[tsurimin]

unpopular opinion: deakin spelled backwards is still deakin

[reverendloch]

The AC songwriting "peak" was HCTI/Sung Tongs

Mercury Man is the only bad AC song, and Amanita is almost their weakest closer (only above In the Singing Box and Too Soon)

FBK is probably their weakest EP and WWIWS is their most "overrated" song

Painting With is one of AC's most boundary-pushing albums yet

and Deak's new album was super boring, mixed poorly in a few places, and I think it deserved that nasty P4K score

[unpopular]

time4sumranch wrote:

spirit is practically unlistenable


*waits for castration"

part of me wants to scream at you but this is a thread about unpopular opinions so that is totally valid

[Hash]

HowardTJMoon wrote:

Painting With is good but I would probably rate it lower than all the others, above Danse.

Deakin's new album is good but it's not the perfect entity people say it is. Sometime the mix is too cluttered and Deakin's voice isn't good sometimes

1/10 needs more edge

[Hash]

How the fuck is 7.6 a nasty score DAMN

Would you really give a "super boring" album with poor mixing 4 out of 5 stars?

[yoko bono]

painting with, centipede, slasher flicks, and the last couple pandas have made me question whether or not i still like this band anymore. (deakin has made me a believer again)

oddsac > sung tongs > HCTI > strawberry > feels > mpp > hollindagain > danse > campfire > spirit > painting > centipede

wastered might be my favorite animal collective song ever (granted, seeing it live stoned may have influenced my experience of it.)

[Hash]

Slasher Flicks left me sorely disappointed yeah, I was so hyped for whatever Dave was gonna put out after Down There

[csw]

#1 is the [s]worst[/s] least good song on strawberry jam

[SpaceAnimal]

slasher flicks was fucking great

[speen]

Victor Borge wrote:

How do I foe this thread?

[HowardTJMoon]

Hash wrote:

HowardTJMoon wrote:

Painting With is good but I would probably rate it lower than all the others, above Danse.

Deakin's new album is good but it's not the perfect entity people say it is. Sometime the mix is too cluttered and Deakin's voice isn't good sometimes

1/10 needs more edge

edit: It sounds edgy but I really do like PW a lot. I'd give it like an 8 and it'll definitely be in my top 5 of the year. Just their other stuff holds a special place in the 10 category, ya know?

Sleep Cycle is good too though admittedly I haven't listened to it a lot.

[reverendloch]

Hash wrote:

How the fuck is 7.6 a nasty score DAMN

Would you really give a "super boring" album with poor mixing 4 out of 5 stars?

It seemed to me as though people weren't quite happy with that 7.6 (hence why I said nasty, not my actual opinion sorry I wasn't clear)

I personally would give it a 5-6

[SpaceAnimal]

Hash wrote:

How the fuck is 7.6 a nasty score DAMN

Would you really give a "super boring" album with poor mixing 4 out of 5 stars?

actually that score is closer to 3 out of 4 stars.
4 out of 5 stars wouldve been an 8.0.
*fixes glasses*

[Hash]

Oh sorry I was just counting whole stars, if there are halves too it would be 3.5/5. And yeah 3/4 atars would work to.

Also no, even with halves a 7.8 is the same as 4/5 stars not 3.5/5. Sorry to be pedantic, but if you're gonna be like "sorry to be pedantic" you should say the correct thing.

Edit: Ah you said "at least 8.0" then edited it right? Lol

HowardTJMoon wrote:

Hash wrote:

HowardTJMoon wrote:

Painting With is good but I would probably rate it lower than all the others, above Danse.

Deakin's new album is good but it's not the perfect entity people say it is. Sometime the mix is too cluttered and Deakin's voice isn't good sometimes

1/10 needs more edge

edit: It sounds edgy but I really do like PW a lot. I'd give it like an 8 and it'll definitely be in my top 5 of the year. Just their other stuff holds a special place in the 10 category, ya know?

Sleep Cycle is good too though admittedly I haven't listened to it a lot.

Um I said 1/10 because having a least favourite isn't the slightest bit edgy or unpopular. Literally every person has a least favourite album, and I'd be surpised if PW was in most people's top 5 AC releases.


