― Hurting (Hurting), Saturday, 16 October 2004 04:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― mottdeterre (mottdeterre), Saturday, 16 October 2004 05:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― Patrick South (Patrick South), Saturday, 16 October 2004 15:20 (nineteen years ago) link
i love "bridges and balloons"
― reo, Saturday, 16 October 2004 22:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 16 October 2004 22:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 11:41 (nineteen years ago) link
Sell out!
― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 21:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 21:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― Googley Asearch (Toaster), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 21:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 21:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― js (honestengine), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 21:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 21:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― M. V. (M.V.), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 22:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― polyphonic (polyphonic), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 22:15 (eighteen years ago) link
But she has to get more musically interesting yet for me.
The album frequently loses my attention about half-way through, yet I don't think the songcraft dips badly at all. It's not in the sequencing either, and there is plenty of variety (the bluesy "This Side of..." the trad-folky "Swansea" etc). Nevertheless there's something a little limited about her palette (tempo?) that doesn't grab me like it could at this point.
What I've heard of her newer material seems to be spinning towards lengthier lyrical epics, possibly exploring/reining in her voice a bit too. I really dislike judging things from bootleg live recordings so I'm not going to speculate whether this is yet an improvement.
Give her time I say. I think her humour is underrated at this point, and her personality & grit still latent under the image (or schtick if you're cynical) and the novelty.
― fandango (fandango), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 22:43 (eighteen years ago) link
signifieds butt heads with the signifiers and we all fall down slack-jawed to marvel at words. just insane lyrics! I haven't heard better ones in a while.
― regular roundups (Dave M), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 23:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― Hurting (Hurting), Thursday, 29 September 2005 00:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― whatev, Thursday, 29 September 2005 03:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― Lee F# (fsharp), Thursday, 29 September 2005 09:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― cake (cake), Thursday, 29 September 2005 11:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Thursday, 29 September 2005 11:57 (eighteen years ago) link
otm. i think she's very self-aware of her own tweeness, and plays it up because it's funny, which makes it less insufferable than twee things normally are.
the actual timbre of her voice is the least interesting thing about it, she has a natural intuition for phrasing and emphasis which is far more effective.
― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 29 September 2005 11:59 (eighteen years ago) link
Cocorosie are neither weird or fascinating, or remotely interesting beyond the superficial sonic tinkerings (imo).
― fandango (fandango), Thursday, 29 September 2005 12:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― fandango (fandango), Thursday, 29 September 2005 12:04 (eighteen years ago) link
somehow she reminds of the incredible string band. whose appeal i didn't get neither. the kind of hippie music which confirms all prejudices against hippies.
― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Thursday, 29 September 2005 12:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 29 September 2005 12:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― TRG (TRG), Thursday, 29 September 2005 12:42 (eighteen years ago) link
The B. Dylan comparisons are valid, the James Joyce ones are overreaching, but I can see why someone would make them. If you're a Lit nerd, you're on her like white on rice.
Here's a YSI of the new song she's been performing. Originally it was two songs, Only Skin and Be A Woman, she eventually melded the two and added some new parts. Sound is a bit distant initially but improves greatly at the 7 minute mark.
http://s62.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0EAMUZ275929007S13HG8IXVK2
It clocks in at 15 minutes, and I'll take this occasion to dispel the hippie tag everybody's throwing around. This is not some indulgent & stoned free-flow jam - it's a highly structured and crafted piece of work. Dismissing Joanna Newsom's work as "stupid hippie crap" is akin to doing the same to John Fahey's or Neil Young's. Don't let the dress / demeanor of someone blind you to what they have to say, which in this case is a lot.
― Edward III (edward iii), Thursday, 29 September 2005 15:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Thursday, 29 September 2005 15:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Thursday, 29 September 2005 15:54 (eighteen years ago) link
Ah, the other venerable slam - Joanna Newsom as curious tree-faerie. It was only a matter of time....
― Edward III (edward iii), Thursday, 29 September 2005 15:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jimmy Mod Loves Alan Canseco (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Thursday, 29 September 2005 16:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Thursday, 29 September 2005 16:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― polyphonic (polyphonic), Thursday, 29 September 2005 16:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― Edward III (edward iii), Thursday, 29 September 2005 18:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 29 September 2005 19:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Thursday, 29 September 2005 19:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Friday, 30 September 2005 00:09 (eighteen years ago) link
also, is the Sadie song about a dog? that song makes me cry.
― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Friday, 30 September 2005 00:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Friday, 30 September 2005 00:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 30 September 2005 00:28 (eighteen years ago) link
its curious to me too when folks say she 'has no talent':
not to make everything a gender issue, but i feel that's what people say about female artists when there is one thing they dislike about them....particularly if it is a voice thing. its like ok you're not the total package, you're untalented. and your true instrument of expression is your voice of course and you must sing pretty.
― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Friday, 30 September 2005 00:36 (eighteen years ago) link
Aren't your comments above about her songwriting talents indicative of the fact that there might be more than one thing they don't particularly like about her (even if they just happen to mention her voice)?
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 30 September 2005 00:42 (eighteen years ago) link
I might call Wolf Parade or Clap Your Hands Say Yeah untalented mind.
― fandango (fandango), Friday, 30 September 2005 00:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Friday, 30 September 2005 00:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Friday, 30 September 2005 00:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― whatev, Friday, 30 September 2005 01:31 (eighteen years ago) link
Interesting, but perhaps not the greatest introduction :-O
― fandango (fandango), Friday, 30 September 2005 11:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Thursday, 6 October 2005 04:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― acidmouth (acidmouth), Thursday, 6 October 2005 05:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― M. V. (M.V.), Thursday, 6 October 2005 06:37 (eighteen years ago) link
Heh. As opposed to "I wish her well, and I hope she fails."
― M. V. (M.V.), Thursday, 6 October 2005 16:47 (eighteen years ago) link
why? because i've re-dugout the milk-eyed mender and do you know, her voice isn't that bad, in fact it's very beautiful. her lyrics are the tits. plus the harp playing is beyond evocative. it makes me nostlagic for the summer. love it.
― Vintage Latin (dog latin), Sunday, 12 February 2006 02:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― bell labs (bell_labs), Sunday, 12 February 2006 22:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― sean gramophone (Sean M), Sunday, 12 February 2006 22:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― noooo, Monday, 13 February 2006 04:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― adam (adam), Monday, 13 February 2006 04:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Monday, 13 February 2006 05:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― Marcel Post (Marcel Post), Monday, 13 February 2006 05:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Monday, 13 February 2006 05:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― Edward III (edward iii), Monday, 13 February 2006 18:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― bell labs (bell_labs), Monday, 13 February 2006 18:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― Vintage Latin (dog latin), Monday, 13 February 2006 19:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― fies, Monday, 19 March 2007 10:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― Edward III, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― fies, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― fife, Monday, 19 March 2007 16:08 (seventeen years ago) link
New song is wonderful.
― Turangalila, Wednesday, 26 September 2007 06:26 (sixteen years ago) link
Try this link.
― Turangalila, Wednesday, 26 September 2007 06:28 (sixteen years ago) link
The tempo shift caught me off guard, so cheers to that. Otherwise about what I'd expect. Very nice.
― Cosmo Vitelli, Wednesday, 26 September 2007 08:28 (sixteen years ago) link
I didn't expect that MELODY though. It's beautiful.
― Turangalila, Wednesday, 26 September 2007 09:03 (sixteen years ago) link
DUD
― max r, Wednesday, 26 September 2007 09:30 (sixteen years ago) link
classic for other people... dud for me.
― fandango, Wednesday, 26 September 2007 10:30 (sixteen years ago) link
which is to say I just can't be bothered being conflicted about her (MIA too..) anymore and would prefer not to suffer the indigestion of trying to enjoy/appreciate her talents. I'd rather not think of her at all.
― fandango, Wednesday, 26 September 2007 10:36 (sixteen years ago) link
I still absolutely love this new song. It has this yearning, "In My Life" sort of quality to it. Something about the melody seems displaced from time.
Glad to hear her using the upper register of the harp to great effect.
― Turangalila, Thursday, 27 September 2007 01:21 (sixteen years ago) link
Is this going to be another eight-months-before-the-album-comes-out thread?
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 27 September 2007 01:23 (sixteen years ago) link
Does it bother you?
― Turangalila, Thursday, 27 September 2007 01:48 (sixteen years ago) link
Not really. I'm more amused by it now.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 27 September 2007 01:53 (sixteen years ago) link
I know, it's so amusing---people expressing their liking for particular songs in a music board.
Anyway, classic. If only for Ys, "Clam, Crab, Cockle, Cowrie," & this new song.
― Turangalila, Thursday, 27 September 2007 02:09 (sixteen years ago) link
is this a track from the Ys Street band EP or something else?
― sleeve, Thursday, 27 September 2007 02:56 (sixteen years ago) link
sleeve, nope. The track from the Ys Street Band EP is "Colleen". This other one's a newer song she played a few nights ago in Rome.
