Ariel Pink

HOLD ON I'm callin, callin BAAAACK has been stuck in my head all day.

IMO R&R is the only track that really gains from the hi-fi production. More than a couple of these would be better lo-fi because you expend effort trying to pick out and hear the hooks, leaving less room for analyzing how good the hook itself is. More transparency isn't good when a passage is too simple or on the weak side compositionally. But maybe that's just me.

"Think autistic kids covering Brian Wilson or Tom Waits singing a nursery rhyme or Shakespeare eating shit in an alley or Jesus giving birth to a pack of bear cubs."

Gah, can't work out which early-'80s british pop singer the vocals on 'Bright Lit Blue Skies' remind me of... I'm thinking Nick Heyward but I'm sure there's someone else.

^current favorite track cuz it's GORGEOUS in Missouri today.

"IMO R&R is the only track that really gains from the hi-fi production. More than a couple of these would be better lo-fi because you expend effort trying to pick out and hear the hooks, leaving less room for analyzing how good the hook itself is. More transparency isn't good when a passage is too simple or on the weak side compositionally. But maybe that's just me."

I think "Butt House Blondies" and "Little Wig" are the glaring weak tracks on the album, and they both suffer from lack of hooks. But others like 'em, so maybe the hooks just aren't for me.

IMO R&R is the only track that really gains from the hi-fi production

The production may be more hi-fi than his other albums, but it still sounds like it's stuck in some strange time warp. It's better fidelity but the tones of all the instruments, the synths, and the vocals are all very much in the same spirit as his old recordings.

Also I really like the new version of Beverly Kills.

Gah, can't work out which early-'80s british pop singer the vocals on 'Bright Lit Blue Skies' remind me of... I'm thinking Nick Heyward but I'm sure there's someone else.

Pete Wylie?

agree about "butt house blondies", its the weakest link. is anyone hearing grunge in that riff ?

i'm hearing some butthole surfers there

round & round chorus sounds totally prom to me

to me it sounds like what someone who didn't go to prom would want it to sound like as an adult looking back

Pete Wylie?

I can sort of hear it but that's not who I was thinking... Eh, It'll hit me eventually.

you know its weird that in the this huge thread there's just one Todd Rundgren mention. because thats always the big thing that pops out for me. worn copy, which i love by the way, sounds to me basically like a re-do of A Wizard, A True Star.

i thought of Rundgren too! just didnt mention it..

i mean i agree with the LA thing; there's a creepy steely dan thing going on, some fleetwood mac bits, but far more Rundgren. but saying that i haven't heard the new one so things may have changed.

it's still Rundgren (wizard), even more than before

finally figured out what he's saying in Round & Round after about the 100th listen: AND WE'LL DAZZLE THEM ALL

Savagely disappointed that he wasn't in fact singing 'and we'll dance to Limahl'

Now this is starting to sound interesting...love Ariel but he needs to take it the next level...imagine Todd Rundgren producing...

― sonnyboy, Monday, December 8, 2008 9:45 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

like not blowing my own Trumbone but for me it's been Rundgren all along and who should of produced the album...on first impressions slightly dissapointing...hasn't got that weird/hooky thing going on...not sure having a band has really helped things and not sure I'm gonna be able to convert the Catholics who don't get it but it's early days...certainly nothing approaching a 'Trepanated Earth' or 'For Kate I Wait' on there...

with all the cure talk, surprised no one has remarked some of the similarities b/t fright night and a forest

Ariel addresses the point about P-Fork giving him initial bad reviews due simply to the fact that they didn't unveil him to the world. All the other smaller online pubs followed suit( as they usually do) with "this guy's schtick, its trying-too hard to be weird, we don't like it",. Basically alot of critics didn't know what to make of him. He was given a very positive review via Rolling Stone and P-Fork snarkily felt that if a big middle brow pub liked this Ariel Pink dude, well we obviously don't because we are the indie-elite and know better that this guy really just sucks. To what extent all this is true, is anyone's guess, but thats how Ariel puts it in a nutshell.

The chorus of "Round and Round" sounds like "#9 Dream" by John Lennon to me.

Listened to it five times yesterday. Prettay, pretttay great isn't it.

