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Fun Stuff => BAND => Topic started by: Jackie Blue on 30 May 2007, 13:10
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At least they were last night. Sweet Christ, I actually kept falling asleep. They did not once play any instruments. Unless you count a floor tom as an "instrument". They didn't play any actual songs off their albums. They just futzed around with pre-recorded tracks and "sang" some not-very-good vocals over it.
Srsly, if I had paid to get in I would have demanded a refund.
Also, I'm pissed that Sir Richard fucking Bishop was the opener, but he apparently started playing the second the doors were open and only played about 20 minutes, because in the time it took me to drink a beer next door, I got a call saying he had already finished.
A summation of the crowd reaction:
EVERYONE UNDER 19: That was the coolest thing I've ever seen.
EVERYONE OVER 19: That was fucking terrible.
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I saw a few videos and gathered they seemed terrible, though semi-well taped quality videos are not always the best indicator.
My friend that is exactly 19 thought they were amazing, so how does that work out?
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It's not even just that they were bad, they were bad and boring. It would have at least been interesting if they had like, made a terrible racket and screamed and jumped around and shit, but nope.
Also, LOL at all the kids who kept applauding for an encore and didn't get one.
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Isn't Animal Collective's deal that they never play songs off their albums live?
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Them not playing songs off their albums was by far the least of my complaints, but a couple friends of mine swear they did play a couple songs off Sung Tongs and Feels. I couldn't tell, though, because of the massive vortex of SUCK they were creating.
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"songs" and "instrumentation" are SO 2004
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Ah, presumably this is them still doing this:
http://www.rockmidgets.com/releases.php?page=3&id=1571
Without exaggeration, the worst 'music' I've ever heard.
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Maybe you just didn't get it. That happens to people sometimes if they are not cool. Are you cool?
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Oh, I "got it" alright. It was just fucking horrible.
I mean, hey. I saw z'ev a couple weeks ago and honestly enjoyed him. I can listen to Metal Machine Music without even a hint of irony. I consider even Sun City Girls songs like "Sexy Graveyard" and "Bird of Prey" to be pretty good. But these guys... man. It was like watching three retarded highschool kids masturbating onstage.
I generally avoid music press, but the local alternative weekly had an article about them, which I just read while waiting on a pizza. It says they "don't give interviews" and that they insist they play "folk music". So maybe now all the people who bitched about how "pretentious" GY!BE were can aim at these douchelords.
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No, guys, he's right, they're shit live.
A friend of mine saw them in Montreal. They started with ten minutes of just hollering randomly. Then they played, going to far as to actually include "The Purple Bottle" and a bit of "Grass," if I remember right.
However,
(http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a26/sjbrot/Concerts/Animal%20Collective/022006AnimalCollectiveFirstNations0.jpg)
it was apparently "like watching a shadow for three hours."
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I should not be reading this thread :(
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None of this changes the fact that their albums are really god damn good. It's too bad they insist on being a minimalist improv band live, but at least I know never to bother seeing them now.
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This whole thing makes me kinda want to see them now.
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Sung Tongs and Feels are definitely good albums.
Live, they are the indie rock equivalent of Phish.
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This whole thing makes me kinda want to see them now.
The entire point of my post was that you don't really see them, though!
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Any idea if Panda Bear is similar live? I was going to see him in June but now I'm worried. Are his live shows more impressive?
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This whole thing makes me kinda want to see them now.
The entire point of my post was that you don't really see them, though!
But I like to watch pompous masturbatory displays of egotism. It will be like watching a car crash.
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Any idea if Panda Bear is similar live? I was going to see him in June but now I'm worried. Are his live shows more impressive?
This video tells me Noah's pretty straightforward live, but still amazing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMLF6qzfJxs&mode=related&search= (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMLF6qzfJxs&mode=related&search=)
And since I was already on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zbYYKzTFeQ&mode=related&search=
Why isn't AC like that when people pay to see them :?
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But I like to watch pompous masturbatory displays of egotism. It will be like watching a car crash.
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HEH?
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But I like to watch pompous masturbatory displays of egotism. It will be like watching a car crash.
EXCEPT YOU CAN SEE THE CAR CRASH
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Sung Tongs and Feels are definitely good albums.
Live, they are the indie rock equivalent of Phish.
Well, Phish is/was one of my favorite bands, so I guess I would shit, piss, and splooge in my pants if I went to see Animal Collective live.
