Animal Collective - Merriweather POLL Pavilion

I would vote for that approx. 1 minute interlude between Guy's Eyes and Taste.

That horrible wedding video that went viral certainly didn't help.

it's weird how much i ended up avoiding this band....i had sung tongs on CD and it was pretty decent danielson famile type eccentric xian summer camp goofy psych bongo stuff but never heard much later

As thin as gruel and as uplifting as an elevator to the second floor

this is funny but v true

i remember when this album came out and this song came out. the next day i was in a club and this song started and ppl were like "oh shit here we go!" but what followed was a minute or so of forced dancing then everyone walking away until they put on Bowie or Prince or whathaveyou. it was dancefloor killer.

Adobe is one of the more basic substances used to build houses and has been around for thousands of years, so it seems like what's going on inside the house is more important thn its actual appearance. the one line of note I find interesting is that they refer to their social status as a "material thing." maybe that classification ...

As thin as gruel and as uplifting as an elevator to the second floor

this is funny but v true

i remember when this album came out and this song came out. the next day i was in a club and this song started and ppl were like "oh shit here we go!" but what followed was a minute or so of forced dancing then everyone walking away until they put on Bowie or Prince or whathaveyou. it was dancefloor killer.

― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, May 3, 2018 9:50 AM (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's not a dance song. go to better clubs

oh i stopped going to club altogether like over 5 years ago. keep in mind this was in a dive bar that plays the usual stuff and indie rock.

this album is pretty overrated but i still love my girls despite the corny lyrics

cant imagine it really working on the dancefloor though, like maybe without the long intro

maybe this is AC's big trick. rather than something like Kraftwerk, this is electronic music you CAN'T dance to.

hard to pick a best song tbh, the album is so stacked and works really well as a piece. gun to my head tho it's either Guys Eyes or Brother Sport

*rolls eyes* so it's taken y'all ten years to realise what some of us were saying at the time huh

Feels like the pro and anti-AnCo are the same as they were ten years ago.

pro and anti-AnCo camps. I mean.

ac jumped the shark for me when they went all ritalin hyped N high energy circa Centpidede HZ

fuck that's music to make you wanna gouge yerself

hot pocket take: alfred is OTM, another thing that bugs me about this song is how it celebrates a facile gentrified life which is equivocal with social status...it's an insincere song and an anthem for nihilists, but alfred pointed all this out i'm sure.

I guess xp

this album wasn't as discouraged as I wish it had been. now you have stuff like the new Palm album, revisiting its hateful showy tunelessness and arch polyrhythmic fuss as if that's what indie is supposed to be these days

fully aware that this opinion will irk some of you but ilm is nothing if not a melting-pot of opinions. and hey I just advertised the Palm album to MPP's advocates. get on that shit -_-

alfred is OTM, another thing that bugs me about this song is how it celebrates a facile gentrified life which is equivocal with social status..

^^^ this

I don't think My Girls celebrates or yearns for a gentrified life. "I just want four walls and adobe slats for my girls" = I just want the bare minimum - shelter - to be with and protect my family.

oh come on that is the most transparent false modesty in pop history

the Palm record does not sound like MPP, more like Strawberry Jam or late 00s bands like Abe Vigoda.

xp is it?

The big problem when Animal Collective crossed over in the year end list bonanza was suddenly all these people interpreting whatever Animal Collective had to say about anything.

also assuming that the song is completely autobiographical, which is a mistake imo. if anything MPP could be criticized for fully embracing the cultural tourism of tribalism more so than any other AC record. the song that immediately follows My Girls, Also Frightened, is all about living in the jungle and shit. I always read the lyrics as very primal, as if spoken from the perspective of early man. Which like I said has potentially problematic implications, but it's definitely not a pro-gentrification song.

The big problem when Animal Collective crossed over in the year end list bonanza was suddenly all these people interpreting whatever Animal Collective had to say about anything.

― Van Horn Street, Thursday, May 3, 2018 2:23 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah, this is OTM. they're storytellers, they've never written a message song, a lot of their lyrics (esp. avey tare) are on their face laughable/silly. I think the only topic they've ever written about with any kind of depth or insight is love.

