― Suzy Creemcheese (SuzyCreemcheese), Thursday, 23 February 2006 03:36 (eighteen years ago) link
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― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Thursday, 10 August 2006 14:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Thursday, 10 August 2006 14:56 (seventeen years ago) link
i would like paper thanks
― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Thursday, 10 August 2006 16:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― Fetchboy (Felcher), Thursday, 10 August 2006 18:21 (seventeen years ago) link
Shit, I guess that works for pretty much everything.
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― Adam Beales (Pye Poudre), Thursday, 10 August 2006 19:24 (seventeen years ago) link
saw him the other night. he's finally got a good band together, a few sloppy parts but they really nailed the vocal harmonies and the weird time signitures. it actually SOUNDED just like his records too, which was weird.
― babedad, Friday, 22 June 2007 05:19 (seventeen years ago) link
he was selling these homemade CD-Rs with different artwork for $20, i bought 3 of em and then found out they all had the same songs on them..
― babedad, Friday, 22 June 2007 05:20 (seventeen years ago) link
Can't say I'm surprised.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 22 June 2007 05:23 (seventeen years ago) link
that sucks.
But cool that he sounded good :D
― Drooone, Friday, 22 June 2007 05:24 (seventeen years ago) link
vudi from american music club is in this band now. which is weird. maybe I already said that upthread
― akm, Friday, 22 June 2007 17:21 (seventeen years ago) link
there is some staggering kaleidoscopic talent lurking beneath the temporal hipster trappings IMHO
-- duke due, Thursday, September 2, 2004 6:45 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Link
not that i mind the hipster trappings too much per se, but this is entirely OTM
― 69, Friday, 22 June 2007 19:00 (seventeen years ago) link
Vudi?! No wonder he sounds so good now.
― henry s, Friday, 22 June 2007 19:04 (seventeen years ago) link
it's too bad about this bullshit "hipster" stigma surrounding him, because he's by far the best songwriter out of any pop/rock/indie/whitebread variety these days and he's actually pretty funky too.
― babedad, Sunday, 24 June 2007 09:02 (seventeen years ago) link
i mean, if wilco or whoever were to record an album of ariel pink songs, it'd be the unanimous critic-wide rock album of the year, no doubt.
― babedad, Sunday, 24 June 2007 09:06 (seventeen years ago) link
but less psychedelic and closer to reality therefore would prob. be dud
― babedad, Sunday, 24 June 2007 09:09 (seventeen years ago) link
what are we coming to
now playing: "Jules Lost His Jewels"
Come on baby, let's dance!
― nicky lo-fi, Sunday, 24 June 2007 09:13 (seventeen years ago) link
new track is so good ("Can't Hear My Eyes")
keepin it smoooooth
― dmr, Monday, 8 December 2008 20:26 (fifteen years ago) link
Which one doesn't belong? - Lilly Allen, Pink Elln, Ellen Allien
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 8 December 2008 20:28 (fifteen years ago) link
revisited the doldrums lately and realized that i enjoyed their live show much more than that album. interested in hearing that new track tho ^^
― 6335, Monday, 8 December 2008 20:45 (fifteen years ago) link
revisited the doldrums lately? bleh. recently
― 6335, Monday, 8 December 2008 20:46 (fifteen years ago) link
flash player down at the bottom of this
http://space15twenty.com/ariel_pinks_haunted_graffiti
― dmr, Monday, 8 December 2008 20:48 (fifteen years ago) link
thanks!
― 6335, Monday, 8 December 2008 20:54 (fifteen years ago) link
1520: What are you thinking about how you want your next album to be like?AP: The record will essentially be a formal reintroduction; me saying "hello friend. My name is Ariel Pink. You've probably read my name online somewhere, maybe your best friend burned you some of my older records, or perhaps you even think we've met at some time in the past. Baloney! Everything you think you know is WRONG- DEAD WRONG. THIS is me, naked, without the buffer of awful tape noise drowning out any lack of vision.
I dunno... That last sentence in particular sounds horrific. The noise must stay, damnit! Been listening to him alot again lately, so this smooth - it's what it is, indeed - sound comes as a surprise. It's a good song, but not as good as the best songs on this years Oddities Sodomies, I think.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 8 December 2008 20:57 (fifteen years ago) link
does he sound more 'professional' live (could be in a good or bad way)? or does he still sound a bit shambolic, like on the album?
