!!!!
I quit at 19 for the same reason, everyone else is enjoying this and I should to but it makes me feel worse and weighs me down more. Horrible feelings.
Sounds like they made it by repeated needle drops while sampling with a tape echo or delay on the front end in an attempt to pull another sample altogether or they resampled a loop then chopped it. The "sky" part of the lyric comes before the " well I often wonder why" part. Unbroken Chain is the bomb one of Jerry's best solos imo dude plays like an alien on that track. Really cool these guys sampled that song
Most people don't get it. I've tried talking about Animal Collective and so many people just shrug it off, and you can tell that they can't understand it because they can't even begin to listen to it without judging and critiquing it. So many people are afraid of being weird, and not many people are open-minded enough to enjoy Animal Collective. You can't be a passive listener to music and fully appreciate Animal Collective. You have to be ready to take that shit in.
@@IFeelSoTongueTied I do think they are not that weird as well, however, I know only one person who does not find them weird in real life and does not mind Animal Collective playing, so it says something. I think that if someone is not that into music and only listened to very classic genres, they can find it hard to receive such music at first.
Same, hits me a lot harder than it used to lol, funny how music can bring up extremely obscure emotions even if the lyrics really dont have anything to do with the feeling you get, just a big smile is the result
I love this band but how do they compare to: 1) A good whisky (or whiskey)? 2) The company of good friends around a camp fire in the lake district? 3) Knowing that tomorrow you have nothing to do? There is no need to compare. Sometimes you can simply like all the choices. Sometimes you can listen to the Animal Collective while drinking whisky around a fire with friends, in the lake district, knowing that tomorrow is another day. Sometimes I like different things for different reasons.
Love the addition of the Phil Lesh sample , I love and worship these geniuses as their songs mark the many beautiful times of my growing up throughout my college experience and young life. Have lyrics from in the flowers tattooed on me for a reason. Still cannot believe I am yet to see them live!
It's definitely one of their more "normal" songs, which isn't a gripe by any means. A lot of their other songs will have a moment of some great melodic elements and then it will drastically change and go a different direction or add some random elements. It just depends what you like. Like I could understand how people could not like a lot of their work, but I don't understand how anyone could dislike this song. It's amazing
this song makes me feel like I'm lying next to the pool on a warm summer day with the sun shining down on my face and sparkling off the water as I watch the clouds drift by
I’m happy to know a lawyer (that unfortunately I would make a biased preconceived assumption about) is into this kind of music. Thanks for keeping me young by reminding me there’s more to people than what meets the eye or job title. 🤗
Good dreams Sky What would I want? Sky Is everything alright? You feeling moldy? You feeling lonely? You're not the only Is everything alright? You feeling stormy? You feeling phony? You're not the only Do you get up up up? Clouds stop and move above me Too bad they can't help me What is the right way? Do I float up up up? I stop and look around me, Gray's where that color should be, What is the right way? Old glasses clinking and a new order's blinking And I, I should be floating but I'm weighted by thinking That I got on the river, Really can't make it change, When the sky gets filled up too fast And the taxi man's saying, "You better Give me some money, Stop daydreaming, dude!" When the point of horizon is hiding from you, What would you want, sky? What would I want? Sky Is everything alright? You feeling lonely? You feeling moldy? You're not the only Is everything alright? You feeling stormy? You feeling phony? You're not the only (Are you taking it lightly? Lost in the flurry You start to worry You will be buried Taking it lightly And so you hurry And then you worry Here come those flurries) Do you get up up up? Clouds stop and move above me Too bad they can't help me What is the right way? Do I float up up up? When I stop and look around me, Gray's where that color should be, What is the right way? (Taking it lightly? Lost in the flurry You start to worry You will be buried Taking it lightly And so you hurry And then you worry Here come those flurries) Old glasses clinking and a new order's blinking And I, I should be floating but I'm weighted by thinking I'm a fly on the river, Gotta make me some change, When the sky gets filled up too fast And the taxi cab's waiting, you better Give him some money, Stop daydreaming, dude, When the point of horizon is hiding its blues What would you want, sky? What would I want? Sky
Unbroken Chain is a gorgeous song on its own. This song is like its much more elegant, well-read, talented, handsome grandchild. Love it love it love it.
