― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Friday, 30 September 2005 00:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Friday, 30 September 2005 00:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― whatev, Friday, 30 September 2005 01:31 (eighteen years ago) link
Interesting, but perhaps not the greatest introduction :-O
― fandango (fandango), Friday, 30 September 2005 11:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Thursday, 6 October 2005 04:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― acidmouth (acidmouth), Thursday, 6 October 2005 05:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― M. V. (M.V.), Thursday, 6 October 2005 06:37 (eighteen years ago) link
Heh. As opposed to "I wish her well, and I hope she fails."
― M. V. (M.V.), Thursday, 6 October 2005 16:47 (eighteen years ago) link
why? because i've re-dugout the milk-eyed mender and do you know, her voice isn't that bad, in fact it's very beautiful. her lyrics are the tits. plus the harp playing is beyond evocative. it makes me nostlagic for the summer. love it.
― Vintage Latin (dog latin), Sunday, 12 February 2006 02:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― bell labs (bell_labs), Sunday, 12 February 2006 22:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― sean gramophone (Sean M), Sunday, 12 February 2006 22:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― noooo, Monday, 13 February 2006 04:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― adam (adam), Monday, 13 February 2006 04:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Monday, 13 February 2006 05:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― Marcel Post (Marcel Post), Monday, 13 February 2006 05:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Monday, 13 February 2006 05:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― Edward III (edward iii), Monday, 13 February 2006 18:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― bell labs (bell_labs), Monday, 13 February 2006 18:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― Vintage Latin (dog latin), Monday, 13 February 2006 19:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― fies, Monday, 19 March 2007 10:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― Edward III, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― fies, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― fife, Monday, 19 March 2007 16:08 (seventeen years ago) link
New song is wonderful.
― Turangalila, Wednesday, 26 September 2007 06:26 (sixteen years ago) link
Try this link.
― Turangalila, Wednesday, 26 September 2007 06:28 (sixteen years ago) link
The tempo shift caught me off guard, so cheers to that. Otherwise about what I'd expect. Very nice.
― Cosmo Vitelli, Wednesday, 26 September 2007 08:28 (sixteen years ago) link
I didn't expect that MELODY though. It's beautiful.
― Turangalila, Wednesday, 26 September 2007 09:03 (sixteen years ago) link
DUD
― max r, Wednesday, 26 September 2007 09:30 (sixteen years ago) link
classic for other people... dud for me.
― fandango, Wednesday, 26 September 2007 10:30 (sixteen years ago) link
which is to say I just can't be bothered being conflicted about her (MIA too..) anymore and would prefer not to suffer the indigestion of trying to enjoy/appreciate her talents. I'd rather not think of her at all.
― fandango, Wednesday, 26 September 2007 10:36 (sixteen years ago) link
I still absolutely love this new song. It has this yearning, "In My Life" sort of quality to it. Something about the melody seems displaced from time.
Glad to hear her using the upper register of the harp to great effect.
― Turangalila, Thursday, 27 September 2007 01:21 (sixteen years ago) link
Is this going to be another eight-months-before-the-album-comes-out thread?
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 27 September 2007 01:23 (sixteen years ago) link
Does it bother you?
― Turangalila, Thursday, 27 September 2007 01:48 (sixteen years ago) link
Not really. I'm more amused by it now.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 27 September 2007 01:53 (sixteen years ago) link
I know, it's so amusing---people expressing their liking for particular songs in a music board.
Anyway, classic. If only for Ys, "Clam, Crab, Cockle, Cowrie," & this new song.
― Turangalila, Thursday, 27 September 2007 02:09 (sixteen years ago) link
is this a track from the Ys Street band EP or something else?
― sleeve, Thursday, 27 September 2007 02:56 (sixteen years ago) link
sleeve, nope. The track from the Ys Street Band EP is "Colleen". This other one's a newer song she played a few nights ago in Rome.
