POX:Ariel Pink

gray sunset
west coast calamities
flying circles
the people i'm not
trepanated earth
artifact
somewhere in europe/hot pink
fright night
round and round
menopause man

Trepanated Earth
For Kate I Wait
Strange Fires
Among Friends
Doggone Sheggone
Immune To Emotion
Can't Feel My Eyes
Good Kids Make Bad Grown Ups
Written All Over My Face
Fright Night

Alisa
For Kate I Wait
Grey Sunset
Getting High In the Morning
Round and Round
West Coast Calamities
Hardcore Pops Are Fun
Are You Gonna Look After My Boys
The Doldrums
Every Night I Die At Miyagi's

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round and round
strange fires
fright night
jules lost his jewels
life in l.a.
new trumpets of time
l'estat
beverley kills
somewhere in europe/hot pink

hmm. tough.

guess i tend to gravitate more towards his conciser pop flashes then the proggier moments, with some exceptions

every night i die at miyagi's (insanely catchy result of him fishing around in the astral for great lost pop hooks)
alisa (see above, but transplanted into more of dance-ish idiom)
good kids make bad grownups (i dunno how you even come up with something so rambling and great like this)
strange fires (see above, great from the first spectral synth bloops)
fright night (KNOCK KNOCK ON THE DOOR THREE TIMES!)
are you gonna look after my boys? (i wish he would do more songs like this. great video, too. )
loverboy ("I love you like a doggone snake")
artifact ("don't you get up, this song is forever". like the king of comedy, but replace jerry lewis with peter buck)
gettin' high in the morning (totally annoying but at the same time totally brilliant)
almost waiting (when the song finally kicks in, shooooooo)

"every night i die at miyagi's " - great cathcy song indeed,though it takes awhile to discover the greatness cause of the lo- as low can get-fi of the sound.

in order!

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Flying Circles
Ghost Town
The People I'm Not
One More Time
Gopaculpulco
Youn Pilot Astray
Stevie Pink
The Night Has Opened My Eyes
Let's Build A Campfire There

"every night i die at miyagi's " - great cathcy song indeed,though it takes awhile to discover the greatness cause of the lo- as low can get-fi of the sound.

the spoken bridge part can be a little off-putting, too!

anyhow, it's interesting that there is not a great deal of overlap in what people have listed. something for everyone

*butchered these

Young Pilot Astray
This Night Has Opened My Eyes

Credit - liked this song , but the joke gets somewhat boring after some listens.

"Let's Build A Campfire There" - yes!

Envelopes Another Day
Immune To Emotion
Bright Lit Blue Skies
Among Dreams
For Kate I Wait
Interesting Results
Are You Gonna Look After My Boys
Helen
Can't Hear My Eyes
The List (My Favourite Song)

Envelopes Another Day
Good Kids Make Bad Grown Ups
Jules Lost His Jewels
Fright Night (Nevermore)
For Kate I Wait
L'estat
Among Dreams
Beverley Kills
Every Night I Die At Miyagi's
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'The Doldrums' is still head and shoulders above everything else for me, just a stunning ambient record, stunning pop record, moving, mesmeric. Masterpiece.

Strange Fires
Among Dreams
L'estat (acc. to the widow's maid)
The Doldrums
Fright Night (Nevermore)
For Kate I Wait
Let's Build A Campfire There
Hardcore Pops Are Fun
Flying Circles
Every Night I Die at Miyagis
Jonathan's Halo

In order based on playcount

BTW, is he singing "chicken fat gravy" in Jonathan's Halo? I get that stuck in my head all the time.

i always heard it as "fried gravy", but yeah, i think you're right!

trepanated earth then about half of house arrest

alisa
the drummer
life in l.a.
getting high in the morning
jagged carnival tours
artifact
bright lit blue skies
menopause man
helen
immune to emotion

does everyone else love the first album they heard the best? i'm married to worn copy

I dunno, I heard The Doldrums first and adored Good Kids Make Bad Grownups but didn't like the rest of it at all.
Worn Copy knocked me out and select singles and album tracks after that, but I think Before Today is my favorite lp right now.

Good Kids Make Bad Grown Ups
Jules lost his Jewels
Life in L.A.
She's My Girl
Interesting Results
Helen
Higher and Higher
Bright Lit Blue Skies
Fright Night
Menopause Man

"The List (My Favourite Song)"

did you mean The List (YOUR favourite song) ot The List (My Favourite Song)?

hard to say which album is his best:

all of them are equally good, and all of them have some weak songs i always skip.
worn copy,for example, has the best songs in it imo, but the larger amount of fillers too. so i don't know.

so he is the perfect artist for a mixtape (and therefore - this thread!)

i wanna swap out getting high in the morning for the people i'm not. thank you, carry on

did you mean The List (YOUR favourite song) ot The List (My Favourite Song)?