― Turangalila, Thursday, 27 September 2007 03:18 (sixteen years ago) link
This thread demonstrates the limitations of the ILM c/d binary. I don't think she's a dud at all, but she hasn't really been around long enough for any kind of Classic status. I like many of the songs on Milk-Eyed Mender but I've heard less from Ys (only "Cosmia" I think, which is great) and another couple of songs here and there, including this new one linked to, which is also very good. I don't think she's really going for the twee hippie faerie thing at all, more a kind of odd slant on the periphery of folk (and orchestral folk on the last album, from what I gather), and she does do interesting rhythmic things (not just melodic) with her harp sometimes. It's not background music; you have to give it your attention. The voice can be grating, but so can Dylan's.
― Lostandfound, Thursday, 27 September 2007 05:55 (sixteen years ago) link
she does do interesting rhythmic things (not just melodic) with her harp sometimes
OTM. There's supposed to be some African drum pattern things in there, I think I've read?
― anatol_merklich, Thursday, 27 September 2007 06:26 (sixteen years ago) link
yes she acknowledges the influence of the mbira, which is actually more of a kalimba/thumb piano type instrument - primarily melodic not rhythmic, but it has its own rhythms. See the music of Thomas Mapfumo for examples.
― sleeve, Thursday, 27 September 2007 06:59 (sixteen years ago) link
but she hasn't really been around long enough for any kind of Classic status
Exactly. She's young, too. My answer upthread is provisional, of course, but considering her more recent output, she does seem to be evolving in an interesting way and has developed an unusual ability to write engaging songs, notwithstanding their length.
― Turangalila, Thursday, 27 September 2007 07:01 (sixteen years ago) link
yes she acknowledges the influence of the mbira
Hmm? I've heard her go on about the kora influences in her playing/composing, but this wouldn't surprise me, either.
― Turangalila, Thursday, 27 September 2007 07:03 (sixteen years ago) link
See, this is also why ILM is grate! My vague "interesting rhythmic things" becomes more fleshed out. I love Thomas Mapfumo, so I'm kicking myself that I didn't recognise it, but it explains why I was drawn in to some of JN's music, too.
Turangalila, I agree that she seems to be moving forward and toward... something. She's a compelling artist and I hope she does become classic one day.
― Lostandfound, Thursday, 27 September 2007 07:19 (sixteen years ago) link
I really miss when she used to put on that voice. She blanded out on Clam Crab Cockle Cowrie. The only letdown in an otherwise fantastic show she put on earlier in the year when I saw her.
― I know, right?, Saturday, 13 October 2007 19:44 (sixteen years ago) link
"At the regal Riverbend Centre on Saturday night, Joanna Newsom proved why she’s one of today’s most iconoclastic and oddly appealing musicians: not only did she mesh shockingly well with the ultra-classy Austin Symphony Orchestra, but she also managed to get in trouble for hauling a bottle of Maker’s Mark onto stage. And it’s in this almost-accidental appeal to both sides of the concert-going spectrum—as well as an almost embarrassing wealth of talent—that she has become a powerful force in sub-pop music."
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 22:33 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm seeing her at Disney Hall soon and I'm pretty sure I'm in for one of the best shows of my life. Seeing her on the first Ys tour was one of my favorite concert experiences.
― Bus Driver Stu, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 22:37 (sixteen years ago) link
AWESOME re: Maker's Mark
xpost
― stephen, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 22:39 (sixteen years ago) link
classic. i like her and her music.
― poortheatre, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 02:13 (sixteen years ago) link
Her show in Madison last year was appallingly bad. She showed up two and a half hours late and played a static and affectless set, or at least part of one -- I joined the stream of people leaving early. That said, when I later listened to the record I realized that the songs were pretty good. But I'd never see her live again.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 31 October 2007 03:03 (sixteen years ago) link
she's rehearsing downstairs right now... playing here at BAM thursday and friday night. i can't decide if i should try and sneak in. maybe for a few mins
― Surmounter, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 21:17 (sixteen years ago) link
I hope you did.
― Mr. Goodman, Thursday, 31 January 2008 14:48 (sixteen years ago) link
the show is tonight! and tom night. will def sneak a peak
― Surmounter, Thursday, 31 January 2008 14:56 (sixteen years ago) link
I like that she's a girl that's doing something kind of intellectual, but she just seems so privileged. I mean, there just isn't the kind of feeling of ... insecurity, or something, that I can identify with in music, or unfulfilled desire, or whatever. When you think about it, she plays a harp. There's a reason most musicians aren't playing harps. Like, where are you getting the money for a harp? Who's carrying it onto the stage for you? This is all a bit ad hominem, I guess.