I head this was a sample from Unbroken Chain, but what is the sample specifically? Is it the vocal sample saying "What would I want, sky?", because that doesn't appear to be in the Grateful Dead song Unbroken Chain? Some clarity would be appreciated. I know Phil Lesh sings the lyrics for Unbroken Chain, did they perhaps take the line Whet Owl and Sky and mesh/edit them together?
Ahh yes. I remember seeing them play this live on their Merriweather Post tour in Toronto in 2009. It hadn't been released yet, and i had never heard it before but it was one of my favorites of the night.
@@ianfromtampa yes me too! Noticing the 7/4 Time signature was way cool at the show! It gave it this vibe as if he was interrupting himself every line. It was beautiful to me
Not Jerry Garcia but Phil Lesh singing sampled section. Glad to see the torch being passed! As Bob Marley said: one good thing about music, when it hits, you feel no pain. Hit me with music!
I literally can’t stop listening to this. I’ve been listening basically on repeat for about 24 hours. It has been many years since a song did this to me lol somebody help
Apologies for being 2 hours late lol but I remember a few months ago when I revisited this song while re-listening to the EP, I immediately started this one over and listened two times in a row. I usually hate doing that with songs but this is just a pop masterpiece
This song actually starts at about 3:05 the first half is technically a different track surprised I forgot the name of it , what I can say without a doubt in my mind is that this song is one of the best uses of a sample ever. I'm 32 years old and I've heard thousands of songs and artists in my life but this track..it's never been beaten , I really believe this is one of the best songs ever written , the timing, the lyrics, it's so clever and so beautiful , that's not even mentioning the band as a whole, there's no words to accurately justify animal collective in all their greatness, if I could take one thing with me after this life, it'd be their music
hmm you know I think people are just not used to listening to music in a traditional sense anymore. The song starts there. I own the vinyl ep. The 2nd half of the song is the reward u get. Quite often if u listen full albums some stuff doesnt immediatly click, but trust me listen to that 3min or so, you will reap the reward once u get there. I think it's just that people now almost exclusively listen to digital music and playlists(nothing wrong with it, so do I most of the time.) However listening full albums is where the magic is at. I just have to stress this you cant just cut into a song at 3min and claim the rest wasnt part of it. That is like skipping half a book or film. I know its not the end of the world, but try it for yourself at least. (If you find it hard to not skip tracks just get into vinyl or tape since you have to do something physically other then click once to skip) On a side note, I think this is one of their finest tracks. Idk it's hard to pick but this song has all the things anco does well, condensed neatly in a 7min package.
- this is why i love music. Could be interpreted for the exact opposite...(sober = thinking...& stoning = floating) , but indeed the music allows for both to ring true..
Is everything alright? Well, I should be floating but I'm weighted by thinking. You know, the sky gets filled up too fast. Hey, stop daydreaming, dude! But the point on the horizon is hiding from view. So what would you want? The sky.
Good part starts at 0:00 Edit: Wow Joke 30000;0000 likes please read Hegel this joke relates precisely to the symbolic order ideology etc and so on Lacan Hegel Horkheimer Stalin.
It’s exciting to know the line “What Would I Want?” that is the fundamental vocal background of the AC song does not even exist in Grateful Dead’s version. AC has wisely fabricated new words and has constructed a funny aural misunderstanding out of it. What Lesh sings is actually “[Willow] sky, whoa [I walk and wonder why.]” Boy! There are no such words as “What Would I Want?”
Imagine ripping apart one of the most iconic Dead songs and having the balls to send it to Phil Lesh and ask if he likes it? And of course he did, because Avey is a truly unique songwriter who in a completely different way captures some of the relatable anxieties (edit: Bobby Peterson) was writing about.
whoa there's an extra vocal track going behind most of the verses besides the main lyrics and the grateful dead sample that I never noticed before, THIS SONG IS SO GREAT
+Chris Hollis no way, i feel like its a huge build up. like they are getting in sync, and when they do bam the beat change an the smooth hip hop feel comes. it makes me appreciate the next part more, it gives it some audio perspective
It's funny that AC preceded one of their most poppy songs with three minutes of fairly abstract stuff. I know a lot of people who won't even wait until the poppy part starts. Serves them right.
