Ariel Pink

Hey, does anyone know who did this song originally?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9k2D18nHlKY

is it a rick springfield cover?

the best track yet for me is not enough violence

Pig Parade rules

not a rick springfield cover sadly

Well, this certainly veers from great to awful and back a whole lot

crazy album, totally overwhelming, reminds me of Mellon Collie

there's one bad song on this whole thing

ONE BAD SONG

"Exile On Frog Street"

the rest is a very high piece of art

I kept being reminded of Ween.

come on don the doggy collar bet your bottom dollar come on take your rotten panties off you juicy belladonna pardon misses dolly parton condeleeza turn me on bet your bottom dolly rotten dollars all i got to spend

eleVAtors

manuFACturers

Guys-

Ariel Pink Announces Solo Double Album pom pom !

Yeah. This thread is for discussing Grimes.

new panda bear ep!

ok ok ok ok ok (this album)..wow.

I would like to say that I have no interest in working with mermaids /[fakereceivedpronunciationenglishaccent]

This sounds like Mr Bungle

elo vs. tubeway army

Sounds more like Zappa than ever. They weren't lying about this being his magnum opus though. Pretty much untouchable record.

Half good half shit.

Where's the shit?

curious to hear it. enjoyed "before today" and "mature themes" is okay but i really do feel like a substantial part of the AP appeal for me was having these weird pop tunes submerged in hazy lo-fi crud, i actually did feel like the production served his tunes really well, that whole aesthetic can suck for a lot of other bands but for his shtick i think it really worked.

I want to know what filters Pink uses on his voice, or microphones. The delivery on "Cocaine man has got a Portabello world" for example.

Haha holy shit this record! Ariel really Zappa-ing out the very best of his tune-smithery and shenanigans. This beats BT and MT by miles and miles. And yet it's not a return to Doldrums either. I can see why he left off the Haunted Gaffitii part of the name for this. As it is truly something else, even for him and his extensive back catalogue. Continues to amaze, this guy.

So many songs on this that are instant classics. 'Picture me gone' for one. Amazing.

"Plastic Raincoats in the Pig Parade" is so so incredibly sad for such an upbeat song.

Jell-O is the best song in the history of the universe right now. Whatever universe. The sound of the band Yellow combined with maximum riffage combined with teenage Cobain like lyrics ("mom and dad are normal, everyone eats white bread, that's why they're all dead"), combined with stadium rock, combined with Beefheartian style switches... I am perplexed: as a long time follower, Ariel Pink gone done it again.

curious to hear it. enjoyed "before today" and "mature themes" is okay but i really do feel like a substantial part of the AP appeal for me was having these weird pop tunes submerged in hazy lo-fi crud, i actually did feel like the production served his tunes really well, that whole aesthetic can suck for a lot of other bands but for his shtick i think it really worked.

This kind of sounds like the old ones, but doesn't. It's the best of his "new style." I've been wanting the same thing.

who wants to go to the emotional olympics!!?!
boooo

All these descriptions are really making me want to hear this. I think he's always had a latent Zappa sensibility, so it's cool that it's coming to the fore now

Each song is a mini-masterpiece that blossoms with each listen. Magnum opus indeed!

pom pom is also noticeably LOUDER than most everything in my iTunes... a/b-ing with Mature Themes is crazy

Jell-O is the best song in the history of the universe right now

That whole side (side 3 on the vinyl?) is my favorite. "Sticky cubes of Kool-Aid action"

I miss the more personal,intimate Ariel Pink songs, like Gray Sunset, The People I'm Not etc...
It seems he somewhat lost it in a Todd Rundgren's Wizard True Star kinda way.

but thats todd's masterpiece

Ariel Pink Performs "Jell-o" and "Picture Me Gone" with P.S. 22 Chorus of Fifth Graders

Looking like a Cool Dad right there

" Like, you guys can burn me on the stake for being an asshole. I'll be the biggest asshole, the biggest troll. I love the [infamously homophobic] Westboro Baptist Church, because I love being able to remind people that this a country where you can say, "You're going to go to hell," and you won't go to jail. People hate that. They hate that these people are allowed to do what they're doing, but they're just exercising their free speech, and it doesn't hurt you. They're just inciting. They're trying to play into your weaknesses, and they're doing it very well, because they're going to get your revenge fantasy on them. And you'll do it carelessly without any remorse, because you didn't get the right message from the lesson, and because everybody's just getting lost in the fucking giant miasma of opinions, and there's no sense to be made out of them."

update interview: http://pitchfork.com/features/update/9498-ariel-pink/

haven't heard the new album yet but if ilx is touting it despite pink's odious personality it must be something special

xpost why does every dipshit that holds that opinion act like he's the first to have it

has ariel found out about 4chan yet?

someone made dizzy by the contours of a pretzel might be impressed by that opinion

dude has eaten some cosmic shape-shifter pretzels

this formula 1 track is complicated, but imagine if it were as complicated as a pretzel!!!
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it's amazing how much of an asshole this talented man is

surely assholeness in humans is far more common than talent?

he has both in concentrated doses

and they react to produce yawns

"pom pom" is the first album where he sounds 100 percent sure of himself. almost like he turned into the fake rock star he imagined in his head decades ago.

the asshole/troll stance goes right along with it too

surely assholeness in humans is far more common than talent?

― Mordy, Monday, October 27, 2014 10:24 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

there is so much sadness in this album. it's haunting... the mood swings just within "Sexual Athletics," the 'sex king' rock strut pose, the delusions, then the xylophone section... "all i wanted was a girlfriend all of my life" ...

AP is playing the heel to promote this album, he's doing Ann Coulter and it's working.

My good friend knows AP very well. I told him to tell him to take it easy with these wacky interviews, he's getting people angry and my friend laughed and said "he doesn't give a fuck."