Collected Animals • Songs You've Come Around to

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Post **Posted:** Sat Feb 27, 2016 6:05 am

For a really long time I didn't like Turn into Something. I thought it was too shouty and felt like a forced rehash of Did You See the Words. Then the other day I read the lyrics and something clicked, I realised it's really joyous and fun! It's not a rehash, it's a recap, and exuberant farewell. And the drone section to finish it all off is to die for...

So what songs have you previously not cared for and then come around and realised are great?

Post **Posted:** Sat Feb 27, 2016 6:30 am

Moonjock. I can't even say what exactly I hated about it, but it reminded me too much of a demented Beatles throwback for some reason. But I started loving it and the awesome riffs in it suddenly and now it's one of my faves from Chz.

Post **Posted:** Sat Feb 27, 2016 6:51 am

roopn wrote:

And the drone section to finish it all off is to die for...

Panda's huge yell has always been one of the best moments in the ac discog for me

Post **Posted:** Sat Feb 27, 2016 7:41 am

Wastered. The first time I heard it I dismissed it as a boring ambient/droney track. But after really getting into HCTI and Hollindagain (like 4-5 years later) I gave it another chance, and I have to say it's pretty mesmerizing. Hearing the live versions of it also helped add to my appreciation for it.

Post **Posted:** Sat Feb 27, 2016 9:28 am

Meet the Light Child, for sure.

Post **Posted:** Sat Feb 27, 2016 10:48 am

Daffy Duck

Post **Posted:** Sat Feb 27, 2016 12:15 pm

Lion in a Coma for sure, used to be my least favorite on MPP but now its far from it.

Post **Posted:** Sat Feb 27, 2016 3:40 pm

roopn wrote:

And the drone section to finish it all off is to die for...

Very right you are good sir

Post **Posted:** Sat Feb 27, 2016 7:28 pm

Most of the noisy sections/songs on STGSTV (Untitled, parts of beginning of Alvin, beginning of April) were really grating to me but now they're probably my fav parts of the album

Actually most of their noisy era took a little while to get into, no surprise (two sails is now one of my favs by them too)

The last three songs on Sung Tongs didn't really fully click until I listened to the album on an acid comedown, hoooooo boy do I need ya now

Cuckoo Cuckoo was a little too aggressive for me until I hit an aggressive patch in my life and it kind of just started sounding better

Most of CHz (primarily Moonjock and the last three songs) also took a while to get into but only because I had a hard time getting over the dampish sound everything has. The songwriting I had no problem with or even the chaos, just the muddiness

Post **Posted:** Sat Feb 27, 2016 8:24 pm

Panic off of HCTI and most of Danse took a long time for me to get into, but I was revisiting the discography in preperarion for Painting With and everything clicked for me.

Post **Posted:** Sat Feb 27, 2016 11:25 pm

The Softest Voice and Visiting Friends - cause when I first heard this album I just wanted the pure sugar heroin pleasure delights of Sweet Road and Leafhouse but now these two are maybe my favourites from teh record.

Post **Posted:** Sun Feb 28, 2016 12:53 am

Winter Wonder Land. I used to find it a bit annoying, like they were doing the song at 2x speed, but now I love the wistful vibe of it I hadn't really noticed in the past.

Post **Posted:** Sun Feb 28, 2016 12:58 am

The biggest coming around on a song for me is probably In The Flowers or #1 for me. I didnt really get them for a while... now In the flowers is one of my fav songs on MPP and #1 on conan might be one of my favorite live videos.

Post **Posted:** Sun Feb 28, 2016 1:23 am

That's such a strange choice for a song to play on TV but I love it.

#1 took a long time to click for me too although In The Flowers was the track that made me fall in love with AnCo in the first place. It just clicked for me instantly.

Post **Posted:** Sun Feb 28, 2016 3:09 am

It took me a while to appreciate Banshee Beat (embarrassingly). Used to skip over it when I started listening to AC.

Post **Posted:** Sun Feb 28, 2016 3:24 am

drone is the biggest turnaround, went from absolutely loathing it to almost cryin a lil when listening

Post **Posted:** Sun Feb 28, 2016 3:26 am

O SHIT NO it's mouth wooed her. that went from below loathing/this is weird lame trash to being in my top 3 tracks of their whole discog

Post **Posted:** Sun Feb 28, 2016 3:28 am

Juan wrote:

It took me a while to appreciate Banshee Beat (embarrassingly). Used to skip over it when I started listening to AC.