― sleepy, Thursday, 25 June 2009 09:29 (fourteen years ago) link
I dunno, she might have bought her first one in a bott sale
Ha, Boot sale, but I'm keeping that typo.
― Mark G, Thursday, 25 June 2009 09:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Also, I suppose you could say the same thing about a drum kit? Or those big marshall amps. Or whatever. Still, there's this sense that rock is for poor losers and it's like, come on, don't descend into our grubby realm with your amazing intellect and your beauty and your harp and walk all over us ... you already have your privileged sphere, what do you want with ours?
― sleepy, Thursday, 25 June 2009 09:42 (fourteen years ago) link
It was like when all those punk bands came out with Fenders (particularly Pete Stride of the Lurkers, on the "I don't need to tell her" single, for some reason), and I was like "whoa, expensive guitar!"
"yeah, we nicked them", yeah uh-huh righto...
― Mark G, Thursday, 25 June 2009 09:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Harp makes for a bit of variety though eh? Who cares how she bought it.
― Number None, Thursday, 25 June 2009 10:27 (fourteen years ago) link
Good job reviving a thread to make a specious complaint you don't even maintain the validity of for 15 minutes
― DJ MARTIAN IS A KING AMONG MEN. Dan Perry, Tuesday, 15 January 2002 (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 25 June 2009 11:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Joanna Newsom makes rock music?
― QuantumNoise, Thursday, 25 June 2009 11:59 (fourteen years ago) link
she makes Rocke Musick
― tylerw, Thursday, 25 June 2009 16:34 (fourteen years ago) link
i wz hoping the revive meant smth about a new album or smth
sigh
― thomp, Thursday, 25 June 2009 16:42 (fourteen years ago) link
didn't she play a bunch of new songs recently somewhere?
― tylerw, Thursday, 25 June 2009 16:43 (fourteen years ago) link
New album in Fall on Drag City
http://billions.com/avails
― StanM, Thursday, 25 June 2009 16:45 (fourteen years ago) link
ah, that's cool. i like her quite a bit -- maybe not as nuts as some people are about her, but she is definitely very good. also glad she's sticking with Drag City -- for some reason I thought she'd jump ship for Nonesuch or something.
― tylerw, Thursday, 25 June 2009 16:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Still, there's this sense that rock is for poor losers
maybe this "sense" is what you need to think a little harder about, not joanna n. going to college to learn an instrument, which a lot of people do.
― goole, Thursday, 25 June 2009 16:56 (fourteen years ago) link
Still, there's this sense that rock is for poor losers and it's like, come on, don't descend into our grubby realm with your amazing intellect and your beauty and your harp and walk all over us ... you already have your privileged sphere, what do you want with ours?
Yeah not really going to explore this in too much depth because it's obviously retarded but this is all tied in to outmoded and artificial ideas about authenticity in rock music.
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 25 June 2009 16:58 (fourteen years ago) link
http://naturalismo.wordpress.com/2009/03/31/joanna-newsom-played-upcoming-third-album-live-in-full-in-big-sur/
― StanM, Thursday, 25 June 2009 17:01 (fourteen years ago) link
oh joanna
you can do no wrong! If you masturbated on stage and plucked the harp with your pussy, I'd love it!
...
ps. the first time I heard Ys I CRIED TOO
SO EMOTIONAL
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― Guy de & (country matters), Thursday, 25 June 2009 17:05 (fourteen years ago) link
lol
― tylerw, Thursday, 25 June 2009 17:07 (fourteen years ago) link
lol so much projecting going on w/that revive
― spiritual giant Cubby Culbertson (omar little), Thursday, 25 June 2009 17:09 (fourteen years ago) link
i only have ill feelings toward joanna because i saw her open for the incredible string band and all the people were there to see her! no one seemed to know who the old, weird headlining hippies were.
― tylerw, Thursday, 25 June 2009 17:14 (fourteen years ago) link
not her fault obviously
that is pretty sad
― Suckanoosik Chamber of Commerce (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 25 June 2009 17:16 (fourteen years ago) link
that's so sad
xpost!
― my asian girlfriend (bug), Thursday, 25 June 2009 17:18 (fourteen years ago) link
the leopard skin tights she is wearing in that link are way more unforgivable than playing a harp
― thomp, Thursday, 25 June 2009 17:21 (fourteen years ago) link
oh it was so sad then again, this is better on the eyes http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2008/01/06/joanna_newsom_narrowweb__300x450,0.jpg
― tylerw, Thursday, 25 June 2009 17:24 (fourteen years ago) link
than thishttp://www.wnyc.org/images/slideshows/incredible_string_band/IncredibleSB1.jpg
― tylerw, Thursday, 25 June 2009 17:25 (fourteen years ago) link
there's a shirley collins album where in the liner notes she refers to the incredible string band as 'a pair of handsome gypsies'
― thomp, Thursday, 25 June 2009 17:29 (fourteen years ago) link
Callahan,you lucky bastard
― Zeno, Thursday, 25 June 2009 17:32 (fourteen years ago) link
oh yeah, ISB had it goin' on back in the day, in that forest hippie kinda way, but in the 21st century, not so much.
