i'm not "giving him a pass," i just don't give a shit. he's been a contrarian troll his entire career. he's not rallying the pepes like ann coulter or milo. he's an asshole in interviews. i don't care. i love his music.
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 21:35 (six years ago) link
cool
― kurt schwitterz, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 21:43 (six years ago) link
but yeah you are like "LOOK HOW OFF HIS ROCKER HE IS" and then posted a totally milquetoast quote just sayin
that quote is one of a dozen i could cite, whether you want to call a habitual meth smoker "off his rocker" is up to you, but whatever:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1t6cQO3RXo
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 21:45 (six years ago) link
compared to 2014/15, he was more off than on his rocker than he is now, barring that Stereogum interview, which is so much more mild than the shit he said during the pom pom press cycle.
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 21:47 (six years ago) link
and btw... I don't think any of this shit is cool, it's just not going to stop me from listening to his records.
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 21:49 (six years ago) link
lots of people use, it doesn't equate to craziness.
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 26 July 2017 21:54 (six years ago) link
i mean he's drug damaged but a lot of it is for show.
― kurt schwitterz, Wednesday, July 26, 2017 1:20 PM (one hour ago)
what about geneva jacuzzi? are they cut from the same cloth?
― sarahell, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 21:55 (six years ago) link
nah she's norm.
― kurt schwitterz, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 21:56 (six years ago) link
I've set fire to all my AP mp3s since reading that interview ffs
― PaulTMA, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 21:59 (six years ago) link
based on stories, i don't think either of them are mentally ill, just normies that aren't very intelligent that do drugs and want to "act crazy" because it's cool or something ..
― sarahell, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 21:59 (six years ago) link
These days I tend to think of Ariel Pink as the harbinger of Burger Records culture.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 22:00 (six years ago) link
I think of him as the logical conclusion to American Apparel culture
― sarahell, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 22:02 (six years ago) link
Sounds like the perfect crossover point either way!
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 22:06 (six years ago) link
Geneva Jacuzzi should have kept the name Bubonic Plague imo
― tong poo (da ba dee) (crüt), Wednesday, 26 July 2017 22:13 (six years ago) link
Geneva Jacuzzi ruleZ
― brimstead, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 23:21 (six years ago) link
Isn't burger records just like garage rock, do they put out lofi soft rock?
― brimstead, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 23:22 (six years ago) link
Why does this idiot make ppl so mad, my word
Still love his old records, more anecdotes from the posters in the scene though and I may stop loving then
― brimstead, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 23:27 (six years ago) link
https://www.google.com/amp/pitchfork.com/news/56089-ariel-pink-i-got-maced-by-a-feminist/amp/#ampshare=http://pitchfork.com/news/56089-ariel-pink-i-got-maced-by-a-feminist/
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 27 July 2017 00:31 (six years ago) link
the production/mix of the busier, more dense tracks on pom pom and the new one is kind of hard to listen to.. dunno how to describe it - it's very claustrophobic, the sounds don't really breathe? or they're very compressed-sounding. "another weekend" sounds great, though
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Thursday, 27 July 2017 23:20 (six years ago) link
who would've thought the guy who opened a 2003 album by yelling "The human race is a pile of dogshit!" quickly followed by "Mankind is a nazi" would say something stupid
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, July 26, 2017 4:59 PM (yesterday) Bookmark
love this moment
― calstars, Friday, 28 July 2017 01:25 (six years ago) link
humanity's the devil
― calstars, Friday, 28 July 2017 01:29 (six years ago) link
One part of the interview I thought was interesting was when he mentioned that the music gets done first and the lyrics last.
― calstars, Friday, 28 July 2017 01:48 (six years ago) link
Assuming it's Dam on Acting ?
― calstars, Friday, 28 July 2017 01:50 (six years ago) link
Is this guy really a norm? He really got me with the whole outsider art for the mentally thing.