The first couple of times I heard Banshee Beat it felt like it was way too long and repetitive. Took a while to unlock the puzzle

Post **Posted:** Sun Feb 28, 2016 6:52 am

Peacebone was a big one for me. SJ was the first AC record that I was waiting for to come out and when i saw the first live vid of them playing Peacebone I remember thinking they'd lost their melodic and lyrical abilities. the album was good and grew on me lots, but i kept my suspicion/grudge toward Peacebone for maybe years. i remember finally seeing the Said the Gramaphone fan video for it and just realizing the purpose of the song and seeing its spirit of fun for what it was and suddenly the melody and words were all beautiful, joyous, infectious.

flesh canoe was another. i always just found it pretty boring, meandering, skippable. it's now one of my favorite songs on the album and maybe in their discog and is a perfect piece of angelic wonder.

Post **Posted:** Sun Feb 28, 2016 7:01 am

Taste was another one for me. for a while I thought it was at the point of the album where the ideas stopped. Then I heard the pre-album version and fell in love with the harmonies and the WORDS! then I went back to the album version: although the pacing is different, everything I loved was still there. except for that sweet arpeggio but you can't have it all

Also definitely on the same page with the dudes saying flesh canoe and daffy duck

Post **Posted:** Sun Feb 28, 2016 7:18 am

actually Person Pitch was one that took a really long time (months or years, i cant remember) for me to get into in general. especially Comfy and Bros. Take Pills and Good Girl/Carrots eventually showed me the way in.

Post **Posted:** Sun Feb 28, 2016 8:51 am

I'm on the same page as the guys who said Flesh Canoe and Daffy Duck. I was pretty harsh on Feels the first few times I heard it. Now it's in my top 3 AnCo albums. Maybe it has something to do with age...who knows?

Post **Posted:** Sun Feb 28, 2016 4:11 pm

SpaceAnimal wrote:

holy fuck, I've never seen that video. That's amazing

Post **Posted:** Sun Feb 28, 2016 7:48 pm

The last four songs on Sung Tongs. It's not that I dislike them, but by the time they come on I often felt that I'd had enough of the album. Now I'm happy drift along with them though. (the album still feels a lot longer than it really it to me though).

Post **Posted:** Sun Feb 28, 2016 8:27 pm

daily routine and loch raven

both used to rank near the bottom of their respective albums for me, but at some point, they both clicked and are now my second favorite songs for those albums (and in my top 15 fav animal collective songs overall)

Post **Posted:** Sun Feb 28, 2016 8:31 pm

bagels in kiev

Post **Posted:** Sun Feb 28, 2016 8:38 pm

I really want to come around go Summing the Wretch. It's the only song on PW that I can't totally jive with.

What do you guys like about it? Usually hearing positive opinions on something I dislike helps me to have a different perspective.

Post **Posted:** Sun Feb 28, 2016 9:25 pm

i love how avey and panda's voices sound together at the end of the song. i also really like the rhythm of the verses.

Post **Posted:** Sun Feb 28, 2016 9:27 pm

BORCHENKO?? wrote:

I really want to come around go Summing the Wretch. It's the only song on PW that I can't totally jive with.

What do you guys like about it? Usually hearing positive opinions on something I dislike helps me to have a different perspective.

It's really good there do you like it yet?

Post **Posted:** Sun Feb 28, 2016 10:06 pm

bansheebeaten wrote:

drone is the biggest turnaround, went from absolutely loathing it to almost cryin a lil when listening

yea drone is another huge one for me as well... I didn't think much of it,, until I saw Panda play it live on a september 11..an out door show on fire island right off of manhattan.. with the city glowing and the 2 lights shooting into space where the towers were in the background,,, he played it so loud and perfectly.. I couldve died.

(also side note.. after that show I waited for Panda to come out and get his stuff.. he came out and started taking his stuff down and talking to some dudes on stage.. during that I yelled out "PANDA YOU TURNED ME GAY!" and I made him laugh out loud.. like laugh really hard.. my greatest moment.. then my friend yelled at him if we could get a picture, and he said "sure in a little bit".. after he was done he came down and took a picture with just the two of us.. ignored some crazy girls and left. seriously one of the best days of my life)

Post **Posted:** Sun Feb 28, 2016 11:12 pm

BORCHENKO?? wrote:

I really want to come around go Summing the Wretch. It's the only song on PW that I can't totally jive with.

