it has quote marks, so I'm guessing whoever wrote it won't get your message either. i lol'd at the rant though.
― richie aprile (rockapads), Sunday, 18 April 2010 20:56 (fourteen years ago) link
Maybe oscar can get a job blogging for the altreport.
― Adam Bruneau, Sunday, 18 April 2010 23:20 (fourteen years ago) link
never really dug this dude before but this joint is ill
― max, Tuesday, April 6, 2010 7:26 PM (2 weeks ago)
^^
― am0n, Friday, 23 April 2010 03:52 (fourteen years ago) link
did you know that Bright Lit Blue Skies is a cover? :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJLYq0tHAPk
― Zeno, Sunday, 25 April 2010 19:46 (fourteen years ago) link
I did not know that.
― Trip Maker, Sunday, 25 April 2010 19:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Anyone else thinks he is influenced by Alan Parsons Project? Was listening to 'eye in the sky' the other day on the supermarket and thought it sounded incredibly similar to Ariel Pink:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMAGwMAXTpU
― Moka, Sunday, 25 April 2010 21:50 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkuroIIKRps
Sheer magic.
― Adam Bruneau, Sunday, 25 April 2010 23:01 (fourteen years ago) link
whos goin to this tonight
― surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally, Tuesday, 4 May 2010 18:41 (fourteen years ago) link
this entire album is awesome
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 4 May 2010 18:42 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah to me it sounds like a cross between alan parsons and gary wilson
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 4 May 2010 18:43 (fourteen years ago) link
lol I see a bunch of people upthread said the same thing
Well, former Ariel Pink sideman Gary War covers Eye In The Sky on his first album... it all comes together!
― Count Palmiro Vicarion (Stew), Tuesday, 4 May 2010 21:42 (fourteen years ago) link
from an interview with Ariel Pink:
What other musicians or artists are you excited about right now?
not complete by any means.....wendy carlosthe ROHA BANDgetachew H/mariamvahag sakadjianyeshimebet dubalemahmoud ahmedkennedy mengeshagirma teferakuku sebesbegetachew kassaalameyehu eshetethe Wallias bandgeneva jacuzzirichard rossjohn mausconcrete rubber bandpopol vuholivier messianjulia holtermsr song poems (rodd keith)icy spicy leonciegary warcoLfancy space peoplecrooked cowboyharry merrynite jewelblack blackclang quartetsyrinxpeter thomas orchestrafreddy kthe germsthe cardiacsgirlssecret circuitbig businessrsmcleaners from venusarthur brownjames brown and the jb's just to name a few....
http://www.tragicallyhipster.com/2008/09/interview-ariel-pink-of-haunted.html
lots of ethiopian music here..
― Zeno, Tuesday, 4 May 2010 21:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Heh! Leoncie!
<3 Leoncie - 'Killer In The Park'
― craigboney (Mister Craig), Tuesday, 4 May 2010 22:43 (fourteen years ago) link
yes ok wow this whole album is fantastic.
― a lagoon par la mer (psychgawsple), Wednesday, 5 May 2010 15:19 (fourteen years ago) link
artists i like being able to list enormous lists of artists i have never heard of is a good sign imo
― ayo for dyao (samosa gibreel), Wednesday, 5 May 2010 17:01 (fourteen years ago) link
i really liked that list until it made me remember that ariel is associated with girls (blecch!)
has anyone else noticed that the rhythm on "round and round" kinda sounds like a slowed down "broken english"?
― a lagoon par la mer (psychgawsple), Wednesday, 5 May 2010 18:44 (fourteen years ago) link
sounds like beck
― Matt P, Thursday, 6 May 2010 20:13 (fourteen years ago) link
*thumbs down*
― Matt P, Thursday, 6 May 2010 20:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Listening to Ariel Pink for the first time. Sorry, but do people seriously listen to this stuff and enjoy it?
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Wednesday, 12 May 2010 15:57 (fourteen years ago) link
he's no wilco
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 12 May 2010 15:58 (fourteen years ago) link
no i don't seriously listen to this stuff and enjoy it i just said that i did
― samosa gibreel, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 16:00 (fourteen years ago) link
Damn! I've been pretending to listen to and enjoy his stuff for years so I could act cooler than anyone who hadn't heard him, but now that he's on 4AD my cover's blown!!
― Fetchboy, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 16:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Ilxor, perhaps you should attempt ingesting some chemical substance before listening.
― Adam Bruneau, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 16:11 (fourteen years ago) link
Eh... I'll pass, those days are long gone for me.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Wednesday, 12 May 2010 16:13 (fourteen years ago) link
ILX Poster Known As Ilxor, are you OK? somebody really seems to have shat in your FroYo this morning.
― brad whitford's impotent rage (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Wednesday, 12 May 2010 16:15 (fourteen years ago) link
Hi dere I am doing great!
