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The first I heard was Floridada but it didn't get me into it until I started listening to Avey tares music and getting completely hooked on Down there and Enter the slasher house- then I began to branch forward it listening to The purple bottle and also Lion in a coma- such good music I'm happy I get a chance to share
I’m always about a decade behind when it comes to discovering new music. But Avey is my daughter’s partner, so I’ve really gotten to know and love their stuff over the past few years. Thanks for going over it all. 2 decades of AnCo material, that’s a lot! You’ve prompted me to revisit some of the albums I’m less familiar with.
Oh wow that's really cool! They really do have a lot of material but all of sounds so unique and equally amazing. I'm glad that you enjoyed the video and that it prompted you to relisten to their music!
Saw Avey Tare and Panda Bear open for a band called Love Life in the year 2000. It was in a basement in Oberlin, Ohio that was slowly flooding because of the torrential downpour happening outside. At that time they played songs from the album that they were working on to see how they played to live audiences, they were working on Holindagain and Here Comes the Indian. They were wearing native American headdresses and the only light in the room was tiny candles. It was the rawest live experience I have ever seen by a landslide. Their music was insane and Panda Bear's drumming was like nothing I had ever heard. It was like seeing a new music perspective being invented in real time.
Holy shit I'm so jealous that you got to experience that. That sounds like such an incredible experience. It must have been really cool knowing the band when they were just starting out and then watch them grow as a band as they released more and more music.
@@KyleReidMu you know it was reallllly weird actually, I talked to Dave after the show, just asked him what the fuck their band name was and he said Avey Tare and Panda Bear... a few weeks later I picked up their first album, loved it, and was blown away that it was that wildly different than what I had seen. I was sure they were going to be something after that... then a few years later I was living with my girlfriend and picked up the Scene paper to see what bands were coming and saw that they had just played the day before at the bar a mile from my house and that they were called Animal Collective. It was weird following them after that. Saw them a few more times, their live show kept deteriorating and seemed like they were going through the motions. They were truly experimenting with sounds in new ways, from tribal music to The Beach Boys. Wild stuff.
I was honestly pretty terrified of spirit they’re gone for such a long time, but then I watched their live performance of the final section of Alvin row because it was sandwiched between daily routine and floridada and all of a sudden it started to click. Untitled seems like a pretentious joke on first listen, but the sound of that heinous, ear splittingly noisy synth combined with that gorgeous, twinkling piano is so cathartic I love it so much. It’s like the sonic equivalent of the tail end of a panic attack, where you start to come back from the edge of madness and how beautiful and serene the absence of racing thoughts can be after so much chaos
Untitled, yes! That song does something to me..... If you want a really cool experience, search on youtube the first 3 minutes of 8 1/2 (Fellini film) and play Untitled over it. It's a claustrophobic dream sequence that ends with the man flying in the clouds then falling into the sea. They both fit PERFECTLY and are the exact same length. I uploaded a fan video of it years ago, but it was finally taken down when they released the remaster. Highly recommend as a fellow fan of the song.
Strawberry jam was my first start to the band. Since I’m a huge fan of experimental rock, one day I wondered if there were any interesting experimental POP groups/albums out there. I came across a recommendation thread somewhere and someone mentioned strawberry jam. I was like “Animal Collective, huh? I’ve heard of them, let’s see what the commotion is about with these guys.” I would do anything to hear Peace Bone for the first time again, cuz after being fucking blown away by that track and everything else, the rest was history and now SJ and MPP are two of my favorite albums of all time.
I loved this Great introduction to animal collective As a fan of all of the genres they do i appreciate how well they do in each it shows how versatile they are as a band and how willing they are to leave their comfort zone. They might be weird but its weird guys like them that bring so much joy and happiness to many people
First heard about AC back in highschool. Was browsing itunes and saw the Peacebone music video. It was so fucking weird. But I loved it. Unlike anything I've ever heard or seen before. I love music that pushes barriers and is unique. Slowly started working through their discography and loved it all even though each album is so different from the last. 15ish years later they are still by farrrrrr my favorite band ❤ Seeing them live in Salt Lake City next month!!
My introduction of Animal Collective is from skateboarding, specifically from Alien Workshop’s Mindfield video from Jason Dill’s and Jake Johnson’s part which have Animal Collective
Im 33 and animal collective had their peak during my highschool days. you wouldnt think it but animal collective was a very internet centric band where people talked through forums and dissected everything they did. I still remember listening to leaked MPP in December. The nature of how they created their music and workshopped it live in front of their fans years before the song appeared on the studio album helped fuel their fandom definitely. We listened to Brothersport for 3 years before it was on the studio album and absorbed all the iterations of it through fan recorded live performances we shared with each other. I have a hard drive somewhere with tons of potato quality mp3s of their old performances. It was a really special time and place. My personal favorite era was post-Strawberry Jam and pre-MPP.
@@KyleReidMu Loved it. Im one of the few that loved CHZ but not so much Painting With and sort of fell out of listening to them as I feel like they didnt have any gas left in the tank. The new album definitely proved me wrong I couldn't be happier and it brought me down another Anco rabbit hole like back then. Royal and Desire has been on repeat for me every day since it came out.
Hey there! Big animal collective fan here, it's so cool to hear about people talk about this band because I love it alot and hate it's not heard about so much. Definitely enjoyed this video! I've recently listened to a few I'm absolutely obsessed with, being Chocolate girl, Doggy and it's newest one being We go back Thanks for doing a review! It was very entertaining!
I'm glad you enjoyed the video! Chocolate Girl was the first song I heard from Spirit and it made me realize that maybe Spirit isn't as scary as some people make it seem lol. Also the transition from Queen in My Pictures to Doggy is one of the coolest Anco moments ever
I remember my first time hearing animal collective was in 2016 with a TH-cam channel called EveryManHybrid. When i heard part of the song i said to myself "this sounds weird and cool. Let me find the song and listen to it." So i looked up the song and listened to it and i didn't like them that much until 2 years later my girlfriend at yhe time listend to them and got me into them with Meriwether. Even dince those days, ac has a special place in my heart cause they bring back memories to me. Sadly tho my girlfriend during that time and got cancer and ended up passing. I all my thanks to her for getting me into such a cool ass band
my first experience-- my dad gave me an ipod for my birthday when i was a kid with his whole itunes library on it. I was drawn to the album art on Animal Collective's stuff and eventually started listening to Feels every day on the schoolbus, staring at the teeny album art on the ipod nano screen. Feels is my favorite album of all time to this day.
My first experience with Animal Collective was through word of mouth about MPP. I put it on during science class, I was put off by the opening sounds of In The Flowers, so I turned it off. MY REAL FIRST TRUE EXPERIENCE WITH ANCO was in September 2020 when I watch Middle8's video on how to get into the band. He played a snippet of Fireworks and I liked it, so I l listened to SJ. It took time but I liked it. Fast forward to February 2021 and I get hit by a winter storm. I heard a snippet of Brother Sport (the breakdown) and loved it. So, I dived back into MPP and loved it this time around. In March, I found Sung Tongs and really digged that. Finally in May, I just dove headfirst into everything. I've listened to most AnCo albums at this point. The new one is great and they have replaced Radiohead as my favorite band. (I should add that Panda Bear's solo work on Person Pitch should be mentioned as a great add on to any fan of the band. A great solo album) Favorite: Feels
You're first experience with MPP in science class gave me a good laugh lol. I find it interesting that it took you a few months to finally dive into all their stuff but definitely makes sense. Also ya, Person Pitch is absolutely incredible
Just wanted to say AnCo has replaced Radiohead as my favorite band as well. Oh and i think SJ ranks the highest for me but damn if the big four aren't all masterpieces.
