did anyone see him on his first apparently "disastrous" tours in 2004/2005?
― ET sippin the wig (spazzmatazz), Saturday, 22 November 2014 00:34 (nine years ago) link
Did he play live alone back then?
― nostormo, Saturday, 22 November 2014 00:48 (nine years ago) link
i think it was a mix, but there's an LA Weekly feature from 2005 that says he played with a band that was under-rehearsed because he couldn't pay them
― ET sippin the wig (spazzmatazz), Saturday, 22 November 2014 00:50 (nine years ago) link
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/6553-the-doldrums/
Different I said?Amazing how most things didn't change..Change the low score and remove some lo fi references and..magic!
― nostormo, Saturday, 22 November 2014 01:07 (nine years ago) link
his band was really really good when I saw them in 2010
― example (crüt), Saturday, 22 November 2014 01:14 (nine years ago) link
I saw him around 2006 (I think) and it was great! I've still got the super-faded t-shirt from that tour.
― MikoMcha, Saturday, 22 November 2014 12:59 (nine years ago) link
I got into him when I saw the video for "Kate I Wait" in 2005. Saw him a year or two later on the tour where he had a different band in every venue. At the show he alternated between having the band back him up and karaoke-ing to his backing tapes, using a Tascam 4-track on stage.
My friends in LA were at a show of his last night and I saw some clips and it was sort of the same. Mix of live band and backing tapes.
I listened back to Mature Themes and think the new one is WAY better. The production is better and the songwriting is too as a result. Songs that maybe started out as tangents are fleshed out with tighter vocal arrangements and stuff. Some songs on his old albums had a few good ideas but they were perhaps front-loaded and once the initial idea is spent sort of seem superfluous. The new record feels like maybe they used that approach for writing the material but the final mixes and arrangements are nailed down.
"Four Shadows" is my favorite song on this. I love that time signature change into the chorus, as well as those "Things that go bump in the night" backing vocals.
Does someone else sing a line on "Negativ Ed"? Sounds like a guest singer for a line or two...
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 22 November 2014 18:34 (nine years ago) link
I really wanted to hate the new one, but it really is the best he's done in a long time. Before Today was boring, didn't even bother with Mature Themes.
― Frederik B, Saturday, 22 November 2014 18:36 (nine years ago) link
I mean, holy shit, this shit is awesome.
― what_have_you, Sunday, 23 November 2014 05:14 (nine years ago) link
undiscovered ariel pink track, guess one of the ones he made when he was 8 years old:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmmWYyIlBs0
― moneyma$e, Monday, 22 December 2014 04:22 (nine years ago) link
I'm really happy about Pom Pom. There are at least 6 songs on here that are as good as anything he did in his more lo-fi days. I think A.P. is going to survive the transition to Hi-Fi, unlike other bands who have tried, and promptly fell off (The Clientele, anyone?)
― 3×5, Thursday, 1 January 2015 19:33 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkOsSBMKguY
― DDD, Thursday, 22 January 2015 11:35 (nine years ago) link
Anyone went to see him live?Should I go?
― nostormo, Friday, 6 March 2015 00:57 (nine years ago) link
definitely go. he is one of the worst frontmen i've ever seen, but his band is TOPS and the songs are amazing. and his singing is in tune
― flappy bird (spazzmatazz), Friday, 6 March 2015 01:33 (nine years ago) link
Lol now I'm confused..
― nostormo, Friday, 6 March 2015 01:55 (nine years ago) link
he doesn't bound around the stage or anything, really it depends on what/if any drugs he scored before the show. i'm so fucking bummed i missed him due to weather last week because judging by the setlist he got some good shit (pom pom in its entirety plus half a dozen oldies & 3 song encore. they even did round & round)
― flappy bird (spazzmatazz), Friday, 6 March 2015 02:17 (nine years ago) link
you should go! he might be dead in a year
saw him in 2010 in nyc and lucked out an a great setlist/performance. such a great show when he's on
― soyrev, Friday, 6 March 2015 05:53 (nine years ago) link
can everyone stop saying he'll be dead with a year on this thread plz
― PaulTMA, Friday, 6 March 2015 11:45 (nine years ago) link
friends who went to a show of his last month said it was great
― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 6 March 2015 17:38 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8xjeft2ydQ
Feel like "Any Downers" by Zappa has a real strong presence on the new Ariel Pink, particularly the first half of the album.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 13 April 2015 18:53 (nine years ago) link
psyched
http://pitchfork.com/news/62104-ariel-pink-shares-new-track-hall-of-screams-putting-out-collaboration-with-dev-hynes/
http://static1.1.sqspcdn.com/static/f/359954/26691571/1448252947580/IMG_3178a.jpg
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 24 November 2015 17:47 (eight years ago) link
Ariel Pink produced an album that came out last Friday:
https://play.spotify.com/album/0o3MmKQ304daCZGvHhLG8a?play=true&utm_source=open.spotify.com&utm_medium=open
It's decent.
