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Anonymous
10/21/2025, 6:41:25 PM
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He doesn't have one. That's how he wins. People will debate over which one is the "best" because they are all unique and good, and are all better than the others in some way. For me it's Loverboy. For someone else it will be Pom Pom.
The downside is that none of his albums stay as good albums front to back. They all fall apart at a certain point. But 2 or 3 good songs remain. That is how he wins.
Anonymous
10/21/2025, 6:51:27 PM
No.128169900
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>>128174382
>>128169773
Nobody posts links in these threads retard. Ariel has like 60 million streams on Spotify is it really that hard to imagine he has enough cultural relevance to generate organic discourse in 2025?
Anonymous
10/21/2025, 7:10:33 PM
No.128170076
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>>128169664 (OP)
worn copy or the doldrums for me
Anonymous
10/21/2025, 7:30:08 PM
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>>128170302
Pom Pom. I know it's probably the most basic and entry level answer, but I combed through his stuff and it's still my favorite, and Picture Me Gone is my favorite song of his.
He's really an amazing artist, and the only person I really think of as doing anything similar is Billy Childish.
He says a lot of retarded shit, though. For subversive, anti-PC opinions, the Negative XP guy is way more intelligent, insightful, and worthwhile. I think it's really stupid people tried to cancel him and the Iced Earth guy though, I thought Jan 6th was fucking stupid but I also don't think either of them did anything bad.
Anonymous
10/21/2025, 7:35:04 PM
No.128170302
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>>128170447
>>128170251
>Negative XP
His music is dogshit he has no talent and nothing smart or interesting to say. Seth Putnam was far more intelligent and talented
Anonymous
10/21/2025, 7:50:50 PM
No.128170447
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>>128170724
>>128170302
No. Seth Putnam was a great performance artist, but his commentary was almost all performance that needed to be interpreted. He wasn't actually giving analysis, so people had to read between the lines. Very transgressive, funny guy, but the Negative XP guy gives more insightful analysis because he's just himself and isn't making a point in his behavior, unlike Putnam. Impaled Northern Moonforest is great though
Ariel is a real piece of shit tbqh. At least John Maus is a good person
Anonymous
10/21/2025, 8:17:06 PM
No.128170700
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>>128170576
Ariel literally hates you goy
Anonymous
10/21/2025, 8:20:00 PM
No.128170724
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>>128170767
>>128170447
If I ever start caring about a musician's "analysis", please put me out of my misery.
Anonymous
10/21/2025, 9:54:01 PM
No.128171644
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>>128170551
I dont trust people who morally grandstand online.
Anonymous
10/21/2025, 9:56:00 PM
No.128171672
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>>128170551
This. Also John Maus doesn’t want to be a girl like tranny pink does.
Anonymous
10/21/2025, 9:58:53 PM
No.128171718
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>itt: a 50 year old meth head talking to himself
Anonymous
10/22/2025, 12:53:10 AM
No.128173167
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>>128174218
>>128172530
That’s that nigga Socrates
Anonymous
10/22/2025, 2:12:57 AM
No.128174081
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the doldrums
i read in an interview that when he was in art school he decided to stop painting and wanted to make music instead, he made that album for his art final.
Anonymous
10/22/2025, 2:15:44 AM
No.128174119
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>>128174177
someone should tell him that he no longer has the first hynogogic pop release on rym. I bet that would get under his skin since he thinks so highly of himself as being an innovator
Anonymous
10/22/2025, 2:20:47 AM
No.128174177
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>>128174268
>>128174119
they just found some random bullshit huh? it must have made some RYMtroons seethe with rage to see his face everytime they look up hypnagogic pop on there
>>128174268
https://baccrevint.bandcamp.com/track/your-worst-metal-nitemare
how are ariel chuds gonna respond to this track? you can maybe write of some of that as not being hpop but this is just gonna make them kill themselves
Anonymous
10/22/2025, 2:36:59 AM
No.128174382
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>>128169900
Hi Ariel. You are bitch lmao
Anonymous
10/22/2025, 2:37:39 AM
No.128174394
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>>128174302
They won't because they hate him as much as he hates himself
Anonymous
10/22/2025, 2:46:50 AM
No.128174533
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>>128174268
>>128174302
listen to this from 1982, specifically the second half of the track
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-4k59dqn1o
Anonymous
10/22/2025, 3:03:50 AM
No.128174733
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>>128174824
>>128174686
cassette release/sounds, not vinyl release/sounds. it draws from late 20th century cultural influences (in particular rock), not mid 20th century influences like space age pop
Anonymous
10/22/2025, 3:03:59 AM
No.128174735
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>>128175062
Some of you have Ariel Pink Derangement Syndrome
Anonymous
10/22/2025, 3:12:34 AM
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Anonymous
10/22/2025, 3:23:50 AM
No.128174913
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some people take music way too seriously
Anonymous
10/22/2025, 3:39:49 AM
No.128175062
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>>128175481
>>128174735
Can't tell if he saved my life or ruined it
Anonymous
10/22/2025, 4:04:13 AM
No.128175281
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>>128175342
>>128174268
>>128174302
big deal, pic related was released in 1991
Anonymous
10/22/2025, 4:10:14 AM
No.128175342
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>>128175539
>>128175281
did you post in the wrong thread?
