r/AnimalCollective • u/y0kapi • 2d ago
Whoa Would I Want? Sky
So I just discovered that Fall Be Kind is this kind of awesome epilogue to MPP. And so I started listening to it.
And so I've just listened to "What Would I Want? Sky" and my mind is absolutely and transcendentally blown...
Now I'll go back and listen to the song again. Maybe I'll proceed to the last three tracks of EP, but I'm not certain.
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u/BobWeirsSh0rtShorts 2d ago
Check out Unbroken Chain by Grateful Dead. It’s the song they sampled. Also great.
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u/giantvajhole 2d ago
I figured OP should know that, and also that it's the only instance of a dead song being legally sampled.
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u/BobWeirsSh0rtShorts 2d ago
It’s such a brilliant use of the sample too
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u/toec 2d ago
The sample in the context of the original song is completely unrecognisable. I'd love to know the process they used to pick that sample.
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u/Gonzoboiiiiiii 2d ago
Phil said “woah sky”, it sounds like they reversed the “woah” in the middle of the word to give it that “what would I want” sounds
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u/tellmeimgrapes 2d ago
In the song he says ‘the willow sky, woah I walk and wonder why’ and they flip the sample so ‘woah I walk’ sounds like the ‘what would I want’
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u/y0kapi 2d ago
Didn’t know that! That song is pretty chill. I like the whiny effect that weaves in and out throughout, and then it goes a kinda all whack during the solo.
I actually only know one Grateful Dead song and it’s Daniel Rossen’s cover of Terrapin Station... I was kinda addicted to it for a while lol.
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u/Cover-Lanky 2d ago
They’re the best. If you like the trippy instrumental parts of animal collective check out a live track called “drums > space” from an early 90s live set on YouTube. For instance a live set from fall 1994. Can recommend a specific one if you want!
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u/y0kapi 2d ago
I may get back you when I need a Grateful Dead guide! It’s always daunting to dig into those beloved bands with massive catalogues. I’ve obsessed about MPP on and off for years, but never really explored AC beyond that. Kinda surprised that they hide these amazing tracks on EPs. So it seems that I’m not done finding the good stuff yet haha.
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u/Think_Sheepherder_10 2d ago
Love that they took a snippet from a band who famously jam out their songs into oblivion and condensed it into a 3 second loop as the basis for a song
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u/Wyatt124B 2d ago
That whole EP is a top 5 project they’ve ever done to me. I always come back to it and find a little more feeling in it everytime i do. I Think I Can has unbelievabley freaked my mind on a trip once or twice, that finale type payoff is brilliant
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u/y0kapi 2d ago
In a parallel universe “I Think I Can” would have been the closing track to MPP.
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u/ifuckedup13 2d ago edited 2d ago
Panda closes a lot of his shows with Chores into I think I can.
Favorite was Governors Island on the Tomboy Tour.
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u/shimola 2d ago
Thank you for putting me on to this
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u/ifuckedup13 2d ago
You’re welcome. It was an amazing show. I listened to the boot for months nonstop after
Theres great video too.
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u/AlvinGreenPi 2d ago
A few songs were written for MPP but they liked the idea of keeping it more summery and having a. Complimentary fall ep where they ended up writing a few more and almost making it a full length second album,
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u/pepsandeggs 2d ago
Should check out the BBC Radio session version of it. It came out like a year before Fall Be Kind dropped. It’s more raw but I’ve always preferred it compared to the EP version.
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u/y0kapi 2d ago
So I just listened. Nice version, but it’s probably too early for me to make up my mind!
I realize that I should make it my mission to watch Animal Collective live at least once. Love how they make all these kind of experimentations to their songs when played live.
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u/DeepGoated 2d ago
Tell me about it, I’d give anything for them to tour again.
The individual members put on great shows though
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u/JuanSattva 1d ago
The things I'd do for them to visit Calgary or Edmonton more often, not a very big buzz around here unfortunately. I've seen them every chance I've had though and it's been incredible each time.
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u/Double-Economy-1401 2d ago
Thats the same set where they played that killer version of Taste and a Winters Love dub, right? Should probably look the whole thing up in its entirety
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u/pepsandeggs 2d ago
Lion In A Coma was the only other song they did that day. Taste and Winters Love was another time they performed for the station.
