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Spurred on by comparisons to Animal Collective, I've decided to give this guy a try. Which album should I start with?

If it helps, my AC&related album preference:

sung tongs > here comes the indian > campfire songs > spirit they ... > danse manatee

― dean? (deangulberry), Monday, 16 August 2004 20:58 (nineteen years ago) link

Who I hear in Animal Collective:

Olivia Tremor Control, Tower Recordings, early (instrumental) Sebadoh, Home, Kawabata/Youngs.

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 16 August 2004 21:06 (nineteen years ago) link

i hear the animals of the forest in a meadow oscillating between dancing and planning to slit my throat.

― jack cole (jackcole), Monday, 16 August 2004 21:08 (nineteen years ago) link

my favorite is Medallion Animal Carpet. the most scrambled & fungal. beautifully fucked up record can not believe how good it is (though I didn't get it the first time).

the most songlike one is Skull Mailbox. Little Black Train is 70's classic rock played by thousands of spiders.

samples here though they don't give you a sense of how these albums change out from under you every 30 seconds: http://www.bdrak.com/sounds/albums.htm

― (Jon L), Monday, 16 August 2004 22:19 (nineteen years ago) link

Hey, thanks! I'll have to check those mp3s out when I get home.

― dean? (deangulberry), Monday, 16 August 2004 22:24 (nineteen years ago) link

The Skull Mailbox is one of the best horrorshow albums ever! Love it!

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 10:40 (nineteen years ago) link

His "Griffin" (from 13 Songs & a Thing) to me sounds a lot like a Sung Tongs song. But yes, Bob Drake is great. Maybe my favorite "songwriter" at the moment.

― dleone (dleone), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 15:58 (nineteen years ago) link

Hey, Gygax! you really should check out the new Ween -- it totally sounds like the Olivia Tremor Control.

― ())(())()()()(()(LASER)()()()LA(Z)E(R)()()()((L)()()(A)(S(E)R()()()) (ex machina, Tuesday, 17 August 2004 16:09 (nineteen years ago) link

Bear in my mind I only like about 1/4 of the OTC songs I've heard.

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 16:12 (nineteen years ago) link

I got some of this from the HOTT DLeone last night. I'll check it out soon, hopefully.

― dean? (deangulberry), Thursday, 19 August 2004 18:31 (nineteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

if i like animal collective and bob drake and the boo radleys will i like olivia tremo cotnpisn?

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 3 September 2004 00:04 (nineteen years ago) link

NO YOU ARE FAG

― dean? (deangulberry), Friday, 3 September 2004 00:12 (nineteen years ago) link

YOU'RE A FAG!

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 3 September 2004 13:31 (nineteen years ago) link

four months pass...

news of new album brightens my monday

http://www.bdrak.com/sounds/shunned.htm

― (Jon L), Monday, 17 January 2005 20:29 (nineteen years ago) link

53 songs in 40 minutes! spiders.

― (Jon L), Monday, 17 January 2005 20:35 (nineteen years ago) link

niiiiiiice

also, ian was always right - campfire songs is the best animal collective album

― Martha Stewart and Jeanne-Claude (deangulberry), Monday, 17 January 2005 20:44 (nineteen years ago) link

BOOYAH

― Ian John50n (orion), Monday, 17 January 2005 21:36 (nineteen years ago) link

it's true, it's true. i think i had to hear those songs live to fully appreciate them. i have a hard time getting into campfire's production, but as an album, it is undeniable. sung tongs has better songs, imo, but it's not that great as an album.

― Urkle-bot and Jeanne-Claude (deangulberry), Monday, 17 January 2005 21:43 (nineteen years ago) link

I just got Shunned Country from BD in the mail yesterday. Short songs = very fractured experience. It kind of reminds of Naked City in that regard, although the music is obv not like NC. Anyway, great, and it will take a while before I'm able to figure out most of what's going on.

― Dominique (dleone), Friday, 21 January 2005 15:47 (nineteen years ago) link

i've never heard him in any proper state of mind, but i get the feeling he might be totally great

i like the song that goes "some say they never really died, and they live down in the well" what's that one called?

― Sonny, Ah!!1 (Sonny A.), Friday, 21 January 2005 16:11 (nineteen years ago) link

that's "They Live in the Well" - it's the first song from The Skull Mailbox. I think if you aren't really familiar with him, start there.

― Dominique (dleone), Friday, 21 January 2005 16:23 (nineteen years ago) link

In The Well is probably his best song IMO. I didn't really like 13 Songs and a Thing but I haven't heard it in a while.

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 16:14 (nineteen years ago) link

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