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"CREDIT"?

― noizem duke (noize duke), Thursday, 7 April 2005 18:29 (nineteen years ago) link

The free track on the paw tracks website isn't a patch on anything on Doldrums

― Japanese Giraffe (Japanese Giraffe), Thursday, 7 April 2005 20:50 (nineteen years ago) link

down at the creepshow...

― The Sensational Sulk (sexyDancer), Thursday, 7 April 2005 20:54 (nineteen years ago) link

four weeks pass...

This is an incredible bit of music. Absolutely baffling but all the more wonderful.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 5 May 2005 11:58 (eighteen years ago) link

It's like the music you hear in your head just as you're drifting out of consciousness with classic rock radio on.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 5 May 2005 12:14 (eighteen years ago) link

So... classic rock through a drainpipe, then, and then irritation that it's not LETTING you drift out of consciousness, and then silence?

I've still not heard 'Ariel Pink'.

The fact that 'lo-fi' has been used NINE ZILLION TIMES in this thread with barely any answers...

... doesn't appeal.

But perhaps I am KNEE JERKING?!

― Lucretia My Reflection (Lucretia My Reflection), Thursday, 5 May 2005 12:29 (eighteen years ago) link

When I think of low-fi, I always think of stuff done on cheap instruments and played very badly on purpose. This is stuff played on good equipment, written and played beautifully and then recorded on the cheapest equipment possible.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 5 May 2005 12:45 (eighteen years ago) link

Yes but what are his INFLUENZAS!

― Lucretia My Reflection (Lucretia My Reflection), Thursday, 5 May 2005 12:47 (eighteen years ago) link

70s and 80s rock/pop. Lots of Roxy Music, Lennon, Bowie, Talking Heads, New Wave etc.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 5 May 2005 13:19 (eighteen years ago) link

and R. Stevie Moore

― naturemorte, Thursday, 5 May 2005 14:46 (eighteen years ago) link

Guided by Voices if they grew up listening to '80s pop radio instead of 60s and 70s classic rock. Plus he actually finishes the songs he writes.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 5 May 2005 14:52 (eighteen years ago) link

The Cure are his biggest influence

i like The Doldrums A LOT, Worn Copy though, i don't know. It's not as catchy maybe, except for ' Jules Lost His Jewels'

― rizzx (rizzx), Thursday, 5 May 2005 14:53 (eighteen years ago) link

dude, rizzx, you GOTTA get House Arrest. it's his best work to date.
also, dog latin, about the "played on good equipment" bit, when i saw him saturday night his keyboard player was playing a pretty shitty yamaha.

― Fetchboy (Felcher), Thursday, 5 May 2005 16:02 (eighteen years ago) link

ah i have that on my HD, together with another album, something with Lovers? Don't know, but I'll listen to House Arrest as soon as i get home. Pink's the man. not very listenable on car stereo though

― rizzx (rizzx), Thursday, 5 May 2005 16:32 (eighteen years ago) link

are all his CD-Rs going to be re-released eventually? He's got, like, 50+ or something, yes? Worn Copy is the shit..

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Thursday, 5 May 2005 17:25 (eighteen years ago) link

upthread:
"Apparently, the person who originally realeased House Arrest is not allowing Paw Tracks to reissue it.

-- mitch dub (w!mbis...), April 7th, 2005."
im not aware of the 50+ though.

― Fetchboy (Felcher), Thursday, 5 May 2005 17:27 (eighteen years ago) link

someone was probably exaggerating..

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Thursday, 5 May 2005 17:29 (eighteen years ago) link

It felt like 50+.

― Andre Dawson (deangulberry), Thursday, 5 May 2005 18:03 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm not sure.

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 5 May 2005 19:32 (eighteen years ago) link

not anymore.

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 5 May 2005 19:32 (eighteen years ago) link

oh yes I am.

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 9 May 2005 20:09 (eighteen years ago) link

eight months pass...

House Arrest!

In LA Weekly article, he says he has "easily 200" cassettes lying around of albums and "masters".

― fizzcaraldo (Justin M), Thursday, 12 January 2006 03:27 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm sure his parents don't appreciate him leaving all those tapes around the house.

― account settings (account), Thursday, 12 January 2006 03:43 (eighteen years ago) link

one month passes...

So, has anyone seen him live yet?

He's playing Knitting Factory on Friday I think; just wondering what the hell he's gonna do with himself on stage.

― Suzy Creemcheese (SuzyCreemcheese), Thursday, 23 February 2006 01:12 (eighteen years ago) link

haven't seen him live but "life in l.a." is truly one of my summer 2005 anthems.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 23 February 2006 01:22 (eighteen years ago) link

Going in a few minutes. Interested to see how he works in his guest backing band.

― Nigel (Nigel), Thursday, 23 February 2006 03:26 (eighteen years ago) link

Plz report back, soldier.

― Suzy Creemcheese (SuzyCreemcheese), Thursday, 23 February 2006 03:36 (eighteen years ago) link

im guna go see him at 14 below!

― chaki (chaki), Thursday, 23 February 2006 04:27 (eighteen years ago) link

In Seattle it was just him and his 8-track, apparently. I really wish he would get a competent live band going.

― fizzcaraldo (Justin M), Thursday, 23 February 2006 07:00 (eighteen years ago) link

his backing band in ny is excepter. should be a spectactle if nothing else. or you could go for psychic ills.