My first Animal Collective experience was... this video :) Looking forward to checking them out. I gotta say, a lot of the descriptions of AC would it with Ween as well: you can listen to 3 consecutive tracks on a Ween album and think "these were made by the _same people?!?"_
My introduction to the band was strawberry jam, at first it was confusing, but once I really got used to it it became one of my favourite albums of all time
First experience. iTunes 2012. Sung Tongs Leaf House reminded me of 2 birds (woodpecker and goose) with guitars sitting at a campfire just going crazy. Didn't know what to make of it. Then I heard the entire album. Visiting Friends is #1. The rest is history, been a huge fan ever since.
i love animal collective so much and have been getting really into their music recently. this is a very good video imo and i have sent it to a few of my friends who are interested !! i also really like the little images you put in the background. it's very funny and silly
The first place I heard animal collective was at Lake Casitas, November 9th, 2018, in some secluded, forested area where a bunch of foos met up in the evening after school on a Friday, from across different friend groups, there were about a small classroom's amount of us. My friend had bought a strain of weed called white widow which is like super good. I was a late bloomer and had just started smoking weed so I opted for my other friend's home grown strain. He had fashioned a goofy looking, primitive, box-shaped pipe so we smoked out of that. My other friend came up to us and showed us the music video to floridada as the weed was coming on and we were just kinda entranced. One of my friends greened out and threw up and someone had to stay back with him into the night before he could have the strength to make the long walk back to the cars and my other friends had to star in our school rendition of the play Rise of Arturo Ui, which some of us proceeded to go see. The play was extremely hard to follow especially as we were high and the only thing I could think about was how funny it was that some of the cast members were high. But all that aside that night lives in infamy and Floridada is seen as a symbol of that night among friends.
Hahaha what a cool story! That's awesome that you remember the exact date. I'm glad you have that memory with all your friends and that Animal Collective is apart of that awesome story :)
I love your style of videos...this one is making me wanna do a video like this for the mountain goats like I was saying since they're my favorite along side neutral milk hotel but they have 25 albums
I'm glad you like the videos! Maybe eventually I'll do something like this for the Mountain Goats. That's a crazy amount of albums to listen to though haha
@@KyleReidMu yeah its so many its a little daunting to start. The Sunset Tree came out nearly 20 years ago when I was in high-school (to show my age) this was my introduction to them and they're my favorite now so I'd say it's the great place to start.
Great video! I agree the best AnCo album for a new listener highly depends on their personal tastes and even mood at the time of listening. Strawberry Jam was the first album I really found on my own and it became my favorite album of all time (to this day), but I'm an all over the place dude, so your description fits.. haha. Feels is their love album. I think all 4 of the dudes were in love at the time. Avey had married Kria Brekkan from the Band Mum (which they made an absolutely adorable/beautiful album together Pullhair Rubeye, though they released it with the songs reversed... just listen to the un-reversed versions, because that was kinda silly.. but at the time also sorta neat cause I felt like I had to reverse them myself to "unlock" the true songs). Panda and Geo were with their now wives as well, if I recall correctly. I think that was a major factor with the record. Like I described in another comment, Danse Manatee is a "hauntingly beautiful" albeit experimental af album. I highly recommend listening to Meet the Light Child and following along with the lyrics. Essplode is also a fantastic song that got reworked into a section of Fireworks during some of their MPP era live shows. Literally my favorite "song" I've ever seen played live. Ahh Good Country is another hauntingly beautiful one on DM. You need to watch ODDSAC! It's brilliant and musically a lot more similar to Strawberry Jam, but with like a psychedelic horror film vibe. A handful of the songs on that (visual) album I love listening to like any song off a traditional album. Best god damn band of humans to exist!
Out of all their albums, Feels definitely makes me feel the most emotion so that it makes sense that they were all in love during the making of that album. Also, Avey releasing a whole album in reverse has got to be the most Avey Tare thing I've ever heard of lmao! I definitely need to give DM more listens. I've only heard it a couple of times but I really enjoy the album. The last portion of Meet The Light Child with the "bah bah bah bah bah baaah" part is sooo beautiful. I felt like I was in a trance the first time I heard it. I plan on watching ODDSAC soon. That's one of the only Anco projects I haven't dove into yet. That and Tangerine Reef. I might actually make a video about ODDSAC when I finally take the time to dive into it! I'm glad you enjoyed the video and thank you for such a detailed comment :)
Fuck yeah! Feels! I think people all too often cite Strawberry Jam ad the best synthesis of their pop and experimental tendencies. I tend to agree, but I think Feels equally accomplished this but in different ways, sonically. While Strawberry Jam might be more approachable for some due to it’s rockist and occasionally post-punk adjacent hookiness, it may alienate others with it’s abrasive and darker sections. Feels, meanwhile, might better court folks that are into folkier, prettier music. I think it’s AnCo’s most conventionally beautiful and melodic record, but it’s quieter, more ambient sections might alienate those looking for more conventional song structures. Great vid man!
I'm currently 16, and animal collective is my very close second favorite music group (I'm sorry but no one beats the Beatles ✋😩) but I've been hearing animal collective songs since I was a baby because my parents love them. my first vivid experiences with songs were My Girls (the first one I remember ever hearing) and then We Tigers and Who Could Win A Rabbit, and throughout my life hearing more and more songs, man let me tell you no one can get me to get up and dance my heart out like animal collective. right now I'm particularly obsessed with Graze and Banshee Beat, a few weeks ago it was Applesauce, it's always changing. but almost every single song I've heard by them so far has busted my brain in the best way possible. I absolutely love them so so much.
my first experience with Animal Collective? it was January 2020. I was really into this one band. I heard that a great way to discover music is by looking up the producers of your favourite music and checking out their other works, so I did that for an album from the band. Found out that one of the producers worked on _My Girls_ .Tried it. Hated it. Months later, Spotify recommended me a Panda Bear album, specifically _Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper_ Checked it out, loved it. I thought “Isn’t this guy from Animal Collective? I think I should give them another chance.” I did and I loved it. I eventually grew to love My Girls edit: replaced single quotes with italics
I'm glad you gave the band another chance! They're definitely a band that can take a couple of listens to get into. What was the original band that you listened to that the producer of 'My Girls' worked on?
@@KyleReidMu The band was Bombay Bicycle Club. Ben H. Allen was one of the producers for their album _A Different Kind of Fix_ . When I checked his Genius page, I saw _My Girls_ in his popular songs section
Have you seen the meme of the Radiohead fan that didn't get Animal Collective cuz they made happy music? The same thing happened to me hahah i heard some of their songs and thought to myself "where's the catch?" Then i listened to My Girls and i started enjoying the band a whole lot more. Still haven't heard much of em but i've been quite enjoying it this far. Great video! Shit i just realized this video was posted months ago haha been loving the new content.
I remember watching this meme with buster from arthur listening to Lion in a coma. I was like what is this? Took probably three years to really listen to animal collective. Man what a journey exploring there discography, had almost as much fun diving into animal collective as i did getting into the grateful dead. I hate to be this guy but it almost takes a good bong hit or better yet a god hit of acid and you'll really get a good understanding of the spaces these artists can create.
This channel>>>>>>>>>>Deepcuts in every way. I heard Chores as my first anco song and then went right into Strawberry Jam and the rest was history Strawberry Jam and Feels are undeniable tens and I'm glad you agree because they're so transcendent from everything else they've done except maybe Centipede Hz. Great channel with great taste, should join RYM
I started with Strawberry Jam, but BY FAR my favorite stuff they've ever done has come out AFTER I became a fan. So that was a pleasant surprise over the years. My ranking is this: 1. Centipede 2. Panting With 3. Time Skiffs --- the rest. Hahah no seriously I love all of their stuff (except Danse Manatee). I greatly enjoyed this video.