― Turangalila, Thursday, 27 September 2007 03:18 (sixteen years ago) link
This thread demonstrates the limitations of the ILM c/d binary. I don't think she's a dud at all, but she hasn't really been around long enough for any kind of Classic status. I like many of the songs on Milk-Eyed Mender but I've heard less from Ys (only "Cosmia" I think, which is great) and another couple of songs here and there, including this new one linked to, which is also very good. I don't think she's really going for the twee hippie faerie thing at all, more a kind of odd slant on the periphery of folk (and orchestral folk on the last album, from what I gather), and she does do interesting rhythmic things (not just melodic) with her harp sometimes. It's not background music; you have to give it your attention. The voice can be grating, but so can Dylan's.
― Lostandfound, Thursday, 27 September 2007 05:55 (sixteen years ago) link
she does do interesting rhythmic things (not just melodic) with her harp sometimes
OTM. There's supposed to be some African drum pattern things in there, I think I've read?
― anatol_merklich, Thursday, 27 September 2007 06:26 (sixteen years ago) link
yes she acknowledges the influence of the mbira, which is actually more of a kalimba/thumb piano type instrument - primarily melodic not rhythmic, but it has its own rhythms. See the music of Thomas Mapfumo for examples.
― sleeve, Thursday, 27 September 2007 06:59 (sixteen years ago) link
but she hasn't really been around long enough for any kind of Classic status
Exactly. She's young, too. My answer upthread is provisional, of course, but considering her more recent output, she does seem to be evolving in an interesting way and has developed an unusual ability to write engaging songs, notwithstanding their length.
― Turangalila, Thursday, 27 September 2007 07:01 (sixteen years ago) link
yes she acknowledges the influence of the mbira
Hmm? I've heard her go on about the kora influences in her playing/composing, but this wouldn't surprise me, either.
― Turangalila, Thursday, 27 September 2007 07:03 (sixteen years ago) link
See, this is also why ILM is grate! My vague "interesting rhythmic things" becomes more fleshed out. I love Thomas Mapfumo, so I'm kicking myself that I didn't recognise it, but it explains why I was drawn in to some of JN's music, too.
Turangalila, I agree that she seems to be moving forward and toward... something. She's a compelling artist and I hope she does become classic one day.
― Lostandfound, Thursday, 27 September 2007 07:19 (sixteen years ago) link
I really miss when she used to put on that voice. She blanded out on Clam Crab Cockle Cowrie. The only letdown in an otherwise fantastic show she put on earlier in the year when I saw her.
― I know, right?, Saturday, 13 October 2007 19:44 (sixteen years ago) link
"At the regal Riverbend Centre on Saturday night, Joanna Newsom proved why she’s one of today’s most iconoclastic and oddly appealing musicians: not only did she mesh shockingly well with the ultra-classy Austin Symphony Orchestra, but she also managed to get in trouble for hauling a bottle of Maker’s Mark onto stage. And it’s in this almost-accidental appeal to both sides of the concert-going spectrum—as well as an almost embarrassing wealth of talent—that she has become a powerful force in sub-pop music."
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 22:33 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm seeing her at Disney Hall soon and I'm pretty sure I'm in for one of the best shows of my life. Seeing her on the first Ys tour was one of my favorite concert experiences.
― Bus Driver Stu, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 22:37 (sixteen years ago) link
AWESOME re: Maker's Mark
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― stephen, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 22:39 (sixteen years ago) link
classic. i like her and her music.
― poortheatre, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 02:13 (sixteen years ago) link
You'd be surprised -- I had to take my nephew's iphone away after I caught him texting about "cockles" and "cowries"
― Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Monday, 11 March 2024 16:09 (two weeks ago) link
The perk and protection of being a Drag City artist is having Rian Murphy press releases that take the piss out of press releases while also getting the info across.
― paisley got boring (Eazy), Monday, 11 March 2024 16:26 (two weeks ago) link
Very weird to have a kids show at the fucking CEMETARY
― The SoyBoy West Coast (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 11 March 2024 16:40 (two weeks ago) link
Hey, they gotta learn somehow.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 11 March 2024 17:02 (two weeks ago) link
Tickets on sale Friday at 10 a.m. Pacific (stampede expected).
― paisley got boring (Eazy), Monday, 11 March 2024 17:50 (two weeks ago) link