Ariel Pink

People were leaving in droves tonight.

^yeah WEIRD crowd vibe. loved "hardcore pops are fun". show was way unhinged. he was acting so fucked before/during the first song, i was half predicting a meltdown of some kind.

unhinged comparably to other ariel pink shows? or unhinged comparably to, say, a national show. because honestly, it's wayyyyyyy less unhinged now. i'd say it's downright hinged.

enjoyed him at atp last year - i think this was in the first wave of playing tightened up with a band and so on - kind of wish i'd had some idea what he was like before that, for comparison

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

for instance

yeah i mean unhinged compared to 2 years ago when he had a slightly different lineup. certainly less so than his one man shows, of course!

by "unhinged" i guess i just mean more aggressive/dangerous sounding.

This was my first time seeing him so I have nothing to compare it with, but everyone I was with thought it was a fiasco, and they'll all fans.

they're, rather

http://www.lifelounge.com/music/video/ariel-pink%27s-haunted-graffiti-%27bright-lit-blue-skies%27.aspx

This was linked to on my Twitter feed. You have to love these "scene" writers that automatically assume an album by someone they've never heard before must be the debut.

i thought the band was good but was not into ariel's theatrics at all. his vocals frankly sucked. i would never see him again.

yeah me neither. love the albums but as a performer, hes a bit frustrating. even with a good band, i dont think he really puts them to great use cos hes the one leading them, and he just likes to fuck around!

Some would considering this latest album his 'debut' because it is pretty much his first official proper studio album on a big label.

Some would considering you should be set on fire

he said in an interview that people wants him to perform and thats why he does it, and he likes recording much better.
wasnt the exact words but that was the main idea.

My buddy plays in his band.

My buddy once touched Neve Campbell.

saw 'em last night, good show

one of the openers, puro instinct, was pretty great: http://vimeo.com/12987214 the recorded stuff doesn't do justice to their live sound

Yeah I was there last night too. Pretty entertaining. He knew to save the best for last with "For Kate I Wait."

I thought his live show this tour was great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DolFdXt2_z4

I'm stoked that Haunted Graffiti will be in my town this fall, chagrined I'll have to buy a ticket for the Flaming Lips to see them, though.

Why aren't there more videos like "Mistaken Wedding?"

From the "FF" album there's a song called "One More Time" sung by what sounds like 12-year-old Ariel Pink.. This is def my new favorite of his.

totally i love that song! is that some random 12 year old singing or is it him or what? in either case it sure sounds like it was written by a 12 year old. if it's really something he made when he was a kid, it's funny to think how his recording techniques basically haven't changed at all (up til the new one at least).

that is one of his most perfect compositions, maybe even my favorite. it also sounds like a duet...I hear two voices.

http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/600/73.jpg

holy shit

he looks like ben foster

wait, why are you posting him on the ariel pink thread?

sooo is the live show good? thinking about seeing him when he plays with os mutantes next month.

live show is hit or miss due to tantrums but he was great when I saw him this time around

cool -- reunited os mutantes are supposed to be pretty solid live too, right?

lol. ha. http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/altreport/2010/10/ariel-pink-crushes-it-acl.html

it's the guy from Girls.

all white people look alike to me

Ariel Pink killed it tonight in NYC; he smartly stuck with songs that translated well live (no Grey Sunset or uber snythy stuff). Os Mutantes were amazing.

both bands were great in Atlanta on Tuesday (Os Mutantes played a dope version of "Georgia On My Mind")

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeGLqYIrvVQ&feature=player_embedded

That is my favorite one! I have tears! He's absolutely right, that IS a hard song to pull off and they did it flawlessly. I kept waiting for a mistake or something awkward, but no.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-lOm3iLLkU

the boy Pink's done it again. wonderfully bonkers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59ZdLTVT12k

i'm not sure about it tbh, listening to imitations of proggish wank isn't my idea of fun.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JS7eIs-J3tY
i saved 2 disk and must have watched that vdo a dozen times.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WpnMVwng0g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cdt3taIaZE&feature=related

Syd Barrett?

lol doesn't he melt down at like every show whatev

The "Round and Round" video I made and posted in this thread has 135k views now, jeez.

i think blue oyster cult invented ariel pink with this song, particularly the chorus

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

lovely tune

So I saw him for the first time last night opening for Pulp and that was...bemusing. I mean, I totally get what he's doing but that was definitely not his crowd (and he knew it, which is what made the canned applause that they played after every song more hilarious, especially when they started fucking around with reverb).

Friends at the SF Pulp show really loathed Ariel.
He was a hit with the Flaming Lips crowd.

what about a new album?
(i mean a proper album, not the esoteric shit he made with Stevie Moore)

Listening to it now. It's not bad, but it's too hi-fi so he neems too naked on the record. Maybe we could get our hands on some demo versions of these new albums.