i know this almost certainly isn't the case, but lately i've been thinking of 3 Umbrellas as a kind of response to Bros
the beginning of each song:
'hey man what's your problem, don't you know that i don't belong to you?' ...
'it's not about us holding hands, i don't have to be on top of your plans'
Re: General The Animal Collective Talk
Posted: Sat May 03, 2014 1:35 am
by Frumpkin
i always thought of three umbrellas as a sort of love letter to the other three guys and the time they spend together. all the lyrics seem to point to that.
wrote:
It's not about us holding hands
I don't have to be on top of your plans
Or trapped beneath them
I'm showing my teeth and
I could say I love ya
I'm hiding beneath my dark
Green umbrellas
Can we talk about the funny things
When we're hangin' out the heaviness leaves
It's how it should be
You like all my songs
And we're all just like brothers
You see me beneath my dark
Green umbrellas
Do other people act like fools
I wonder if they feel like we do
We're always teasing
But I can't imagine
If I didn't know ya
I don't take for granted my
Three umbrellas
And if you don't wanna talk, let's sing
That it's been about us, finding new things
It's always pleasing
To share with some people
But they'll never know ya
Or just how I feel 'bout you
Three umbrellas
it might just be me but i feel it's almost overt in his verbage that that's the subject matter. in the same breath, i think bros could be very easily read as panda's willingness/inclination to disassociate with the patterns of his close friends (touched on again in friendship bracelet). that would back your idea up that both songs are two sides of a similar coin.
that being said, three umbrellas could be about rainstorms and bros could be about super mario. who the hell knows but them.
Re: General The Animal Collective Talk
Posted: Sat May 03, 2014 2:23 am
by dance avey dance
dave has said that the three umbrellas are brian, josh, and noah
Re: General The Animal Collective Talk
Posted: Sat May 03, 2014 4:42 am
by Frumpkin
well there ya go
Re: General The Animal Collective Talk
Posted: Sat May 03, 2014 7:04 am
by Vovenarg
poor danny/ben allen
Re: General The Animal Collective Talk
Posted: Sat May 03, 2014 4:10 pm
by streetflashhh
has anyone noticed a similarity between xtc's andy partridge's vocal lines and avey's? has he ever said xtc influenced him in some way?
Re: General The Animal Collective Talk
Posted: Sat May 03, 2014 5:11 pm
by piesh
That's never stood out to me personally but I'm mentally replacing Partridge with a flangy Avey on 'Burning With Optimism's Flame' and sure. 'Jason and the Argonauts' too. Both can have kind of tongue-twister like tendencies.
Re: General The Animal Collective Talk
Posted: Sun May 04, 2014 2:51 am
by Tap
so which one of you is narutodude69 and why didn't you ever finish your animal collective/fire emblem crossover fan fiction series
One thing leads to the next, a touch to a rub to a kiss, and before you know it, Sain is straddling Panda, both of them fully undressed. Both of them fully erect. Sain begins kissing up and down Panda Bear’s chest, his lips are so soft and precious feeling, Panda is almost about to burst just from this alone.
“S-Sain…please…” Sain knows what Panda wants, he kisses down further and further until he reaches Panda’s manhood. He rubs it gently first, feeling the firm member in his strong hands. Without saying a word, he leans his face in closely and begins to lick the top of Panda’s member.
Panda moans, in the cutest voice you can imagine. Sain doesn’t stop there though, he takes the member in his mouth and starts doing his thing. However, this is the first time he’s actually done this sort of thing, so he’s kind of bad at it.
“I’m sorry, Panda… Can I improve?”
Panda grins and says “Open up your throat.”
Re: General The Animal Collective Talk
Posted: Sun May 04, 2014 6:07 am
by archie
dance avey dance wrote:
dave has said that the three umbrellas are brian, josh, and noah
n panda has said that bros is about his brother, i think his older one, not MATT
Re: General The Animal Collective Talk
Posted: Sun May 04, 2014 10:49 am
by archie
i dont know thats just what i remember bro
Re: General The Animal Collective Talk
Posted: Sun May 04, 2014 1:12 pm
by lhtd
I recall him referring to his mom.
Re: General The Animal Collective Talk
Posted: Sun May 04, 2014 1:35 pm
by IkoOvo
Text wrote:
so which one of you is narutodude69 and why didn't you ever finish your animal collective/fire emblem crossover fan fiction series
has anyone noticed a similarity between xtc's andy partridge's vocal lines and avey's? has he ever said xtc influenced him in some way?
absolutely. some tracks from english settlement sound a lot like AC, it's nearly africa and melt the guns in particular. i've always drawn heaps of parallels between the careers of AC and XTC.
