Joanna Newsom: c/d?

oh joanna

you can do no wrong! If you masturbated on stage and plucked the harp with your pussy, I'd love it!

...

ps. the first time I heard Ys I CRIED TOO

SO EMOTIONAL

alrighty | 16 Dec '06, 06:34 | Reply

lol

lol so much projecting going on w/that revive

i only have ill feelings toward joanna because i saw her open for the incredible string band and all the people were there to see her! no one seemed to know who the old, weird headlining hippies were.

not her fault obviously

that is pretty sad

that's so sad

xpost!

the leopard skin tights she is wearing in that link are way more unforgivable than playing a harp

oh it was so sad then again, this is better on the eyes http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2008/01/06/joanna_newsom_narrowweb__300x450,0.jpg

than this
http://www.wnyc.org/images/slideshows/incredible_string_band/IncredibleSB1.jpg

there's a shirley collins album where in the liner notes she refers to the incredible string band as 'a pair of handsome gypsies'

Callahan,you lucky bastard

oh yeah, ISB had it goin' on back in the day, in that forest hippie kinda way, but in the 21st century, not so much.

nah, it's Samberg now. (xp)

Anyone ever seen her and Regina Spektor in the same room?

omg fernwood is gonna blow up now!

i went to so many of those folk yeah things in big sur, kinda bummed i never knew about this secret joanna newsome performance business

Samberg and Newsom -

Love has no rules

also like Joanna for the fact that she's a Moore Bros. supporter -- those guys are like the 21st century Incredible String Band. So much handsomer too.

"the 21st century Incredible String Band"

Animal Collective?

noooooooooooooooooooooooooo

thats what some people thought when Sung tongs came out,i think

yeah, perhaps -- moore brothers aren't really like animal collective though.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3360/3500931553_961537f7cf.jpg?v=0

i actually haven't seen SNL in a while ... is that guy ... funny?

is that from http://www.babeswithdouchebags.com/ ?

oh yeah, ISB had it goin' on back in the day, in that forest hippie kinda way

they were very good looking guys, robin especially:

http://static.open.salon.com/files/firstboy121243828716.jpg

she looks so pretty in that pic!

something about her music doesn't draw me in. i can never put my finger on it. i guess i just get the sense that she's singing about things that i don't know about, or something. not sure -- i need to listen to more.

robin looks prettier than joanna there, haha

it's like noah lennox whould date maria carey or something.
and yes, im jealous

milk eyed mender>>>>Ys in an actually want to listen to it sense imo, but Ys is probably way "better" or more accomplished or something

also like Joanna for the fact that she's a Moore Bros. supporter -- those guys are like the 21st century Incredible String Band. So much handsomer too.

More handsome than ISB in their prime? Getouttahere!

saw her live a couple years ago on the ys tour and she is genuinely funny, even if the crowd were sucking up

so i mean dating a comedian...

andy samberg fwiw is not that funny

he's hot

cute couple!

there is film on the internet somewhere of her telling a dick joke, brought to you by some magazine that photographed her wearing couture

i find myself really hoping she has a seriously long-tailed career: the cd-rs and milk-eyed mender are fantastic finding-a-voice stuff; i've never been able to get an angle on ys because i miss the sheer enthusiasm to be writing and singing conveyed in the first album. or the joy in just doing it for it's own sake.

'colleen' (only new song since, i think?) maybe more accomplished than anything on 'ys'

'ys' quite clunky in some ways —

"and I miss your precious heart
and miss, and miss, and miss
and miss, and miss, and miss
and miss, and miss your heart
but release your precious heart
to its feast, for precious hearts"

— i mean, i know how it looks written isn't the point, but i still find that a little naif or faux-naif

i may be biased towards 'colleen' bcz the yelping makes it sound like she's finding a way to indulge the schtick
-singing of the first releases without leaving technique behind, which would be +++ good thing

also the ys street guitarist sounds a bit like he's playing on one of the acoustic tracks on rumours

i can't help but feel like it was a big fuck you when she started singing more normally to all the people who had defended how she sang on the first album as natural instead of contrived. I'll let you know when I have worked through this with my therapist.

can't help but wonder what I'm On a Boat would have been like if she's helped write the lyrics.

also the ys street guitarist sounds a bit like he's playing on one of the acoustic tracks on rumours

yeah what a pile of shit

I thought thomp was saying that's one of the reasons he preferred "Colleen" to Ys.

oop, sorry

i can't help but feel like it was a big fuck you when she started singing more normally to all the people who had defended how she sang on the first album as natural instead of contrived. I'll let you know when I have worked through this with my therapist.

― ❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉Plaxico❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉ (I know, right?)

I think the reality is that when she was first starting out, she hadn't really sung before and wasn't too great at it. Some people found it "endearing", others "contrived".

But she's obviously a perfectionist who works hard at all the things she does. I'm guessing that she's either taken some vocal lessons or just worked at it a lot since the first album. She's gotten to be quite good and will probably continue to improve.

Seeing her live on the Ys tour, the thing that amazed me the most was how good and well-controlled her voice sounded.

kinda can't believe there's much debate about the dexterity/accomplishment of her voice http://www.mediafire.com/file/15ueodzydmz/joanna-newsom-esame.mp3

oh i'm not sure the fleetwood mac thing is particularly accurate but i meant it in a positive way, yeah

i have now accidentally played the above track over the top of 'tusk', which comes closer to working than it ought, but still doesn't really work

She has a bit of a comedic turn in the video for MGMT's Kids too

That Esame song is fantastic.

ws gonna say

http://mistermort.typepad.com/.a/6a010535d07789970c01287594b3e7970c-800wi

http://mistermort.typepad.com/.a/6a010535d07789970c0120a692f4cc970b-800wi