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 (3 years ago) Permalink
high quality rip of this album leaked... sounds much much better than the previous version.
― akaky akakievich, Tuesday, 18 May 2010 18:16 (3 years ago) Permalink
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 (3 years ago) Permalink
I Robot
― dmr, Tuesday, 18 May 2010 18:51 (3 years ago) Permalink
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 (3 years ago) Permalink
Eye in the Sky is probably more Ariel Pink-ish too. I Robot is more electronic (but a better album, imo)
― dmr, Tuesday, 18 May 2010 18:59 (3 years ago) Permalink
yeah, if you're put off by the name Alan Parsons Project, I'm guessing you're not big into prog, so the later albums are the way to go.
― mizzell, Tuesday, 18 May 2010 19:03 (3 years ago) Permalink
regarding APP i'd go with a greatest hits, but "i robot" and "eye in the sky" are pretty sweet albums... my favorite song of theirs is "TIME" though.
― akaky akakievich, Wednesday, 19 May 2010 16:48 (3 years ago) Permalink
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/14324-before-today/
9.0
― ksh, Monday, 7 June 2010 15:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
2004 has arrived -- we are all down w/ hauntology now
― ksh, Monday, 7 June 2010 15:35 (2 years ago) Permalink
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/12909-grandes-exitos/ - 7.0http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/10966-scared-famous/ - 6.1http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/6555-house-arrest/ - 6.2http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/6554-worn-copy/ - 5.9http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/6553-the-doldrums/ - 5.0
"There's no way this Hollywood hillbilly called Ariel Pink knows who Stephen Merritt is"
― gorilla vs burrr (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 7 June 2010 15:37 (2 years ago) Permalink
for some reason i thought that ariel pink was related to the rapper who calls himself black nasty, whose music i don't like at all. and for that -- i suppose irrational -- reason, i've stayed away from ariel pink's music. now i wonder if i had ariel pink confused with someone else.
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 7 June 2010 15:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
― ksh, Monday, 7 June 2010 15:43 (2 years ago) Permalink
Any Ariel Pink fans wanna weigh in and say whether this is really his best record or not? I've only heard sections of one of his earlier records but it didn't grab me enough to make me listen to the whole thing.
― ksh, Monday, 7 June 2010 15:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
im going to see him at the scala next weekquite excited actuallydont know every single song of his but i did love worn copy and the doldrumshope hes better than some of the reviews on ilx suggest.
― truffle-flavoured french fry (titchyschneiderMk2), Monday, 7 June 2010 15:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
It's up there with the best of his work, for sure. May be my favorite, it's certainly the one I've been listening to the most lately.Worn Copy may be my sentimental fave.
― Trip Maker, Monday, 7 June 2010 15:45 (2 years ago) Permalink
credit might be my most favourite song of his.
― truffle-flavoured french fry (titchyschneiderMk2), Monday, 7 June 2010 15:48 (2 years ago) Permalink
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, June 7, 2010 11:41 AM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
you are probably thinking of black nasty's sister, pink nasty.
― mizzell, Monday, 7 June 2010 15:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
yeah, that jogs my memory. thanks.
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 7 June 2010 15:55 (2 years ago) Permalink
ariel pink appears on Mayonnaise Pen, a track on Black Nasty's Shark Tank album.
― Palpatean Mists (Lowell N. Behold'n), Monday, 7 June 2010 16:26 (2 years ago) Permalink
Its great but the disparity between the p4k ratings for (to pick one of my faves) Worn Copy and the new one is pretty crazy.
― Jamie_ATP, Monday, 7 June 2010 16:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
again, based on the (possibly misleading) soundscan sample, the vocal harmonies on the chorus of bright lit blue skies is precisely the kind of big, sweeping epic chorus i remember fondly from the 80s.
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 7 June 2010 16:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
bright lit blue skies is magnificent.
― truffle-flavoured french fry (titchyschneiderMk2), Monday, 7 June 2010 17:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
Which is to say the new one should have a lower rating, amirite?
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Monday, 7 June 2010 17:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
i'll be fuckin livid if there's a huge disparity between Cokemachineglow's review of his first record and the new one
― ksh, Monday, 7 June 2010 17:37 (2 years ago) Permalink
I'd give Worn Copy an 8.5ish. New one a 7.9ish.
