Animal Collective - Feels

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Saw them tonight on NY Noise. They suck. The whole NY Noise show sucked. The guy from Ariel Pink looks like Andrew I noticed.

Zepp Floyd, Wednesday, 26 October 2005 03:06 (eighteen years ago) link

I've gotta say Feels is growing on me a lot - there aren't many bad tracks on it at all. Still, I'm gonna say Sung Tongs will probably always be my favourite. Something about Feels just makes AC sound all the more like human beings and in a strange way reveals a lot of flaws. With ST, you really were given the impression that the band was made up of mutants from an isolated peninsula on the other side of the world, singing in some kind of pidgen English and playing the kind of music that they'd grown up with all their lives in an outback bush somewhere. Feels is a great alternative American album but doesn't quite capture the otherworldly semi-logic of ST.

dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 06:20 (eighteen years ago) link

2005: Everyone is Human After All?

Beta (abeta), Friday, 28 October 2005 15:02 (eighteen years ago) link

whereas i ultimately found ST to be front-loaded (and i concur with dave's assessment that the album was a tad 'goofy') Feels has a real emotional weight to it. and the back-half, while incredibly slooooow, is just stunning.

Beta (abeta), Friday, 28 October 2005 15:06 (eighteen years ago) link

Saw them tonight on NY Noise. They suck.

they were fucking terrible the one time I saw them live as well. I just don't think they work live, or whatever it is they do live, I don't like it. the records are great though!

kyle (akmonday), Friday, 28 October 2005 15:33 (eighteen years ago) link

I thought they were great live -- but it sounds like it varies a lot from tour to tour.

Mark (MarkR), Friday, 28 October 2005 15:50 (eighteen years ago) link

Knitting Factory shows last year were incredible...the Irving Plaza show from January was almost painful...definitely hit or miss

Space Is the Place (Space Is the Place), Friday, 28 October 2005 20:45 (eighteen years ago) link

and re: emotional weight...I don't think they'll top Winter's Love

Space Is the Place (Space Is the Place), Friday, 28 October 2005 20:47 (eighteen years ago) link

I saw the same show as kyle and they were pretty bad, kind of embarassing.

F.R.I.E.N.D. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 October 2005 20:50 (eighteen years ago) link

like 5 year olds on sugar!

kyle (akmonday), Friday, 28 October 2005 20:52 (eighteen years ago) link

this does not deplete how good I think Feels is though

kyle (akmonday), Friday, 28 October 2005 20:53 (eighteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...
So I'm finally hearing "Grass" and the first minute was surprisingly powerful and beautiful. Finally, an Animal Collective song I could truly enjoy!

But then they started singing. Oh well.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 21:06 (eighteen years ago) link

thanks for that, dick.

tom west (thomp), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 22:44 (eighteen years ago) link

I weep bitter tears. Or not.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 00:01 (eighteen years ago) link

Music critics listen to music funny.

detoxyDancer (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 00:35 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeh, I wasn't talking about live. I saw their videos and they suck on recording. So I guess that means they suck live and on recording. Yay.

Zepp Floyd, Wednesday, 16 November 2005 01:16 (eighteen years ago) link

I would like to suck on some recording.

Does anybody have extra?

Dr. Gene Scott (shinybeast), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 01:29 (eighteen years ago) link

I can't imagine not liking Feels. To me it sounds like some of the happiest (and most genuinely happy) music ever laid to tape.

Matt McEver (mattmc387), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 02:50 (eighteen years ago) link

i like their singing, but can understand why it would grate on some people.

amon (eman), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 03:01 (eighteen years ago) link

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amon (eman), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 03:02 (eighteen years ago) link

i liked grass too, then i realized the singing reminded me of les claypool

fredeidka, Wednesday, 16 November 2005 05:42 (eighteen years ago) link

three months pass...
Interesting Avey Tare interview (mp3) here: http://www.thephoenix.com/OnTheDownload/PermaLink.aspx?guid=8d3b783b-804c-4ca5-9f62-f51ac12c722b

Nigel (Nigel), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 18:52 (eighteen years ago) link

four months pass...
oowweeee....Banshee Beat is definitely one of the best songs of the millenium!

