fans will dig it but no one else will be converted
― max, Friday, 19 February 2010 21:23 (fourteen years ago) link
unfortunately it doesnt all sound like good intentions paving co., which kind of sucks b/c thats one of my favorite tracks on the album
― max, Friday, 19 February 2010 21:24 (fourteen years ago) link
is it like ys?
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 19 February 2010 21:25 (fourteen years ago) link
in what way?
― max, Friday, 19 February 2010 21:25 (fourteen years ago) link
nothing on it is quite as... committed as ys, though she retains some of that shifting song structure
― max, Friday, 19 February 2010 21:26 (fourteen years ago) link
and she ditches the string accompaniment.
i mean this is like the simplest, easiest, most cliched thing to say about it, but it just sounds like shes "maturing as an artist." theres no dramatic shift in tone or sound, just a solidifying of her skills, like shes getting more and more comfortable with what she does.
― max, Friday, 19 February 2010 21:27 (fourteen years ago) link
ah. that's ^^^^^ what i was driving at.
since the string arrangements are the thing i remember most about the last disc -- and i'm still lukewarm on her voice -- not sure how i'll feel about the new album(s).
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 19 February 2010 21:29 (fourteen years ago) link
there is arguably the least amount of filler in a 3-disc album ive ever heard, too
― max, Friday, 19 February 2010 21:30 (fourteen years ago) link
Man, it'll be a good Tuesday.
― Seriously what the hell is wrong with you that you think that is a great t (ksh), Friday, 19 February 2010 21:32 (fourteen years ago) link
it's actually available today. i just scored the vinyl @ amoeba, sf. guess somebody's worried about leakage
― If you can believe your eyes and ears (outdoor_miner), Friday, 19 February 2010 21:55 (fourteen years ago) link
Probably depends on what stores are in your area. Around here, we just have Newbury Comics and then Target/Best Buy kind of shit.
― Seriously what the hell is wrong with you that you think that is a great t (ksh), Friday, 19 February 2010 21:56 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah i couldn't get into her first 2 but the stuff i've heard from this one has me wanting to buy it
― i know who the sockpuppet master of ilx is (velko), Friday, 19 February 2010 22:09 (fourteen years ago) link
first disc so good
― abcfsk, Friday, 19 February 2010 22:09 (fourteen years ago) link
my album of the year already, and i haven't heard a note― kshighway (ksh), Tuesday, January 26, 2010 12:41 PM
― kshighway (ksh), Tuesday, January 26, 2010 12:41 PM
― Seriously what the hell is wrong with you that you think that is a great t (ksh), Friday, 19 February 2010 22:16 (fourteen years ago) link
it's my second favorite album of the year, behind the new broken social scene.
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 19 February 2010 22:20 (fourteen years ago) link
You guys are ridiculous.
― you gone float up with it (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 19 February 2010 22:20 (fourteen years ago) link
it represents a new definition of beauty, obviating all previous definitions and exposing all artists' previous efforts in every genre & discipline as the hollow posturing efforts they actually were - 8.1
― Lee Dorrian Gray (J0hn D.), Friday, 19 February 2010 22:37 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm going to go ahead and call this the album of the decade
― tylerw, Friday, 19 February 2010 22:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Nah, Grizzly Bear's fifth album is going to be album of the decade.
― you gone float up with it (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 19 February 2010 22:40 (fourteen years ago) link
i heard joanna newsom guests on that.
― tylerw, Friday, 19 February 2010 22:43 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, but it was the collaboration with Fleet Foxes that puts it over the edge.
― you gone float up with it (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 19 February 2010 22:44 (fourteen years ago) link
"In California" might convert a couple of haters - straight-up gorgeous 70s style folk ballad, nothing "freak"-y about it.
― Simon H., Friday, 19 February 2010 22:47 (fourteen years ago) link
never anything 'freak'-y about her music and less marmite here as well. yeah I think this album could convert some people who think she's about affectations -- Ys should've done that, but shorter songs are easier arguments and van dykes parts heavy arrangements are nowhere in sight
― abcfsk, Friday, 19 February 2010 22:55 (fourteen years ago) link
parks* that is
You guys are ridiculous.― you gone float up with it (jon /via/ chi 2.0)
― you gone float up with it (jon /via/ chi 2.0)
Was kidding by quoting my own admittedly ridiculous hyperbole.
it represents a new definition of beauty, obviating all previous definitions and exposing all artists' previous efforts in every genre & discipline as the hollow posturing efforts they actually were - 8.1― Lee Dorrian Gray (J0hn D.), Friday, February 19, 2010 5:37 PM
― Lee Dorrian Gray (J0hn D.), Friday, February 19, 2010 5:37 PM
That's the title of her next record, iirc.
― Seriously what the hell is wrong with you that you think that is a great t (ksh), Friday, 19 February 2010 23:12 (fourteen years ago) link
the album of the year will be by a Texan duo called "l3 kn0t." but don't tell them that, because they're not finished recording it, and if they get all self-conscious they'll screw it up.
