thought this was all a good fun joeks time
― max, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 19:54 (fourteen years ago) link
SF stands 4 SyFy
― plaxico (I know, right?), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 19:55 (fourteen years ago) link
max you are misunderstood
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 19:55 (fourteen years ago) link
i guess i am the monkey, in this situation, and alex in sf is the bear
― max, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 20:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Is that last photo Luna?
― Hoisin Murphy (jaymc), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 20:04 (fourteen years ago) link
ilx is the bumper car and adam sandberg is cutting a hole in a harp
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 20:04 (fourteen years ago) link
lolllll just noticed the harp in that hotel pic
― super sexy psycho fantasy world (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 20:05 (fourteen years ago) link
"i guess i am the monkey, in this situation, and alex in sf is the bear"
I can't wait to strip the skin off your body with my sickle.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 20:19 (fourteen years ago) link
;-)
Thankfully you've already heard Ys so I won't have to play it while I'm doing this.
everyone just take it Ysy
― tylerw, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 20:22 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH-La_rLA_A
― Salvador Dali Parton (Turangalila), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 20:28 (fourteen years ago) link
Ys is probably one of the few records in my collection I'll be still listening to as a Senior Citizen. Only Skin is probably the best song of the last 50 000 years.
http://listen.grooveshark.com/#/artist/Joanna+Newsom/5917
― tin cub, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 21:57 (fourteen years ago) link
shhh our cult is secret tin cub!
― Salvador Dali Parton (Turangalila), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 22:18 (fourteen years ago) link
:-x.
I will try to take the bullets for all y'all by confessing that seeing Ys done live w/ orchestra made me quite literally feel like I was going to die, a lovely death of, u no, sublimity or some shit, something that's a few notches above any other, uh, 'experience of art' I've had. Most esp. the swelling strings in 'Emily'.
Also, I am 100% certain that this upcoming album is going to make the entire renaissance look like 1 big pile o shit.
― FC Tom Tomsk Club (Merdeyeux), Thursday, 28 January 2010 00:58 (fourteen years ago) link
LOL I love Joanna Newsom fans.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Thursday, 28 January 2010 01:29 (fourteen years ago) link
So much that you feel the need to spend the entire day in this thread adding nothing but snark. It really is love.
― Salvador Dali Parton (Turangalila), Thursday, 28 January 2010 01:32 (fourteen years ago) link
My snarky comments on this thread are the greatest wisecracks anyone has ever made on anything since the dawn o' time.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Thursday, 28 January 2010 01:39 (fourteen years ago) link
^100% not exaggerating at all.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Thursday, 28 January 2010 01:40 (fourteen years ago) link
plz wisecrack by my deathbed, alex
― Brad Nelson (BradNelson), Thursday, 28 January 2010 01:41 (fourteen years ago) link
Have you heard Ys, Brad? Cuz I have to play it for you, before I smother you with a pillow otherwise.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Thursday, 28 January 2010 01:42 (fourteen years ago) link
wYscrack
― Brad Nelson (BradNelson), Thursday, 28 January 2010 01:43 (fourteen years ago) link
Alex never stop bringing your magic to this thread
― that sex version of "blue thunder." (Mr. Que), Thursday, 28 January 2010 02:08 (fourteen years ago) link
I didn't know what emotion was until I read some of Alex's Newsom zings, they were like learning to experience dawn for the first time
― Lee Dorrian Gray (J0hn D.), Thursday, 28 January 2010 03:26 (fourteen years ago) link
I still don't believe her voice, it all seems like an act. Will say as lame as the elfin persona was , can't say I love the new sexxxy--starring in MGMT and playing fashion parties one much more, although it's much more believable and "authentic"
Either way, still think she's putting on a voice
― Emily's Cheese, Thursday, 28 January 2010 11:28 (fourteen years ago) link
Seeing Ys live made me bored.
― Sam Weller, Thursday, 28 January 2010 14:59 (fourteen years ago) link
xpost: doesn't Neil Young put on a voice, too? (not harshing on you personally, Emily's Cheese, just generally venting)
― pobrecito (outdoor_miner), Thursday, 28 January 2010 16:51 (fourteen years ago) link
Virtually every singer is "putting on a voice".
