Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me (RIP blogs)

come on, has to be a duet with Fozzie

SWEETUMS

Dude looks like a freak-folk roadie anyway.

AND THEN HE COULD EAT HER WHEN THEY ARE DONE

(had to google sweetums, never knew that thing's name)

And hey, he's got a good public speaking rep!

http://www.grayclouds.net/adam/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/sweetums.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Zdu2zeiJ1Y

But he hangs around with suspicious people sometimes:

http://toughpigs.com/uploaded_images/sweetums-784013.jpg

ya i dunno... its a weird voice sure but... its not ugly?

Have now listened. I think it's her weakest album by a considerable margin, by far the least melodic, the least well-sung, the least in control of its dynamics, and the least, um, retroactively prepossessing.

it's not ugly, but it sounds like she's putting a "baby" voice on at times as she sings

oh it is pretty ugly sometimes

http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd246/dc19124/snoop.gif

Fo shizzle.

her voice is HIDEOUS

I WOULDNT CALL IT UGLY THOUGH I AGREE IT IS HIDEOUS

some people like her music, some people don't like her music, none of us have anything insightful to say, and Mr. Que still isn't funny. lock thread.

i like his use of all caps.

I'd love to see Judy Collins Sings Joanna Newsom. Might actually redeem a ton of these tracks for me.

Glad to see this devolved into yet another argument about her voice.

she mewls like a baby tiger; this is the direction I think ILX's Newsom fanfic should head in - big cats

xxxxpost -- I think that post means you've just unlocked Level 4 on here.

http://www.diychatroom.com/attachments/f51/8178d1234431968-field-mice-cats.jpg

im interested in getting to the bottom of what people hate so much about her voice--cuz its not like a "oh well shes always flat" or something right? like there is something about her tone that seems to cause some kind of visceral reaction in mordy and dan

xpost -- Fizzgig?

I think Regina Spektor singing Joanna Newsom's songs would be pretty great.

xp: For me, it is the extreme nasal tone combined with the baby lisping.

Alright Que, the cat made me laugh

have you listened to the new one dan? not saying youll like it--the affectations are a little toned down tho.

she mewls like a baby tiger

wo she couldn't get closer than THIS...

extreme nasal tone, and also her voice has a very sticky sounding character to me -- like almost mucous'y, like maybe her throat is coated in something.

part of it is that some people just hate the timbre of her voice, and that hatred is exacerbated by the words she's singing. some people also think her voice is an "affectation," which she talks about in that Erik Davis piece on Ys, i believe

Mark G wins

Like, if she didn't sing entirely through her nose 24/7 and she enunciated, I wouldn't be as bothered by the extreme reediness of her tone, but she does all of these things that make her voice less of an instrument and more of a laser weapon currently under investigation by the UN.

xp: Haven't heard the new one yet; if the affectations are toned down I would likely be able to pay more attention to what she's doing musically. From what I can tell she is a great musician with a voice I don't particularly want to ever hear.

i'm actually listening to this now...never heard her before.

it's not that bad actually...this first song reminds me of like "lionheart" era kate bush kinda when kate was more trad piano type production.

i'm not sure if i like it or i was just all hyped up totally hate it and now i'm kinda :/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Greq05zAS9g

okay YES this is much, much better (and hits on/changes pretty much everything I was complaining about)

there's def a strong "grain of the voice" with her, very bodily produced, and it sounds very fleshy and gross i think is the issue i have with it. like it sounds like all the gross bits of the body. her voice doesn't sound like it's coming from somewhere deep, and the things i love about voices (their thickness, lushness, the way they sound coming out of a mouth) are totally absent here.

haha h8rs coming around

screw Beth Ditto...imagine Beth GIBBONS singing these songs, Mr Perry

(anyone know a good hypnotist?)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYl0uLrXP7U

I mean, there's no comparison IMO. In one, she's singing, in the other she's being tortured.

imagine Joanna Newsom singing Beth by Kiss

i mean so far this shit ain't that different from say this kate song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xakoLYwokBo

^btw this clip is awesome <3

but actually now i'm listening and there's no comparing them as vocalists...kate is so fucking street real with her vocal talent, top 5 dead or alive...

but still i dunno it's not THAT far off in the continuum of music from like Candlemass to C&C Music Factory

yr setting her up for failure when you compare her to KB! but remember that shes only 3 albums into her career & still figuring out what she does

i heard she "does" unicorns

http://cdn3.libsyn.com/dsco/Have_One_on_Them.jpg?nvb=20100224173356&nva=20100225174356&t=0f142bc00ee9d126ea576

a bit of a hasty conclusion, but from what i've heard, her voice is much better on this disc.

(i've heard some of the NPR stream and the video embeds on this thread)

i hesitate to call it 'better' since i never had a problem with her voice on the other two albums. but yeah--its less... affected but no less unique. imo.

is this album any good

"less affected" is good enough for me as a description

kate is so fucking street real

oh word