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Geeta I was so sure I'd see you at their Barnard show.

― nabiscothingy, Friday, 5 March 2004 17:31 (twenty-two years ago)

i didn't know there was a barnard show!!

― geeta (geeta), Friday, 5 March 2004 17:44 (twenty-two years ago)

geeta, that's what nyhappenings is for, duh. Blood on the Wall CD is coming soon, looks and sounds good...

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 5 March 2004 18:56 (twenty-two years ago)

two months pass...

playing live in london tomorrow yo

but the half of sung tongs i've just now heard i don't find a tiny bit as good as 'here comes the indian'. i suppose this says something about me huh

― prima fassy (mwah), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 18:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Their tour with Black Dice will surely be my demise.

― deanomgwtf!!!p%3Fmsgid%3D4581997 (deangulberry), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 18:33 (twenty-two years ago)

its a bit like the devendra lp too actually like how where the 'progress' everyone's handwringing about i thought was much better left implicit in the supposedly difficult earlier stuff, and now it's been triple underlined some pretty magic has fallen away

― prima fassy (mwah), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 18:34 (twenty-two years ago)

oh fuck i forgot the football's on

― prima fassy (mwah), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 18:37 (twenty-two years ago)

prima i love sung tongs, but you were otm there. if anything it's depressing how much people are perking up now that good microphones were used. it don't seem to be about the music necessarily.

― duke off, Wednesday, 5 May 2004 19:05 (twenty-two years ago)

hey if i played rubberband man rmx over jadakiss 'champ is here' and went and listened next door i would get the best track on sung tongs!

― prima fassy (mwah), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 19:08 (twenty-two years ago)

whoa

― duke boo-yaa, Wednesday, 5 May 2004 19:14 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't look at it as "progress" so much as a detour. They'll go back and do something noisy soon enough I'm sure, but they're developing this one side of their sound on this record and I think they do so quite nicely. But it's definitely more accesible than anything else they've done so of course more people are going to like it.

― Mark (MarkR), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 19:20 (twenty-two years ago)

rumors have it one of them is moving to Portugal, so I wonder how much they'll be doing together in the future.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 19:24 (twenty-two years ago)

but the noise is by the by! thats the whole thing, the old stuff was just as accessible

― prima fassy (mwah), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 19:26 (twenty-two years ago)

prima otm

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 19:26 (twenty-two years ago)

shorter songs and obviousness is a pretty poor understanding of "poppier"

― prima fassy (mwah), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 19:34 (twenty-two years ago)

word

― duke letter, Wednesday, 5 May 2004 19:37 (twenty-two years ago)

they played to like 20 ppl here and everyone liked it.
un-beleivable live. great albums. prefer here comes to danse manatee.

peace,
a

― andrew jones (andrew jones), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 21:07 (twenty-two years ago)

heard four songs of theirs now and my reactions range from vague interest ('penny dreadfuls') to active dislike ('you could win a rabbit').

― m. (mitchlnw), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 21:14 (twenty-two years ago)

the one time i listened to sung tongs outside, as the sun was going down, drinking a beer, half falling asleep, it sounded GREAT. the rest of the time, less great, but still pretty good. if it's "pop" anything it's the "pop" version of campfire songs, but what made that record so good was how long the songs all went on for, droning into each other.

i still think they've yet to top spirit... to be perfectly honest.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 21:16 (twenty-two years ago)

"Campfire Songs" might be the greatest nap album of all time.

― sexyDancer, Wednesday, 5 May 2004 21:20 (twenty-two years ago)

agreed. i was listening to it every night before i went to bed for a long while there in the fall.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 21:23 (twenty-two years ago)

i saw them last friday and they were fantastic, definitely well worth going to see them. but i'm probably not going to go tonight as i am teaching in cambridge all day and will be tired. but we'll see.

― toby (tsg20), Thursday, 6 May 2004 05:37 (twenty-two years ago)

is there a nonantagonistic way of saying i find the occasional "u gotta be in the right mood" apologism a bit suspect? here comes the indian made me feel that way, not the other way round. i will make the effort to here spirit... tho. 'you could win a rabbit' sux 4real. i'm not sure i get where fluxblog's coming from at all. come to think of it strike 3 on my sophomore slump fauxpop hitlist might be fiery furnaces! my indie operatives darkly grumble something about fatboy slim. but i'm reserving judgement on them for now, u know what indie ppl r like after all

― prima fassy (mwah), Thursday, 6 May 2004 14:33 (twenty-two years ago)

What am I missing with these guys? I'd rather just listen to the Wicker Man soundtrack.

― adam (adam), Thursday, 6 May 2004 15:14 (twenty-two years ago)

i find the occasional "u gotta be in the right mood" apologism a bit suspect

Agreed, but no more suspect than "it sounds great on a spring night driving on the highway with the windows rolled down." What *doesn't* sound great then?

And music that's "right for every occasion or mood" probably sounds like eggshell wallpaper.