Aditya (dan138zig), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 04:55 (seventeen years ago) link

still listen to this album about once a week or so and it's still really good. it's like geogaddi in that you enjoy it more if you put it away for a while and then take it out again.

wogan lenin (dog latin), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 08:12 (seventeen years ago) link

i agree. lately when i put it on it's quite enjoyable

held tony (held tony), Thursday, 20 July 2006 06:13 (seventeen years ago) link

It's pretty interesting that Scott Colburn, who engineered "Feels", is now recording the next Arcade Fire record, given that "Feels" had a bit of an affinity with that band on certain songs (esp. how the piano was used, to my ears), even though AC hadn't heard AF while making it...

Craig Dunsmuir (Craig D.), Thursday, 20 July 2006 13:48 (seventeen years ago) link

i find that hard to believe. both bands must read pitchfork, no?

wogan lenin (dog latin), Thursday, 20 July 2006 13:54 (seventeen years ago) link

God, I love "Flesh Canoe."

...like a mushed banana on your tooth

Tape Store (Tape Store), Thursday, 20 July 2006 16:21 (seventeen years ago) link


"still listen to this album about once a week or so and it's still really good. it's like geogaddi in that you enjoy it more if you put it away for a while and then take it out again."

---I'm the exact opposite for this record. Haven't dusted it off since last fall. ----

kevin barking (arghargh), Thursday, 20 July 2006 16:37 (seventeen years ago) link

I still can't get myself to like Flesh Canoe, Bees, and Daffy Duck, though. But still, I don't skip them.

Aditya (dan138zig), Friday, 21 July 2006 06:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, this record kind of blows, quite honestly. The live shows in Spring 05 were...well...I would say really fucking great. The album's production and compression are awful, and the overall feel of the songs is thus diminished. But the live sets? They are so so good.

trees (treesessplode), Friday, 21 July 2006 06:09 (seventeen years ago) link

solution: buy a cheaper record player

tom west (thomp), Friday, 21 July 2006 12:08 (seventeen years ago) link

one year passes...

my favourite of their albums

still haven't totally gotten over feeling slightly irked by long indie songs, but these songs are compelling and ambient. i keep going back to this album over all the others, and actually prefer that gentler, more restrained side to their music than the racier stuff...

Charlie Howard, Monday, 17 March 2008 03:53 (sixteen years ago) link

The beginning of the end.

I know, right?, Monday, 17 March 2008 03:55 (sixteen years ago) link

no maybe sung tongs is the beginning of the end. it is unclear.

I know, right?, Monday, 17 March 2008 03:55 (sixteen years ago) link

but then sung tongs has mouth wooed her which is in many ways a whole new beginning for everything and also leaf house which is an ideal denouement for a lot of other things which do not get included in the everything upbrella group

I know, right?, Monday, 17 March 2008 04:01 (sixteen years ago) link

yeah of all bands you'd think would be shit live, AC really do deliver dont they? i dont really like strawberry jam but i caught them in portland for their strawberry jam tour and fuck me if it wasnt one of the best rock shows i think ive ever seen, seizure-inducing light show notwithstanding

uptown churl, Monday, 17 March 2008 06:57 (sixteen years ago) link

The beginning of the end.

-- I know, right?, Sunday, March 16, 2008 10:55 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

no maybe sung tongs is the beginning of the end. it is unclear.

-- I know, right?, Sunday, March 16, 2008 10:55 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

The end is the beginning is the end.

