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REISSUE

― jack cole (jackcole), Thursday, 7 April 2005 09:12 (twenty-one years ago)

"House Arrest" is still by far his catchiest and most consistent album. I can't really get into worn copy much past the point where he declares that "mankind is a nazi"

― Felonious Drunk (Felcher), Thursday, 7 April 2005 17:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Apparently, the person who originally realeased House Arrest is not allowing Paw Tracks to reissue it.

― mitch dub (ano ano), Thursday, 7 April 2005 17:24 (twenty-one years ago)

That blows. Between "Alisa", "West Coast Calamities", "Gettin' High in the Morning", and "Interesting Results" it's probably the best bedroom pop album this decade will see.

― Felonious Drunk (Felcher), Thursday, 7 April 2005 17:50 (twenty-one years ago)

word

― noizem duke (noize duke), Thursday, 7 April 2005 17:59 (twenty-one years ago)

xypost: But that's just after the first few minutes!!!

― The Sensational Sulk (sexyDancer), Thursday, 7 April 2005 18:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I know. hopefully the rest of the album will grow on me at some point, but after listening to worn copy 6 or 7 times, the second half of trepanated earth is the only thing on it that i really like.

― Felonious Drunk (Felcher), Thursday, 7 April 2005 18:27 (twenty-one years ago)

"CREDIT"?

― noizem duke (noize duke), Thursday, 7 April 2005 18:29 (twenty-one years ago)

The free track on the paw tracks website isn't a patch on anything on Doldrums

― Japanese Giraffe (Japanese Giraffe), Thursday, 7 April 2005 20:50 (twenty-one years ago)

down at the creepshow...

― The Sensational Sulk (sexyDancer), Thursday, 7 April 2005 20:54 (twenty-one years ago)

four weeks pass...

This is an incredible bit of music. Absolutely baffling but all the more wonderful.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 5 May 2005 11:58 (twenty-one years ago)

It's like the music you hear in your head just as you're drifting out of consciousness with classic rock radio on.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 5 May 2005 12:14 (twenty-one years ago)

So... classic rock through a drainpipe, then, and then irritation that it's not LETTING you drift out of consciousness, and then silence?

I've still not heard 'Ariel Pink'.

The fact that 'lo-fi' has been used NINE ZILLION TIMES in this thread with barely any answers...

... doesn't appeal.

But perhaps I am KNEE JERKING?!

― Lucretia My Reflection (Lucretia My Reflection), Thursday, 5 May 2005 12:29 (twenty-one years ago)

When I think of low-fi, I always think of stuff done on cheap instruments and played very badly on purpose. This is stuff played on good equipment, written and played beautifully and then recorded on the cheapest equipment possible.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 5 May 2005 12:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes but what are his INFLUENZAS!

― Lucretia My Reflection (Lucretia My Reflection), Thursday, 5 May 2005 12:47 (twenty-one years ago)

70s and 80s rock/pop. Lots of Roxy Music, Lennon, Bowie, Talking Heads, New Wave etc.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 5 May 2005 13:19 (twenty-one years ago)

and R. Stevie Moore

― naturemorte, Thursday, 5 May 2005 14:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Guided by Voices if they grew up listening to '80s pop radio instead of 60s and 70s classic rock. Plus he actually finishes the songs he writes.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 5 May 2005 14:52 (twenty-one years ago)

The Cure are his biggest influence

i like The Doldrums A LOT, Worn Copy though, i don't know. It's not as catchy maybe, except for ' Jules Lost His Jewels'

― rizzx (rizzx), Thursday, 5 May 2005 14:53 (twenty-one years ago)

dude, rizzx, you GOTTA get House Arrest. it's his best work to date.
also, dog latin, about the "played on good equipment" bit, when i saw him saturday night his keyboard player was playing a pretty shitty yamaha.