What do you guys like about it? Usually hearing positive opinions on something I dislike helps me to have a different perspective.

the detuned piano line is what caught my attention at first

i think it works better in the context of the album, the vocals can surprise me on their own but next to spilling guts it transitions smoothly

then you've got golden gal and recycling and whoa this is good

Post **Posted:** Sun Feb 28, 2016 11:34 pm

Recycling has yet to click with me. I think it's a great song and has the best usage of the hocketting effect, but I feel like it's such a weak closer. I feel like I'm in the minority by saying this but I'd rather have Golden Gal close off the album.

Hope it clicks with me soon because everyone seems to be really down with Recycling as the closing song.

Post **Posted:** Mon Feb 29, 2016 2:10 am

songs you've cum on the ground to

Post **Posted:** Mon Feb 29, 2016 3:36 am

woops. so hyped for the single in a month.

i know its so soon after the alum to be hyping more stuff but i want more stuff from this era to compare the album to... we'll have those and michael, remember and then i have a feeling there will be an ep or something eventually

Post **Posted:** Mon Feb 29, 2016 3:37 am

AudibleKayak wrote:

Recycling has yet to click with me. I think it's a great song and has the best usage of the hocketting effect, but I feel like it's such a weak closer. I feel like I'm in the minority by saying this but I'd rather have Golden Gal close off the album.

Hope it clicks with me soon because everyone seems to be really down with Recycling as the closing song.

it feels like a 2 part closer to me in a way since theyre both kinda short... golden gal still has this closing song feeling and then recycling is like the coda/epilogue almost. recycling isnt one of my faves on the album but i do like that its so different than a lot of their closers. it sounds kind of really sad to me in a weird way, and i cant quite figure out what it means (to panda or me) yet based on the lyrics, or even the things pb said abt it in the ama

Post **Posted:** Mon Feb 29, 2016 4:55 am

Diomedes wrote:

AudibleKayak wrote:
Recycling has yet to click with me. I think it's a great song and has the best usage of the hocketting effect, but I feel like it's such a weak closer. I feel like I'm in the minority by saying this but I'd rather have Golden Gal close off the album.

Hope it clicks with me soon because everyone seems to be really down with Recycling as the closing song.

it feels like a 2 part closer to me in a way since theyre both kinda short... golden gal still has this closing song feeling and then recycling is like the coda/epilogue almost. recycling isnt one of my faves on the album but i do like that its so different than a lot of their closers. it sounds kind of really sad to me in a weird way, and i cant quite figure out what it means (to panda or me) yet based on the lyrics, or even the things pb said abt it in the ama

i really like recycling cuz it reminds me of a closing song in the way whaddit i done reminds me of a closing song...it just seems right. but whaddit i done takes a lot to get into for a lotta people but once u do its actually an incredibly emotionally draining song...and this one i feel really shows the "humorously beautiful" (shouts to kassa overall's snapchat) aspect of the album that other songs like on delay and the burglars show....and im pretty sure they use spirit synths on that..doesnt it sound like it

Post **Posted:** Mon Feb 29, 2016 6:31 am

jfw7 wrote:

songs you've cum on the ground to

Post **Posted:** Mon Feb 29, 2016 8:32 am

i've had the hardest time with The Softest Voice and Whaddit I Done
Also Daffy Duck is hard for me to enjoy

Post **Posted:** Mon Feb 29, 2016 2:31 pm

Tropic of Cans wrote:

BORCHENKO?? wrote:
I really want to come around go Summing the Wretch. It's the only song on PW that I can't totally jive with.

What do you guys like about it? Usually hearing positive opinions on something I dislike helps me to have a different perspective.

It's really good there do you like it yet?

ye

Post **Posted:** Mon Feb 29, 2016 3:43 pm

gabaraptor wrote:

i've had the hardest time with The Softest Voice and Whaddit I Done
Also Daffy Duck is hard for me to enjoy

its because you're a casual

jk, i totally didnt get daffy duck or whaddit i done the first few times. i really love the negative space in daffy duck though, and whaddit i done is such an excellent way to end that album