Ariel Pink

this guy has always sucked </shakey mo>

Listened to this yesterday and liked it more than I expected. Definitely a return to his earlier work and very goofy throughout. I can understand why it isn't getting much love. It doesn't really measure up to the last one, but I think I'll still listen to it a bunch.

Self-described Beverly Hills yuppie in saying dumb shit shockah

maybe he's just trying to compete with his homeboy john maus

fuck both of these guys with a doo-doo covered stick

love both of these guys and also doo-doo

Ariel Pink is actually my great-grand-nephew. I think he's done a fine job here; I like this almost as much as the Chess soundtrack, which happens to be the only other CD I have in the house, though I'm sure I must have bought some others at some point and then just mislaid them. Symphony of the Nymph is the standout track on the album (I mean Ariel's album; One Night in Bangkok is the standout on Chess) with its deft rhyming of "discotheque" and "bibliotheque", "Lothario" and "Ariel", "synth" and "nymph". It's hella catchy; when I sing it at my local bakery they give me free bagels. To go.

I can just imagine the video, with Ariel recreating Nijinsky's role (a sort of graceful brindled cow) in L'Apres Midi d'une Faune. But wait, Nijinsky played the faun in that! Lydia Nelidova was the nymph! Well, okay, Ariel would have to play Lydia's character. But considering his tirades against modern bisexuality in recent interviews, Ariel would find that role reversal really fucked up, and a bad example for the youth of America. Hmmm.

Here's what I suggest. Ariel plays a really butch lesbian bitch of a nymph, in the cow suit, with, you know, udders everywhere. Then some crass cisgendered rock chick groupie with pink hair comes along and milks him in this really suggestive way, with her mouth, in this disco-library-type milking stall, until out spurts... not milk, not spunk, but pure 1960s-grade alpha-methylphenethylamine. Some of it spills on the ground, and seven librarian sluts get down on their knees and snort it up. Then they strap on guitars and recreate Robert Palmer's Addicted To Love. But instead of Palmer, there's Ariel, still dressed as a cow, on the mic.

I'm going to email him right now and suggest this. He's still got about eight weeks before he hits the obsolescent scrapheap, so with a non-union crew it could just be possible.

What kind of fucking high brow trolling is this?

not his best work imo

high brow?

I doubt Ariel Pink was ever a nerd. I remember the real nerds in high school. They had visible plaque in their teeth and sat by themselves at lunch, and were genuinely ostracized. There's a difference between feeling like a nerd in high school and actually being one, and adults should be able to look back and recognize the difference.

― 3×5, Saturday, August 18, 2012 12:32 PM (Yesterday)

i don't know whether ariel is real or faux nerd. either way, it does seem like he's competing with maus and adam from girls to be some new kind of "real (gross) nerd" icon.

Grampsy on chillwave thread = Lampsy

Um. I'm pretty sure John Maus has never been horrendously bi- and trans-phobic, and if you guys are comparing his comments on record shops to this shit, then you are fucking awful people.

"high brow"

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tbf this is what grampsy's eyebrows look like

http://m.popstar.com/Gallery/Celebrity/D/David+Hemmings/Photos/00000004-6004.jpg

my favorite part of the wire interview is when AP suggests that maybe 6-7% of ppl in the world have heard of him.

Um. I'm pretty sure John Maus has never been horrendously bi- and trans-phobic, and if you guys are comparing his comments on record shops to this shit, then you are fucking awful people.

― emil.y, Sunday, August 19, 2012 12:12 PM (33 minutes ago)

well, as a happily self-confessed awful person, i'm comparing only the oddball affectations, not degree of evil or anything

lol i wonder if Metallica has even reached that many people (xpost)

...but yeah, maus hasn't said anything anywhere near as repellent, afaik

420 Million Ariel Pink Fans Can't Be Wrong

Maus seems really tedious but I'm pretty sure Pink is just doing a Lou Reed / Bowie kind of schtick.

It's a shame because when I first got into Ariel, I listened to an interview with him and I was impressed that he wasn't trying to be weird, and could speak eloquently about his music and what he was trying to do. It's a shame that he's turned into this. In this post reality show world where everyone's publicist coaches them to act outrageous, there's nothing offbeat about the way he behaves now.

in recent interviews he's like "tee hee i'm single and ready to mingle" . couple of sentences later "shit, i was ready to have kids" aww

Where is this devastating interview everyone keeps talking about? Link please?

it's in this issue of the Wire but I don't think they put this stuff up for free, you have to subscribe to access

http://www.thewire.co.uk/issues/342/

How can anyone familiar with his catalogue take any opinions he voices in an interview seriously? That's like expecting coherence from an interview with Animal from the muppets.

no kidding. The album was surprisingly good given the negative comments here. some off tracks but all of his albums have off tracks.

I don't care if he personally means the awful things that he says, he is perpetuating a harmful discourse and for that he deserves to be held accountable.

Oh.

At one point he sang "The human race is a nazi" you know

he also feasts on placentas iirc

i hear the percussion on the new album is made up of the sounds of him shitting on kittens

Still trying to sort out my feelings about the new one. I dunno whether my attention is too split or what or if the sonics are too flattened or whatever, but it barely registers to me when I play it beyond. Maybe I need to sequester myself in a dark room with this thing, with no distractions. Adult life is some bullshit.

wait, this record rules

I just realized

yeah it does

Yeah, I'm liking it. Don't know what everyone's complaining about.

This is good stuff, I like it way better than his last album... the single posted earlier in the thread almost put me off, but I'm glad I checked it out.

'Kinski Assassin' sounds like he's ripping the piss out of John Maus

had a bit of a magnetic fields sound to me

so is that dam funk singing the opening verse to "baby" ? if so, he's got a great voice. Or is it sampled from the original song? what the hell.

album is great.. lots of variety. i find a lot of it stuck in my head

it's Dam-Funk singing

some of Mature Themes is growing on me, I have gone back to it a couple times

MATURE THEMES is his most consistent record so far imo. all the others, even before today, have been real hit or miss for me. ariel's arrested development is making him all achey and sadd

i wish he would get confronted on his bs tho, but effectively. someone should FAX him a concise and better informed summary of the good points in this thread. at best, what, he would change some lyrics live and 1 year and a half from now he would release a live album on an indie label that would actually be better than the official one in even more ways than it would have been: the band will know their songs better, will make them better than when they have recorded it and the lyrics could be.. he is not a poet, he is a shitrocker... so i do not have an idea for ideal replacement lyrics but not reactionary would be default better. peace , ariel. ps the internet is full of rumors about you! every self respecting fans that have seen you live 2 or 3 times have seen you running away from the stage screaming like a madman disappearing into the night! you will have to address that in the future at one point!

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doldums still best, most consistent. ariel, don't change any lyrics.

wk: what, no good points were made in this thread about ... schizotypal personality shitrocker saying offending things in that one wired interview that i have not been able to pirate yet?

edit: i can hardly "get" any of those lyrics anyway. but i am still all right with being an unfaithful listener of music, it works for me.

no

tsss

tttch'k poooo'

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xpost i meant " tch'k po'k"

yeah that is more like it.