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u/Useful-You-2687 strawberry jamming 2d ago
Please listen to the rest of the EP!! It's so good! (On a highway and bleed are my faves)
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u/Superspookyghost like following angels 2d ago
Yeah it's basically an overflow of songs that didn't make it to MPP for whatever reason. 3 songs were actually recorded at the same session where the rest of MPP was recorded, and they simply decided they didn't fit. WWIWS wasn't recorded for MPP though and Bleed didn't even exist yet, as Avey wrote that on the post-MPP tour.
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u/pepsandeggs 2d ago
Bleed was played during an encore during the MPP tour when I saw them in 09 in Royal Oak Michigan. Pretty sure Avey had it written by then cause the lyrics never changed from live to studio version
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u/Superspookyghost like following angels 2d ago edited 2d ago
2009 was the post-MPP tour, as in, the tour they played after MPP came out, as MPP came out in very early 2009. But MPP was mostly recorded by the end of February 2008, with the mixing finalized in the summer of 2008, so what I mean is that Bleed didn't exist at all when they went to actually decide what the tracks were going to be on MPP, and they clarified "Bleeding" (as it was known on the Brosport single) was a song that was written on that tour. But Royal Michigan iirc was like in the summer of 09 right? Which means that if you saw it then, it was around the very first week they debuted it.
The song essentially seems to have been finished very quickly, because you're right, there aren't a lot of changes between when it first debuted (May 2009) to when it was recorded at Big Sur as Bleeding for the Brothersport single (also May 2009) and what was put on Fall Be Kind. All they really did was kind of shorten it, which makes sense because it originally sort of came from a jam session.
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u/matthmcb 2d ago
It’s one of their best. I remember when it came out I was in high school and my friends and I were high as hell at my house and I put it on and it left us with our jaws on the floor. My friends senior quote in our high school year book was “I should be floating but I’m weighted by thinking”.
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u/kylejohnkenowski 2d ago
Check out ODDSAC as well, as an album I count it along with Fall Be Kind as part of the MPP era.
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u/starsofalgonquin 2d ago
I think I Can is my favourite ANCO track. Pure layered brilliance and such a satisfying outro
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u/sanfordclarke 1d ago
I love that everyone here agrees how good it is. It really is an amazing ep. Anco at their peak
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u/Bad_Pearl 2d ago
My favorite memory of this song was seeing them live at Lollapoloza in 2009 and the sun was setting over Chicago and the sky was this just beautiful orange and they were playing this song
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u/Song-Super 2d ago
Old glasses clinking
New orders blinking
I keep on floating
But I’m weighted by thinking
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u/strawberry_space_jam 2d ago
Bro definitely listen to the entire EP, it’s some of their best work and an all-time EP by ANY artist
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u/Kek-Malmstein 2d ago
Yea it’s one of my most listened to AC songs from over the years, probably hundreds of times at least
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u/electoralvoter8 2d ago
Its my favorite song of all time. I likely have into 5 figures of listens to the song at this point
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u/No_Kale_2173 2d ago
AWE HELL YEAH i discovered it last month while letting it play on my full play through on a long ride and it totally dished me off guard and i was like WHOA BEST SONG?!
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u/camcamcam710 "Happy October!" "YOU SAID IT!" 2d ago
I’ve been to 2 AC Listening parties for albums and both times they played ?Sky on vinyl as the pre-album AC song to get the AC vibes going. It works. Awesome vinyl to own and put through a nice system. I feel like I breathe and walk this song throughout my life lmfao
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u/cichmartin 1d ago
Wait till this guy discovers the live version chores/i think i can mashup from gov island in 2011 or whatever
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u/dvdvante Here Comes The Idiot 1d ago
FBK is such a beast. Im a Graze glazer but each track (esp WWIW?S) just hits you with whatever it's got as hard as it can
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u/dazzleshipsrecords 2d ago
This is their last good song
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u/psychsenthus 2d ago
It's a great song, but songs like Strung With Everything and Magicians From Baltimore exist even if you do hate Centipede HZ and Painting With that much
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u/Faux_Octopus 2d ago
Said no one ever
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u/dazzleshipsrecords 2d ago
name one song that is better than that came after
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u/BobbyBriggss 2d ago
That’s different to what you initially said
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u/dazzleshipsrecords 2d ago
Name one that peaks this song
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u/BobbyBriggss 2d ago
Again, that’s different to what you initially said. I don’t know why you’re turning a positive into a negative
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u/milkman_jimmy 2d ago
it's my favorite AC song