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
guys i think at 443 posts you may be running out of jokes to make about joanna newsom, her music, and her fanbase
― thomp, Thursday, 28 January 2010 23:43 (fourteen years ago) link
good innings though
(i actually like JoNew fine, just having a laff ... a+++ tears in heaven reference btw)
― tylerw, Thursday, 28 January 2010 23:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Can someone with more time on their hands take this scene from Manhunter and replace the Iron Butterfly with something from Ys? k thx bye
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6cVuJiREPE
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 29 January 2010 04:15 (fourteen years ago) link
how much do harps cost?
― kamerad, Friday, 29 January 2010 04:16 (fourteen years ago) link
xp
LOL
first genuinely funny post in this thread
― Salvador Dali Parton (Turangalila), Friday, 29 January 2010 04:19 (fourteen years ago) link
btw the title track of this is a monster with a gorgeous bridge and a completely unexpected wordless coda
― Salvador Dali Parton (Turangalila), Friday, 29 January 2010 15:12 (fourteen years ago) link
But now you've told us, so we will expect it.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 29 January 2010 15:14 (fourteen years ago) link
:P
― Salvador Dali Parton (Turangalila), Friday, 29 January 2010 15:15 (fourteen years ago) link
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4036/4322945262_a5c3ecc41e.jpg
Can't decide if this is better or worse.
― Hatch, Monday, 1 February 2010 17:54 (fourteen years ago) link
that song streaming on drag city sounds a lot like "army dreamers" by kate bushher voice is much improved!
― velko, Monday, 1 February 2010 18:02 (fourteen years ago) link
http://images.uulyrics.com/cover/w/world-party/album-private-revolution.jpg
― Hoisin Murphy (jaymc), Monday, 1 February 2010 18:08 (fourteen years ago) link
xpost Is that to do with the waltz rhythm she's playing on the harp?
― Salvador Dali Parton (Turangalila), Monday, 1 February 2010 18:21 (fourteen years ago) link
probably, i mean they don't really sound that alike but army dreamers immediately came to mind within seconds of listening to it, also her voice and phrasing sounding a bit more like kate than before, at least in that song
― velko, Monday, 1 February 2010 18:24 (fourteen years ago) link
Hatch, is that the real cover? Man, I'm a fucking iTunes dude, but I'm buying this shit on vinyl.
― kshighway (ksh), Monday, 1 February 2010 18:25 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh shit, definitely the real cover: http://www.dragcity.com/products/have-one-on-me
TRIPLE LP TIME!
― kshighway (ksh), Monday, 1 February 2010 18:26 (fourteen years ago) link
Does anyone know if Drag City ships download codes with their LPs?
― kshighway (ksh), Monday, 1 February 2010 18:28 (fourteen years ago) link
Good question. The whole concept of free mp3s with a purchase of LP has made me very enthusiastic about buying vinyl. I think any record company that does this is on the right track.
― Moodles, Monday, 1 February 2010 18:42 (fourteen years ago) link
Love the album cover. I had been scratching my head over the all black version because it seemed just too half-assed for her. This is much more what I'd expect. I like how she always seems to be one-upping herself.
― Moodles, Monday, 1 February 2010 18:45 (fourteen years ago) link
Moodles OTM. The first "artwork" we saw was awful, but this is awesome. I don't even have a turntable, but I want to buy the vinyl just to have it. I'll almost definitely do so if there's a download code. Maybe I'll email Drag City and ask them.
― kshighway (ksh), Monday, 1 February 2010 18:55 (fourteen years ago) link
450+ posts of jokes and no one has used the phrase "quit harping on her music" or something similar
for shame people
for shame
― brews before HOOS (s1ocki), Monday, 1 February 2010 18:57 (fourteen years ago) link
Great photo for the album cover but I'm still not to keen on the typographic choice.
― Moka, Monday, 1 February 2010 19:00 (fourteen years ago) link
Edwardian color-tinted postcard cover artwork? Success.
― Sam Weller, Monday, 1 February 2010 19:21 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't know anything about fonts, but it reminds me of the font from Clockwork Orange movie posters.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Monday, 1 February 2010 19:22 (fourteen years ago) link
But the picture is great.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Monday, 1 February 2010 19:23 (fourteen years ago) link
that song streaming on drag city sounds a lot like "army dreamers" by kate bush
she is sounding a lot like kate bush lately. and it's not just her voice/phrasing, even her songwriting. it's kind of disappointing because whatever you think about her, until recently you could never say "she sounds just like [insert name]".
between that and picturing a naked + sweaty adam sanberg during her tender love ballads....
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Monday, 1 February 2010 19:58 (fourteen years ago) link
I agree that the new song sounds a bit like Kate Bush, but I think she's not a bad person to be compared to.
Strangely, prior to this song I had been reminded a bit of Kate Bush simply in the way it took both singers a couple albums to really grow into their voices. Kate's voice sounded very thin and child-like on her first album or two, but over time she gained a lot of depth and breathiness.
Joanna Newsom seems to be headed in the same direction, though unlike Kate Bush, she wasn't born with a golden voice. She's had to work a bit harder to get to a "good" singing voice.
