Animal Collective - Grass

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strangefruit9
May 21, 2008

"All the songs on Feels are tuned to our friends piano which was out of tune to begin with. Dave and I made loops from recordings of him playing her piano and we used those loops in the early songwriting process for Feels. So since those loops are premade and can't be tuned, the guitars have to be tuned to the loops. it's not out of tune in any tradional whole step/half step kind of way...we're talking microtonally out of tune after years of not being professionally tuned and subtle natural detuning. Kind of like if you played guitar in standard tuning for years but never once re-tuned it to make sure it was right. It would have it's own unique out-of-tune tuning based on what strings you played most often, how hard you played it, the temperature in the room, the humidity, etc... When we went into the studio it ruled over everything we did. Even Doctess's live piano playing required us bringing in a professional piano tuner, playing him a minidisc recording of our friend's out of tune piano, and having him try to de-tune the studio's piano in exactly the same way our friend's was. Without those recordings or the loops Dave and I made, you wouldn't be able to get it exact unless you tune to the album while it's playing, and even then, you'd have to know which loop in the album we use to tune, which one chord it is, and because of the way we mixed the loop in, it's almost impossible to separate from dave's guitar. I'll never forget when the tuner finished (we had to wait to start recording until he finished) and he stood up from the bench and went "There you go, the piano's perfectly out of tune."
-Geologist

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0:54 seconds its the grandfather of Steve carrell...

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more and more now, looking back when I was a kid and seeing powerful people and thinking they where something more than human, I now just realise that their energy is just more directed

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This is most accurately interpreted as a song dealing with falling in love for the first time, and the doubts that go along with it. Very well written and executed.

My favorite part of the video is the heart beating at the end. I like to think of it as the first music we ever hear.

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the heart thing makes loads of sense.

nice

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This is a very well made video. =D

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i've done alot of research on that alien, alot of people have

its apparently the alien that they based the story of E.T. around, weird...

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This...it takes a moment, but it's really cool.

animal collective and old footage go together so well

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fucking i love you bob dylan.
fantastic vid

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