Collected Animals • Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper

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dud · Post **Posted:** Mon Jan 25, 2016 6:14 am

tomboy is one of my favorite albums of all time. yccom, alsatian darn, friendship bracelet, benfica, FUCK.....not 2 mention sufers hymn and jetty...might b my favorite ac related album and i love pk's work on it, only one or two tracks i prefer the single mixes

Post **Posted:** Mon Jan 25, 2016 6:34 am

Drone is really great and underrated, probably my second fav on the album. The part where he sings the last line and it hits the last chord which sustains as the song fades out is so heavy. Alsatian Darn is #1 tho.

Post **Posted:** Mon Jan 25, 2016 10:01 am

Tomboy is one of my favorite albums of all time. the one thing that makes me kinda sad is how restrained he sounds on Afterburner. Live Bullseye was so energized and raucous, he sounds a bit too tame to me. but that was the choice, or it just shows the difficulty of capturing live vocal energy in studio. it's basically my same classic complaint as with Brothersport, but it's hard for me to grapple with.
that's really my only complaint tho. the whole album is just incredible. i have the boxset but havent listened to it cause i dont have a record player. need to hear the singles mix of the album! i love both mix styles!

Post **Posted:** Mon Jan 25, 2016 12:30 pm

Alsatian Darn for life

Post **Posted:** Mon Jan 25, 2016 12:41 pm

Scheherazade remains a favourite for me

Post **Posted:** Mon Jan 25, 2016 2:53 pm

^yeah Scheherazade is definitely a fav, also yccom, Friendship Bracelet and Benfica. so much love for Tomboy

Post **Posted:** Mon Jan 25, 2016 2:59 pm

last night at the jetty and alsatian darn are probably my two favorite panda bear solo songs

Post **Posted:** Mon Jan 25, 2016 3:03 pm

oh, and og preak i'm forever in love with

Post **Posted:** Mon Jan 25, 2016 3:53 pm

Caved and bought a second box set. haha. My copy is a bit worn so it will be nice to have a backup in case something happens to my first copy. Thanks for the reminder PK!

Post **Posted:** Mon Jan 25, 2016 4:02 pm

just ordered a boxset too! I have the single LP version but I've been wanting the 4LP edition for a while and $24 shipped is an amazing deal

Post **Posted:** Mon Jan 25, 2016 4:09 pm

I ordered tomboy through a local record store before i knew much about pb or ac and their supplier sent them the box set. as a result I went a long time thinking the preakness was a part of the album.

also i paid 45 dollars for it rip australia

Post **Posted:** Mon Jan 25, 2016 4:10 pm

I mean to beclear $45 for a quad lp is still pretty good but I'm getting jealous reading about all of your 20 dollar bargains

Post **Posted:** Mon Jan 25, 2016 5:04 pm

I already paid full price for the boxset to Aus when it was released but a little over a year ago Insound had it on clearance and I scored a second copy for my US address

Post **Posted:** Mon Jan 25, 2016 5:08 pm

^damn, if only Miss Amanda Jones had caught that sale. Probably still too pricey though

Post **Posted:** Mon Jan 25, 2016 6:54 pm

i think the only song where i strongly prefer the single mix is the title track. i love how the guitar sounds on its own without the synth.

Post **Posted:** Mon Jan 25, 2016 7:02 pm

I wonder whether we could find out how many copies are still on sale, kind of like a countdown to the digital versions! It would also be a great way to promote the remaining copies and encourage people to buy them up. I'd be tempted by another as a backup, definitely.

dud · Post **Posted:** Mon Jan 25, 2016 7:45 pm

FAF wrote:

i think the only song where i strongly prefer the single mix is the title track. i love how the guitar sounds on its own without the synth.

damn the synth on that track is one of my favorite additions of sonic's on that album. but i agree, i love pk's work on that album, there are only one or two tracks that i prefer the single mix over the album mix

Post **Posted:** Mon Jan 25, 2016 8:15 pm

I really like the sound of that synth, really like thick and overdriven, almost like a bass kazoo! The studio version becomes this incredibly powerful melding surge of the vocals, guitar and drums. By the end, it's like one throbbing pulse, I love it. That said, I also really love the original guitar focused version, very hypnotic but stark, singular, driving. I'm gonna put this on now.

Post **Posted:** Mon Jan 25, 2016 9:40 pm

afterburner is the best #1 song to advance through harsh winter conditions to

Post **Posted:** Tue Jan 26, 2016 12:27 am

Instrumental friendship bracelet is bliss, great job PK and PB! The sounds.....my lord. The mix reminds me of Remain In Light

Post **Posted:** Tue Jan 26, 2016 1:17 am

i like the synth but i LOOOOVE the stark, bare guitar sounds in the single version

Post **Posted:** Tue Jan 26, 2016 1:21 am

Vovenarg wrote:

Tomboy is one of my favorite albums of all time. the one thing that makes me kinda sad is how restrained he sounds on Afterburner. Live Bullseye was so energized and raucous, he sounds a bit too tame to me. but that was the choice, or it just shows the difficulty of capturing live vocal energy in studio. it's basically my same classic complaint as with Brothersport, but it's hard for me to grapple with.
that's really my only complaint tho. the whole album is just incredible. i have the boxset but havent listened to it cause i dont have a record player. need to hear the singles mix of the album! i love both mix styles!

Totally agree. I also love the hollers and screams he did during live performances. I wish he could have incorporated those into his performances on the album to make the recordings less static.

Post **Posted:** Tue Jan 26, 2016 1:41 am

ok weird I didn't even plan on it but I got so caught up in the moment I TOO ordered the tomboy special girly sedition!

oh man!

let's get that sucker sold the FUCK out!

eyah!

it's time to show sonic boom Who Is The Boss!

