~*cleverness*~
― Salvador Dali Parton (Turangalila), Thursday, 28 January 2010 22:46 (fourteen years ago) link
438 messages and no one has heard the record yet
― thomp, Thursday, 28 January 2010 23:16 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh that's not true at all. I'm sure someone at cloth-eared yokel at Drag City has listened to it by now.
In other news JD Salinger died without hearing Ys.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Thursday, 28 January 2010 23:24 (fourteen years ago) link
good thing they play Ys in heaven pretty much 24-7
― tylerw, Thursday, 28 January 2010 23:30 (fourteen years ago) link
That doesn't matter to JN fans though. It's gotta be heard while in the full flush of life or it don't count.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Thursday, 28 January 2010 23:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Would you know my nameIf you heard Ys in heavenWill it be the sameIf you heard Ys heavenI must be strong, and carry onCause I know Ys don't belongHere in heaven
― super sexy psycho fantasy world (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 28 January 2010 23:36 (fourteen years ago) link
guys i think at 443 posts you may be running out of jokes to make about joanna newsom, her music, and her fanbase
― thomp, Thursday, 28 January 2010 23:43 (fourteen years ago) link
good innings though
(i actually like JoNew fine, just having a laff ... a+++ tears in heaven reference btw)
― tylerw, Thursday, 28 January 2010 23:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Can someone with more time on their hands take this scene from Manhunter and replace the Iron Butterfly with something from Ys? k thx bye
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6cVuJiREPE
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 29 January 2010 04:15 (fourteen years ago) link
how much do harps cost?
― kamerad, Friday, 29 January 2010 04:16 (fourteen years ago) link
xp
LOL
first genuinely funny post in this thread
― Salvador Dali Parton (Turangalila), Friday, 29 January 2010 04:19 (fourteen years ago) link
btw the title track of this is a monster with a gorgeous bridge and a completely unexpected wordless coda
― Salvador Dali Parton (Turangalila), Friday, 29 January 2010 15:12 (fourteen years ago) link
But now you've told us, so we will expect it.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 29 January 2010 15:14 (fourteen years ago) link
:P
― Salvador Dali Parton (Turangalila), Friday, 29 January 2010 15:15 (fourteen years ago) link
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4036/4322945262_a5c3ecc41e.jpg
Can't decide if this is better or worse.
― Hatch, Monday, 1 February 2010 17:54 (fourteen years ago) link
that song streaming on drag city sounds a lot like "army dreamers" by kate bushher voice is much improved!
― velko, Monday, 1 February 2010 18:02 (fourteen years ago) link
http://images.uulyrics.com/cover/w/world-party/album-private-revolution.jpg
― Hoisin Murphy (jaymc), Monday, 1 February 2010 18:08 (fourteen years ago) link
xpost Is that to do with the waltz rhythm she's playing on the harp?
― Salvador Dali Parton (Turangalila), Monday, 1 February 2010 18:21 (fourteen years ago) link
probably, i mean they don't really sound that alike but army dreamers immediately came to mind within seconds of listening to it, also her voice and phrasing sounding a bit more like kate than before, at least in that song
― velko, Monday, 1 February 2010 18:24 (fourteen years ago) link
Hatch, is that the real cover? Man, I'm a fucking iTunes dude, but I'm buying this shit on vinyl.
― kshighway (ksh), Monday, 1 February 2010 18:25 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh shit, definitely the real cover: http://www.dragcity.com/products/have-one-on-me
TRIPLE LP TIME!
― kshighway (ksh), Monday, 1 February 2010 18:26 (fourteen years ago) link
Does anyone know if Drag City ships download codes with their LPs?
― kshighway (ksh), Monday, 1 February 2010 18:28 (fourteen years ago) link
Good question. The whole concept of free mp3s with a purchase of LP has made me very enthusiastic about buying vinyl. I think any record company that does this is on the right track.
― Moodles, Monday, 1 February 2010 18:42 (fourteen years ago) link
Love the album cover. I had been scratching my head over the all black version because it seemed just too half-assed for her. This is much more what I'd expect. I like how she always seems to be one-upping herself.
― Moodles, Monday, 1 February 2010 18:45 (fourteen years ago) link
Moodles OTM. The first "artwork" we saw was awful, but this is awesome. I don't even have a turntable, but I want to buy the vinyl just to have it. I'll almost definitely do so if there's a download code. Maybe I'll email Drag City and ask them.
― kshighway (ksh), Monday, 1 February 2010 18:55 (fourteen years ago) link
450+ posts of jokes and no one has used the phrase "quit harping on her music" or something similar
for shame people
for shame
― brews before HOOS (s1ocki), Monday, 1 February 2010 18:57 (fourteen years ago) link
Great photo for the album cover but I'm still not to keen on the typographic choice.
― Moka, Monday, 1 February 2010 19:00 (fourteen years ago) link
Edwardian color-tinted postcard cover artwork? Success.
