Collected Animals

How have I never heard about From a Beach until this thread?

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Gliiiiding
Swimming in the curls
The tide is spackled with shells and
It tickles the sand like clay bells
My visions in a blurrrr

People floaaating
On rafts of Yellow Pink and Pearl
The current is pulling on bare legs
Imagine the beach of an old age
That wasn't filled with GIRuuuLS
Trying to get cooooOOOOL

From a Beach NEEDS to see a studio release one day, but I know it probably never will.

I think it is definitely too late, they're not gonna go back to record a song from a different era

At least we have a decent live recording of it.

I think it is definitely too late, they're not gonna go back to record a song from a different era

sadly yeah, it's now like a condom that's been opened and accidentally dropped on the ground

At least we have a decent live recording of it.

there's also a decent recording from a BBC session, 2007 i think

El Camino wrote:

I think it is definitely too late, they're not gonna go back to record a song from a different era

sadly yeah, it's now like a condom that's been opened and accidentally dropped on the ground

So... you're saying that studio versions of Animal Collective songs are like used condoms?

no?

OK, just checkin

that's reasonable

man, i am only just starting to appreciate how otherworldly and wonderful no more runnin is

MPP is obv their "best" album, tho not my "fav" (feels hcti spirit)

The production and songwriting is some timeless shit, like, doesn't even make sense when you look back on its context (think on other '09 shit -- it barely even belongs to '09, historically and genrewise)

"My Girls" and "Guys Eyes" are on the same fucking record

I love the Christmastime loving I got out of the freebird and the way it played so different on album than it did live.

Ps To all you suckas who love From A Beach, I used to dig that track back in the day and I legit don't even remember how it goes anymore. So prob not better than Lion?

man, i am only just starting to appreciate how otherworldly and wonderful no more runnin is

THANK YOU

The parts at 2:20 and 2:39 kill me every time.

i know it seems like we're done talking about it, but maaaaan, Lion in a Coma is so good. it's by far the most exciting/interesting part of the album for me. but then, i'm a diehard Avey fan. And MPP is not one of my faves because he doesn't get to scream at all

PLEEEEEEEEAAASE don't

LEEEEEEEAAAAAVVVE meee

THIIIIIIIINGS that

FEEEEEEEEEL GOOOOOOOD

how does that not just hit you in the feelings spot?

Love MPP but I feel like i'm the only one here who thinks it's their 5th or 6th best studio album

can't understand ranking their albums.

i don't think about them in that way at all.

In my head sometimes I think "What are my favorites? How would I rank them?"
Never works, I love 'em all too much.
My favorite depends on my mood (except Spirit is my favorite record of all time)

can't understand ranking their albums.

i don't think about them in that way at all.

I don't rank them either but I can't help but have a rough mental list of where their albums sit for me.

They're basically all equal for me, a flat structure. Imagine a shiny piece of card, balanced on a dried piece of dog dirt.

The dog dirt is CHz.

hahahahahahahahahaha lol

taste and lion in a coma post mpp live tho

no joke, not even looking.. i was blstin this tonight....


lion in a coma needs way more love than most igve it. its like, really, who has the energy to hate that fucking song?

imagine a shiney turd. polished, to the point of perfection...



this is stanshall. the man who can make absolute garbage become honest gold.

every time i listen to this album i hear something new and find a way to love it even more, and it's almost definitely my most listened-to album ever. also lion in a coma is so great, love that rhythm. another thing that comes to mind is the really low and stuttery pitch-bending bass line in daily routine, that part always get's me psyched.

Play this


With this

i'm probably one of the only chaps who prefers CHz to MPP. I get that MPP is a much "better" album, but the crazy frantic messy energy of CHz just never gets old. Plus Avey gets to scream a lot.
MPP, though it has some of my all-time fav songs, usually falls flat when listened to all the way through, for me anyways.

damn lion in a coma is so good tho



just wanted to go on the record here

Sometimes the sun will shine
Unless I am just feeling fine
Sometimes I'm not aware
Where I am or what I care
Sometimes I'm well to do
But I don't know what to do
Sometimes I don't agree
With my thoughts on being free


PLLEAAASSSEEE DONT LEAAAVVVEE ME THINGGGSSS THAT FEEEEEEEELLL GOOD

lol just went back and read this thread, noticed someone already posted the lyric I posted and most of this thread was about whether people like Lion in a Coma or not.

you know the mpp thread is always only about lion in a coma

ima dancer ima dancer ima dancer ima dancer ima dancer ima dancer ima dancer ima dancer ima dancer ima dancer

err ima dance err ima dance

Remember when Avey said it's actually "Am I the dancer" on an NPR interview or something

That interview was rad, where they broke down each track almost

The end of Daily Routine being like a clothesline swaying in the wind and then dropping down a cliff into a beautiful ocean

I think

Remember when Avey said it's actually "Am I the dancer" on an NPR interview or something

That interview was rad, where they broke down each track almost

The end of Daily Routine being like a clothesline swaying in the wind and then dropping down a cliff into a beautiful ocean

I think

I have it on my computer and will gladly upload it to media fire. I think I put a link in the mpp thread on the old boards.

Scooter, he says "am I the dancer?" And it blew everyone's mind on here when the interview aired. Some were convinced he was joking/spying on the board because it was the hot topic of the week in ac discussion.

I have it on my computer and will gladly upload it to media fire.

Yes plz

^id like that too!

XFM Interview with Dave and Brian (track by track analysis of MPP). Originally aired on January 13th, 2009.

Thank you so much!! Im very excited to listen to it.

same thanks!

it's really interesting how josh leaving actually inspired/spurred them to write the MPP songs because they needed material right away that they could play. I hadn't really thought about it in those terms exactly before.
like the fact that it actually sped up their process.