ksh jn is really pissed at you about this not listening stuff, you better call her stat― Lee Dorrian Gray (J0hn D.)
― Lee Dorrian Gray (J0hn D.)
Called her ten minutes ago to do damage control; she'll keep making music as long as HOOM remains my album of the year, whether I've listened to it or not.
― ksh, Tuesday, 23 February 2010 22:56 (fourteen years ago) link
901 posts and no big HOOM aka jokes?
― ksh, Tuesday, 23 February 2010 22:57 (fourteen years ago) link
would you hit play already
― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 23 February 2010 22:57 (fourteen years ago) link
Still hoping for a ksh liveblog.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 22:58 (fourteen years ago) link
you're making unicorns cry
― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 23 February 2010 22:58 (fourteen years ago) link
unicorns dandelions and daffodils baleen whales and wailing krill slipping slenderly slotted spoonsfalling into waiting wombs
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 22:58 (fourteen years ago) link
What a disaster for unicorns.
― ksh, Tuesday, 23 February 2010 22:59 (fourteen years ago) link
UOI'mHAF, are those lyrics for real? he he
― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 23 February 2010 23:00 (fourteen years ago) link
jesus ilxor i seriously thought you had made a joke URL there...
wow...what does this ethereal hussy do to otherwise rational dongs?
― for HOOM the bell tolls (M@tt He1ges0n), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 23:05 (fourteen years ago) link
that blog post is about a dude who hates joanna newsom, and a dude who is ashamed of liking her
― max, Tuesday, 23 February 2010 23:06 (fourteen years ago) link
hang on wait this is the third track
― joagga lousome (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 23:11 (fourteen years ago) link
surprise in both directions
Huge lol in the office, gawwwd!
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 23:17 (fourteen years ago) link
Length of SymphoniesSymphonies grew out of opera overtures, and the earliest are 8-10 minutes long. By the time of Haydn and Mozart in the late 18th century they ran 20-30 minutes. Beethoven expanded the size; his shortest are about 25 minutes, but his 3rd runs 55 minutes and his 9th runs 70 minutes. The length of CDs was supposedly picked by a record-company executive who said, "Make it long enough to fit Beethoven's Ninth." The next generation (Schubert, Mendelssohn, Schumann) were mostly shorter again (about 35 minutes), but Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique runs 50 minutes. Most late 19th century symphonies (Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Dvorak) run 40-50 minutes, but other composers (Bruckner, Mahler) run longer. Mahler's 3rd runs about 2 hours and is, I think, in the Guinness Book of World Records. After Mahler, most symphonies were much shorter. Prokofiev's 1st "Classical" is only 12 minutes. Most 20th century symphonies are 20-30 minutes, though others are 40-45 and a few run as long as 70 minutes.
― M.V., Tuesday, 23 February 2010 23:23 (fourteen years ago) link
louis you are completely making my day just by being you and i thank you. also, I know jn was quoted a few minutes ago as having said that she is completely over ksh and is now firmly in the lj admiration society so you're in like flynn my man, congratulation
― Lee Dorrian Gray (J0hn D.), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 23:24 (fourteen years ago) link
RIP ksh
― ksh, Tuesday, 23 February 2010 23:27 (fourteen years ago) link
serious real talk here for a second: Ys should have been indexed, marketed and released as one 50-minute song
further serious real talk: if I ever rubbished this album without listening to it, I take that back. it's pretty good. I think it works because it seems so improvised, so unpredictable...it's a musical journey through one person's fresh inspiration, and I dig that. the strings may occasionally threaten to veer the wrong side of Jean-Pierre Jeunet but they're kept in sufficient check, and deployed with sufficient craft, to be on the whole a boon.
it's not world-ending brilliance, but I like it and am pleased I gave over time to listen to it.
triple-albums suck tho
― joagga lousome (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 23:27 (fourteen years ago) link
lj have you heard the new cathedral
that shit is off the chain
― Lee Dorrian Gray (J0hn D.), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 23:28 (fourteen years ago) link
dude I am a *huge* fan of Chrome Hoof which is the Smee brothers' disco-metal side-project - given the quality of that, it's a pretty surefire bet I'll dig Cathedral, so yeah I'll be on that just as soon as Joanna lets me outta the bedroom
― joagga lousome (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 23:31 (fourteen years ago) link
There are no new cathedrals.
― M.V., Tuesday, 23 February 2010 23:33 (fourteen years ago) link
joanna peesom― (uh oh I'm having a fantasy)
― (uh oh I'm having a fantasy)
Lou1s, can you kindly confirm/deny fantasy's fantasy for us?
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 23:36 (fourteen years ago) link
ever wondered why it's called "sawdust & diamonds"?
