tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665879619443339580.post1514913519885497288..comments2023-10-19T06:01:04.071-04:00Comments on bass & superstructure: I'm Not An Animalshuja xhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12130972096185079472noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665879619443339580.post-59366102430366704912009-08-11T18:44:56.550-04:002009-08-11T18:44:56.550-04:00I'm with you on the all around blue-balled fee...I'm with you on the all around blue-balled feeling you get from Animal Collective's music, though I think My Girls has quite a catchy payoff. So catchy I actually missed any notion of post-post- baby-boomer countercultural contradiction etc. This clearly means I'd make a shitty music critic, but I think you're analysis of the lyrics are overwrought. For me, you could have stopped at "stoner". These guys seem like unapologetic traditional psychedelics, The boomers they have digested are hallucinogenic. I think you're reaching to impose intellectual failings. This becomes clear when you juxtapose a Panda quote with your own writing and it sounds like Chomsky chomping on a frat boy.<br /><br />Now to the music. Since I can tell from some of your writing you are (at least) a golden age hip-hop fan, I'll use the on hand example of "It Ain't Hard To Tell", the fluidic closer to Nas' 1994 debut. Large Proffessor samples "Human Nature" by Michael Jackson, and here he has more than "blatantly jacked a central riff" from a "seminal" track from a seminal album of seminal albums. Thriller, as you may have heard recently, was released in 1983, and is the greatest selling album of all time.<br />Anyone who likes sampled music has gotten used to the idea that jacking can be cool as fuck or heartbreakingly abusive, and it's all in the hands of the jacker. This can be illustrated by playing "It Ain't Hard to Tell" (cool as fuck) next to that billionaire barnyard bunk, Kid Rock's hit, "All Summer Long" (which, if you've never had to lay up and play the radio coming back from New York, blends "Sweet Home Alabama" with "Werewolf in London"). <br /> I've been chewing on this recently and it's relation to comedy, which has a more visceral judgement paradigm: not laughing. The only difference between Carlos Mencia and, say, Dave Chappelle is that Mencia is not funny, right? This is clearly the reason he was called a racist when he started joking about Katrina. Do you really think Chappelle, or even a great white comedian, would be unable to land a joke about Katrina? <br /> I just think it's interesting the way humans get cagy and defensive about things they might actually be totally cool about, if they simply didn't think the product sucked. This is constantly the case in sample-based music. In a sense, you're always emptying the original piece of it's history and filling it with nature. To me, for the most part, I find that thrilling actually... Immortalizing in detritus, etc. You just need to pay off if you're gonna take something that's still breathing. For me, My Girls does that.... but I'm not a big house fan.... yet.<br /><br />Anyway wonderful article.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665879619443339580.post-86750357417275287652009-04-13T13:55:00.000-04:002009-04-13T13:55:00.000-04:00"Ah-ha. Other touchstones fall into place: the clo..."Ah-ha. Other touchstones fall into place: the cloying harmonies of Crosby, Stills, and Nash, the starry-eyed navel-gazing of hippiedom, the breezy multicultural appropriation inclinations of white sixties aesthetes, and so on."<BR/><BR/>The idea that AC are an over-hyped echo of the grateful dead is much less controversial than you seem to think. no need to flatter yourself with a tone of investigative journalism.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665879619443339580.post-84652982176790567872009-02-09T11:46:00.000-05:002009-02-09T11:46:00.000-05:00animal collective rules... NOT!animal collective rules... NOT!Asad Haiderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15853337924988247087noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665879619443339580.post-61445769675914214982009-02-08T01:30:00.000-05:002009-02-08T01:30:00.000-05:00i heard people talking about this album and a frie...i heard people talking about this album and a friend burned a CD for me. i have to say it isn't really offensive, but i just don't care. the fact that this is so overblown really speaks to why i don't listen to much music that has "rock" appeal to it anymore. i am just disconnected from that aesthetic almost entirely.pipecockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11092825988675368839noreply@blogger.com