The latter - I had no idea a 'Your Favourite Song' existed! There's a load of his stuff I've never heard though.

you know what song really got me the second time i saw him? OCEANS OF WEEP. great song.

someone finally got this precious gem uploaded.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SYvSRXVW2o

Funny he came here to Denver and apparently wen't on a quasi hipster tirade when he scoped one pretty obvious guy in the obvious and mubmled "What, you don't have enough self esteem to clap?" or so. Just read this, didn't actually see it... lots of words saying he was somewhat a jerk.

are you gonna look after my boys?
pink slime
immune to emotion
kinski assassin
farewell american primitive
symphony of the nymph
only in my dreams
for kate i wait
politely declined
beverly kills

but i must.....dig.......DEEPER....

I love this song "Ariel (Friedman)" that I have an mp3 of. where's that from anyway?

he scoped one pretty obvious guy in the obvious and mubmled "What, you don't have enough self esteem to clap?"

Hell yes, this is awesome. To hell with people that don't clap at shows.

Credit
For Kate I Wait
Among Dreams
Kinski Assassin
Hot Body Rub
Fright Night (Nevermore)
Is This The Best Spot?
Jules Lost His Jewels
Trepanated Earth
Are You Gonna Look After My Boys

Dude will have a killer 'Best Of' in a year or two. While looking into this I was kinda surprised at how many songs I preferred off the newer ones rather than older ones.

this looks pretty solid: http://www.discogs.com/Ariel-Pinks-Haunted-Graffiti-Grandes-Exitos-Greatest-Hits/release/1889798

Trepanated Earth - his underrated epic

he could have had a killer "best of" in 2002

he should get rid of his band and go back to make records the way he used to - alone.

he said he will do this when rolling with a band will stop being sustainable so it is bound to happen eventually, when he will be old / "less hot".

Jules, my six month old boy, just got his theme song

uh

Jules might be my favorite song of his

mine is artifact

politely declined
every night i die at miyagis
plastic raincoats in the pig parade
put your number in my phone
house arrest
black ballerina
alisa
are you gonna look after my boys?
white freckles
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good kids make bad grown ups
strange fires
envelopes of another day
the ballad of bobby pyn
let's build a campfire there
oblivious peninsula
helen
alisa
don't talk to strangers
fright night

trepenated earth should be in there too..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uXuNPPuh8Q

I dislike the goofy Zappa-isms of his full-band records but there's a lot to love and I feel like the period's a little unrepresented here so I'ma do a LATE PERIOD ARIEL PINK POX

Flashback
Can't Hear My Eyes (7" version)
Round and Round
Fright Night
Witchhunt Suite for WWIII
Mature Themes
Only in My Dreams
Hang On to Life (w/ Jorge Elbrecht)
Lipstick
Put Your Number in My Phone
Dayzed Inn Daydreams

oh whoops that's 11, maybe move "Fright Night" or "Only in My Dreams" to the Honorable Mentions with songs like "Menopause Man" and "Black Ballerina"

sweet idea:

kinski assassin
pink slime
only in my dreams
black ballerina
put your number in my phone
white freckles
plastic raincoats in the pig parade
early birds of babylon
dinosaur carebears
not enough violence

Round and Round
Every Night I Die At Miyagis
Can't Hear My Eyes
Among Dreams
West Coast Calamities
For Kate I Wait
The Birds They Sing In You
Getting High In The Morning
Good Kids Make Bad Grown Ups
Baby

Hang On to Life (w/ Jorge Elbrecht)
^^crucial

yeah the one time i've seen him live he debuted that song. jorge was touring with him at the time. summer 2013. jorge is all over pom pom, right?

Yeah. There's some ILX love for Jorge's band here: Lansing-Dreiden-The Incomplete Triangle:Album Of The Year? (i'm obsessed)

i distinctly remember him shredding on 'Menopause Man' at that show

he has a lot of good songs and im impressed that he has only gotten better while moving out of the lofi stuff. pom pom was almost all really cool songs. i love White Freckled (also Four Shadows)

shower me with lipstick
i wanna be young
beverly kills (original)
death patrol
white freckles
ode to the goat (thank you)
alisa
scared famous
loverboy
are you gonna look after my boys?

No doubt heavily slanted towards things I just read while browsing the thread...

For Kate I Wait
Life in LA
I Wanna Be Young
Alisa
Is This the Best Spot?
West Coast Calamities
Not Enough Violence
Gold
Dayzed Inn Daydreams
Can't Hear My Eyes

Kinski Assassin
Among Dreams
For Kate I Wait
Credit
Beverly Kills
Are You Gonna Look After My Boys?
White Freckles
Four Shadows
Fright Night
Time to Meet Your God

among dreams
for kate i wait
every night i die at miyagi's
alisa
witchhunt suite for wwiii
life in la
round & round
lipstick
time to live
ode to the goat (thank you)

his bass playing is so nuts... just thinking of the opening of "Among Dreams"... I remember watching a video of him & his band playing that song live, Tim Koh starts but he gets it slightly off time, or the band comes in late, & Ariel just like waves his arms around like a pissed conductor & they attempt to start the song like 3 times. there's that interview where Koh says that Ariel's bass lines are deceptively complex & really hard to play...