I'm glad you enjoyed the video! That's cool that you'd put painting with and centipede at the top of your list. I feel like that's a little unpopular. Time Skiffs was incredible
My first experience with anco was Floridada-- one of my friends in middle school showed it to me cause it was such a silly song but I loved the album so much! 6 years later and I'm still obsessed with the band. My love for the collective also got renewed with the recent release of Time Skiffs, one of their best albums yet. I really didn't like Tangerine Reef and Crestone that much, but that's the wonder of animal collective; like you said, they don't always play it safe. They still have all of the other albums and EPs that just can't get out of my head. Speaking of, you should do a follow-up video talking about their EPs and some of the albums made by the individual artists like PBVSGR and Sleep Cycle!
Floridada seems like such a fun introduction to the band! Time Skiffs was incredible, I was kind of surprised at how much I like it. I definitely should do a video on their solo projects because there are a lot of great ones. Sleep Cycle is an amazing album!
i think tangerine reef was made for like some aquarium marine biologist collaboration thing they did i skipped that and crestone bc i didnt think they were legit albums like the rest of them. maybe i was wrong lol
Back in January of 2009, 18 years old, taking public transportation from college back to my apartment that I rented at the that time with a couple good friends. I was reading The Onion, a satirical newspaper which was great at the time, it got a lot worse over the years, I haven't even read it in a long time, but back then it was amazing. Most satirical news things come up with funny headlines and then half-ass the actual articles, but everything about The Onion then was hilarious, most weekdays I'd read the whole thing, just about. The music reviews were one of the only things that weren't satirical. There was a review about Animal Collective's MPP, which had just come out. The reviewer was raving about it and something about it sounded different and interesting. The single at the time was My Girls, but just like you did with Sung Tongs, I ended up playing My Girls from the FULL ALBUM, and it benefitted me in the same way. I listened to My Girls and liked it, but wasn't really blown away, although I enjoyed its uniqueness. Then later, I listened again, but by starting the album from the beginning. In The Flowers, I really liked a lot, then My Girls I heard for a second time and liked it a bit more than before, but then Also Frightened came on and it slowly sucked me in and got me feeling things and hearing music in a way I hadn't before then. After years of being an AC fan, in retrospect I can say Also Frightened, although being great, wouldn't even make my list of top 20 AC songs, but it was the necessary bridge into their music that I needed, that My Girls wouldn't have been. You saying what you said about Winter's Love going into Kids On Holliday, which made me think of my own experience, helped me realize how beneficial throwing on a full album can be. I bet that many musical lives have been changed by doing that, when one song finishes and another starts. When a Song Of Choice fades out and then you're unexpectedly hit by a Song Of Destiny.
I'm glad you enjoyed the video! I thought Time Skiffs was really well done. The production on the album was incredible. I plan on uploading a review of it sometime this week
Totally agree with feels, Daffy Duck took it's time to get familiar for me but now it's probably my favourite song of theirs ever, the swells of sound are just on another world
Flesh Canoe was also another one that took me some time to get into. I think it's really interesting how I went from thinking only half the songs on Feels were good to it being my favorite Anco record in a couple of months
animal collective also made a movie, it’s really abstract and experimental, and they made the soundtrack as well. definitely would recommend it to any animal collective fan, the name of the movie is “Oddsac”
I've heard about that! I haven't watched yet. It's kind of in the same category that their earlier albums were for me in the sense that I'm a little scared of it hahaha I really need to check it out though
@@KyleReidMu It's reallllly cool and there are some fantastic songs in it. The first two songs immediately blew me away, especially with the accompanying visuals... I recommend getting rather stoned and watching it in a dark room (or with colorful lights synced to the video)
Couldn't quite tell you my first experience with Animal Collective as my sister who's like 10 years older then me had some MPP songs playing alot when I was a kid. The only songs I really remember where Daily Routine(which I found kinda annoying lol), My girls, and Summertime Clothes. It was only during this summer when I tried to get into the band more and my favorite albums are probably MPP or Sung Tongs, though my favorite songs are Taste and Chocolate girl. It'd be cool if you did a ranking/tier list of their albums
Throughout 2024, I've been listening to one Animal Collective album in chronological order every other Tuesday (unless I couldn't listen on Tuesday). Since I was going in chronological order, I had to start with Spirit. Since I care about my hearing, I had to turn down my volume on the opening track just so it wouldn't hurt as much, and I could barely hear the song. My initial opinion was that it was one of the weirdest albums I had ever listened to, and that the tracks got progressively better, and I also wasnt crazy about it. I recently revisited the album for the first time, and it's a lot better than I remember. Still not my favorite AnCo album, but better. Though I did listen to the remaster, which doesn't hurt my ears as much, especially on Spirit They've Vanished and Alvin Row since those two originally had the most painful examples of the tinnitus sound. Anyways, my favorite albums are Feels and Strawberry Jam, though I don't have much time to listen to them again and rarely want to when I do have time. I also remember liking Centipede Hz, the most recent album of theirs I've heard. Really reminded me of 60s psych pop, and Rosie Oh specifically reminded me of Lemon Demon (which is not 60s psych pop).
My best friend in high school circa 2005 introduced me to AC via Who Could Win a Rabbit from Sung Tongs. I thought it was the weirdest thing I ever heard and didn't understand why she thought it was a fun song. But it somehow stuck in my subconscious and would play in my mind and I'd be like "wtf is this song in my head??" Thats how it's been with all my favorite bands. Don't think much of it at first but then days later they're stuck in my head and I have to figure out what the hell it is bc I suddenly think it's the best thing I've ever heard. It's weird how that happens. But thanks to my best friend my music taste went from terrible to amazing back in high school. This was back during the emo craze where everybody was listening to Fall Out Boy and Panic at the Disco and the like. Those were some funny times looking back.
I first found out of the band by stumbling across the song Bluish on TH-cam, to that time I read a manga with the same name. Well, I was reading the manga and young me was curious about it so I looked up several informtion about it on Google and TH-cam and then their song Bluish popped up. I clicked on it and really liked it, first it was a bi weird but then it really grew on me. So for years I really only listened to this one song of them but this year I visited a record store with my sister and randomly saw one of their albums, I read Animal Collective and remembered the song Bluish my younger self discovered, and then decided to just get the akbum. The album is Feels by the way.
Peacebone scared the hell out of me when it first dropped... i thought AC were a dumb noise-pop band until i heard sung tongs, then somehow strawberry jam became a masterpiece to me.
The first time I heard both Strawberry Jam and MPP, I thought they were massively overrated, didn't really see the hype. Mostly stayed away from them because they just never interested me, until I checked out Time Skiffs when it came out. Loved it, heard it was a return to form and so I checked out all of their albums plus revisiting the ones I wasn't crazy about and they very soon became one of my favorite bands. Loved MPP (especially when not sober) and Sung Tongs the most, Feels and Strawberry Jam were amazing but I didn't quite see them on the same level, and Spirit They've Gone Spirit They've Vanished remains one of a very small number of albums I would say is flawless. Everything from the sound design to the musical compositions and ideas to the raucous performances, this album really opened my eyes and I was shocked that this was the one that connected and resonated with me, considering the first tones of the project are pure noise.
I think it was in 2011 I was looking for the best bands on online forums and Animal Collective was a frequent band that people typed about. So I checked out their most popular song "My Girls" and I didn't really like it. Only when I dug deeper into their discography and discovered "Fireworks" I started to enjoy their music. They are now my second favorite band behind Radiohead.
