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{{Infobox song
{{Infobox song
| name = Grass
| name = Grass
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| type = single
| type = single
| artist = [[Animal Collective]]
| artist = [[Animal Collective]]
| album = [[Feels (album)|Feels]]
| album = [[Feels (Animal Collective album)|Feels]]
| released = September 26, 2005
| released = September 26, 2005
| recorded = March, [[2005 in music|2005]]
| recorded = March, [[2005 in music|2005]]
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"'''Grass'''" is the first single from [[Animal Collective]]'s [[2005 in music|2005]] album, ''[[Feels (album)|Feels]]''. [[Pitchfork Media]] listed the song at #31 on its list of [https://web.archive.org/web/20070714043252/http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/feature/38519-staff-list-top-50-singles-of-2005/page_3 Top 50 Singles of 2005], claiming it is "as infectious as anything on the pop charts this year, and lots more fun to scream along with". The song was subsequently placed at #73 in the same publication's list of "Top 500 Tracks of the 2000s".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/7691-the-top-500-tracks-of-the-2000s-100-51/3/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090822115313/http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/7691-the-top-500-tracks-of-the-2000s-100-51/3 |archive-date=2009-08-22 |title=Pitchfork: Staff Lists: The Top 500 Tracks of the 2000s: 100-51}}</ref> [[Stylus Magazine|Stylus]] also placed it in its [http://www.stylusmagazine.com/feature.php?ID=2014 Top 50 Singles of 2005] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071020124629/http://www.stylusmagazine.com/feature.php?ID=2014 |date=2007-10-20 }} (this time at #44), praising the band's ability to "play tug of war between typical pop dynamics and the skewed perspective of experimental music". The title track was included in the 2008 book ''[[The Pitchfork 500]]''.<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Plagenhoef |editor1-first=Scott |editor2-last=Schreiber |editor2-first=Ryan |date=November 2008 |title=[[The Pitchfork 500]] |publisher=[[Simon & Schuster]] |page=196 |isbn=978-1-4165-6202-3 }}</ref>
"'''Grass'''" is the first single from [[Animal Collective]]'s [[2005 in music|2005]] album, ''[[Feels (Animal Collective album)|Feels]]''. [[Pitchfork Media]] listed the song at #31 on its list of [https://web.archive.org/web/20070714043252/http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/feature/38519-staff-list-top-50-singles-of-2005/page_3 Top 50 Singles of 2005], claiming it is "as infectious as anything on the pop charts this year, and lots more fun to scream along with". The song was subsequently placed at #73 in the same publication's list of "Top 500 Tracks of the 2000s".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/7691-the-top-500-tracks-of-the-2000s-100-51/3/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090822115313/http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/7691-the-top-500-tracks-of-the-2000s-100-51/3 |archive-date=2009-08-22 |title=Pitchfork: Staff Lists: The Top 500 Tracks of the 2000s: 100-51|website=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]] }}</ref> [[Stylus Magazine|Stylus]] also placed it in its [http://www.stylusmagazine.com/feature.php?ID=2014 Top 50 Singles of 2005] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071020124629/http://www.stylusmagazine.com/feature.php?ID=2014 |date=2007-10-20 }} (this time at #44), praising the band's ability to "play tug of war between typical pop dynamics and the skewed perspective of experimental music". The title track was included in the 2008 book ''[[The Pitchfork 500]]''.<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Plagenhoef |editor1-first=Scott |editor2-last=Schreiber |editor2-first=Ryan |date=November 2008 |title=[[The Pitchfork 500]] |publisher=[[Simon & Schuster]] |page=196 |isbn=978-1-4165-6202-3 }}</ref>


The single was released in the United Kingdom on both [[CD single|CD]] and [[Single (music)|7" vinyl]]. On March 21, 2006, it was released in the U.S. and Canada (July 3, 2006 worldwide) with a bonus DVD; the DVD contains music videos for "Grass", "Who Could Win a Rabbit" and "Fickle Cycle", as well as a video and sound collage, "Lake Damage", made by Brian DeGraw of [[Gang Gang Dance]].
The single was released in the United Kingdom on both [[CD single|CD]] and [[Single (music)|7" vinyl]]. On March 21, 2006, it was released in the U.S. and Canada (July 3, 2006 worldwide) with a bonus DVD; the DVD contains music videos for "Grass", "Who Could Win a Rabbit" and "Fickle Cycle", as well as a video and sound collage, "Lake Damage", made by Brian DeGraw of [[Gang Gang Dance]].
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Latest revision as of 11:26, 2 November 2024

"Grass"
Single by Animal Collective
from the album Feels
ReleasedSeptember 26, 2005
RecordedMarch, 2005
GenreExperimental, freak folk, neo-psychedelia
Length3:00
LabelFat Cat
Songwriter(s)Animal Collective
Producer(s)Animal Collective
Animal Collective singles chronology
"Who Could Win a Rabbit"
(2004) 		"Grass"
(2005) 		"The Purple Bottle"
(2006)

"Grass" is the first single from Animal Collective's 2005 album, Feels. Pitchfork Media listed the song at #31 on its list of Top 50 Singles of 2005, claiming it is "as infectious as anything on the pop charts this year, and lots more fun to scream along with". The song was subsequently placed at #73 in the same publication's list of "Top 500 Tracks of the 2000s".[1] Stylus also placed it in its Top 50 Singles of 2005 Archived 2007-10-20 at the Wayback Machine (this time at #44), praising the band's ability to "play tug of war between typical pop dynamics and the skewed perspective of experimental music". The title track was included in the 2008 book The Pitchfork 500.[2]

The single was released in the United Kingdom on both CD and 7" vinyl. On March 21, 2006, it was released in the U.S. and Canada (July 3, 2006 worldwide) with a bonus DVD; the DVD contains music videos for "Grass", "Who Could Win a Rabbit" and "Fickle Cycle", as well as a video and sound collage, "Lake Damage", made by Brian DeGraw of Gang Gang Dance.

Track listing

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No.TitleLength
1."Grass"3:00
2."Must Be Treeman"3:13
3."Fickle Cycle"4:29

References

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  1. ^ "Pitchfork: Staff Lists: The Top 500 Tracks of the 2000s: 100-51". Pitchfork. Archived from the original on 2009-08-22.
  2. ^ Plagenhoef, Scott; Schreiber, Ryan, eds. (November 2008). The Pitchfork 500. Simon & Schuster. p. 196. ISBN 978-1-4165-6202-3.
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