― joagga lousome (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 23:38 (fourteen years ago) link
No, but I have wondered about "the milk-eyed mender"...
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 23:39 (fourteen years ago) link
nights in get pretty wild when you're knocking socks with semi-sylvan indie harpists
― joagga lousome (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 23:40 (fourteen years ago) link
"tastes like unicorn tears"
― MY RUSTIC CHURCHWARDEN PIPE TOBACCOS; WITH RED T-SHIRT OF SURF (Curt1s Stephens), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 23:41 (fourteen years ago) link
heavens, what luck! she's in musth!
― joagga lousome (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 23:41 (fourteen years ago) link
looooooouis!
(aka something good came out of this godforsaken thread)
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 23 February 2010 23:41 (fourteen years ago) link
thread is totally classic
― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 23 February 2010 23:42 (fourteen years ago) link
gotta wade thru too many ilxor posts and ksh (i'm kidding! no maybe i'm not!) posts
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 23 February 2010 23:44 (fourteen years ago) link
the next artist on my iTunes is Jobriath, which feels quite apt somehow
― joagga lousome (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 23:44 (fourteen years ago) link
Joanna Poosom
― Wrinkles, I'll see you on the other side (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 23:45 (fourteen years ago) link
newsome/jobraith/virgin prunes trifecta of emoting doom
― Lee Dorrian Gray (J0hn D.), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 23:47 (fourteen years ago) link
Nothing to say except you should've known this would get a reply from me. Which doesn't mean I have anything particularly useful to say (I don't), just that I'm giving you one more post to wade through. ;-)
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 23:48 (fourteen years ago) link
The pictures in the liner notes might as well be from a Calvin Klein ad. And sweet jesus I had no idea her legs were so ridiculously long.
I'm impressed with the album after one listen. Reining in her voice and the overwrought/melodramatic moments of Ys plays to her advantage, in my opinion. She also sounds more confident and relaxed, which in turn has the songs breathing accordingly.
― Michael F Gill, Tuesday, 23 February 2010 23:49 (fourteen years ago) link
album of the decade
― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 23 February 2010 23:52 (fourteen years ago) link
lol
― MY RUSTIC CHURCHWARDEN PIPE TOBACCOS; WITH RED T-SHIRT OF SURF (Curt1s Stephens), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 23:57 (fourteen years ago) link
magna carta -> gutenburg -> HOOM
― Lee Dorrian Gray (J0hn D.), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 00:06 (fourteen years ago) link
too bad she couldn't have found space on this triple-disc to duet with ex-hold steady keyboardist, Fancy von Mustache.
― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 24 February 2010 00:08 (fourteen years ago) link
Jobriath -> Mika -> Cathedral
― joagga lousome (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 00:08 (fourteen years ago) link
What does HOOM stand for?Holy Order of MANS (Monastic New Age group most of whose members converted to Eastern Orthodoxy)
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― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 00:08 (fourteen years ago) link
Holy Order of MANS
if this revelation does not result in 1p3 feline photoshopping bacchanale I am asking for my money back
― joagga lousome (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 00:10 (fourteen years ago) link
I Love Joanna Newsom
Read true personal stories, chat & get advice, support and help from a group of 7 people who all say 'I Love Joanna Newsom'
http://www.experienceproject.com/groups/Love-Joanna-Newsom/183429
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 00:10 (fourteen years ago) link
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― M.V., Wednesday, 24 February 2010 01:23 (fourteen years ago) link
...just finished listening to HOOM...my immediate impressions are varied. I don't think it's as sonically ambitious or melodically satisfying as Ys/but there are some stunning moments on this record. The songs that were previewed by Drag City, all stand-out in addition to Baby Birch, and the remarkable Go Long. Again, Newsom's lyrics shine throughout, and she continues her naturalist focus.
― tincub, Wednesday, 24 February 2010 01:43 (fourteen years ago) link
"all stand-out in addition to Baby Birch, and the remarkable Go Long"
funny. those are the "repetetive, boring one-line-melody" songs that i talked about before, but it seems lots of people like them.
― Zeno, Wednesday, 24 February 2010 01:46 (fourteen years ago) link
I find this far more melodically rich than Ys, but perhaps that is a casualty of my regarding Ys with extreme suspicion and suspended boredom for so long. I don't know.
― Brad Nelson (BradNelson), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 02:06 (fourteen years ago) link
ok this is streaming on npr for the curious
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 24 February 2010 02:10 (fourteen years ago) link
good intentions paving and jackrabbit are nice...she's toned down the voice a lot which i guess jibes with what i read in the interview way upthread?
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 24 February 2010 02:24 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm gonna buy this and enjoy it more than ksh
ok this is streaming on npr for the curious masochistic
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 02:25 (fourteen years ago) link