Yo P&J, I'm really happy for you, Imma let you finish, but ILX had the greatest 2009 poll of all time! All time! (2009 ILX Trax Poll Results: TOP TEN TODAY)

can we change the board description to "shit-tone" plz

I think those girls are more talented than a Cobain wannabe at Guitar Center, and if you're equating my singing capability to Yngwie Malmsteen's guitar-playing ability I am never going to sing for you so that you continue thinking I'm that ridiculously talented!

Dan's contributions to singing/vocalist conversation are like Grant on Mythbusters telling the audience the nuts and bolts of something while Tory and Kari are fucking around setting things on fire.

"yngwie type" :P

aw

it sounds like the singers are not technically good enough to succeed at what it sounds like they're trying to succeed at. but maybe they don't care and they like the glitches, which might make them super clever but i'd rather hear joanna newsom than that.

so to be closer to your analogy, if the Cobain type is bashing his way through Ygnwie-esque music, I don't think it's out of line for the Yngwie-type to comment on how it is supposed to go

xp: ugh son

(I mean, I'm not going to give vocal pointers on how to sing "Rise" by PiL in tune, for example.)

supposed

i'd rather hear joanna newsom than that

I'd rather hear cats fuckin than joanna newsom.

unless they're hepcats.

still holding out that Cats Fuckin will make the top 5 here

I don't think I've ever heard Joanna Newsom

Maybe it's participatory discrepancy.

those weren't cats in the dirty projectors song?

xxp

ugh the song isn't nearly as tedious as dan's x's and o's-style crit would lead you to believe.

ha for a minute i was wondering if all our voter intimidating in the other thread would prevent "my girls" from showing up. still not likely, though "stillness" >>> "my girls"

xp what plax and and SS said

I was going to OTM Dan before the big post OTMed itself. I love the sly frosty guitar line, the strings+Dave Longstreth hugging an alpaca or just rotating on the mountain thinking about things, but the singing isn't smooth enough to gel w/the rest. Talent is empty&I don't care about it, but their singing here feels like more of an unhappy accident than design.

man i was going to record the bit of a tune i remember for help with track i.d. but now i am too terrified of hi dere

i wanna here hi dere's reaction to joanna newsom

I don't think I've ever heard Joanna Newsom

Consider yourself lucky.

you guys

YOU GUYS

Joanna Newsom is fucking hilarious

<3 <3 <3

like i think its not really going too far to say that their voices match the concept which is "warped, distended rnb stitched back together out of broken indie rock"

like ur not supposed to be comparing the vocals to solange

which song r u listenin 2

ha for a minute i was wondering if all our voter intimidating in the other thread would prevent "my girls" from showing up. still not likely, though "stillness" >>> "my girls"

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/ce/Wire01.jpg

I was gonna vote for "My Girls," but then I saw this guy across the room and changed my story

I just put her name into Youtube and clicked on the first thing that came up, which was a song called "Sprout and the Bean"

holy hell

YES THAT IS THE ONE I WANTED YOU TO HEAR

so happy

HI DERE, plz critique Newsom. plzplzplzplz

where panda at string? where he at? where's panda bear string? huh? where panda at?

that was an entirely unexpected experience

lol waiting to for dan to go "....and it was AWESOME!"

i have also never heard joanna newsom

off to youtube so i can enjoy the fun

like, I don't know if I can actually critique this because:

- She clearly is on her own type of idiosyncratic shit where blasting her for what makes her unique is missing the point of what she's trying to put across, like making fun of Macy Gray for having a gravelly voice.

- I haven't stopped laughing yet.

j newsom haters to the left, to the left

looking at Joanna Newsom fills me with lust, elfin lust.

nah i woulda preferred if he found peach plum pear

but sparrow and the whatever is so ridiculous and insane and her voice in that song makes me full of murder that it is good

like, I don't know if I can actually critique this because:

- She clearly is on her own type of idiosyncratic shit where blasting her for what makes her unique is missing the point of what she's trying to put across, like making fun of Macy Gray for having a gravelly voice.

- I haven't stopped laughing yet.

― PIES! PIES! PIES! PIES! PIES! (HI DERE), Tuesday, February 2, 2010 7:50 PM (1 minute ago)

yah 4 me you miss that this isn't really a b+w issue tho

I know they weren't dating yet when her first album came out, but she was already the star of one of Andy Samberg's SNL Digital Shorts before they even met (or that's how "Sprout and the Bean" comes across to me).

hahahahahahaha

looking at Joanna Newsom fills me with lust, elfin lust.

― they ate only candy canes (Pillbox)

dwarfed by my chivalrous desire

indie folksters be listening to bjork but doing it rong

The only Newsom song I ever liked was "Clam, Crab..."

wow i really want the next track to appear now

indie folksters be listening to bjork but doing it rong

can't tell whether this in ref. to dirty proj or j newsom, works for either though

please to give us #6?

newsom provokes extreme responses even within individual listeners.

I saw her live a few years ago... at first I was 'this is truly the most beautiful sound there has ever been in the history of the world'. three minutes later: 'OH GOD THIS IS JUST TERRIBLE, MAKE HER STOP'.