Ariel Pink

in addition to all that coming on stage stumble-down drunk to a crowd of people who paid to see you and may have travelled a good distance is a pretty big asshole move

and to think I was about to post something here about liking the new album...

Saw him once (circa 2010?) and he was in relatively good behavior. He was obviously a weird guy but held it together for the show.

his dad's twitter https://twitter.com/marioros

― flappy bird, Tuesday, 17 October 2017 05:22 (ten hours ago) Permalink

Pink was re-tweeting his dad's pro-weinstein comments the other day. Do we just chalk this up to Pink being an oddball/weirdo, or is he actually kind of a shitty human being? I mean he hangs out with Greg Gutfield, acts like an asshole to his girlfriend in front of an audience, says really, really horrible things in interviews...but he makes good music? Is that enough to save him from the same fate that's ending Matt Mondanile's career?

In another reddit throwaway account:

I saw this post from the daily discussion
https://www.reddit.com/r/indieheads/comments/76j49s/sunday_daily_music_discussion_october_15_2017/doeqhd8/
So I just kind of wanted to make a thread about this.
I saw Ariel Pink at the Metro in Chicago in 2010 after Before Today came out, Os Mutantes and someone else I can't remember opened.
I was standing at the front of the stage with two girls I went to the show with, like right in front of Ariel Pink himself.
During one of the songs, he jumped off stage and came right at, I didn't really know what he was doing, but he came right up to me, grabbed my face and started kissing me, like full tongue down threat and everything. He then turned and did the same thing to the couple girls I was with, and then some other girls who started crowding up to the stage, and jumped back up and kept playing with the rest of the band.
I uh...wasn't really into it, and I felt pretty embarrassed, but I just kind of thought it was "part of the show" so I didn't really think much of it. But having seen all the stuff about Matt Mondanile come out the past couple days and all the details about makes me feel like that was all not very above board?
So I just wanted to get that out. Thanks for reading.

https://www.reddit.com/r/indieheads/comments/76t96k/in_response_to_the_ariel_pink_story_from/

Can anyone confirm this is something this asshole does at shows?

Two guys shoving their fists up each other's asses is a-okay
damn right it is

― brimstead, Tuesday, October 17, 2017 3:41 AM (twelve hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah, go fist yourself rudipherous. make sure you take your head out of there first tho.

Someone in the that Reddit thread posted this video with him leaving the stage to make out with the audience, so it definitely has happened. You can see it around the 2:35 mark.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=regt_xy8N-M&feature=youtu.be

he was good last night :/

john maus was boring af tho

is the Chapel a pretty small place? I was surprised he was doing 3 nights there

ariel has been a reactionary prick forever, i kind of thought this was well known?

I don't think anyone is shocked, it's just another installment. & obviously even more stark & nauseating given the timing

Yea the chapel is small. We was packed like sardines in there until half the crowd dipped

glad my long-held assessment that this guy's music sucks also applies to his personality

would you not prefer it if it was just the former of those two options

Some record store in Atlanta stopped selling AP's music and he's feuding with them on twitter

Another day of being attacked by Ariel Pink and his legion of enablers.

— Indie Vinyl Den (@indievinylden) October 20, 2017

This is just a sampling of how many people are defending public actions of Ariel Pink (of which even he call gross conduct.) pic.twitter.com/ISqWksKSai

— Indie Vinyl Den (@indievinylden) October 20, 2017

I have one ticket to the Philly show on Friday Nov 3rd, looking to sell it for face value (which is less than I wound up paying with fees added in). Anyone in the Baltimore area want to buy it from me?

Just realizing that I'm not up for all the driving needed to see it, especially when there are other things I need to do timewise and no one I know (other than one performer) will be attending.

i had never really listened to much cabaret voltaire before but right now i have red mecca on and jeez this is like 90% of ariel's early sound huh

... no?

definitely in there but no 90%

i think it's just.. lofi

Yeah I wouldn't even say 50%. Here's a 90% playlist:

Calice - Shaking Romance (1984)
Charles Smith and Jim Tollan - Taktent (1984)
The 6ths - Rot In The Sun (1994)
Lives Of Angels - Imperial Motors (1983)
Martin Newell - Gamma Ray Blue (1985)

Imperial Motors is maybe 75--80%

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhJvGJhKxGM

this, which is the first track on his FACT mix, sounds so much like him it's nuts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbGiSsE0Y0s

Wow

I was looking for that band, but I couldn't search for it because I don't know Cyrillic. Good call though, brimstead. Also Оборотень Лис

Anyone ripped these?

It doesn’t sound that much like his own music but threadc reminded that I really liked this from that same FACT mix AP did a few years ago.

https://youtu.be/h_O0cDszcuE

that was reissued on this amazing comp last year: https://www.discogs.com/Various-Sky-Girl/release/8684302

Julian Casablancas: I Strive To Build A World Where… Ariel Pink Is As Popular As Ed Sheeran

SSION – “At Least The Sky Is Blue” (Feat. Ariel Pink) Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=to9ggdpiSyk

really good song, listened to it 4 or 5 times in a row on thursday. sneaks up on u

Every generation gets the David Bowie it deserves.

not sure about the outro but otherwise quite enjoyable! who is SSION?

don't know but that hook is killer

Every generation gets the David Bowie it deserves.

― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, March 12, 2018 1:08 PM (thirteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yuppies deserved prince?

wow that washed over me with zero effect

try again took me a couple tries I was skeptical at first

ssion - my love grows in the dark was a kinda big song like 4 or 5 years ago i think.

the good bit is where it interpolates Neil young's Neil Young's Hey Hey, My My (Into The Black) from 4 minutes in. I like it though.

i like the video

i like Ariel Pink but he is in no way the Bowie of this generation. Bowie had a solid 15 years of radio hits singles and mass appeal (despite Julian's dumb fantasy tons of people knew who Bowie was in the 70's). Pink has't even gotten to his Space Oddity yet.

that’s exactly what JC is saying though right? In a better world “Round and Round” would’ve been a radio hit. All the records this decade have as much mass appeal as Bowie imo - “Only in My Dreams,” “Baby,” “PYNIMP,” “Another Weekend,” “L’estat,” “Kinski Assassin,” “Feels Like Heaven”... and “Space Oddity” was only a hit years later after Ziggy.

All the records this decade have as much mass appeal as Bowie imo

not in the opinion of the masses tho!

well it's a different era, Bowie was on a major label, exploded in popularity after a performance on Top of the Pops when everyone watched that show no matter who was on because there were so few options on TV

Space Oddity saw Bowie temporarily become a one-hit wonder until Ziggy

sure but again he was on a major label. But it is true AP the man does not have the charisma or stage presence of Bowie. quite the opposite in fact.

n a better world “Round and Round” would’ve been a radio hit.

lol whut

I remember Ellen Olenska in The Age of Innocence: "Oh, my dear - where is that country? Have you ever been there?"

def could've seen it becoming a crossover hit helped by commercial syncs & a bigger push by 4AD. I'd say the same for Grimes but as has been discussed on her thread, Art Angels performed shockingly poorly on the charts compared to how much acclaim it got & how much people love it. maybe the problem is 4AD.