Collected Animals • down there (avey tare)

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Post **Posted:** Tue Aug 27, 2013 5:38 pm

oliver twist is one of the best songs he's ever written

and yeah, the shows he played a couple years ago were really beautiful

Post **Posted:** Tue Aug 27, 2013 6:06 pm

I wish I went to one.

Post **Posted:** Tue Aug 27, 2013 6:47 pm

i became a serious AC fan a few weeks after Avey played in Madison

beumuth · Post **Posted:** Mon Sep 09, 2013 2:59 pm

I can't stop listening to this album lately.

3 Umbrellas brings to mind a girl that goes into the woods and befriends a playful forest spirit who appears under green umbrellas. It's the most light-hearted song on the album for me.

The beginning of Ghost of Books reminds me a lot of the part of Oddsac where the woman is wringing some kind of cloth in water.

Post **Posted:** Wed Sep 11, 2013 1:33 pm

anyone else w/ me that heather in the hospital is one of the best trax on here? so crushing, the arpeggio transition into lucky one is so killer

the subtle n64 sounding synth thing is sooooo great

anyone know what synth was used on this?

Post **Posted:** Wed Sep 11, 2013 10:50 pm

totally with you man. Standout track for sure.

Post **Posted:** Sun Jan 05, 2014 11:34 pm

i came across a very peculiar chapter while reading Thus Spake Zarathustra by Nietzsche. specifically, i just read the chapter "the return home" (p.203), which talks about lonesomeness and features several similar themes (namely passages on flies and graves) that are highlighted in down there. Furthermore, Nietzsche talks about "down there" a few times in the short chapter, and the chapter follows one that talks about a swamp. I realize this is just a coincidence, but i found it fascinating nonetheless.

Post **Posted:** Sun Jan 05, 2014 11:54 pm

dave doesn't seem like a nietzsche dude to me

Post **Posted:** Mon Jan 06, 2014 11:16 am

neitzche maybe was a time traveler who listened to down thurrr and wrote about it. the first down there record review

Post **Posted:** Mon Jan 06, 2014 1:37 pm

The swamp environment seems fairly archetypal of depression, decay, and darkness to me. Perhaps Neitzche's writings on the subject are sourced from the same psychological state that Dave tapped into when he made Down There.

Post **Posted:** Mon Jan 06, 2014 1:42 pm

"the notion of an aural swamp defines the album" - http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/34558/c ... avey-tare/

Post **Posted:** Fri Apr 04, 2014 10:05 am

I'm giving this a relisten in anticipation of slasher flicks this month (show and record).
I've always liked this one a lot, but maybe more so now. Laughing Hieroglyphic, while kind of a downer (there-er), is a damn great song. The rest is amazing too. Cemeteries is especially underrated.

Does anyone know if Slasher Flicks will play any of these songs live?

Post **Posted:** Fri Apr 04, 2014 11:15 am

let's hope. they already played Oliver Twist last year a few times

Post **Posted:** Fri Apr 11, 2014 11:17 pm

i wasn't getting into this album for the longest time until I read about Avey's emotional state while making it. I turned it on when I was feeling really sick and sad and it just clicked like no other i'd heard album before.

Post **Posted:** Sat Apr 12, 2014 9:16 am

I will never forget the first time I heard Down There. It was halloween day when I was 19. I think the album had just been released relatively recently but I hadnt had a chance to listen to it yet due to relationship problems and stress (girlfriend of 2 years who I was very much in love with at the time was acting very distant and odd). So its halloween and Im across campus at my now ex's dorm and she essentially tells me she doesnt feel the same way and has been seeing someone else... I leave to my car heartbroken, furious, and in such a surreal state of mind that I can still vividly remember it now. I dont even know what to think or do so I pop in my new copy of Down There and laughing hieroglyphic begins... Not even joking.

This album means a lot to me in so many ways. I remember when I first heard it I felt like avey wrote it just for me. I had this super strong connection with this album for that whole fall and winter and I totally associate this album with a very sad and dark time in my life following that breakup. I tend to not listen to it often but still regard it as one of the most important albums to me.

Post **Posted:** Tue Apr 15, 2014 9:15 pm

3 umbrellas is one of my favorite avey songs. so beautiful and mellow

Post **Posted:** Thu Apr 17, 2014 9:18 am

this is my favorite thing that avey tare has ever put out

Post **Posted:** Thu Apr 17, 2014 9:21 am

Fan wrote:

I'm giving this a relisten in anticipation of slasher flicks this month (show and record).
I've always liked this one a lot, but maybe more so now. Laughing Hieroglyphic, while kind of a downer (there-er), is a damn great song. The rest is amazing too. Cemeteries is especially underrated.