― titchyschneiderMk2, Monday, 8 December 2008 21:00 (fifteen years ago) link
getting some fleetwood mac vibes, pretty cool. also sorta reminds me of gary wilson but a lot more listenable
― 6335, Monday, 8 December 2008 21:01 (fifteen years ago) link
fairly shambly, but in a unified sort of way. shamble tamble. they sang through some cheap reverbs, so it had some of the lo-fi vibe on their albums. played w/ 2 basses for a few of the songs too
― 6335, Monday, 8 December 2008 21:06 (fifteen years ago) link
I get the Gary Wilson comparison yeah, which is a good thing
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 8 December 2008 21:17 (fifteen years ago) link
Hey, wait a second! This new song doesn't have any farty-sounding beat boxing. WTF?!?
But seriously, this is a pretty great track. I don't think having a real studio recording hurts his sound at all.
― Moodles, Monday, 8 December 2008 21:27 (fifteen years ago) link
Now this is starting to sound interesting...love Ariel but he needs to take it the next level...imagine Todd Rundgren producing...
― sonnyboy, Monday, 8 December 2008 21:45 (fifteen years ago) link
^^^yeah you right
― henry s, Monday, 8 December 2008 21:56 (fifteen years ago) link
I have a horse in this race kinda but imo sooner or later he's going to have to just let the songs stand on their own. I think his songs are terrific so I think it'll be pretty great though, the only q for me is how his voice will go over unmodulated/unfiltered. Listening now, just on first hearing, I think it'll be just fine - the great sensibility that makes him interesting, that 70s-blender cinematic feeling, is intact.
― J0hn D., Monday, 8 December 2008 22:48 (fifteen years ago) link
I agree John. To me it's not a either/or question between modulated and naked songs, and letting the songs stand on it's own could get him moving again. But it's just that everything he's done, to me, is already of such utter beauty, I hopes he moves to the next level rather slow. That said, I'm really starting to dig this new song.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 8 December 2008 22:57 (fifteen years ago) link
The song he did with John Maus "Written All Over Your Face" was a signpost of what could be achieved...love that new song as well
― sonnyboy, Monday, 8 December 2008 23:24 (fifteen years ago) link
Best thing was I saw him do a tour a few years go where he played with a new band backing him up in each city. That was actually kind of dull but after doing a set with them he just brought out his 4-track, plugged in his mic, and mixed the songs live. It was brilliant!
― Adam Bruneau, Tuesday, 9 December 2008 00:07 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah this is excellent. If he keeps this balance of clear but lo-fi his fingerprint will stay on the material. It's like a more sophisticated weathered sound. Well done.
The keyboardist and the drummer from Lilys are in the Haunted Grafitti now? Wow.
By the way I've been trying to get into John Maus for the last two days. Talk about a poor man's Ariel Pink. It's like he's trying to copy every aspect of Ariel Pink and just blowing it. That's got to be a bummer to shoot for crappy and fail.
― PublicRadio, Sunday, 21 December 2008 09:34 (fifteen years ago) link
i think maus might be a rich man's ariel pink actually, but i like him too
― noizez duk, Sunday, 21 December 2008 09:43 (fifteen years ago) link
Really? Yeah he seems to have his own following in his own right... Ariel Pink is very "new sincerity," with a keen sense of irony, but very genuine. The songs are well constructed, there's a process and a method, and he makes pretty well fleshed-out pop songs. John Maus just sounds to me like, "Hey I can do that! Synthesizers on tape with stupid joke lyrics!"
― PublicRadio, Sunday, 21 December 2008 10:30 (fifteen years ago) link
By the way one's from beverly hills and the other's a colege professor. That would make them both a rich man's R. Stevie Moore, wouldn't it?
― PublicRadio, Sunday, 21 December 2008 10:31 (fifteen years ago) link
Ariel Pink's recording an album with the guys from Vas Deferens Organization. They also did a side project called Shits & Giggles. Dunno who will release these things, but somebody really should.
― inhibitionist, Monday, 22 December 2008 03:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Whoa, I'm really interested to hear this. I scrolled up the thread looking for any old posts I'd made on the subject but didn't find any, surprisingly. My favorite Ariel Pink songs - like "New Trumpets of Time" - were the ones where he played it straight, and I'd love to hear more in that vein.
John Maus rules.
― (Z S) (Z S), Monday, 22 December 2008 04:00 (fifteen years ago) link
That new "Can't Here My Eyes" is quite good, very straight and sober pop. Someone mentioned Fleetwood Mac upthread, it's pretty apt.
― throwbookatface (skygreenleopard), Monday, 22 December 2008 16:04 (fifteen years ago) link
http://kimag.es/share/14770623.jpg
― winston, Monday, 27 April 2009 01:53 (fifteen years ago) link
if that is a press photo, I consider it awesome
― Just one thing I was thinking about as I was getting on the copter (J0hn D.), Monday, 27 April 2009 02:54 (fifteen years ago) link