(tony!)

*shove him in a broom closet!*

(with his clothes on!)

Post **Posted:** Tue Jan 26, 2016 1:42 am

I agree there should be a countdown of how many remain!

it's not sane!

Post **Posted:** Tue Jan 26, 2016 1:44 am

I too like the Tomboy single mix

Post **Posted:** Tue Jan 26, 2016 2:58 am

That Tomboy box set is exactly my favorite piece of vinyl.

Post **Posted:** Tue Jan 26, 2016 3:18 am

Miss Amanda Jones wrote:

Totally agree. I also love the hollers and screams he did during live performances. I wish he could have incorporated those into his performances on the album to make the recordings less static.

Yeah exactly what I'm talkin about. Those were the bessst part.

Post **Posted:** Tue Jan 26, 2016 3:20 am

Since I bought the boxset I have been meaning to get the 7' singles framed. I will do it some day! Haha. The Jetty cover art is one of my all time favs

Post **Posted:** Tue Jan 26, 2016 5:29 am

Were a lot of boxsets sold in Oz?

Post **Posted:** Tue Jan 26, 2016 5:44 am

Afterburner, Friendship Bracelet, and Scheherazade are my top 3.

There is not a single track that isn't great though.

Post **Posted:** Tue Jan 26, 2016 6:41 am

knives wrote:

Were a lot of boxsets sold in Oz?

I ordered mine from the US to Sydney back when it was released. I believe this was before USPS hiked their shipping costs and you could still order records from overseas cheaper than you could find in Aussie record stores.

My local had a copy in stock for around $70 or more at the time.

Post **Posted:** Tue Jan 26, 2016 7:20 am

holy fuck, that box set is a steal indeed. 4 LPs for $23 INCLUDING SHIPPING?!?!?! AND IT'S FOR CHARITY?!?! just grabbed one

Post **Posted:** Tue Jan 26, 2016 7:25 am

Sam wrote:

knives wrote:
Were a lot of boxsets sold in Oz?

I ordered mine from the US to Sydney back when it was released. I believe this was before USPS hiked their shipping costs and you could still order records from overseas cheaper than you could find in Aussie record stores.

My local had a copy in stock for around $70 or more at the time.

I can't quite remember but I think mine was around $50 to Australia back then....
I used to order more LPs & tees from US back before the shipping price hike for sho

Post **Posted:** Tue Jan 26, 2016 9:38 am

knives wrote:

Were a lot of boxsets sold in Oz?

I think , pretty much , it didn't sell that well anywhere...

It wasn't Person pitch pt2 .....
( I was very impressed ........ and I love PP ....)
But for whatever reason , grazing had apparently moved on ...

From reading & watching ,....
.....I notice Oz , who didnt get live shows , gave TB much love....

Theres something raw , and knowledgeable about being a temporary blip in a landscape that stretches endlessly ......and inhabited by humans for millions of years ( i believe ) , that Australia possesses .
I feel thats key to Tomboy .....

I did vibe checks for that Lp ( and pbvsgr ) in a canyon breaking out into the high desert in the Joshua tree . Pretty perth fect sort of oresum .
But driving 'into' the outback at sunrise is part of what I feel that record is truly about .

Friendship bracelet - surprisingly contentious........
For me , its the end of the day , as evening changes the palette and time again to light the campfire thats been lit daily in millions of homes for millions of years ...rugs & fresh hair ....

Post **Posted:** Tue Jan 26, 2016 9:49 am

You should totally get panda to come out to australia!!! i'd be forever in your debt sonic, I can't die without seeing the pb at least once

Post **Posted:** Tue Jan 26, 2016 9:55 am

Perthfect! Defs gonna give Tomboy a listen on this summer day (happy aus day). Goes well with the coastal quiet vibe of perth.

Post **Posted:** Tue Jan 26, 2016 10:03 am

HowardTJMoon wrote:

You should totally get panda to come out to australia!!! i'd be forever in your debt sonic, I can't die without seeing the pb at least once

No debts no debts peace&love peace&love

He should do it .....Japan too ......
I think as his kids get older , he will , with them
He probably has a count down timeline going already.....

Nobbo told me if he didn't have kids he would like to go to Mars . One way ....
Ha
Never a dull moment......

His kreuwe are all burnt on touring i know .....
Its punishing year after year ...
And theres no way you'd want impressionable kids around most of Noah's friends...
Ha .Only kidding....

Post **Posted:** Tue Jan 26, 2016 11:54 am

We'd show him a mad party down here when it happens, & u PK!

It's crazy what you're writing, wife & I have driven all round the desert centre here for the past weeks, magic stuff, we have actually bumped GR & TB through amazing sunrises..... Maybe it's those big harmonies but everything has expanded as we gazed out. There's colors in the Greaper tracks I never heard (think I got a bit annoying eq'ing the hire car stereo but I think I pulled out some vibes and sounds I hadn't heard)

And as you see millions of years of time compressed into layers of canyon walls you really know we are but a blip, a speck and a moment - nothing like this landscape to give you some ancient perspective on life's little ups & downs. It all flows from the sacred life-giving water around here, I think the Taoists feel that too.... Panda's nautical fixations I'm sure are connected. I'll say it again, every version we have of both these albums can really let you know nothing is definitive or fixed, there are qualities to everything, and the magic is in the differences.... as Panda feels flows....... Peace!! X

Post **Posted:** Tue Jan 26, 2016 7:21 pm

Ore .
Sounds Goldilox.........
Crank it in a cave or cavern for me !
Xpk

Post **Posted:** Wed Jan 27, 2016 8:48 pm

this is hiz best record...person pitch is close to grim reaper lvl but this feels like a full production..way more like a full movie experience