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
xpost
― 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
Her show in Madison last year was appallingly bad. She showed up two and a half hours late and played a static and affectless set, or at least part of one -- I joined the stream of people leaving early. That said, when I later listened to the record I realized that the songs were pretty good. But I'd never see her live again.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 31 October 2007 03:03 (sixteen years ago) link
she's rehearsing downstairs right now... playing here at BAM thursday and friday night. i can't decide if i should try and sneak in. maybe for a few mins
― Surmounter, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 21:17 (sixteen years ago) link
I hope you did.
― Mr. Goodman, Thursday, 31 January 2008 14:48 (sixteen years ago) link
the show is tonight! and tom night. will def sneak a peak
― Surmounter, Thursday, 31 January 2008 14:56 (sixteen years ago) link
I like that she's a girl that's doing something kind of intellectual, but she just seems so privileged. I mean, there just isn't the kind of feeling of ... insecurity, or something, that I can identify with in music, or unfulfilled desire, or whatever. When you think about it, she plays a harp. There's a reason most musicians aren't playing harps. Like, where are you getting the money for a harp? Who's carrying it onto the stage for you? This is all a bit ad hominem, I guess.
― sleepy, Thursday, 25 June 2009 09:29 (fourteen years ago) link
I dunno, she might have bought her first one in a bott sale
Ha, Boot sale, but I'm keeping that typo.
― Mark G, Thursday, 25 June 2009 09:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Also, I suppose you could say the same thing about a drum kit? Or those big marshall amps. Or whatever. Still, there's this sense that rock is for poor losers and it's like, come on, don't descend into our grubby realm with your amazing intellect and your beauty and your harp and walk all over us ... you already have your privileged sphere, what do you want with ours?
― sleepy, Thursday, 25 June 2009 09:42 (fourteen years ago) link
It was like when all those punk bands came out with Fenders (particularly Pete Stride of the Lurkers, on the "I don't need to tell her" single, for some reason), and I was like "whoa, expensive guitar!"
"yeah, we nicked them", yeah uh-huh righto...
― Mark G, Thursday, 25 June 2009 09:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Harp makes for a bit of variety though eh? Who cares how she bought it.
― Number None, Thursday, 25 June 2009 10:27 (fourteen years ago) link
Good job reviving a thread to make a specious complaint you don't even maintain the validity of for 15 minutes
― DJ MARTIAN IS A KING AMONG MEN. Dan Perry, Tuesday, 15 January 2002 (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 25 June 2009 11:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Joanna Newsom makes rock music?
― QuantumNoise, Thursday, 25 June 2009 11:59 (fourteen years ago) link
she makes Rocke Musick
― tylerw, Thursday, 25 June 2009 16:34 (fourteen years ago) link
i wz hoping the revive meant smth about a new album or smth
sigh
― thomp, Thursday, 25 June 2009 16:42 (fourteen years ago) link
didn't she play a bunch of new songs recently somewhere?
― tylerw, Thursday, 25 June 2009 16:43 (fourteen years ago) link
New album in Fall on Drag City
http://billions.com/avails
― StanM, Thursday, 25 June 2009 16:45 (fourteen years ago) link
ah, that's cool. i like her quite a bit -- maybe not as nuts as some people are about her, but she is definitely very good. also glad she's sticking with Drag City -- for some reason I thought she'd jump ship for Nonesuch or something.
― tylerw, Thursday, 25 June 2009 16:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Still, there's this sense that rock is for poor losers
maybe this "sense" is what you need to think a little harder about, not joanna n. going to college to learn an instrument, which a lot of people do.
― goole, Thursday, 25 June 2009 16:56 (fourteen years ago) link
Still, there's this sense that rock is for poor losers and it's like, come on, don't descend into our grubby realm with your amazing intellect and your beauty and your harp and walk all over us ... you already have your privileged sphere, what do you want with ours?
Yeah not really going to explore this in too much depth because it's obviously retarded but this is all tied in to outmoded and artificial ideas about authenticity in rock music.
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 25 June 2009 16:58 (fourteen years ago) link
http://naturalismo.wordpress.com/2009/03/31/joanna-newsom-played-upcoming-third-album-live-in-full-in-big-sur/
― StanM, Thursday, 25 June 2009 17:01 (fourteen years ago) link
oh joanna
you can do no wrong! If you masturbated on stage and plucked the harp with your pussy, I'd love it!
