Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me (RIP blogs)

"In California" might convert a couple of haters - straight-up gorgeous 70s style folk ballad, nothing "freak"-y about it.

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

parks* that is

You guys are ridiculous.

― 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

That's the title of her next record, iirc.

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That's the title of her next record

When the pawn hits the conflicts he thinks like a king
What he knows throws the blows when he goes to the fight
And he'll win the whole thing 'fore he enters the ring
There's no body to batter when your mind is your might
So when you go solo, you hold your own hand
And remember that depth is the greatest of heights
And if you know where you stand, then you know where to land
And if you fall it won't matter, cuz you'll know that you're right

^

from memory

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.

'good intentions paving company' is so awesome: most immediately appealing i've heard her be since the first record, and probably moreso.

yeah good intentions paving co. is the highlight for me.

other faves: baby birch, in california, does not suffice

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.

which one is better, this or the Redd Fox one?

http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/8kZljgHzlhs/default.jpg

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

So does the vinyl include free mp3 downloads?

"Maybe a bit too long"

understatement?

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.

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?

"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.

Anyone that says all 2.2 hours of this is flawless/5stars/A plus is just lying to themselves.

sigh

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

So does the vinyl include free mp3 downloads?

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

still kind of o_O by her sex lyrics sung in _that_ voice. this was true of last lp, too.

Following on from the Newsom/Tarantino story above, Sophie's piece:

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article7032768.ece

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

I've got the vinyl on order... What the packaging like? Is it a box set type thing or some gatefold package?

Indeed, sitting here by the pool in Hollywood, where she orders Sazerac cocktails

wkiw

"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."

nah, it happens all the time

Anyone that says all 2.2 hours of this is flawless/5stars/A plus is just lying to themselves.

― Emily's Cheese, Saturday, February 20, 2010 7:14 PM

better to not listen to it then? of all the dumb things to say at this stage

breaking news triple LP not completely perfect from front to back TURN ON THE SIRENS

well, lots of acts have stuff to release as a triple album. 99.9% of them will cut it down to a maximum double album, and they have very good reasons to do that.

i guess she really thinks everything is worthwhile to put on the record.
future will tell if she's right.

"unfortunately it doesnt all sound like good intentions paving co"

Soft As Chalk, in a way

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

I've got the vinyl on order... What the packaging like? Is it a box set type thing or some gatefold package?

http://www.ear.fm/Encyclopedia%20W/fuzzbox.jpg

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_b4EwSy36nVk/SlVlb8oJxUI/AAAAAAAAADA/if437xF9Xyg/S660/ladyplays.jpg

http://blogs.pitch.com/wayward/Hot%20Fuzz2.JPG

I'm not usually one to have a problem with "weird" vocals--big Bjork, Knife, Arthur Russell, David Thomas et al fan- -Soundslike

Yeah I don't have a problem with Bjork or Arthur Russell's vocals (I haven't heard Knife or David Thomas to my knowledge), but I only have a few favorites of both of them that I only pay attention to. I don't think Johanna is bad and I prefer her sound to most pitchfork music (god I hate pitchfork music), but I have yet to find a single Newsom song I would listen to repeatedly or put on a mix cd.

Bjork's Venus as a Boy, Hyperballad, Human Behavior, Joga, Triumph of Heart.. and Arthur Russell's Home Away From Home, You and Me Both, That's Us/Wild Combination, You and Me Both.. seem so much more engaging than anything Newsom has done. I'm not really feeling it with Johanna Newsom. Too flowery

*A Little Lost

Worth pointing out that triple album or no, it's still just 18 songs, so hardly some massive clearing-house. First album had short songs. Second album had long songs. Third album has long and short songs. Makes sense to me.

I wanted to like this album, obviously. But I don't. :(

So far (only listened to the first disc) I'm loving every minute--it scratches a certain musical itch for me, I guess. Not one I need fulfilled too often, but this gets at it. Each (longer) song definitely has enough ideas for a good full length album, which could be a knock against it--I don't disagree that it could seem "flowery". But it avoids feeling overwrought through sheer skill and quality--I'm almost always one for minimalism over the baroque, shorter over longer, pithy over wordy, but this overcomes all of those predispositions, which impresses me still further.

Great record(s). Probably better that the new Broken Social Scene. :-)

The arrangements are, thus far (I'm also only one disc in), already way more interesting than those on Ys.

There's just way more space and dynamics. Harp + orchestra can grow a bit dull and colorless over 50 minutes.

i wonder how much of the Triple Album thing is a marketing gimmick.
if it is - it works fine.

in many ways, this record vs Y's is like comparing Wee Tam & The Big Huge with Hangman's Beautiful Daughter:

a psych folk classic turned in the next record into something more accessible and simple, in a longer format, with some boring, repetetive-melody fillers and still some excellent stuff as well.

this has leaked like Ronald Reagans diaper

Any info on who recorded this and where?

it was recorded by Bibbleloo Dibbleodid,but do not speak his name or you will turn into a bale of straw.It was recorded at the foot of Auriuga by one of the Pleiades,possibly Maia.

it was recorded all over the place by five people: t j doherty, noah georgeson, ryan francesconi, dana gumbiner and neal morgan - @ radiostar in weed; at fantasy (berkeley), sear sound (ny); king sound & pictures(laurel canyon); cedar house (sea-town); station to station (grass valley).
mixed by noah g (laurel canyon); jim O'Rourke @ magnet (Japan).
mastering by steve rooke @ Abbey Road Studios