[Fovrodi]

scrambledgreggs wrote:

ooo is that one of the boots we already have of Avey and Bjorn or is it new?

Must be a rehearsal recording, Geo says on IG it's from a day before they performed.

[hatredcopter]

hmmmmmm... animal collective extended universe of the decade:

1. oddsac
2. down there
3. tomboy
4. enter the slasher house
5. a day with the homies
6. crosswords ep
7. painting with
8. panda bear vs. the grim reaper
9. buoys
10. centipede hz

[hunkswithguns]

hatredcopter wrote:

hmmmmmm... animal collective extended universe of the decade:

1. oddsac
2. down there
3. tomboy
4. enter the slasher house
5. a day with the homies
6. crosswords ep
7. painting with
8. panda bear vs. the grim reaper
9. buoys
10. centipede hz

Super fun idea!

1. Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper
2. Painting With
3. Centipede Hz
4. Enter the Slasher House
5. Tomboy
6. Meeting of the Waters
7. A Day with the Homies
8. Cows on Hourglass Pond
9. Eucalyptus
10. Oddsac
11. Sleep Cycle
12. Mr. Noah
13. Buoys
14. Conference of Birds / Birds in Disguise
15. The Painters
16. Down There
17. Crosswords
18. Tangerine Reef
19. Live in the Land of the Sky
20. Transverse Temporal Gyrus

[dud]

these are the things from the decade that are most important to me and stuck with me the most:

tomboy / down there / sleep cycle

2011 avey / 2017 mothlight avey / panda atp rehearsals / 2010 deakin / 2018 music box

preakness, mountain game, crimson, burglars, applesauce, moonjock, hounds of bairro, screens, what happened, token, i don't need a crowd, cheap treat

[destiny]

top 10 solo of the decade

1. good house (deakin studio)
2. when you left me (avey any version)
3. buoys (panda live 2018)
4. sunset (panda bear 2018 vinyl)
5. laughing hieroglyphic (avey any version)
6. midnight special (avey any version)
7. benfica (panda bear any version)
8. slow words (avey live 2011)
9. sew happy & hors_ (avey studio and live 2017-2019)
10/11. crosswords (panda any version 2013-2019) // marijuana make my day with THX surround sound ending (panda live 2013)

top 5 ac of the decade

1. DEFEAT (any version)
2. what happened (studio)
3. amanita (any version)
4. mercury man (any version)
5. golden gal (any version)

[destiny]

Best 5 ac moments of the decade
1. Announcing they streaming chz on centipede radio and everyone asking "Is this moonjock" for every geologist song before the album.
2. Streaming painting with in an airport
3. Camping weekend
4. Clapping contest
5. Panda using his @P4N748E42 twitter more and leading to posts such as Relaxing pug, diamond sword on bed, thanking davontejelly and the almighty "Wait...u can undo a vasectomy?"

Edit: switched 2 and 1

[lucasmoreira]

No way, chz radio was more cool than pw in airport

[destiny]

lucasmoreira wrote:

No way, chz radio was more cool than pw in airport

yeah u right..hering avey say that ish had me actually emotional. i just remember mad ppl messaging including my friend and she was just like Yo u know they are playing the new ac album in full at fking baltimore international and i was just like Im crying

[dud]

what's clapping contest, don't remember

[Fovrodi]

Must be referring to the instagram video where they see who can clap the fastest. Must have been right at the start of the first PW tour.

[Tesla]

I've been listening to this a lot lately. It's a fucking beautiful song. I think it has some of my favourite singing from Avey in a while.

[ingenue]

hunkswithguns wrote:

hatredcopter wrote:

hmmmmmm... animal collective extended universe of the decade:

1. oddsac
2. down there
3. tomboy
4. enter the slasher house
5. a day with the homies
6. crosswords ep
7. painting with
8. panda bear vs. the grim reaper
9. buoys
10. centipede hz

Super fun idea!

1. Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper
2. Painting With
3. Centipede Hz
4. Enter the Slasher House
5. Tomboy
6. Meeting of the Waters
7. A Day with the Homies
8. Cows on Hourglass Pond
9. Eucalyptus
10. Oddsac
11. Sleep Cycle
12. Mr. Noah
13. Buoys
14. Conference of Birds / Birds in Disguise
15. The Painters
16. Down There
17. Crosswords
18. Tangerine Reef
19. Live in the Land of the Sky
20. Transverse Temporal Gyrus

Groovy! Hmmm.

1. Down There
2. Eucalyptus
3. Painting With
4. Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper
5. Meeting of the Waters
6. Cows On Hourglass Pond
7. Conference of Birds / Birds in Disguise
8. A Day With the Homies
9. Playing the Long Game
10. Buoys

Just realizing how little I actually like Centipede Hz :/ Nothing comes close, for me, to Down There. That is a singular achievement in their discography, methinks. It’s just so... ‘out there.’

[rampface]

Bathroom flacs is the moment of the decade. Can someone please pull up the "I'm here..." or whatever post... that shit cracks me up

[destiny]

Top board post of the decade?
has to be this:

Sam wrote:

Spoiler: show

context: on the first night of the pw tour, the night in philly where they brought back alvin row, they also brought back bees for the first time since 2004, resulting in the most excellent continuation fo that running gag on arrested dev.

