Ariel Pink

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.

yeah this album rules

― Andrew Sandwich, Friday, September 14, 2012 7:29 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's kinda bad though

― Andrew Sandwich, Friday, September 14, 2012 7:29 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this about sums up my relationship w/ariel pink

Lol

anyone got a link to a scan of the WIRE interview? Or anyone want to scan it and share it?

omigod some of this shit is a hybrid of Of Montreal and Guided By Voices.

anyone got a link to a scan of the WIRE interview? Or anyone want to scan it and share it?

I found this http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v252/VMKLadyLazarus/Ariel%20Pink%20The%20Wire/

kind of small and the pages are backwards. I thought the interview was terrible and don't blame Pink for trolling this idiot who didn't hear the angst in an album called "The Doldrums" and actually heard it as "sunny." wtf

thank you!

Ok, so being a misogynistic, transphobic and biphobic asshole is just a clever strategy to troll a bad interviewer... I think the interviewer did hear the angst, which is perhaps why he lets him off the hook for all the nonsense he comes out with. The whole Columbine bit is pretty distasteful, but the 'beta male' section is just appalling. If that's Pink's idea of being a hilariously ironic troll then he's no better than morons who write for Vice.

totally some Of Montreal in this

ariel is trolling. who gives a fuck

Trolls are assholes, much like biphobics, dude's always been a primo cunt, regardless of his music.

is the version of Baby on the album slightly different from the one on the 12"? seems like it.

I'm not sure there is a separate version of Baby? At least on the vinyl release, it's not actually on the LP, just a bonus track on the mp3 download.

huh. maybe I'm wrong. I have the Baby 12" and listened to the album on spotify yesterday, Baby is the last track and sounded a little different to me. not that it matters really.

with the last album the version of Can't Hear My Eyes that Mexican Summer put out was different than the one on Before Today (slightly lower-fi, and better imo)

ultimately I guess I like this record ok. some of the weirdo stuff (like Kinski Assassin and Is This The Spot? and Schnitzel Boogie) is getting stuck in my head pretty regularly. Symphony of the Nymph fucking sucks. Baby is good. The rest is kinda boring.

"getting stuck in my head pretty regularly"

is this a good criteria to for a good song?

i used to think so, but now im not sure.
if you listen to crappy music for a long enough time, it will get stuck in your head, too.