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Sorry I meant everything on the Ariel Pink Paw Tracks release, not Paw Tracks as a whole.

― Mark (MarkR), Saturday, 4 September 2004 01:28 (nineteen years ago) link

six months pass...

gotta revive for the upcoming Worn Copy release. anyone else feeling dis?

i fucking love it

― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Thursday, 17 March 2005 22:05 (nineteen years ago) link

everybody's going crazzzzzzzy fr this!

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 28 March 2005 11:07 (nineteen years ago) link

reynolds, woebot, geeta... I'm down too!

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 28 March 2005 11:07 (nineteen years ago) link

I think you'd like this, toby!

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 28 March 2005 11:08 (nineteen years ago) link

I thought the Doldrums was way better. Worn Copy's really good but....too long and too scattered, or something. I'm still figuring out my feelings here.

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 28 March 2005 12:06 (nineteen years ago) link

shuffle function serves Mr. Pink well.

― The Sensational Sulk (sexyDancer), Monday, 28 March 2005 12:50 (nineteen years ago) link

very, very, very good. very good. this is what i always wanted Gary Wilson to sound like. Search "Life in L.A."

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Monday, 28 March 2005 12:57 (nineteen years ago) link

Ariel Pink for president! Just think of the ecology! The electricity savings! The thrift!

― Momus (Momus), Monday, 28 March 2005 19:30 (nineteen years ago) link

Revive to profess my undying love for Worn Copy. Even though this was apparently released on a CD-R at one point, will this still count as a 2005 release?

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Thursday, 7 April 2005 07:17 (nineteen years ago) link

REISSUE

― jack cole (jackcole), Thursday, 7 April 2005 09:12 (nineteen years ago) link

"House Arrest" is still by far his catchiest and most consistent album. I can't really get into worn copy much past the point where he declares that "mankind is a nazi"

― Felonious Drunk (Felcher), Thursday, 7 April 2005 17:23 (nineteen years ago) link

Apparently, the person who originally realeased House Arrest is not allowing Paw Tracks to reissue it.

― mitch dub (ano ano), Thursday, 7 April 2005 17:24 (nineteen years ago) link

That blows. Between "Alisa", "West Coast Calamities", "Gettin' High in the Morning", and "Interesting Results" it's probably the best bedroom pop album this decade will see.

― Felonious Drunk (Felcher), Thursday, 7 April 2005 17:50 (nineteen years ago) link

word

― noizem duke (noize duke), Thursday, 7 April 2005 17:59 (nineteen years ago) link

xypost: But that's just after the first few minutes!!!

― The Sensational Sulk (sexyDancer), Thursday, 7 April 2005 18:21 (nineteen years ago) link

I know. hopefully the rest of the album will grow on me at some point, but after listening to worn copy 6 or 7 times, the second half of trepanated earth is the only thing on it that i really like.

― Felonious Drunk (Felcher), Thursday, 7 April 2005 18:27 (nineteen years ago) link

"CREDIT"?

― noizem duke (noize duke), Thursday, 7 April 2005 18:29 (nineteen years ago) link

The free track on the paw tracks website isn't a patch on anything on Doldrums

― Japanese Giraffe (Japanese Giraffe), Thursday, 7 April 2005 20:50 (nineteen years ago) link

down at the creepshow...

― The Sensational Sulk (sexyDancer), Thursday, 7 April 2005 20:54 (nineteen years ago) link

four weeks pass...

This is an incredible bit of music. Absolutely baffling but all the more wonderful.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 5 May 2005 11:58 (eighteen years ago) link

It's like the music you hear in your head just as you're drifting out of consciousness with classic rock radio on.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 5 May 2005 12:14 (eighteen years ago) link

So... classic rock through a drainpipe, then, and then irritation that it's not LETTING you drift out of consciousness, and then silence?

I've still not heard 'Ariel Pink'.

The fact that 'lo-fi' has been used NINE ZILLION TIMES in this thread with barely any answers...

... doesn't appeal.

But perhaps I am KNEE JERKING?!

― Lucretia My Reflection (Lucretia My Reflection), Thursday, 5 May 2005 12:29 (eighteen years ago) link

When I think of low-fi, I always think of stuff done on cheap instruments and played very badly on purpose. This is stuff played on good equipment, written and played beautifully and then recorded on the cheapest equipment possible.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 5 May 2005 12:45 (eighteen years ago) link

Yes but what are his INFLUENZAS!

