[ROYGBIV]

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[roopn]

hey chill, go over here, it's basically panda love all round http://collectedanimals.org/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=2673

[coollodges]

I still remember when I first heard about this album from ethmin and for months I thought it was called person pinch.

this is one of the most psychedelic albums of all time and changed the way I think about/make music forever. Thanks Mr. Noah.

[bansheebeaten]

roopn wrote:

hey chill, go over here, it's basically panda love all round http://collectedanimals.org/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=2673

nobody is more chill than rgb.

this thread needs to be here.

pp is probably in my top 3 for the AC discog, if not 2nd or 1st place. it's everything I neeeed. damn there is nothing that cheers/chills me more than these lyrics and sounds. hearing this album was when I realized how deeply I could relate to people I don't even know through music.

so important

[roopn]

ok then

[jetski]

Person Pitch is truly one of a kind. It feels like there's this entire entire universe packed into the album. I've only been listening to it for about a year now, much shorter than many other fans, but it's already become one of my favorite albums of all time.

Did you guys know that PB used royalty-free sound effects on the album? I didn't know until very recently. From a 2007 Drowned in Sound feature: "There are a lot of weird random sound effects and stuff that I got off royalty free sound-effect sites". So, the Greaper sessions weren't the first time that he used "stock" sounds. Kinda cool.

I also very recently learned that Lou Barlow is a huge fan. Here's a great lil blurb he wrote about the album for Magnet Magazine in '09 (source here). The bit about the layering of stereo tracks is pretty insane, if you ask me:

Lou Barlow wrote:

I’ve been listening to Panda Bear‘s Person Pitch for two years now, at one point every day for two months. I got drunk enough to follow Panda around at a festival in Spain last year, asking him how he recorded, seeking clarification of certain lyrics. Apparently, every track on Person Pitch is stereo; that is, every sound is a stereo recording—and some songs have 98 stereo tracks stacked on one another. That’s 196 tracks, and some of that is owls, trains and boats. You know how people say that Sgt. Pepper “sounds different every time you hear it”? Person Pitch changes with room temperature. You know how people like to talk about “experimental” artists who use “found sounds” to create “catchy pop music”? (I do, anyway.) This is the only thing I’ve ever heard that lives up to that description. Once the melodies were in my head, I was listening obsessively. Once my interpretation of the lyrics started to mean everything I wanted them to, I was done. Person Pitch was and is another Favorite Record Ever. And it never ever sounds the same twice. Unlike Sgt. Pepper.

[kingo]

person pitch
perfect piece (of music)

[ROYGBIV]

its coool yo thanks for vouching for my credibility BB lol
Feelin so much love for this album lately, everythin weve all been through (tomboy grim reaper nickis anaconda etc) its nice to go back to this stuff/really appreciate it. I guess in my minds eye for a while it was a good album to JUST CHILL to but its got everythin I love yall dig

ALL I WANT TO DO IS TAKE IT EASY

[ROYGBIV]

Victor_Borge wrote:

Person Pitch is truly one of a kind. It feels like there's this entire entire universe packed into the album.

CLASSIC victor borge right here tellin it like it is

[ROYGBIV]

kingo wrote:

person pitch
perfect piece (of ass)

[ROYGBIV]

Herbally abusing this album right now

[kingo]

bros is god level

[kingo]

ROYGBIV wrote:

kingo wrote:

person pitch
perfect piece (of ass)

[kafkaesque]

this is my favorite album of all time.

[nevermind]

bros for life. the most repeated 12 minute song on my playlist. it goes by so fast and leaves me wanting for more.

[Tico]

STICKS AND STONES may BREAK my BONES but WORDS'LL NEVER HURT MEEEEEEEEEEEE

Spoiler: show

ALL i need to KNOW i knew so EARLYYYYYYYY

[terrestrialjane]

Bros feels so right this time of year and right now as well : ))

[jetski]

^True, my niece was in my car when I had Person Pitch in the CD player and she said she thought Bros sounded like Christmas music. Hadn't thought of that before but it is kinda true

[sertman]

Lou Barlow's words ring very true with me when it comes to how different this album can sound based on the environment you listen to it in. Person Pitch has taken on new meanings and new interpretations, as well as sounds and feels different, consistently over the years and years I've been listening to it. It's without a doubt my favorite album of all time. I had no idea about the hundred+ layers on some of the songs... gives me more stuff to listen for.

