Collected Animals

Hey yall.

If something like this exists, just point me in the right direction and delete this thread or whatever, but I was wondering if anyone had ever made a comprehensive list of every song (officially and unofficially, live or otherwise) that any/all of the boys have ever done.

I know there's the lyrical collective, but that seems to be missing stuff. For example, I just found Avey's song Judy Biwater on youtube, having never known it even existed. I have certain other songs, like Bleak Midwinter, just from lurking on the boards, but I bet there are so many other fans that would miss out on something like that just because they went a few months without logging in and missed the post about it.

This board has some other fantastic posts like the "All Known Live Recordings", "DJ Sets, Mixes, and Other Curated Media", the interviews and reddit threads and others that are absolute historical gems. It seems like something like this would fit along with those.

There would probably be challenges to maintaining something like that, especially if a song goes through multiple iterations. But it seems like something worth doing. It could maybe even be on a publicly editable google sheet. Or maybe it should all just be contained in lyrical collective.

Just throwin out ideas. Thoughts?

Well Merriweather has eleven songs, are there any else?!

Well Merriweather has eleven songs, are there any else?!

the daft punk one with the drummer I think

I remember something like this existing but I can't seem to find it right now. definitely would be a good idea to have one here

I have an extensive collection and have archived pretty much everything rarity I can find. I've thought about making a master list at some point before but lost interest due to life obligations. I'd be willing to see about listing what I have; pretty certain there's stuff others haven't posted/talked about on there.

I have an extensive collection and have archived pretty much everything rarity I can find. I've thought about making a master list at some point before but lost interest due to life obligations. I'd be willing to see about listing what I have; pretty certain there's stuff others haven't posted/talked about on there.

Cool, that would be really useful.

Also, who is in charge of lyrical collective? I know anyone can sign up and edit lyrics, but I'd be interested in what they used to build the wiki, if there's an underlying database or if it's just a collection of different HTML pages. If it's a database kind of structure (or one could be made) you could probably do something where a master list auto populates based on some date entries, with it auto updating anytime someone adds a new song page. Might be something fun to mess around with this coming summer.

Well Merriweather has eleven songs, are there any else?!

Turns out they released another album, "Burrito Hurts". You should check it out.

Also, who is in charge of lyrical collective? I know anyone can sign up and edit lyrics, but I'd be interested in what they used to build the wiki, if there's an underlying database or if it's just a collection of different HTML pages. If it's a database kind of structure (or one could be made) you could probably do something where a master list auto populates based on some date entries, with it auto updating anytime someone adds a new song page. Might be something fun to mess around with this coming summer.

i am although haven't worked on as much lately. it's a lot of work!

it's mediawiki so yeah there are definitely data-driven solutions. i already started going in and just adding a "Song" category so that http://collectedanimals.org/lyrics/Category:Songs will populate correctly. there's a ton of meaningful work there to do—categorizing by artist, by release, by year, etc.—but you pretty much have to do it all page-by-page and i've just never done it

happy to entertain any discussion here or via PM about the wiki! it's also a year or two out of date and missing three or four proper releases.

re: a song list, there was one on the original lyrical collective but i've lost my backups of that and i can't find it on archive.org. i feel like my collection is pretty complete too. anyone got a guess of how many songs it ends up being once we get it all aggregated? something like 600 but could go even higher?

Mr_Neffets wrote:

Also, who is in charge of lyrical collective? I know anyone can sign up and edit lyrics, but I'd be interested in what they used to build the wiki, if there's an underlying database or if it's just a collection of different HTML pages. If it's a database kind of structure (or one could be made) you could probably do something where a master list auto populates based on some date entries, with it auto updating anytime someone adds a new song page. Might be something fun to mess around with this coming summer.

i am although haven't worked on as much lately. it's a lot of work!

it's mediawiki so yeah there are definitely data-driven solutions. i already started going in and just adding a "Song" category so that http://collectedanimals.org/lyrics/Category:Songs will populate correctly. there's a ton of meaningful work there to do—categorizing by artist, by release, by year, etc.—but you pretty much have to do it all page-by-page and i've just never done it

happy to entertain any discussion here or via PM about the wiki! it's also a year or two out of date and missing three or four proper releases.

re: a song list, there was one on the original lyrical collective but i've lost my backups of that and i can't find it on archive.org. i feel like my collection is pretty complete too. anyone got a guess of how many songs it ends up being once we get it all aggregated? something like 600 but could go even higher?

Nice! I'm totally down to help out where I can. I'm finishing up a research project and have a few exams coming up through this month, but I'll send you a PM once the semester is through. A bit of data organizing is good for me every now and then

1. Spirit theyve vanished
2. meet the light child
3. tikwid
4. wide eyed
5. floridada

thats all i can remember, sorry i cant be more helpful

Seems like that’d be a good resource, a lot of songs get buried in these huge threads every album cycle. I’ve put stuff like New Psycho Actives in the DJ Set thread but it really doesn’t seem like the best home for it. It’s a little tricky too bc half the stuff could go in the live sub forum (radio sessions, one offs).