Animals, Collected: A Guide To Animal Collective
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- čas přidán 5. 08. 2020
- A thorough, in-depth look at the discography of one of music's strangest and most unique bands.
3:42 Spirit They've Vanished, Spirit They've Gone Away
12:18 Danse Manatee
13:28 Campfire Songs
17:56 Ark (formerly 'Here Comes The Indian')
20:56 Sung Tongs
23:32 Feels
29:48 Strawberry Jam
40:37 Merriweather Post Pavilion
50:50 Centipede Hz
1:02:02 Painting With
1:09:02 (Final Thoughts)
My stuff:
◘ Apple Music: / if-atoms-were-cathedrals | / miss-marginal
◘ Spotify: open.spotify.com/artist/1KFMx... | open.spotify.com/artist/2DmAk...
◘ Soundcloud: / if-atoms-were-cathedrals
◘ Bandcamp: ifatomswere.bandcamp.com | missmarginal.bandcamp.com/
◘ Buy me coffee: ko-fi.com/captmr_fisherman
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Sources:
◘ reynoldsretro.blogspot.com/20...
◘ arthurmag.com/2011/02/18/dizz...
◘ web.archive.org/web/200905272...
◘ spinsnneedles.blogspot.com/20...
◘ web.archive.org/web/201611030...
◘ www.mtv.com/news/2696795/anima...
◘ • The Impact of Social N...
◘ • The Walk to School
◘ • AMERICAN PYSCHO: PATRI... - Zábava
Why am I watching this? I've been listening to Animal Collective for 75 years.
75? that's nothing. I was there when they played I See You Pan at Charlemagne's coronation as Holy Roman Emperor
I wish you spoke more on the hocketing of painting with and about tangerine reef and ODDSAC. You did an amazing job on this. You really got into the lyrics which is nice because I have a hard time hearing their lyrics on most albums
Hat's off to you for putting so much work into this. I really enjoyed it!
As someone whos been into this band since early high school, this is probably the best video on them ive ever seen, really cool stuff! even had a few tidbits i didnt even know about.
same
You sound like a music version of Lemmino. Love it! Subbed
Great video! Your discussion of all the albums was awesome. The description of brothersport was very nice too. One of my favorite bands.
Great video man. As a 15+ year fan of the band it gave me a lot of nostalgia from my youth, not unlike the band itself.
I watched your video on The Brave Little Abacus and subscribed. I'll probably listen to this video in the background some other time. Love this band, stgstv is probably my favorite of theirs.
Great video, Captain! You share some great interpretations and reflections, well done. It's nice to see someone saying that they instantly loved Centipede Hz and especially Wide Eyed, because I think these are a pretty polarising and not so favourite album and song for most people, but as it was for you, I instantly liked them and they resonate with me.
i liked this video thank you... my fav band and i still dont quite understand why
I feel the same!
Love this band and happy to see a longer video diving into them! But their newest Tangerine Reef does not feature Panda Bear!!
What did you think of "Bridge to Quiet"?
@@mercurialmagictrees Lackluster as far as I'm concerned. It sounds like stuff that they would have been playing for in the campfire songs/ark era, but with way less form. And def appreciated getting new material last year, but it's not something I'm probably ever going to go back and listen to again.
@@adamcool8580 that's a reasonable perspective. Thanks for sharing. I'm new to the band so I've been digging into everything. I got plenty on vinyl and CD. It's some of the most peculiar art I've experienced.
@@mercurialmagictrees Well welcome to the collective!! Anco is one of my favorites of all time, and their is a lot to dive into! Good luck!
whatd you think of Time Skiffs?
i love love love love this video
great notes on brother sport!! had never deciphered the lyrics and this was enlightening
Thank you so much for this excellent video!
Sick bro, loved it
A much needed video 👌🏾
...Throbbing Gristle? 🤔
Seeing a retrospective for throbbing gristle would be so cool, considering that nobody has done it yet.
Great video!!
9:41 Avey kinda looks like the cover of Instrument by Fugazi
Wait Avey's grandpa invented the bagel press?