Re: General The Animal Collective Talk
Posted: Sun May 04, 2014 3:13 pm
by StrangeClams
Can we talk about these bros
Re: General The Animal Collective Talk
Posted: Sun May 04, 2014 6:42 pm
by Pan
the fire emblem fan fic guy posted that on the last CA
can't remember his name though
Re: General The Animal Collective Talk
Posted: Mon May 05, 2014 1:16 am
by coollodges
lol "BWWWOOOOOOOOOOOOOM"
Re: General The Animal Collective Talk
Posted: Mon May 05, 2014 3:25 am
by Frumpkin
first time i'd seen this, has it been posted? 2:35 onward
Re: General The Animal Collective Talk
Posted: Mon May 05, 2014 3:13 pm
by Dearest
ya. used to have a thread listing every appearance of ac's music on tv/in movies
now lost forever.
Re: General The Animal Collective Talk
Posted: Mon May 05, 2014 3:31 pm
by Stanshant
Vovenarg wrote:
poor danny/ben allen
I wrote a song about Ben but when I performed it in school assembly, I lost my job as deputy head teacher
Re: General The Animal Collective Talk
Posted: Mon May 05, 2014 6:00 pm
by jetski
That clip of the grandpa is pretty funny, especially cause he starts out trying to light it like a crack pipe. But it kinda pisses me off that this might help perpetuate AnCo's reputation as a "drug band"
Re: General The Animal Collective Talk
Posted: Mon May 05, 2014 8:30 pm
by William H. Macy
Stanshant wrote:
Vovenarg wrote:
poor danny/ben allen
I wrote a song about Ben but when I performed it in school assembly, I lost my job as deputy head teacher
Re: General The Animal Collective Talk
Posted: Mon May 05, 2014 10:25 pm
by piesh
Stanshant wrote:
Vovenarg wrote:
poor danny/ben allen
I wrote a song about Ben but when I performed it in school assembly, I lost my job as deputy head teacher
Ben, most people would turn you away - I don't listen to a word they say.
So true.
Re: General The Animal Collective Talk
Posted: Tue May 06, 2014 4:47 am
by William H. Macy
lol
Re: General The Animal Collective Talk
Posted: Tue May 06, 2014 7:34 am
by New Zealand
lol
I'm still trying to escape AC's reputation as "AnCo"
Re: General The Animal Collective Talk
Posted: Wed May 07, 2014 1:41 am
by Fan
I don't see a problem with using "AnCo" on a fan message board. It's just typical web shorthand, and doesn't have to be inextricably linked to that Hipster Runoff silliness. However, saying "AnCo" in conversation is another thing.... Reclaim AnCo!
Re: General The Animal Collective Talk
Posted: Wed May 07, 2014 1:48 am
by New Zealand
AC is also web shorthand
Re: General The Animal Collective Talk
Posted: Wed May 07, 2014 2:12 am
by coollodges
its even shorter than the other shorthand. I don't think I ever call them AnCo irl.
AC -> Animal Collective -> Animanimal Collecollectivive
Re: General The Animal Collective Talk
Posted: Wed May 07, 2014 5:49 am
by El Camino
well bowled
Re: General The Animal Collective Talk
Posted: Fri May 09, 2014 7:14 pm
by P nu
sometimes i say Animal Collection
Re: General The Animal Collective Talk
Posted: Fri May 09, 2014 8:12 pm
by GeckoSushi
Should we even call them "Animal" Collective at this point? After all the Animal label turned into Paw Tracks in 2003, so maybe we should have been calling them the Paw Tracks Collective?
I'm going to just go back to calling them Avey Tare, Panda Bear, Geologist and Deakin like they originally intended.
Re: General The Animal Collective Talk
Posted: Fri May 09, 2014 8:33 pm
by P nu
Myles_Dunhill wrote:
I'm going to just go back to calling them Avey Tare, Panda Bear, Geologist and Deakin like they originally intended.
yeah good call I'll do the same - or abreviated AvTaPaBeGeDe
Re: General The Animal Collective Talk
Posted: Fri May 09, 2014 10:11 pm
by coollodges
Hashman wrote:
AC -> Animal Collective -> Animanimal Collecollectivive->Aanimanimanimal Collelelcollelelctivtiveive.