― tylerw, Thursday, 25 June 2009 17:32 (fourteen years ago) link
nah, it's Samberg now. (xp)
― Simon H., Thursday, 25 June 2009 17:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Anyone ever seen her and Regina Spektor in the same room?
― Eazy, Thursday, 25 June 2009 17:34 (fourteen years ago) link
omg fernwood is gonna blow up now!
i went to so many of those folk yeah things in big sur, kinda bummed i never knew about this secret joanna newsome performance business
― psychgawsple, Thursday, 25 June 2009 17:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Samberg and Newsom -
Love has no rules
― Zeno, Thursday, 25 June 2009 17:38 (fourteen years ago) link
also like Joanna for the fact that she's a Moore Bros. supporter -- those guys are like the 21st century Incredible String Band. So much handsomer too.
― tylerw, Thursday, 25 June 2009 17:38 (fourteen years ago) link
"the 21st century Incredible String Band"
Animal Collective?
― Zeno, Thursday, 25 June 2009 17:42 (fourteen years ago) link
noooooooooooooooooooooooooo
― tylerw, Thursday, 25 June 2009 17:44 (fourteen years ago) link
thats what some people thought when Sung tongs came out,i think
― Zeno, Thursday, 25 June 2009 17:46 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, perhaps -- moore brothers aren't really like animal collective though.
― tylerw, Thursday, 25 June 2009 17:47 (fourteen years ago) link
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3360/3500931553_961537f7cf.jpg?v=0
― great gabbneb's ghost (jaymc), Thursday, 25 June 2009 17:48 (fourteen years ago) link
i actually haven't seen SNL in a while ... is that guy ... funny?
― tylerw, Thursday, 25 June 2009 17:49 (fourteen years ago) link
is that from http://www.babeswithdouchebags.com/ ?
― StanM, Thursday, 25 June 2009 17:50 (fourteen years ago) link
oh yeah, ISB had it goin' on back in the day, in that forest hippie kinda way
they were very good looking guys, robin especially:
http://static.open.salon.com/files/firstboy121243828716.jpg
― my asian girlfriend (bug), Thursday, 25 June 2009 17:50 (fourteen years ago) link
she looks so pretty in that pic!
something about her music doesn't draw me in. i can never put my finger on it. i guess i just get the sense that she's singing about things that i don't know about, or something. not sure -- i need to listen to more.
― surm, Thursday, 25 June 2009 17:51 (fourteen years ago) link
robin looks prettier than joanna there, haha
― tylerw, Thursday, 25 June 2009 17:51 (fourteen years ago) link
it's like noah lennox whould date maria carey or something.and yes, im jealous
― Zeno, Thursday, 25 June 2009 17:52 (fourteen years ago) link
milk eyed mender>>>>Ys in an actually want to listen to it sense imo, but Ys is probably way "better" or more accomplished or something
― ❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉Plaxico❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉ (I know, right?), Thursday, 25 June 2009 17:53 (fourteen years ago) link
More handsome than ISB in their prime? Getouttahere!
― Then in walked Barbara Castle with the Lady Eleanor (Tom D.), Thursday, 25 June 2009 17:54 (fourteen years ago) link
saw her live a couple years ago on the ys tour and she is genuinely funny, even if the crowd were sucking up
― ❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉Plaxico❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉ (I know, right?), Thursday, 25 June 2009 17:54 (fourteen years ago) link
so i mean dating a comedian...
andy samberg fwiw is not that funny
― spiritual giant Cubby Culbertson (omar little), Thursday, 25 June 2009 17:59 (fourteen years ago) link
he's hot
― surm, Thursday, 25 June 2009 18:02 (fourteen years ago) link
cute couple!
― goole, Thursday, 25 June 2009 18:12 (fourteen years ago) link
there is film on the internet somewhere of her telling a dick joke, brought to you by some magazine that photographed her wearing couture
i find myself really hoping she has a seriously long-tailed career: the cd-rs and milk-eyed mender are fantastic finding-a-voice stuff; i've never been able to get an angle on ys because i miss the sheer enthusiasm to be writing and singing conveyed in the first album. or the joy in just doing it for it's own sake.