My first animal collective experience was about 10/11 months ago I was looking for trippy shit to listen to to see how weird it could get so I hopped on a psychedelic playlist and saw a strawberry jam song (i cant remember which one) so i just said fuck it and listened to the whole album and I'll be honest I didn't like it at first but i decided to revist some of the songs on it and now I'm a fan (also technically speaking my girls was my first because well everyone has heard it, also for reverend green, in the flowers and fireworks are some of the best songs oat)
nice vid but animal collective is absolutely not the weirdest band, that honor could go to plenty of way weirder groups but personally the residents perfectly encapsulate weird for me
My favorite anco record is Spirit they’re gone spirit they’ve vanished. Centipede hz is nice too. Strawberry jam, Feels and Ark are my favs also. Those ones I like.
animal collective discography in order of least to moist vaguely defined intensity decided by me: campfire songs - tangerine reef - meeting of the waters EP - prospect hummer EP - crestone - transverse temporal gyrus - mountain game - water curses EP - sung tongs - bridge to quiet EP - who could win a rabbit single - gnip gnop/hounds of bairro -people EP - feels - the painters EP -grass single - applesauce single - fall be kind EP - merriweather - painting with - honeycomb/gotham - peacebone single - spirit they're gone - centipede hz - holinndagain - strawberry jam - danse manatee - ark
I think my first AnCo album was when I was first really getting into music, and I was a huge fan of Pink Floyd's DSotM, and I found a thread on Reddit about the "modern day" equivalents to that album. Someone had mentioned MPP on that thread, I was intrigued so I gave it a listen. Needless to say it was NOT what I was expecting lmao. I just did not get it at all and it kinda went in one ear and out the other, I didn't think about it too much for a while after that. I also remember I had pirated Feels onto an iPod at some point and also just did not get that one at all? Anyways it was only after developing my music taste more and getting into bands like Radiohead, The Flaming Lips, and Grizzly Bear that I finally *got* it. Feels has been comfortably in my top 10 albums ever since and I've been insufferable about music ever since lmao
I love all their albums and EPs (except Painting With lol but I probably will someday). Ark and Campfire Songs are my favorites,they both feel hypnagogic in very different ways. I used to not like MPP, I got into AC by SJ. Now I like them roughly equally, one more than the other depending on the day. To me, Spirit is probably the hardest to get into just from the sheer amount of high frequencies. Melody wise I think it's actually one of their best. Alvin Row is in my top 3 songs of all time. I think the least melodic is either Ark or Hollindagain, the latter is certainly more jarring imo. But if you really want to delve deep, listen to Animal Crack Box. That's them at their absolute rawest, besides some obscure live shows (which is mostly what ACB is)
@@KyleReidMu Oddly enough it really is, even the tracks and albums that I wasn't crazy about at first, Centipede Hz I'm looking at you, I eventually grew to appreciate and even love just by listening to it over time. For me personally, the way that Animal Collcetive has the power to open up to you over time is what makes them a really special band.
@@procerus4789 ya I completely agree. It’s just one of those bands where if one album doesn’t connect with you, try a different one and then go back to it later. Eventually you’ll find out what makes each album so special
Your channel makes me feel like I lost my wallet, I came for love of music and got your voice instead, a really, really, really bad trade-off. Somehow you managed to avoid checking-off ANY boxes for me and if you check-off one for anybody else I can't imagine what it might be...harmlessness, maybe or innocuousness...? However, I wish you all success because that is the promise nowadays, isn't it? The assurance that video-taping yourself simply "doing things" is a skill and you can create value out of thin-air by just flapping your jaws without playing one note of the music you purport to be supporting. My natural instinct upon encountering your video and one I'll make sure to follow in the future was: "Who are you and why are you talking?"
youre such a little hater lol. what did you expect from a video of someone clearly taping themselves sharing their opinions on a band. i clicked on this video bc i wanted to see what a random person had to say about the band and thats what i got. idk what you were expecting, go listen to the band if you wanna listen to them.
@@possiblymaybe6711 How would a random person have anything to say about the band when all they have to go on is this pathetic, self-serving video? By the way, if I am a hater you can blame it on the content creator and after having experienced what he created here I have little doubt that I'm not alone. Thank you for your criticism, though, it's the most (the only) authentic thing I've found here.
I love all their albums except Danse Manatee which I think isn't good , I don't think it is unique and it didn't bring forward the band sonically since Spirit.
@@KyleReidMu yeah definitely , I really like Painting With , and I don't understand why a lot of people don't like it , I guess because the album is more vocally/lyrically unique rather than sonically unique .
Danse Manatee is a "hauntingly beautiful" album. Especially the song Meet the Light Child (read the lyrics while listening). Essplode is a great song and the way they reworked it and Lablakely Dress into Fireworks during some of their MPP era shows was absolutely the highlight of those shows (for me at least). I agree it feels like they were playing around more with ideas and probably figuring out who they were as a band, but the album has a special place in their discography.
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I listened to #1 and was like holy sh*t so I listened to strawberry Jam and it’s my favorite album by them
The first I heard was Floridada but it didn't get me into it until I started listening to Avey tares music and getting completely hooked on Down there and Enter the slasher house- then I began to branch forward it listening to The purple bottle and also Lion in a coma- such good music I'm happy I get a chance to share
you shouldve waited like a week for time skiffs to come out
Chores. I hated it. Then I heard Purple Bottle and then My Girls. That was in the summer of 2009. Have loved these guys ever since.
when ive heard leaf house for first time i couldnt stop listening to it
I’m always about a decade behind when it comes to discovering new music. But Avey is my daughter’s partner, so I’ve really gotten to know and love their stuff over the past few years. Thanks for going over it all. 2 decades of AnCo material, that’s a lot! You’ve prompted me to revisit some of the albums I’m less familiar with.
Oh wow that's really cool! They really do have a lot of material but all of sounds so unique and equally amazing. I'm glad that you enjoyed the video and that it prompted you to relisten to their music!
Adore Abby
Holy shit! What's Avey like in real life?
@@creaturefeatures3047 Abby is his sister lol
I live just up the road from Dave here in Asheville.
Saw Avey Tare and Panda Bear open for a band called Love Life in the year 2000. It was in a basement in Oberlin, Ohio that was slowly flooding because of the torrential downpour happening outside. At that time they played songs from the album that they were working on to see how they played to live audiences, they were working on Holindagain and Here Comes the Indian. They were wearing native American headdresses and the only light in the room was tiny candles. It was the rawest live experience I have ever seen by a landslide. Their music was insane and Panda Bear's drumming was like nothing I had ever heard. It was like seeing a new music perspective being invented in real time.
I am sooooo jealous. That would be one of my most cherished memories...
Holy shit I'm so jealous that you got to experience that. That sounds like such an incredible experience. It must have been really cool knowing the band when they were just starting out and then watch them grow as a band as they released more and more music.
@@KyleReidMu you know it was reallllly weird actually, I talked to Dave after the show, just asked him what the fuck their band name was and he said Avey Tare and Panda Bear... a few weeks later I picked up their first album, loved it, and was blown away that it was that wildly different than what I had seen. I was sure they were going to be something after that... then a few years later I was living with my girlfriend and picked up the Scene paper to see what bands were coming and saw that they had just played the day before at the bar a mile from my house and that they were called Animal Collective. It was weird following them after that. Saw them a few more times, their live show kept deteriorating and seemed like they were going through the motions. They were truly experimenting with sounds in new ways, from tribal music to The Beach Boys. Wild stuff.