― Fetchboy (Felcher), Thursday, 5 May 2005 16:02 (twenty-one years ago)

ah i have that on my HD, together with another album, something with Lovers? Don't know, but I'll listen to House Arrest as soon as i get home. Pink's the man. not very listenable on car stereo though

― rizzx (rizzx), Thursday, 5 May 2005 16:32 (twenty-one years ago)

are all his CD-Rs going to be re-released eventually? He's got, like, 50+ or something, yes? Worn Copy is the shit..

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Thursday, 5 May 2005 17:25 (twenty-one years ago)

upthread:
"Apparently, the person who originally realeased House Arrest is not allowing Paw Tracks to reissue it.

-- mitch dub (w!mbis...), April 7th, 2005."
im not aware of the 50+ though.

― Fetchboy (Felcher), Thursday, 5 May 2005 17:27 (twenty-one years ago)

someone was probably exaggerating..

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Thursday, 5 May 2005 17:29 (twenty-one years ago)

It felt like 50+.

― Andre Dawson (deangulberry), Thursday, 5 May 2005 18:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm not sure.

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 5 May 2005 19:32 (twenty-one years ago)

not anymore.

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 5 May 2005 19:32 (twenty-one years ago)

oh yes I am.

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 9 May 2005 20:09 (twenty-one years ago)

eight months pass...

House Arrest!

In LA Weekly article, he says he has "easily 200" cassettes lying around of albums and "masters".

― fizzcaraldo (Justin M), Thursday, 12 January 2006 03:27 (twenty years ago)

I'm sure his parents don't appreciate him leaving all those tapes around the house.

― account settings (account), Thursday, 12 January 2006 03:43 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

So, has anyone seen him live yet?

He's playing Knitting Factory on Friday I think; just wondering what the hell he's gonna do with himself on stage.

― Suzy Creemcheese (SuzyCreemcheese), Thursday, 23 February 2006 01:12 (twenty years ago)

haven't seen him live but "life in l.a." is truly one of my summer 2005 anthems.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 23 February 2006 01:22 (twenty years ago)

Going in a few minutes. Interested to see how he works in his guest backing band.

― Nigel (Nigel), Thursday, 23 February 2006 03:26 (twenty years ago)

Plz report back, soldier.

― Suzy Creemcheese (SuzyCreemcheese), Thursday, 23 February 2006 03:36 (twenty years ago)

im guna go see him at 14 below!

― chaki (chaki), Thursday, 23 February 2006 04:27 (twenty years ago)

In Seattle it was just him and his 8-track, apparently. I really wish he would get a competent live band going.

― fizzcaraldo (Justin M), Thursday, 23 February 2006 07:00 (twenty years ago)

his backing band in ny is excepter. should be a spectactle if nothing else. or you could go for psychic ills.

― earthly kitt (earthly), Thursday, 23 February 2006 07:11 (twenty years ago)

five months pass...

I've read a lot of reviews of Ariel Pink that use the same recurring descriptions: "twisted"; "sounds like (mention music from the 80s) but (then mention armageddon or satan or something that's meant to imply insanity) but his stuff doesn't strike me as crazy or dememnted at all. In fact when I heard that whole "mankind is a nazi" thing on 'Trepanated Earth' I found it more cute and quaint than crazy -- and a little embarrasing. I don't really get a crazy vibe from his stuff -- but it's certainly eccentric, for what that's worth.

― Morgan Patrick (public_radio), Thursday, 10 August 2006 05:54 (nineteen years ago)

Not eccentric, exactly. More like "eccentric."

― Adam Beales (Pye Poudre), Thursday, 10 August 2006 11:28 (nineteen years ago)

"shut up"

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Thursday, 10 August 2006 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

"jk"

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Thursday, 10 August 2006 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

paper or plastic

i would like paper thanks

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Thursday, 10 August 2006 16:51 (nineteen years ago)

"mankind is a nazi" is so obviously a joke (the delivery's pretty funny too)

― Fetchboy (Felcher), Thursday, 10 August 2006 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

"fuck you"

Shit, I guess that works for pretty much everything.

xhowevermanyposts

― Adam Beales (Pye Poudre), Thursday, 10 August 2006 19:24 (nineteen years ago)

ten months pass...

saw him the other night. he's finally got a good band together, a few sloppy parts but they really nailed the vocal harmonies and the weird time signitures. it actually SOUNDED just like his records too, which was weird.

