Ariel Pink

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

Thought you meant you saw them play together... Am revoking most, but not all, of my initial enthusiastic response.

john maus and ariel pink (and some others) have made it so i can't put my spotify "daily mixes" on in the store where i work anymore. for some unknown reason spotify insists on playing "every night i die at miyagis" and "just wait till next year," the latter of which contains radically misogynistic lyrics

Did you think A and J were slumming it at some local shit hole?

In a perfect world they would be

I did :-S

You can click 'x' and remove songs from those playlists iirc? Your customers deserve to hear Miyagis. Everyone does.

'Every Night at Miyagis' might be Ariel Pink's best song, completely transcendent and believable as a lost AM radio hit, but it has that chop u bloody punani vagina me feast on placenta bit in the bridge. #BeYourself #FollowYourDreams

btw, one of the guys in Animal Collective posted this pic of a window in LA a few months ago with the caption: "Was standing in a LA parking lot with ariel pink last weekend when he pointed at this nearby window and said 'thats the room where i recorded house arrest, loverboy, scared famous, ff, and worn copy.'"

https://www.instagram.com/p/BQqjpXAFStP/?taken-by=anmlcollective&hl=en

'every night i die at miyagis'* xp

Good hashtags Flappy :)

The police's "darkness" sounds like a Before Today b-side

new song "Another Weekend"
https://soundcloud.com/mexicansummer/ariel-pink-another-weekend-1

7" coming out in August with b-side "Ode to the Goat (Thank You)"

yusss

Nice
Also on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/track/48LY9e7CmnQRt1baqNwQYl

Immersive sun-drenched faded 70s polaroid golden am radio Ariel is one of my three fave Ariel's. I dig this.

More than that. This is a fantastic tune.

It spaced me out on first listen and I couldn't even trap it all in my head. That's a good sign

Def. Also a good sign: I can listen to it on repeat for an hour. Classic Ariel, this. Glad he's "back". (I didn't care too much for Pom Pom)

Agreed. PP was a miss

wha???????????????????????

pom pom is his magnum opus... he finally blew his lo-fi sensibility up to widescreen, the first two 4AD records were dry runs... i'm shocked any AP fan wouldn't love pom pom. Before Today and Mature Themes I get.

tbf big sprawling messy double albums that allow artists to stretch out and experiment and explore more of their personality are absolutely my shit. i wouldn't cut a song from The White Album.

Haha, heart you Flappy but we'll have to agree to disagree. Pom Pom is trite, over the top widescreen (yes! and this is a bad thing!) drivel. The Doldrums is his trve magnum opus. But he's been fantastic after that (Can't Hear My Eyes alone, sheesh, sheer magic). Pom Pom burned too many bridges, and didn't come up with a new path to stick to. A 'return' (albeit one from the now, from 2017), to his lo-fi sensibility can only be applauded.

(Lo-fi or hi-fi though, if he gets back to writing tunes as strong as the new one, I couldn't care either way: widescreen or cassette it, it's fantastic)

it's too goofy and clean sounding, it doesn't have the foggy texture of the earlier stuff, the songs aren't a patch on his earlier ones, (i really like dayzed in daydreams, though), just not as enjoyable for me. it's like someone turned the lights on and the buzz has worn off.

(pom pom, i mean)

need more foggy texture

i liked pom pom when it came out but now quite a bit of it is completely unlistenable, it's too long and pushes his most irritating goofy tendencies to the forefront

it was better than mature themes & i don't have a problem with the cleaner production at all, the good stuff on it is really good

new song is nice

need more foggy texture

― calstars, Thursday, June 8, 2017 12:49 AM (thirty-five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

My feeling about Pom Pom is that it would've worked better as a series of singles and EPs

not sure Pom Pom is that clear sounding as it sounds like it was mastered to TDK D120

he only ever has a few good songs per album imo

not sure Pom Pom is that clear sounding as it sounds like it was mastered to TDK D120

― PaulTMA, Thursday, June 8, 2017 11:56 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah this is otm, it's very saturated and claustrophobic. 'Put Your Number in My Phone' is wide-screen, re-listening last night I realized my opinion of the record was shaded by hearing that single on its own for a few months before the record. I love the way pom pom sounds but this new song is properly wide-screen, it has so much more space. feel like this is going to be a reflective, plain-spoken period for AP, the kind of record that would be self-titled with a weary portrait on the cover.

black ballerina ruins that whole album

that song bangs, career highlight