Ariel Pink

That's why interviews like this don't seem like a big deal to me - I don't need Ariel Pink's political beliefs to align with mine, because he is a crazy person.

responding to brimstead there

i mean he's drug damaged but a lot of it is for show.

he's crazy like the way beck was during mellow gold except he never grew out of it.

like you think a dude would make it 4 years through cal arts if he was legit "insane" he is "quirky" at best.

i mean he's drug damaged but a lot of it is for show.

― kurt schwitterz, Wednesday, July 26, 2017 4:20 PM (ten minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm the dude still does speed, i'm surprised he isn't more burnt out

Listened to 'A Heap Of Rotting Cassettes' radio show bootleg for the first time and realised that the title track is a reworking of what is known there as 'Time Dandelion'.

who would've thought the guy who opened a 2003 album by yelling "The human race is a pile of dogshit!" quickly followed by "Mankind is a nazi" would say something stupid

me feast on placenta placenta

xxpost yeah my friend told me that the chorus lyric for the title track is another old song title, in addition to the music being a reworking of Time Dandelion.

"The human race is a pile of dogshit!" quickly followed by "Mankind is a nazi"

misanthropic declarations in rock music does not equal right wing mra rhetoric

did you read any of the pom pom press? he was completely off his rocker a few years ago... i'll never forget this, easily the most mind-boggling quote from that era:

"I could be an asshole, and that’s my right. People need to get over that. It’s not illegal to be an asshole. It’s not illegal to be racist, even. It’s not illegal to do anything."

why is that a "crazy" thing to say and not just a dickhead thing? no one is calling tj miller "crazy." you guys are giving this dude way too much of a pass, this is saying that as (former) fan.

like there's absolutely nothing in that quote that would indicate the man is mentally unstable or "off his rocker."

otm

i'm not "giving him a pass," i just don't give a shit. he's been a contrarian troll his entire career. he's not rallying the pepes like ann coulter or milo. he's an asshole in interviews. i don't care. i love his music.

cool

but yeah you are like "LOOK HOW OFF HIS ROCKER HE IS" and then posted a totally milquetoast quote just sayin

that quote is one of a dozen i could cite, whether you want to call a habitual meth smoker "off his rocker" is up to you, but whatever:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1t6cQO3RXo

compared to 2014/15, he was more off than on his rocker than he is now, barring that Stereogum interview, which is so much more mild than the shit he said during the pom pom press cycle.

and btw... I don't think any of this shit is cool, it's just not going to stop me from listening to his records.

lots of people use, it doesn't equate to craziness.

i mean he's drug damaged but a lot of it is for show.

― kurt schwitterz, Wednesday, July 26, 2017 1:20 PM (one hour ago)

what about geneva jacuzzi? are they cut from the same cloth?

nah she's norm.

I've set fire to all my AP mp3s since reading that interview ffs

based on stories, i don't think either of them are mentally ill, just normies that aren't very intelligent that do drugs and want to "act crazy" because it's cool or something ..

These days I tend to think of Ariel Pink as the harbinger of Burger Records culture.

I think of him as the logical conclusion to American Apparel culture

Sounds like the perfect crossover point either way!

Geneva Jacuzzi should have kept the name Bubonic Plague imo

Geneva Jacuzzi ruleZ

Isn't burger records just like garage rock, do they put out lofi soft rock?

Why does this idiot make ppl so mad, my word

Still love his old records, more anecdotes from the posters in the scene though and I may stop loving then

https://www.google.com/amp/pitchfork.com/news/56089-ariel-pink-i-got-maced-by-a-feminist/amp/#ampshare=http://pitchfork.com/news/56089-ariel-pink-i-got-maced-by-a-feminist/

the production/mix of the busier, more dense tracks on pom pom and the new one is kind of hard to listen to.. dunno how to describe it - it's very claustrophobic, the sounds don't really breathe? or they're very compressed-sounding. "another weekend" sounds great, though

who would've thought the guy who opened a 2003 album by yelling "The human race is a pile of dogshit!" quickly followed by "Mankind is a nazi" would say something stupid

― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, July 26, 2017 4:59 PM (yesterday) Bookmark

love this moment

humanity's the devil

One part of the interview I thought was interesting was when he mentioned that the music gets done first and the lyrics last.

Assuming it's Dam on Acting ?

Is this guy really a norm? He really got me with the whole outsider art for the mentally thing.

*ill

xxp yeah it is

fuck this song is so good, better than the one on pom pom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XpWJ9DZ5Ao

who would've thought the guy who opened a 2003 album by yelling "The human race is a pile of dogshit!" quickly followed by "Mankind is a nazi" would say something stupid

Post of the year

this bit from the Stereogum stuck with me... besides the fidelity, there really is a difference in the songs he recorded pre- and post-2004:

I just wanted a little bit of love and attention. I didn’t even realize it for 26 years, you know? Then when it came, it was like, aw shit, that’s it? I don’t have the same urge or drive to create like I used to. That was all just a desperate plea for attention. Maybe that’s what informed it and made it so vital at the time, but that’s gone now. I had to rearrange my mind on how to write songs. I definitely don’t do it the same way or for the same reasons that I used to.

ah yes, norms who do drugs to induce chemical depression/psychosis. For those norms who feel left out of the mentally ill equation.

his dad is a millionaire colonoscopist who got convicted for fraud once

http://articles.latimes.com/2011/aug/05/local/la-me-fake-surgeries-20110805

why is he not in jail?

Was his dad also known as Dr. Mario?

lol