Ariel Pink

I thought his live show this tour was great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DolFdXt2_z4

I'm stoked that Haunted Graffiti will be in my town this fall, chagrined I'll have to buy a ticket for the Flaming Lips to see them, though.

Why aren't there more videos like "Mistaken Wedding?"

From the "FF" album there's a song called "One More Time" sung by what sounds like 12-year-old Ariel Pink.. This is def my new favorite of his.

totally i love that song! is that some random 12 year old singing or is it him or what? in either case it sure sounds like it was written by a 12 year old. if it's really something he made when he was a kid, it's funny to think how his recording techniques basically haven't changed at all (up til the new one at least).

that is one of his most perfect compositions, maybe even my favorite. it also sounds like a duet...I hear two voices.

http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/600/73.jpg

holy shit

he looks like ben foster

wait, why are you posting him on the ariel pink thread?

sooo is the live show good? thinking about seeing him when he plays with os mutantes next month.

live show is hit or miss due to tantrums but he was great when I saw him this time around

cool -- reunited os mutantes are supposed to be pretty solid live too, right?

lol. ha. http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/altreport/2010/10/ariel-pink-crushes-it-acl.html

it's the guy from Girls.

all white people look alike to me

Ariel Pink killed it tonight in NYC; he smartly stuck with songs that translated well live (no Grey Sunset or uber snythy stuff). Os Mutantes were amazing.

both bands were great in Atlanta on Tuesday (Os Mutantes played a dope version of "Georgia On My Mind")

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeGLqYIrvVQ&feature=player_embedded

That is my favorite one! I have tears! He's absolutely right, that IS a hard song to pull off and they did it flawlessly. I kept waiting for a mistake or something awkward, but no.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-lOm3iLLkU

the boy Pink's done it again. wonderfully bonkers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59ZdLTVT12k

i'm not sure about it tbh, listening to imitations of proggish wank isn't my idea of fun.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JS7eIs-J3tY
i saved 2 disk and must have watched that vdo a dozen times.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WpnMVwng0g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cdt3taIaZE&feature=related

Syd Barrett?

lol doesn't he melt down at like every show whatev

The "Round and Round" video I made and posted in this thread has 135k views now, jeez.

i think blue oyster cult invented ariel pink with this song, particularly the chorus

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

lovely tune

So I saw him for the first time last night opening for Pulp and that was...bemusing. I mean, I totally get what he's doing but that was definitely not his crowd (and he knew it, which is what made the canned applause that they played after every song more hilarious, especially when they started fucking around with reverb).

Friends at the SF Pulp show really loathed Ariel.
He was a hit with the Flaming Lips crowd.

what about a new album?
(i mean a proper album, not the esoteric shit he made with Stevie Moore)

Listening to it now. It's not bad, but it's too hi-fi so he neems too naked on the record. Maybe we could get our hands on some demo versions of these new albums.

The last two comments back-to-back are pretty funny.

This new stuff is great. I love his backup band on these studio records!

It's very stripped down arrangements and effects. It's alot more subtle than the older ones. It's not really as fun as the old ones, but they are cool songs.

I think the new album is musically pretty weak. With the last album, he compensated for the lack of lo-fi gauziness by writing good songs and having a punchy band, but this is a slick and lifeless studio record with half-arsed songs.
The main problem though is the awful lyrics. All that moronic creepy bullshit he came out with in the Wire interview about beta male revenge runs through the album and the results are not pleasant. He seems to think he's being transgressive, engaging in acts of genderfucking, but he's just sleazy and wrongheaded. Transphobic lines about 'shemales' hardly help either.

Yeah....i may have to listen to it again later. I kind of phased out after song 3 or 4 and got distracted w something else. On first listen definitely not as cool as "Before Today".

The main problem though is the awful lyrics. All that moronic creepy bullshit he came out with in the Wire interview about beta male revenge runs through the album and the results are not pleasant. He seems to think he's being transgressive, engaging in acts of genderfucking, but he's just sleazy and wrongheaded. Transphobic lines about 'shemales' hardly help either.

Weird. Kind of a further extension of "Menopause Man" then? That "castrate me, make me gay" lyric always bothered me.

That line in Menopause Man made me lol when I first heard it.

I think the songs are tight on this release. I think it's poorly produced, though, and not in like before where it was intentional and for artistic effect.

I can really hear R. Stevie all over this release. I don't know if he had a hand in this record, but the songs sound like RSM songs -- so much so that I wonder if he wrote a handful of these. The lyrics sound just like RSM lyrics, too.

I like this dudes music. not all of it, but about 30%.

fame will destroy him though!

fame already destroyed him

I'm listening to Schnitzel Boogie now. There's a little sketch about a minute into the song, and even his spoken delivery is in an R. Stevie style.

In case anyone missed the Wire interview, I quote: 'Beta males have got it figured out so that they don't even have to chase or rape their prey, so to speak'. Urgh, what a creep.

dig the production on mature themes, and i like that a few of the songs recall 'menopause' man, mix and tone-wise. the "tried to be good, to be good, etc." song sticks in the head. ultra-blissed, even SAW II-like track 12 (nostradamus), and 13 is a summer-time-y treat

if the songwriting is not good, nothing can save the record

In case anyone missed the Wire interview, I quote: 'Beta males have got it figured out so that they don't even have to chase or rape their prey, so to speak'. Urgh, what a creep.

I have no idea what I'm supposed to take away from this snippet. I guess I should read the entire interview.

He expounds this completely idiotic thesis about the ascent of the beta male. Now that the nerds have won, Ariel can get his revenge over alpha males and the women who wouldn't sleep with him. Revenge of the nerd stuff at its most vindictive, misanthropic and misogynistic. As a friend put it, 'Turns out, according to Ariel, you don't have to be a musclebound jock to be an asshole to women any more. It's a great time to be an asshole!'
There are few ok songs on here, but nothing he hasn't done better in the past. And the R Stevie Moore homages are utterly charmless. His whole deliberately bored delivery is a real drag too.

cripes, that's a bummer, but not a shock ... ariel seems like an oddball, though was hoping for something less vicious. why not just think everyone's got there place in society and move on. ::[]

whole thing is on NPR now
http://www.npr.org/2012/08/12/158442302/first-listen-ariel-pinks-haunted-graffiti-mature-themes

Eight tracks into this and the single's been the only really good song.