Ariel Pink

it looks kindof woozy and dreamy

I will join the others in proclaiming my love for your video. Very nice!

hes kinda weird live. funny, but sort of like he was just fucking around for a good portion of it. also it seemed like 75% of the show was just one hard rocker after another, not much of the 'life in la' sort of stuff. he seemed to get a bit more serious when he did one song which i dunno, sounded like the doors or something, so for the 3 or so songs after that, it got a little more earnest, but then it ended (he did a few encores though). not sure if it was the scala or what, but i thought someone like him would have better sound, or try to go for a more distinct live setup. seemed a bit muddy overall.

also he didnt do credit, which he could easily have done instead of yet another affectionately piss takey scuzzy rocker, so he loses points.

He was absolutely brilliant in Glasgow. Set did tend to lean towards the faster, power-poppy stuff - Getting High In the Morning was awesome - but we did get For Kate I Wait. Hardcore Pops and Flashback for the encore: totally rockin' and hella catchy. He really seemed to be enjoying himself, but he definitely wasn't fucking around. A great frontman, with a great band. And no issues with the sound at all. It was really sharp and defined.

it could just be me being grumpy of course. anyway by fucking around i just mean he was kinda goofing around a bit. but i suppose thats just him.

Pink IS goofy. Listen to his songs, the silly voices, the high pitched parts, etc.!

Only time I ever saw him he did half his set with a local band (everywhere he went he met up with a local band who learned 3 or 4 tracks that day) and then half playing his 4-track and mixing the tracks live and singing along karaoke style to it. If the same band that's playing on the album is playing these shows I'd imagine it should be pretty rockin'!

This is the first Ariel Pink record I have listened to more than about 3 times, and the first I've actually bought. Listening tonight on a proper stereo it sounds wonderful. I like karl's thoughts above.

To join in - "Round and Round" reminds me immediately of blue eyed soul era Wet Wet Wet. Sweet little mystery indeed.

this album is my favourite album this year, along with janelle monaes.
so many highpoints.

so my first bit of investigation into his back catalogue led me to the My Molly EP in which he does a really spot on Morrissey impression on "This Night Has Opened My Eyes", pretty funny. i don't think i'll be returning to the EP much, though the songs are good; the extremely lo-fi recording quality just pricks my ears in a very unpleasant way.

i find it hard to listen to the old stuff now ive heard the new album.

saw Real Estate cover My Molly when I saw em live, highlight of the set

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIwuyUTs9LI

was watching lilys vids on youtube and saw this

cccccccccrrrrrrrrrrreDIT.

you guys are making this sound awesome. i need to pick it up

it is kind of awesome, actually.

has this been talked about on the thread?

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

yeah it has, i had no idea it was a cover either until someone upthread mentioned it.

Ariel Pink played with the Lilys. Huh!

wow i didnt know it was a cover either. pinks version of it reminds me of dinosaur jnr.

As predicted, MGMT's oddball album isn't exactly tearing up the charts-- it currently sits at number 166 on Billboard's Top 200, three spots behind Ariel Pink's Before Today. Weird times.

listened to the new one driving around today. its fucking tremendous.

Picked up the vinyl yesterday, sounds and looks great.

Butthouse Blondies and Little Wig finally made an impression. They work well together as one big epic imo.

ARIEL PINK WITH ADDED PIZZAZZ (mp3 of first song on there)
http://www.freedopeandfuckinginthestreets.com/add.html

As predicted, MGMT's oddball album isn't exactly tearing up the charts-- it currently sits at number 166 on Billboard's Top 200, three spots behind Ariel Pink's Before Today. Weird times.

Yeah, but it was released two months ago. It debuted at #2.

'fright night' is my fave so far

are his old albums getting reissued on vinyl by paw tracks? anyone know?

listened to the new one driving around today. its fucking tremendous.

this

also, why arent his albums available on cassette? i think that would be perfect.

I was in the process of taking music off my hard-drive today because I'm formatting it and I just discovered Ariel Pink with 'Worn Copy'. I like what I hear so far

I think this is one of his weakest albums and it will undoubtedly be the one for which he's most renowned.