If this is what Animal Collective is going to sound like in the next decade, I swear the 10's are going to be amazing. Musically, that is. Absolutely beastly.
How does this only have this many views? This is probably my most listened to song of 10' by far, still one of my favorites, sampling the dead in 7/8? like' c'mon
you can't compare animal collective and radiohead, and even if you could why would you, they both are great bands that experiment a lot, but from my point of view that's one of the few similarities they got. and who the fuck decides what being ahead is, they are in the here and now, and make music because of that, why make a completely retarded discussion about it.
@thenameisbond: Yeah, my introduction to Animal Collective was this past Spring '09. There were about a dozen of us good friends at one of our houses pool party. Good drinks, good bud, good people, and good music. The whole day was spent in and around the pool, with nothin' but love to share among us. The song that kicked off this glorious day was My Girls. Best day I've had in years. We all wound up skinny dipping and I made out with the girl I'd had a crush on for months. :D happyyyyy
I agree. The quality of writing is quite high and they have generally good taste. Most of the hate comes from what they wrote earlier in the decade and the nineties, when the site was a festering pit of wank. There isn't much to hate them for now. I think the most vehement Pitchfork-haters are the ones who secretly check it twice a day to see what's hip.
I think they kind of specialize in that. Like "For reverend Green" sounding like "forever in green".. and "What happened?" sounds like "we're happy".. there are more examples but I can't think of them at the moment
nice to see them embracing beautiful melodies, lush textures, without just getting schmaltzy and poppy, kinda of like what radiohead achieve ( not in sound, just execution)
![Animal Collective - I Think I Can [from the 2009 Fall Be Kind EP]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/ZL2duiiGbNg/mqdefault.jpg)
I can’t believe how good this song is after not hearing it for years. Either this or Grass as my all time fav of theirs. Pop geniuses right here folks!!!!
'I should be floating but i'm weighted by thinking' - this is why i cant smoke anymore
same friend
I quit at 19 for the same reason, everyone else is enjoying this and I should to but it makes me feel worse and weighs me down more. Horrible feelings.
W
Gotta accept & join the psychedelic ride brother!
I can't swim
One of their greatest songs they've ever made tbh
Tbh makes me question your sincerity, tbh. Maybe Weird Al was right.
criminally underrated
This is my favorite song of theirs. And the way they flipped that Grateful Dead sample is brilliant.
Sounds like they made it by repeated needle drops while sampling with a tape echo or delay on the front end in an attempt to pull another sample altogether or they resampled a loop then chopped it. The "sky" part of the lyric comes before the " well I often wonder why" part. Unbroken Chain is the bomb one of Jerry's best solos imo dude plays like an alien on that track. Really cool these guys sampled that song
Most people don't get it. I've tried talking about Animal Collective and so many people just shrug it off, and you can tell that they can't understand it because they can't even begin to listen to it without judging and critiquing it. So many people are afraid of being weird, and not many people are open-minded enough to enjoy Animal Collective. You can't be a passive listener to music and fully appreciate Animal Collective. You have to be ready to take that shit in.
okay mr cool guy, they arent that weird
@@IFeelSoTongueTied I do think they are not that weird as well, however, I know only one person who does not find them weird in real life and does not mind Animal Collective playing, so it says something. I think that if someone is not that into music and only listened to very classic genres, they can find it hard to receive such music at first.
This song is super easy to get it
FACTS
make them listen to Alvin Row first
This song and it’s lyric’s really hit that emotional level for me.
Like a tennis ball stuck in your throat, but not in a negative way.
the way that "what do i want: sky" is sung makes my heart melt. the tone feels genuine and having given up on some sort of desperation
It's Phil Lesh not Jerry!
It's also cut up the words are out of order from the original Grateful Dead song
Honestly, I thank my two older daughters for sneaking this song on my ipod. I've been a huge fan ever since 🙂❤
This is the pinnacle of human musical achievement.
