Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me (RIP blogs)

A unicorn with four horns is no unicorn at all.

It's a four-nicorn.

but look you can choose between standard 'corn, narwhal, ivory and ballpoint pen

anyway Dan Lacey OTM:

http://www.theblogofrecord.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/nude-obama-on-a-unicorn-defeats-wall-street-bear.jpg

...and with that, bonne nuit

I would have liked actual discussion of the album too, but some things are a worthy sacrifice.

the Adult Swim unicorn game doesn't work, I press the keys, nothing happens. :'(

the adult swim unicorn game is great

tho its pretty much a ripoff of this http://www.adamatomic.com/canabalt/

i like this record, I like the first two okay but they get on my nerves, this one doesn't. It sounds like the Kick Inside. Maybe someone already said that but I can't scan past the unicorn jpgs.

man, wait till I actually hear this album and start dropping 6 paragraph posts of dense exegesis

and I mean dense in the "stop being so fucking dense" sense

Wow, she sure ain't no Vampire Weekend:

Joanna Newsom, the week's most-talked-about release, lands further down at No. 75. The long-awaited, highly-ambitious three-CD Drag City set "Have One on Me" sold more than 7,000 copies in its first week, and gives the critically beloved Newsom a new high on the big chart. Her 2006 effort, "Ys," debuted and peaked at No. 134.

so which two of you went out and bought 3500 copies of this

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so which two of you went out and bought 3500 copies of this

do you have to ask

for something as hyped as HOOM, 7000 copies in one week doesn't sound like much...

otoh, it's more expensive than a single-disc, so maybe 3.5K isn't bad . . .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVCQ2Fq-E6s

KSH's wall, yesterday:

http://lh5.ggpht.com/_e1KXLxW6R4o/SGqsy2YbfYI/AAAAAAAAADs/BAjGFf8m-XU/CM25CD.jpg

though i always wonder with releases like this how many copies are sold at non-Soundscan reporting shops...none of the three shops i most frequently shop at in Mpls report to Soundscan and they are pretty much places that would sell a lot of copies of shit like HOOM.

xpost that's a question, actually - it used to be that double albums scanned as two albums, so that if you sold 10,000 copies of your double, it'd scan as 20,000 sales -- is that still the case, does anyone know?

feel like ksh shoulda tried a little harder, 3500 is nothing

don't forget the copies on vinyl..

http://www.humandmumble.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/26live_wave.jpg

http://www.puppet.org/museum/store/site/images/spunicorn_2818_1.jpg

Her singing on this reminds me of Melora Creager's back in the '90s.

times like this i wish marissa marchant was still around, i bet she would have a BIG opinion about newsome

omg

I have to say, I tried listening to my first copy a second time, and it wasn't the same. I buy a new one every time I want to listen, which is about three times a day. Am assuming that there are many like me.

i just read this thread and now i'm

http://www.plasticbag.org/images/extra/im_a_unitard.jpg

i bought three to use as coasters.

i bought a couple, mixed them up in a hot bran mash for my unicorns, who promptly shat rainbows, which i recorded an will upload as an Mp3 later

hope it sounds like a wire cover

any chance we can get a .wav of that? mp3s of rainbow poops are so lossy...

eh, i'm an artist, deal with it

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AKLvmi_1wZs/ScFRqncTyfI/AAAAAAAAAJo/yuSwfSvGytA/s400/album-return-to-pooh-corner.jpg+%28JPEG+Image,+500x500+pixels%29.jpg http://www.amoeba.com/dynamic-images/blog/Job/21274.x-news-newsomeYscover.jpg

Heads up guys, this Kenny chick is being touted as the new Joanna

he's alright, i wouldn't worry about him

MUSIC INTO NOISE: THE DESTRUCTIVE USE OF DYNAMIC RAINBOW COMPRESSION

anxiously awaiting the joanna newsom/die antwoord mashup.

MUSIC INTO NOISE: THE DESTRUCTIVE USE OF DYNAMIC RAINBOW COMPRESSION

I love you

someday we'll find it
the rainbow compression
the lovers, the dreamers, and me

xpost that's a question, actually - it used to be that double albums scanned as two albums, so that if you sold 10,000 copies of your double, it'd scan as 20,000 sales -- is that still the case, does anyone know?

I actually looked this up the other day b/c I was wondering about Newsom's potential sales. And this is not actually the case, if it ever was. The RIAA does count each disc as a discrete unit, so HOOM would only need to sell 166,667 copies to go gold. But in terms of Soundscan reporting, single-disc albums, triple albums, and box sets are all counted as one unit.

Also, I think I've kind of figured out why I'm not feeling HOOM as much as Ys. From a 2007 interview:

I don’t fuck around nearly as much as I used to with the idea of polymeters (the old “playing-a-part-with-my-left-hand-that’s-in-5/4-and-playing-a-part-with-my-right-hand-that’s-in-3/4” routine). There’s a bit toward the end of “Only Skin” on my last album that could be viewed, if you were the sentimental type, as the death-knell of that whole meter question. In my brain. It has sort of stopped being fascinating to me and started feeling wanky. Like, proggy. I have resisted going down that road for years now, the prog-road, and I started to realize that was the only place I could go with the meter question unless I just kind of laid it to rest.

releasing a triple record chock full of long songs is a strange move for someone scared of going down the prog road

the prog-road - I so wish she'd go there.

At least I now know what Good Intentions Paving Company is about.

Don't forget: HOOM is her down-to-earth, back-to-basics album...

Return to Poo Corner:
Just back to drop a Loggins

Joanna Newsom just made me like her a little less

It's like when Mike Kinsella decided to abandon complex time signatures. I liked American Football a lot, but Owen never did much for me.

for something as hyped as HOOM, 7000 copies in one week doesn't sound like much...

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yeesh, i know. the record industry is really in the gutter huh? 7,000 albums would have been a laugh just 10 years ago.

i mean in the late 1990s, when i worked there, smithsonian folkways would complain that vol. 12 of their "music of indonesia" series only sold 3,000 copies.

how do record labels make _any_ money. i have to imagine that the promotional budget (plus overhead like packaging, distribution) for this album dwarfs whatever they made selling 7,000 or even 21,000 copies.