Collected Animals

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

I wish I went to one.

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

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.

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?

totally with you man. Standout track for sure.

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.

dave doesn't seem like a nietzsche dude to me

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

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.

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

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?

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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?

Take a bath in the dark and put this on

Take a bath in the dark and put this on

and suck your own dick?

er

reminded me of..

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

..didn't mean to be vulgar..

lol

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

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.

ah, thanks

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Because it's CA

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.

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

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

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

Took me nearly 4 years to hear it

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

"(merryweather post pavillion) GO!!"

you havent heard that part hash?