― Lucretia My Reflection (Lucretia My Reflection), Thursday, 5 May 2005 12:47 (eighteen years ago) link

70s and 80s rock/pop. Lots of Roxy Music, Lennon, Bowie, Talking Heads, New Wave etc.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 5 May 2005 13:19 (eighteen years ago) link

and R. Stevie Moore

― naturemorte, Thursday, 5 May 2005 14:46 (eighteen years ago) link

Guided by Voices if they grew up listening to '80s pop radio instead of 60s and 70s classic rock. Plus he actually finishes the songs he writes.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 5 May 2005 14:52 (eighteen years ago) link

The Cure are his biggest influence

i like The Doldrums A LOT, Worn Copy though, i don't know. It's not as catchy maybe, except for ' Jules Lost His Jewels'

― rizzx (rizzx), Thursday, 5 May 2005 14:53 (eighteen years ago) link

dude, rizzx, you GOTTA get House Arrest. it's his best work to date.
also, dog latin, about the "played on good equipment" bit, when i saw him saturday night his keyboard player was playing a pretty shitty yamaha.

― Fetchboy (Felcher), Thursday, 5 May 2005 16:02 (eighteen years ago) link

ah i have that on my HD, together with another album, something with Lovers? Don't know, but I'll listen to House Arrest as soon as i get home. Pink's the man. not very listenable on car stereo though

― rizzx (rizzx), Thursday, 5 May 2005 16:32 (eighteen years ago) link

are all his CD-Rs going to be re-released eventually? He's got, like, 50+ or something, yes? Worn Copy is the shit..

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Thursday, 5 May 2005 17:25 (eighteen years ago) link

upthread:
"Apparently, the person who originally realeased House Arrest is not allowing Paw Tracks to reissue it.

-- mitch dub (w!mbis...), April 7th, 2005."
im not aware of the 50+ though.

― Fetchboy (Felcher), Thursday, 5 May 2005 17:27 (eighteen years ago) link

someone was probably exaggerating..

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Thursday, 5 May 2005 17:29 (eighteen years ago) link

It felt like 50+.

― Andre Dawson (deangulberry), Thursday, 5 May 2005 18:03 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm not sure.

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 5 May 2005 19:32 (eighteen years ago) link

not anymore.

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 5 May 2005 19:32 (eighteen years ago) link

oh yes I am.

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 9 May 2005 20:09 (eighteen years ago) link

eight months pass...

House Arrest!

In LA Weekly article, he says he has "easily 200" cassettes lying around of albums and "masters".

― fizzcaraldo (Justin M), Thursday, 12 January 2006 03:27 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm sure his parents don't appreciate him leaving all those tapes around the house.

― account settings (account), Thursday, 12 January 2006 03:43 (eighteen years ago) link

one month passes...

So, has anyone seen him live yet?

He's playing Knitting Factory on Friday I think; just wondering what the hell he's gonna do with himself on stage.

― Suzy Creemcheese (SuzyCreemcheese), Thursday, 23 February 2006 01:12 (eighteen years ago) link

haven't seen him live but "life in l.a." is truly one of my summer 2005 anthems.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 23 February 2006 01:22 (eighteen years ago) link

Going in a few minutes. Interested to see how he works in his guest backing band.

― Nigel (Nigel), Thursday, 23 February 2006 03:26 (eighteen years ago) link

Plz report back, soldier.

― Suzy Creemcheese (SuzyCreemcheese), Thursday, 23 February 2006 03:36 (eighteen years ago) link

im guna go see him at 14 below!

― chaki (chaki), Thursday, 23 February 2006 04:27 (eighteen years ago) link

In Seattle it was just him and his 8-track, apparently. I really wish he would get a competent live band going.

― fizzcaraldo (Justin M), Thursday, 23 February 2006 07:00 (eighteen years ago) link

his backing band in ny is excepter. should be a spectactle if nothing else. or you could go for psychic ills.

― earthly kitt (earthly), Thursday, 23 February 2006 07:11 (eighteen years ago) link

five months pass...

I've read a lot of reviews of Ariel Pink that use the same recurring descriptions: "twisted"; "sounds like (mention music from the 80s) but (then mention armageddon or satan or something that's meant to imply insanity) but his stuff doesn't strike me as crazy or dememnted at all. In fact when I heard that whole "mankind is a nazi" thing on 'Trepanated Earth' I found it more cute and quaint than crazy -- and a little embarrasing. I don't really get a crazy vibe from his stuff -- but it's certainly eccentric, for what that's worth.

― Morgan Patrick (public_radio), Thursday, 10 August 2006 05:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Not eccentric, exactly. More like "eccentric."