My favorite song, if I had to pick one, is Search for Delicious... i remember the first time I had a psychedelic experience with this song... listening to his voice move in and out like you were fiddling with a radio frequency knob while his overarching layered droning vocals provided many different moving backdrops to the serenity.. but also the anxiety and the search for peace through catharsis... it was an unbelievable experience and i could see and hear it all so clearly... goosebumps on goosebumps on goosebumps.

but yeah Bros is amazing, Good Girl/Carrots is amazing, the whole thing is just fucking phenomenal.

[we tigers]

i realized the other day i gave away my person pitch vinyl to someone i used to work with and now i'm kinda kicking myself for it. the only digital copy i have is a weird compilation of singles so it isn't like one album but all broken up and weird idek. but damn i need to listen to it driving in this weird barren, warm, fake spring weather in the middle of winter more than i realized.

[ROYGBIV]

Tico wrote:

STICKS AND STONES may BREAK my BONES but WORDS'LL NEVER HURT MEEEEEEEEEEEE

Spoiler: show

ALL i need to KNOW i knew so EARLYYYYYYYY

Got IRL chills jus now readin this spoiler

[ROYGBIV]

holy heck i was outside just now just chillin drinkin a beer on my front porch and it was dark and cold and still and i was listenin to BROS and after a few moments jus closin my eyes feelin it I looked up and there were 3 HUGE deer in my front lawn and then a 4th one came and they all stopped and were all staring at me and I was BREATHLESS for a long ass time and i stayed very still it felt like had stopped even though bros was still playing and then they started walkin towards me and i got scared they would charge or something (Im such a WIMP) so i went to light a smoke and the biggest one that was starin first was like O_O and trotted away and then they all trotted awayy i was like damn i shouldnt have been so spooked now I miss those bros

[terrestrialjane]

it's moments like that make me appreciate life even more ... nice story ROYG !

[jetski]

Sometimes AC/Panda Bear songs mysteriously sync up with your life. I think many of us have experienced it. It can almost seem serendipitous

[sertman]

Victor_Borge wrote:

Sometimes AC/Panda Bear songs mysteriously sync up with your life. I think many of us have experienced it. It can almost seem serendipitous

Well I think that's what makes AC/PB so endearing... despite the complexity and layered nature of their songs, they always revolve around very human themes that can apply to us at almost any point in our life. Look at a song like Daily Routine - no matter if you're in grade school, or college, or work in the real world, or are a stay at home parent.. you will be able to relate to that song. and the lyrics and sounds leave enough up to the interpretation of the listener that everyone is able to imprint their own experiences and feelings onto the song... 5 different people can listen to the song and feel differently about the same thing... or one person listens to the same song 5 different periods of their life and it means different things.. it happens with other bands but moreso with AnCo/PB for some reason, i just don't seem to outgrow their music and it is continuously evolving with my life instead of just being relevant for a part of it and then fading into the distance. i'd imagine many other people find the same thing. the longevity of this forum being tribute to that.

[Tico]

ROYG, that kinda thing happens to me all the time in my deer-infested neighorhood. ill stop my car randomly and have incredible staring contests with deer. one time i did it with a fox on this oen street and i saw it like three more times within a two month period afterwards

[JohnsonNoise]

very well said, sertman. I have a feeling that PB's last three records will stick with me and remain relevant 20 years from now.

[whats that twitching]

"I'm Not" is so gut-wrenchingly beautiful i actually can't listen to it anymore. i remember too many gone people. the sample gets too sad ha ha. what a song though

[bansheebeaten]

ROYGBIV wrote:

Tico wrote:

STICKS AND STONES may BREAK my BONES but WORDS'LL NEVER HURT MEEEEEEEEEEEE

Spoiler: show

ALL i need to KNOW i knew so EARLYYYYYYYY

Got IRL chills jus now readin this spoiler

ever since i heard it this has always been my fave song of all the AC discog.

it's exactly what i need almost all the time.