Unrelated note, calling something "overrated" or "underrated" isn't an unpopular or contrarian opinion.

[rampface]

unpopular-culture wrote:

time4sumranch wrote:

spirit is practically unlistenable


*waits for castration"

part of me wants to scream at you but this is a thread about unpopular opinions so that is totally valid

[roopn]

I almost regret making this thread, but it was worth it for the title

[destiny]

trying not to foe the person that said IN THA SINGING BOX and TOO SOON were there WORST CLOSERS...WTF

YOU SONS OF BITCHES ILL SAY SOMETHING...prob shared by some ppl on this board

ANY1 WHO SAYS "ANCO" UNIRONICALLY WHEN REFERRING TO THE ANIMAL COLLECTIVE IS A HIPSTER JACK OFF WHO THINKS DANSE IS HARD 2 LISTEN

[destiny]

edit: i disagreed with wat i said in this post immdiately after i posted this...i said sponge luke shouldve been on feels instead of daffy duck but thats not true...i think it shouldve been the last track on people

[roopn]

To be a bit friendlier, try not to use things like "best/worst" and instead use "favourite/least favourite" so people don't get anyeurisms from unresolvable disagreement

[SpaceAnimal]

Hash wrote:

Oh sorry I was just counting whole stars, if there are halves too it would be 3.5/5. And yeah 3/4 atars would work to.

Also no, even with halves a 7.8 is the same as 4/5 stars not 3.5/5. Sorry to be pedantic, but if you're gonna be like "sorry to be pedantic" you should say the correct thing.

Edit: Ah you said "at least 8.0" then edited it right? Lol

its 7.6 not 7.8,, and all i said was 7.6 is closer to 3 out of 4 (7.5) and not 4 out of 5 (8.0)
no edits MAH DUUUUUUUUDDEE

[reverendloch]

FEEL ON1NE!!! wrote:

trying not to foe the person that said IN THA SINGING BOX and TOO SOON were there WORST CLOSERS...WTF

I mean, "worst" is a negative way to put it... they're my least faves, and I think they're the weakest, but that doesn't mean they're bad... they've just got some stiff competition

[SpaceAnimal]

FEEL ON1NE!!! wrote:

ANY1 WHO SAYS "ANCO" UNIRONICALLY WHEN REFERRING TO THE ANIMAL COLLECTIVE IS A HIPSTER JACK OFF WHO THINKS DANSE IS HARD 2 LISTEN

who cares what someone calls a band? anco sounds great.. also A.C. the old nickname for anco sucks because AC is an air conditioner or if you are anywhere from the north east, it stands for atlantic city... so those acronym A,C, has been done taken mad long ago son.

also calling someone a hipster is the worst dude bro... it doesnt even mean anything.

[godzillalotus]

I've already said it in another thread, but legitimately hate the Jimmy Mack cover.

[speen]

damn dude, why? its just a fun jam

[Hash]

SpaceAnimal wrote:

Hash wrote:

Oh sorry I was just counting whole stars, if there are halves too it would be 3.5/5. And yeah 3/4 atars would work to.

Also no, even with halves a 7.8 is the same as 4/5 stars not 3.5/5. Sorry to be pedantic, but if you're gonna be like "sorry to be pedantic" you should say the correct thing.

Edit: Ah you said "at least 8.0" then edited it right? Lol

its 7.6 not 7.8,, and all i said was 7.6 is closer to 3 out of 4 (7.5) and not 4 out of 5 (8.0)
no edits MAH DUUUUUUUUDDEE

Yeah I just used the 5 star thing because hardly anyone uses 4 stars

[Hash]

SpaceAnimal wrote:

FEEL ON1NE!!! wrote:

ANY1 WHO SAYS "ANCO" UNIRONICALLY WHEN REFERRING TO THE ANIMAL COLLECTIVE IS A HIPSTER JACK OFF WHO THINKS DANSE IS HARD 2 LISTEN

who cares what someone calls a band? anco sounds great.. also A.C. the old nickname for anco sucks because AC is an air conditioner or if you are anywhere from the north east, it stands for atlantic city... so those acronym A,C, has been done taken mad long ago son.

also calling someone a hipster is the worst dude bro... it doesnt even mean anything.

