both bands were great in Atlanta on Tuesday (Os Mutantes played a dope version of "Georgia On My Mind")
― (ಠ▃ಠ)o ((cloud)) (crüt), Sunday, 14 November 2010 05:42 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeGLqYIrvVQ&feature=player_embedded
― prior, Saturday, 29 January 2011 02:19 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Call on me (Spinspin Sugah), Saturday, 19 March 2011 21:03 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-lOm3iLLkU
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 20 July 2011 06:00 (twelve years ago) link
the boy Pink's done it again. wonderfully bonkers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59ZdLTVT12k
― Michael B, Friday, 30 September 2011 09:56 (twelve years ago) link
i'm not sure about it tbh, listening to imitations of proggish wank isn't my idea of fun.
― historyyy (prettylikealaindelon), Friday, 30 September 2011 13:09 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JS7eIs-J3tYi saved 2 disk and must have watched that vdo a dozen times.
― Sébastien, Monday, 10 October 2011 01:28 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WpnMVwng0ghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cdt3taIaZE&feature=related
Syd Barrett?
― nostormo, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 23:39 (twelve years ago) link
lol doesn't he melt down at like every show whatev
― river, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 23:45 (twelve years ago) link
The "Round and Round" video I made and posted in this thread has 135k views now, jeez.
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 23:51 (twelve years ago) link
i think blue oyster cult invented ariel pink with this song, particularly the chorus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTNqyJXTako
― Mississippi Butt Hurt (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 20 April 2012 01:48 (twelve years ago) link
lovely tune
― Michael B Higgins (Michael B), Friday, 20 April 2012 16:13 (twelve years ago) link
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).
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 20 April 2012 18:20 (twelve years ago) link
Friends at the SF Pulp show really loathed Ariel. He was a hit with the Flaming Lips crowd.
― Trip Maker, Friday, 20 April 2012 18:42 (twelve years ago) link
what about a new album?(i mean a proper album, not the esoteric shit he made with Stevie Moore)
― nostormo, Friday, 20 April 2012 19:20 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― 3×5, Wednesday, 8 August 2012 17:36 (eleven years ago) link
The last two comments back-to-back are pretty funny.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 8 August 2012 19:11 (eleven years ago) link
This new stuff is great. I love his backup band on these studio records!
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 10 August 2012 01:19 (eleven years ago) link
It's very stripped down arrangements and effects. It's alot more subtle than the older ones. It's not really as fun as the old ones, but they are cool songs.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 10 August 2012 01:31 (eleven years ago) link
I think the new album is musically pretty weak. With the last album, he compensated for the lack of lo-fi gauziness by writing good songs and having a punchy band, but this is a slick and lifeless studio record with half-arsed songs.The main problem though is the awful lyrics. All that moronic creepy bullshit he came out with in the Wire interview about beta male revenge runs through the album and the results are not pleasant. He seems to think he's being transgressive, engaging in acts of genderfucking, but he's just sleazy and wrongheaded. Transphobic lines about 'shemales' hardly help either.
― Poor.Old.Tired.Horse. (Stew), Friday, 10 August 2012 13:37 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah....i may have to listen to it again later. I kind of phased out after song 3 or 4 and got distracted w something else. On first listen definitely not as cool as "Before Today".
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 10 August 2012 15:27 (eleven years ago) link
The main problem though is the awful lyrics. All that moronic creepy bullshit he came out with in the Wire interview about beta male revenge runs through the album and the results are not pleasant. He seems to think he's being transgressive, engaging in acts of genderfucking, but he's just sleazy and wrongheaded. Transphobic lines about 'shemales' hardly help either.
Weird. Kind of a further extension of "Menopause Man" then? That "castrate me, make me gay" lyric always bothered me.
― dmr, Friday, 10 August 2012 15:54 (eleven years ago) link
That line in Menopause Man made me lol when I first heard it.
I think the songs are tight on this release. I think it's poorly produced, though, and not in like before where it was intentional and for artistic effect.
I can really hear R. Stevie all over this release. I don't know if he had a hand in this record, but the songs sound like RSM songs -- so much so that I wonder if he wrote a handful of these. The lyrics sound just like RSM lyrics, too.
― 3×5, Friday, 10 August 2012 19:07 (eleven years ago) link
I like this dudes music. not all of it, but about 30%.
fame will destroy him though!
― Sweet Yin Yang ☯ (Latham Green), Friday, 10 August 2012 19:18 (eleven years ago) link
fame already destroyed him
― nostormo, Friday, 10 August 2012 19:26 (eleven years ago) link
I'm listening to Schnitzel Boogie now. There's a little sketch about a minute into the song, and even his spoken delivery is in an R. Stevie style.
― 3×5, Friday, 10 August 2012 19:42 (eleven years ago) link
In case anyone missed the Wire interview, I quote: 'Beta males have got it figured out so that they don't even have to chase or rape their prey, so to speak'. Urgh, what a creep.
― Poor.Old.Tired.Horse. (Stew), Saturday, 11 August 2012 11:32 (eleven years ago) link
dig the production on mature themes, and i like that a few of the songs recall 'menopause' man, mix and tone-wise. the "tried to be good, to be good, etc." song sticks in the head. ultra-blissed, even SAW II-like track 12 (nostradamus), and 13 is a summer-time-y treat
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Monday, 13 August 2012 01:07 (eleven years ago) link
if the songwriting is not good, nothing can save the record
― nostormo, Monday, 13 August 2012 13:12 (eleven years ago) link
I have no idea what I'm supposed to take away from this snippet. I guess I should read the entire interview.
