andy samberg fwiw is not that funny
― spiritual giant Cubby Culbertson (omar little), Thursday, 25 June 2009 17:59 (fourteen years ago) link
he's hot
― surm, Thursday, 25 June 2009 18:02 (fourteen years ago) link
cute couple!
― goole, Thursday, 25 June 2009 18:12 (fourteen years ago) link
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 heartand miss, and miss, and missand miss, and miss, and missand miss, and miss your heartbut release your precious heartto 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
― thomp, Thursday, 25 June 2009 18:35 (fourteen years ago) link
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?), Thursday, 25 June 2009 18:44 (fourteen years ago) link
can't help but wonder what I'm On a Boat would have been like if she's helped write the lyrics.
― ❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉Plaxico❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉ (I know, right?), Thursday, 25 June 2009 18:45 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah what a pile of shit
― goole, Thursday, 25 June 2009 18:48 (fourteen years ago) link
I thought thomp was saying that's one of the reasons he preferred "Colleen" to Ys.
― great gabbneb's ghost (jaymc), Thursday, 25 June 2009 18:54 (fourteen years ago) link
oop, sorry
― goole, Thursday, 25 June 2009 18:56 (fourteen years ago) link
― ❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉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.
― Moodles, Thursday, 25 June 2009 19:00 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― the heart is a lonely hamster (schlump), Thursday, 25 June 2009 19:12 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― thomp, Thursday, 25 June 2009 19:29 (fourteen years ago) link
She has a bit of a comedic turn in the video for MGMT's Kids too
― Number None, Thursday, 25 June 2009 22:27 (fourteen years ago) link
That Esame song is fantastic.
― ecuador_with_a_c, Friday, 26 June 2009 02:38 (fourteen years ago) link
ws gonna say
― ❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉Plaxico❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉ (I know, right?), Friday, 26 June 2009 09:02 (fourteen years ago) link
http://mistermort.typepad.com/.a/6a010535d07789970c01287594b3e7970c-800wi
― velko, Friday, 20 November 2009 20:04 (fourteen years ago) link
http://mistermort.typepad.com/.a/6a010535d07789970c0120a692f4cc970b-800wi
― velko, Friday, 20 November 2009 20:05 (fourteen years ago) link
nice shoes? heard from a friend who plays on her upcoming album that the new one is "more down to earth" than Ys.
― tylerw, Friday, 20 November 2009 20:08 (fourteen years ago) link
She finished recording her new album apparently. If "Esame" isn't in it there is no hope for this world, imo.
― Turangalila, Friday, 20 November 2009 20:14 (fourteen years ago) link
tylerw, what you should do is find out if there's strings in this new album. :)
Doesn't sound like strings are a big part of it -- at least compared to the last one. This one was recorded with her touring band mainly ... It's more of a "band" sound, I guess.
― tylerw, Friday, 20 November 2009 20:23 (fourteen years ago) link
Also it might be a "triple album" apparently.
― tylerw, Friday, 20 November 2009 20:24 (fourteen years ago) link
!
― Turangalila, Friday, 20 November 2009 20:32 (fourteen years ago) link
a small ensemble recording sounds great!
still one of the best shows I have ever seen
― sleeve, Friday, 20 November 2009 20:40 (fourteen years ago) link
wahthttp://www.wmagazine.com/images/fashion/2009/12/fass_armani_03_v.jpg
― Nuyorican oatmeal (jaymc), Friday, 20 November 2009 20:53 (fourteen years ago) link
http://19.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_koymtfXv9w1qa10kgo1_r1_400.jpg
― steenship HOOSiers (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 20 November 2009 21:05 (fourteen years ago) link
So it will be a more down-to-earth triple album?
Makes sense.
― Moodles, Friday, 20 November 2009 21:46 (fourteen years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/5YiDv.gif
― markers, Sunday, 15 May 2011 03:17 (thirteen years ago) link
she's got it all. sass, ass, shoes, voice, harp skills, curves, legs, entire english dictionary memorised, whimsy
i mean, what
― jumpskins, Sunday, 15 May 2011 15:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Listening to Joanna Newsom is like being attacked by smurfs. But I'd give her a classic because no one sounds like her. I can't stand her music though.
