stoked
― joagga lousome (acoleuthic), Thursday, 25 February 2010 02:21 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― dylan's craggy larynx (jaymc), Thursday, 25 February 2010 02:35 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― Lee Dorrian Gray (J0hn D.), Thursday, 25 February 2010 02:55 (fourteen years ago) link
J0hn, have you heard any of her older stuff?
― ksh, Thursday, 25 February 2010 03:01 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― Lee Dorrian Gray (J0hn D.), Thursday, 25 February 2010 03:07 (fourteen years ago) link
pre-MEM she recorded under the name "amy grant"
― strongohulkingtonsghost, Thursday, 25 February 2010 03:10 (fourteen years ago) link
No, I wasn't joking! Just missed the part where you mentioned you've heard her stuff before. Somehow. But that's cool!
― ksh, Thursday, 25 February 2010 03:13 (fourteen years ago) link
ha!
― Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 25 February 2010 03:15 (fourteen years ago) link
amy grant wishes she could write about unicorns as well as joanna newsom
― Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 25 February 2010 03:16 (fourteen years ago) link
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"
― Lee Dorrian Gray (J0hn D.), Thursday, 25 February 2010 03:17 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― Lee Dorrian Gray (J0hn D.), Thursday, 25 February 2010 03:18 (fourteen years ago) link
that includes amy grant's christmas records btw & also the song "grape, grape joy"
― Lee Dorrian Gray (J0hn D.), Thursday, 25 February 2010 03:19 (fourteen years ago) link
amy grant v. joanna newsom is less interesting than amy grant v. easy-e, which was the subject of another brilliant ilx thread.
― Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 25 February 2010 03:20 (fourteen years ago) link
*yawn*
― guammls (QE II), Thursday, 25 February 2010 03:20 (fourteen years ago) link
― 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
― Lee Dorrian Gray (J0hn D.), Thursday, 25 February 2010 03:21 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― velko, Thursday, 25 February 2010 03:23 (fourteen years ago) link
amy grant's charms do not affect only christians. she has shiksappeal.
― Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 25 February 2010 03:24 (fourteen years ago) link
lol u mad velko
― Lee Dorrian Gray (J0hn D.), Thursday, 25 February 2010 03:25 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah i don't know about that... but now i'm rocking "don't break the oath" and have awoken.. must jump around
― guammls (QE II), Thursday, 25 February 2010 03:26 (fourteen years ago) link
HOOM is a great dance record, it's true.
― Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 25 February 2010 03:27 (fourteen years ago) link
is this woman like a fine wine or what seriouslyhttp://img.coxnewsweb.com/B/00/61/27/image_7027610.jpg
― tylerw, Thursday, 25 February 2010 03:27 (fourteen years ago) link
pretty sure baby baby was about a unicorn
Baby, baby, go walkin' through the forestThe birds above a-singin' you a chorus
― velko, Thursday, 25 February 2010 03:27 (fourteen years ago) link
man don't even get me started tyler
greatest artist of the 20th century, no exceptions
― Lee Dorrian Gray (J0hn D.), Thursday, 25 February 2010 03:28 (fourteen years ago) link
i don't share j0hn's love for her music (it's . . . okay), but she's definitely a cutie.
― Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 25 February 2010 03:28 (fourteen years ago) link
birds just out of frame
http://www.goldenwoodstudio.com/uploads/images/Unicorns/FUN403_Unicorn%20Forest.jpg
― velko, Thursday, 25 February 2010 03:28 (fourteen years ago) link
man don't even get me started tylergreatest artist of the 20th century, no exceptions― Lee Dorrian Gray (J0hn D.)
― Lee Dorrian Gray (J0hn D.)
ladies and gentleman, J0hn has joined the chorus of praise for HOOM
― ksh, Thursday, 25 February 2010 03:28 (fourteen years ago) link
uhhhh . . . HOOM is 21st century.
― Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 25 February 2010 03:29 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― Lee Dorrian Gray (J0hn D.), Thursday, 25 February 2010 03:30 (fourteen years ago) link
what a disaster for my zing
― ksh, Thursday, 25 February 2010 03:30 (fourteen years ago) link
underrated post btw
http://rlv.zcache.com/born_to_kill_in_tha_name_of_peace_hat-p148803330279896550qz14_400.jpg
― that guy who doesn't get it but doesn't know he doesn't get it (M.V.), Thursday, 25 February 2010 03:34 (fourteen years ago) link
well this is playing out exactly as i hoped
― strongohulkingtonsghost, Thursday, 25 February 2010 03:34 (fourteen years ago) link
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3162/3042224345_ac658df896.jpg
picture I took at her concert, seconds before I first learned how to feel
― Lee Dorrian Gray (J0hn D.), Thursday, 25 February 2010 03:35 (fourteen years ago) link
Joanna Newsom's music made me human again, after years of feeling numb to everything
― ksh, Thursday, 25 February 2010 03:36 (fourteen years ago) link
so, to sum up: 1) listen to mercyful fate 2) listen to amy grant 3) no unicorns
― Lee Dorrian Gray (J0hn D.), Thursday, 25 February 2010 03:36 (fourteen years ago) link
it made me realize that special, spiritual, cosmos-disturbing music is possible in a post-In the Aeroplane Over the Sea world
― ksh, Thursday, 25 February 2010 03:37 (fourteen years ago) link
john i've sure you've felt that before, many times
― strongohulkingtonsghost, Thursday, 25 February 2010 03:37 (fourteen years ago) link
3) no unicorns
you make me sad. take it back.
― Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 25 February 2010 03:37 (fourteen years ago) link
hoping j0hn didn't learn how to feel for the first time during that concert
― Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 25 February 2010 03:38 (fourteen years ago) link
the concert taught me to feel
I remember the time before it as a vast frozen expanse in which no one felt love & nothing mattered to anyone
― Lee Dorrian Gray (J0hn D.), Thursday, 25 February 2010 03:39 (fourteen years ago) link
daniel you can have narwhals if it'll make you happy, they are more badass anyway
― Lee Dorrian Gray (J0hn D.), Thursday, 25 February 2010 03:40 (fourteen years ago) link
http://exoticanimallover.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/narwhalstusking.jpg
i'll take it. certainly better than killer whales, given today's news.
― Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 25 February 2010 03:41 (fourteen years ago) link
http://i49.tinypic.com/2lke6vm.jpg
― ksh, Thursday, 25 February 2010 03:47 (fourteen years ago) link
Okay, yeah, listening to the first disc again tonight. "Good Intentions" and "Baby Birch" are both outstanding.
― you gone float up with it (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 25 February 2010 04:06 (fourteen years ago) link
btw Amy Grant is one of the nicest human beings on Earth
― Jack the Dude-Kicker (HI DERE), Thursday, 25 February 2010 04:23 (fourteen years ago) link
i believe youhttp://amygrant.offramp.org/albums/ag/1u.jpg
― tylerw, Thursday, 25 February 2010 04:41 (fourteen years ago) link
Vision Creation Newsom would be a good display name
― Venus in Fursuit (Future_Perfect), Thursday, 25 February 2010 06:18 (fourteen years ago) link
Doctor Strange, Sorcerer Supreme #15March 1990, Marvel Comics.
Christian singer Amy Grant sued when Marvel Comics used her photo on the cover of this comic titled, "Vampires on Broadway".[20]
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 25 February 2010 06:25 (fourteen years ago) link