Animal Collective perform "What Would I Want? Sky" Live at Lollapalooza 2009 vitaminwater stage

[TonyTheTiger673]

i was here! hell ya

[staticaestheticx]

Oh... fuck.. yes...

[mandotines9]

This is a lot better live than i thought it would be.

[Phlosmite]

this is so dope.

[CherokeeMist]

it was soo trippy

[andersersand]

Noise?

[hodgeswm]

I really like this new song, not a big fan in particular.

[tylerb13]

is there an mp3 of this song?

[Somone23]

And even if it were the sounds they make are incredibly unique and like nothing I have ever heard. Come on buddy, let me see you make a hearfelt song on a sampler..

[frottery]

Making the sounds is the interesting part. I like their albums.

I can make a heartfelt song digitally and load it into a sampler and press a button and out comes the song. It's boring live and I don't see the point.

aphex twin made amazing music. live he sat on a couch twiddling his laptop. At least that was honest.

[PrayForSnow5]

You left these long winded comments on two of their videos. Stop watching videos you don't like... you make me sick.

[Somone23]

I am not smoking. nor was i when i made that comment. I'm just saying i think you fucking misunderstand what they're doing. sure the sounds are samples, but they are twisted to their specifications and played just as if they were on a piano or guitar. they have to press the buttons in a specific way and a specific pattern, apply specific effects. This isn't incredibly easy.

[frottery]

Yes, if you took the midi signals they're sending it would be extremely simple. If you had their setup with the samples loaded in you could press the buttons to make their songs. Zzz.

[7132009]

yeah I think I'd ignore any comments posted by someone referred to as "Frottery"

[vaughnnovy]

Because the harder the music is to reproduce the better it is right? At least they're out doing shows instead of just working in the studio.

[frottery]

CDs reproduce music at the push of one button, so no, your strawman argument has no merit.

These guys push a few more to reproduce it. They should stick to just working in the studio. Maybe collabo w/other button pushers to program the bestest program ever. Even reading the midi commands make grown men weep.

[Somone23]

let me see you do what they do you piece of shit. shut the fuck up.

[frottery]

So in order to prove my point I should duplicate something I think is inferior? Put the weed down, man, it's making you react violently to youtube comments.

[frottery]

Obviously they recorded it, since all of their songs are samples.

[DakinShaman]

AC played strawberry jam for a full year before it was recorded

[frottery]

yeah except all of their output devices are basically recorders and they're basically pressing play. See how that works?

[buffaloaresweet]

You my friend are an idiot and probably have not even worked with electronics before. Even samplers aren't just as simple as pressing play, idiot.

[frottery]

Please, enlighten me to the complex world of loading a sample into a machine and pressing a button to output it.

[andersersand]

And Im assuming you think a guitar is a more complex instrument. Play one note on a guitar. thats easy, anyone can do it right? Well play more than one, more than two, more than three notes in a certain order and form and its complex. Well thats exactly the same way with a sampler.

[frottery]

Of course. But with a guitar you are required to play every note all the time. A sampler can store multiple notes. A sampler can hold multiple timbres, sound effects. A sampler can hold phrases. At its extreme, a sampler can hold an entire song. Guitars can't. It has nothing to do with complexity. You can play a sampler like a keyboard. It has to do with the simple fact that the sampler is doing most of the work.

[andersersand]

Yeah. You are right about that for the most part. I just want to make the point that there music shouldn't degraded or looked upon as simple pressing of buttons. The quality of music shouldn't be judged by its complexity. And even so Animal Collectives music can be complex. But the point is there is no way around using samplers the way their music is.

[andersersand]

There songs include sounds that no instrument can easily make (samples of street sounds with effects and whatever). Using a sampler is the only way to play back these sounds. So thats how it is. Just think of it as a simpler instrument. What's important is the effort that they make to get these great sounds, not how they have to trigger them.

[frottery]

a keyboard is a sampler, but you actually perform with it. they use the keyboard as a single trigger. zzz!

i love their albums, live? sucks.

[andersersand]

I see what your saying. I enjoy them live and recorded personally. Live actually a bit more. There's no other way to go about how they play there music live than they do

[Havenscope]

Let me note that Animal Collective definitely has their fair share of guitar work - listen to Sung Tongs; it's basically all guitar, vocals, and non-kit drumming.

[andersersand]

Well no. Its not like they just have loops loaded up. They trigger all of there sounds live. As you would with a "real instrument" (you might say). Whenever you here a sound they are triggering a sample. And thats how they work in the studio as well.

[Bourneswimmer]

All of there songs are not samples, that is false.

[RyanAllenHolland]

this song was awesome. did they actually record this yet? oh and did you see that one kid like pass the fuck out right when the show started?? lol

[Brom24]

i love how the sky looks so pretty while thy sang this song...

[Jangaboo]

i was going to comment on that one guys video who's mouth is watering like crazy but he disabled star ratings and comments because he is afraid people will talk about his watery mouth

[soccerlovesit]

hahaha jangaboo im dying... so funny seriously

[Jangaboo]

awesomeeee