Well...
The absolute pinnacle of Baltimore engineering
@@WiloPolis03 nice
@@charliemoll5435 Glad someone got the reference lol
What?
As long as this song is, it's still too short.
Love every secondddd
Man I haven't heard this track in years. Amazing how time can make a song even better
Same, hits me a lot harder than it used to lol, funny how music can bring up extremely obscure emotions even if the lyrics really dont have anything to do with the feeling you get, just a big smile is the result
Can't believe it's been this long. Just came back to this song this afternoon. Amazing how time flies when you're "daydreaming, dude"
I love this band but how do they compare to:
1) A good whisky (or whiskey)?
2) The company of good friends around a camp fire in the lake district?
3) Knowing that tomorrow you have nothing to do?
There is no need to compare. Sometimes you can simply like all the choices. Sometimes you can listen to the Animal Collective while drinking whisky around a fire with friends, in the lake district, knowing that tomorrow is another day.
Sometimes I like different things for different reasons.
Love the addition of the Phil Lesh sample , I love and worship these geniuses as their songs mark the many beautiful times of my growing up throughout my college experience and young life. Have lyrics from in the flowers tattooed on me for a reason. Still cannot believe I am yet to see them live!
everyday i believe more and more this is their best song, could it be possible?
I've been a fan for about ten years now and this is still my favorite.
The atmosphere is on point in this song 👌
It's definitely one of their more "normal" songs, which isn't a gripe by any means. A lot of their other songs will have a moment of some great melodic elements and then it will drastically change and go a different direction or add some random elements. It just depends what you like. Like I could understand how people could not like a lot of their work, but I don't understand how anyone could dislike this song. It's amazing
True that I pretty much only like thier normal songs.
It really might be among their best. Such a freaking underrated EP
I proposed to my wife at 11 pm outside my Chevrolet up on top of an over look while this was playing
She said yes.
May there be more ups than downs
im so happy for you man, this warms my heart!
Yer damn right she did, this song has caused many a magnetic marriage.
Congrats and infinite blessings to you both.
@@suliemanmohammed2011 Thing like this keep life indescribably beautiful.
makashka1 congrats you two!!!!!
this song makes me feel like I'm lying next to the pool on a warm summer day with the sun shining down on my face and sparkling off the water as I watch the clouds drift by
I’m happy to know a lawyer (that unfortunately I would make a biased preconceived assumption about) is into this kind of music. Thanks for keeping me young by reminding me there’s more to people than what meets the eye or job title. 🤗
The time signature in this song really gives it the edge it needs. My favorite AC song, byfar.
Good dreams
Sky
What would I want? Sky
Is everything alright?
You feeling moldy?
You feeling lonely?
You're not the only
Is everything alright?
You feeling stormy?
You feeling phony?
You're not the only
Do you get up up up?
Clouds stop and move above me
Too bad they can't help me
What is the right way?
Do I float up up up?
I stop and look around me,
Gray's where that color should be,
What is the right way?
Old glasses clinking and a new order's blinking
And I, I should be floating but I'm weighted by thinking
That I got on the river,
Really can't make it change,
When the sky gets filled up too fast
And the taxi man's saying, "You better
Give me some money,
Stop daydreaming, dude!"
When the point of horizon is hiding from you,
What would you want, sky?
What would I want? Sky
Is everything alright?
You feeling lonely?
You feeling moldy?
You're not the only
Is everything alright?
You feeling stormy?
You feeling phony?
You're not the only
(Are you taking it lightly?
Lost in the flurry
You start to worry
You will be buried
Taking it lightly
And so you hurry
And then you worry
Here come those flurries)
Do you get up up up?
Clouds stop and move above me
Too bad they can't help me
What is the right way?
Do I float up up up?
When I stop and look around me,
Gray's where that color should be,
What is the right way?
(Taking it lightly?