'colleen' (only new song since, i think?) maybe more accomplished than anything on 'ys'
'ys' quite clunky in some ways —
"and I miss your precious heartand miss, and miss, and missand miss, and miss, and missand miss, and miss your heartbut release your precious heartto its feast, for precious hearts"
— i mean, i know how it looks written isn't the point, but i still find that a little naif or faux-naif
i may be biased towards 'colleen' bcz the yelping makes it sound like she's finding a way to indulge the schtick-singing of the first releases without leaving technique behind, which would be +++ good thing
also the ys street guitarist sounds a bit like he's playing on one of the acoustic tracks on rumours
― thomp, Thursday, 25 June 2009 18:35 (fourteen years ago) link
i can't help but feel like it was a big fuck you when she started singing more normally to all the people who had defended how she sang on the first album as natural instead of contrived. I'll let you know when I have worked through this with my therapist.
― ❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉Plaxico❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉ (I know, right?), Thursday, 25 June 2009 18:44 (fourteen years ago) link
can't help but wonder what I'm On a Boat would have been like if she's helped write the lyrics.
― ❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉Plaxico❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉ (I know, right?), Thursday, 25 June 2009 18:45 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah what a pile of shit
― goole, Thursday, 25 June 2009 18:48 (fourteen years ago) link
I thought thomp was saying that's one of the reasons he preferred "Colleen" to Ys.
― great gabbneb's ghost (jaymc), Thursday, 25 June 2009 18:54 (fourteen years ago) link
oop, sorry
― goole, Thursday, 25 June 2009 18:56 (fourteen years ago) link
― ❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉Plaxico❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉ (I know, right?)
I think the reality is that when she was first starting out, she hadn't really sung before and wasn't too great at it. Some people found it "endearing", others "contrived".
But she's obviously a perfectionist who works hard at all the things she does. I'm guessing that she's either taken some vocal lessons or just worked at it a lot since the first album. She's gotten to be quite good and will probably continue to improve.
Seeing her live on the Ys tour, the thing that amazed me the most was how good and well-controlled her voice sounded.
― Moodles, Thursday, 25 June 2009 19:00 (fourteen years ago) link
kinda can't believe there's much debate about the dexterity/accomplishment of her voice http://www.mediafire.com/file/15ueodzydmz/joanna-newsom-esame.mp3
― the heart is a lonely hamster (schlump), Thursday, 25 June 2009 19:12 (fourteen years ago) link
oh i'm not sure the fleetwood mac thing is particularly accurate but i meant it in a positive way, yeah
i have now accidentally played the above track over the top of 'tusk', which comes closer to working than it ought, but still doesn't really work
― thomp, Thursday, 25 June 2009 19:29 (fourteen years ago) link
She has a bit of a comedic turn in the video for MGMT's Kids too
― Number None, Thursday, 25 June 2009 22:27 (fourteen years ago) link
That Esame song is fantastic.
― ecuador_with_a_c, Friday, 26 June 2009 02:38 (fourteen years ago) link
ws gonna say
― ❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉Plaxico❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉ (I know, right?), Friday, 26 June 2009 09:02 (fourteen years ago) link
http://mistermort.typepad.com/.a/6a010535d07789970c01287594b3e7970c-800wi
― velko, Friday, 20 November 2009 20:04 (fourteen years ago) link
http://mistermort.typepad.com/.a/6a010535d07789970c0120a692f4cc970b-800wi
― velko, Friday, 20 November 2009 20:05 (fourteen years ago) link
nice shoes? heard from a friend who plays on her upcoming album that the new one is "more down to earth" than Ys.
― tylerw, Friday, 20 November 2009 20:08 (fourteen years ago) link
She finished recording her new album apparently. If "Esame" isn't in it there is no hope for this world, imo.
― Turangalila, Friday, 20 November 2009 20:14 (fourteen years ago) link
tylerw, what you should do is find out if there's strings in this new album. :)
Doesn't sound like strings are a big part of it -- at least compared to the last one. This one was recorded with her touring band mainly ... It's more of a "band" sound, I guess.
― tylerw, Friday, 20 November 2009 20:23 (fourteen years ago) link
Also it might be a "triple album" apparently.
― tylerw, Friday, 20 November 2009 20:24 (fourteen years ago) link
!
― Turangalila, Friday, 20 November 2009 20:32 (fourteen years ago) link
a small ensemble recording sounds great!
still one of the best shows I have ever seen
― sleeve, Friday, 20 November 2009 20:40 (fourteen years ago) link
wahthttp://www.wmagazine.com/images/fashion/2009/12/fass_armani_03_v.jpg
― Nuyorican oatmeal (jaymc), Friday, 20 November 2009 20:53 (fourteen years ago) link
http://19.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_koymtfXv9w1qa10kgo1_r1_400.jpg
― steenship HOOSiers (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 20 November 2009 21:05 (fourteen years ago) link
So it will be a more down-to-earth triple album?
