Ariel Pink - The Doldrums Lyrics

Ross: I suppose what I meant by “basement-style” music was something like the music of R. Stevie Moore, who collaborated with you recently. Both you and he seem like two musicians who have a very intuitive understanding of pop music but, because both of you use more lo-fi techniques and methods, you’re almost subverting pop music at the same time. Did you know of R. Stevie Moore when you started working on The Doldrums?

Ariel: “Knew OF”, yes. I’d heard one album a couple of years before I recorded The Doldrums called Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about R. Stevie Moore but were Too Afraid To Ask. After that, I was hooked. I wanted to buy more, and he was just getting his website up at the time. So I sent him a surprise burned CD of The Doldrums, which I’d just finished, and an introductory note and a request for some cassette titles from his canon. He promptly replied in an email (my first EVER email, in fact, having just opened my first ever hotmail account!) and to my utter shock and star-struck glee, he was blown away by The Doldrums and instantly offered if I’d like to collaborate! I was absolutely beside myself, and humbled beyond words. That one-on-one breakdown of artist/fan/customer barrier was nothing short of a dream come true, and made a lifetime RSM customer out of me.

One of the best record from the 2000's. Thanks for the upload.

'Haunted Graffiti' is such a great listen; may be one of my favorites from APHG

This sounds like GarageBand on an early iMac. Also sounds like my old roommate, Damon, staying home from art school.

the album that started it all for me

Fun Fact; the original 2000 release lacked Good Kids and Bobby Pyn, those were added in '02 and '03 respectively, each 'generation' copy having it's own spin on the art.
Oh also let me just say that playing Bobby Pyn through a giant stereo set on a rainy night with all the lights off and no one home, is one of the greatest things ever!!!

did not know that but bobby pyn sounds like it could've been recorded around the time worn copy was made, so it makes more sense to me now

It didn't have Good Kids?! That would make such a different album, I'm so glad he added it

you are a great and dedicated enthusiast

Good Kids is such a wonderful song. Complete chaos, contained in a pop music bubble, with these sparse patches of beautiful order in the chorus. It feels like floating through the universe.
Then Strange Fires... Amazing album

Doldrums was released two times by two different labels:

Demonstration Bootleg in 2000
Paw Tracks in 2004

And I *think* there was a BBP one inbetween, or just maybe Ariel putting them out on himself without a 'label', as DemoBoot closed around late '03

Excelente!!

0:00 GOOD KIDS MAKE BAD GROWN UPS
4:40 STRANGE FIRES
8:47 AMONG DREAMS
13:06 FOR KATE I WAIT
17:26 HAUNTED GRAFFITI
21:16 GRAY SUNSET
24:55 THE DOLDRUMS
28:58 ENVELOPES ANOTHER DAY
34:06 THE BALLAD OF DARBY PYN

recorded in Val Verde CA, Sept. 99 - April 00 on Yamaha MT8 cassette
All songs written, recorded and performed by ariel

Second in a series
For Elana

Incredible sounds made with some pretty good gear for home recorders at the time. Genius level.

Also, I just listened to some of your work. Very excellent stuff! Cheers!

it lacks 6 tracks

The Vinyl does not have those tracks

Yeah, they were part of an unreleased album called Vital Pink, and added to the Doldrums later. Technically not part of the album

Well, Vital Pink isn't really an album, persuae, it's more like Yas or OS in the fact that it was a rarities comp

True, plus there was no real track list, he changed the contents quite a lot, apparently

Enhorabuena!

Venga, coño!