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onewheelwizzard:
I don't really think of Animal Collective as being a band I'd go see to listen to their "songs."  I don't think they have very many discrete "songs" that you could easily recognize at a live show (especially if their live shows contain lots of improvization, which I somewhat expect).  They just seem to me like the sort of band who doesn't so much write songs as play what they think of.  (Also, they've released several other albums, each of which is somewhat less accessible than the Sung Tongs, Feels, and Here Comes the Indian, so there might have been some material from those.)

I haven't seen them live (though I plan to in a few weeks when they come around Philly) but given what their recorded material is like, I'd absoluitely expect a show along the lines of what you've described.  But Animal Collective is weird enough that I can almost enjoy the music more when I'm really not familiar with it.  Those 15-minute intervals of not knowing what the hell they're doing would be the best part for me.

BrittanyMarie:
I went to the show the next night in Minneapolis- and maybe I'm the only person ever who likes Barr? The Minneapolis crowd seemed to think he was alright...  anyway!

Animal Collective are WEIRD, in those four songs you recognized, I'm willing to bet that there is some noise and shouting in all of them. I thought it was amazing though, personally.

mberan42:
Yeah, it was a weird show. I guess I didn't really expect to experience what I experienced.

But now I know.

rov:
I think the majority of their sets live are new songs and nothing off the album they released previously. I saw them in late 2004 and they only played stuff from Feels. I didn't know what the fuck. I liked it though.

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