More info: http://www.allmusic.com/album/phases-mw0002923916
― afriendlypioneer, Tuesday, 19 April 2016 20:29 (eight years ago) link
Ariel sings lead on this new song by the charlatan Michael Collins aka Drug Dealer or whatever. it's good
http://pitchfork.com/news/67374-hear-ariel-pink-on-drugdealers-new-song-easy-to-forget/
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 6 September 2016 18:42 (seven years ago) link
miss these days
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8alD4uGj6rQ
― Treeship, Tuesday, 25 October 2016 22:38 (seven years ago) link
youu could play this and ppl would ask "what's that" and you could tell them and they wouldn't be filled with disgust.
― Treeship, Tuesday, 25 October 2016 22:39 (seven years ago) link
i mean, except for the interlude at 1:40
― Treeship, Tuesday, 25 October 2016 22:40 (seven years ago) link
'everytime i die at miyagis' is one of my very favourite songs
― flopson, Tuesday, 25 October 2016 23:19 (seven years ago) link
haha i had forgotten how stupid the interlude in this one was. immature spoken word Ariel Pink interludes would be a good poll
doubt many ppl irl know that he's verboten now, tbh
― flopson, Tuesday, 25 October 2016 23:24 (seven years ago) link
he's never said anything particularly bad anyway
― PaulTMA, Tuesday, 25 October 2016 23:58 (seven years ago) link
I was in the mood for some early Ariel earlier today
― calstars, Wednesday, 26 October 2016 00:06 (seven years ago) link
once every so often some friends and i will be chilling listening to AP and inevitably one of us will ask 'what your fav AP song?". the interlude in miyagis always forces me to dig deep and pick another song. so for that i appreciate it.
― dynamicinterface, Wednesday, 26 October 2016 00:10 (seven years ago) link
i like how his impulse toward self-sabotage is evident even in his songs
― Treeship, Wednesday, 26 October 2016 00:11 (seven years ago) link
I'll confess, the interlude in black ballerina still cracks me up
― flopson, Wednesday, 26 October 2016 00:20 (seven years ago) link
my favorite is from "Hang on to Life" but I'm not sure it's not Jorge Elbrecht and not AP:
Hey man, what's the latest?She did what?How could she think that's cool?Can't believe these girls, man
― calstars, Wednesday, 26 October 2016 00:33 (seven years ago) link
Lettuce, tomatoes only, please
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 26 October 2016 00:48 (seven years ago) link
spoken intro to "don't talk to strangers" is the best, it's like his thesis statement
― brimstead, Wednesday, 26 October 2016 01:33 (seven years ago) link
I meant "the best" as in great, not literally
messageboards
― brimstead, Wednesday, 26 October 2016 01:35 (seven years ago) link
my gf recently pointed out that the voice at the end of 'are you gonna look after my boys?' is saying 'exit stage right'
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 26 October 2016 02:30 (seven years ago) link
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― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 26 October 2016 07:29 (seven years ago) link
Now that I've heard AP and Maus in a bar I feel like I can retire
― calstars, Saturday, 22 April 2017 18:17 (seven years ago) link
Omg, where?
― On Some Faraday Beach (Le Bateau Ivre), Saturday, 22 April 2017 18:22 (seven years ago) link
i once heard the crystal castles' song "plague" at the brooks brothers in palmer square in princeton. i mentioned this on ilx before and no one seemed to think it was notable.
― Treeship, Saturday, 22 April 2017 18:28 (seven years ago) link
it must have been a fluke though because it was followed up by the red hot chili peppers, which was really jarring
― calstars, Saturday, 22 April 2017 18:48 (seven years ago) link
A bartender with good taste in music is a rare bird
― calstars, Saturday, 22 April 2017 18:50 (seven years ago) link
Thought you meant you saw them play together... Am revoking most, but not all, of my initial enthusiastic response.
― On Some Faraday Beach (Le Bateau Ivre), Saturday, 22 April 2017 18:50 (seven years ago) link
john maus and ariel pink (and some others) have made it so i can't put my spotify "daily mixes" on in the store where i work anymore. for some unknown reason spotify insists on playing "every night i die at miyagis" and "just wait till next year," the latter of which contains radically misogynistic lyrics
― Treeship, Saturday, 22 April 2017 19:00 (seven years ago) link
Did you think A and J were slumming it at some local shit hole?
― calstars, Saturday, 22 April 2017 19:09 (seven years ago) link
In a perfect world they would be
― calstars, Saturday, 22 April 2017 19:11 (seven years ago) link
I did :-S
― On Some Faraday Beach (Le Bateau Ivre), Saturday, 22 April 2017 19:15 (seven years ago) link