― oɔsıqɐu (nabisco), Friday, 19 February 2010 23:42 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.l3kn0t.com/
^ replace obvious characters
― Seriously what the hell is wrong with you that you think that is a great t (ksh), Friday, 19 February 2010 23:42 (fourteen years ago) link
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― Seriously what the hell is wrong with you that you think that is a great t (ksh), Friday, 19 February 2010 23:43 (fourteen years ago) link
^ fire yr SEO guy imo
That's the title of her next record
When the pawn hits the conflicts he thinks like a kingWhat he knows throws the blows when he goes to the fightAnd he'll win the whole thing 'fore he enters the ringThere's no body to batter when your mind is your mightSo when you go solo, you hold your own handAnd remember that depth is the greatest of heightsAnd if you know where you stand, then you know where to landAnd if you fall it won't matter, cuz you'll know that you're right
― ecuador_with_a_c, Saturday, 20 February 2010 00:17 (fourteen years ago) link
^
from memory
― you gone float up with it (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Saturday, 20 February 2010 00:17 (fourteen years ago) link
this is good, so far: more joni mitchell or randy newman (one song i think actually quoted 'davy the fat boy') than previous work. still plenty to hate on if you want to hate on shit, i think she just sung about finding a violin in the garden of eden.
― thomp, Saturday, 20 February 2010 14:28 (fourteen years ago) link
'good intentions paving company' is so awesome: most immediately appealing i've heard her be since the first record, and probably moreso.
― thomp, Saturday, 20 February 2010 14:29 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah good intentions paving co. is the highlight for me.
other faves: baby birch, in california, does not suffice
― max, Saturday, 20 February 2010 14:43 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm not usually one to have a problem with "weird" vocals--big Bjork, Knife, Arthur Russell, David Thomas et al fan--but I admit previously I found Newsom's bubble-and-squeak voice prevented me from accessing what seemed like otherwise careful, compelling music. But I was impressed with "'81," and totally wowed by "Good Intentions Paving Company," which pretty much seems like the best mid-70s sophisticated singer-songwriter track that never was--Joni Mitchell would've been very proud to have created it. So I'm hoping to be "converted" by the album, and glad to hear the vocal quirks may have been traded in for a more relaxed, confident voice.
― Soundslike, Saturday, 20 February 2010 14:50 (fourteen years ago) link
which one is better, this or the Redd Fox one?
http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/8kZljgHzlhs/default.jpg
― Zeno, Saturday, 20 February 2010 16:04 (fourteen years ago) link
― If you can believe your eyes and ears (outdoor_miner), Friday, 19 February 2010 21:55
So does the vinyl include free mp3 downloads?
― Moodles, Saturday, 20 February 2010 16:10 (fourteen years ago) link
"Maybe a bit too long"
understatement?
― Zeno, Saturday, 20 February 2010 16:13 (fourteen years ago) link
i mean this is like the simplest, easiest, most cliched thing to say about it, but it just sounds like shes "maturing as an artist." "getting more accessible".
and i like it.
― Zeno, Saturday, 20 February 2010 16:17 (fourteen years ago) link
But I was impressed with "'81," and totally wowed by "Good Intentions Paving Company," which pretty much seems like the best mid-70s sophisticated singer-songwriter track that never was--Joni Mitchell would've been very proud to have created it.
lolwut?
― Mordy, Saturday, 20 February 2010 16:17 (fourteen years ago) link
"But I was impressed with "'81," and totally wowed by "Good Intentions""
yeah, she should make an entire album in a 70's rock-jazz style. it will probably be awesome.
― Zeno, Saturday, 20 February 2010 16:21 (fourteen years ago) link
Anyone that says all 2.2 hours of this is flawless/5stars/A plus is just lying to themselves.
― Emily's Cheese, Saturday, 20 February 2010 18:14 (fourteen years ago) link
sigh
― thomp, Saturday, 20 February 2010 18:17 (fourteen years ago) link
never anything 'freak'-y about her music
^^^ otm. never let it be said that the reason I don't like joanna newsom is because she is too weird/freaky
― MY RUSTIC CHURCHWARDEN PIPE TOBACCOS; WITH RED T-SHIRT OF SURF (Curt1s Stephens), Saturday, 20 February 2010 18:19 (fourteen years ago) link
xost: no, and i sort of thought there would be. some nice pics though. but i was digitizing my copy and found a nice piece of fuzz melted onto the vinyl on side 3 and makes it all glitchy for a minute. i have to return it and not sure if i want to just go cd at this point
― If you can believe your eyes and ears (outdoor_miner), Saturday, 20 February 2010 18:24 (fourteen years ago) link
still kind of o_O by her sex lyrics sung in _that_ voice. this was true of last lp, too.
― by another name (amateurist), Saturday, 20 February 2010 18:25 (fourteen years ago) link
Following on from the Newsom/Tarantino story above, Sophie's piece:
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article7032768.ece
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 20 February 2010 18:40 (fourteen years ago) link
I've got the vinyl on order... What the packaging like? Is it a box set type thing or some gatefold package?
― Deluxe Merseybeat Wig (Jack Battery-Pack), Saturday, 20 February 2010 18:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Indeed, sitting here by the pool in Hollywood, where she orders Sazerac cocktails
wkiw
― i know who the sockpuppet master of ilx is (velko), Saturday, 20 February 2010 18:47 (fourteen years ago) link