[Fovrodi]

rampface wrote:

Bathroom flacs is the moment of the decade. Can someone please pull up the "I'm here..." or whatever post... that shit cracks me up

lucasmoreira wrote:

[Hellomark]

Relistened to New Psycho Actives: Summer Blaze today, cannot believe how good it is for such low key release. The third "movement" with the piano and that absolutely haunting moaning robot voice is straight up one of the best things they've ever done. Heard it while driving home through the fog earlier this evening and just felt it so deeply. Between the New Psycho Actives releases and Meeting of the Waters, the Avey/Geo releases have become something very distinct and interesting imo, a very mellow but affecting side of the band.

[captainlunatic]

Hellomark wrote:

Relistened to New Psycho Actives: Summer Blaze today, cannot believe how good it is for such low key release. The third "movement" with the piano and that absolutely haunting moaning robot voice is straight up one of the best things they've ever done. Heard it while driving home through the fog earlier this evening and just felt it so deeply. Between the New Psycho Actives releases and Meeting of the Waters, the Avey/Geo releases have become something very distinct and interesting imo, a very mellow but affecting side of the band.

Summer Blaze is easily my favorite of the three New Psycho Actives. Beautiful stuff. Hope they do some kind of release that compiles all of them eventually, they're really cool little collections of soundscapes and potpourri

[Tropic]

Everyone seems to have forgotten they play Sung Tongs in full this decade

[Dallou]

Homies show with bouys songs was my AC Highlight

[jetski]

Tropic of Cans wrote:

Everyone seems to have forgotten they play Sung Tongs in full this decade

LOL good point

NYC Sung Tongs show was def my highlight of the decade and one of my favorite shows I’ve ever seen

Avey’s 2017 Chicago show was also a big highlight

Pbvsgr pre release era was my first time experiencing that as a fan, listening to boots etc so I’m already super nostalgic for it

Shoutout bathroom flacs too lol

[jetski]

Also good post hellomark I agree the Avey/Geo pairing has produced some really special music

[Sam]

Just heard Dolphin blasting from a car at an intersection in LA

[destiny]

if i had a top 5 life shows sung tongs nyc would be #1. tht show is one of my favorite ac related moments of my life and feb 24 would also be there, when they started daily routine the same way they started it mpp tour, i was just filled with so much unabashed happiness and surprise in a way i didnt think could happen anymore at that pt

[headroom)))]

Watching the youtube video of that first Sung Tongs show was one of the most emotional moments of being an AC fan for me. That album that got me into them in 05 and it got me through some particularly hard times in college. I remember feeling super depressed and rejected cuz I wasn't doing good in school and wasn't happy about life and I went for a hike by myself with my sony discman with a burned copy of sung tongs and just sat underneath this tree listening to it and looking at nature. And by the time the album was over I was so happy to be living. The vashti ep was also really important to me at that time and when they played prospect hummer for the encore I was really choked up. I always wondered what those songs would sound like with avey/panda singing them. Hearing their Woah-oh-oh-oh-oh-ohhhhs with the silence was so powerful. AC shaped my idea of music in such a big way but also my ideas of how to carry yourself as a person. I thought it was so cool that none of them were fashionable people when so many bands at that time had their "look" down and made forgettable indie rock music. It made me view their music with more honesty as they didn't look like some sell-able product. Not knocking bands with looks tho, cause its an expression too. But its really cool to see guys who look like a regular dudes you'd see everyday play this wild, beautiful, and unique music that blows your mind.

[clearwaters]

I'm just here to say that Man of Oil is probably the best AC related song in the past 1000 years

[destiny]

as someone who went to a shit ton of ac shows before that point (and i know yall can relate to this), unfortunately filled with people who didnt rlly listen to ac extensively often being confused at wat they were hearing or calling out for "who could win a rabbit" to be played, when they started leaf house and everyone in the crowd was yelping with them i was close to tears. when i heard other people pop off for covered in frogs i knew i was home

[headroom)))]

FEEL ON1NE!!! wrote:

as someone who went to a shit ton of ac shows before that point (and i know yall can relate to this), unfortunately filled with people who didnt rlly listen to ac extensively often being confused at wat they were hearing or calling out for "who could win a rabbit" to be played, when they started leaf house and everyone in the crowd was yelping with them i was close to tears. when i heard other people pop off for covered in frogs i knew i was home

Yeah man, that crowd energy was so cool! It must've been amazing. I'm happy that you were there.