AC has been used by the band in an official and unofficial capacity for over a decade. Prospect Hummer literally has "AC" written on the CD I'm pretty sure. It's on their facebook, YouTube, reddit etc.

If you call them "AnCo" I assume you've either missed ALL of that somehow, or you've noticed them calling themselves that countless times and thought "naaaah they picked a shitty nickname I'm gonna use the joke name invented by hipsterrunoff after Merriweather came out instead" in which case you're a bad person

AnCo doesn't sound great either, it just looks and sounds obnoxious

[godzillalotus]

demonclusters wrote:

damn dude, why? its just a fun jam

Fun dad rock.

[SpaceAnimal]

Hash wrote:

Yeah I just used the 5 star thing because hardly anyone uses 4 stars

i know im just being a jerk on the jerk thread.

i actually felt guilty about it later while practicing melee with my lil bro.

Thanks Roopn

[roopn]

[Mr Fingers]

PP and MPP have aged like milk left in the sun.

Down There is the greatest solo album (but would be second if Pullhair was released forwards).

[Sam]

Atlas Sound peaked with Walkabout (feat. Noah Lennox)

[Hash]

Why does it matter which way they released it though, it's so easy to 'correct' if you like it better forward



It's not a solo album anyway though

[godzillalotus]

Sam wrote:

Atlas Sound peaked with Walkabout (feat. Noah Lennox)

Parallax is a top-tier freaking album.

[rampface]

Parallax is better than Halcyon Digest

[HowardTJMoon]

Sam wrote:

Atlas Sound peaked with Walkabout (feat. Noah Lennox)

Ok this is the one I take issue with, you can fuck right off.

First, Let the Blind Lead... is better than Logos.

Dos, Parallax shits on BOTH OF THOSE

Third, Walkabout isn't even the best song on Logos. ATTIC LIGHTS IS, YOU FUCK

rampface wrote:

Parallax is better than Halcyon Digest

I agree with this, though.

[Mr Fingers]

Hash wrote:

Why does it matter which way they released it though, it's so easy to 'correct' if you like it better forward



It's not a solo album anyway though

From memory aren't parts sped up/slowed down as well?

It just matters because it's not the official album I guess. I don't have to amend any other albums in my rankings to make them better.

"A solo album, in popular music, is an album headlined by a current or former member of a band. A solo album may feature simply one person performing all instruments, but typically features the work of other collaborators; rather, it may be made with different collaborators than the artist is usually associated, though just how different that group is varies widely." I'm happy to call it a solo album.

[roopn]

Logos is WAYYYY better than both of his other albums

[BORCHENKO??]

Lmao I'd never imagine that people could be pretentious over which acronym to use for THE Animal Collective. To suggest that using the term "AnCo" somehow makes you a bad person is just fucking silly.

[Hash]

Mr Fingers wrote:

Hash wrote:

Why does it matter which way they released it though, it's so easy to 'correct' if you like it better forward



It's not a solo album anyway though

From memory aren't parts sped up/slowed down as well?

It just matters because it's not the official album I guess. I don't have to amend any other albums in my rankings to make them better.

"A solo album, in popular music, is an album headlined by a current or former member of a band. A solo album may feature simply one person performing all instruments, but typically features the work of other collaborators; rather, it may be made with different collaborators than the artist is usually associated, though just how different that group is varies widely." I'm happy to call it a solo album.

It's a side project duo just like Terrestrial Tones (duo) or Jane (duo) neither of which released solo albums. It's a duo album. It's not Avey Tare ft Kria Brekkan. Maybe you count all the Jane and Terrestrial Tones albums as solo albums too, in which case whatever, but if not then treating Pullhair like a solo album is just discrediting Kria Brekkan as a musician in her own right, in my opinion.

[AudibleKayak]

AudibleKayak wrote:

Ahhh Good Country is by far the worst song on Danse.
Centipede Hz and Painting With are both far better than Sung Tongs.
Feels is their magnum opus, not Merriweather.
#1 is the worst song from Strawberry Jam.

What the fuck man! Ahhh Good Country and #1 are fantastic songs and Sung Tongs and MPP are fucking classics. You can fuck right off m8!