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.
― ET sippin the wig (spazzmatazz), Thursday, 30 October 2014 14:09 (nine years ago) link
Do you hang out with Kurt Heasley often?
― Evan, Thursday, 30 October 2014 14:26 (nine years ago) link
no surprise about the heroin and other drug use, i thought this was already well-documented
― marcos, Thursday, 30 October 2014 14:42 (nine years ago) link
feel like heard something about giant ziplock bags full of weed or something too, i could be wrong.
― marcos, Thursday, 30 October 2014 14:43 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Pentenema Karten, Thursday, 30 October 2014 14:49 (nine years ago) link
I don't really get a heroin vibe from his music though, it sounds very speedy to me, too.
― Pentenema Karten, Thursday, 30 October 2014 14:50 (nine years ago) link
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!
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 30 October 2014 15:06 (nine years ago) link
i like "put your number in my phone" a lot more than black ballerina
― u2 removal machine (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 30 October 2014 16:55 (nine years ago) link
Thanks for the laugh.
― Raccoon Tanuki, Thursday, 30 October 2014 16:55 (nine years ago) link
no thank you RT
― u2 removal machine (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 30 October 2014 17:03 (nine years ago) link
the second half of Schnitzel Boogie actually does resemble a nod
― Pentenema Karten, Thursday, 30 October 2014 17:17 (nine years ago) link
n/p u2
― Raccoon Tanuki, Thursday, 30 October 2014 17:20 (nine years ago) link
✓
― Raccoon Tanuki, Thursday, 30 October 2014 17:29 (nine years ago) link
(tick for the 2n half of that song)
― Raccoon Tanuki, Thursday, 30 October 2014 17:30 (nine years ago) link
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
― nostormo, Friday, 31 October 2014 00:13 (nine years ago) link
who wants to go to the emotional olympics????
― ET sippin the wig (spazzmatazz), Friday, 31 October 2014 18:35 (nine years ago) link
Depends, are you gonna look after my boys?
― DDD, Friday, 31 October 2014 19:18 (nine years ago) link
i'll politely decline
― ET sippin the wig (spazzmatazz), Friday, 31 October 2014 19:34 (nine years ago) link
Can we at least get high in the morning?
― a pleasant little psychedelic detour in the elevator (Amory Blaine), Friday, 31 October 2014 19:37 (nine years ago) link
Thinking up Ariel Pink puns is harder than I thought
― DDD, Friday, 31 October 2014 19:43 (nine years ago) link
Is it so hard it makes you want to die at Myagi's every night?
― a pleasant little psychedelic detour in the elevator (Amory Blaine), Friday, 31 October 2014 19:47 (nine years ago) link
hardcore puns are fun it's just like chewing gum
― ET sippin the wig (spazzmatazz), Friday, 31 October 2014 19:49 (nine years ago) link
Hmm, these puns are delivering some Interesting Results.
― a pleasant little psychedelic detour in the elevator (Amory Blaine), Friday, 31 October 2014 19:56 (nine years ago) link
can't wait to see how well this is received
― ET sippin the wig (spazzmatazz), Friday, 7 November 2014 15:16 (nine years ago) link
It's like Christmas for Ariel Pink insanityhttp://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/nov/15/ariel-pink-pom-pom-4ad
http://www.spin.com/articles/ariel-pink-pom-pom-interview-eurythmics/
― PaulTMA, Saturday, 15 November 2014 14:56 (nine years ago) link
Woah he looks just like Michael Monroe from Hanoi Rocks in that Guardian pic
― i did it all for the 'nuki (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 15 November 2014 15:15 (nine years ago) link
Ariel is right about a lot. Not everything, but a lot.
― Cousin Slappy, Saturday, 15 November 2014 19:39 (nine years ago) link
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.”
― hackshaw, Saturday, 15 November 2014 23:55 (nine years ago) link
Claiming "picking up his Camels as if he's packing up a POLL" for my Ariel Pink poll in 2018. Love this cat.
― Liquid Plejades, Sunday, 16 November 2014 00:06 (nine years ago) link
i love how p4k leads with this pic every time something happens
http://i.imgur.com/gPuji58.jpg
― ET sippin the wig (spazzmatazz), Sunday, 16 November 2014 01:36 (nine years ago) link
it almost brings the tears
― $0.00 Butter sauce only. No marinara. (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 16 November 2014 01:37 (nine years ago) link
Picture my gone sounds like
http://youtu.be/3tD6FayGPyw
― calstars, Sunday, 16 November 2014 17:10 (nine years ago) link
Kind of funny to discover all my favorite songs on this were actually written by Kim Fowley.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 16 November 2014 21:33 (nine years ago) link
"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
― Raccoon Tanuki, Sunday, 16 November 2014 22:08 (nine years ago) link
guys, black ballerina is actually about ethics in gaming journalism
― give kawhi his damn eyedrops (slothroprhymes), Sunday, 16 November 2014 22:16 (nine years ago) link
can someone start the Ariel Pink biopic already just to make a scene for the above quote i posted.
― hackshaw, Sunday, 16 November 2014 22:26 (nine years ago) link
alex ross perry should prob direct it, he's v skilled at painting nuanced but excoriating pictures of american chauvinist art-narcissists
― give kawhi his damn eyedrops (slothroprhymes), Sunday, 16 November 2014 22:34 (nine years ago) link
This thread is getting really creepy
― i did it all for the 'nuki (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 17 November 2014 03:25 (nine years ago) link
creepier than its subject?
― mookieproof, Monday, 17 November 2014 03:42 (nine years ago) link
cocaine man's got the portabello girl
― ET sippin the wig (spazzmatazz), Monday, 17 November 2014 05:49 (nine years ago) link
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.
― give kawhi his damn eyedrops (slothroprhymes), Monday, 17 November 2014 12:00 (nine years ago) link
― i did it all for the 'nuki (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, November 16, 2014 10:25 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
otm. dude is a total asshole and is wrong about pretty much everything except making somewhat good and interesting music.
― marcos, Monday, 17 November 2014 15:29 (nine years ago) link
Kind of surprised he's got a pretty low Meteoritic score right now.
― afriendlypioneer, Monday, 17 November 2014 15:30 (nine years ago) link
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!
― Cousin Slappy, Monday, 17 November 2014 20:27 (nine years ago) link
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
― give kawhi his damn eyedrops (slothroprhymes), Monday, 17 November 2014 20:42 (nine years ago) link
*shrugs*
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 19 November 2014 01:47 (nine years ago) link
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.
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 19 November 2014 01:48 (nine years ago) link
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."
― Pentenema Karten, Wednesday, 19 November 2014 03:00 (nine years ago) link
Why does the Spotify release sound about 1/2 as quiet and booming as the leak? (yes I have HQ streaming premium)
― Raccoon Tanuki, Wednesday, 19 November 2014 13:12 (nine years ago) link