I'd also like to know if that is the case or where CaptMrfisherman got that from
Yes, he sold the patent to bigger corporations. He also invented a device that press the design on top of a Kaiser roll from what I remember in that interview.
great
Interesting analysis, though it seems a little too informed by the lyrical content of the songs, even though AC often focus on the sound of words rather than the meaning. "Moo Raa Raa Rain" is a good example. It sounds like actual rain falling using a chant, it is a brilliant song.
If you are going to look at lyrics, you missed an important element of FloriDada. The laughing vocal sample "Wipeout" is from the band The Surfaris. FloriDada's chorus is about the dumb legal cases about the Wipeout song and it's guitar riff that was copied multiple times by surf bands of the 60s and 70s - literally everyone was copying the sound (which animal collective are mocking but also praising as a fun upbeat carefree song). The bridge in question is not a physical bridge in Florida, but a musical bridge element:
"Where's the bridge that's gonna take me home?
The bridge that someone's fighting over
A bridge that someone's paying for
A bridge so old so let it go"
Nothing against you, but I had to speed up the video x1 as I found you speaking very slowly from your script (all my ZA fam have the same accent
>He doesn't like Also Frightened
Are you also frightened?
Well I don't know why you say you can't stand there music you got feels, sung tongs, Merriweather post Pavillion, and strawberry jam
"Centipede Hz" is one of their most psychedelic albums, what are you talking about? Geologist's playlist that served as the template for "Centipede Hz" features a lot of psychedelic rock, and they named a lot of psychedelic rock artists as influences for the album. Even lyrically, it's their most psychedelic. Good review otherwise, though. Glad you didn't trash the album.
i think i understand waht he means. there are different traditions of psychedelic music. the music on those geologist playlists tended toward guitar heavy psych rock like 13th floor elevator. that's fine, i like a lot of that music, but that macho druggy guitar music was not what attracted me to anco. esp their earlier works were so abstract and sonically strange. it was a different kind of psychedelic. but also, i don't agree w/ captmrfisherman or you. i think centipede hz is the first album where i felt like i was listening to a caricature of anco. it felt like the success of mpp made them a bit self-conscious. but i don't like most of the post fall be kind stuff with the exception of (most of) sleep cycle and eucalpytus
@@yoshinocherry8937 Their early works were in the same vein as early Pink Floyd, The Red Crayola, and krautrock artists. And "Centipede Hz" is essentially what you get when you mix the dissonance and abrasiveness of their early experimental albums with a more MPP-like production.
If anything, it was the critical failure from ignorant music snobs with a fledgling knowledge of 60's and 70's rock who made the band lose direction. It doesn't help that the band's fanbase significantly changed, too, with the introduction of MPP.
It's easy to defend their earlier experimental albums, because it led to a lot more accessible works. But having an experimental psychedelic rock album right after MPP with a brand new sound was bound to leave most people disgruntled.
It's a fantastic album, but it's not the album you nor others wanted, and in the end, that's what determines an album's stature.
Animal Collective is a druggy psychedelic band, whether you like it or not, though. I am familiar with most of their musical influences.
@@psychedelicpiper999 uh, ok. i'm not sure i'm an "ignorant music snob with a fledgling" whatever. yea you can think of syd barrett pink floyd and parable of the arable land, but even then that songwriting and the free jazz influences of those bands don't explain what happens on hollindagain imo. the horror movie soundtrack influence is my best way of understanding anco--the interest in tension and evocation. "I see you pan" and "pride and fight" are some of my fav thigns they've done, altho i love the more melodic stuff too.
every time i get into this kind of argument i go back and listen to cent hz thinking 'maybe this time', but what i find is that terrible muddy production and all those songs that are not avey at his best. and it also weirdly seems self-conscious of mpp. amanita seems like a knock off bro sport. ditto w/ pulleys as a knock-off no more runnin. new town burnout is nice but feels like it j IS a panda bear solo song. for some reason it doesn't feel integrated the way chores or derek did. but the production is the really problem imo! the autoharp is PART of what makes bees bees. it's hard to imagine visiting friends w/o those burbling electronics. but the bleeps on new town burnout or mercury man don't feel like part of the song, j this annoying layer on top of it. i think if anyone's snobby, it's you for saying ppl just don't udnerstand cent hz beca it's experimental (which it's not in my mind--the songs are very straightforward, they j have silly production on top). but if that's true, then why was painting with, an electronic album in the vein of mpp, just as poorly received!? in my opinion, simply because the songs weren't as magical as some of the ones on sung tongs thru fall be kind.
anyway i prob won't convince you, htis is prob not a good use of my time. i love defeat and prestor john, keeping my fingers crossed the new album is good, but the new ep got old for me so fast so i'm worried (but still hopeful).
