Ariel Pink

I feel similarly. I don't really feeling like revisiting this. I'm over the wacky Ariel stuff for the most part and the "good" songs don't hold a candle to something like "Among Dreams" or "Strange Fires."

It's interesting that Doldrums really isn't that silly at all. I'd like to see it get some recognition so many years on.

It's too lo fi for that to happen

the doldrums is his saddest record, there isn't anything like "hardcore pops are fun" or "jules lost his jewels" or "are you gonna look after my boys?" it's just straight up isolation sickness. the title track is one of my favorites and underrated i feel...

Yeah as I said i miss his more personal sincere stuff
But i got used to Pom Pom and I try not to compare those 2 different periods.
Both are great (though not perfect) imo, for different reasons.

did anyone see him on his first apparently "disastrous" tours in 2004/2005?

Did he play live alone back then?

i think it was a mix, but there's an LA Weekly feature from 2005 that says he played with a band that was under-rehearsed because he couldn't pay them

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/6553-the-doldrums/

Different I said?
Amazing how most things didn't change..
Change the low score and remove some lo fi references and..magic!

his band was really really good when I saw them in 2010

I saw him around 2006 (I think) and it was great! I've still got the super-faded t-shirt from that tour.

I got into him when I saw the video for "Kate I Wait" in 2005. Saw him a year or two later on the tour where he had a different band in every venue. At the show he alternated between having the band back him up and karaoke-ing to his backing tapes, using a Tascam 4-track on stage.

My friends in LA were at a show of his last night and I saw some clips and it was sort of the same. Mix of live band and backing tapes.

I listened back to Mature Themes and think the new one is WAY better. The production is better and the songwriting is too as a result. Songs that maybe started out as tangents are fleshed out with tighter vocal arrangements and stuff. Some songs on his old albums had a few good ideas but they were perhaps front-loaded and once the initial idea is spent sort of seem superfluous. The new record feels like maybe they used that approach for writing the material but the final mixes and arrangements are nailed down.

"Four Shadows" is my favorite song on this. I love that time signature change into the chorus, as well as those "Things that go bump in the night" backing vocals.

Does someone else sing a line on "Negativ Ed"? Sounds like a guest singer for a line or two...

I really wanted to hate the new one, but it really is the best he's done in a long time. Before Today was boring, didn't even bother with Mature Themes.

I mean, holy shit, this shit is awesome.

undiscovered ariel pink track, guess one of the ones he made when he was 8 years old:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmmWYyIlBs0

I'm really happy about Pom Pom. There are at least 6 songs on here that are as good as anything he did in his more lo-fi days. I think A.P. is going to survive the transition to Hi-Fi, unlike other bands who have tried, and promptly fell off (The Clientele, anyone?)

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

Anyone went to see him live?
Should I go?

definitely go. he is one of the worst frontmen i've ever seen, but his band is TOPS and the songs are amazing. and his singing is in tune

Lol now I'm confused..

he doesn't bound around the stage or anything, really it depends on what/if any drugs he scored before the show. i'm so fucking bummed i missed him due to weather last week because judging by the setlist he got some good shit (pom pom in its entirety plus half a dozen oldies & 3 song encore. they even did round & round)

you should go! he might be dead in a year

saw him in 2010 in nyc and lucked out an a great setlist/performance. such a great show when he's on

can everyone stop saying he'll be dead with a year on this thread plz

friends who went to a show of his last month said it was great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8xjeft2ydQ

Feel like "Any Downers" by Zappa has a real strong presence on the new Ariel Pink, particularly the first half of the album.

psyched

http://pitchfork.com/news/62104-ariel-pink-shares-new-track-hall-of-screams-putting-out-collaboration-with-dev-hynes/

http://static1.1.sqspcdn.com/static/f/359954/26691571/1448252947580/IMG_3178a.jpg

Ariel Pink produced an album that came out last Friday:

https://play.spotify.com/album/0o3MmKQ304daCZGvHhLG8a?play=true&utm_source=open.spotify.com&utm_medium=open

It's decent.

More info: http://www.allmusic.com/album/phases-mw0002923916

Ariel sings lead on this new song by the charlatan Michael Collins aka Drug Dealer or whatever. it's good

http://pitchfork.com/news/67374-hear-ariel-pink-on-drugdealers-new-song-easy-to-forget/

miss these days

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8alD4uGj6rQ

youu could play this and ppl would ask "what's that" and you could tell them and they wouldn't be filled with disgust.

i mean, except for the interlude at 1:40

'everytime i die at miyagis' is one of my very favourite songs

haha i had forgotten how stupid the interlude in this one was. immature spoken word Ariel Pink interludes would be a good poll

doubt many ppl irl know that he's verboten now, tbh

he's never said anything particularly bad anyway

I was in the mood for some early Ariel earlier today

once every so often some friends and i will be chilling listening to AP and inevitably one of us will ask 'what your fav AP song?". the interlude in miyagis always forces me to dig deep and pick another song. so for that i appreciate it.

i like how his impulse toward self-sabotage is evident even in his songs

I'll confess, the interlude in black ballerina still cracks me up

my favorite is from "Hang on to Life" but I'm not sure it's not Jorge Elbrecht and not AP:

Hey man, what's the latest?
She did what?
How could she think that's cool?
Can't believe these girls, man

Lettuce, tomatoes only, please

spoken intro to "don't talk to strangers" is the best, it's like his thesis statement

I meant "the best" as in great, not literally

messageboards

my gf recently pointed out that the voice at the end of 'are you gonna look after my boys?' is saying 'exit stage right'

'everytime i die at miyagis' is one of my very favourite songs

― flopson, woensdag 26 oktober 2016 1:19 (eight hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Now that I've heard AP and Maus in a bar I feel like I can retire

Omg, where?

i once heard the crystal castles' song "plague" at the brooks brothers in palmer square in princeton. i mentioned this on ilx before and no one seemed to think it was notable.

it must have been a fluke though because it was followed up by the red hot chili peppers, which was really jarring

A bartender with good taste in music is a rare bird