Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me (RIP blogs)

"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.

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.

ok this is streaming on npr for the curious

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?

i'm gonna buy this and enjoy it more than ksh

ok this is streaming on npr for the curious masochistic

her tryouts for the somewhat other music styles than before are the best songs on the record.
(paving company,jackrabbits,soft as chalk..)

yes am i imagining things or is there no harp on some tracks?

iirc there is no harp on some tracks

Listening momentarily.

Oh man, here we go. Be back in two hours.

make sure to take a bathroom break

pack a sandwitch

Update @ about 10 minutes in: there's no way I'm going to listen to all two hours of this straight through.

lol

Believe me, I'm laughing at myself.

haha. he's been broken in under 10 minutes.

not enough high-register warbling vocals, eh?

I hear a chorus of ilxors mocking every note, and I'm waiting for a stampede of unicorns to break down the wall in front of me and smash into my computer.

i'm mocking now, and i haven't even heard a note

She's singing about daddy longlegs and I can't stop laughing. I hate all of you.

:-)

Man, I'm going to have to listen to this on a day off from ILM. I just can't concentrate. Turning on Dinosaur Jr.

Still my album of the year though, no lie.

Oh man, "'81" is gorgeous.

dude

Que, find another thread to troll, I'm livebloggin'

i thought you were listening to Dinosaur

http://static.funnyjunk.com/pictures/kirmit.gif

What's with the livefroggin'?

thinking about getting this record. waiting to see how the liveblogging goes though.

guess he fell asleep

Just made it to disc two, and so far I agree with what max said upthread:

i mean this is like the simplest, easiest, most cliched thing to say about it, but it just sounds like shes "maturing as an artist." theres no dramatic shift in tone or sound, just a solidifying of her skills, like shes getting more and more comfortable with what she does.

― max

8:40 p.m., Feb. 23: Fell asleep listening to disc 2 of HOOM. Dreamed dreams of ethereal hussies, sinister jaggers and bandits on the king's highway.

I can't wait to pick up the vinyl
Just so I can listen at 45 rpm

People who liked the songs on Ys but found the production a little too suffocating might like this one more; there's definitely more space.

She's singing about daddy longlegs and I can't stop laughing. I hate all of you.

― ksh, Wednesday, 24 February 2010 03:05 (1 hour ago) Permalink

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2251/2336726148_0e9f9ec9df.jpg?v=0

hahahahahahhahaha

Hahahahahaha

someone is otm'img themselves itt

I Love anXiety of Influence

"When the lambs is lost in the mountain, he said. They is cry. Sometime come the mother. Sometime the wolf."

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Finished my first full listen, liking it a LOT better than Ys already. But don't really take a lot of stock in me saying that, as I never fully came around on that one anyway. Definitely some songs I liked a whole lot more than others ("Good Intentions", "Baby Birch", "Esme" and "Kingfisher" all immediately come to mind) but I didn't find myself wanting to skip anyway. This will certainly take a lot more time to digest.

I think the only thing left to do is to make ILX's own Have One On Me like a certain U2 album.

Nobody notice a 'New York Tendaberry' vibe about this...

with JN, it helps to listen along while reading the lyrics. It's a very solid record/Go Long, still a favourite.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Au7gGhIM65g

I think the only thing left to do is to make ILX's own Have One On Me like a certain U2 album.

OMG YES

This must be done.