Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me (RIP blogs)

Still need a lot more time to get to know these songs, but so far I'm thinking:
Disc 1 >>> Disc 3 > Disc 2

The tracks on disc 1 have stuck with me the best. I particularly am liking the groovy 70s vibe on Easy and Good Intentions - I could handle a whole album of these types of songs. Disc 2 I've had the most trouble getting a grasp on.

Love to see her try her hand at a 'New Morning' or 'Planet Waves'-style shorter songs album, and use her obvious lyrical skills in a more pithy way, with a sound akin to "Good Intentions Paving Company". I don't have a huge problem with her longer songs, though a couple here don't hold up and a couple more don't take off beyond "good". So it's not so much that the needs an editor, per se, it's just that there's strong evidence she could do well to marry the musical/arrangement ambitions of this 3LP to a 10-track, 38-minute album.

By the way, I very much want Joanna, not Gavin, to be Jerry Brown's lieutenant governor.

tbh that popmatters review is kinda otm.

666 (throws devil sign, splits)

Updated: http://huggingthenewjoannanewsomalbum.tumblr.com/

Good job, Ursell!

Apparently if you are a guy with glasses you'll probably like this album.
If you look like Colin Meloy you'll simply do anything Pitchfork says. (Just my theory about how the world works)

The governement needs to invent a bomb that destroys everyone aged 25 to 35. We're fucking up so bad.

That bums me out because I've thrice been told I look like Colin Meloy and I don't want to be a slave to Pitchfork. Fuck.

http://i.realone.com/assets/rn/img/2/4/9/7/20307942-20307948-slarge.jpg

anyone but us is truly the greatest generation

I was not fucking happy to hear the comparison and, thankfully, my wife doesn't see it.

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Trying really hard not to take Whiney's bait... but really? This coming from a dude who, whatever the motivations, contributed to this tumblr bullshit.

twumblr

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^^^tweenster crying and hugging new joanna newsom album, best in class since crying_hipster_anco.gif

So slimy....

Trying really hard not to take Whiney's bait... but really? This coming from a dude who, whatever the motivations, contributed to this tumblr bullshit.

― you gone float up with it (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Sunday, February 28, 2010 1:49 AM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i'm not makin fun of the tumblr existing, save maybe the fact that it rips off my 77 anco thread

Yeah you invented hipster baiting

just saw the premiere of The Family Jams last night. Highly recommended, especially for fans of Joanna and Devendra and Vetiver, and even for those who at least have a high tolerance for their musics.

http://www.thefamilyjams.com/

The governement needs to invent a bomb that destroys everyone aged 25 to 35. We're fucking up so bad.

― zvocksucker (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, February 28, 2010 6:41 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/classic.png

The governement needs to invent a bomb that destroys everyone aged 25 to 35. We're fucking up so bad.

― zvocksucker (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, February 28, 2010 12:41 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

truth bomb, to be straight up

*checks birth date*

whew

After listening to this I need to put on a Prurient or an Abruptum record.

haha, i was listening to it was my gf and told her i had to clear my palatte, so i started blasting "Bitch Betta Have My Money"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wb4Ev1rxUQ0

lol this guy spent hours making this YouTube video and didn't even know who wrote the song lol

This looks like a blog a lot of you would enjoy: http://indierawk.tumblr.com

still the greatest triple-album i've never heard.

Still the grating-ist triple-album I've never heard.

And this didn't take long to turn into a full-on Joanna hatefest. ILM is so finicky.

as soon as its something a Questionable Content fan would like, we turn instantly

I was just surprised how quickly this went from a lovefest to rabid hatred.

xpost
god help us if faye starts rocking a the-dream shirt

Should I be happy that I don't know who Faye is? (Although I'm guessing it's someone on Questionable Content, which I think I've read three times.)

And this didn't take long to turn into a full-on Joanna hatefest. ILM is so finicky.

― you gone float up with it (jon /via/ chi 2.0)

It's been a "hatefest" since I started the thread. There's a small group of us who like her music here, but beyond that, it's all unicorns and Ren faire zings.

http://i45.tinypic.com/2q06etf.jpg

I don't know, a lot of the Ren Faire zings came from people who were at least semi into her, or into her older stuff (J0hn D.).

I think J0hn might've been the only one who was "semi into her," but even he hasn't liked her since Milk-Eyed Mender.

Whatever. My point being tons of ilxors loved Ys, but now it she seems to be a lot more universally hated around here.

i was a huge Joanna stan circa Milk-Eyed Mender (it was even on my Pazz And Jop ballot). But she completely fell-off with me with Ys and this record. I think Joanna is someone that really could really do a lot of weird magic with the traditional V-C-V song structure, and feel that her "compositional" affectations on the last two records are really playing out of her league as a songwriter.

Milk-Eyed Mender had some dope rhymes on it too, which is also long gone. I always figured her as a big rap fan when that album came out. Spoke right to me.

It's another case of someone who has built a history and a fanbase on really good V-C-V songs positioning themselves as "important avant-garde genius" and rock critics/impressionable corny indiefuxxors who have no concept of real avant-garde music buying it hook/line/sinker (see also Kid A, the last two Mars Volta albums)

xxp basically this

whiney

i was with you on your first two posts but you dont do yourself any favors by suddenly claiming this is some kind of false consciousness thing

Some also really like the music because they like it.

Well treat them, as two separate thoughts, i'm rambling here

i mean like i said above i think the lyrics on the most recent one arent nearly as good as MEM or Ys lyrics. & i disagree but i can see the argument that her strengths lie in traditional forms and not in long 'compositional' arrangement (tho fwiw theres a lot of V-C-V on the most recent one, the songs are just so long maybe you dont notice?). but accusing "impressionable corny indiefuxxors" of having the wool pulled over the yes b.c they... dont know as much about "real avant-garde music" as you is... well, dude, its not an argument

Seriously this why I get so frustrated with you Whiney. I mean you start out with some really valid points and then completely undermine yourself with some questionable bullshit.

xxp basically this

― caek, Sunday, February 28, 2010 7:17 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

haha, this was originally me saying which two sentences out of ten i thought were truth bombs and which were nonsense, but i decided to keep it pos.

ok, i'll take back last thought since it's derailing the argument