Lost in the flurry
You start to worry
You will be buried
Taking it lightly
And so you hurry
And then you worry
Here come those flurries)
Old glasses clinking and a new order's blinking
And I, I should be floating but I'm weighted by thinking
I'm a fly on the river,
Gotta make me some change,
When the sky gets filled up too fast
And the taxi cab's waiting, you better
Give him some money,
Stop daydreaming, dude,
When the point of horizon is hiding its blues
What would you want, sky?
What would I want? Sky
Unbroken Chain is a gorgeous song on its own. This song is like its much more elegant, well-read, talented, handsome grandchild. Love it love it love it.
^
Well put
Apparently this song contains the first legal Grateful Dead sample; a sample of the Dead song "Unbroken Chain".
+molecular_emotion the first and the only !
Yeah I remember when this came out! Still the best album I think.
I thought I was the only one who speculated this!
I head this was a sample from Unbroken Chain, but what is the sample specifically? Is it the vocal sample saying "What would I want, sky?", because that doesn't appear to be in the Grateful Dead song Unbroken Chain? Some clarity would be appreciated. I know Phil Lesh sings the lyrics for Unbroken Chain, did they perhaps take the line Whet Owl and Sky and mesh/edit them together?
they mixed around "a willow sky whoa, I walk and wonder why" to sound like "what would I want sky"
they have to b the band of the year......this is in a class of its own....amazin track......more ideas than most bands have on an entire album!
that whole album is amazing. the title (of the album) is so tongue-in-cheek because of their previous album's success and jaw-dropping perfection.
Ahh yes. I remember seeing them play this live on their Merriweather Post tour in Toronto in 2009. It hadn't been released yet, and i had never heard it before but it was one of my favorites of the night.
realizing it was in 7/4 time and figuring out how to dance to it in real time was incredible, St Pete FL show
@@ianfromtampa yes me too! Noticing the 7/4 Time signature was way cool at the show! It gave it this vibe as if he was interrupting himself every line. It was beautiful to me
Holy shit! I just died and went to heaven. That was the best 6 minutes I've had in a while.
was awesome hearing this song live earlier this year. What an amazing band.
The greatest AnCo song from the greatest AnCo EP.
Water Curses EP is even better IMO.
Stuart Grant yeah but meeting of the waters EP also exist
loving the 7/4 time signature. Highly unique sound not found anywhere else
this song reverberates through my ears and flows directly into my spirit
Not Jerry Garcia but Phil Lesh singing sampled section. Glad to see the torch being passed! As Bob Marley said: one good thing about music, when it hits, you feel no pain. Hit me with music!
This is the greatest thing I've ever heard
I literally can’t stop listening to this. I’ve been listening basically on repeat for about 24 hours. It has been many years since a song did this to me lol somebody help
Apologies for being 2 hours late lol but I remember a few months ago when I revisited this song while re-listening to the EP, I immediately started this one over and listened two times in a row. I usually hate doing that with songs but this is just a pop masterpiece
Did I really say 2 hours late instead of 2 freaking years? Also sorry for being 7 months late this time, but hey I at least got it right 🙃
The beginning is just as brilliant as the break down, man.
Still one of Avey Tare and Panda Bear's best vocal performances tbh
This song actually starts at about 3:05 the first half is technically a different track surprised I forgot the name of it , what I can say without a doubt in my mind is that this song is one of the best uses of a sample ever. I'm 32 years old and I've heard thousands of songs and artists in my life but this track..it's never been beaten , I really believe this is one of the best songs ever written , the timing, the lyrics, it's so clever and so beautiful , that's not even mentioning the band as a whole, there's no words to accurately justify animal collective in all their greatness, if I could take one thing with me after this life, it'd be their music
I call it the undanceable dance tune. It's like a needle getting stuck on the record. Sounds so right, so good
The first 30 seconds or so is the transition from On a Highway but all of it is part of the song. No technicality.
hmm you know I think people are just not used to listening to music in a traditional sense anymore. The song starts there. I own the vinyl ep. The 2nd half of the song is the reward u get. Quite often if u listen full albums some stuff doesnt immediatly click, but trust me listen to that 3min or so, you will reap the reward once u get there. I think it's just that people now almost exclusively listen to digital music and playlists(nothing wrong with it, so do I most of the time.) However listening full albums is where the magic is at. I just have to stress this you cant just cut into a song at 3min and claim the rest wasnt part of it. That is like skipping half a book or film. I know its not the end of the world, but try it for yourself at least. (If you find it hard to not skip tracks just get into vinyl or tape since you have to do something physically other then click once to skip) On a side note, I think this is one of their finest tracks. Idk it's hard to pick but this song has all the things anco does well, condensed neatly in a 7min package.