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I've heard heaps about how crap these guys are. Every time a 'worst live band' thread pops up in any sort of forum, these guys always get mentioned.
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But I like to watch pompous masturbatory displays of egotism. It will be like watching a car crash.
EXCEPT YOU CAN SEE THE CAR CRASH
also typically being in a car crash does not make you enough money that you can move to Spain and bang the chick with the creepy voice from Mûm
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also typically being in a car crash does not make you enough money that you can move to Spain and bang the chick with the creepy voice from Mûm
(http://img454.imageshack.us/img454/9066/tom2ty6.jpg)
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Purple bottle == red Swingline??
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that's, that's it, that's, i'm, i'm gonna burnthebuildingdown, that's, i'm gonna burnthebuildingdown
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But I like to watch pompous masturbatory displays of egotism. It will be like watching a car crash.
EXCEPT YOU CAN SEE THE CAR CRASH
also typically being in a car crash does not make you enough money that you can move to Spain and bang the chick with the creepy voice from Mûm
Wrong guy. You're thinking of Avey Tare.
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He sings backwards, that Avey Tare
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He's a member of Animal Collective, that Avey Tare
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Word-in-mouth putter! And liar, you lie!
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i am listening to a bootleg of their show in charlottesville a couple nights ago, and it sounds exactly like what i would expect from a live animal collective set. I would therefore move that they do not suck live.
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Saw them towards the start of this year, played a couple of cuts off Feels including a rendition of Grass that was probably the best single song I've seen performed live. They were playing their instruments, except for geologist who was working the effects and soundboard.
Was a fantastic show, the guys all seemed to be enjoying themselves, and the crowd were really getting into it. A couple of girls got up on stage and danced for a bit, and came back down peacefully with no intervention from security or much acknowledgement from the band.
So I don't know. I thought it was amazing. I have no idea where this criticism is coming from, they probably have some pretty dreadful off-nights.
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Just a regular old pile-on, never mind, move along.
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It would help if each camp would post a show or some live songs to demonstrate their case, because I've read people saying they were amazing live and people saying they were crap.
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Well, Gregs, you could always either go to YouTube or go to a show and see for yourself.
I know I certainly don't have the ability to post the show I saw, since, uh, I didn't film it.
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They do play songs from their old albums, but not the singles I don't think. At least, that's what they did when I saw them in Minneapolis sometime last year. It was right before Feels came out, and they ended up playing quite a bit of that new stuff, a lot of Here Comes the Indian but very very few from Sung Tongs. I could see them, but maybe that's because I was close enough to have touched Deakin's foot if I wanted to. (I did look and youtube has a bunch of videos (http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=animal+collective+minneapolis+&search=Search) from the show and it is indeed super dark and you can't really see them except for the miner's hats things they were wearing.) They did play quite a bit of just seemingly random noise but that was pretty much just between the songs-it was actually really poppy and lots of people were dancing.
It was just awkward when some dude yelled "Freebird!" and Avey's reply was a very dry "Please don't do that. It's not funny" or something to that effect.
You probably mostly heard a good portion of the songs that they're going to use on their next album.
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But I like to watch pompous masturbatory displays of egotism. It will be like watching a car crash.
EXCEPT YOU CAN SEE THE CAR CRASH
this made me lol pretty hard.
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They did play quite a bit of just seemingly random noise but that was pretty much just between the songs-it was actually really poppy and lots of people were dancing.
The show I saw was ALL random noise. Literally. Afterwards I had to think hard to say "I THINK there was a song or two from Feels in there somewhere".
You probably mostly heard a good portion of the songs that they're going to use on their next album.
If so, their next album is going to be an indulgent, boring mess with no instruments.
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Just to check, are you a fan of Animal Collective's first few albums?
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They're okay. The only ones I really like a lot are Sung Tongs and Feels.
If you're saying that the show I saw was similar to their first albums, well, why should I expect that? That would be like going to see Radiohead now and yelling "CREEEEEEEP!!!!! PLAY FUCKING CREEP!!!!!" the whole show.
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Eh? Nah, I'm not talking about what you should reasonably expect at all! Was just thinking they have a history of fairly tuneless improv, wondering if you a) knew that and b) liked that stuff.
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That would be like going to see Radiohead now and yelling "CREEEEEEEP!!!!! PLAY FUCKING CREEP!!!!!" the whole show.
