Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me (RIP blogs)

Everyone should fear that.

Oh wow, sweet: Mike Powell reviewed the record!

http://www.villagevoice.com/2010-02-23/music/joanna-newsom-somewhat-simplified

My only thing about the hugging-the-record Tumblr is that none of the people on it are actually hugging the record, except for maybe on guy but it's hard to tell.

*one

all of those "huggers" need professional help

ok...so i've listened to this 3 times through//and the only song i'm not really feeling as yet is Ribbon Bows

Is that second hugger Mike White?

hey, that village voice article isn't terrible!

although i think maybe he gets some lyrics wrong and consequently understates their weirdness.

I don't want to be flip about this, because I do think Newsom is someone who rewards a patient and curious ear, but I've listened to the album twice now and I'm still waiting for it to click with me. Lots of people seem to be welcoming her new, mellower, more rounded voice; me, I never had a problem with the old one, and I miss its raw spark. More than that, though, I'm just not finding a lot to latch onto. There's something to be said for giving the songs more space, but I *liked* that Ys seemed to breathlessly spiral from one dynamic melody to the next. "Good Intentions Paving Company" is the only one so far that's made my ears perk up. But again: she's not someone I write off easily, so I'll be digging in further.

@ksh There will be more huggy/makey-outy ones to come.

stoked

can you wear a daisy-chain and ride a pony in the next one? it would do her music justice :)

Maybe most importantly, her lyrics are easier to follow and harder to tune out.

"Easier to follow" I get, "harder to tune out" I don't. Newsom's first two records were filled with this marvelously dense poetry bubbling with polysyllables and sung so up-front and eagerly, it was almost impossible to tune it out. And I'm someone who tunes out lyrics as a matter of course. I guess his point is that all of that relentless thorniness was wearying; maybe my point is that that's what it takes for someone like me to pay attention to words.

some of these reviews are making it sound like I would really dig this record tbh

think I'll listen to old mercyful fate records instead tho

J0hn, have you heard any of her older stuff?

you're joking right? I was a pretty big stan for Milk-Eyed Mender actually, as I've said multiple times on this thread I think she's a pretty great lyricist. but the joys of her music are mere appetizers for the full banquet spread of making fun of people who like her music.

unless you mean pre-MEM in which case no I haven't

pre-MEM she recorded under the name "amy grant"

No, I wasn't joking! Just missed the part where you mentioned you've heard her stuff before. Somehow. But that's cool!

pre-MEM she recorded under the name "amy grant"

ha!

amy grant wishes she could write about unicorns as well as joanna newsom

in 2004 I wrote this about her:

Joanna Newsome’s better than, umm, all them other space-alien voiced women with harps who made records this year. (Keep your pants on, haters: I also dug The Milk-Eyed Mender, though the way some of you people started giving it the Bjork treatment — using words like “special,” or, worse, “sacred” — made me wanna spit bile just to maintain a little cosmic balance.)

however I feel I have streamlined my style now and would like to amend that graf to read "lol unicorns"

also joanna newsome will never make a record as good as any of amy grant's records no matter how hard she tries and anybody who says otherwise is wrong & lying

that includes amy grant's christmas records btw & also the song "grape, grape joy"

amy grant v. joanna newsom is less interesting than amy grant v. easy-e, which was the subject of another brilliant ilx thread.

*yawn*

*yawn*

― guammls (QE II), Wednesday, February 24, 2010 10:20 PM (36 seconds ago)

see we warned you not to listen to HOOM & now you're sleepy

don't blame the messengers man

there are presently-working women songwriters who are considerably better than AG who don't get mileage because they don't give christian dudes a born-again boner

amy grant's charms do not affect only christians. she has shiksappeal.

lol u mad velko

yeah i don't know about that... but now i'm rocking "don't break the oath" and have awoken.. must jump around

HOOM is a great dance record, it's true.

is this woman like a fine wine or what seriously
http://img.coxnewsweb.com/B/00/61/27/image_7027610.jpg

pretty sure baby baby was about a unicorn

Baby, baby, go walkin' through the forest
The birds above a-singin' you a chorus

man don't even get me started tyler

greatest artist of the 20th century, no exceptions

i don't share j0hn's love for her music (it's . . . okay), but she's definitely a cutie.

birds just out of frame

http://www.goldenwoodstudio.com/uploads/images/Unicorns/FUN403_Unicorn%20Forest.jpg

man don't even get me started tyler

greatest artist of the 20th century, no exceptions

― Lee Dorrian Gray (J0hn D.)

ladies and gentleman, J0hn has joined the chorus of praise for HOOM

uhhhh . . . HOOM is 21st century.

he's talking about amy grant, i think.

before her, music was a cold emotionless wasteland

I shudder to remember it

xpost of course I'm talking about amy grant

what a disaster for my zing

Baby, baby, go walkin' through the forest
The birds above a-singin' you a chorus

underrated post btw

http://rlv.zcache.com/born_to_kill_in_tha_name_of_peace_hat-p148803330279896550qz14_400.jpg

well this is playing out exactly as i hoped

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3162/3042224345_ac658df896.jpg

picture I took at her concert, seconds before I first learned how to feel

Joanna Newsom's music made me human again, after years of feeling numb to everything

so, to sum up: 1) listen to mercyful fate 2) listen to amy grant 3) no unicorns

it made me realize that special, spiritual, cosmos-disturbing music is possible in a post-In the Aeroplane Over the Sea world

john i've sure you've felt that before, many times