Ariel Pink

not his best work imo

high brow?

I doubt Ariel Pink was ever a nerd. I remember the real nerds in high school. They had visible plaque in their teeth and sat by themselves at lunch, and were genuinely ostracized. There's a difference between feeling like a nerd in high school and actually being one, and adults should be able to look back and recognize the difference.

― 3×5, Saturday, August 18, 2012 12:32 PM (Yesterday)

i don't know whether ariel is real or faux nerd. either way, it does seem like he's competing with maus and adam from girls to be some new kind of "real (gross) nerd" icon.

Grampsy on chillwave thread = Lampsy

Um. I'm pretty sure John Maus has never been horrendously bi- and trans-phobic, and if you guys are comparing his comments on record shops to this shit, then you are fucking awful people.

"high brow"

http://michaeljswart.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Using-That-Word.png

tbf this is what grampsy's eyebrows look like

http://m.popstar.com/Gallery/Celebrity/D/David+Hemmings/Photos/00000004-6004.jpg

my favorite part of the wire interview is when AP suggests that maybe 6-7% of ppl in the world have heard of him.

Um. I'm pretty sure John Maus has never been horrendously bi- and trans-phobic, and if you guys are comparing his comments on record shops to this shit, then you are fucking awful people.

― emil.y, Sunday, August 19, 2012 12:12 PM (33 minutes ago)

well, as a happily self-confessed awful person, i'm comparing only the oddball affectations, not degree of evil or anything

lol i wonder if Metallica has even reached that many people (xpost)

...but yeah, maus hasn't said anything anywhere near as repellent, afaik

420 Million Ariel Pink Fans Can't Be Wrong

Maus seems really tedious but I'm pretty sure Pink is just doing a Lou Reed / Bowie kind of schtick.

It's a shame because when I first got into Ariel, I listened to an interview with him and I was impressed that he wasn't trying to be weird, and could speak eloquently about his music and what he was trying to do. It's a shame that he's turned into this. In this post reality show world where everyone's publicist coaches them to act outrageous, there's nothing offbeat about the way he behaves now.

in recent interviews he's like "tee hee i'm single and ready to mingle" . couple of sentences later "shit, i was ready to have kids" aww

Where is this devastating interview everyone keeps talking about? Link please?

it's in this issue of the Wire but I don't think they put this stuff up for free, you have to subscribe to access

http://www.thewire.co.uk/issues/342/

How can anyone familiar with his catalogue take any opinions he voices in an interview seriously? That's like expecting coherence from an interview with Animal from the muppets.

no kidding. The album was surprisingly good given the negative comments here. some off tracks but all of his albums have off tracks.

I don't care if he personally means the awful things that he says, he is perpetuating a harmful discourse and for that he deserves to be held accountable.

Oh.

At one point he sang "The human race is a nazi" you know

he also feasts on placentas iirc

i hear the percussion on the new album is made up of the sounds of him shitting on kittens

Still trying to sort out my feelings about the new one. I dunno whether my attention is too split or what or if the sonics are too flattened or whatever, but it barely registers to me when I play it beyond. Maybe I need to sequester myself in a dark room with this thing, with no distractions. Adult life is some bullshit.

wait, this record rules

I just realized

yeah it does

Yeah, I'm liking it. Don't know what everyone's complaining about.

This is good stuff, I like it way better than his last album... the single posted earlier in the thread almost put me off, but I'm glad I checked it out.

'Kinski Assassin' sounds like he's ripping the piss out of John Maus

had a bit of a magnetic fields sound to me

so is that dam funk singing the opening verse to "baby" ? if so, he's got a great voice. Or is it sampled from the original song? what the hell.

album is great.. lots of variety. i find a lot of it stuck in my head

it's Dam-Funk singing

some of Mature Themes is growing on me, I have gone back to it a couple times

MATURE THEMES is his most consistent record so far imo. all the others, even before today, have been real hit or miss for me. ariel's arrested development is making him all achey and sadd

i wish he would get confronted on his bs tho, but effectively. someone should FAX him a concise and better informed summary of the good points in this thread. at best, what, he would change some lyrics live and 1 year and a half from now he would release a live album on an indie label that would actually be better than the official one in even more ways than it would have been: the band will know their songs better, will make them better than when they have recorded it and the lyrics could be.. he is not a poet, he is a shitrocker... so i do not have an idea for ideal replacement lyrics but not reactionary would be default better. peace , ariel. ps the internet is full of rumors about you! every self respecting fans that have seen you live 2 or 3 times have seen you running away from the stage screaming like a madman disappearing into the night! you will have to address that in the future at one point!

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doldums still best, most consistent. ariel, don't change any lyrics.

wk: what, no good points were made in this thread about ... schizotypal personality shitrocker saying offending things in that one wired interview that i have not been able to pirate yet?

edit: i can hardly "get" any of those lyrics anyway. but i am still all right with being an unfaithful listener of music, it works for me.

no

tsss

tttch'k poooo'

p''tttsssshhhiewwwwwh

xpost i meant " tch'k po'k"

yeah that is more like it.

kinski assassin double agents in athens....this song really reminds me of the strawberry alarm clock w/o being an overt ripoff. at least ariel isn't generic

can't stop listening to this record

fiiine, i'll check it out. liked the last one, but the lukewarm reaction to this one put me off.

yeah this album rules

it's kinda bad though

a lot of redeeming moments. par for the course.