[dud]

headroom))) wrote:

Watching the youtube video of that first Sung Tongs show was one of the most emotional moments of being an AC fan for me. That album that got me into them in 05 and it got me through some particularly hard times in college. I remember feeling super depressed and rejected cuz I wasn't doing good in school and wasn't happy about life and I went for a hike by myself with my sony discman with a burned copy of sung tongs and just sat underneath this tree listening to it and looking at nature. And by the time the album was over I was so happy to be living. The vashti ep was also really important to me at that time and when they played prospect hummer for the encore I was really choked up. I always wondered what those songs would sound like with avey/panda singing them. Hearing their Woah-oh-oh-oh-oh-ohhhhs with the silence was so powerful. AC shaped my idea of music in such a big way but also my ideas of how to carry yourself as a person. I thought it was so cool that none of them were fashionable people when so many bands at that time had their "look" down and made forgettable indie rock music. It made me view their music with more honesty as they didn't look like some sell-able product. Not knocking bands with looks tho, cause its an expression too. But its really cool to see guys who look like a regular dudes you'd see everyday play this wild, beautiful, and unique music that blows your mind.

great post, thank you for sharing

[ingenue]

dud wrote:

headroom))) wrote:

Watching the youtube video of that first Sung Tongs show was one of the most emotional moments of being an AC fan for me. That album that got me into them in 05 and it got me through some particularly hard times in college. I remember feeling super depressed and rejected cuz I wasn't doing good in school and wasn't happy about life and I went for a hike by myself with my sony discman with a burned copy of sung tongs and just sat underneath this tree listening to it and looking at nature. And by the time the album was over I was so happy to be living. The vashti ep was also really important to me at that time and when they played prospect hummer for the encore I was really choked up. I always wondered what those songs would sound like with avey/panda singing them. Hearing their Woah-oh-oh-oh-oh-ohhhhs with the silence was so powerful. AC shaped my idea of music in such a big way but also my ideas of how to carry yourself as a person. I thought it was so cool that none of them were fashionable people when so many bands at that time had their "look" down and made forgettable indie rock music. It made me view their music with more honesty as they didn't look like some sell-able product. Not knocking bands with looks tho, cause its an expression too. But its really cool to see guys who look like a regular dudes you'd see everyday play this wild, beautiful, and unique music that blows your mind.

great post, thank you for sharing

Agreed! Thx headroom)))

[jetski]

Great post. I’ve definitely had similar life-affirming moments when listening to AC and I wouldn’t be surprised if others have too. Their music is truly something very special and powerful

[stash]

I smoke two blunts before i smoke two blunts and then i listen to brothersport *ska guitar*

[Cooper]

I used to have a really strong sense of the kind of spiritual-aesthetic-educational aspect of AC’s music. Like “everything is actually ultimately OK because [insert particular vibe from any AC song], there are nice people alive right now who felt this and made this”

[terrestrialjane]

I know this might have been mentioned before but does anyone else hear the end (outro) of what happened in left 4 dead 2 ?

[Tesla]

"Jimmy Mack" reminds me of "Cotton-Eye Joe" a bit. It's weird, because they don't sound that much alike, but that's the first thing I think of.

[captainlunatic]

I love Avey's side on Split #16 so much

[captainlunatic]

Imagine a whole album of that era, god

The sequel to Danse and Indian that we never got!

[Strange_Clams]

my top 10 ac projects this decade

1. oddsac
2. down there
3. chz
4. sleep cycle
5. meeting of the waters
6. tomboy
7. slasher flicks
8. tangerine reef
9. eucalyptus
10. pbvsgr

& the bathroom flacs shit was so much fun lol. it felt like a spy mission or some shit

[dio]

Mine:

1. Oddsac
2. Painting with /early '16 live shows
3. Music box shows, Nola
4. All 3 panda EPs (Mr. Noah, Crosswords, Homies tied)
5. Down There
6. Chz/Petaluma '11
7. Slasher Flicks/Cows pretty damn tied up
8. Buoys
9. Tangerine Reef
10. Painters ep/ gnip hounds

11. Ttg, Tomboy, keep, eucalyptus, and sleep cycle all garbage basically (jk)

And I won't quite count the new desert days/meow wolf boot, but that material is easily friggin' top 3. And ballet slippers is actually already very special but obvs belongs to last decade.. oddsac also was mostly written/filmed last decade but whatev

[Stanshant]

1= Mothlight Midnight Special & Music Box Defeat
2. ATP Rehearsal Lisbon Zoo/Jabbawocky
3. YCCOM Single Mix
4. Bowery Saturdays
5. Bullseye
6. Laughing Hieroglyphic
7. Take This Weight
8. Mr Fingers
9. Ms Pacman
10. Applesauce on CHz Radio stream via mobile data in Rome hotel bathroom in middle of the night.
11. Dolphin/Inner Monologue
12. That It Won't Grow
13. Pride and Fight live
14. Golden Chords
15. Animal Vegetable Mineral

Merry Christmas. X

[captainlunatic]

Merry Xmas all. In terms of officially released stuff...

1. Conference of Birds / Birds in Disguise
2. Centipede Hz
3. Sleep Cycle
4. A Day With the Homies
5. Oddsac
6. Tomboy
7. Cows on Hourglass Pond
8. Ballet Slippers
9. Meeting of the Waters
10. Tangerine Reef (Live)
11. Painting With
12. Buoys
13. Eucalyptus
14. Enter the Slasher House
15. The Painters
16. Tangerine Reef
17. Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper
18. Crosswords

Not doing singles just to save myself some sanity... also haven't heard a few things like the Geologist tape, Harpy Sketches, etc.

What a prolific decade! Here's to a killer '20s... I really think their best days are ahead of them!