"Sentimental, heartbreaking, everything is my fault"

Is this quoting a song? I swear it's quoting something but a lyrics search hasn't turned up anything.

i'm sorry to revive this thread for no good reason beside saying again how great this record is - and it's getting even better as time goes by.

the sort of record i'm pretty sure i'll also get back to in the future

The production may be more hi-fi than his other albums, but it still sounds like it's stuck in some strange time warp. It's better fidelity but the tones of all the instruments, the synths, and the vocals are all very much in the same spirit as his old recordings.

otm, this record sounds like it's been melted.

"Sentimental, heartbreaking, everything is my fault"

it's not the lyric but the melody that's quoted, i believe, came on here to see if anyone could figure it out

god round and round is so awesome

beverly kills is my current favorite.

Fright Night is my jam.

right now it's like this:

Fright Night+Round And Round+Menopause Man = great

Bright Light+L'estat = very good

Beverly Kills+Revolution's+Can't Hear My Eyes+Butt-House = good

Instrumental Tracks = ok

oh and Little Wig - very good

Bass playing on Reminiscences is unreal.

Beverly Kills chorus sounds like the chorus to Ago's "For You."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VV9k--wqeOg

Bass playing throughout is pretty awesome.

no doubt

The sound of the album as a whole is something to cherish - very special,and done to perfection

WOAH

"the bottom line is this: ariel pink sucks. DEAL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiLqAu4s-_s

ariel has no talent, no emotions, he's just a carcass.
he is not even human, he's anti-human as far as i am concerned.
doesnt know how to write a song,
ariel couldnt write a song if his life depended on it.
he is just some hipster dude that does too much meth ( which confirms why he sucks ) .

i mean if you do meth and you are from la and pitchfork hates you must suck, right ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gB65ENKm4AM

i mean listen to that song. its gay. all he does is talk about this chick called kate that he used to be in love with.
love, and chicks ?
what a douche. love and all that crap, fuck ariel pink.

what ?! your phazey guitar and avant vocals do nothing for me ariel. you are a sham and u must realize that fact
DEAL.FUCKER.
stop trying to use arthur lee/brian wilson melodies to entice me to buy your records bitch.
you are so clueless.
and stop talking about this ho called helen,
we dont care !
first you were all about kate, now helen !
make up your mind ! you are such an incorrigibe whiny ass..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5MqXPYE2P4

oh now, you are all about being smooth ariel, arent you ?
i kind of respected you when you were just making shitty songs about helen and kate with your gay ass 4 track but now that you are working with michael jacksons old producer, your dick feels bigger, doesnt it ?
guess what ? u still SUCK

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiLqAu4s-_s

sure, your new track is OK, it kind of feels like a song i should have heard at prom but i didnt.
either way, you are a bitch. you know why ? because now people who never liked you before are going to talk about you all day and that shit gets mad annoying yo. plus, you arent even that great, you are just an internet meme that lazy critics with no SOUL, no HEART, no LIFE will jump on, because thats all they have left. the dregs of an alienated, existentially vacant cadaver."

i don't think he actually post here so do you like, want me to give him the message or what?

it has quote marks, so I'm guessing whoever wrote it won't get your message either. i lol'd at the rant though.

Maybe oscar can get a job blogging for the altreport.

never really dug this dude before but this joint is ill

― max, Tuesday, April 6, 2010 7:26 PM (2 weeks ago)

^^

did you know that Bright Lit Blue Skies is a cover? :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJLYq0tHAPk

I did not know that.

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

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

Sheer magic.

whos goin to this tonight

this entire album is awesome

yeah to me it sounds like a cross between alan parsons and gary wilson

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!

from an interview with Ariel Pink:

What other musicians or artists are you excited about right now?

not complete by any means.....
wendy carlos
the ROHA BAND
getachew H/mariam
vahag sakadjian
yeshimebet dubale
mahmoud ahmed
kennedy mengesha
girma tefera
kuku sebesbe
getachew kassa
alameyehu eshete
the Wallias band
geneva jacuzzi
richard ross
john maus
concrete rubber band
popol vuh
olivier messian
julia holter
msr song poems (rodd keith)
icy spicy leoncie
gary war
coL
fancy space people
crooked cowboy
harry merry
nite jewel
black black
clang quartet
syrinx
peter thomas orchestra
freddy k
the germs
the cardiacs
girls
secret circuit
big business
rsm
cleaners from venus
arthur brown
james 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..

Heh! Leoncie!

<3 Leoncie - 'Killer In The Park'