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.
― skip, Friday, 9 April 2010 20:03 (fourteen years ago) link
"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."
― oscar, Friday, 9 April 2010 20:10 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Gavin in Leeds, Friday, 9 April 2010 20:25 (fourteen years ago) link
^current favorite track cuz it's GORGEOUS in Missouri today.
― Trip Maker, Friday, 9 April 2010 20:35 (fourteen years ago) link
"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.
― teflon monkey, Friday, 9 April 2010 20:37 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Adam Bruneau, Friday, 9 April 2010 21:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Pete Wylie?
― Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Farting in Space (NickB), Friday, 9 April 2010 21:24 (fourteen years ago) link
agree about "butt house blondies", its the weakest link. is anyone hearing grunge in that riff ?
― oscar, Friday, 9 April 2010 21:41 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm hearing some butthole surfers there
― Zeno, Friday, 9 April 2010 21:48 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― richie aprile (rockapads), Friday, 9 April 2010 22:11 (fourteen years ago) link
I can sort of hear it but that's not who I was thinking... Eh, It'll hit me eventually.
― Gavin in Leeds, Friday, 9 April 2010 22:12 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Jamie_ATP, Friday, 9 April 2010 22:22 (fourteen years ago) link
i thought of Rundgren too! just didnt mention it..
― Zeno, Friday, 9 April 2010 22:24 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Jamie_ATP, Friday, 9 April 2010 22:27 (fourteen years ago) link
it's still Rundgren (wizard), even more than before
― Zeno, Friday, 9 April 2010 22:29 (fourteen years ago) link
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'
― Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Farting in Space (NickB), Friday, 9 April 2010 22:46 (fourteen years ago) link
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...
― sonnyboy, Saturday, 10 April 2010 00:48 (fourteen years ago) link
with all the cure talk, surprised no one has remarked some of the similarities b/t fright night and a forest
― anza, Saturday, 10 April 2010 02:16 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Mark, Saturday, 10 April 2010 03:06 (fourteen years ago) link
The chorus of "Round and Round" sounds like "#9 Dream" by John Lennon to me.
― Maltodextrin, Saturday, 10 April 2010 05:37 (fourteen years ago) link
Listened to it five times yesterday. Prettay, pretttay great isn't it.
― Dwight Yorke, Saturday, 10 April 2010 08:52 (fourteen years ago) link
"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.
― Adam Bruneau, Saturday, 10 April 2010 16:41 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― Zeno, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 22:10 (fourteen years ago) link
otm, this record sounds like it's been melted.
it's not the lyric but the melody that's quoted, i believe, came on here to see if anyone could figure it out
― tmi finney (samosa gibreel), Tuesday, 13 April 2010 22:13 (fourteen years ago) link
god round and round is so awesome
― Davek (davek_00), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 16:38 (fourteen years ago) link
beverly kills is my current favorite.
― mizzell, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 19:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Fright Night is my jam.
― teflon monkey, Thursday, 15 April 2010 04:50 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― Zeno, Thursday, 15 April 2010 05:00 (fourteen years ago) link
oh and Little Wig - very good
― Zeno, Thursday, 15 April 2010 05:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Bass playing on Reminiscences is unreal.
― Trip Maker, Thursday, 15 April 2010 05:27 (fourteen years ago) link
Beverly Kills chorus sounds like the chorus to Ago's "For You."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VV9k--wqeOg
― Brooker T Buckingham, Thursday, 15 April 2010 16:17 (fourteen years ago) link
Bass playing throughout is pretty awesome.
― Adam Bruneau, Thursday, 15 April 2010 17:04 (fourteen years ago) link
no doubt
― Trip Maker, Thursday, 15 April 2010 17:22 (fourteen years ago) link
The sound of the album as a whole is something to cherish - very special,and done to perfection
― Zeno, Thursday, 15 April 2010 17:36 (fourteen years ago) link
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 factDEAL.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
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."
― oscar, Sunday, 18 April 2010 18:26 (fourteen years ago) link
i don't think he actually post here so do you like, want me to give him the message or what?
― dynamicinterface, Sunday, 18 April 2010 19:37 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
this entire album is awesome
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 4 May 2010 18:42 (thirteen 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 (thirteen 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 (thirteen 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 (thirteen years ago) link
Heh! Leoncie!
<3 Leoncie - 'Killer In The Park'
― craigboney (Mister Craig), Tuesday, 4 May 2010 22:43 (thirteen years ago) link