yeah i think he even sings up up up and down at one point
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 26 July 2017 01:39 (six years ago) link
Long interview on stereogum today
― calstars, dinsdag 25 juli 2017 17:44 (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Yeah. If you want to hear AP explain why Trump is a "success" and how unfair the president's being treated - as he is himself (his words) - do check it out. I sure wish I hadn't.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 08:27 (six years ago) link
its interesting that he went back to home recording for this one. but it sounds like his last couple of studio records just w worse sonics. its not like the tape wobble and noise and saturation of his old stuff, they probably bought a bunch of nice microphones and a good multitrack machine. so its sort-of lofi but not really. why not do it on a crappy tape machine like the old days?
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 26 July 2017 13:02 (six years ago) link
Long interview on stereogum today― calstars, dinsdag 25 juli 2017 17:44 (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post PermalinkYeah. If you want to hear AP explain why Trump is a "success" and how unfair the president's being treated - as he is himself (his words) - do check it out. I sure wish I hadn't.
It was so long I had to take a break last night... certainly a throwback to the pom pom interviews...
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 15:28 (six years ago) link
eh his defense of Trump is pretty tepid. AP seems like either not a very bright guy or a garden-variety troll who just seeks out "difficult" opinions but he makes cool music so
― frogbs, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 15:30 (six years ago) link
After years and years of following him I think the answer def is 'not very bright'. But he indeed makes very cool music.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 15:36 (six years ago) link
he's a contrarian & a troll, i mean in 2015 he went on stage and compared himself to Sandusky and Jimmy Savile. he's very good at what he does - making music - & i don't mind him mouthing off... although i was hoping this album cycle would be a bit more mellow and earnest, and it has been so far. i feel like the press tour is getting to him. he admitted as much in the Greg Gutfeld interview and this new one that he called the record Dedicated to Bobby Jameson so that he wouldn't have to talk about himself.
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 17:09 (six years ago) link
ok done with this fuckface.
― kurt schwitterz, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 17:15 (six years ago) link
itt: ilx's own little slice of reddit
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 26 July 2017 17:16 (six years ago) link
lol what
― brimstead, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 20:06 (six years ago) link
This guy is nuts btw
he's not that nuts. he's pretty boring and sane irl. he's a rich jew from beverly hills. he's never worked in his life. and now he's spouting pro trump mra bullshit. fuckkkkkk him.
― kurt schwitterz, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 20:19 (six years ago) link
That's why interviews like this don't seem like a big deal to me - I don't need Ariel Pink's political beliefs to align with mine, because he is a crazy person.
― bunny slopes, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 20:19 (six years ago) link
responding to brimstead there
― bunny slopes, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 20:20 (six years ago) link
i mean he's drug damaged but a lot of it is for show.
― kurt schwitterz, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 20:20 (six years ago) link
he's crazy like the way beck was during mellow gold except he never grew out of it.
― kurt schwitterz, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 20:21 (six years ago) link
like you think a dude would make it 4 years through cal arts if he was legit "insane" he is "quirky" at best.
― kurt schwitterz, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 20:24 (six years ago) link
― kurt schwitterz, Wednesday, July 26, 2017 4:20 PM (ten minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
otm the dude still does speed, i'm surprised he isn't more burnt out
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 20:32 (six years ago) link
Listened to 'A Heap Of Rotting Cassettes' radio show bootleg for the first time and realised that the title track is a reworking of what is known there as 'Time Dandelion'.
― PaulTMA, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 20:50 (six years ago) link
who would've thought the guy who opened a 2003 album by yelling "The human race is a pile of dogshit!" quickly followed by "Mankind is a nazi" would say something stupid
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 26 July 2017 20:59 (six years ago) link
me feast on placenta placenta
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 21:06 (six years ago) link
xxpost yeah my friend told me that the chorus lyric for the title track is another old song title, in addition to the music being a reworking of Time Dandelion.
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 21:07 (six years ago) link
"The human race is a pile of dogshit!" quickly followed by "Mankind is a nazi"
misanthropic declarations in rock music does not equal right wing mra rhetoric
― kurt schwitterz, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 21:10 (six years ago) link
did you read any of the pom pom press? he was completely off his rocker a few years ago... i'll never forget this, easily the most mind-boggling quote from that era:
"I could be an asshole, and that’s my right. People need to get over that. It’s not illegal to be an asshole. It’s not illegal to be racist, even. It’s not illegal to do anything."
