Ariel Pink

right now it's like this:

Fright Night+Round And Round+Menopause Man = great

Bright Light+L'estat = very good

Beverly Kills+Revolution's+Can't Hear My Eyes+Butt-House = good

Instrumental Tracks = ok

oh and Little Wig - very good

Bass playing on Reminiscences is unreal.

Beverly Kills chorus sounds like the chorus to Ago's "For You."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VV9k--wqeOg

Bass playing throughout is pretty awesome.

no doubt

The sound of the album as a whole is something to cherish - very special,and done to perfection

WOAH

"the bottom line is this: ariel pink sucks. DEAL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiLqAu4s-_s

ariel has no talent, no emotions, he's just a carcass.
he is not even human, he's anti-human as far as i am concerned.
doesnt know how to write a song,
ariel couldnt write a song if his life depended on it.
he is just some hipster dude that does too much meth ( which confirms why he sucks ) .

i mean if you do meth and you are from la and pitchfork hates you must suck, right ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gB65ENKm4AM

i mean listen to that song. its gay. all he does is talk about this chick called kate that he used to be in love with.
love, and chicks ?
what a douche. love and all that crap, fuck ariel pink.

what ?! your phazey guitar and avant vocals do nothing for me ariel. you are a sham and u must realize that fact
DEAL.FUCKER.
stop trying to use arthur lee/brian wilson melodies to entice me to buy your records bitch.
you are so clueless.
and stop talking about this ho called helen,
we dont care !
first you were all about kate, now helen !
make up your mind ! you are such an incorrigibe whiny ass..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5MqXPYE2P4

oh now, you are all about being smooth ariel, arent you ?
i kind of respected you when you were just making shitty songs about helen and kate with your gay ass 4 track but now that you are working with michael jacksons old producer, your dick feels bigger, doesnt it ?
guess what ? u still SUCK

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiLqAu4s-_s

sure, your new track is OK, it kind of feels like a song i should have heard at prom but i didnt.
either way, you are a bitch. you know why ? because now people who never liked you before are going to talk about you all day and that shit gets mad annoying yo. plus, you arent even that great, you are just an internet meme that lazy critics with no SOUL, no HEART, no LIFE will jump on, because thats all they have left. the dregs of an alienated, existentially vacant cadaver."

i don't think he actually post here so do you like, want me to give him the message or what?

it has quote marks, so I'm guessing whoever wrote it won't get your message either. i lol'd at the rant though.

Maybe oscar can get a job blogging for the altreport.

never really dug this dude before but this joint is ill

― max, Tuesday, April 6, 2010 7:26 PM (2 weeks ago)

^^

did you know that Bright Lit Blue Skies is a cover? :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJLYq0tHAPk

I did not know that.

Anyone else thinks he is influenced by Alan Parsons Project? Was listening to 'eye in the sky' the other day on the supermarket and thought it sounded incredibly similar to Ariel Pink:

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

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

Sheer magic.

whos goin to this tonight

this entire album is awesome

yeah to me it sounds like a cross between alan parsons and gary wilson

lol I see a bunch of people upthread said the same thing

Well, former Ariel Pink sideman Gary War covers Eye In The Sky on his first album... it all comes together!

from an interview with Ariel Pink:

What other musicians or artists are you excited about right now?

not complete by any means.....
wendy carlos
the ROHA BAND
getachew H/mariam
vahag sakadjian
yeshimebet dubale
mahmoud ahmed
kennedy mengesha
girma tefera
kuku sebesbe
getachew kassa
alameyehu eshete
the Wallias band
geneva jacuzzi
richard ross
john maus
concrete rubber band
popol vuh
olivier messian
julia holter
msr song poems (rodd keith)
icy spicy leoncie
gary war
coL
fancy space people
crooked cowboy
harry merry
nite jewel
black black
clang quartet
syrinx
peter thomas orchestra
freddy k
the germs
the cardiacs
girls
secret circuit
big business
rsm
cleaners from venus
arthur brown
james brown and the jb's just to name a few....

http://www.tragicallyhipster.com/2008/09/interview-ariel-pink-of-haunted.html

lots of ethiopian music here..

Heh! Leoncie!

<3 Leoncie - 'Killer In The Park'

yes ok wow this whole album is fantastic.

artists i like being able to list enormous lists of artists i have never heard of is a good sign imo

i really liked that list until it made me remember that ariel is associated with girls (blecch!)

has anyone else noticed that the rhythm on "round and round" kinda sounds like a slowed down "broken english"?

sounds like beck

*thumbs down*

Listening to Ariel Pink for the first time. Sorry, but do people seriously listen to this stuff and enjoy it?

he's no wilco

no i don't seriously listen to this stuff and enjoy it i just said that i did

Damn! I've been pretending to listen to and enjoy his stuff for years so I could act cooler than anyone who hadn't heard him, but now that he's on 4AD my cover's blown!!

Ilxor, perhaps you should attempt ingesting some chemical substance before listening.

Eh... I'll pass, those days are long gone for me.

ILX Poster Known As Ilxor, are you OK? somebody really seems to have shat in your FroYo this morning.

Hi dere I am doing great!

he's no wilco

― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, May 12, 2010 10:58 AM

^ this dude knows what's up

ok, just checkin

I have loved ariel pink records since 2004, have only heard a little of the new one but expect to probably like it pretty well too

Listening to Ariel Pink for the first time. Sorry, but do people seriously listen to this stuff and enjoy it?

but I mean...if you're actually curious about music that's clearly, audibly strange & different, you might wait until you have listened several times before arriving at your opinion, instead of posting during your first listen

free country obv., just a thought tho

isn't Ariel Pink a hauntologizer? O_O

he was just being a prick xp the new albumn is not that audibly strange and different.

This is the kind of album you will love if you think 80s pop coulda used more 70s soul production.

Listening to Ariel Pink for the first time. Sorry, but do people seriously listen to this stuff and enjoy it?

u realize yr in an thread devoted to ariel pink where you can confirm that people claim to enjoy it not yr fuckin livejournal

the man is a genius, the new record is brilliant, and like VU and The Stooges in the past, most people who don't realize it now - will realize it in the future.
or maybe they won't.

decent interview
http://www.factmag.com/2010/04/26/ariel-pink-russian-roulette/

What the hell is "hauntology"?

ghostbox.co.uk

Is the writer referring to this?

Hauntology is an idea within the philosophy of history introduced by Jacques Derrida in his 1993 work Spectres of Marx. The word, a portmanteau of haunt and ology, and a near-homophone to ontology in Derrida's native French, deals with "the paradoxical state of the spectre, which is neither being nor non-being", according to a professor at RMIT University.[1]

The idea suggests that the present exists only with respect to the past, and that society after the end of history will begin to orient itself towards ideas and aesthetics that are thought of as rustic, bizarre or "old-timey"; that is, towards the "ghost" of the past. In this, it is has some similarity with the cyberpunk literary movement. Derrida holds that because of this intellectual realignment, the end of history will be unsatisfactory and untenable.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hauntology

Not so sure I buy this. Pink's records are retro (looking back 30+ years or so) but not really any more than anybody else in the history of pop music. I mean the British psychedelic 60s were all Victorian/vaudevillian. And they used harpsichords for Christ's sake!

By 'by this' I mean "Ariel Pink was also central to hauntology (it’s now often forgotten that much of the initial discussion of hauntology was prompted by Pink’s records)"

Still, great article.