>>128175342
no, i believe ween share all of the characteristics of hypnagogic pop. and they're not even the first group to play with this idea. pic related came out in 87, or do you not consider the dukes hypnagogic pop either?
Anonymous
10/22/2025, 4:42:44 AM
No.128175610
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>>128175702
>>128175539
Arguing over genres is ridiculous. Dukes of Stratosphere are good
Anonymous
10/22/2025, 4:50:47 AM
No.128175674
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>>128177444
>>128175539
Ween is probably my alltime favorite band but wasn't it R Stevie Moore in the 80s who started it? Like even Ariel Pink loves him and has collaborated with him
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUKltpvOPmg
https://youtu.be/_MylHocGjJU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXTFMS-wPmQ
Anonymous
10/22/2025, 4:54:00 AM
No.128175702
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>>128175610
im arguing that hypnagogic pop as an idea has existed long before ariel but what makes him stand out is that he revolutionized it and helped turned it into a real underground movement
Anonymous
10/22/2025, 5:06:45 AM
No.128175826
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It’s probably house arrest, but I actually like Never Made a Demo the most.
Anonymous
10/22/2025, 7:40:52 AM
No.128177444
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>>128178221
>>128175674
>wasn't it R Stevie Moore in the 80s who started it?
He got it from Paul McCartney, Brian Wilson, and Todd Rundgren. The whole homegrown bedroom psych pop thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG2ILUK1zVI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpEDNqmdWPQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J2XARbp4-U
why did you do it ariel? you would have been remembered forever :(
Anonymous
10/22/2025, 8:46:07 AM
No.128177938
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>>128177925
Let me start from the very beginning. it all started when covid lockdowns started and george floyd happened and ariel pink started looking at his phone more often and then.....
Anonymous
10/22/2025, 9:33:46 AM
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>>128178237
>>128177444
Yeah cool man, we all know about mainstream psychedelic music, great.
R Stevie hits different though
https://youtu.be/yJwk2yZGEK8?si=ddpjxdBMse1NAIyX
Anonymous
10/22/2025, 9:35:35 AM
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>>128178305
>>128178221
His most played song on Spotify is a Beatles cover, he's mid. But yeah, he made some good tunes.
Anonymous
10/22/2025, 9:50:55 AM
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>>128178377
>>128178237
>he is mid
90% of his catalogue is not on spotify so how would you know, zoomie
>>128178305
90% of his catalogue is shit. Games/Groceries is his best album, and even that's just OK. He makes lo-fi pastiche rock, that's it.
Anonymous
10/22/2025, 10:18:13 AM
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>>128178459
>>128178377
A lot of his knockoff songs were recorded to play on his radio show. His cassette releases go a lot further than the short copycat songs on his lps. Literally thousands of songs.
https://youtu.be/dtYBmtnvr6w?si=E7iRgqXm9s0qr5Hv
>>128169664 (OP)
1. House Arrest
2. Worn Copy
3. Scared Famous
4. Dedicated to Bobby Jameson
5. Before Today
6. FF
7. Pom Pom
8. Lover Boy
9. Mature Themes
10. Underground
11. The Doldrums
Anonymous
10/22/2025, 8:18:29 PM
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>>128170767
Almost 24 hours, and I remain unraped.
Anonymous
10/22/2025, 9:15:27 PM
No.128183217
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>>128182487
noooo… DOLDRUMS that low??
Anonymous
10/22/2025, 9:22:01 PM
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Hypnagogic pop isn't a real genre it's more like a set of characteristics and sounds that can be applied to tons of things. but it's also sort of a post/progressive-noise scene that broke off from like animal collective and eventually became new age, glitter rock and everything inbetween. Hype Williams sounds like Demon Sweat by Ween. Ariel Pink sounds like R. Stevie Moore. James Ferraro sounds like whoever the fuck he wants because he was a cokehead and made 80 albums a month. Sun Araw sounds like The Upsetters but with Acid Rock guitar. It's all Hypnagogic Pop but it's all different at the same time, so what matters.
Pink's best is Scared Famous / FF>>
Anonymous
10/22/2025, 9:27:40 PM
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>>128183405
>>128182487
Mature Themes is great fuck you
Anonymous
10/22/2025, 9:31:59 PM
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>>128186624
>>128183354
They're all good except Underground (mediocre) and The Doldrums (boring).
Anonymous
10/23/2025, 3:01:20 AM
No.128186624
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>>128183405
>The Doldrums (boring)
What? Did you not hear The Ballad of Bobby Pyn or Among Dreams?
Anonymous
10/23/2025, 5:40:30 AM
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>>128188426
>>128187725
Good pick. Prob my third or so choice after Loverboy
Anonymous
10/23/2025, 5:55:24 AM
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>>128188273
Loverboy is very good, definitely a go-to. Maybe even my second favorite.