Makes sense.
― Moodles, Friday, 20 November 2009 21:46 (fourteen years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/5YiDv.gif
― markers, Sunday, 15 May 2011 03:17 (twelve years ago) link
she's got it all. sass, ass, shoes, voice, harp skills, curves, legs, entire english dictionary memorised, whimsy
i mean, what
― jumpskins, Sunday, 15 May 2011 15:50 (twelve years ago) link
Listening to Joanna Newsom is like being attacked by smurfs. But I'd give her a classic because no one sounds like her. I can't stand her music though.
― thirdalternative, Sunday, 15 May 2011 17:03 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.style.com/blogs/stylefile/wp-content/uploads/wren-joanna-newsom-1.jpg
http://www.style.com/stylefile/2012/11/wren-a-songbird-joanna-newsom-lends-a-string/
― buzza, Saturday, 22 December 2012 21:28 (eleven years ago) link
Whimsy is just the right word for the video’s star, the adored singer/songwriter and harpist Joanna Newsom. Newsom, harp in tow, performed a cover of Sandy Denny’s folksy, 1971 sea shanty “The North Star Grassman and the Ravens.” “Aesthetically, her songs are really inspiring to me—they’re really bold strokes that feel sort of theatrical and they’re interested in story,” Newsom said of Denny’s melancholy track and creative collaboration it inspired. “The fashion and design that I’m interested in also has to do with story, very strong statements that have some sort of narrative to them, that they aren’t just interested in the now.”
― buzza, Saturday, 22 December 2012 21:29 (eleven years ago) link
http://twitter.com/Grimezsz/status/280377599946010624
― markers, Saturday, 22 December 2012 23:44 (eleven years ago) link
Not too sure how many Joanna fans will actually buy this, but nice to know it'll be out there.
http://jtclassics.co.uk/product.php?id_product=49
Hard Skin, the most popular oi! punk band around, send a strong message to their massive fanbase of women by doing a collaboration record with a lot of very famous females who are huge fans of the band as people as well as as a band. They have redone their whole new classic album On The Balls but have let the ladies take over the main vocals! What could have turned out to be really funny is actually absolutely brilliant and another classic!
http://jtclassics.co.uk/img/p/49-104-thickbox.jpg
― it's all fuck what sit says, we'll do our own thing (Matt #2), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 16:36 (eleven years ago) link
There's a sound sample on Amazon, definitely sounds like her:http://www.amazon.com/The-Man-Who-Ran-Town/dp/B00B1BQ98Y
― a la recherche du tempbans perdu (NickB), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 16:42 (eleven years ago) link
http://vimeo.com/61742904
― Luna has new answers (buzza), Tuesday, 19 March 2013 01:29 (eleven years ago) link
http://24.media.tumblr.com/9318917232af82f16bbff64d0b839ca4/tumblr_mmz0xdKvtq1qa1ubyo1_1280.jpg
― markers, Saturday, 8 June 2013 04:03 (ten years ago) link
http://24.media.tumblr.com/dbd7e4b6c6ed592fce7e361afe5fd040/tumblr_mq9fg36Ile1qhug3qo5_500.png
― markers, Monday, 29 July 2013 12:57 (ten years ago) link
I can totally hear her in all the stuff she picks:
http://www.vogue.com/8204763/inherent-vice-joanna-newsom-1970s-songs/
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 23:01 (nine years ago) link
Crossing my fingers for Gentle Giant influence on the next album. She's at her best on twistier tracks like "Have One On Me".
― jmm, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 23:09 (nine years ago) link
Saw her live this week, she's amazing. In tears for "Only Skin", and I came away with newfound appreciation for the non-Ys songs she played. I'm in utter awe at what an amazing performer she is.
