Collected Animals • Alsatian Darn

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Post **Posted:** Sun Nov 02, 2014 5:49 pm

coollodges wrote:

alsatian darn is probably my fav on tomboy. The claps that come in are so epic and I love how the rhythm sort of shifts about around that bass drum and makes the accents sound like they are changing the whole time.

This is one of the most fascinating things about Alsatian Darn to me. The song itself is beautiful, all the melodies are great. But I can't quite wrap my ahead around where beat "1" is. I can't tell if PB made the bass drum play on the offbeat, or on the beat, or if it switches back and forth. But that's what I love about it—the rhythms can be interpreted a few different ways.

Post **Posted:** Sun Nov 02, 2014 10:45 pm

heinous_anus wrote:

SAY CAN I MAKE A BAD MISTAKE
SAY WHAT IT IS I WANT TO SAY TO YOU

SAY WHAT

that part of altasian darn is top notch, though the previous parts of that track pale in comparison to Afterburner and The Preakness.

Spoiler: show

Also I realise that this is recorded live, but does this count as a studio version of Bonfire? http://www.discogs.com/Panda-Bear-Take- ... se/1004199

Post **Posted:** Sun Nov 02, 2014 11:18 pm

I think you answered your own question there (ie no studio version)

Alsatian Darn still the best song p much??
also Preakness is prob my 2nd fave Tomboy-era song

Post **Posted:** Mon Nov 03, 2014 12:44 am

I'd say slow motion is all the way up there

Post **Posted:** Mon Nov 03, 2014 1:47 am

my fave is Slow Motion before SB added all the unnecessary spring reverb crap and extended the tag way too long. Pretty much what he did with the whole album.

I think the Tomboy songwriting is equal to the Person Pitch songwriting, but Person Pitch just works better as an album.

Post **Posted:** Mon Nov 03, 2014 2:41 am

Sonic boom wrote:

....funny how people rag or praise the supposed mixer/producer/engineer
....usually erroneously ......
... Tho it would be wrong to think that people are unaffected
by mean or cruel comments ...
Pk

Post **Posted:** Mon Nov 03, 2014 2:43 am

I'll add all these mixing complaints are getting crazy boring. Enough already you guys

Post **Posted:** Mon Nov 03, 2014 5:02 am

Yeah but Tomboy could have been betterrrrr... Also that synth on Tomboy is atrocious. Its not a just mixing, the production was substantially changed from the singles. I love the straightforward sound of the singles before all the noise and reverb was slapped on just to make it different.

Oh yeah Alsatian Darn fades out too quickly on the LP. The sustained final note on the single touches my heart. This another major gripe I have.

Post **Posted:** Mon Nov 03, 2014 10:05 am

alsatian darn is a ripper
cant chose a favourite, or even list fave pb songs, i tried to think about it and my brain just shut down

Post **Posted:** Mon Nov 03, 2014 10:07 am

MAYBE fave is homebase version of bros but ill change my mind in a minute

Post **Posted:** Mon Nov 03, 2014 10:13 am

also if noah didnt like/want the way sonic produced tomboy then he wouldnt have worked with him again for pbvsgr, so its irrelevant whether sonic 'ruined' tomboy. and if anything he was champin at workin on the album and with pb to create what pb wanted

Post **Posted:** Mon Nov 03, 2014 11:25 am

oh man, I thought it was called Alsatian DAM

Whats this song about??

Post **Posted:** Mon Nov 03, 2014 12:30 pm

coming out of your shell, not letting it slide, doing what you got to do,

you know

Bangs wrote:

oh man, I thought it was called Alsatian DAM

it was originally but he censored it because he didn't want swear words in his titles

it was gonna be either Alsatian Darn or Alsatian Golly Gosh

Post **Posted:** Mon Nov 03, 2014 12:47 pm

Hashman wrote:

coming out of your shell, not letting it slide, doing what you got to do,

you know

Bangs wrote:
oh man, I thought it was called Alsatian DAM

it was originally but he censored it because he didn't want swear words in his titles

it was gonna be either Alsatian Darn or Alsatian Golly Gosh

i thought it was more he didnt approve of man made bodies of water

Post **Posted:** Mon Nov 03, 2014 2:07 pm

yeah well he's so disapproving that that word is basically a swear word to him

Post **Posted:** Mon Nov 03, 2014 5:06 pm

Yoooooooo

Post **Posted:** Mon Nov 03, 2014 5:07 pm

THIS THREAD I mean

Xoxo

Post **Posted:** Mon Nov 03, 2014 9:17 pm

Hey guys, I had an account long ago but forgot my CA credentials. So anyway, long time lurker (of late) - first post.

Has Noah ever played “Atiba Song” live? I love that song so much, but don't feel like I know much about it. Noah is boys with Atiba and just wrote a song for his skateboarding project? Is there only the one recording of the track (from the video)? I always wanted a studio version of that baby. Such a gem.

“Alsatian Darn” was always my most consistent favorite from Tomboy, if that makes. Very special song.

Post **Posted:** Mon Nov 03, 2014 9:35 pm

if that makes *sense*

Post **Posted:** Mon Nov 03, 2014 9:44 pm

sp, if you find something other than the skateboard video, let me know. Alsatian and Surfer's Hymn are my favs from Tomboy

dud · Post **Posted:** Mon Nov 03, 2014 10:18 pm

sideways ponytails wrote:

Has Noah ever played “Atiba Song” live? I love that song so much, but don't feel like I know much about it. Noah is boys with Atiba and just wrote a song for his skateboarding project? Is there only the one recording of the track (from the video)?

Never played it live, no studio recording, the audio from the video is all we got

and yeah noah is friends with atiba and just made that song for his project

Post **Posted:** Tue Nov 11, 2014 6:03 pm

noah just did the vox right

Post **Posted:** Tue Nov 11, 2014 7:35 pm

I always thought Atiba started the song (the beat doesn't sound like Panda Bear), and then Noah added the vox/some of the synths maybe? who knows.

always loved that song though

Post **Posted:** Tue Nov 11, 2014 8:45 pm

Atiba Song is so evocative, even just as an instrumental, and it's funny that it would probably fit best of all into his newest material, very straightforward loops both with the beats and the synths/samples. Only two melodies, really, too. I think it's gorgeous.

Post **Posted:** Wed Nov 12, 2014 1:38 am

if it ever came out as a studio jam, it would have to have the skateboard sounds

Post **Posted:** Tue Dec 02, 2014 1:28 pm

dervish wrote:

if it ever came out as a studio jam, it would have to have the skateboard sounds

maybe that's the reason there's no official studio version, those skateboard sounds are so essential.

Post **Posted:** Tue Dec 02, 2014 3:25 pm

Alsatian Darn is so damn good. I think it was one of my least favorites the first time I heard Tomboy, but I love it now

Post **Posted:** Tue Dec 02, 2014 7:18 pm

alsatian darn is my fave track on tomboy

Post **Posted:** Sat Dec 06, 2014 8:03 pm

1:50 AM I RIGHT?

Post **Posted:** Sun Dec 07, 2014 3:48 am

This song really made me say I LOVE Tomboy, only song on that album that I always want to put on.

Post **Posted:** Mon Dec 08, 2014 3:13 am

Found this excellent footage of Alsatian Darn live. Not very good sound quality, but damn, pete and noah are jammin