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Animal Collective~Monkey Riches

I love the at first glance randomness of animal collective songs until you re listen and look at the lyrics and you see the depth that Avey puts into these songs and it’s just like wow, why can’t I be as talented as that

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Animal Collective - Monkey Riches (Tha Traxman Teklife Remix)

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Animal Collective - Monkey Riches

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"Monkey Riches"

Lately I need a better plan I want to get my knees out in the dirt with my hands 'Cause I have been a cerebral spouse And my head wants to go into the emerald house And I want to look out I don't want to bail out And I want to help out I don't want to nod out And I want to help out I don't want to bail out And I want to look out I don't want to nod out I don't want to knock you down But why am I still looking for a golden age? Tell me that I ought to have a golden wage Every time I look up at that blurry sun All I think about are bodies floating up Everybody ought to get that special glance Why does dawn leave everybody home with chance? Makes me wonder how I even wrote this song Does this not occur to almost everyone? I make a monkey wretch I make a monkey rich And lately I want to be in my heart But where exactly is my heart and where does it start? Don't want that Tylenol Can I sing and make waves without crushing clams? I can help the little things but I have big plans Don't want that Tylenol So I want to look out I don't want to bail out And I want to help out I don't want to nod out And I want to look out I don't want to let out And I want to help out I don't want to nod out I don't want to knock you down But why am I still looking for a golden age? Tell me that I ought to have a golden wage Every time I look up at that blurry sun All I think about are bodies floating up Everybody ought to get that special glance Why does dawn leave everybody home with chance? Makes me wonder how I even wrote this song Does this not occur to almost anyone? I make a monkey wretch I make a monkey rich Why am I still looking for a golden age? Tell me that I ought to have a golden wage Every time I look up at that blurry sun All I think about are spirits floating up Everybody ought to get that special glance Why does dawn leave everybody home with chance? Makes me wonder how I even wrote this song Does this not occur to almost everyone? I make a monkey wretch I make a monkey rich

A pretty epic sounding song off Centipede Hz, thanks in large part to the almost tribal drum underbelly that thrusts this song forward. The buildup of this song, particularly the percussion, sounds quite similar to that of "Brother Sport" and "We Tigers." It's the band's longest album cut since 2007's "Fireworks," and while it does possess the characteristically busy and noisy intrusiveness of the rest of Hz, it possesses a sense of direction and purpose that justifies the song's near-seven minutes.

Avey questions why he's still searching for "a golden age," which could be a reference to just about anything really: music, career goals, life in general. The question itself is an introspection as to why he keeps driving himself toward his goals, and he wonders when he will arrive at a point of total contentedness. It's all a bit fatalist, really - why did I even write this song? why do people even bother leaving the house? doesn't anybody else ask this same question? It's all a bit of a retread from his philosophizing on "Father Time," except this time around there's an added crescendo that finishes with some excellent screaming and tongue-wagging yells at the end.

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Animal Collective - Monkey Riches