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 21:18 (six years ago) link
why is that a "crazy" thing to say and not just a dickhead thing? no one is calling tj miller "crazy." you guys are giving this dude way too much of a pass, this is saying that as (former) fan.
― kurt schwitterz, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 21:26 (six years ago) link
like there's absolutely nothing in that quote that would indicate the man is mentally unstable or "off his rocker."
― kurt schwitterz, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 21:30 (six years ago) link
otm
― flopson, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 21:31 (six years ago) link
i'm not "giving him a pass," i just don't give a shit. he's been a contrarian troll his entire career. he's not rallying the pepes like ann coulter or milo. he's an asshole in interviews. i don't care. i love his music.
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 21:35 (six years ago) link
cool
― kurt schwitterz, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 21:43 (six years ago) link
but yeah you are like "LOOK HOW OFF HIS ROCKER HE IS" and then posted a totally milquetoast quote just sayin
that quote is one of a dozen i could cite, whether you want to call a habitual meth smoker "off his rocker" is up to you, but whatever:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1t6cQO3RXo
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 21:45 (six years ago) link
compared to 2014/15, he was more off than on his rocker than he is now, barring that Stereogum interview, which is so much more mild than the shit he said during the pom pom press cycle.
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 21:47 (six years ago) link
and btw... I don't think any of this shit is cool, it's just not going to stop me from listening to his records.
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 21:49 (six years ago) link
lots of people use, it doesn't equate to craziness.
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 26 July 2017 21:54 (six years ago) link
― kurt schwitterz, Wednesday, July 26, 2017 1:20 PM (one hour ago)
what about geneva jacuzzi? are they cut from the same cloth?
― sarahell, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 21:55 (six years ago) link
nah she's norm.
― kurt schwitterz, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 21:56 (six years ago) link
I've set fire to all my AP mp3s since reading that interview ffs
― PaulTMA, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 21:59 (six years ago) link
based on stories, i don't think either of them are mentally ill, just normies that aren't very intelligent that do drugs and want to "act crazy" because it's cool or something ..
― sarahell, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 21:59 (six years ago) link
These days I tend to think of Ariel Pink as the harbinger of Burger Records culture.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 22:00 (six years ago) link
I think of him as the logical conclusion to American Apparel culture
― sarahell, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 22:02 (six years ago) link
Sounds like the perfect crossover point either way!
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 22:06 (six years ago) link
Geneva Jacuzzi should have kept the name Bubonic Plague imo
― tong poo (da ba dee) (crüt), Wednesday, 26 July 2017 22:13 (six years ago) link
Geneva Jacuzzi ruleZ
― brimstead, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 23:21 (six years ago) link
Isn't burger records just like garage rock, do they put out lofi soft rock?
― brimstead, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 23:22 (six years ago) link
Why does this idiot make ppl so mad, my word
Still love his old records, more anecdotes from the posters in the scene though and I may stop loving then
― brimstead, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 23:27 (six years ago) link
https://www.google.com/amp/pitchfork.com/news/56089-ariel-pink-i-got-maced-by-a-feminist/amp/#ampshare=http://pitchfork.com/news/56089-ariel-pink-i-got-maced-by-a-feminist/
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 27 July 2017 00:31 (six years ago) link
the production/mix of the busier, more dense tracks on pom pom and the new one is kind of hard to listen to.. dunno how to describe it - it's very claustrophobic, the sounds don't really breathe? or they're very compressed-sounding. "another weekend" sounds great, though
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Thursday, 27 July 2017 23:20 (six years ago) link
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, July 26, 2017 4:59 PM (yesterday) Bookmark
love this moment
― calstars, Friday, 28 July 2017 01:25 (six years ago) link
humanity's the devil
― calstars, Friday, 28 July 2017 01:29 (six years ago) link
One part of the interview I thought was interesting was when he mentioned that the music gets done first and the lyrics last.
― calstars, Friday, 28 July 2017 01:48 (six years ago) link