Video Collective

So- February is almost over.  Thank freaking goodness.  This means its almost springtime.  Nothing like some natural vitamin D to start feeling better about everything!  I have this weird connection between what music I listen to during certain times of the year.  The summer of 2009, I got hold of Animal Collective's Merriweather Post Pavillion, which just sounds that much better when its sunny outside.  Songs on here even promote playing in the mud with your kids, playing basketball, and walking around in summertime clothes.  Great, freaking melodic music.
Animal Collective have taken some questionably legal drugs in their time and are both really colorful and really weird.  I recently watched the new official video for their song "Applesauce," and it did not disappoint.  The song is definitely one of the better ones from 2012's Centipede Hz and the video consists of changing colors behind a silhouette of a head furiously, violently eating a mango for 5 and half minutes.  Their songs are weird.  So are their videos.  I thought I'd make a collective of Animal Collective's video to see how "Applesauce" compares with other AC videos, and to celebrate the near end of February.  (WARNING: This is all quite disturbing, beyond all reason.)

Here's the video for Merriweather Post Pavillion's "Brothersport."  Pitchfork compared the art-work to dropping acid to crappy 70s cartoons. 

 

 This one's a classic.  "Peacebone" from 2007's Strawberry Jam.  The screaming in the middle may be unbearable, but the video itself is... well, equally unbearable.  Imagine Alien and It coming together.

From 2004's Sung Tongs, we have "Who Could Win a Rabbit."  It's the tortoise and the hair, only with the ending you don't tell your kids about. 

Panda Bear is one of the 4 (or sometimes 2 or 3) members of Animal Collective.  This video is possibly the worst thing to watch in the history of the world.  You forget you're listening to an actual song at first, but listening to 3:15-5:15 is actually quite catchy, soft and happy.

And there you have it, folks.  The most colorful, bizarre, disturbing... and yet harmonic, band of our time.  I'd like to thank the internet for introducing these guys to me in the spring of 2009.