Product Description
Los Angeles’s prodigal songwriting son Ariel Pink shares his eleventh studio album, Dedicated to Bobby Jameson. The album’s title makes a direct and heartfelt reference to a real-life L.A. musician, long presumed dead, who resurfaced online in 2007 after 35 reclusive years to pen his autobiography and tragic life story in a series of blogs and YouTube tirades.
Standout tracks from Dedicated to Bobby Jameson include “Feels Like Heaven,” a lovelorn insta-classic paying tribute to the promise of romance, “Another Weekend,” which encapsulates the lingering euphoria of a regrettable weekend over the edge, “Dedicated to Bobby Jameson,” a rah-rah psych romp paying homage to L.A.’s punk history, and “Time to Live,” an ironic anti-suicide anthem that promotes survival as a form of resistance before devolving into a grungy, “Video Killed the Radio Star”-style breakdown that supposes life and death as being more or less the same fate and embraces the immortal anarchy of a rock song as an alternative to the prison of reality.
Alternately contained and sprawling, Dedicated to Bobby Jameson is a shimmering pop odyssey that represents more astonishing peaks and menacing valleys in the career of a man who, through sheer originality and nerve, has become an American rock and roll institution.
The album marks his first full-length release with the Brooklyn-based label Mexican Summer.
FORMAT:
INDIES ONLY LP – Limited edition of 4,000 blue vinyl version of “Dedicated To Bobby Jameson,” exclusive to indie retailers.
2LP BOX SET: Deluxe edition of “Dedicated To Bobby Jameson.” Includes 24″ x 36″ poster (folded to 12″ x 12″) and single-sided picture disc EP, titled “Non-Sequitur Segues,” containing four bonus tracks available only on vinyl. Housed in a custom PVC slipcase.
Tracklist:
DISC 1
1. Time To Meet Your God
2. Feels Like Heaven
3. Death Patrol
4. Santa’s In The Closet
5. Dedicated To Bobby Jameson
6. Time To Live
7. Another Weekend
8. I Wanna Be Young
9. Bubblegum Dreams
10. Dreamdate Narcissist
11. Kitchen Witch
12. Do Yourself A Favor
13. Acting
DISC 2 **2LP BOX SET ONLY**
1. Nighttime Is Great !
2. Lil’ Birdie Told Me
3. Non-Sequitur Segues
Mexican Summer INDIES ONLY LP: MEX2405 2LP BOX SET: MEX2400