― earthly kitt (earthly), Thursday, 23 February 2006 07:11 (eighteen years ago) link

five months pass...

I've read a lot of reviews of Ariel Pink that use the same recurring descriptions: "twisted"; "sounds like (mention music from the 80s) but (then mention armageddon or satan or something that's meant to imply insanity) but his stuff doesn't strike me as crazy or dememnted at all. In fact when I heard that whole "mankind is a nazi" thing on 'Trepanated Earth' I found it more cute and quaint than crazy -- and a little embarrasing. I don't really get a crazy vibe from his stuff -- but it's certainly eccentric, for what that's worth.

― Morgan Patrick (public_radio), Thursday, 10 August 2006 05:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Not eccentric, exactly. More like "eccentric."

― Adam Beales (Pye Poudre), Thursday, 10 August 2006 11:28 (seventeen years ago) link

"shut up"

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Thursday, 10 August 2006 14:55 (seventeen years ago) link

"jk"

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Thursday, 10 August 2006 14:56 (seventeen years ago) link

paper or plastic

i would like paper thanks

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Thursday, 10 August 2006 16:51 (seventeen years ago) link

"mankind is a nazi" is so obviously a joke (the delivery's pretty funny too)

― Fetchboy (Felcher), Thursday, 10 August 2006 18:21 (seventeen years ago) link

"fuck you"

Shit, I guess that works for pretty much everything.

xhowevermanyposts

― Adam Beales (Pye Poudre), Thursday, 10 August 2006 19:24 (seventeen years ago) link

ten months pass...

saw him the other night. he's finally got a good band together, a few sloppy parts but they really nailed the vocal harmonies and the weird time signitures. it actually SOUNDED just like his records too, which was weird.

― babedad, Friday, 22 June 2007 05:19 (sixteen years ago) link

he was selling these homemade CD-Rs with different artwork for $20, i bought 3 of em and then found out they all had the same songs on them..

― babedad, Friday, 22 June 2007 05:20 (sixteen years ago) link

Can't say I'm surprised.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 22 June 2007 05:23 (sixteen years ago) link

that sucks.

But cool that he sounded good :D

― Drooone, Friday, 22 June 2007 05:24 (sixteen years ago) link

vudi from american music club is in this band now. which is weird. maybe I already said that upthread

― akm, Friday, 22 June 2007 17:21 (sixteen years ago) link

there is some staggering kaleidoscopic talent lurking beneath the temporal hipster trappings IMHO

-- duke due, Thursday, September 2, 2004 6:45 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Link

not that i mind the hipster trappings too much per se, but this is entirely OTM

― 69, Friday, 22 June 2007 19:00 (sixteen years ago) link

Vudi?! No wonder he sounds so good now.

― henry s, Friday, 22 June 2007 19:04 (sixteen years ago) link

it's too bad about this bullshit "hipster" stigma surrounding him, because he's by far the best songwriter out of any pop/rock/indie/whitebread variety these days and he's actually pretty funky too.

― babedad, Sunday, 24 June 2007 09:02 (sixteen years ago) link

i mean, if wilco or whoever were to record an album of ariel pink songs, it'd be the unanimous critic-wide rock album of the year, no doubt.

― babedad, Sunday, 24 June 2007 09:06 (sixteen years ago) link

but less psychedelic and closer to reality therefore would prob. be dud

― babedad, Sunday, 24 June 2007 09:09 (sixteen years ago) link

what are we coming to

― babedad, Sunday, 24 June 2007 09:09 (sixteen years ago) link

now playing: "Jules Lost His Jewels"

Come on baby, let's dance!

― nicky lo-fi, Sunday, 24 June 2007 09:13 (sixteen years ago) link

one year passes...

new track is so good ("Can't Hear My Eyes")

keepin it smoooooth

― dmr, Monday, 8 December 2008 20:26 (fifteen years ago) link

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otm

― map, Saturday, 16 January 2021 02:08 (three years ago) link

three months pass...

Lady
Im a lady from today
Cha

― calstars, Monday, 3 May 2021 03:23 (two years ago) link

Ooof less than 400 views on youtube. I guess the MAGA bots that were “supporting” him months ago jumped ship when their contract ended.

― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 3 May 2021 14:00 (two years ago) link

What has less than 400 views?

― afriendlypioneer, Monday, 3 May 2021 18:34 (two years ago) link

A video for a new song (I guess that’s what it is, didn’t watch) he posted a week ago

― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 3 May 2021 19:40 (two years ago) link

I thought that was what calstars was referencing, went to his twitter to see if he had posted a song and he has but noone cares.

― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 3 May 2021 19:42 (two years ago) link

Nah I was just drinking last night and Menopause Man came on the shuffle.

― calstars, Monday, 3 May 2021 19:59 (two years ago) link

he has a fucking song called menopause man

― Left, Monday, 3 May 2021 20:00 (two years ago) link

one month passes...

Birther Control xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxp

― Noel Emits, Saturday, 12 June 2021 16:52 (two years ago) link

five months pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdNeissy3Pc

― Publicradio (3×5), Monday, 22 November 2021 16:00 (two years ago) link

one year passes...

“Now the time’s right frontman to write those songs that say ‘I like that’”

― calstars, Saturday, 20 May 2023 00:38 (ten months ago) link

https://www.instagram.com/p/CogLSt6OEey/

― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Saturday, 20 May 2023 01:07 (ten months ago) link

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