He was there all along , but nearly half the country accepted 2 second sound bites taken out of context by the propaganda arm of the DNC as representative of what he usually says . <| sep |> I ' ve always liked stock , so will keep that way . I ' m far to old now to add a lot of cool stuff lol . I ' ll probably drive this baby for 68 years . <| sep |> Man tonight is no good , family stuff . You working tomorrow ? Let ' s bring this to PM mode . <| sep |> I am always at war with my best friend on how we listen to music . He is a language major and I am a music major . If he cannot listen to the lyrics and understand them , or they don ' t mean too much , he won ' t really dig what he is listening to . I , on the other hand , have come up with a theory I guess you could call it ? My motto is that melody and lyrics are all just the way we get around listening to just sounds . Sounds come across as boring , but we listen to melody and lyrics as a way to color and create a real investment in the sounds we are hearing . For that reason I think I really enjoy Animal Collective . From percussive vocal techniques to the collages of sound the boys make , I love SOUND . For the same reason he is a hiphop head . He loves lyricism . Flow . Something Animal Collective is lacking in his eyes . I would argue they have amazing lyrics most of the time , he claims they are weird for the sake of being weird , can ' t argue too much on thatBut for me i ' ve been able to get a few of my close friends into Animal Collective . My roommate , who listens to trap rap and classic rock , I can ' t show him music . If I say here , listen to this he will write it off immediately . He ' s got a weird way of determining what he likes . Regardless , my second plan , just play some AnCo tracks in the background on a trip , see what he says . He now loves them and said that the show we saw together in Baltimore earlier this month was The best show I have ever been to and this kid is a festival junkie hah . My girlfriend on the other hand , was slightly different . I couldn ' t get her to like the ' accessible ' AnCo . She listens to mostly pop so I figured some Merriweather would be closest to her taste . She wasn ' t really interested in the band until I had We Tigers blasting in the car one day . Overall , Animal Collective is SO broad , it might be hard for people to identify with . Think of most music acts people really , really love . They usually have some kind of gimmick , or aesthetic that they really stick to . Animal Collective is not really like that . If you aren ' t an avid music listener , and if you don ' t know a few AnCo tracks , you probably wouldn ' t be able to guess who wrote Danse or something you haven ' t heard by them . I find that playing Animal Collective in social situations like drinking or tripping or smoking or even just hanging , work better for showing people the wonders of Animal Collective .