Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me (RIP blogs)

law-less-ness!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RO0f853ejAo

end everything

also DEEEEOOOOOOW

apparently Animal Collective uke covers are a thing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-K8Q9r_mw0o

end everything

― oh shit sorry another useless post (acoleuthic)

basically

not a uke cover, but it has 32,500+ views

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xjgZN4fQQo

32,507 views

loooool @ still

High School Hipster Freeze Frame

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEg-hE7TVlo

why the fuck is this shit getting posted to the hoom thread

ksh get a blog jesus christ

happy Friday night cad!

hoom is bigger than all of us now

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_bobRkndeU9s/SWJZ7EuH47I/AAAAAAAAAgU/5fzJQQaM69Y/s400/Obama-Centaur_colored.gif

lol wtf @ all-skin centaur

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCVvcQnb7VU

yes, that is me

holy shit this video is the worst

ok honestly what the FUCK was in that gigantor martini glass?

"eternity spreads itself out"

I don't think I've ever seen anyone drink a mushroom & weed martini before

hahahahahaha

for extra lols, click "CC," then click "Transcribe Audio"

transcription of part of the video: "it's like we're on the same we're going to come home / mean that in any treaty that war / wade see markets the best investment decisions"

i need a mod to add "eternity spreads itself out" to the title, right next to "RIP blogs"

looooool dan

w/ CC --> Transcribe Audio, you get:

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the small intestine!

it's extra funny 'cause dude looks "a little retarded"

Wait, did someone say Lawless?

http://webfantasy.info/Lucy_Lawless/Images/Lucy_Lawless_Xena_01.jpg

http://i39.tinypic.com/2uz884l.jpg

ppl are gonna think we're making fun of downs syndrome kids itt

"...and someone who'd thinking about suicide- it's of them... ...raptor."

This is some kind of crazy Robert Pollard song generator or something. I hope this feature never goes away.

If you look at the third page, third row, third picture of the "Pictures" section of Newsom's Last.fm page, you get . . .

http://i43.tinypic.com/k1p4q8.jpg

Varg?

According to my little brother, our mom told him to come see Alanis Morissette on the TV. It was actually Joanna Newsom.

http://www.mlive.com/entertainment/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2010/03/joanna_newsom_mesmerizes_grand.html

GRAND RAPIDS -- What does harpist, pianist and singer-songwriter Joanna Newsom listen to when she's not busy writing or recording her own animated-symphonic, tale-telling musical poems?

A lot of "FM top-hit jams" she told her sold-out audience of 850 at Calvin College on Friday evening -- the first show of the new tour promoting her two-hour, three-disc album "Have One On Me" (Feb 2010, Drag City).

It was an obvious joke for her captive admirers, many of whom remained after her approximately 90-minute show for a 25-minute Q&A session.

In reality, the 28-year-old Californian with the elfin vocals said she has been playing catch-up on the music scene that she's ignored for the past two years while writing "Have One ..." in her self-imposed "solipsistic vacuum."

"I don't like to listen to music when I'm writing and recording," she said.

Newsom did say she enjoys the Dirty Projectors, eliciting approving cheers from her discerning Calvin student listeners.

But from the moment the petite indie folk, medieval-pop singer stepped into the octagonal Calvin chapel -- all smiles, waving frantically from the hip in her purple floral dress -- Newsom mesmerized her audience with an 11-song set and her intricate, quirky five-piece band of two violins, a usually-muted trombone, percussionist and guitar/banjo/recorder player.

::has one on her::

Newsom did say she enjoys the Dirty Projectors, eliciting approving cheers from her discerning Calvin student listeners.

One down, four to go for the full GAPDY poll

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have one on a boat

Um. I have no clue if we're talking about the album yet or still mired in unicorn jokes - I'm down for both - but after seeing her live last night, I'm finally sitting down to listen to HOOM properly, and after finding the affectations a real hurdle on MEM and never really clicking with Ys this is striking me as properly gorgeous.

meantime though there are some serious lols on the comments of that "open letter to joanna newsom" video

Finally bought and listened to (most of) this. I can't muster the will to fight my way through the entirety of this insane thread just yet, so I may be repeating others. Oh, well. Stop writing hundreds of posts about unicorns if you're bovvered.

First thoughts: This is the most I've liked a newly-released album on first listen in quite some time. I think I've become really bored with today's music. Maybe I'm just getting old.

Also, easily one of the least unneccessarily-long multi-disc albums I can think of off the top of my head.

Backstory: I am pretty far from the audience for JN's music on paper, or at least the paper that most people use to describe her and her tunes. But I'm glad I finally took a shot on her stuff. MEM was dynomite. I wish more people had described her lyrics as 'Cormac McCarthy writing fantasy novels', because I would've been intrigued much sooner. Musically, she struck me as a modernized gloss on the Harry Smith archives (a la Phoenix's early reappropriation of '70s soft rock tropes), which I really appreciated.

Ys, I'm not quite as hot for, but possibly because I haven't spent enough time with it. It's kind of my musical Adaptation, in that I appreciate and respect what it's doing, but it doesn't quite grab me beyond that.

So her new musical touchstones seem to be Joni Mitchell and Kate Bush. There's worse company to be in, for sure, as long as she avoids making a career out of it (looking at you, Tori). I think she's got a lot of growth left in her, and she's easily one of the most interesting musical artists currently working, for my tin ear.

it's as if the uke's only purpose is to be used for shitty covers

Even People magazine likes Joanna Newsom. I was thumbing through the latest ish (no excuses) and came across a 3 star (out of 4) review of HOOM.