Round and round sounds like it was probably awesome when he made it on his tape deck. Then he went in the studio and had to really deliberately do all the non-sequiteur production as though it was spontaneous.

I admired Ariel Pink precisely because he DIDN'T re-record his ideas. I hope the rest of the originals make their way onto subsequent cdrs l. Compare the old 'beverly kills' to this one and you'll hear why.

I think I'm inclined to agree with Public Radio. I think a lot of the appeal behind Ariel was his highly idiosyncratic spontenaity (jesus how do I spell that again?), which you really can't quite replicate in a studio with a full band. Still, it's a nice collection of songs and I'm glad people like it.

I definitely agree with PublicRadio. "Worn Copy" is way much better, funny and exciting.

ive only heard 'the doldrums' before and despite the odd gem ('strange fires'), i found the constant murkiness a bit trying. i enjoy this one a lot more tbh.

i dig what he was trying to do on that record but found myself trying to like it more than i actually did.

yeah, i'm with michael b. i dig the worn (but perversely spontaneous) quality of the older recordings, but I LOVE finally hearing the songs set free of those constraints. cuz they're really, really good songs, and they reward the care & attention.

totally agree w/that-- i love 'the doldrums' and don't mind its murky sonics and appreciate the tossed-off accidental magic of much of it, but he's too talented of a songwriter to have all of his musical ideas forever submerged in the lofi. he's got so many songs such "as every night i die at miyagis" or "alisa" that are just pure pop brilliance (the genuine article; i'm not just idly spitting cliche here) such that they deserve to see the light of day with fuller production, arrangements, etc.

i think Worn Copy - probably his best record - could be even better with a hi-fi production like Before Today.

The pre 'Before Today' stuff works much better in a iPod shuffle situation I.e the odd track every now and then that makes you go WTF rather than listening to the whole album which begins to grate sonically after awhile...new album gets better with each listen though...

"I think this is one of his weakest albums and it will undoubtedly be the one for which he's most renowned.

Round and round sounds like it was probably awesome when he made it on his tape deck. Then he went in the studio and had to really deliberately do all the non-sequiteur production as though it was spontaneous."

this is the kneejerk reaction id expect to have. but the album is too good (and still retains all his ariel-isms, and reveals a load more) to really qualify for that kind of criticism. hearing him without all the murk and muck just makes you realise that theres plenty there to still retain the more mysterious qualities of his old material without shrouding it in tons of hiss.

hes kinda rare in that he translates perfectly to both lo fi and hi fi. and if you dont like the latter, luckily theres a ton of songs in the old style to listen to.

this mix he did is pretty great. a bunch of outsider pop that sounds like what he's doing. lots of worldy stuff.
http://www.factmag.com/2010/05/24/fact-mix-152-ariel-pinks-haunted-graffiti/

that ariel mix is rad. here's another one he did that is just as good. so many gems i havent heard before.
http://www.thetripwire.com/listen/2010/05/17/hear-ariel-pink-on-viva-radio/

any reports on his live show ?

found this live session in HIGH QUALITY sound and its great. if they sound half as good tonight, ill be happy.

http://www.4ad.com/sessions/

i'm seein' him tonight too :D
last time i saw him w/live band it was A+
live "in studio" thing that was on pitchfork was also A+

nuts! didn't realize he was playing tonight. i'm gonna be djing in berkeley :(

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any reports on his live show ?

― oscar, Saturday, July 10, 2010 5:24 AM (15 hours ago) Bookmark

I saw Haunted Graffiti last night at the Echoplex. I've seen Ariel play a few times, including one famous one at Tonic a half dozen years ago where he melted down completely with equipment problems and even R. Stevie Moore's presence wasn't enough to save the night. Now it's completely controlled, his band is made up of one dude from that Beachwood Sparks/Farmer Dave/Further crew and one dude from White Magic, and they play through the mumbles and hiccups and Ariel doesn't play guitar live anymore.

It was sold out, which is crazy for such a huge place as the Echoplex, and most of the people it seems had just discovered Pink. It was a very young crowd, which doesn't surprise me a lot, because he has a very young person sound (lo-fi), but weird nonetheless when you've been following a guy's career for 10 years.

People were leaving in droves tonight.