― Evanston Wade (EWW), Thursday, 6 May 2004 15:28 (twenty-two years ago)

epilogue: haha i did go see em that nite, but everyone stood me up so i ws alone and sad and thus the gig was like woooooooo! ironing huh. but er objectively they were terrific, and they can do it acoustic too. they oughta lose the scary rabbit head prop if they don't totally want to be the donnie darko soundtrack band tho

― prima fassy (mwah), Saturday, 8 May 2004 08:06 (twenty-two years ago)

new video:

http://www.fat-cat.co.uk/amcollective_small.mov (8megs)
http://www.fat-cat.co.uk/amcollective_large.mov (20megs)

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 14 May 2004 17:15 (twenty-two years ago)

be sure to watch during your lunch break

― dleone (dleone), Friday, 14 May 2004 17:22 (twenty-two years ago)

that's not the innocuous suggestion it appears to be, it's a trap!

― duke barf, Friday, 14 May 2004 18:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Eat y'self fitter!

― sexyDancer, Friday, 14 May 2004 18:15 (twenty-two years ago)

i kept waiting for it to get weird, and then it did.

― mark p (Mark P), Friday, 14 May 2004 18:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Eat y'self fitter?

― mcd (mcd), Friday, 14 May 2004 18:21 (twenty-two years ago)

sell sell sell

― myke boomnoise (myke boomnoise), Friday, 14 May 2004 18:47 (twenty-two years ago)

You're too smart for here:
http://www.cherryred.co.uk/crzone/newletters/may03/fall.jpg

― sexyDancer, Friday, 14 May 2004 18:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Wot's a computer?

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 14 May 2004 18:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Eat each other?

― mcd (mcd), Friday, 14 May 2004 19:11 (twenty-two years ago)

I said-ah G-O-H-O-H-O-9-O-G-O-H-O-H-O-9-O-G-O-H-O-H-O-9-O-H-O-9-O-G-O-H-O

― SexyDancer, Friday, 14 May 2004 19:25 (twenty-two years ago)

there's another, live video hidden on the fat cat web page, show's 'em playing "winter's love" with a segway into the "she's gonna have a baby" chant. it's about six or seven minutes i reckon.

www.fat-cat.co.uk/animal_web.mov

it's nice!

― naturemorte, Saturday, 15 May 2004 04:14 (twenty-two years ago)

three months pass...

So I've been listening to AC lately and I like them and everything, it's nice, but I'm also thinking that this is kinda Phish for people who hate Phish. Something about the combination of cuteness and twiddlyness (granted, they're production/sound geeks instead of virtuoso jam geeks, but that's what I mean about being for people who hate Phish). And even though people who hate Phish might like Animal Collective, I bet people who love Phish would like them too.

― spittle (spittle), Thursday, 26 August 2004 05:39 (twenty-one years ago)

and/or they're Sigur Ros if Sigur Ros was from Brooklyn or wherever Animal Collective is from...

...or they're the Polyphonic Spree for noize dudes...

...or the Moldy Peaches for Laurie Anderson fans...

― spittle (spittle), Thursday, 26 August 2004 05:45 (twenty-one years ago)

spittle, rolling stone said the exact same thing about ac and phish in their review of sung tongs.

― tom cleveland (tom cleveland), Thursday, 26 August 2004 11:09 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm having some conceptual trouble reconciling their jam bandiness with my hatred of all things jam bandy. as you suggested, the sound/production angle let's me pretend that it's the processed semi-formless noise that i'm responding to and not the noodly bongo strum bits but i'm not sure i believe myself. that said, i can only really get behind a relatively tiny portion of their output

― m. (mitchlnw), Thursday, 26 August 2004 11:58 (twenty-one years ago)

i see them as what would happen if the Beach Boys had taken loads of acid in the monkey house at the zoo. i don't like to think of them as a jam band in any way whatsoever.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 26 August 2004 12:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I got more of a Phish vibe from the last Black Dice album. The spacier (non-Hawaiian-sounding) guitar parts really remind me of Phish's more ambient stuff.

― Holla back Trey, Thursday, 26 August 2004 14:15 (twenty-one years ago)

b-b-b-but they don't jam!

― Bbeta, Thursday, 26 August 2004 16:09 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, the phish comparison upthread leads me to believe that person has has heard neither phish nor animal collective.

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 26 August 2004 16:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm confused, too, especially if that's being leveled w/r/t Sung Tongs: the parts of the album I like best I like best almost entirely because they're so coherently-crafted -- despite, you know, sounding like they wouldn't be. (It's the distance between "meow, kitties" as a Kogan-style "free lunch" throw-in and "meow, kitties" as a composition!)

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 26 August 2004 16:19 (twenty-one years ago)

the panda bear album leaked on slsk the other day... it sounds like what i imagined
animal collective would sound like by the way people describe them -- whereas animal
collective themselves seem to remain more or less indescribable (in alternately good and
bad ways).
i'm going to go see them at the echo in LA this weekend... anybody seen this tour yet?
playing with black dice... last time i saw black dice they sounded like lightning bolt
which i wasn't in to... what should i expect from both camps?

sung tongs is describable i guess.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Thursday, 26 August 2004 16:47 (twenty-one years ago)

they are selling the panda bear cd/album (well this is his 2nd record) on this tour for $10.

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 26 August 2004 16:49 (twenty-one years ago)

hm. then am i thinking of an avey tare solo record? someone's father died and an
album was recorded memorially... that's what i knew... i had trouble placing this panda
bear record... which was s/t, as that album, by the sound of it.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Thursday, 26 August 2004 16:53 (twenty-one years ago)

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