Animal Collective Songs Ranked Collectively
extremely timely list as per. accusations of this merely being Feels/HCTI/MPP songs ranked with token interspersions fair but i will not concede to it! really great band that I'm coming to love again after an amicable hiatus. |
| 50 |  | Animal Collective
Bridge to Quiet
Bridge to Quiet. I'm not analysing every song here because I have shed blood and sweat enough compiling this and laborious typing everything out with a 30 percent chance of publication for you swine and scourges, but will defend my choices, hopefully in a way that isn't insipid or crude. good list incoming |
| 49 |  | Animal Collective
Centipede Hz
Amanita. |
| 48 |  | Animal Collective
Painting With
Golden Gal. They have heard your Beach Boys comparisons and they are committing to the bit |
| 47 |  | Animal Collective
Danse Manatee
Lablakely Dress. Which I think looks nice on you! Just your size. |
| 46 |  | Animal Collective
Campfire Songs
Queen in my Pictures. Particularly adroit and beautiful fade into the following song actually. |
| 45 | | Animal Collective
Danse Manatee
Essplode. |
| 44 | | Animal Collective
Painting With
Vertical. Gotta warn u all there are more songs on Painting With here than on sung tongs or spirit they've gone (i didn't include the remaster for the latter admittedly) |
| 43 |  | Animal Collective
Crestone (Original Score)
Zapata Falls. AnCo meld their sensibilities to the contraints and freedoms of scoring, allowing more literal cinematic scope to their excesses and nuances alikef. Needless to say it works. |
| 42 |  | Animal Collective
Strawberry Jam
Peacebone. So low, testament to the band's extraordinary quality. |
| 41 | | Animal Collective
Painting With
Natural Selection. Something of a natural selection itself. |
| 40 | | Animal Collective
Crestone (Original Score)
Over the Sangre de Christo |
| 39 |  | Animal Collective
Sung Tongs
Mouth Wooed Her |
| 38 |  | Animal Collective
Fall Be Kind
What Would I Want Sky. I regale people with this anecdote all the time but I saw them live, in the interregnum between Fall Be Kind's leak and official release, and the crowd roared along the lyrics; proof that in some way I was beholding the biggest band in the world. |
| 37 |  | Animal Collective
Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished
Bat You'll Fly. Charming! |
| 36 |  | Animal Collective
Merriweather Post Pavilion
My Girls. Great post-chorus OOOH |
| 35 | | Animal Collective
Sung Tongs
The Softest Voice. |
| 34 | | Animal Collective
Painting With
Recycling. |
| 33 | | Animal Collective
Strawberry Jam
#1. #33 actually! |
| 32 | | Animal Collective
Merriweather Post Pavilion
Guy's Eyes. weird lyrics. great song though |
| 31 | | Animal Collective
Danse Manatee
Ahh Good Country. No need for Alvin Row. |
| 30 | | Animal Collective
Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished
La Rapet |
| 29 | | Animal Collective
Bridge to Quiet
Rain in Cups |
| 28 |  | Animal Collective
Prospect Hummer
Prospect Hummer. |
| 27 | | Animal Collective
Fall Be Kind
Graze. A hoe-down! This hoe is down |
| 26 |  | Animal Collective
Feels
Did You See the Words. (?) |
| 25 |  | Animal Collective
Meeting of the Waters
Man of Oil. |
| 24 | | Animal Collective
Prospect Hummer
It's You. |
| 23 |  | Animal Collective
Ark
Too Soon. yeah how about it's over too dam n soon |
| 22 | | Animal Collective
Feels
Bees. |
| 21 | | Animal Collective
Merriweather Post Pavilion
Summertime Clothes. |
| 20 | | Animal Collective
Centipede Hz
New Town Burnout. Closest they've come in the last decade to something cathartic and raw |
| 19 | | Animal Collective
Feels
The Purple Bottle. The most consistently incredible live renditions. |
| 18 | | Animal Collective
Strawberry Jam
Safer. Eternally a mystery as to why it didn't close Strawberry Jam - maybe a shade too dark, too chaotic? |
| 17 | | Animal Collective
Merriweather Post Pavilion
Taste. |
| 16 | | Animal Collective
Painting With
Floridada. A fine introduction to the most mis-represented of their albums |
| 15 | | Animal Collective
Strawberry Jam
Derek. |
| 14 | | Animal Collective
Ark
Slippi. |
| 13 | | Animal Collective
Ark
Infant Dressing Table. |
| 12 | | Animal Collective
Ark
Hey Light. |
| 11 | | Animal Collective
Feels
Turn Into Something. |
| 10 | | Animal Collective
Feels
Daffy Duck. Under-rated ! |
| 9 | | Animal Collective
Strawberry Jam
For Reverend Green. |
| 8 | | Animal Collective
Merriweather Post Pavilion
Bluish. Not enough odes about cunnilingus! Or anilingus! w/e u want it's 2023 now |
| 7 | | Animal Collective
Merriweather Post Pavilion
In the Flowers. |
| 6 | | Animal Collective
Prospect Hummer
I Remember Learning How to Dive. |
| 5 | | Animal Collective
Merriweather Post Pavilion
Brother Sport. |
| 4 | | Animal Collective
Feels
Grass. The Doo-Wop background in the bridge! |
| 3 | | Animal Collective
Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished
Spirit They've Vanished. A beautiful template for a common fixation - loss of "innocence" and the sense of the wondrous is rendered in poignant lament that never feels like a dirge, presented somehow with innocence and wonder firmly intact. Awareness of impending loss that isn't harrowing. The noise is the most beautiful sound in the world, actually. It's ok to succumb. |
| 2 | | Animal Collective
Ark
Two Sails on a Sound. In which a room so crowded one can barely breathe is abruptly vacated and breath is all one can hear. Beautiful, sparse longing in a vein Mark Hollis would be proud of. |
| 1 | | Animal Collective
Feels
Banshee Beat. It's no secret: Animal Collective's distinguishing feature is their ability to view adult concerns, preoccupations and anxieties, thru the lens of -> the psychedelia of childhood; the emotional intensity and resonance of adolescence. So it's fitting that they're at their best when they're dealing with extremities of the heart, soul, mind that are rarely touched, things so visceral in the realm of love, desire and longing that they are usually presented in muddled abstruse abstract or clumsy connotation. Not so here; though they can't "find the very special words" they "should", the representation of pain and soothing is represented in abrupt falsetto and cooing "oh oh oh"'s, in a language unique to Animal Collective but explicable to all, touching what is rarely touched with a deft touch. A marvel that makes them, still, vital. And fun as all shit. Thanks. |
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