― Moodles, Monday, 1 February 2010 20:20 (fourteen years ago) link
Why has she been trying to look so damn sexy lately?
― Evan, Monday, 1 February 2010 22:57 (fourteen years ago) link
Why not?
― Salvador Dali Parton (Turangalila), Monday, 1 February 2010 22:59 (fourteen years ago) link
Shes trying to sell records I guess ;)
― Evan, Monday, 1 February 2010 23:03 (fourteen years ago) link
The font works really well for me. The whole cover reminds me of something you would see from that era in the early/mid 70s when imagery and design from the 20s/30s made a comeback. See also The Sting, Bugsy Malone and this Stones tour poster...
http://www.postersnthings.com/posters/rolling_stones_euro_tour_70.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 1 February 2010 23:04 (fourteen years ago) link
BUSTED
― tylerw, Monday, 1 February 2010 23:09 (fourteen years ago) link
classic poster imo
― velko, Monday, 1 February 2010 23:09 (fourteen years ago) link
lol
― Salvador Dali Parton (Turangalila), Monday, 1 February 2010 23:18 (fourteen years ago) link
ilu nabisco
― Salvador Dali Parton (Turangalila), Monday, 1 February 2010 23:42 (fourteen years ago) link
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blarg
― schlump, Monday, 1 February 2010 23:43 (fourteen years ago) link
Hey, in the right light...
― Evan, Monday, 1 February 2010 23:51 (fourteen years ago) link
The way Newsom makes music seems — at best — very, very distantly related to the texture of your everyday life in the here-and-now part of the world. Harps, dancing bears, walnut-shell boats: I have never seen any of these things in a bodega.
it's unfair to splice this out of nabisco's longer graph, in which it's making a case that newsom's aesthetic and rhetoric are distinctly exotic and alien, and the piece goes on to defuse the idea that these things are overbearing. but i have problems with this idea generally. i don't think people consume in such a literal way, or only look for poetry in realms similar to their own - i feel like the connective point between j-new and annoying teenage fans is the emotion and conclusions she draws on her experience, even if monkeys and bears are stand-ins for girls and boys. the particulars in her lyrics are markedly unfamiliar but those things are interchangeable and don't affect our understanding of things.
i don't know if the opprobrium towards people listening to music outside of their immediate sphere - rich white kids listening to hip hop or whatever - even exists anymore, or is solely in my imagination, but i think the argument against that is that we don't relate to art according to its superficial variables but in its themes; we might not spend much time in the forest but can understand a midsummer night's dream or whatever. joanna newsom's waiting to be pigeonholed, and there are enough anomalous aspects to her music & persona for critics to wave a flag about, but it maybe irks me slightly when the charge of being precious and flighty is hung on something interchangeable.
― schlump, Tuesday, 2 February 2010 00:03 (fourteen years ago) link
xpblarg
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was blarging at the idea that j new dared to bare flesh purely as a capitalist strategy fwiw
― schlump, Tuesday, 2 February 2010 00:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Haha oh I wasn't seriously suggesting that.
― Evan, Tuesday, 2 February 2010 00:22 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, schlump, Max wrote some interesting things about that later! I was definitely skimming over the ways things like allegories are referring to the here-and-now. What's interesting to me is that her sorta "make-believe" aesthetic is actually the least affected option for a harp player with a voice like that -- playing stuff we perceive as more here-and-now might seem bizarre for her!
Interesting how that album cover, though, is a definite leap in contemporary here-and-now imagery for her.
― oɔsıqɐu (nabisco), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 01:04 (fourteen years ago) link
I still think this is going to be my album of the year. Still haven't heard a note! Man, music is awesome.
― ksh, Tuesday, 2 February 2010 02:14 (fourteen years ago) link
So will there be an equivalent thread bitching about this album when it inevitably tops the Pitchfork and Pazz & Jop lists?
― you gone float up with it (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 02:17 (fourteen years ago) link
Can someone explain Joanna Newsom to me? I just don't get it.
― joep, Tuesday, 2 February 2010 02:23 (fourteen years ago) link
see there's this bear and a monkey and the wizard of Ys.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 2 February 2010 02:26 (fourteen years ago) link
Can someone explain Joanna Newsom to me? I just don't get it.― joep, Monday, February 1, 2010 9:23 PM (2 minutes ago)
― joep, Monday, February 1, 2010 9:23 PM (2 minutes ago)
Just watch this!:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=032nP0N-QRE
― ksh, Tuesday, 2 February 2010 02:26 (fourteen years ago) link
Note: You should be dying while you watch that.
― Brad Nelson (BradNelson), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 02:29 (fourteen years ago) link
Jesus that looks difficult.
― Mark, Tuesday, 2 February 2010 02:31 (fourteen years ago) link
There has to be more than technical skill. Do people lose their minds over her for any other reason than she plays the harp and is very cute? The voice is a bit strange and inaccessible for the mainstream, the songs are kind of obtuse and nontraditional... I'm not saying these are bad things but I am wondering if she is more of an aesthetic self-fulfilling choice for fans.
― joep, Tuesday, 2 February 2010 02:36 (fourteen years ago) link