Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me (RIP blogs)

Literally anticipating this quite eagerly.

I was pretty sure I'd hate this, but hearing that it's a capella means I'll reserve my judgement. I generally find her stuff cloying, annoying, like nails on a chalkboard, however.

i think she's fantastic. very very excited to hear a new one...

first time i saw her was SXSW a few years back, before the first album was out, and she played next door to a Lookout Records Showcase, and the venue she played had such dreadful acoustics that the sound of 3-chord-punk and conversations at the bar were louder, even right up to the stage, than her harp and singing. but she just played on with such tenacity and good spirits...

Her live performance of "Sawdust & Diamonds" solo on the harp was a brilliant thing. Also she's never been "precious" and never remotely close to "twee": Ys is as far away from twee and "fairydust and pixies" as you could possibly come. She's a great writer, nevermind the music, which luckily is as good (at least on Ys -- I've seen lately it's become popular to like 'Milk-Eyed' better, but I think Ys is leaps and bounds better.

Laurie Nyro isn't twee.

I saw her after Ys, and although I respect her songwriting and orchestration....it was just boring to listen to a whole concert of 10-minute songs. Plus, lately she does this really grating SQUEAK with her voice at the beginning of each new line.

Hooray for this sort of thing.

so excited for this but also glad that the hardcore will still be there clinging to cat-voice metaphors

im looking forward to this but yall should give up on trying to convince other people to like her

and the other half of yall should stop posting in threads about artists who u dont like

Sweet.

Seeing her in March with a 7 piece band (strings?)... really hope this is good.

hearing that it's a capella

Wait, what?

It's not a capella. Someone made a joke upthread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6q_mHFfOMWE

ah, durrr.

yeah i know..

It's actually spoken-word.

Which particular word?

Antidisestablishmentarianism

Sorry, I sneezed.

^ Joke of the week.

Arsenal.

backing band on the new record is vampire weekend

Yeah, it's not a capella. I was just kidding with someone yesterday.

Can't bloody wait for this. Still kicking myself for missing the YS Manchester show not a few hundred yards from me.

Oh and for anyone who wants a mash-up of Peach Plum Pear and Someone Great by Lcd (not many of you i don't doubt) it's here:
http://www.myspace.com/jickajick

Always have wanted a Snoop/Joanna combo "Bitchez and Balloons."

Very excited. I liked the stuff she did with the band, and thought the EP was great, so I'm hoping it's more stuff like that. I find the Van Dyke Parks arrangements on Ys the album's only weak link in a way; often quite distracting and sometimes even out of time. The EP has a much better sense of a bunch of musicians playing together in the same room.

if it's not a capella can it be instrumental pls

Always have wanted a Snoop/Joanna combo "Bitchez and Balloons."

There's a reggaeton remix of "Bridges and Balloons."

man, i really tried to watch those clips posted above and i just can't do it. made it about two minutes in for both of them. some things really are an acquired taste!

http://thedecibeltolls.com/Images/blogginsangry.jpg

wait, is that me or you?

http://img2.timeinc.net/people/i/2008/gallery/indielove/andy_samberg.jpg

Moore Brothers are guesting on this, and I am probably the only one excited about that.

I was about to say, no one made an easy "the album is produced by the lonely island" type joke or such.

wait, is that me or you?

It ain't me!

Aaanyway. Why is that "sweet, Es(a)me!" song so gorge?
sigh :(

i liked milk eyed mender fine but ys was pretty boring imo

Well then.

http://towerofsleep.tumblr.com/post/334726662/breaking-news

Makes sense, tbh. All the new songs are long.

THREE discs you're kidding.

http://towerofsleep.tumblr.com/post/335537423/one-sentence-review-of-joanna-newsoms-have-one-on-me

this is her Boys For Pele. kinda.

http://everythingdies.tumblr.com/post/336065768/one-sentence-review-of-joanna-newsoms-have-one-on-me

Why is everyone so excited about Paul Newman's wife?

Saw her play last night.

A LOT of new stuff, a few piano based numbers in the middle and <gasp> almost an outbreak of 'ROCK' was threatened until she quickly returned to the harp. Really enjoyed the long *cough* prog rock-lite *cough* arrangements and Kate Bush, I mean Joanna, sounded great.

And yes, she looked extremely teh hotness.

THREE discs you're kidding.

― piscesx, Sunday, January 17, 2010

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this is her Boys For Pele. kinda.

― piscesx, Sunday, January 17, 2010

this is her Titanic

how were the tunes though lord byron? did you come out whistling the new ones?

I love MEM, probably still my favourite of her records. My daughter was obsessed with it a few years back, when she was 3 or so, and knew all of Inflammatory Writ off by heart, along wih a few others. She would demand it whenever in our car, or indeed anybody's car, and both sets of our parents were entirely dumbfoudned by Newsom's voice when they heard it.

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Is this your daughter: baby singing sprout and the bean ?

Ha! No, that's not her I'm afraid...

I've been jamming this recently, but despite the medieval joplinisms my senescent brain keeps trying to turn all of the songs into "donald, where's yer troosers?"

There is a blacksmith and there is a shepherd and there is a butcher boy
And there is a barber who's cutting and cutting away at my only joy

I saw a rabbit as slick as a knife and as pale as a candlestick
And I had thought it'd be harder to do but I caught her and skinned her quick, held her there

Kicking and mewling upended unspooling unsung and blue
Told her wherever you go little runaway bunny I will find you

And then she ran
As they're liable to do

Be at peace baby, and be gone
Be at peace baby, and be gone