Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me (RIP blogs)

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?

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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 . . .

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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.

Just to unpack what I was saying when I said "Musically, she struck me as a modernized gloss on the Harry Smith archives", I meant specifically that her voice had the untrained and otherworldly quality of early 20th C. mountain folk whose singing style was probably influenced by nothing more than the small community of people they'd lived with their whole lives and almost certainly not by having ever heard "professional" singing before. A lot of early folk and country recordings feature really nasal, reedy singing that isn't anything like what we generally consider "good" these days. I appreciate that she was willing to deviate from that notion for a while.

this record is pretty dece I think; I'm glad she's toned down her obnoxious shit

this thread is pretty long tho, can someone pls summarize

much more kate bush and her voice is actually quite pretty now

I think you just summarized it on your own.

Erik Davis' epic review of Have One On Me

Oh man, thanks Moodles! Erik Davis wrote my favorite thing on Ys. This should be awesome to dig into too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bH5Eo0bn6zY&feature=player_embedded#

Occident hit me pretty hard today. Lyrics.

I don't agree with everything in this article, but I think it makes a lot of good points. It definitely articulates some of the reasons why I'm hesitant to even jump into this thread and start actually discussing this album.

good article, thanks.

I stumbled across a pretty cool interview with Joanna Newsom and her band:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIw4U0rqup4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_N_MnAeT1U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzH-1oC7zGM

Moodles -- thanks for posting these, i've just started the first one

man is that announcer dude insufferable

alright, so i watched all three videos, and they were great. if anyone's into her music, they're worth checking out

thanks, sugartits

she comes across as very funny and personable. she also says that she's been reading Nabokov's Ada, among other things, which wasn't so surprising because i've read her talking about Nabokov in the past

which reminds me, i still need to read Erik Davis's HOOM review

nice interview.
though i wonder how can a person, and one who makes music in particular, can manage without listening to any music at all for 2 years?

i was thinking about that, too . . . does she stop reading books, too? i really don't think i could go two years without other people's music or writing . . . but maybe when you're that deep in the writing process for a record your own stuff can sustain you

Why does she sound like Lisa Simpson singing through her anus on Occident?

if joanna newsom actually sounded like lisa simpson singing thru her anus, i might pick up one of her records. as it is, her voice sounds like a couple of cats getting into a fight in a room full of helium.

that's pure poetry guys, great job

the artistic progression that has been made over three albums ... in people's she-sounds-like-a-cat metaphors is astounding

maybe when you're that deep in the writing process for a record your own stuff can sustain you

Nonsense!

that's how it works for har mar superstar.

(AND OTHER BRILLIANT COMPOSERS)

http://pitchfork.com/news/38581-roots-and-monsters-of-folk-team-up/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VS58_ZeLX1g

Why is this album so shitty?

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No. iirc the critical reception to this has been overwhelmingly positive.