I will never stop loving this song
- this is why i love music. Could be interpreted for the exact opposite...(sober = thinking...& stoning = floating) , but indeed the music allows for both to ring true..
Honestly the greatest song ever
at 3:13, that's when it gets really awesome. I love how animal collective are always flipping their sound upside down, changing it completely.
"You feeling moldy
You feeling lonely
Your not the only"
#trueaf
What a fantastic band. This is how music should be done!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
most older AC songs are like... the first half of the song is whatever. but the second half? its the most beautiful thing ive ever heard.
Is everything alright?
Well, I should be floating but I'm weighted by thinking. You know, the sky gets filled up too fast.
Hey, stop daydreaming, dude!
But the point on the horizon is hiding from view.
So what would you want?
The sky.
underrated
how is this underrated?
Some people don't rate it highly, which the original poster of this comment disagrees with.
Rok Gutman not underrated, it's right up there with Nickelback.
love popping this song on when i take a shower. good shower song lol
Brandon Stradling weird you say that, this and water curses are my shower eps haah
3:10 brings a strange smile on my face! and i love it .. always!
It takes a certain kind of person to fully enjoy Animal Collective. It's beyond the senses. Some people just don't get it.
Love your radio station on slacker,bunny.I keep coming back to your top ten for my instant favs.
Good part starts at 0:00
Edit: Wow Joke 30000;0000 likes please read Hegel this joke relates precisely to the symbolic order ideology etc and so on Lacan Hegel Horkheimer Stalin.
Lol yes
I mean yeah, but the chorus in particular is really freaking good
absolutely stunning, AC is the future of music, and the future has arrived
It’s exciting to know the line “What Would I Want?” that is the fundamental vocal background of the AC song does not even exist in Grateful Dead’s version. AC has wisely fabricated new words and has constructed a funny aural misunderstanding out of it. What Lesh sings is actually “[Willow] sky, whoa [I walk and wonder why.]” Boy! There are no such words as “What Would I Want?”
Love that the boys love Unbroken Chain. Torch passed through the notes here, chills whenever I come back to this
Imagine ripping apart one of the most iconic Dead songs and having the balls to send it to Phil Lesh and ask if he likes it? And of course he did, because Avey is a truly unique songwriter who in a completely different way captures some of the relatable anxieties (edit: Bobby Peterson) was writing about.
Well the lyrics to 'Unbroken Chain' are by Bobby Peterson vs Robert Hunter but I totally get what you're saying.
@@ClueSign ah thank you for correcting me! I'm only a semi-casual Deadhead so sometimes I just assume
Phil Lesh thank you 🥀
whoa there's an extra vocal track going behind most of the verses besides the main lyrics and the grateful dead sample that I never noticed before, THIS SONG IS SO GREAT
I actually like the mix of ambient and pop. The ambient serves for a real nice build up.
I don't know why but at 4:10 i get super happy
the songs lyrics is like do you feel upset? its okay cause your not alone. :P makes me feel better when im down
That's because it's the chorus.
for me its 5:45
because music
Anyone else get impatient with the intro because they know what's coming is so awesome?
Chris Hollis All the time.
yesss
+Chris Hollis no way, i feel like its a huge build up. like they are getting in sync, and when they do bam the beat change an the smooth hip hop feel comes. it makes me appreciate the next part more, it gives it some audio perspective
+Talespins the 2nd speeds up but its so chill, while the 1st part is slow but more erratic. i love the transition too
+Chris Hollis I skip it. No guilt.
It's funny that AC preceded one of their most poppy songs with three minutes of fairly abstract stuff. I know a lot of people who won't even wait until the poppy part starts. Serves them right.
This song is absolutely beautiful.