They make strange campfire songs about being kid tigers, bee and canoes and even something about how a bat will fly and the dude writes this one song about how his dad passed away and how he wants to be a good father and people call him insincere and a gentrifier, wonder if they ever stood a chance with some people.

his second solo album Young Prayer is entirely about the death of his dad yeah, plus references in "Brother Sport" and "Tropic of Cancer" from PBVSGR

Ross OTM, although I'd argue they jumped the shark the moment they formed and unfortunately weren't eaten by that very same shark.

i dont live in a camp there are songs i like and songs i dont

I don't think My Girls celebrates or yearns for a gentrified life. "I just want four walls and adobe slats for my girls" = I just want the bare minimum - shelter - to be with and protect my family.

― flappy bird, Thursday, May 3, 2018 2:20 PM (fifty-seven minutes ago) Bookmark

yeah didn't they have kids around this time? to me it seemed like a post 2k take on domesticity (filtered through world music compilations)

idk the idea they're storytellers seems weird to me, at best on feels/st they did communication ideas about family/isolation whatever, but they're pretty dada to me

communicate*

well adam apparently you live in a cave if your sn is anything to go by :p

yeah

/I don't think My Girls celebrates or yearns for a gentrified life. "I just want four walls and adobe slats for my girls" = I just want the bare minimum - shelter - to be with and protect my family.

― flappy bird, Thursday, May 3, 2018 2:20 PM (fifty-seven minutes ago) Bookmark/

yeah didn't they have kids around this time? to me it seemed like a post 2k take on domesticity (filtered through world music compilations)

MPP is mostly stories, not as abstract lyrically as Feels or SJ

I like the lyrics to Monkey Riches. One of the better post-Occupy indie songs written.

Flappy you can have this one

Discussing or arguing about ac is a thing I Just Don’t Care About

very understandable

You’re great tho :)

surely it's 'immaterial things'?
also, Merriweather was not a good album but the 7 track EP with' What Would I Want Sky' was excellent and a lot of the stuff they did before was also excellent

Van Horn Street preaching truth through this thread :-)

it is ‘material things,’ and fwiw the song was originally called ‘house’

well adam apparently you live in a cave if your sn is anything to go by :p

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the one line of note I find interesting is that they refer to their social status as a "material thing." maybe that classification ...

― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Thursday, May 3, 2018 6:56 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I always thought it was poor writing; that the 'like' should have been 'as'. ("I don't mean, To seem like I care about material things Like as our social status") Which still isn't correct but makes more sense.

One of the worst things about AC is something that seems to be forced onto them: that the world suddenly thought it extremely important to completely dissect and interpret what is just a dumb lyric. Dumb lyrics do not deserve such scrutiny. I'm not saying it's through no fault of their own; I'm pretty sure they did not mind being the posterboys for Carles/Hipster Runoff ~ironic~ schtick. Still though, that seems like decades ago (gladly so).

I don't care about AC any more, but My Girls is still a jam. And 'false modesty' is a meaningless indictment against pretty much every lyricist, or author, or poet imo.

good mourning!

lmao

Adam - my main man

I saw them on the feels tour and they were playing strawberry jam.

I still really like the run of Animal Collective albums from Sung Tongs to this one but have never really paid much attention to their lyrics, or even thought much about the lines that stand out like the My Girls one. They're a 'sound' band for me. Adam Bruneau's anecdote about people trying dance to them in a club rings very true though, definitely experienced that at least once.

Yeah, I've tried to put them on at parties as well, and it didn't work. And Peacebone worked much better than anything off of MPP. There was a misreading of them at that point, I also think In the Flowers got a lot of credit for having a 'dubstep drop', which sounds quite weird today. I think many writers struggled to figure out how they were as inspired by electronic music as they claimed to be, even on Sung Tongs, and overcorrected.

I'd still say Here Comes the Indian is their best, btw.

merriweather.....POOP pavilion

🎶 i want to scoop di poop with you 🎶

Shakedown otm