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[boeg91]

@zackpennachi Nah man, my friend who is obsessed with them has tons of video and audio leaks of them doing their new tour... he's on drums, but a lot of the electronic drum pad stuff. It's like he has a bass drum and a crash and that's about it. It's just not even near the same... :(

[boeg91]

Panda playing drums... :(

[zackpennachi]

@boeg91 he's playin' em on this new tour, a whole drum set!!

[SleeperFactory5]

I love how Avey sings to the wall

[railroadss]

fuck, i want panda back on those drums! 

[HippieHappyTV]

Danse Manatee is probably their most experimental album

[giobot]

i miss this AC

[thosetigers]

me too. I miss this Ac as hell

[foolassfool]

did they take a lot of drugs around this point and in their formative years? because to be honest i dont kow how they could be sober and write their music but i get the impression that they are straight these days...

[VeryAmpersand]

They say in interviews that they did alot of drugs around this time but now they do significantly less.

[dailybeat]

I read they did some drugs, but never wanted to be labeled as a "drug band" (and this is a meaninful statement for people afraid of drugs and also for people who mistify drugs' use).

[HippieHappyTV]

@foolassfool its easy to, i do it all the time, and im sober, sure they're probably on drugs, but band ISNT on drugs?

this is an actuall genre of music, its called art rock, experimental rock.

[Underhill182]

they should release another album like this just to freak people out.

[woofwoofkats]

@Underhill182 ODDSAC had some pretty experimental stuff on it that reminded me of their earlier music

[zackpennachi]

@Underhill182 YESSS!!!! They really really do

[blackfoliage1]

I love how they fused this track into "fireworks" on there 2007 tour. One of my favourites from Animal Collective.

[swimmingsolid]

man. someone actually walks away at about 3 mins. that would not happen nowadays. haha.

[rodeomonkey84]

man they've come a long way! ... compare this to the version within the walls of fire the works! ... that drummer's got problems! what a broken song!

[plasticathexis]

? Its the same drummer as always.

[rodeomonkey84]

that guy's got problems is what i'm saying!

NOAH IS NO ONE!

[qaiken]

open up your open up your

[streetlightkid72422]

lolol

[tibsnow]

anybody know when this was?

[morpheus0055]

Must've been around Danse Manatee-era...2001-ish

[Brickfield]

pandas beat is sick.

[Ciaran646]

Very.

[ifpeoplewerepaper]

this is what a perfect band looks like.

[conchettas]

I love videos!

[ckoss89]

rad!!!

[theblastocyst]

never diss avey tare's singing abilities. he is incredible. so go listen to your shitty hipster indie music or your lame emo music where the only thing either of them do is whine alot.

[voodooriptide]

actually, i've always considered animal collective to be hipster indie music.

that's not to say i don't like them.

just saying. :P

[nigkingoi]

Yeah, voodooriptide is right I'd say, AC are pretty hipster indie. I mean, they started out an independant label, and only hip people listen to them, fact, which makes me hip!

[Omatusano]

it could be the audio quality of the video, but has your singer ever considered lessons?

[sjamesvfx]

well first of all, he just has the video, he isn't in the band.

second of all, avey tare has become one of the best vocalists out there.

[rougebopper]

you are like a child walking into a movie asking what's going on.

[ManicCasanova]

I wish he was my singer

[bojangles0]

panda's girlfriend made his panda hood for him and he started wearing it to shows to make him more comfortable on stage, so thats the hat story

[offstages]

has noah said where he got his hat before? i searched for it on the forums, but there are too many things that come up for 'panda bear'! i think avey's a little more open to talking about his hats

[baumbom]

evolution is interesting