Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me (RIP blogs)

from now on JN shall be known as "Stat"

Stat Newsome, the world's greatest snooker player, dominating the competition with her fabled unicorn cue

(I used to work with a dude whose initials are JN who recently started a Facebook group talking about how Scott Brown had betrayed Republicans by voting to allow debate on the Democrats' jobs bill go forward so large chunks of this thread are very disorienting to me until I remember we're talking about everyone's favorite squawking fae)

The Virile Man's Guide to Liking Joanna Newsom

http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2010/02/the-virile-mans-guide-to-liking-joanna-newsom.html

ksh jn is really pissed at you about this not listening stuff, you better call her stat

― Lee Dorrian Gray (J0hn D.)

Called her ten minutes ago to do damage control; she'll keep making music as long as HOOM remains my album of the year, whether I've listened to it or not.

901 posts and no big HOOM aka jokes?

would you hit play already

Still hoping for a ksh liveblog.

you're making unicorns cry

unicorns dandelions and daffodils
baleen whales and wailing krill
slipping slenderly slotted spoons
falling into waiting wombs

What a disaster for unicorns.

UOI'mHAF, are those lyrics for real? he he

jesus ilxor i seriously thought you had made a joke URL there...

wow...what does this ethereal hussy do to otherwise rational dongs?

that blog post is about a dude who hates joanna newsom, and a dude who is ashamed of liking her

hang on wait this is the third track

surprise in both directions

wow...what does this ethereal hussy do to otherwise rational dongs?

Huge lol in the office, gawwwd!

Length of Symphonies
Symphonies grew out of opera overtures, and the earliest are 8-10 minutes long. By the time of Haydn and Mozart in the late 18th century they ran 20-30 minutes. Beethoven expanded the size; his shortest are about 25 minutes, but his 3rd runs 55 minutes and his 9th runs 70 minutes. The length of CDs was supposedly picked by a record-company executive who said, "Make it long enough to fit Beethoven's Ninth." The next generation (Schubert, Mendelssohn, Schumann) were mostly shorter again (about 35 minutes), but Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique runs 50 minutes. Most late 19th century symphonies (Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Dvorak) run 40-50 minutes, but other composers (Bruckner, Mahler) run longer. Mahler's 3rd runs about 2 hours and is, I think, in the Guinness Book of World Records. After Mahler, most symphonies were much shorter. Prokofiev's 1st "Classical" is only 12 minutes. Most 20th century symphonies are 20-30 minutes, though others are 40-45 and a few run as long as 70 minutes.

louis you are completely making my day just by being you and i thank you. also, I know jn was quoted a few minutes ago as having said that she is completely over ksh and is now firmly in the lj admiration society so you're in like flynn my man, congratulation

RIP ksh

serious real talk here for a second: Ys should have been indexed, marketed and released as one 50-minute song

further serious real talk: if I ever rubbished this album without listening to it, I take that back. it's pretty good. I think it works because it seems so improvised, so unpredictable...it's a musical journey through one person's fresh inspiration, and I dig that. the strings may occasionally threaten to veer the wrong side of Jean-Pierre Jeunet but they're kept in sufficient check, and deployed with sufficient craft, to be on the whole a boon.

it's not world-ending brilliance, but I like it and am pleased I gave over time to listen to it.

triple-albums suck tho

lj have you heard the new cathedral

that shit is off the chain

dude I am a *huge* fan of Chrome Hoof which is the Smee brothers' disco-metal side-project - given the quality of that, it's a pretty surefire bet I'll dig Cathedral, so yeah I'll be on that just as soon as Joanna lets me outta the bedroom

There are no new cathedrals.

joanna peesom

― (uh oh I'm having a fantasy)

Lou1s, can you kindly confirm/deny fantasy's fantasy for us?

ever wondered why it's called "sawdust & diamonds"?

No, but I have wondered about "the milk-eyed mender"...

nights in get pretty wild when you're knocking socks with semi-sylvan indie harpists

"tastes like unicorn tears"

heavens, what luck! she's in musth!

looooooouis!

(aka something good came out of this godforsaken thread)

thread is totally classic

gotta wade thru too many ilxor posts and ksh (i'm kidding! no maybe i'm not!) posts

the next artist on my iTunes is Jobriath, which feels quite apt somehow

Joanna Poosom

newsome/jobraith/virgin prunes trifecta of emoting doom

gotta wade thru too many ilxor posts and ksh (i'm kidding! no maybe i'm not!) posts

Nothing to say except you should've known this would get a reply from me. Which doesn't mean I have anything particularly useful to say (I don't), just that I'm giving you one more post to wade through. ;-)

The pictures in the liner notes might as well be from a Calvin Klein ad. And sweet jesus I had no idea her legs were so ridiculously long.

I'm impressed with the album after one listen. Reining in her voice and the overwrought/melodramatic moments of Ys plays to her advantage, in my opinion. She also sounds more confident and relaxed, which in turn has the songs breathing accordingly.

album of the decade

lol

magna carta -> gutenburg -> HOOM

too bad she couldn't have found space on this triple-disc to duet with ex-hold steady keyboardist, Fancy von Mustache.

Jobriath -> Mika -> Cathedral

What does HOOM stand for?
Holy Order of MANS (Monastic New Age group most of whose members converted to Eastern Orthodoxy)

This definition appears very rarely and is found in the following Acronym Finder categories:

* Organizations, NGOs, schools, universities, etc.

Holy Order of MANS

if this revelation does not result in 1p3 feline photoshopping bacchanale I am asking for my money back

I Love Joanna Newsom

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...just finished listening to HOOM...my immediate impressions are varied. I don't think it's as sonically ambitious or melodically satisfying as Ys/but there are some stunning moments on this record. The songs that were previewed by Drag City, all stand-out in addition to Baby Birch, and the remarkable Go Long. Again, Newsom's lyrics shine throughout, and she continues her naturalist focus.

"all stand-out in addition to Baby Birch, and the remarkable Go Long"

funny. those are the "repetetive, boring one-line-melody" songs that i talked about before, but it seems lots of people like them.

I find this far more melodically rich than Ys, but perhaps that is a casualty of my regarding Ys with extreme suspicion and suspended boredom for so long. I don't know.