Yeahhh very jealous I live right next to Oberlin that would've been sooo cool
gave me goosebumps just imagining that
I was honestly pretty terrified of spirit they’re gone for such a long time, but then I watched their live performance of the final section of Alvin row because it was sandwiched between daily routine and floridada and all of a sudden it started to click. Untitled seems like a pretentious joke on first listen, but the sound of that heinous, ear splittingly noisy synth combined with that gorgeous, twinkling piano is so cathartic I love it so much. It’s like the sonic equivalent of the tail end of a panic attack, where you start to come back from the edge of madness and how beautiful and serene the absence of racing thoughts can be after so much chaos
Untitled, yes! That song does something to me..... If you want a really cool experience, search on youtube the first 3 minutes of 8 1/2 (Fellini film) and play Untitled over it. It's a claustrophobic dream sequence that ends with the man flying in the clouds then falling into the sea. They both fit PERFECTLY and are the exact same length. I uploaded a fan video of it years ago, but it was finally taken down when they released the remaster. Highly recommend as a fellow fan of the song.
beautifully said
my singing voice is gone
Strawberry jam was my first start to the band. Since I’m a huge fan of experimental rock, one day I wondered if there were any interesting experimental POP groups/albums out there. I came across a recommendation thread somewhere and someone mentioned strawberry jam. I was like “Animal Collective, huh? I’ve heard of them, let’s see what the commotion is about with these guys.”
I would do anything to hear Peace Bone for the first time again, cuz after being fucking blown away by that track and everything else, the rest was history and now SJ and MPP are two of my favorite albums of all time.
I loved this Great introduction to animal collective As a fan of all of the genres they do i appreciate how well they do in each it shows how versatile they are as a band and how willing they are to leave their comfort zone. They might be weird but its weird guys like them that bring so much joy and happiness to many people
I totally agree. I think they may be my favorite band of all time just because of how weird and different they are
This was a super fun way to introduce people to a band. You should do videos like this more often!
Thanks Kate, I'm glad you liked it. I'll definitely think of more bands that I can do this with in the future!
First heard about AC back in highschool. Was browsing itunes and saw the Peacebone music video. It was so fucking weird. But I loved it. Unlike anything I've ever heard or seen before. I love music that pushes barriers and is unique. Slowly started working through their discography and loved it all even though each album is so different from the last. 15ish years later they are still by farrrrrr my favorite band ❤ Seeing them live in Salt Lake City next month!!
I'm jealous that you're seeing them live! I keep debating wether or not I should go see them next month... I probably should..
My introduction of Animal Collective is from skateboarding, specifically from Alien Workshop’s Mindfield video from Jason Dill’s and Jake Johnson’s part which have Animal Collective
Im 33 and animal collective had their peak during my highschool days. you wouldnt think it but animal collective was a very internet centric band where people talked through forums and dissected everything they did. I still remember listening to leaked MPP in December. The nature of how they created their music and workshopped it live in front of their fans years before the song appeared on the studio album helped fuel their fandom definitely. We listened to Brothersport for 3 years before it was on the studio album and absorbed all the iterations of it through fan recorded live performances we shared with each other. I have a hard drive somewhere with tons of potato quality mp3s of their old performances. It was a really special time and place. My personal favorite era was post-Strawberry Jam and pre-MPP.
That sounds awesome. Kind of makes me sad that I wasn't into their stuff around that time. What did you think of the new album?
@@KyleReidMu Loved it. Im one of the few that loved CHZ but not so much Painting With and sort of fell out of listening to them as I feel like they didnt have any gas left in the tank. The new album definitely proved me wrong I couldn't be happier and it brought me down another Anco rabbit hole like back then. Royal and Desire has been on repeat for me every day since it came out.
Hey there! Big animal collective fan here, it's so cool to hear about people talk about this band because I love it alot and hate it's not heard about so much. Definitely enjoyed this video! I've recently listened to a few I'm absolutely obsessed with, being Chocolate girl, Doggy and it's newest one being We go back
Thanks for doing a review! It was very entertaining!
I'm glad you enjoyed the video! Chocolate Girl was the first song I heard from Spirit and it made me realize that maybe Spirit isn't as scary as some people make it seem lol. Also the transition from Queen in My Pictures to Doggy is one of the coolest Anco moments ever
I remember my first time hearing animal collective was in 2016 with a TH-cam channel called EveryManHybrid. When i heard part of the song i said to myself "this sounds weird and cool. Let me find the song and listen to it." So i looked up the song and listened to it and i didn't like them that much until 2 years later my girlfriend at yhe time listend to them and got me into them with Meriwether. Even dince those days, ac has a special place in my heart cause they bring back memories to me. Sadly tho my girlfriend during that time and got cancer and ended up passing. I all my thanks to her for getting me into such a cool ass band
my first experience-- my dad gave me an ipod for my birthday when i was a kid with his whole itunes library on it. I was drawn to the album art on Animal Collective's stuff and eventually started listening to Feels every day on the schoolbus, staring at the teeny album art on the ipod nano screen. Feels is my favorite album of all time to this day.
My first experience with Animal Collective was through word of mouth about MPP. I put it on during science class, I was put off by the opening sounds of In The Flowers, so I turned it off. MY REAL FIRST TRUE EXPERIENCE WITH ANCO was in September 2020 when I watch Middle8's video on how to get into the band. He played a snippet of Fireworks and I liked it, so I l listened to SJ. It took time but I liked it. Fast forward to February 2021 and I get hit by a winter storm. I heard a snippet of Brother Sport (the breakdown) and loved it. So, I dived back into MPP and loved it this time around. In March, I found Sung Tongs and really digged that. Finally in May, I just dove headfirst into everything. I've listened to most AnCo albums at this point. The new one is great and they have replaced Radiohead as my favorite band.
(I should add that Panda Bear's solo work on Person Pitch should be mentioned as a great add on to any fan of the band. A great solo album)
Favorite: Feels
You're first experience with MPP in science class gave me a good laugh lol. I find it interesting that it took you a few months to finally dive into all their stuff but definitely makes sense. Also ya, Person Pitch is absolutely incredible
Just wanted to say AnCo has replaced Radiohead as my favorite band as well. Oh and i think SJ ranks the highest for me but damn if the big four aren't all masterpieces.
I had no idea they had 92 albums
My first Animal Collective experience was... this video :) Looking forward to checking them out. I gotta say, a lot of the descriptions of AC would it with Ween as well: you can listen to 3 consecutive tracks on a Ween album and think "these were made by the _same people?!?"_
I'm excited to check out Ween!
My introduction to the band was strawberry jam, at first it was confusing, but once I really got used to it it became one of my favourite albums of all time
i have loved this band for a long time but you just convinced me to listen to their whole discography again
this is a very good realistic way to interpret this band for new listeners
You didn’t discuss Hollinndagain. You showed it briefly but there’s some good stuff there too.
Good vid dude. Love this band so much. Pretty hard to put into words how much their music means to me.
Thank you! Animal Collective truly is something special
First experience. iTunes 2012. Sung Tongs Leaf House reminded me of 2 birds (woodpecker and goose) with guitars sitting at a campfire just going crazy. Didn't know what to make of it. Then I heard the entire album. Visiting Friends is #1. The rest is history, been a huge fan ever since.
i love animal collective so much and have been getting really into their music recently. this is a very good video imo and i have sent it to a few of my friends who are interested !! i also really like the little images you put in the background. it's very funny and silly
The first place I heard animal collective was at Lake Casitas, November 9th, 2018, in some secluded, forested area where a bunch of foos met up in the evening after school on a Friday, from across different friend groups, there were about a small classroom's amount of us. My friend had bought a strain of weed called white widow which is like super good. I was a late bloomer and had just started smoking weed so I opted for my other friend's home grown strain. He had fashioned a goofy looking, primitive, box-shaped pipe so we smoked out of that. My other friend came up to us and showed us the music video to floridada as the weed was coming on and we were just kinda entranced. One of my friends greened out and threw up and someone had to stay back with him into the night before he could have the strength to make the long walk back to the cars and my other friends had to star in our school rendition of the play Rise of Arturo Ui, which some of us proceeded to go see. The play was extremely hard to follow especially as we were high and the only thing I could think about was how funny it was that some of the cast members were high. But all that aside that night lives in infamy and Floridada is seen as a symbol of that night among friends.