― Adam Beales (Pye Poudre), Thursday, 10 August 2006 11:28 (seventeen years ago) link

"shut up"

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Thursday, 10 August 2006 14:55 (seventeen years ago) link

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― John Wesley Glasscock (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 15 January 2021 15:09 (three years ago) link

obv important to know how the vax works, but for some strange reason something is preventing me from giving Ariel Pink the benefit of the doubt that his motives for this argument are purely informational vs enjoying having a gotcha to spring on people

― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Friday, 15 January 2021 15:10 (three years ago) link

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― pomenitul, Friday, 15 January 2021 15:12 (three years ago) link

just saying it was irresponsible to pull that quote in the context of what I'm sure what a lot of legit misinfo

― John Wesley Glasscock (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 15 January 2021 15:12 (three years ago) link

I know this isn't the thread but I don't want to leave it hanging so let me just say -- the studies assessing whether the vaccine prevents infection and transmission have not been finished yet, but there is every reason to expect the vaccine to stop or at least decrease those. What we know now is:

* the vaccines all do a really good job keeping people from getting sick;
* they probably reduce infection and transmission but we are not sure about that yet

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 15 January 2021 15:17 (three years ago) link

I think I'll wait until the medical experts like R. Stevie Moore weigh in on this

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 15 January 2021 15:57 (three years ago) link

"I think I'll wait until the medical experts like R. Stevie Moore weigh in on this"

LOL

― skip, Friday, 15 January 2021 16:16 (three years ago) link

Yes but what are his INFLUENZAS!

― Lucretia My Reflection (Lucretia My Reflection), Thursday, May 5, 2005 8:47 AM (fifteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink

― jmm, Friday, 15 January 2021 16:23 (three years ago) link

I mean, who among us is shocked that Ariel Pink takes retrograde/trollish political stands when he released a 2012 album called Ku Klux Glam. So edgy.

― skip, Friday, 15 January 2021 16:45 (three years ago) link

from that Variety piece:

“because literally everything the Democrats stand for, every single platform, is bullshit. So Trump for me is an indictment on anything bullshit… I’m so gay for Trump, I would let him fuck me in the butt.”

I'm sure this has been suggested already, but are we totally certain this isn't just some terribly tasteless art prank? Maybe that's wishful thinking on my part. I still don't actually believe Vincent Gallo votes Republican, either. Not that it being a massive art prank would excuse any of it. Also not sure what the endgame would be of such a prank. I guess I find this all very confusing and not really that funny

― Paul Ponzi, Saturday, 16 January 2021 00:10 (three years ago) link

gallo's thing isn't a schtick. neither is this.

― Fenners' Pen (jim in vancouver), Saturday, 16 January 2021 00:12 (three years ago) link

this guy getting the benefit of the doubt even in 2020 makes me sick tbh.

― map, Saturday, 16 January 2021 00:28 (three years ago) link

artists are egomaniacs, how is it hard to imagine they'd be into trump

map OTM

― Vapor waif (uptown churl), Saturday, 16 January 2021 01:25 (three years ago) link

for two reasons: fuck AP and 2020 is actually still happening

― Vapor waif (uptown churl), Saturday, 16 January 2021 01:26 (three years ago) link

more like Ariel Stink amirite

― Looking for Cape Penis house (Neanderthal), Saturday, 16 January 2021 01:29 (three years ago) link

artists are egomaniacs

as generalizations go this is a really bad one

― John Wesley Glasscock (Hadrian VIII), Saturday, 16 January 2021 01:32 (three years ago) link

this is like the morrissey thing again "eccentric" white guys with hipstery followings get the most ludicrous benefits of the doubt extended to them with this shit. maybe he's supporting fascism because he supports fascism and maybe supporting misogyny because he's a misogynist. maybe if i'm a fan this would be shocking but i'm not a fan because of why this isn't shocking

― Left, Saturday, 16 January 2021 01:54 (three years ago) link

otm

― map, Saturday, 16 January 2021 02:08 (three years ago) link

three months pass...

Lady
Im a lady from today
Cha

― calstars, Monday, 3 May 2021 03:23 (two years ago) link

Ooof less than 400 views on youtube. I guess the MAGA bots that were “supporting” him months ago jumped ship when their contract ended.

― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 3 May 2021 14:00 (two years ago) link

What has less than 400 views?

― afriendlypioneer, Monday, 3 May 2021 18:34 (two years ago) link

A video for a new song (I guess that’s what it is, didn’t watch) he posted a week ago

― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 3 May 2021 19:40 (two years ago) link

I thought that was what calstars was referencing, went to his twitter to see if he had posted a song and he has but noone cares.

― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 3 May 2021 19:42 (two years ago) link

Nah I was just drinking last night and Menopause Man came on the shuffle.

― calstars, Monday, 3 May 2021 19:59 (two years ago) link

he has a fucking song called menopause man

― Left, Monday, 3 May 2021 20:00 (two years ago) link

one month passes...

Birther Control xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxp

― Noel Emits, Saturday, 12 June 2021 16:52 (two years ago) link

five months pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdNeissy3Pc

― Publicradio (3×5), Monday, 22 November 2021 16:00 (two years ago) link

one year passes...

“Now the time’s right frontman to write those songs that say ‘I like that’”

― calstars, Saturday, 20 May 2023 00:38 (ten months ago) link

https://www.instagram.com/p/CogLSt6OEey/

― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Saturday, 20 May 2023 01:07 (ten months ago) link

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