Ariel Pink

Also, I'm surprised AP's band are serious heroin users, they seem like the classic hapless backing band that has to put up with an insane and irresponsible bandleader, and all the while remain totally professional and poker-faced.

Do you hang out with Kurt Heasley often?

no surprise about the heroin and other drug use, i thought this was already well-documented

feel like heard something about giant ziplock bags full of weed or something too, i could be wrong.

tbf though i kind of assume most musicians smoke a lot of weed

Friend of a friend helped organize a show with AP in Brooklyn three or four years ago. He demanded the guarantee up front or something, in cash. It was about 5k. They wrapped each stack with a ribbon so there would be no dispute. Naturally, next day, Pink harangues them, saying he was shorted. Supposedly spent it all on meth and I guess heroin.

I don't really get a heroin vibe from his music though, it sounds very speedy to me, too.

Did an A/B with the last album he made, man the new one is SO MUCH BETTER. Better mixing, better melodies, better songwriting. There were always weak spots on his records cos there seemed to be a lot of information going on. It's ironic that he goes ahead and does a double album and it is the tightest, most well-crafted thing he has done yet!

i like "put your number in my phone" a lot more than black ballerina

I don't really get a heroin vibe from his music though, it sounds very speedy to me, too.

Thanks for the laugh.

no thank you RT

the second half of Schnitzel Boogie actually does resemble a nod

n/p u2

the second half of Schnitzel Boogie actually does resemble a nod

✓

(tick for the 2n half of that song)

Bobby Conn, Zappa, The Tubes, Stevie r. Moore... yeah.

but let us not neglect the strange and wonderful Nick Nicely:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuf3rD_pczs

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

Depends, are you gonna look after my boys?

i'll politely decline

Can we at least get high in the morning?

Thinking up Ariel Pink puns is harder than I thought

Is it so hard it makes you want to die at Myagi's every night?

hardcore puns are fun it's just like chewing gum

Hmm, these puns are delivering some Interesting Results.

can't wait to see how well this is received

It's like Christmas for Ariel Pink insanity
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/nov/15/ariel-pink-pom-pom-4ad

http://www.spin.com/articles/ariel-pink-pom-pom-interview-eurythmics/

Woah he looks just like Michael Monroe from Hanoi Rocks in that Guardian pic

Ariel is right about a lot. Not everything, but a lot.

this almost brought the tears:

“I think I’ve given you enough,” he says finally, picking up his Camels as if he’s packing up a stall. I feel he’s tired of me, of interviews, of the whole world. As he goes to leave, he makes an untypically straightforward plea. “Don’t make me into a weird caricature of myself. I’m trying to be an individual, I’m not guarded. We should be able to air stuff without being hunted down.”

The most hated man in indie rock half turns back to me: “Just… say something nice.”

Claiming "picking up his Camels as if he's packing up a POLL" for my Ariel Pink poll in 2018. Love this cat.

i love how p4k leads with this pic every time something happens

http://i.imgur.com/gPuji58.jpg

it almost brings the tears

Picture my gone sounds like

http://youtu.be/3tD6FayGPyw

Kind of funny to discover all my favorite songs on this were actually written by Kim Fowley.

"I was only repeating what Interscope told me about why they needed me. They’re not my opinions. It’s clickbait journalism. The media lies to us all the time, and we always believe the media. Then Grimes – who’s completely stupid and retarded to believe any of it – jumps in and has her two cents. I’m not a misogynist. Maybe she’s angry that I’m the male version of her, who was at 4AD before her.”

grimes hates men

guys, black ballerina is actually about ethics in gaming journalism

can someone start the Ariel Pink biopic already just to make a scene for the above quote i posted.

alex ross perry should prob direct it, he's v skilled at painting nuanced but excoriating pictures of american chauvinist art-narcissists

This thread is getting really creepy

creepier than its subject?

cocaine man's got the portabello girl

I'm just waiting to see what he has to do to finally get the majority of the hipsterati to despise him. short of actual crimes I'd rather not joke about (yet honestly wouldn't put past him if he's a junkie), I feel like it's gotta be vocal support for alex jones or some shit. or gamergate.

This thread is getting really creepy

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otm. dude is a total asshole and is wrong about pretty much everything except making somewhat good and interesting music.

Kind of surprised he's got a pretty low Meteoritic score right now.

what is it with some people still railing against hipsterism in 2014, as if it's a thing that actually exists anymore? the koons is you!

i mean, i suppose the people who jumped aboard his train with "round & round" and the haunted graffiti releases and would fall into the stereotypes one invokes w/that term have probably left him behind at this point, leaving behind mostly the TROO BELIEVERZ who dug him from the beginning and have all the rerequisite street cred

for the record im neither for or against hipsterdom (whether it exists or not) - its a reductive term i sometimes still use as shorthand, sue me

*shrugs*

I don't know if it's me that's changed, or Ariel that's changed, or...it's just that I listen to pom pom and feel nothing. I've never felt this about any other album of his.

The filler on this has really exhausted itself for me. There are three stone cold classics - "Put Your Number in My Phone," "Black Ballerina," and "Dayzed Inn Daydreams."

Why does the Spotify release sound about 1/2 as quiet and booming as the leak? (yes I have HQ streaming premium)