A well-known yet under appreciated band.
So underrated!
If this is what Animal Collective is going to sound like in the next decade, I swear the 10's are going to be amazing. Musically, that is. Absolutely beastly.
How waazit
@@danwroy kinda disappointing, Centipede Hz and Painting With were not very good
@@frank_lotion_ Trippy that just 12 years later just drop your opinion like it was a few moments, which it is, just a decades apart
Wherever Phil Lesh is in the cosmos, he certainly appreciated it then and I'm sure he's out there smiling. R.I.P.
top tier of songs to smoke dmt to.
3:10 "sky" gives me anticipation goosebumps
i freaking love this
killer track. they opened with this at meredith music festival. was amazing .. i still havent heard this ep yet
love the dissonance here- pop sensibility but still sounds so off and raw. beautiful work, AC do it again.
One of their many best songs.
In the intro I always hear 'Lundi' (french for monday). this song is much better than mondays though :p
“Melody”
They've been the band of the year for most of the last decade.
How does this only have this many views? This is probably my most listened to song of 10' by far, still one of my favorites, sampling the dead in 7/8? like' c'mon
merriweather is a huge concert venue near baltimore where they are from. got to see em play there for the first time ever :3
I dont know what an eargasm feels like, but NOW I DO!!!
the 2min build up to this song gave me goosebumps
incredible in concert
Il mio gruppo preferito in assoluto. Gli voglio bene :)
dude this is great
my fav !
i rly wish this album had visual accompaniment
loving the 7 8 beat... ancoforevz yalls!
you can't compare animal collective and radiohead, and even if you could why would you, they both are great bands that experiment a lot, but from my point of view that's one of the few similarities they got.
and who the fuck decides what being ahead is, they are in the here and now, and make music because of that, why make a completely retarded discussion about it.
thank you! ive been dying to hear t his album!
@thenameisbond: Yeah, my introduction to Animal Collective was this past Spring '09. There were about a dozen of us good friends at one of our houses pool party. Good drinks, good bud, good people, and good music. The whole day was spent in and around the pool, with nothin' but love to share among us. The song that kicked off this glorious day was My Girls.
Best day I've had in years. We all wound up skinny dipping and I made out with the girl I'd had a crush on for months. :D happyyyyy
Clouds stop and move above me. Too bad they can't tell me what is the right way.
I agree. The quality of writing is quite high and they have generally good taste.
Most of the hate comes from what they wrote earlier in the decade and the nineties, when the site was a festering pit of wank. There isn't much to hate them for now. I think the most vehement Pitchfork-haters are the ones who secretly check it twice a day to see what's hip.
BLUE JEANS. BLUE JEANS. BLUE JEEAANNNS. BLUE JEEEANSS. BLUE JEANSSS. BLUE JEANS.
Chris Jernigan baby's wearing blue jeans
if mac ever collabed with AC.... 8^]
Did´nt they say "My dreams, my dreaaaams, my dreaaaaaaams".
I don't know if their styles would mesh well, but if they had a more conventional song set up like WWIWS they could pull off a hit.
'My Dreams' actually but you're right too
I think they kind of specialize in that. Like "For reverend Green" sounding like "forever in green".. and "What happened?" sounds like "we're happy".. there are more examples but I can't think of them at the moment
Just wish it was longer
nice to see them embracing beautiful melodies, lush textures, without just getting schmaltzy and poppy, kinda of like what radiohead achieve ( not in sound, just execution)
listened to this while high the other night, the reverb scared the hell out of me
COOCHIEEEE
COOCHIEEEE
COOCHIEEEE
COOCHIEEEE
the interlude around 2.30 is so perfect!
> Pitchfork: What Would I Want? Sky - 10/10
> Pitchfork
> Animal Collective
> 10/10
sage
Favorited. Animal Collective are very good, top 5 album this year, just don't think they should be annointed Radio Head 2.0 quite yet.
This is a good deed indeed
such a awesome song
I love the intro too. It's called sarcasm. The intro is probably my favorite part of the song.
I have no idea what I'm listening to but it's riveting and it soothes me.
Spectacular
Best song,ever!