― babedad, Friday, 22 June 2007 05:19 (eighteen years ago)

he was selling these homemade CD-Rs with different artwork for $20, i bought 3 of em and then found out they all had the same songs on them..

― babedad, Friday, 22 June 2007 05:20 (eighteen years ago)

Can't say I'm surprised.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 22 June 2007 05:23 (eighteen years ago)

that sucks.

But cool that he sounded good :D

― Drooone, Friday, 22 June 2007 05:24 (eighteen years ago)

vudi from american music club is in this band now. which is weird. maybe I already said that upthread

― akm, Friday, 22 June 2007 17:21 (eighteen years ago)

there is some staggering kaleidoscopic talent lurking beneath the temporal hipster trappings IMHO

-- duke due, Thursday, September 2, 2004 6:45 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Link

not that i mind the hipster trappings too much per se, but this is entirely OTM

― 69, Friday, 22 June 2007 19:00 (eighteen years ago)

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A video for a new song (I guess that’s what it is, didn’t watch) he posted a week ago

― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 3 May 2021 19:40 (five years ago)

I thought that was what calstars was referencing, went to his twitter to see if he had posted a song and he has but noone cares.

― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 3 May 2021 19:42 (five years ago)

Nah I was just drinking last night and Menopause Man came on the shuffle.

― calstars, Monday, 3 May 2021 19:59 (five years ago)

he has a fucking song called menopause man

― Left, Monday, 3 May 2021 20:00 (five years ago)

one month passes...

Birther Control xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxp

― Noel Emits, Saturday, 12 June 2021 16:52 (four years ago)

five months pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdNeissy3Pc

― Publicradio (3×5), Monday, 22 November 2021 16:00 (four years ago)

one year passes...

“Now the time’s right frontman to write those songs that say ‘I like that’”

― calstars, Saturday, 20 May 2023 00:38 (three years ago)

https://www.instagram.com/p/CogLSt6OEey/

― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Saturday, 20 May 2023 01:07 (three years ago)

one year passes...

https://i.imgur.com/vswzvvp.jpeg

― calstars, Friday, 24 May 2024 03:04 (two years ago)

https://i.imgur.com/tuawqeN.jpeg

― calstars, Friday, 24 May 2024 03:05 (two years ago)

So are you accusing Ariel Pink of ripping off music from the 70s?

― bbq, Friday, 24 May 2024 05:00 (two years ago)

Why don’t you put on Blitzkrieg Bop on right after Round and Round and try tell me he’s not ripping off music from the 70s. Shameless

― H.P, Friday, 24 May 2024 08:16 (two years ago)

there’s a more specific album cover he’s ripping off, the internet did this already in 2012 or whatever

― brimstead, Friday, 24 May 2024 13:54 (two years ago)

“Ever heard about Beverly freaks yeah? / think twice before you meet her”

― calstars, Saturday, 25 May 2024 02:30 (two years ago)

“I don’t just like acting like I am with it, I am with it!”

― calstars, Saturday, 25 May 2024 02:42 (two years ago)

Dud

― A So-Called Pulitzer price winner (President Keyes), Saturday, 25 May 2024 03:07 (two years ago)

“Ow!”

― calstars, Saturday, 25 May 2024 03:09 (two years ago)

four months pass...

“Now the time’s right frontman, to write those songs that say ‘I like that’”

― calstars, Sunday, 29 September 2024 19:08 (one year ago)

four months pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5uzpKedpOY

― calstars, Saturday, 22 February 2025 00:41 (one year ago)

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