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Thursday, 28 January 2010 18:55 (fourteen years ago) link
There's some interview where Joanna said something like: "The institution of singing is inherently an affectation."
― kshighway (ksh), Thursday, 28 January 2010 18:58 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, Google tells me that's from Davis's Arthur Profile, which I've read too many times.
― kshighway (ksh), Thursday, 28 January 2010 18:59 (fourteen years ago) link
“When I listen back to those first EPs, I’m like, well, that voice does sound fucking crazy. There is no way around it. But I know exactly what space I was in. I was so sure that I didn’t know how to sing that I was just going balls out. I was like: I’m going to sing my heart out, as crazy as it sounds, and I’m not going to care because there’s no hope of sounding anything like what people consider beautiful. I sure as hell wasn’t affecting anything. I mean, the institution of singing is inherently an affectation!”
from: http://www.arthurmag.com/2006/12/23/nearer-the-heart-of-things-erik-davis-on-joanna-newsom-from-arthur-no-25winter-02006/
― kshighway (ksh), Thursday, 28 January 2010 19:00 (fourteen years ago) link
This will be her Nashville Skyline.
― Sam Weller, Thursday, 28 January 2010 19:08 (fourteen years ago) link
re: her voicway too flowery
― CaptainLorax, Thursday, 28 January 2010 19:10 (fourteen years ago) link
more like her self portrait
― thomp, Thursday, 28 January 2010 19:16 (fourteen years ago) link
totally on board for her infidels in 2017 tho
― thomp, Thursday, 28 January 2010 19:18 (fourteen years ago) link
more excited for her Christmas in the Heart, tbh
― kshighway (ksh), Thursday, 28 January 2010 19:19 (fourteen years ago) link
??
nashville skyline is about 13 mins a side
― goole, Thursday, 28 January 2010 19:23 (fourteen years ago) link
I mean, the institution of singing is inherently an affectation!
newsom OTM
unless you walk around all day singing things to ppl like you're in a big ole opera
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Thursday, 28 January 2010 19:24 (fourteen years ago) link
I contend that choosing the name Emily's Cheese is bit of an affectation as well. Unless your parent's really named you that in which case, I am truly sorry.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Thursday, 28 January 2010 19:30 (fourteen years ago) link
Jumping in to this crazy thread to say that I think her voice sounds wonderful on "81". She has clearly worked on it a lot over the past few years. Compare this new song to any song on Milk-Eyed Mender and it is pretty much night and day.
Not sure I understand the whole idea of her putting on a voice. Beyond making an attempt to sound reasonably good, I don't get the impression that she is "playing a role" or trying to be something she is not. I think the "wackiness" that comes out of her various projects is really just the sound of her being true to herself. Whether you like that or not is a different question...
― Moodles, Thursday, 28 January 2010 19:30 (fourteen years ago) link
emil Ys cheese
― velko, Thursday, 28 January 2010 19:31 (fourteen years ago) link
deathbeds gettin brought up a lot on this thread jus sayin
― plaxico (I know, right?), Thursday, 28 January 2010 20:32 (fourteen years ago) link
I have always assumed Joanna Newsom does this on the regular
― djembe jivin’ sidekick (Curt1s Stephens), Thursday, 28 January 2010 22:28 (fourteen years ago) link
Safe assumption probably.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Thursday, 28 January 2010 22:34 (fourteen years ago) link
~*cleverness*~
― Salvador Dali Parton (Turangalila), Thursday, 28 January 2010 22:46 (fourteen years ago) link
438 messages and no one has heard the record yet
― thomp, Thursday, 28 January 2010 23:16 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh that's not true at all. I'm sure someone at cloth-eared yokel at Drag City has listened to it by now.
In other news JD Salinger died without hearing Ys.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Thursday, 28 January 2010 23:24 (fourteen years ago) link
good thing they play Ys in heaven pretty much 24-7
― tylerw, Thursday, 28 January 2010 23:30 (fourteen years ago) link
That doesn't matter to JN fans though. It's gotta be heard while in the full flush of life or it don't count.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Thursday, 28 January 2010 23:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Would you know my nameIf you heard Ys in heavenWill it be the sameIf you heard Ys heavenI must be strong, and carry onCause I know Ys don't belongHere in heaven
― super sexy psycho fantasy world (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 28 January 2010 23:36 (fourteen years ago) link