― carpet_kaiser, Friday, 28 July 2017 01:56 (six years ago) link
*ill
xxp yeah it is
― flappy bird, Friday, 28 July 2017 02:38 (six years ago) link
fuck this song is so good, better than the one on pom pom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XpWJ9DZ5Ao
― flappy bird, Friday, 28 July 2017 03:11 (six years ago) link
Post of the year
― skip, Saturday, 29 July 2017 04:05 (six years ago) link
this bit from the Stereogum stuck with me... besides the fidelity, there really is a difference in the songs he recorded pre- and post-2004:
I just wanted a little bit of love and attention. I didn’t even realize it for 26 years, you know? Then when it came, it was like, aw shit, that’s it? I don’t have the same urge or drive to create like I used to. That was all just a desperate plea for attention. Maybe that’s what informed it and made it so vital at the time, but that’s gone now. I had to rearrange my mind on how to write songs. I definitely don’t do it the same way or for the same reasons that I used to.
― flappy bird, Saturday, 29 July 2017 04:59 (six years ago) link
ah yes, norms who do drugs to induce chemical depression/psychosis. For those norms who feel left out of the mentally ill equation.
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Saturday, 29 July 2017 07:58 (six years ago) link
his dad is a millionaire colonoscopist who got convicted for fraud once
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/aug/05/local/la-me-fake-surgeries-20110805
― hackshaw, Saturday, 29 July 2017 15:50 (six years ago) link
why is he not in jail?
― nostormo, Saturday, 29 July 2017 16:08 (six years ago) link
Was his dad also known as Dr. Mario?
― calstars, Saturday, 29 July 2017 16:28 (six years ago) link
lol
― flappy bird, Saturday, 29 July 2017 17:07 (six years ago) link
lol calstars
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Saturday, 29 July 2017 17:30 (six years ago) link
I guess this has managed to avoid the radar for like 5 years but umm wtf
https://postpoprecords.bandcamp.com/album/ku-klux-glam
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Tuesday, 1 August 2017 19:33 (six years ago) link
Chairman Meow Best Cat Name it is not. ...
― sarahell, Tuesday, 1 August 2017 20:00 (six years ago) link
reading the track list is more entertaining than listening to the songs
― calstars, Tuesday, 1 August 2017 20:51 (six years ago) link
ripe for a poll IMO
― calstars, Tuesday, 1 August 2017 20:52 (six years ago) link
KKG is bloated but "R. Stevie's Brain" is a classic
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 1 August 2017 20:59 (six years ago) link
On first listen this (the new album) is pretty good
― The Harsh Tutelage of Michael McDonald (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 1 August 2017 21:10 (six years ago) link
"Make me a man" etc
― calstars, Tuesday, 1 August 2017 23:41 (six years ago) link
Jameson IS good, I think. The relative concision and tidiness after pom pom threw me at first.
― Maximum big surprise! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Friday, 4 August 2017 10:59 (six years ago) link
Didn't know that I Wanna Be Young and Dedicated To Bobby are reworks of his old tunes.. :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94rAxrSE65M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFTrxYIC3vw
― nostormo, Friday, 4 August 2017 13:32 (six years ago) link
Interesting! Were these on any of his "official" releases ?
― calstars, Friday, 4 August 2017 17:25 (six years ago) link
no, not on any of the Paw Tracks albums or Scared Famous or Loverboy. my friend is a massive AP head and has all this stuff on its own external hard drive. i think those are both from Yas Dudette (which has multiple versions with different sequencing and mixes).
― flappy bird, Friday, 4 August 2017 18:09 (six years ago) link
I Wanna Be Young was on the official Oddities Sodomies compilation. Time Dandelion is rare and is on the Oddities Sodomies tour cdr.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 4 August 2017 18:30 (six years ago) link
(hadn't made the connection of reworkings yet because I've yet to hear the new album)
― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 4 August 2017 18:31 (six years ago) link
oh yeah Oddities Sodomies, iirc that's where the original (superior) version of "Beverly Kills" comes from
― flappy bird, Friday, 4 August 2017 18:36 (six years ago) link