I don't like Animal Collective. I've tried, because everyone seems to like them, but for the most part I just find them boring. I don't know how accurate I am in saying this, because it's been a while (since their last release) since I sat down with an Animal Collective record, but most of their songs totally lack anything resembling a hook, and I just can't... I can't listen to music that doesn't practically force me to sing along with it.

That's another thing that's important to me, that pretty much every song posted here has in common: there's at least some part of the song, it might only be a line or two, that I can't help but sing when it occurs. Sometimes it's the whole song. I should start I identifying specific parts of songs I like to sing, just for shiggles.

In this song it's "bad mind let me put on good habits / been working to put on good habits / sometimes I can't find my good habits" that is the effective 'hook' of the song for me. It doesn't matter to me that the rest of the song is practically unintelligible nonsense, because so many sections of the song are catchy. Pretty much every part.

It's also fucking nuts, but still ends up being something you can seriously rock out to.

If you're curious about the lyrics, there are several wrong variations on Songmeanings, but the official ones direct from the bad, typos and misspelled words (and first line that doesn't sound at all like what is written) and all, are right here (and down the page on SongMeanings).

Hungry Bears in Butter Hustle You'll be doing it a while livers only fail Where's your relaxation? Where's the time required for your health Been hating on my new perspective. Been Hurrying along no meal is ever done But you could win a Rabbit you could win a rabbit or a rib The fast Child is gonna have a dead hand We can get him started YEAH Bad mind let me put on good habbits been working to put on good habbits some times I can't find my good habbits. Do Do Do Do Do (the most important part) Spanish Bands Use all the echo Persion Kitties better stay out of the train Glad you brought your food on Eat it like it's gonna get a way Coffe sure is getting colder seats are getting fewer space is losing place Is for winning rabbits here's to berlin habbits with a ripple Rabbit or a Habbit? Habbit or a Rib?

1. Geek Note:

Today I managed to upload the song and write everything from my laptop leeching 3G internet from my G1 via USB using PDAnet. I've tried doing this in the past but couldn't figure out how to get the directory list of all my music, because the reception at my house is so spotty that the connection times out before it can get the whole thing. Kind of lame. Today I put my phone on a high point by my window (on top of a large ceramic box profile of my head) and then used 1and1's admin tools "web space explorer" (basically a in-browser windows explorer for your server) to rename the song appropriately. It only occurs to me now that I could have just renamed the song in advance. Holy shit.

2. Life Note:

I bought myself a Takamine GS330S acoustic guitar the other day and after two days of playing it I will say: Dang, my fingers hurt. Also, for all the music I listen to, I have no fucking rhythm. No natural timing at all. I'm going to spend today listening to a metronome and practice changing between the several chords I know now and hopefully download some good scale charts (anyone have any recommendations?) and practice those, too. My lofty goal of playing Two-Headed Boy on the first day of having it went right out the window when I realized that F major is unbelievably hard to finger. Way harder to finger than that girl who was disgusted by her vagina and didn't want me to touch it.

3. Site Note:

Yes this is turning a bit into a journal. I don't figure anyone cares, you're probably all used to it by now. Tell me if I am boring or not. I told good winter to stop posting pictures of himself on his tumblr because they were harshing my mellow, so I'd expect the same from you people. Imagine "you people" said with copious amounts of disdain. A plethora of disdain, if you will, you... people.