...
ps. the first time I heard Ys I CRIED TOO
SO EMOTIONAL
alrighty | 16 Dec '06, 06:34 | Reply
― Guy de & (country matters), Thursday, 25 June 2009 17:05 (fourteen years ago) link
lol
― tylerw, Thursday, 25 June 2009 17:07 (fourteen years ago) link
lol so much projecting going on w/that revive
― spiritual giant Cubby Culbertson (omar little), Thursday, 25 June 2009 17:09 (fourteen years ago) link
i only have ill feelings toward joanna because i saw her open for the incredible string band and all the people were there to see her! no one seemed to know who the old, weird headlining hippies were.
― tylerw, Thursday, 25 June 2009 17:14 (fourteen years ago) link
not her fault obviously
that is pretty sad
― Suckanoosik Chamber of Commerce (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 25 June 2009 17:16 (fourteen years ago) link
that's so sad
xpost!
― my asian girlfriend (bug), Thursday, 25 June 2009 17:18 (fourteen years ago) link
the leopard skin tights she is wearing in that link are way more unforgivable than playing a harp
― thomp, Thursday, 25 June 2009 17:21 (fourteen years ago) link
oh it was so sad then again, this is better on the eyes http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2008/01/06/joanna_newsom_narrowweb__300x450,0.jpg
― tylerw, Thursday, 25 June 2009 17:24 (fourteen years ago) link
than thishttp://www.wnyc.org/images/slideshows/incredible_string_band/IncredibleSB1.jpg
― tylerw, Thursday, 25 June 2009 17:25 (fourteen years ago) link
there's a shirley collins album where in the liner notes she refers to the incredible string band as 'a pair of handsome gypsies'
― thomp, Thursday, 25 June 2009 17:29 (fourteen years ago) link
Callahan,you lucky bastard
― Zeno, Thursday, 25 June 2009 17:32 (fourteen years ago) link
oh yeah, ISB had it goin' on back in the day, in that forest hippie kinda way, but in the 21st century, not so much.
― tylerw, Thursday, 25 June 2009 17:32 (fourteen years ago) link
nah, it's Samberg now. (xp)
― Simon H., Thursday, 25 June 2009 17:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Anyone ever seen her and Regina Spektor in the same room?
― Eazy, Thursday, 25 June 2009 17:34 (fourteen years ago) link
omg fernwood is gonna blow up now!
i went to so many of those folk yeah things in big sur, kinda bummed i never knew about this secret joanna newsome performance business
― psychgawsple, Thursday, 25 June 2009 17:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Samberg and Newsom -
Love has no rules
― Zeno, Thursday, 25 June 2009 17:38 (fourteen years ago) link
also like Joanna for the fact that she's a Moore Bros. supporter -- those guys are like the 21st century Incredible String Band. So much handsomer too.
― tylerw, Thursday, 25 June 2009 17:38 (fourteen years ago) link
"the 21st century Incredible String Band"
Animal Collective?
― Zeno, Thursday, 25 June 2009 17:42 (fourteen years ago) link
noooooooooooooooooooooooooo
― tylerw, Thursday, 25 June 2009 17:44 (fourteen years ago) link
thats what some people thought when Sung tongs came out,i think
― Zeno, Thursday, 25 June 2009 17:46 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, perhaps -- moore brothers aren't really like animal collective though.
― tylerw, Thursday, 25 June 2009 17:47 (fourteen years ago) link
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3360/3500931553_961537f7cf.jpg?v=0
― great gabbneb's ghost (jaymc), Thursday, 25 June 2009 17:48 (fourteen years ago) link
i actually haven't seen SNL in a while ... is that guy ... funny?
― tylerw, Thursday, 25 June 2009 17:49 (fourteen years ago) link
is that from http://www.babeswithdouchebags.com/ ?
― StanM, Thursday, 25 June 2009 17:50 (fourteen years ago) link
oh yeah, ISB had it goin' on back in the day, in that forest hippie kinda way
they were very good looking guys, robin especially:
http://static.open.salon.com/files/firstboy121243828716.jpg
― my asian girlfriend (bug), Thursday, 25 June 2009 17:50 (fourteen years ago) link
she looks so pretty in that pic!
something about her music doesn't draw me in. i can never put my finger on it. i guess i just get the sense that she's singing about things that i don't know about, or something. not sure -- i need to listen to more.
― surm, Thursday, 25 June 2009 17:51 (fourteen years ago) link
robin looks prettier than joanna there, haha
― tylerw, Thursday, 25 June 2009 17:51 (fourteen years ago) link