so which two of you went out and bought 3500 copies of this
― Bunsen burner, bubbles, IT'S ALIVE! whaaaaa-? (HI DERE), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 20:56 (fourteen years ago) link
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― Lee Dorrian Gray (J0hn D.), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 20:57 (fourteen years ago) link
do you have to ask
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 3 March 2010 20:58 (fourteen years ago) link
for something as hyped as HOOM, 7000 copies in one week doesn't sound like much...
― Deluxe Merseybeat Wig (Jack Battery-Pack), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 20:59 (fourteen years ago) link
otoh, it's more expensive than a single-disc, so maybe 3.5K isn't bad . . .
― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 3 March 2010 21:00 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVCQ2Fq-E6s
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 3 March 2010 21:00 (fourteen years ago) link
KSH's wall, yesterday:
http://lh5.ggpht.com/_e1KXLxW6R4o/SGqsy2YbfYI/AAAAAAAAADs/BAjGFf8m-XU/CM25CD.jpg
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 3 March 2010 21:00 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― om nom nom nom de plume (M@tt He1ges0n), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 21:01 (fourteen years ago) link
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?
― Lee Dorrian Gray (J0hn D.), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 21:01 (fourteen years ago) link
feel like ksh shoulda tried a little harder, 3500 is nothing
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 3 March 2010 21:01 (fourteen years ago) link
don't forget the copies on vinyl..
http://www.humandmumble.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/26live_wave.jpg
― Deluxe Merseybeat Wig (Jack Battery-Pack), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 21:02 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.puppet.org/museum/store/site/images/spunicorn_2818_1.jpg
― tylerw, Wednesday, 3 March 2010 21:02 (fourteen years ago) link
Her singing on this reminds me of Melora Creager's back in the '90s.
― How to Make an American Quit (Abbott), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 21:03 (fourteen years ago) link
times like this i wish marissa marchant was still around, i bet she would have a BIG opinion about newsome
― om nom nom nom de plume (M@tt He1ges0n), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 21:04 (fourteen years ago) link
omg
― Bunsen burner, bubbles, IT'S ALIVE! whaaaaa-? (HI DERE), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 21:04 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Lee Dorrian Gray (J0hn D.), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 21:04 (fourteen years ago) link
i just read this thread and now i'm
http://www.plasticbag.org/images/extra/im_a_unitard.jpg
― gelatinous rube (brownie), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 21:05 (fourteen years ago) link
i bought three to use as coasters.
― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 3 March 2010 21:05 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 3 March 2010 21:08 (fourteen years ago) link
hope it sounds like a wire cover
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 21:12 (fourteen years ago) link
any chance we can get a .wav of that? mp3s of rainbow poops are so lossy...
― om nom nom nom de plume (M@tt He1ges0n), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 21:13 (fourteen years ago) link
eh, i'm an artist, deal with it
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 3 March 2010 21:14 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― We should have called Suzie and Bobby (NickB), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 21:15 (fourteen years ago) link
he's alright, i wouldn't worry about him
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 3 March 2010 21:15 (fourteen years ago) link
MUSIC INTO NOISE: THE DESTRUCTIVE USE OF DYNAMIC RAINBOW COMPRESSION
― om nom nom nom de plume (M@tt He1ges0n), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 21:16 (fourteen years ago) link
anxiously awaiting the joanna newsom/die antwoord mashup.
― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 3 March 2010 21:19 (fourteen years ago) link
I love you
― Lee Dorrian Gray (J0hn D.), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 21:20 (fourteen years ago) link
someday we'll find itthe rainbow compressionthe lovers, the dreamers, and me
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 21:22 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― dylan's craggy larynx (jaymc), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 21:32 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― dylan's craggy larynx (jaymc), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 21:35 (fourteen years ago) link
releasing a triple record chock full of long songs is a strange move for someone scared of going down the prog road
― he often deploys multiple browsers and constantly replies to himself (velko), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 21:39 (fourteen years ago) link
the prog-road - I so wish she'd go there.
At least I now know what Good Intentions Paving Company is about.
― Moodles, Wednesday, 3 March 2010 21:42 (fourteen years ago) link
Don't forget: HOOM is her down-to-earth, back-to-basics album...
― Moodles, Wednesday, 3 March 2010 21:44 (fourteen years ago) link
Return to Poo Corner:Just back to drop a Loggins
― Moodles, Wednesday, 3 March 2010 21:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Joanna Newsom just made me like her a little less
― queen of the rapping scene (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 22:24 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― dylan's craggy larynx (jaymc), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 22:39 (fourteen years ago) link
― Deluxe Merseybeat Wig (Jack Battery-Pack), Wednesday, March 3, 2010 2:59 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
yeesh, i know. the record industry is really in the gutter huh? 7,000 albums would have been a laugh just 10 years ago.
― by another name (amateurist), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 22:45 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― by another name (amateurist), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 22:46 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― by another name (amateurist), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 22:47 (fourteen years ago) link
i really don't think Drag City would have be TOO bummed out by moving 7000K units of a TRIPLE album by some crazy ass Ren Faire chick
― om nom nom nom de plume (M@tt He1ges0n), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 22:54 (fourteen years ago) link
10 years ago
when will Drag City sign a unicorn is my question
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 3 March 2010 22:56 (fourteen years ago) link
"I'm half unicorn on my mother's side"
http://www.amoeba.com/dynamic-images/blog/Sarah/oldham2.jpg
― om nom nom nom de plume (M@tt He1ges0n), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 22:58 (fourteen years ago) link
lolllllllll
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 23:06 (fourteen years ago) link
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3209/2511001117_6f8a94e081.jpg
― tylerw, Wednesday, 3 March 2010 23:09 (fourteen years ago) link
^^^dude has a two song triple album coming out on southern lord i heard
waiting for the vinyl
― om nom nom nom de plume (M@tt He1ges0n), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 23:11 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah dude! Clear vinyl splattered with unicorn blood, limited to 666 copies. Only $350!
― you gone float up with it (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 23:13 (fourteen years ago) link
Woah, it's a Doomicorn
― We should have called Suzie and Bobby (NickB), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 23:15 (fourteen years ago) link
gonna be a concept album about unicorns i believe
― tylerw, Wednesday, 3 March 2010 23:16 (fourteen years ago) link