Animal Collective

Aliases: Avey Tare & Panda Bear, Avey Tare, Panda Bear & Geologist, Campfire Songs.

The best album credited to Animal Collective is Merriweather Post Pavilion which is ranked number 160 in the overall greatest album chart with a total rank score of 8,728.

Animal Collective is ranked number 100 in the overall artist rankings with a total rank score of 20,824.

Animal Collective official website: http://www.myanimalhome.net

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Panda Bear
Avey Tare
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Geologist (US)

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Animal Collective best albums

The following albums by Animal Collective are ranked highest in the greatest album charts:

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Merriweather Post Pavilion

Animal Collective

Year of Release:

2009

Appears in:

1,196 charts

Rank Score:

8,728

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Year of Release:

2007

Appears in:

576 charts

Rank Score:

3,675

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459

Average Rating:

81 (797 votes)

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Feels

Animal Collective

Year of Release:

2005

Appears in:

420 charts

Rank Score:

2,764

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Year of Release:

2004

Appears in:

299 charts

Rank Score:

1,876

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144

Overall Rank:

924

Average Rating:

77 (490 votes)

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Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished

Avey Tare & Panda Bear

Year of Release:

2000

Appears in:

180 charts

Rank Score:

1,193

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2012

Appears in:

148 charts

Rank Score:

578

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2022

Appears in:

141 charts

Rank Score:

433

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Year of Release:

2009

Appears in:

93 charts

Rank Score:

371

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2016

Appears in:

106 charts

Rank Score:

242

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1,056

Overall Rank:

5,663

Average Rating:

67 (262 votes)

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10.

Here Comes The Indian

Animal Collective

Year of Release:

2003

Appears in:

68 charts

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214

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Overall artist rank:

100

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This may not be a complete discography for Animal Collective.This listing only shows those albums by this artist that appear in at least one chart on this site. If an album is 'missing' that you think deserves to be here, you can include it in your own chart from the My Charts page!

Animal Collective bestography composition

Decade	Albums	%

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1970s	0	0%
1980s	0	0%
1990s	0	0%
2000s	12	0%
2010s	9	0%
2020s	9	0%

Compilation?	Albums	%
No	27	90%
Yes	3	10%

Live?	Albums	%
No	22	73%
Yes	8	27%

Soundtrack?	Albums	%
No	28	93%
Yes	2	7%

Animal Collective best tracks

Include tracks from compilations & live albums | Exclude tracks from compilations & live albums The same track can appear on multiple albums, so excluding tracks from compilations and live albums helps to remove duplicates from this list.

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My Girls

(from the album Merriweather Post Pavilion)

Average Rating: 91 (483 votes)Comments: 5

Fireworks

(from the album Strawberry Jam)

Average Rating: 90 (279 votes)Comments: 3

What Would I Want? Sky

(from the album Fall Be Kind)

Average Rating: 89 (134 votes)Comments: 5

Summertime Clothes

(from the album Merriweather Post Pavilion)

Average Rating: 89 (380 votes)Comments: 5

In The Flowers

(from the album Merriweather Post Pavilion)

Average Rating: 89 (394 votes)Comments: 6

For Reverend Green

(from the album Strawberry Jam)

Average Rating: 88 (225 votes)Comments: 2

Alvin Row

(from the album Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished)

Average Rating: 88 (112 votes)Comments: 4

Brother Sport

(from the album Merriweather Post Pavilion)

Average Rating: 88 (366 votes)Comments: 2

The Purple Bottle

(from the album Feels)

Average Rating: 88 (187 votes)Comments: 0

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Leaf House

(from the album Sung Tongs)

Average Rating: 88 (159 votes)Comments: 3

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Banshee Beat

(from the album Feels)

Average Rating: 88 (200 votes)Comments: 3

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Did You See The Words

(from the album Feels)

Average Rating: 88 (190 votes)Comments: 0

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Peacebone

(from the album Strawberry Jam)

Average Rating: 88 (230 votes)Comments: 2

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Grass

(from the album Feels)

Average Rating: 87 (184 votes)Comments: 2

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Bluish

(from the album Merriweather Post Pavilion)

Average Rating: 87 (334 votes)Comments: 1

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Who Could Win A Rabbit

(from the album Sung Tongs)

Average Rating: 86 (150 votes)Comments: 3

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FloriDada

(from the album Painting With)

Average Rating: 86 (95 votes)Comments: 3

18.

Turn Into Something

(from the album Feels)

Average Rating: 85 (147 votes)Comments: 0

19.

Today's Supernatural

(from the album Centipede Hz)

Average Rating: 85 (82 votes)Comments: 0

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Winters Love

(from the album Sung Tongs)

Average Rating: 85 (143 votes)Comments: 0

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Animal Collective ratings

Average Rating:

80/100 (from 165 votes)

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Rating	Date updated	Member	Artist ratings	Avg. artist rating
60/100 !	05/04/2026 18:58	gmessian	69	67/100
50/100 !	11/23/2025 21:48	lisalisa	330	71/100
70/100 !	08/11/2025 02:53	bonnequestion	414	71/100

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This artist is rated in the top 3% of all artists on BestEverAlbums.com. This artist has a Bayesian average rating of 80.3/100, a mean average of 79.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 80.6/100. The standard deviation for this artist is 19.9.

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From Albumlover6789 02/03/2022 02:01 | #280496

Great band, original but also poppy down to its very core. Fun and deep.

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AlvaroIesus 09/17/2021 02:44 | #273829

Brillantes.

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90/100

From boppare 02/14/2019 20:00 | #231941

According to Michael Pollan's "How to Change Your Mind" book, one of LSD's early adopters said that it made her experience the world "through the eyes of a happy and gifted child". This is the kind of feeling that Animal Collective specialize and excel in projecting in their music. I think that a few decades from now, they will be considered just as important to popular music as The Beatles. They took psychedelia to the next level.

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95/100

From someone 12/05/2017 03:18 | #202645

two words: very unique

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85/100

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Onater 07/03/2017 19:49 | #193614

I went a whole year thinking I hated this band because I didn't like Merriweather Post Pavilion only to be blown away by Spirit They're Gone Spirit They've Vanished, Feels, and Strawberry Jam. If you like Merriweather Post Pavilion, there's nothing wrong with that, but if you don't like it, try their other albums and don't dismiss the whole band as I did.

Spirit They're Gone Spirit They've Vanished > Feels > Strawberry Jam > Merriweather Post Pavilion > Sung Tongs

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