― Antonym Scalia (Leee), Wednesday, 27 November 2019 20:40 (four years ago) link
THE STRINGS/KEYS REINCIDENCETrill the trumpets!Hoist the flags!Raise the gates of the city!Rip the protective plastic covers off the furniture!For lo, Joanna Newsom, balladeer without compeer, Nevada City’s native daughter and Aureate Laureate of these Austral climes, comes riding down the mountain (sidesaddle, natch) to undertake a limited Los Angeles solo residency at The Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever, May 15th through May 19th, 2024! Though she rides alone this time, Joanna comes equipped with her usual blistering wind-up double punch to wreak raptures upon harp and piano alike.I know what you’re thinking — we’re all thinking it — What’s in the saddlebag, Newsom? It’s hard to tell from here, but darn if she doesn’t seem to be packing new tunes! What’s your pleasure? The golden oldies? Perhaps a cover song or two? A 17-minuter for the large-bladdered among us? Over the space of these five nights she’ll sing some, strum some, pluckety plunk some, and probably sonically boggle your noggin. The noggin inside your heart.You should only read this next part if you're a child, or know one who's cool: the May 18th show will be a 3:30pm (doors at 2:30) Matinee Performance strictly for kids under 18 (and their keepers), where Mrs. Newsom has promised to forgo the "blue" material we've all come to know (and respect) her for, and instead tailor the setlist to be not only suitable for children, but specifically designed with them in mind. Tickets for this show will only be available for the little ones (and their keepers), a policy as ironclad as it is unenforceable!Now as for the rest of the dates, old timer — mark them on your calendar, tattoo them on your forehead, brand them on the back of your wizened hands, but remember — only a ticket will get you in the door.What side of history do you want to be on? The underside? The wet part? The index? The table of contents? Or the future of music? We think the answer, like God’s grace, speaks for herself.
For lo, Joanna Newsom, balladeer without compeer, Nevada City’s native daughter and Aureate Laureate of these Austral climes, comes riding down the mountain (sidesaddle, natch) to undertake a limited Los Angeles solo residency at The Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever, May 15th through May 19th, 2024!
Though she rides alone this time, Joanna comes equipped with her usual blistering wind-up double punch to wreak raptures upon harp and piano alike.
I know what you’re thinking — we’re all thinking it — What’s in the saddlebag, Newsom? It’s hard to tell from here, but darn if she doesn’t seem to be packing new tunes! What’s your pleasure? The golden oldies? Perhaps a cover song or two? A 17-minuter for the large-bladdered among us? Over the space of these five nights she’ll sing some, strum some, pluckety plunk some, and probably sonically boggle your noggin. The noggin inside your heart.
You should only read this next part if you're a child, or know one who's cool: the May 18th show will be a 3:30pm (doors at 2:30) Matinee Performance strictly for kids under 18 (and their keepers), where Mrs. Newsom has promised to forgo the "blue" material we've all come to know (and respect) her for, and instead tailor the setlist to be not only suitable for children, but specifically designed with them in mind. Tickets for this show will only be available for the little ones (and their keepers), a policy as ironclad as it is unenforceable!
Now as for the rest of the dates, old timer — mark them on your calendar, tattoo them on your forehead, brand them on the back of your wizened hands, but remember — only a ticket will get you in the door.
What side of history do you want to be on? The underside? The wet part? The index? The table of contents? Or the future of music? We think the answer, like God’s grace, speaks for herself.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 11 March 2024 14:04 (one month ago) link
what on earth is a joanna newsom show tailored specifically for children going to be like
i hope that new album is coming soon, those new songs she debuted last year were wonderful and it's been nearly a decade!
― ufo, Monday, 11 March 2024 14:11 (one month ago) link
That is thee most Drag City press release of all thee Drag City press releases; also, ofc, a Joanna Newsom show tailored to children is a Joanna Newsom show
― Funding Hostile (Craig D.), Monday, 11 March 2024 15:21 (one month ago) link
(I have to assume her 'blue' lyrical content would go way over the heads of those whose lil' ears are protected)
― Funding Hostile (Craig D.), Monday, 11 March 2024 15:23 (one month ago) link
lol at any kids being able to pick out anything from her songs, "blue" or not. "Mommy, what did the pretty harp lady mean when she sang 'And the articulation in our elbows and knees makes us buckle, and we couple in endless increase as the audience admires'?"
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 11 March 2024 15:33 (one month ago) link
You'd be surprised -- I had to take my nephew's iphone away after I caught him texting about "cockles" and "cowries"
― Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Monday, 11 March 2024 16:09 (one month ago) link
The perk and protection of being a Drag City artist is having Rian Murphy press releases that take the piss out of press releases while also getting the info across.
― paisley got boring (Eazy), Monday, 11 March 2024 16:26 (one month ago) link
Very weird to have a kids show at the fucking CEMETARY
― The SoyBoy West Coast (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 11 March 2024 16:40 (one month ago) link
Hey, they gotta learn somehow.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 11 March 2024 17:02 (one month ago) link
Tickets on sale Friday at 10 a.m. Pacific (stampede expected).
― paisley got boring (Eazy), Monday, 11 March 2024 17:50 (one month ago) link