Does anyone know if Slasher Flicks will play any of these songs live?

it'd be weird if he played laughing hieroglyphic, the song's about his divorce and he'd be playing it with his now girlfriend

Post **Posted:** Thu Apr 17, 2014 9:40 am

something wrote:

the song's about his divorce

[citation needed]

he has implied that Ghost of Books was about his relationship with Kristin though, and I think that might have been the reason he didn't ever play it live?

Post **Posted:** Thu Apr 17, 2014 11:11 am

Take a bath in the dark and put this on

Post **Posted:** Thu Apr 17, 2014 12:37 pm

Aplomb wrote:

Take a bath in the dark and put this on

and suck your own dick?

Post **Posted:** Thu Apr 17, 2014 1:01 pm

Post **Posted:** Thu Apr 17, 2014 2:35 pm

reminded me of..

jfw7 wrote:

_________________
put on your queens of the stone age record and suck your own dick

..didn't mean to be vulgar..

Post **Posted:** Thu Apr 17, 2014 2:38 pm

lol

I still don't know what that signature is a reference to though

Post **Posted:** Thu Apr 17, 2014 3:24 pm

it's an ac reference, loosely, i think. it's in some song that someone associated with them from their youth is singing in some recording. i might have botched that, but it was explained once [and only once] before, i believe.

Post **Posted:** Thu Apr 17, 2014 10:44 pm

ah, thanks

Post **Posted:** Thu Apr 17, 2014 10:59 pm

i think jfw7 explained it in the best 2013 signature thread in the awards subforum

Post **Posted:** Fri Apr 18, 2014 12:00 am

lonecyclone wrote:

Aplomb wrote:
Take a bath in the dark and put this on

and suck your own dick?

If you feel like it why would I stop you

Post **Posted:** Sun Jun 15, 2014 7:14 am

For me Laughing Hieoglyphic is the most emotional song ever. Absolutely perfect lyrics combined with the texture and the growing intensity in the vox.

Post **Posted:** Sun Jun 15, 2014 1:48 pm

GarfieldWallace wrote:

For me Laughing Hieoglyphic is the most emotional song ever.

yeah. i say "ever" way too much but i definitely mean it in agreeing with this statement

Post **Posted:** Sun Jun 15, 2014 1:51 pm

El Camino wrote:

Tic wrote:
StrangeClamsSequel wrote:
best AC solo release hands down

yup. person pitch dont stand a chance against this swampy masterpiece

I mean i really like this album but jesus christ

i never saw this,, you really think thats a far enough reach to constitute a "jesus christ"? haha

Post **Posted:** Mon Jun 16, 2014 12:10 am

Why do completely different things have to be better than one another?

Post **Posted:** Mon Jun 16, 2014 2:24 pm

coollodges wrote:

Why do completely different things have to be better than one another?

Because it's CA

Post **Posted:** Mon Jun 16, 2014 2:34 pm

Totally get 2010 Halloween vibes with this as well. I had just started dating my would-be wife and the mood in the air felt like the end of one thing and the beginning of another. The first time I listened to this in pitch black with only a candle to light the room. Still get those feels everytime I put this on. Great record.

Post **Posted:** Mon Jun 16, 2014 9:42 pm

dance avey dance wrote:

coollodges wrote:
Why do completely different things have to be better than one another?

Because it's CA

forgot where I was for a second thanks

Post **Posted:** Tue Jun 17, 2014 1:32 am

scarfacesam317 wrote:

I will never forget the first time I heard Down There. It was halloween day when I was 19. I think the album had just been released relatively recently but I hadnt had a chance to listen to it yet due to relationship problems and stress (girlfriend of 2 years who I was very much in love with at the time was acting very distant and odd). So its halloween and Im across campus at my now ex's dorm and she essentially tells me she doesnt feel the same way and has been seeing someone else... I leave to my car heartbroken, furious, and in such a surreal state of mind that I can still vividly remember it now. I dont even know what to think or do so I pop in my new copy of Down There and laughing hieroglyphic begins... Not even joking.

This album means a lot to me in so many ways. I remember when I first heard it I felt like avey wrote it just for me. I had this super strong connection with this album for that whole fall and winter and I totally associate this album with a very sad and dark time in my life following that breakup. I tend to not listen to it often but still regard it as one of the most important albums to me.

dude great story. I mean I'm sorry about all that jazz but that connectivity you had with the album at that time is really awesome ... like perfect almost. you ' ll find another lass

Post **Posted:** Fri Jul 11, 2014 6:01 am

Holy shit just put it on and realized the first sound is the words "Down There"

Took me nearly 4 years to hear it

Post **Posted:** Fri Jul 11, 2014 6:49 am

lolllll

it cracks me up how he says "down there" at the start of the album, how many other albums have someone saying the album title at the beginning

Post **Posted:** Fri Jul 11, 2014 6:50 am

"(merryweather post pavillion) GO!!"

Post **Posted:** Fri Jul 11, 2014 6:51 am

you havent heard that part hash?