Great Band. Took me a while to get into them tho. Still dont really like Danse Manatee.

danse manatee is awesome...it is definitely the last one that you get into though...but damn its so good...essplode, meet the light child, lablakely dress, and in the singing box will start to grab you after a while...

I didn't appreciate daffy duck until they opened with it when I saw them live. That was the most surreal show I have ever seen. That show raised my standard for concerts, and I have been slightly disappointed by every other show I've seen since.

You can listen to animal collective on record, but you can't experience them until you see them perform.

I'd get sung tongs first. The first record I got was here comes the indian, but I couldn't get into it until a few years after I got it.

im not sure about that; some bands are better on record, some are better live; for me AC belongs on the first group. saw them last year and they were quite lively; but a lot of the details of the sound you get from a record don't shine forth, and the experience generally loses by comparison.

Yeah. My friends keep telling me that bands that arnt good live are bad bands. I've had this debate many times over.

Im going to see Sonic Youth in London in September for the 'Daydream Nation' gig. Its gonna be my first SY gig, are SY good live? they always seem to be great in all the videos i've seen.

i agree. i saw them at sxsw last year and their set lasted about 1 1/2 hours and it was pretty darn boring. my girlfriend actually shed a tear because it was so long and boring.

they're all decent albums.

i've only seen them live once, but they were totally awesome! so they're both: good band on record, and a good live band.

ah, it's a rare but great thing to meet internet people who will put their good ears ahead of any kind of irrational worship of public figures.

My sister in Austin always ask me which shows she should go see during SXSW. That Animal Collective show last year has been her biggest dissapointment.

That's surprising. They were one of my favorite bands at SXSW, easily a top 3 of the shows I saw there. Eh well. I think I will check them out when they play Chicago in May.

alot of great bands are crap live

Trail of Dead
Pavement (amazing..but shambles)
Bright eyes
Guided by Voices

I started with Sung Tongs a couple years ago, by accident... and immediately fell in love, but it's so weird! After I lost all the files on my computer (Sung Tongs having being downloaded, not bought) I forgot about them, really... and the Feels came out. My really good friend and I did an X-mas exchange, and she got me Feels. I love it so much.
Then I bought the Grass EP/DVD in Toronto a while ago. It's alright. I wish I had the People EP.... People is an amazing song.

I love the song Banshee beat.
Don't own anything by Animal Collective yet but whar I've heard so far is all good.

I downloaded Sung Tongs, its very pleasent, sort of like the docile bits of Oneida.

i saw both AC and SY live last year....'Banshee Beat" was by far the greatest thing i saw/heard between the two...it wasn't even close...in fact, "BB" live may be the greatest thing ive heard, ever.

Eh? Trail of Dead are a shit band who were great live. Certainly circa about 1999 they were anywhere. But that was before they started making really, really shit records.

As for Animal Collective live:

I loved them at Coachella. It was like 4:30 when the started, extremely fucking hot, and crowded as fuck. But when Animal Collective opened up with Banshee Beat all the heat melted away and I forgot that I was surrounded by thousands of people. By the time Avey Tare splashed purple paint on himself, I was really into it. Most of the set was new stuff for their next album. It was really awesome to see each song degenerate into a mess of noise and then evolve into the next song. I had a lot of fun watching it.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=wiOKRs7qky8

oh man...i gotta see banshee beat live soon or i might just die.

noooo trail of dead = great live AND great band.