@@yoshinocherry8937 You're straight-up trashing one of my all-time favorite albums, and yet you're calling me the snob? Of course I'm going to defend it. Believe me, I don't just take to any random album. In fact, I don't like most modern psychedelic rock.
Personally, I feel all the sounds on "Centipede Hz" gel perfectly well together.
And I have heard plenty of psychedelic rock that sounds "straightforward" musically, but still has some interesting and unique musical structures which essentially link it to the genre.
I've seen this criticism many times about the album sounding straightforward, and I know you don't want to hear this, but once again, it sounds like it's coming from someone who isn't really that familiar with the genre.
Nor with avant-garde music in general, hearing layers of discordant dissonant sounds and noises playing over other instruments. Something Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band were particularly masters of.
Some may argue The 13th Floor Elevators are just a garage rock group with an effect on top (the amplified jug). But it's obviously more than that.
And compared to bands that are constantly hyped by neopsych fans, like Tame Impala, The Flaming Lips, and King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, this album is the polar opposite of straightforward.
If it was up to me, admittedly, I would change the mix. In fact, the mix on the vinyl is much better than what they released on CD and digital.
Also, I love the lyrics, and experienced spiritual and personal epiphanies reading them. That's another thing I don't understand, why people criticize the lyrics on "Centipede Hz". To me, it's among their best, and actually most spiritual and relatable lyrics to the psychedelic experience.
"Painting With" is most definitely a mediocre album, and was my first disappointment from the band. It felt like a very reactionary album after the negative reception to "Centipede Hz". Like, let's try to make MPP/Fall Be Kind part 2, but minus the inspiration. I haven't really been a fan since then, besides some of the members' solo albums.
@@psychedelicpiper999
lol ok man, u keep talking about how you have this deep understanding of "avant-garde music" and you keep tellin me i don't know about the genre... BUT THEN the only thing you can name drop is the artist behind the most famous experimental rock album ever! i'm not impressed. sorry man but i've heard trout mask replica too!
there is absolutely no comparison between that (great) album with its crazy skittering guitar and deep bluesiness and centipede hz. all the songs on centipede hz are verse-chorus-verse-chorus-bridge-chorus. that's a pop song! that's not a bad thing but it's not captain beefheart. it's not even white light/white heat! and it's definitely not keiji haino or les rallizes denudes or holger czukay...
i don't like any of the indie rock bands you listed, but if any of them sound like captain beefheart i'd actually pick dirty projectors. not goddamn tame impala and not anco. the bitte orca guitars sound super inspired by the jittery sounds of trout mask replica.
maybeee i could say that i see a can/faust influence on some of the centipede hz, but there is nothing on centipede hz that can match the vibe of mushroom or why don't you eat carrots?
i will admit that there's alternate universe where ben allen didn't produce centipede hz. where crimson, honeycomb and gotham are on the album, where the mercury man vocals are mixed better, and where amanita and pulleys are gone. in that alternate universe it wud have been a good anco album (tho not close to their best).
still tho, something about it feels forced and under pressure. apparently the earliest sets they did for it had this cool garage rock vibe, really energetic and intense. i can see that alternate timeline album being cool. but some of the choices (like no two person vocal harmonies) j feel like determinedly 'i will not be mpp', and not in an adventurous way but more in a reactionary way.
glad you like the album, no shame. but sorta shame insofar as you keep telling me what music i listen to. not cool, and not a good argument.
what’s the song at the end?
@@lyuboveto do u know what version it is. sounds like a remix or something
still cannot listen to doggy all these years later.. i avoid that song like the plague
why?
most painful song for me but I love the album. I skip it every time.