[N_______B]

been so into Carrots lately

[sertman]

N_______B wrote:

been so into Carrots lately

good girl/carrots has really taken ahold of me lately, ive been listening to it all the time. the way that he echos his voice in good girl is way, way too good.

theres no one else out there, who can hang like i do

[crikit]

bansheebeaten wrote:

hearing this album was when I realized how deeply I could relate to people I don't even know through music.

me too

[HowardTJMoon]

N_______B wrote:

been so into Carrots lately

that beat and single piano note is probably the best thing he's ever done musically

[Untitled]

I love the samples on Person Pitch

[bansheebeaten]

gg/carrots is a good topic

I've dumped love for it all over the forum and my own artwork. it's been my favorite track from the entire AC/side projects discog for a long time.. which I know is dramatic, but that's what happens to be true. I connect sooo much with it - it's an emotion I feel is under-represented in music. not anger, but a slow burn.. a touch of sadness and a lot of rationality. this is both in the lyrics and more importantly the sound. the stops (tick.. -et/pick.. at) are so unique and full of feeling. I think good girl is a huge part of the combined track as well.. they shouldn't be separated.

a lot of noah's songs and especially new material feel "long" in terms of the length of time their concepts cover, if that makes sense - boys latin talking about a life change that takes place over many years and such. gg/carrots on the other hand feels instantaneous. a blip of a feeling but one that is strong and frequent and important to address.

I spend a lot of time singing along to this really loudly in my car.

[N_______B]

it definitely is an important part of the whole track.. together the song to me is like:
Good Girl - i know you're nervous
Carrots - but just go for it / you'll never know if you don't try
I especially love the closing lines: "take a risk just for yourself and wade into the deep end of the ocean"

also, does that bird chirp sound at the end of carrots come up again somewhere in another song? maybe in Oddsac or something??

[lavalanche]

[jetski]

N_______B wrote:

together the song to me is like:
Good Girl - i know you're nervous
Carrots - but just go for it / you'll never know if you don't try

Yeah I feel the same way about the flow from one part to another. The music reflects it too—Good Girl has that urgent tabla beat and syncopated vocal rhythms. Then the first half of Carrots slows the tempo a bit and the vocal line is a little more playful/carefree, although that piano loop keeps things intense. Then once you get to the second half of Carrots, all the tension is gone, and the sound just washes over you.

I also like how the lyrics are a lil bit self-aware in the second half of Carrots—he sings "it's good to sometimes slow it down" soon after the song literally slows down.

[CokePotCrack]

OMG U GUYS PP IS MY SHIIEEET.

I used to be what you might call a nihilist, and I was really depressed and aggressive about it, but then I decided I wanted to change and be positive and happy. Around this time I first heard PP, and everything about it WAS ME. I cant explain it. I feel like I Noah made it for me.
Anyway, I listened to the lyrics, learned em, and that only super deepened my love for PP and the panda, who I already loved. The whole vibe of the album and especially the lyrics made such sense to me, it was like, exactly what I wanted/needed to hear.

Anyway, I don't do it as much/in quite the same way I once did, but I basically made the lyrics and feelings behind PP the tenets of my own mental religion, which I called "rockness;" which is all about being intuitive, honest, and constant in your views. The panda speaks, and I hear god's voice, reassuring me, telling me to calm down, be myself, and be real.

I don't really practice rockness anymore, but the idea as influenced me MAJORLY. Also, I was talking to someone about it, describing it and such, and this person told me it sounds very similar to daoism, and that makes sense to me. I often got the feeling listening to PP, that it was sort of about trying to be like an eastern monk in a crazy western world.

That's the whole thing. Love ya'll.

Oh wait it's not. Not from PP but still some classic panda wisdom:
I KEEP IT REAL WITH MYSELF AND NEVER LET OBSESSIONS WIT CONNECTIONS TO AN OUTSIDE SOURCE ETC.

[jetski]

CokePotCrack wrote:

Also, I was talking to someone about it, describing it and such, and this person told me it sounds very similar to daoism, and that makes sense to me. I often got the feeling listening to PP, that it was sort of about trying to be like an eastern monk in a crazy western world.

This is cool especially cause the album sounds kinda Eastern to me. The songs are like ragas cause of the repetitiveness. And the melodies are Eastern-sounding at times, especially at the end of Take Pills, and in the '08 full band version of Comfy when PB changes up the vocal melody.

Person Pitch is definitely therapeutic