Hahaha what a cool story! That's awesome that you remember the exact date. I'm glad you have that memory with all your friends and that Animal Collective is apart of that awesome story :)
I love your style of videos...this one is making me wanna do a video like this for the mountain goats like I was saying since they're my favorite along side neutral milk hotel but they have 25 albums
I'm glad you like the videos! Maybe eventually I'll do something like this for the Mountain Goats. That's a crazy amount of albums to listen to though haha
@@KyleReidMu yeah its so many its a little daunting to start. The Sunset Tree came out nearly 20 years ago when I was in high-school (to show my age) this was my introduction to them and they're my favorite now so I'd say it's the great place to start.
Great video! Time Skiffs is so good
I loved the new album! Thanks!
Great video! I agree the best AnCo album for a new listener highly depends on their personal tastes and even mood at the time of listening. Strawberry Jam was the first album I really found on my own and it became my favorite album of all time (to this day), but I'm an all over the place dude, so your description fits.. haha.
Feels is their love album. I think all 4 of the dudes were in love at the time. Avey had married Kria Brekkan from the Band Mum (which they made an absolutely adorable/beautiful album together Pullhair Rubeye, though they released it with the songs reversed... just listen to the un-reversed versions, because that was kinda silly.. but at the time also sorta neat cause I felt like I had to reverse them myself to "unlock" the true songs). Panda and Geo were with their now wives as well, if I recall correctly. I think that was a major factor with the record.
Like I described in another comment, Danse Manatee is a "hauntingly beautiful" albeit experimental af album. I highly recommend listening to Meet the Light Child and following along with the lyrics. Essplode is also a fantastic song that got reworked into a section of Fireworks during some of their MPP era live shows. Literally my favorite "song" I've ever seen played live. Ahh Good Country is another hauntingly beautiful one on DM.
You need to watch ODDSAC! It's brilliant and musically a lot more similar to Strawberry Jam, but with like a psychedelic horror film vibe. A handful of the songs on that (visual) album I love listening to like any song off a traditional album.
Best god damn band of humans to exist!
Out of all their albums, Feels definitely makes me feel the most emotion so that it makes sense that they were all in love during the making of that album. Also, Avey releasing a whole album in reverse has got to be the most Avey Tare thing I've ever heard of lmao!
I definitely need to give DM more listens. I've only heard it a couple of times but I really enjoy the album. The last portion of Meet The Light Child with the "bah bah bah bah bah baaah" part is sooo beautiful. I felt like I was in a trance the first time I heard it.
I plan on watching ODDSAC soon. That's one of the only Anco projects I haven't dove into yet. That and Tangerine Reef. I might actually make a video about ODDSAC when I finally take the time to dive into it! I'm glad you enjoyed the video and thank you for such a detailed comment :)
Fuck yeah! Feels!
I think people all too often cite Strawberry Jam ad the best synthesis of their pop and experimental tendencies. I tend to agree, but I think Feels equally accomplished this but in different ways, sonically. While Strawberry Jam might be more approachable for some due to it’s rockist and occasionally post-punk adjacent hookiness, it may alienate others with it’s abrasive and darker sections. Feels, meanwhile, might better court folks that are into folkier, prettier music. I think it’s AnCo’s most conventionally beautiful and melodic record, but it’s quieter, more ambient sections might alienate those looking for more conventional song structures.
Great vid man!
Ya dude I completely agree. This was a great way to describe it. I'm glad you enjoyed the video!
I'm currently 16, and animal collective is my very close second favorite music group (I'm sorry but no one beats the Beatles ✋😩) but I've been hearing animal collective songs since I was a baby because my parents love them. my first vivid experiences with songs were My Girls (the first one I remember ever hearing) and then We Tigers and Who Could Win A Rabbit, and throughout my life hearing more and more songs, man let me tell you no one can get me to get up and dance my heart out like animal collective. right now I'm particularly obsessed with Graze and Banshee Beat, a few weeks ago it was Applesauce, it's always changing. but almost every single song I've heard by them so far has busted my brain in the best way possible. I absolutely love them so so much.
my first experience with Animal Collective? it was January 2020. I was really into this one band. I heard that a great way to discover music is by looking up the producers of your favourite music and checking out their other works, so I did that for an album from the band. Found out that one of the producers worked on _My Girls_ .Tried it. Hated it.
Months later, Spotify recommended me a Panda Bear album, specifically _Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper_ Checked it out, loved it. I thought “Isn’t this guy from Animal Collective? I think I should give them another chance.” I did and I loved it. I eventually grew to love My Girls
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I'm glad you gave the band another chance! They're definitely a band that can take a couple of listens to get into. What was the original band that you listened to that the producer of 'My Girls' worked on?
@@KyleReidMu The band was Bombay Bicycle Club. Ben H. Allen was one of the producers for their album _A Different Kind of Fix_ . When I checked his Genius page, I saw _My Girls_ in his popular songs section
Time Skiffs is gonna be so good
I'm so excited for it
Have you seen the meme of the Radiohead fan that didn't get Animal Collective cuz they made happy music? The same thing happened to me hahah i heard some of their songs and thought to myself "where's the catch?" Then i listened to My Girls and i started enjoying the band a whole lot more. Still haven't heard much of em but i've been quite enjoying it this far. Great video!
Shit i just realized this video was posted months ago haha been loving the new content.
"weird frickin vocal jumps that youre not expecting" nails it
i came for the weewoos and stayed for the yelping 😅
I remember watching this meme with buster from arthur listening to Lion in a coma. I was like what is this? Took probably three years to really listen to animal collective. Man what a journey exploring there discography, had almost as much fun diving into animal collective as i did getting into the grateful dead. I hate to be this guy but it almost takes a good bong hit or better yet a god hit of acid and you'll really get a good understanding of the spaces these artists can create.
Cool video man, makes me miss the magical year of 2006 when I discovered AC. Time flies! Cool too see a new generation appreciate their art.
I'm glad you enjoyed the video! MAN it must of been so cool to see how the band developed over time.
my first experience with anco was listening to sung tongs at work and then going home and listening to it again on 6 grams of shrooms, as one does
needless to say it’s a 10/10 for me and my favorite anco record to date
This channel>>>>>>>>>>Deepcuts in every way.
I heard Chores as my first anco song and then went right into Strawberry Jam and the rest was history
Strawberry Jam and Feels are undeniable tens and I'm glad you agree because they're so transcendent from everything else they've done except maybe Centipede Hz. Great channel with great taste, should join RYM
Bluish off MPP has one of my favourite choruses in all of music
Bluish is incredible song! Definitely a great song to introduce someone to the band too
I started with Strawberry Jam, but BY FAR my favorite stuff they've ever done has come out AFTER I became a fan. So that was a pleasant surprise over the years. My ranking is this:
1. Centipede
2. Panting With
3. Time Skiffs
--- the rest.
Hahah no seriously I love all of their stuff (except Danse Manatee). I greatly enjoyed this video.