(Seriously though, all albums great, and Feels ranks high among 'em.)

stephen, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 01:55 (sixteen years ago) link

three years pass...

ooooooooooo oooooooooooo ooooooooooo you should turn into something

markers, Monday, 13 June 2011 15:28 (twelve years ago) link

\(^o^)/

markers, Monday, 13 June 2011 15:28 (twelve years ago) link

^^^^^

Bus to Yoker (dog latin), Monday, 13 June 2011 15:49 (twelve years ago) link

i was going to mention in the other thread how much i like the lyrics to turn into something

mizzell, Monday, 13 June 2011 15:55 (twelve years ago) link

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Oh twisted me I came to eat at the hall where we danced to some duds
My crowd of pals observed my fingers and prayed for the lunch I had hung
And cheers rolled out and I thought early of tunas in tennisons tubs.

That should turn into something
You should turn into something

Oh blissful bleed I came out peaking and leaked out like a wet clown
My tears rolled down and arms went round at night I gapped at her gowns
So often green but she held me my curtains were covered in hounds

She Said

Mom "Oh my sweet goodness wish you could be here every time"
Mom " But don't miss me goodness because I rub away every time"
Baby "Then groan at the goodness but do you mean not every time?"
Baby "Then gone in the goodness wish I could stay here every time"

A mistful meet with teachers speaking there muffled by buzzes and hums
So headphone tones do float me home my chair was begging to come
And I'm not bummed some works not fun then we crawl in the carpet like bugs

Unrestful eve i sipped on leaks and sat in the room had a grudge
The jumping dust made catfish bust from corners now dripping with mud
And she knocked twice and we got silly and noone knew what would come..

She said

Lover "Oh my sweet goodness wish you could be here every time"
Lover "But don't miss me goodness because I rub away every time"
Other lover "Then groan at the goodness but do you mean not every time"
Other lover "Then gone in the goodness wish I could stay here every time"

But you'll turn into something
You should turn into something

mizzell, Monday, 13 June 2011 15:55 (twelve years ago) link

Still my favourite album of the oughts. :D

EDB, Tuesday, 14 June 2011 22:35 (twelve years ago) link

three years pass...

still one of the most profoundly & ineffably beautiful/moving albums i've ever heard. sort of cant believe it's 9 years this month since i first heard it.

i also enjoy in line skateing (spazzmatazz), Sunday, 3 August 2014 02:27 (nine years ago) link

i remember early in high school someone told me about this album and i would look at it in the itunes store and play samples from each of the tracks (didn't have enough $ to buy it). the sample of "Grass" was so appealing to me but I was confused by the screaming. anyway, the album seemed like a window into a whole world of cool music i didn't understand but wanted to be acquainted with.

Treeship, Sunday, 3 August 2014 02:33 (nine years ago) link

i was 12, in the thick of becoming really, really obsessed with music. i remember lots of people on other boards talking about it, and I got the leak on OiNK (RIP). i must've already heard grass and liked it. i dont remember listening to the first three songs for the first time, but the moment The Purple Bottle started is etched in my mind. that hannah barberra technicolor sound of the galloping drums, a stunning visual - the heartbeat, the big big beat. still one of my favorite love songs ever. "crush high"

i also enjoy in line skateing (spazzmatazz), Sunday, 3 August 2014 03:18 (nine years ago) link

i told someone that the purple bottle was my favorite anco song once and he sneered and said that was their "poppiest" song.

Treeship, Sunday, 3 August 2014 03:24 (nine years ago) link

all the jam band fans they gained around the turn of the decade are so annoying - especially, and I'm not speaking about you, the use of the acronym "AnCo," which was created by Carles/Hipster Runoff as a joke. But it took off even though it's another dumb acronym in the baby voice style of HR - i.e. vampy weeks. but ppl use AnCo sincerely. what also bugs me is that they already had an acronym - the AC! - which is way cooler anyway. end rant

i also enjoy in line skateing (spazzmatazz), Sunday, 3 August 2014 03:30 (nine years ago) link

u guys r young. back in my day collected animals were all fields. but i was young then too and being an animal collective fan was quite exciting. the speed at which they were moving through so many great ideas. i saw them do feels songs live even before sung tongs came out! that was good.

Merdeyeux, Sunday, 3 August 2014 16:58 (nine years ago) link


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