― MikoMcha, Monday, 13 August 2012 13:20 (eleven years ago) link
He expounds this completely idiotic thesis about the ascent of the beta male. Now that the nerds have won, Ariel can get his revenge over alpha males and the women who wouldn't sleep with him. Revenge of the nerd stuff at its most vindictive, misanthropic and misogynistic. As a friend put it, 'Turns out, according to Ariel, you don't have to be a musclebound jock to be an asshole to women any more. It's a great time to be an asshole!' There are few ok songs on here, but nothing he hasn't done better in the past. And the R Stevie Moore homages are utterly charmless. His whole deliberately bored delivery is a real drag too.
― Poor.Old.Tired.Horse. (Stew), Monday, 13 August 2012 17:39 (eleven years ago) link
cripes, that's a bummer, but not a shock ... ariel seems like an oddball, though was hoping for something less vicious. why not just think everyone's got there place in society and move on. ::[]
― Spectrum, Monday, 13 August 2012 17:55 (eleven years ago) link
whole thing is on NPR nowhttp://www.npr.org/2012/08/12/158442302/first-listen-ariel-pinks-haunted-graffiti-mature-themes
― dmr, Monday, 13 August 2012 20:09 (eleven years ago) link
Eight tracks into this and the single's been the only really good song.
― Gavin, Leeds, Monday, 13 August 2012 20:47 (eleven years ago) link
I like it, but I feel like he should be putting these kinds of records out once or twice a year on Paw Tracks. It doesn't feel like two years worth of work.
― wk, Monday, 13 August 2012 21:21 (eleven years ago) link
tbf, he spent a lot of that time figuring out how not to rape his prey
― contenderizer, Monday, 13 August 2012 21:25 (eleven years ago) link
he's still probably looking for a girl who puts up with his shit and puts out just like a little girl scout.
― wk, Monday, 13 August 2012 21:30 (eleven years ago) link
I mean chick
― wk, Monday, 13 August 2012 21:32 (eleven years ago) link
I feel like he should be putting these kinds of records out once or twice a year on Paw Tracks. It doesn't feel like two years worth of work.
kind of agree with this. it's not awful but ... not very good either. I doubt I'll buy it. I went ahead and just got the "Baby" single (which is great).
― dmr, Monday, 13 August 2012 22:09 (eleven years ago) link
I'd rather listen to the original tbh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONIJXHvoynw
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Monday, 13 August 2012 22:13 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, i don't see the point of the cover. the orignal is awesome, as is the rest of the album it came from.
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Monday, 13 August 2012 22:21 (eleven years ago) link
I wonder how much time he actually spent on this. Pink Slime must have been written fairly recently right?
― wk, Monday, 13 August 2012 22:22 (eleven years ago) link
You all realize musicians often have mood swings and may be under the influence of drugs or attention when taking an interview.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 14 August 2012 02:53 (eleven years ago) link
Once you are popular and fashionable you are not a nerd.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 14 August 2012 02:59 (eleven years ago) link
That's my point - he's the nerd who's become popular and with his new found sense of power all his seething resentment floods out. I'm sure Mr Pink is no stranger to the devil's dandruff, but the pish he comes out with the interview is backed up by lyrics on the album. Plus it's in the Wire, hardly known for its sensationalist approach.
― Poor.Old.Tired.Horse. (Stew), Tuesday, 14 August 2012 10:23 (eleven years ago) link
The album definitely picks up a bit towards the end but, no, I doubt I'll buy this. 'Schnitzel Boogie' followed by 'Symphony of the Nymph' is the low point.
― Gavin, Leeds, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 11:39 (eleven years ago) link
Symphony of the Nymph is the creepy nadir, plus it manages to rip off Kraftwerk and Telstar and still be shit.
― Poor.Old.Tired.Horse. (Stew), Tuesday, 14 August 2012 11:51 (eleven years ago) link
― Poor.Old.Tired.Horse. (Stew), Saturday, August 11, 2012 7:32 AM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
URGH. Total creep. I haven't read the interview in The Wire, but I did read a really dopey interview in Bomb and I was trying my best not to let affect my opinion of the music.
― America's Mobile, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 15:01 (eleven years ago) link
I'm really enjoying the record in spite of myself.
― America's Mobile, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 15:06 (eleven years ago) link
The one with Cass McCombs? Just looked this up. Good lord, bisexuals are castrated? Young people defining themselves as bi is 'a mutation'? This guy is a fucking moron.
AP It’s a good point, so the people that go to action are the kids. Therefore music is targeted to a youth audience. The youth are castrating themselves. Willingly. That political correctness thing. Everybody’s bi now. Have you noticed that?
CM Outside of San Francisco?
AP Everybody under 27 years old. Every girl I’ve ever met who’s under 27: bi. Call me old-fashioned. That did not happen in my generation. I find it very disturbing, frankly. The Millennials are what I’m talking about—they have no gender. Their gender is a biological imperative. It can’t be a choice, of course. They’re just born bi. Maybe it’s a mutation or something like that.
― Poor.Old.Tired.Horse. (Stew), Tuesday, 14 August 2012 15:09 (eleven years ago) link