I'm glad you enjoyed the video! That's cool that you'd put painting with and centipede at the top of your list. I feel like that's a little unpopular. Time Skiffs was incredible
@@KyleReidMu It's definitely unpopular and I still don't understand why. :P
My first experience with anco was Floridada-- one of my friends in middle school showed it to me cause it was such a silly song but I loved the album so much! 6 years later and I'm still obsessed with the band. My love for the collective also got renewed with the recent release of Time Skiffs, one of their best albums yet. I really didn't like Tangerine Reef and Crestone that much, but that's the wonder of animal collective; like you said, they don't always play it safe. They still have all of the other albums and EPs that just can't get out of my head. Speaking of, you should do a follow-up video talking about their EPs and some of the albums made by the individual artists like PBVSGR and Sleep Cycle!
Floridada seems like such a fun introduction to the band! Time Skiffs was incredible, I was kind of surprised at how much I like it. I definitely should do a video on their solo projects because there are a lot of great ones. Sleep Cycle is an amazing album!
i think tangerine reef was made for like some aquarium marine biologist collaboration thing they did i skipped that and crestone bc i didnt think they were legit albums like the rest of them. maybe i was wrong lol
Back in January of 2009, 18 years old, taking public transportation from college back to my apartment that I rented at the that time with a couple good friends. I was reading The Onion, a satirical newspaper which was great at the time, it got a lot worse over the years, I haven't even read it in a long time, but back then it was amazing. Most satirical news things come up with funny headlines and then half-ass the actual articles, but everything about The Onion then was hilarious, most weekdays I'd read the whole thing, just about. The music reviews were one of the only things that weren't satirical. There was a review about Animal Collective's MPP, which had just come out. The reviewer was raving about it and something about it sounded different and interesting. The single at the time was My Girls, but just like you did with Sung Tongs, I ended up playing My Girls from the FULL ALBUM, and it benefitted me in the same way. I listened to My Girls and liked it, but wasn't really blown away, although I enjoyed its uniqueness. Then later, I listened again, but by starting the album from the beginning. In The Flowers, I really liked a lot, then My Girls I heard for a second time and liked it a bit more than before, but then Also Frightened came on and it slowly sucked me in and got me feeling things and hearing music in a way I hadn't before then. After years of being an AC fan, in retrospect I can say Also Frightened, although being great, wouldn't even make my list of top 20 AC songs, but it was the necessary bridge into their music that I needed, that My Girls wouldn't have been.
You saying what you said about Winter's Love going into Kids On Holliday, which made me think of my own experience, helped me realize how beneficial throwing on a full album can be. I bet that many musical lives have been changed by doing that, when one song finishes and another starts. When a Song Of Choice fades out and then you're unexpectedly hit by a Song Of Destiny.
Great content. The pictures were hilarious. What do you think of Skiffs?
I'm glad you enjoyed the video! I thought Time Skiffs was really well done. The production on the album was incredible. I plan on uploading a review of it sometime this week
Totally agree with feels, Daffy Duck took it's time to get familiar for me but now it's probably my favourite song of theirs ever, the swells of sound are just on another world
Flesh Canoe was also another one that took me some time to get into. I think it's really interesting how I went from thinking only half the songs on Feels were good to it being my favorite Anco record in a couple of months
animal collective also made a movie, it’s really abstract and experimental, and they made the soundtrack as well. definitely would recommend it to any animal collective fan, the name of the movie is “Oddsac”
I've heard about that! I haven't watched yet. It's kind of in the same category that their earlier albums were for me in the sense that I'm a little scared of it hahaha I really need to check it out though
@@KyleReidMu It's reallllly cool and there are some fantastic songs in it. The first two songs immediately blew me away, especially with the accompanying visuals... I recommend getting rather stoned and watching it in a dark room (or with colorful lights synced to the video)
Ayyy Feels is my favorite AnCo album too. My first experience was Sung Tongs and I was initially so perplexed by it but now it’s my second favorite.
Couldn't quite tell you my first experience with Animal Collective as my sister who's like 10 years older then me had some MPP songs playing alot when I was a kid. The only songs I really remember where Daily Routine(which I found kinda annoying lol), My girls, and Summertime Clothes. It was only during this summer when I tried to get into the band more and my favorite albums are probably MPP or Sung Tongs, though my favorite songs are Taste and Chocolate girl. It'd be cool if you did a ranking/tier list of their albums
Favorite album? Easy, Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished.
Throughout 2024, I've been listening to one Animal Collective album in chronological order every other Tuesday (unless I couldn't listen on Tuesday). Since I was going in chronological order, I had to start with Spirit. Since I care about my hearing, I had to turn down my volume on the opening track just so it wouldn't hurt as much, and I could barely hear the song. My initial opinion was that it was one of the weirdest albums I had ever listened to, and that the tracks got progressively better, and I also wasnt crazy about it. I recently revisited the album for the first time, and it's a lot better than I remember. Still not my favorite AnCo album, but better. Though I did listen to the remaster, which doesn't hurt my ears as much, especially on Spirit They've Vanished and Alvin Row since those two originally had the most painful examples of the tinnitus sound.
Anyways, my favorite albums are Feels and Strawberry Jam, though I don't have much time to listen to them again and rarely want to when I do have time. I also remember liking Centipede Hz, the most recent album of theirs I've heard. Really reminded me of 60s psych pop, and Rosie Oh specifically reminded me of Lemon Demon (which is not 60s psych pop).
My best friend in high school circa 2005 introduced me to AC via Who Could Win a Rabbit from Sung Tongs. I thought it was the weirdest thing I ever heard and didn't understand why she thought it was a fun song. But it somehow stuck in my subconscious and would play in my mind and I'd be like "wtf is this song in my head??" Thats how it's been with all my favorite bands. Don't think much of it at first but then days later they're stuck in my head and I have to figure out what the hell it is bc I suddenly think it's the best thing I've ever heard. It's weird how that happens. But thanks to my best friend my music taste went from terrible to amazing back in high school. This was back during the emo craze where everybody was listening to Fall Out Boy and Panic at the Disco and the like. Those were some funny times looking back.
I first found out of the band by stumbling across the song Bluish on TH-cam, to that time I read a manga with the same name. Well, I was reading the manga and young me was curious about it so I looked up several informtion about it on Google and TH-cam and then their song Bluish popped up. I clicked on it and really liked it, first it was a bi weird but then it really grew on me. So for years I really only listened to this one song of them but this year I visited a record store with my sister and randomly saw one of their albums, I read Animal Collective and remembered the song Bluish my younger self discovered, and then decided to just get the akbum. The album is Feels by the way.
Peacebone scared the hell out of me when it first dropped... i thought AC were a dumb noise-pop band until i heard sung tongs, then somehow strawberry jam became a masterpiece to me.
Ya I remember being a little off put by Peacebone when I first heard it but when the first chorus hit, I fell in love
Speaking of weird bands, would you ever consider doing a video on Mr. Bungle?
I’ve never heard of them! Definitely a fun sounding name though
The first time I heard both Strawberry Jam and MPP, I thought they were massively overrated, didn't really see the hype. Mostly stayed away from them because they just never interested me, until I checked out Time Skiffs when it came out. Loved it, heard it was a return to form and so I checked out all of their albums plus revisiting the ones I wasn't crazy about and they very soon became one of my favorite bands. Loved MPP (especially when not sober) and Sung Tongs the most, Feels and Strawberry Jam were amazing but I didn't quite see them on the same level, and Spirit They've Gone Spirit They've Vanished remains one of a very small number of albums I would say is flawless. Everything from the sound design to the musical compositions and ideas to the raucous performances, this album really opened my eyes and I was shocked that this was the one that connected and resonated with me, considering the first tones of the project are pure noise.
