Collected Animals

Listening to CAN, Monster movie. Think the boys might have been influenced by it for Danse Manetee

I recommend listening to it on speakers rather than headphones if you can get away with it without pissing off neighbors/parents.

YESSS
I did this for the fist time when I found danse on vinyl at a JB and it was fairly cheap. when I got home and put it on my turntable it was the first time I ever heard it with speakers rather than headphones. Really expanded my understanding of the music. The album is soooooo spacey! with headphones I find it's a bit claustrophobic, but with speakers the sound gets some breathing room and you can move around as well to hear all the magic...
I'm really bad with track names though because I mostly listen to danse on vinyl now so everything blends together a bit...

I want to hear animal crack box so badly but don't want to fork over $150 for it.

Here's hoping they'll shit out a digital one day (they won't)

I want to hear animal crack box so badly but don't want to fork over $150 for it.

Here's hoping they'll shit out a digital one day (they won't)

You don't download ?

Late to this discussion, sry, but...
Jungle Heart and Hey Friend are absolutely on point.
They do sound like Campfire Songs rejects maybe in the way that they were too weird for Campfire Songs, which was supposed to have a super friendly, warm, accessible sound. They are definitely Young Prayer - influenced-- a little arrhythmic, atonal at times. They're definitely hard to pin down, they're slippery. Don't really conform to traditional popular song structure. I think that's a good thing, for a song to be a challenge to grip or connect to. The Young Prayer #2 in Crack Box is also excellent.
Ice Cream Factory is one of my favorite of their live performances. It has this super destructive/violent/depressed vibe that makes me want to punch through a wall every time I listen to it (in a good way, hehe)-- and that reminds me a lot of Hollinndagain or Here Comes the Indian. It never fails to pump me up and make me feel feels. Also, I scream "It's My Ice Cream Factory" in the shower probably more times than is healthy
There are definitely low points on Crack Box, but the high points make it definitely worth it.

Crack Box is by some distance my least listened AC release. I ought to remedy this. I don't even think I've still got a download of it, in fact.

Although we've got tons of amazing and unique recordings of most post-Tongs eras, I wonder what Crack Box 2 could be like. I'd absolutely love to hear the Electric Tongs stuff that they apparently tried out before scrapping the sound, before Feels. I imagine it sounding a bit like Noah's Ark or Together, both of which are stunning and tap into something they don't really explore any more. That whole transition to Feels and the Tongs era boots are so fantastic.

Then you've got the early MPP shows, these sparse, tentative but incredibly joyous jams. You really felt that they were discovering what they were going to be, from one show to the next. An absolute kaleidoscope of tones and brilliant melodies. I remember Tap saying that the songwriting had become quite chunky on MPP, one section leading straight into another without the sense of movement or abstracted adventure. I kind of agree, regarding the album, but these earlier shows still have that. Despite the need for everything to be more sequenced (as in, using sequencers), you had that feeling that they were cutting loose and seeing where the songs would lead them.

Crack Box 2. Make it happen.

preach it

What we need is more absolutely more material between the span of '00 to '04 I'd say ... more songs would be most awesome ... for us nut cases all rare songs are glorious and the rarer the greater ... would like to hear more from '02 would be best and before ... forest children days ! : )

I just hope dave ends up making that early era doco he talked about that time: https://soundcloud.com/thewanderingwolf ... collective