― Jamie_ATP, Monday, 7 June 2010 17:55 (2 years ago) Permalink
Worn Copy's more of a 8.52 imo
― ksh, Monday, 7 June 2010 17:56 (2 years ago) Permalink
House Arrest and the Doldrums are still where it's at.
― Fetchboy, Monday, 7 June 2010 17:59 (2 years ago) Permalink
Bright Lit Blue Skies is a cover of a song by the Rockin Ramrods circa 1966.
― Trip Maker, Monday, 7 June 2010 18:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
<3 mark richardson
― teflon donk (samosa gibreel), Monday, 7 June 2010 18:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
This is definitely not his best album. But it is good. The tracks are shorter, more confined and in a way this is not necessarily a good thing. I do like Butthouse Blondies a lot though.
― village idiot (dog latin), Monday, 7 June 2010 23:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
Worn Copy is my fave. I should listen to his other stuff more, but it's all really hotchpotch. Even Worn Copy which I adore I rarely make all the way through. It becomes kind of exhausting.
― village idiot (dog latin), Monday, 7 June 2010 23:35 (2 years ago) Permalink
couldn't disagree more, worn copy, doldrums, house arrest, and lover boy = all killer no filler
― hobbes, Monday, 7 June 2010 23:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
well ok 90% killer maybe 10% filler
― hobbes, Monday, 7 June 2010 23:56 (2 years ago) Permalink
Reposting Zeno's YouTube:
― skip, Tuesday, 8 June 2010 00:00 (2 years ago) Permalink
― gorilla vs burrr (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, June 7, 2010 3:37 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
I was hoping for a repudiation, or at least a reassessment, of this long history of trashing Ariel Pink albums. Instead, we get a list of supposed improvements in performance/production and a glib "It turns out that these details make a big difference". What a copout.
― skip, Tuesday, 8 June 2010 00:05 (2 years ago) Permalink
idg all the yapping this morning about the disparity between before todays score and previous albums, i mean he addresses it in the review (for basically its entirety), and even admits that there's been a reevaluation of his oeuvre.
i think the review and score are a bit overblown, for some reason this album just doesn't feel huge to me, and i feel like great pop albums should be huge. good songs, though, and i wouldn't want to discourage anyone from getting super excited about it. glad that probably thousands more people will hear it now, too.
― teflon donk (samosa gibreel), Tuesday, 8 June 2010 00:10 (2 years ago) Permalink
xp skip - the review is pretty obviously intended for people who have never heard (of) ariel pink before, though. and i think the little differences adding up to something greater than the sum of their parts is true, if not *revelatory*. a talented nut who got his shit together, i don't know, music isn't always that much more complicated than just that.
― teflon donk (samosa gibreel), Tuesday, 8 June 2010 00:13 (2 years ago) Permalink
Just heard "Round and Round." Damn -- amazing.
― ksh, Tuesday, 8 June 2010 00:43 (2 years ago) Permalink
Dear Pitchfork: you ain't talking your ass out of this.(Just watched Pulp Fiction again)
― B'wana Beast, Tuesday, 8 June 2010 01:07 (2 years ago) Permalink
i dunno its like fair enough, pink has always been awesome but it really wouldn't have made sense for pitchfork to be into him back in like 2005 so like
― plax (ico), Tuesday, 8 June 2010 01:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
wait, why not?
― underwater, please (bear, bear, bear), Tuesday, 8 June 2010 02:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
9. POINT. 0.
MUST. DOWNLOAD. DISC. IMMEDIATELY.
― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 8 June 2010 02:19 (2 years ago) Permalink
Daniel has never been the same since Lala's demise
― ksh, Tuesday, 8 June 2010 02:21 (2 years ago) Permalink
i welcome it
it's true it's true. i am heartbroken.
― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 8 June 2010 02:21 (2 years ago) Permalink
actually i love bright lit blue skies song so much, i am downloading the disc tonight.
Besides an admittedly nice hook, I'm not sure what is so incredible about "Round and Round." What about it are fans attracted to? (As easy as that question is to be read with an angry, rhetorical tone, it is actually an innocently curious question. I like hearing about what makes music work for people)
― Evan, Tuesday, 8 June 2010 02:30 (2 years ago) Permalink
It gives me hope
― Trip Maker, Tuesday, 8 June 2010 02:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
it make me happy. seriously.
are there a bunch of 70s pop/rock songs sampled in that track? it feels like it.
― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 8 June 2010 02:50 (2 years ago) Permalink