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Wednesday, 12 May 2010 16:16 (fourteen years ago) link
he's no wilco― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, May 12, 2010 10:58 AM
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, May 12, 2010 10:58 AM
^ this dude knows what's up
― ksh, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 16:16 (fourteen years ago) link
ok, just checkin
I have loved ariel pink records since 2004, have only heard a little of the new one but expect to probably like it pretty well too
― brad whitford's impotent rage (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Wednesday, 12 May 2010 16:16 (fourteen years ago) link
but I mean...if you're actually curious about music that's clearly, audibly strange & different, you might wait until you have listened several times before arriving at your opinion, instead of posting during your first listen
free country obv., just a thought tho
― brad whitford's impotent rage (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Wednesday, 12 May 2010 16:18 (fourteen years ago) link
isn't Ariel Pink a hauntologizer? O_O
― ksh, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 16:19 (fourteen years ago) link
he was just being a prick xp the new albumn is not that audibly strange and different.
― samosa gibreel, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 17:50 (fourteen years ago) link
This is the kind of album you will love if you think 80s pop coulda used more 70s soul production.
― Adam Bruneau, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 19:23 (fourteen years ago) link
u realize yr in an thread devoted to ariel pink where you can confirm that people claim to enjoy it not yr fuckin livejournal
― hobbes, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 19:44 (fourteen years ago) link
the man is a genius, the new record is brilliant, and like VU and The Stooges in the past, most people who don't realize it now - will realize it in the future.or maybe they won't.
― Zeno, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 19:51 (fourteen years ago) link
decent interviewhttp://www.factmag.com/2010/04/26/ariel-pink-russian-roulette/
― mizzell, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 20:46 (fourteen years ago) link
What the hell is "hauntology"?
― Adam Bruneau, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 22:25 (fourteen years ago) link
ghostbox.co.uk
― hobbes, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 22:27 (fourteen years ago) link
Is the writer referring to this?
Hauntology is an idea within the philosophy of history introduced by Jacques Derrida in his 1993 work Spectres of Marx. The word, a portmanteau of haunt and ology, and a near-homophone to ontology in Derrida's native French, deals with "the paradoxical state of the spectre, which is neither being nor non-being", according to a professor at RMIT University.[1]The idea suggests that the present exists only with respect to the past, and that society after the end of history will begin to orient itself towards ideas and aesthetics that are thought of as rustic, bizarre or "old-timey"; that is, towards the "ghost" of the past. In this, it is has some similarity with the cyberpunk literary movement. Derrida holds that because of this intellectual realignment, the end of history will be unsatisfactory and untenable.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hauntology
The idea suggests that the present exists only with respect to the past, and that society after the end of history will begin to orient itself towards ideas and aesthetics that are thought of as rustic, bizarre or "old-timey"; that is, towards the "ghost" of the past. In this, it is has some similarity with the cyberpunk literary movement. Derrida holds that because of this intellectual realignment, the end of history will be unsatisfactory and untenable.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hauntology
Not so sure I buy this. Pink's records are retro (looking back 30+ years or so) but not really any more than anybody else in the history of pop music. I mean the British psychedelic 60s were all Victorian/vaudevillian. And they used harpsichords for Christ's sake!
― Adam Bruneau, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 22:33 (fourteen years ago) link
By 'by this' I mean "Ariel Pink was also central to hauntology (it’s now often forgotten that much of the initial discussion of hauntology was prompted by Pink’s records)"
― Adam Bruneau, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 22:34 (fourteen years ago) link
Still, great article.
― Adam Bruneau, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 22:35 (fourteen years ago) link
that's a real fancy description for steampunk isn't it
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 12 May 2010 22:36 (fourteen years ago) link
in music crit, hauntology concerns the ways in which recording technology can produce a haunted or nostalgic quality. originally related mostly to dub (right?) the ghosts of an original recording drifting through a new mix, evoking dislocation and disassociation.
― contenderizer, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 22:50 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.4ad.com/sessions/
― mizzell, Thursday, 13 May 2010 03:08 (fourteen years ago) link
i've decided "can't hear my eyes" is pretty much as good as "round and round"
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Thursday, 13 May 2010 17:09 (fourteen years ago) link
I like the Mexican Summer version of that one better than the 4AD version but probably just because of familiarity after I played that 7" so many times
― dmr, Thursday, 13 May 2010 18:02 (fourteen years ago) link
high quality rip of this album leaked... sounds much much better than the previous version.
― akaky akakievich, Tuesday, 18 May 2010 18:16 (fourteen years ago) link
I've always been put off by the Alan Parsons Project, mainly because of the name. But I'm intrigued by the comparisons between the APP and this. What's a good place to start with Mr. Parsons?
― Position Position, Tuesday, 18 May 2010 18:49 (fourteen years ago) link
I Robot
― dmr, Tuesday, 18 May 2010 18:51 (fourteen years ago) link
Eye in the Sky is one of the greatest songs ever, and the album is pretty good too.
― mizzell, Tuesday, 18 May 2010 18:57 (fourteen years ago) link