Yo P&J, I'm really happy for you, Imma let you finish, but ILX had the greatest 2009 poll of all time! All time! (2009 ILX Trax Poll Results: TOP TEN TODAY)

supposed

i'd rather hear joanna newsom than that

I'd rather hear cats fuckin than joanna newsom.

unless they're hepcats.

still holding out that Cats Fuckin will make the top 5 here

I don't think I've ever heard Joanna Newsom

Maybe it's participatory discrepancy.

those weren't cats in the dirty projectors song?

xxp

ugh the song isn't nearly as tedious as dan's x's and o's-style crit would lead you to believe.

ha for a minute i was wondering if all our voter intimidating in the other thread would prevent "my girls" from showing up. still not likely, though "stillness" >>> "my girls"

xp what plax and and SS said

I was going to OTM Dan before the big post OTMed itself. I love the sly frosty guitar line, the strings+Dave Longstreth hugging an alpaca or just rotating on the mountain thinking about things, but the singing isn't smooth enough to gel w/the rest. Talent is empty&I don't care about it, but their singing here feels like more of an unhappy accident than design.

man i was going to record the bit of a tune i remember for help with track i.d. but now i am too terrified of hi dere

i wanna here hi dere's reaction to joanna newsom

I don't think I've ever heard Joanna Newsom

Consider yourself lucky.

you guys

YOU GUYS

Joanna Newsom is fucking hilarious

<3 <3 <3

like i think its not really going too far to say that their voices match the concept which is "warped, distended rnb stitched back together out of broken indie rock"

like ur not supposed to be comparing the vocals to solange

which song r u listenin 2

ha for a minute i was wondering if all our voter intimidating in the other thread would prevent "my girls" from showing up. still not likely, though "stillness" >>> "my girls"

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/ce/Wire01.jpg

I was gonna vote for "My Girls," but then I saw this guy across the room and changed my story

I just put her name into Youtube and clicked on the first thing that came up, which was a song called "Sprout and the Bean"

holy hell

YES THAT IS THE ONE I WANTED YOU TO HEAR

so happy

HI DERE, plz critique Newsom. plzplzplzplz

where panda at string? where he at? where's panda bear string? huh? where panda at?

that was an entirely unexpected experience

lol waiting to for dan to go "....and it was AWESOME!"

i have also never heard joanna newsom

off to youtube so i can enjoy the fun

like, I don't know if I can actually critique this because:

- She clearly is on her own type of idiosyncratic shit where blasting her for what makes her unique is missing the point of what she's trying to put across, like making fun of Macy Gray for having a gravelly voice.

- I haven't stopped laughing yet.

j newsom haters to the left, to the left

looking at Joanna Newsom fills me with lust, elfin lust.

nah i woulda preferred if he found peach plum pear

but sparrow and the whatever is so ridiculous and insane and her voice in that song makes me full of murder that it is good

like, I don't know if I can actually critique this because:

- She clearly is on her own type of idiosyncratic shit where blasting her for what makes her unique is missing the point of what she's trying to put across, like making fun of Macy Gray for having a gravelly voice.

- I haven't stopped laughing yet.

― PIES! PIES! PIES! PIES! PIES! (HI DERE), Tuesday, February 2, 2010 7:50 PM (1 minute ago)

yah 4 me you miss that this isn't really a b+w issue tho

I know they weren't dating yet when her first album came out, but she was already the star of one of Andy Samberg's SNL Digital Shorts before they even met (or that's how "Sprout and the Bean" comes across to me).

hahahahahahaha

looking at Joanna Newsom fills me with lust, elfin lust.

― they ate only candy canes (Pillbox)

dwarfed by my chivalrous desire

indie folksters be listening to bjork but doing it rong

The only Newsom song I ever liked was "Clam, Crab..."

wow i really want the next track to appear now

indie folksters be listening to bjork but doing it rong

can't tell whether this in ref. to dirty proj or j newsom, works for either though

please to give us #6?

newsom provokes extreme responses even within individual listeners.

I saw her live a few years ago... at first I was 'this is truly the most beautiful sound there has ever been in the history of the world'. three minutes later: 'OH GOD THIS IS JUST TERRIBLE, MAKE HER STOP'.

yah 4 me you miss that this isn't really a b+w issue tho

What black and white issue are you inventing here?

yeah theres like two type of ppl from what ur sayin, ppl who should sound "technically good " (which i dont get but) and people who are exempt bc of their "unique style" or being in a certain type of band

people who sound good vs. people who sound like nefarious muppets

newsom provokes extreme responses even within individual listeners.

yeah i still don't really know what i think of her! idk whether her songs would be improved by a more "normal" voice but for the most part, no matter how much i admire what she's doing, the voice kind of...stops me listening to her ever.

That is not at all what I'm saying. Stop inventing stupid, asinine arguments and pretending like they're my positions.

you all need to just listen to the harp solos

let's not pretend Newsom's "thing" is some kind of wildly inventive Meredith Monk singing. she just puts on a weird affect and belts it out.

people who sound good vs. people who sound like nefarious muppets

― that sex version of "blue thunder." (Mr. Que), Tuesday, February 2, 2010 7:58 PM (54 seconds ago)

yah im totes mcgrotes sure u only listen 2 classically trained singers w/ perfect pitch

hat is not at all what I'm saying. Stop inventing stupid, asinine arguments and pretending like they're my positions.

― PIES! PIES! PIES! PIES! PIES! (HI DERE), Tuesday, February 2, 2010 7:59 PM (1 minute ago)

ok im not tryna invent some argument for you but thats totally what it sounds like