The first song i heard was "spirit theyve vanished" while fucked up and it shattered my world lmao
I think it was in 2011 I was looking for the best bands on online forums and Animal Collective was a frequent band that people typed about. So I checked out their most popular song "My Girls" and I didn't really like it. Only when I dug deeper into their discography and discovered "Fireworks" I started to enjoy their music. They are now my second favorite band behind Radiohead.
My first animal collective experience was about 10/11 months ago I was looking for trippy shit to listen to to see how weird it could get so I hopped on a psychedelic playlist and saw a strawberry jam song (i cant remember which one) so i just said fuck it and listened to the whole album and I'll be honest I didn't like it at first but i decided to revist some of the songs on it and now I'm a fan (also technically speaking my girls was my first because well everyone has heard it, also for reverend green, in the flowers and fireworks are some of the best songs oat)
What's the song in the background while you're talking about Painting With?
Sung Tongs is the absolute finest thing theyve ever made. If anyone disagrees... well thats alright.
Just listened to STGSTV today, and I love it.
nice vid but animal collective is absolutely not the weirdest band, that honor could go to plenty of way weirder groups but personally the residents perfectly encapsulate weird for me
MPP, Feels and Campfire Songs are my favorites from them. I haven’t heard their newest album yet
My favorite anco record is Spirit they’re gone spirit they’ve vanished.
Centipede hz is nice too.
Strawberry jam, Feels and Ark are my favs also.
Those ones I like.
I recently listened to Spirit a little bit before making this video and it was such a surreal album to listen to. I loved it
Their newest album might be their best imo. As a somewhat older 33 year old who was a fan of them when I was 18 it just hits right.
Dont ever call them the weirdest band. I will fight all of you.
You're right. I'm sorry. I didn't mean any harm
animal collective !!!! :D !! i just recently started getting into them and i love their sounds
The bees live is actually pretty lit.
Hahaha I gotta check out a video of that. Sounds like it would be
animal collective discography in order of least to moist vaguely defined intensity decided by me:
campfire songs - tangerine reef - meeting of the waters EP - prospect hummer EP - crestone - transverse temporal gyrus - mountain game - water curses EP - sung tongs - bridge to quiet EP - who could win a rabbit single - gnip gnop/hounds of bairro -people EP - feels - the painters EP -grass single - applesauce single - fall be kind EP - merriweather - painting with - honeycomb/gotham - peacebone single - spirit they're gone - centipede hz - holinndagain - strawberry jam - danse manatee - ark
Yup, this seems about right
I think my first AnCo album was when I was first really getting into music, and I was a huge fan of Pink Floyd's DSotM, and I found a thread on Reddit about the "modern day" equivalents to that album. Someone had mentioned MPP on that thread, I was intrigued so I gave it a listen.
Needless to say it was NOT what I was expecting lmao. I just did not get it at all and it kinda went in one ear and out the other, I didn't think about it too much for a while after that. I also remember I had pirated Feels onto an iPod at some point and also just did not get that one at all?
Anyways it was only after developing my music taste more and getting into bands like Radiohead, The Flaming Lips, and Grizzly Bear that I finally *got* it. Feels has been comfortably in my top 10 albums ever since and I've been insufferable about music ever since lmao
nice pasta reference mr. kyle 🤤😎😳
I knew you'd like it
Yes!!! An AnCo video Thank you!
I love all their albums and EPs (except Painting With lol but I probably will someday). Ark and Campfire Songs are my favorites,they both feel hypnagogic in very different ways. I used to not like MPP, I got into AC by SJ. Now I like them roughly equally, one more than the other depending on the day.
To me, Spirit is probably the hardest to get into just from the sheer amount of high frequencies. Melody wise I think it's actually one of their best. Alvin Row is in my top 3 songs of all time. I think the least melodic is either Ark or Hollindagain, the latter is certainly more jarring imo.
But if you really want to delve deep, listen to Animal Crack Box. That's them at their absolute rawest, besides some obscure live shows (which is mostly what ACB is)
Time Skiffs is another 10/10
I thought it was really good! I'd probably give it an 8 though. I have a review of it on my channel if you want to check it out
spirit they've vanished is my favourite ac album
My best tactic for getting into Animal Collective? Listening.
Ya. This is probably the easiest way to get into them 100%
@@KyleReidMu Oddly enough it really is, even the tracks and albums that I wasn't crazy about at first, Centipede Hz I'm looking at you, I eventually grew to appreciate and even love just by listening to it over time. For me personally, the way that Animal Collcetive has the power to open up to you over time is what makes them a really special band.
@@procerus4789 ya I completely agree. It’s just one of those bands where if one album doesn’t connect with you, try a different one and then go back to it later. Eventually you’ll find out what makes each album so special
Your channel makes me feel like I lost my wallet, I came for love of music and got your voice instead, a really, really, really bad trade-off. Somehow you managed to avoid checking-off ANY boxes for me and if you check-off one for anybody else I can't imagine what it might be...harmlessness, maybe or innocuousness...?
However, I wish you all success because that is the promise nowadays, isn't it? The assurance that video-taping yourself simply "doing things" is a skill and you can create value out of thin-air by just flapping your jaws without playing one note of the music you purport to be supporting.
My natural instinct upon encountering your video and one I'll make sure to follow in the future was: "Who are you and why are you talking?"
youre such a little hater lol. what did you expect from a video of someone clearly taping themselves sharing their opinions on a band. i clicked on this video bc i wanted to see what a random person had to say about the band and thats what i got. idk what you were expecting, go listen to the band if you wanna listen to them.
@@possiblymaybe6711 How would a random person have anything to say about the band when all they have to go on is this pathetic, self-serving video? By the way, if I am a hater you can blame it on the content creator and after having experienced what he created here I have little doubt that I'm not alone. Thank you for your criticism, though, it's the most (the only) authentic thing I've found here.
surprised the beach boys were not mentioned even once in this video
Maybe because that comparison was always bullshit.
Let's fucking gooooo! I made a 40 minute vid on this band lmao, they're so fucking good
Oh damn! I gotta make sure I got check that out
@@KyleReidMu thanks man no presh, love your vids!
love this band make’s me feel like acid
kyleinators rise up
best band of the 2000s
So true
Thoughts of Strung With Everything?
Haven't heard it yet! I'm saving it for the album. I loved Prester John though
Here Comes the Indian absolutely terrifies me. It sounds like a shroom trip going very wrong
Hahaha that is a perfect way to describe it
@@KyleReidMu I last listened to it around 2013 and I’ve not really returned to it because it’s too scary 😄
wait this isn’t the residents
La Rapet is so awesome
“weirdest band” 😭😭😭
I listen to centipede hz when im angry
LMAO
Me too! It’s got that aggressively uplifting sound.
Good content
Thank you!
nah, talking heads is the weirdest band ever.
Listen to more bands
more AnCo content plz 🥰🥰🥰
Definitely!!
I love all their albums except Danse Manatee which I think isn't good , I don't think it is unique and it didn't bring forward the band sonically since Spirit.
Ya I agree that Danse Manatee is kind of a step down for the band. I think there's definitely some interesting ideas in that album though
@@KyleReidMu yeah definitely , I really like Painting With , and I don't understand why a lot of people don't like it , I guess because the album is more vocally/lyrically unique rather than sonically unique .
@@candlerredden Ya I don't really understand the hate for Painting With either. I think it's a really fun album to listen to
@@KyleReidMu yeah definitely 😁
Danse Manatee is a "hauntingly beautiful" album. Especially the song Meet the Light Child (read the lyrics while listening). Essplode is a great song and the way they reworked it and Lablakely Dress into Fireworks during some of their MPP era shows was absolutely the highlight of those shows (for me at least).
I agree it feels like they were playing around more with ideas and probably figuring out who they were as a band, but the album has a special place in their discography.