hahah
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 26 January 2010 21:22 (fourteen years ago) link
So presumably "81" is the early-release mp3 not because it's the standout track as much as it's the shortest thing on there?
― Hoisin Murphy (jaymc), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 21:23 (fourteen years ago) link
Wow are you sure you've left the porch? Or your basement?
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Tuesday, January 26, 2010 4:21 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
i mean... no? i could probably guess but why is the onus on me to articulate why curtis doesnt like something?
― max, Tuesday, 26 January 2010 21:23 (fourteen years ago) link
max don't try to shirk your responsibility
― Lee Dorrian Gray (J0hn D.), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 21:24 (fourteen years ago) link
Your feast is to the East, which lies a little past the pasture
See, I'm a straight-up sucker for internal rhyme and alliteration and all that. Could be nonsense for all I care.
― Hoisin Murphy (jaymc), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 21:24 (fourteen years ago) link
anyway like i said, lyrical 'content' aside the reall attraction for me is, like jaymc says, the scansion, the sound, the rhythm & so forth
― max, Tuesday, 26 January 2010 21:26 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't like it because the words sound bad in my ears
― won't you be my GAPDY / come and make it rain down on NME (Curt1s Stephens), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 21:26 (fourteen years ago) link
there really arent that many non-rap lyricists who pay as much attention to the sound of words as newsom does
― max, Tuesday, 26 January 2010 21:27 (fourteen years ago) link
but Curt1s how do they feel in your SOUL
― Lee Dorrian Gray (J0hn D.), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 21:27 (fourteen years ago) link
maybe u should stick to instrumentals then stephens
Does Joanna Newsom release instrumental discs?
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 21:28 (fourteen years ago) link
joanna newsom is soul-ambient
― won't you be my GAPDY / come and make it rain down on NME (Curt1s Stephens), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 21:29 (fourteen years ago) link
I can't wait to mash those with Gucci vocals!
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 21:29 (fourteen years ago) link
I think actually if there's beef to be had w/Newsom as a lyricist it's exactly that she errs too far on the side of words-as-sound. even say Ghostface, there's a guy whose feel for the sounds of words is huge wizard level - but he doesn't let that get in the way of his narrative, of the flow. whereas "your feast is to the east" - naw, jack. "past the pasture" ok that's quality play, but "your feast is to the east" is just like "you only said that to hear how it sounds" and there needs to be a little more payoff if you're busting out the feast to the east imo
OTOH maybe you're into Ammons & them dudes, if so, different strokes for different Ur-elves from the forests of Sliavh-Ghelong
― Lee Dorrian Gray (J0hn D.), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 21:32 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't object to the lyrics so much as her voice.
― Blue Fucks Like Ben Nelson (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 21:35 (fourteen years ago) link
oh--you have to listen to the whole song to get the "feast is to the east" bit i think
― max, Tuesday, 26 January 2010 21:35 (fourteen years ago) link
i mean it fits into the narrative
which, by the way, is about a monkey and a bear
so, that would be
Disc One: 43:54Disc Two: 35:37Disc Three: 44:31
124:02
― randy e. bugler (jeff), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 21:35 (fourteen years ago) link
ILM in mocking Joanna Newsom and the people who enjoy her music shocker!
Also, I never claimed that Ys is the greatest record of all time, I just said it's my personal favorite. That's it.
― kshighway (ksh), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 21:36 (fourteen years ago) link
what if her feast really was to the east that day
― scent of a wolfman (s1ocki), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 21:37 (fourteen years ago) link
not even if it cures my rheumatism, thanks
― Lee Dorrian Gray (J0hn D.), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 21:37 (fourteen years ago) link
anyway yeah my "critical commitments" (aka "my favorite professors in college") tend toward the "its all surfaces, man" school, so im ok with pretty-sounding words placed in juxtaposition. i still like cam'ron.
― max, Tuesday, 26 January 2010 21:37 (fourteen years ago) link
your best buy is to the west, guy
lol'd so fucking hard at this.
its not newsoms feast that is to the east
it is the bears feast
― max, Tuesday, 26 January 2010 21:38 (fourteen years ago) link
Those rhymes I like least.
― Blue Fucks Like Ben Nelson (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 21:39 (fourteen years ago) link
They stink like old yeast.
Does the bear eat the monkey at the end?
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 21:40 (fourteen years ago) link
Alex that doesn't rhyme
― Lee Dorrian Gray (J0hn D.), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 21:40 (fourteen years ago) link
they fall in love or some shit iirc'st
― won't you be my GAPDY / come and make it rain down on NME (Curt1s Stephens), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 21:40 (fourteen years ago) link
was it her east, or the bear's east?
― scent of a wolfman (s1ocki), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 21:41 (fourteen years ago) link
no, the bear takes off her skin and leaves the monkey
― max, Tuesday, 26 January 2010 21:41 (fourteen years ago) link
oh so it's a sex metaphor
― that sex version of "blue thunder." (Mr. Que), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 21:42 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.shockya.com/news/wp-content/uploads/feast_2_sloppy_seconds_poster.jpg
(l-r: joanna newsom, bear)
― scent of a wolfman (s1ocki), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 21:42 (fourteen years ago) link
3-CD soundtrack
xp LOL
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 21:43 (fourteen years ago) link
Where is the monkey in the poster though?
you're right, this thread was better when people posted stuff like "album of the year and I haven't even heard it yet."
― that sex version of "blue thunder." (Mr. Que), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 21:43 (fourteen years ago) link
i like that inflammatory writ song off her 1st album which is 50% "yo this is a song abt a song btw" and 50% "clever wording"
― plaxico (I know, right?), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 21:44 (fourteen years ago) link
cliffs notes--the monkey and the bear escape from the farm and travel together. the monkey makes the bear dance and sing for people in order so that they can make money to live on their own. the monkey keeps telling the bear that he loves her and its all for her benefit, that eventually they will get somewhere pleasant and happy. but the monkey is also jealous. he hears a rumor that the bear is bathing alone every night in caves near the sea. he goes to spy on her and gleefully plans on confronting her about bathing in a dirty place. but the its too late--the bear has left her skin behind and is swimming out to sea.
― max, Tuesday, 26 January 2010 21:44 (fourteen years ago) link
xpost
how dare i express subjective hyperbolic excitement for the follow-up to my favorite record
― kshighway (ksh), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 21:45 (fourteen years ago) link
ksh--protip--youre not going to win this fight
― max, Tuesday, 26 January 2010 21:45 (fourteen years ago) link
uh there is like zero mention of any feast in that synopsis
― scent of a wolfman (s1ocki), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 21:45 (fourteen years ago) link
yo guys exciting news I just got off the phone with a publicist, turns out joanna n. got a thousand hugs from ten thousand lightning bugs, spread the news
― Lee Dorrian Gray (J0hn D.), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 21:45 (fourteen years ago) link
The best way to approach these things, kshingway, is to expect artists to shit on you.
― Blue Fucks Like Ben Nelson (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 21:45 (fourteen years ago) link
I think this thread was better when it was just kshighway threatening to take Y's to old folks home and forcing people on their deathbeds to listen to it.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 21:45 (fourteen years ago) link
max: appreciated
"somewhere pleasant and happy" = "the feast in the east"
it's not an actual feast? :(
― scent of a wolfman (s1ocki), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 21:46 (fourteen years ago) link