no kidding. The album was surprisingly good given the negative comments here. some off tracks but all of his albums have off tracks.
― skip, Monday, 20 August 2012 16:28 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― emil.y, Monday, 20 August 2012 16:36 (eleven years ago) link
Oh.
― Cousin Slappy, Monday, 20 August 2012 17:32 (eleven years ago) link
At one point he sang "The human race is a nazi" you know
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 20 August 2012 18:47 (eleven years ago) link
he also feasts on placentas iirc
― wk, Monday, 20 August 2012 18:59 (eleven years ago) link
i hear the percussion on the new album is made up of the sounds of him shitting on kittens
― Jamie_ATP, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 11:01 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Raymond Cummings, Thursday, 23 August 2012 11:12 (eleven years ago) link
wait, this record rules
― wk, Friday, 31 August 2012 23:56 (eleven years ago) link
I just realized
yeah it does
― Mordy, Saturday, 1 September 2012 00:12 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, I'm liking it. Don't know what everyone's complaining about.
― Moodles, Saturday, 1 September 2012 00:17 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Spectrum, Saturday, 1 September 2012 01:26 (eleven years ago) link
'Kinski Assassin' sounds like he's ripping the piss out of John Maus
― Cragenham Craig (Craigo Boingo), Saturday, 1 September 2012 09:47 (eleven years ago) link
had a bit of a magnetic fields sound to me
― Mordy, Saturday, 1 September 2012 14:11 (eleven years ago) link
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
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Sunday, 2 September 2012 17:13 (eleven years ago) link
it's Dam-Funk singing
some of Mature Themes is growing on me, I have gone back to it a couple times
― dmr, Sunday, 2 September 2012 23:09 (eleven years ago) link
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
― spazzmatazz, Wednesday, 5 September 2012 03:56 (eleven years ago) link
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!
― Sébastien, Wednesday, 5 September 2012 04:21 (eleven years ago) link
last 2 posts: rong
― wk, Wednesday, 5 September 2012 04:25 (eleven years ago) link
doldums still best, most consistent. ariel, don't change any lyrics.
― wk, Wednesday, 5 September 2012 04:26 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Sébastien, Wednesday, 5 September 2012 04:31 (eleven years ago) link
no
― wk, Wednesday, 5 September 2012 04:44 (eleven years ago) link
tsss
― Sébastien, Wednesday, 5 September 2012 04:49 (eleven years ago) link
tttch'k poooo'
― Sébastien, Wednesday, 5 September 2012 04:50 (eleven years ago) link
p''tttsssshhhiewwwwwh
― Sébastien, Wednesday, 5 September 2012 04:51 (eleven years ago) link
xpost i meant " tch'k po'k"
yeah that is more like it.
― Sébastien, Wednesday, 5 September 2012 04:55 (eleven years ago) link
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
― spazzmatazz, Wednesday, 5 September 2012 13:58 (eleven years ago) link
can't stop listening to this record
― spazzmatazz, Friday, 14 September 2012 16:36 (eleven years ago) link
fiiine, i'll check it out. liked the last one, but the lukewarm reaction to this one put me off.
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Friday, 14 September 2012 17:04 (eleven years ago) link
yeah this album rules
― Andrew Sandwich, Friday, 14 September 2012 23:29 (eleven years ago) link
it's kinda bad though
a lot of redeeming moments. par for the course.
― Andrew Sandwich, Friday, 14 September 2012 23:38 (eleven years ago) link
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this about sums up my relationship w/ariel pink
― gesange der yuengling (crüt), Saturday, 15 September 2012 00:07 (eleven years ago) link
Lol
― Raymond Cummings, Saturday, 15 September 2012 03:19 (eleven years ago) link
anyone got a link to a scan of the WIRE interview? Or anyone want to scan it and share it?
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Monday, 17 September 2012 00:39 (eleven years ago) link
omigod some of this shit is a hybrid of Of Montreal and Guided By Voices.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 00:40 (eleven years ago) link
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
― wk, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 00:52 (eleven years ago) link
thank you!
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 03:48 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Poor.Old.Tired.Horse. (Stew), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 09:42 (eleven years ago) link
totally some Of Montreal in this
― Andrew Sandwich, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 12:43 (eleven years ago) link
ariel is trolling. who gives a fuck
― spazzmatazz, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 16:26 (eleven years ago) link
Trolls are assholes, much like biphobics, dude's always been a primo cunt, regardless of his music.
― Cragenham Craig (Craigo Boingo), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 17:21 (eleven years ago) link
is the version of Baby on the album slightly different from the one on the 12"? seems like it.
― dmr, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 21:35 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― muus lääv? :D muus dut :( (Telephone thing), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 03:51 (eleven years ago) link
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)
― dmr, Wednesday, 19 September 2012 16:53 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― dmr, Wednesday, 19 September 2012 16:55 (eleven years ago) link
"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.
― nostormo, Wednesday, 19 September 2012 17:00 (eleven years ago) link
i'm glad baby isn't on the LP, song doesn't fit with the bizarro zappa pop of the rest of it. i honestly think this is the best new thing i've heard all year. top to bottom it's a killer record - excepting DRIFTWOOD and NOSTRADAMUS AND ME
― spazzmatazz, Wednesday, 19 September 2012 17:00 (eleven years ago) link
Driftwood is my favorite song from the album lol
― nostormo, Wednesday, 19 September 2012 17:03 (eleven years ago) link
if you listen to crappy music for a long enough time, it will get stuck in your head, too.
well yeah, there are things that get stuck in my head that piss me off, "kinski assassins with agents in athens" goes around in my head and I enjoy it, I guess is what I'm sayin'
― dmr, Wednesday, 19 September 2012 17:09 (eleven years ago) link