I will pay you for the cost of your ticket if you do that at a Radiohead concert and provide proof.
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That would be like going to see Radiohead now and yelling "CREEEEEEEP!!!!! PLAY FUCKING CREEP!!!!!" the whole show.
I will pay you for the cost of your ticket if you do that at a Radiohead concert and provide proof.
And I'll go splitsies on your hospital bills after a couple of gangly radiohead elitists pummel you.
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No, no no no no no. Don't be that guy. Don't be that one dickhead who ruins the show for everyone else.
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To be fair, "Creep" is better than the three new Radiohead songs I've heard and half of Hail To the Thief.
What if I just yell "Stop Whispering"? Can I get a half-ticket for that? 'Cause that is seriously one of their best songs.
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I can remember when Radiohead were worried they were going to be a one-hit wonder because of "Creep".
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I can remember when Radiohead actually were a one-hit wonder.
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Kyle Glass from Tenacious D claimed that he went to a Radiohead show and kept yelling for 'Creep', though this was probably at a time when nobody in the U.S. liked or respected Radiohead.
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I can remember when Radiohead actually were a one-hit wonder.
My understanding of the term "one-hit wonder" is that it requires the band to fade into complete obscurity and be remembered only for one song, a la the Knack and "My Sharona". Radiohead have never done this.
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Nah, I use the term "one-hit wonder" to refer to bands like Radiohead and the Flaming Lips, too. Between the release of "She Don't Use Jelly" and the critical success of The Soft Bulletin, the Flaming Lips were considered by the general public to be a one-hit wonder band, despite the fact that Clouds Taste Metallic is arguably their best album.
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I am sufficiently intrigued to see what they're doing now since Sung Tongs and Feels are the only two I really like as well (with bits and pieces off Here Comes the Indian) and them doing something even weirder than usual. HMM
(Also I agree with zerodrone's def of one-hit wonder as well- in the US [because I'm sure the charts are different elsewhere] you are a one-hit wonder if you had one song and one song only to hit the Top 40. I argued this in a different thread as well in that while Blur may or may not be a good band and may or may not have any successful and good albums, they are a one-hit wonder in the us in that Song 2 is the only song of theirs to have charted here. I realize that this argument would mean that Jimi Hendrix and also the Grateful Dead are one-hit wonders.)
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Radiohead did have a number one record in Kid A though
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Also, and I can't believe I'm the first one saying this, fuck sales charts!
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Well the thing is, and I know this is hard to believe these days, after "She Don't Use Jelly" and before The Soft Bulletin the Flaming Lips were even considered a one-hit wonder, not-worth-listening-to band by even a lot of indie rock fans. A lot of my friends either weren't aware that they'd put out five albums before that song or sort of rolled their eyes as if I were talking about, I don't know, Nada Surf or Tripping Diasy (and look how long it took Tim DeLaughter to get anyone to take him seriously).
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I still don't think it's possible to describe a band as a "one-hit wonder" until their career is finished (reunions not being counted). I mean, what if they have another hit?!
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Nah, I use the term "one-hit wonder" to refer to bands like Radiohead and the Flaming Lips, too. Between the release of "She Don't Use Jelly" and the critical success of The Soft Bulletin, the Flaming Lips were considered by the general public to be a one-hit wonder band, despite the fact that Clouds Taste Metallic is arguably their best album.
BUT RADIOHEAD AND THE FLMAING LIPS BOTH SUCK ISNAE QUANTIRTES OF WHALE COCK AND THEY IMBOBE THE SEMEN KLIKE A FUCKING DRUG
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I think we've lost the plot in this thread. The plot has run screaming out the front door and hopped into the first dark van that offered it candy.
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animal collective makes me hard
especially live
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Nah, I use the term "one-hit wonder" to refer to bands like Radiohead and the Flaming Lips, too. Between the release of "She Don't Use Jelly" and the critical success of The Soft Bulletin, the Flaming Lips were considered by the general public to be a one-hit wonder band, despite the fact that Clouds Taste Metallic is arguably their best album.
BUT RADIOHEAD AND THE FLMAING LIPS BOTH SUCK ISNAE QUANTIRTES OF WHALE COCK AND THEY IMBOBE THE SEMEN KLIKE A FUCKING DRUG
We need to get you some kind of block for your computer when you're drunk.
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You should get a block for your mum first.
UNF
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Why does this thread keep coming back??