― Sam Weller, Monday, 1 February 2010 19:21 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't know anything about fonts, but it reminds me of the font from Clockwork Orange movie posters.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Monday, 1 February 2010 19:22 (fourteen years ago) link
But the picture is great.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Monday, 1 February 2010 19:23 (fourteen years ago) link
that song streaming on drag city sounds a lot like "army dreamers" by kate bush
she is sounding a lot like kate bush lately. and it's not just her voice/phrasing, even her songwriting. it's kind of disappointing because whatever you think about her, until recently you could never say "she sounds just like [insert name]".
between that and picturing a naked + sweaty adam sanberg during her tender love ballads....
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Monday, 1 February 2010 19:58 (fourteen years ago) link
I agree that the new song sounds a bit like Kate Bush, but I think she's not a bad person to be compared to.
Strangely, prior to this song I had been reminded a bit of Kate Bush simply in the way it took both singers a couple albums to really grow into their voices. Kate's voice sounded very thin and child-like on her first album or two, but over time she gained a lot of depth and breathiness.
Joanna Newsom seems to be headed in the same direction, though unlike Kate Bush, she wasn't born with a golden voice. She's had to work a bit harder to get to a "good" singing voice.
― Moodles, Monday, 1 February 2010 20:20 (fourteen years ago) link
Why has she been trying to look so damn sexy lately?
― Evan, Monday, 1 February 2010 22:57 (fourteen years ago) link
Why not?
― Salvador Dali Parton (Turangalila), Monday, 1 February 2010 22:59 (fourteen years ago) link
Shes trying to sell records I guess ;)
― Evan, Monday, 1 February 2010 23:03 (fourteen years ago) link
The font works really well for me. The whole cover reminds me of something you would see from that era in the early/mid 70s when imagery and design from the 20s/30s made a comeback. See also The Sting, Bugsy Malone and this Stones tour poster...
http://www.postersnthings.com/posters/rolling_stones_euro_tour_70.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 1 February 2010 23:04 (fourteen years ago) link
BUSTED
― tylerw, Monday, 1 February 2010 23:09 (fourteen years ago) link
classic poster imo
― velko, Monday, 1 February 2010 23:09 (fourteen years ago) link
lol
― Salvador Dali Parton (Turangalila), Monday, 1 February 2010 23:18 (fourteen years ago) link
ilu nabisco
― Salvador Dali Parton (Turangalila), Monday, 1 February 2010 23:42 (fourteen years ago) link
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blarg
― schlump, Monday, 1 February 2010 23:43 (fourteen years ago) link
Hey, in the right light...
― Evan, Monday, 1 February 2010 23:51 (fourteen years ago) link
The way Newsom makes music seems — at best — very, very distantly related to the texture of your everyday life in the here-and-now part of the world. Harps, dancing bears, walnut-shell boats: I have never seen any of these things in a bodega.
it's unfair to splice this out of nabisco's longer graph, in which it's making a case that newsom's aesthetic and rhetoric are distinctly exotic and alien, and the piece goes on to defuse the idea that these things are overbearing. but i have problems with this idea generally. i don't think people consume in such a literal way, or only look for poetry in realms similar to their own - i feel like the connective point between j-new and annoying teenage fans is the emotion and conclusions she draws on her experience, even if monkeys and bears are stand-ins for girls and boys. the particulars in her lyrics are markedly unfamiliar but those things are interchangeable and don't affect our understanding of things.
i don't know if the opprobrium towards people listening to music outside of their immediate sphere - rich white kids listening to hip hop or whatever - even exists anymore, or is solely in my imagination, but i think the argument against that is that we don't relate to art according to its superficial variables but in its themes; we might not spend much time in the forest but can understand a midsummer night's dream or whatever. joanna newsom's waiting to be pigeonholed, and there are enough anomalous aspects to her music & persona for critics to wave a flag about, but it maybe irks me slightly when the charge of being precious and flighty is hung on something interchangeable.
― schlump, Tuesday, 2 February 2010 00:03 (fourteen years ago) link
xpblarg
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was blarging at the idea that j new dared to bare flesh purely as a capitalist strategy fwiw
― schlump, Tuesday, 2 February 2010 00:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Haha oh I wasn't seriously suggesting that.
― Evan, Tuesday, 2 February 2010 00:22 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, schlump, Max wrote some interesting things about that later! I was definitely skimming over the ways things like allegories are referring to the here-and-now. What's interesting to me is that her sorta "make-believe" aesthetic is actually the least affected option for a harp player with a voice like that -- playing stuff we perceive as more here-and-now might seem bizarre for her!
Interesting how that album cover, though, is a definite leap in contemporary here-and-now imagery for her.
― oɔsıqɐu (nabisco), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 01:04 (fourteen years ago) link
I still think this is going to be my album of the year. Still haven't heard a note! Man, music is awesome.
― ksh, Tuesday, 2 February 2010 02:14 (fourteen years ago) link
So will there be an equivalent thread bitching about this album when it inevitably tops the Pitchfork and Pazz & Jop lists?
― you gone float up with it (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 02:17 (fourteen years ago) link
Can someone explain Joanna Newsom to me? I just don't get it.
― joep, Tuesday, 2 February 2010 02:23 (fourteen years ago) link