― thirdalternative, Sunday, 15 May 2011 17:03 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.style.com/blogs/stylefile/wp-content/uploads/wren-joanna-newsom-1.jpg
http://www.style.com/stylefile/2012/11/wren-a-songbird-joanna-newsom-lends-a-string/
― buzza, Saturday, 22 December 2012 21:28 (eleven years ago) link
Whimsy is just the right word for the video’s star, the adored singer/songwriter and harpist Joanna Newsom. Newsom, harp in tow, performed a cover of Sandy Denny’s folksy, 1971 sea shanty “The North Star Grassman and the Ravens.” “Aesthetically, her songs are really inspiring to me—they’re really bold strokes that feel sort of theatrical and they’re interested in story,” Newsom said of Denny’s melancholy track and creative collaboration it inspired. “The fashion and design that I’m interested in also has to do with story, very strong statements that have some sort of narrative to them, that they aren’t just interested in the now.”
― buzza, Saturday, 22 December 2012 21:29 (eleven years ago) link
http://twitter.com/Grimezsz/status/280377599946010624
― markers, Saturday, 22 December 2012 23:44 (eleven years ago) link
Not too sure how many Joanna fans will actually buy this, but nice to know it'll be out there.
http://jtclassics.co.uk/product.php?id_product=49
Hard Skin, the most popular oi! punk band around, send a strong message to their massive fanbase of women by doing a collaboration record with a lot of very famous females who are huge fans of the band as people as well as as a band. They have redone their whole new classic album On The Balls but have let the ladies take over the main vocals! What could have turned out to be really funny is actually absolutely brilliant and another classic!
http://jtclassics.co.uk/img/p/49-104-thickbox.jpg
― it's all fuck what sit says, we'll do our own thing (Matt #2), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 16:36 (eleven years ago) link
There's a sound sample on Amazon, definitely sounds like her:http://www.amazon.com/The-Man-Who-Ran-Town/dp/B00B1BQ98Y
― a la recherche du tempbans perdu (NickB), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 16:42 (eleven years ago) link
http://vimeo.com/61742904
― Luna has new answers (buzza), Tuesday, 19 March 2013 01:29 (eleven years ago) link
http://24.media.tumblr.com/9318917232af82f16bbff64d0b839ca4/tumblr_mmz0xdKvtq1qa1ubyo1_1280.jpg
― markers, Saturday, 8 June 2013 04:03 (ten years ago) link
http://24.media.tumblr.com/dbd7e4b6c6ed592fce7e361afe5fd040/tumblr_mq9fg36Ile1qhug3qo5_500.png
― markers, Monday, 29 July 2013 12:57 (ten years ago) link
I can totally hear her in all the stuff she picks:
http://www.vogue.com/8204763/inherent-vice-joanna-newsom-1970s-songs/
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 23:01 (nine years ago) link
Crossing my fingers for Gentle Giant influence on the next album. She's at her best on twistier tracks like "Have One On Me".
― jmm, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 23:09 (nine years ago) link
Saw her live this week, she's amazing. In tears for "Only Skin", and I came away with newfound appreciation for the non-Ys songs she played. I'm in utter awe at what an amazing performer she is.
― Antonym Scalia (Leee), Wednesday, 27 November 2019 20:40 (four years ago) link
THE STRINGS/KEYS REINCIDENCETrill the trumpets!Hoist the flags!Raise the gates of the city!Rip the protective plastic covers off the furniture!For lo, Joanna Newsom, balladeer without compeer, Nevada City’s native daughter and Aureate Laureate of these Austral climes, comes riding down the mountain (sidesaddle, natch) to undertake a limited Los Angeles solo residency at The Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever, May 15th through May 19th, 2024! Though she rides alone this time, Joanna comes equipped with her usual blistering wind-up double punch to wreak raptures upon harp and piano alike.I know what you’re thinking — we’re all thinking it — What’s in the saddlebag, Newsom? It’s hard to tell from here, but darn if she doesn’t seem to be packing new tunes! What’s your pleasure? The golden oldies? Perhaps a cover song or two? A 17-minuter for the large-bladdered among us? Over the space of these five nights she’ll sing some, strum some, pluckety plunk some, and probably sonically boggle your noggin. The noggin inside your heart.You should only read this next part if you're a child, or know one who's cool: the May 18th show will be a 3:30pm (doors at 2:30) Matinee Performance strictly for kids under 18 (and their keepers), where Mrs. Newsom has promised to forgo the "blue" material we've all come to know (and respect) her for, and instead tailor the setlist to be not only suitable for children, but specifically designed with them in mind. Tickets for this show will only be available for the little ones (and their keepers), a policy as ironclad as it is unenforceable!Now as for the rest of the dates, old timer — mark them on your calendar, tattoo them on your forehead, brand them on the back of your wizened hands, but remember — only a ticket will get you in the door.What side of history do you want to be on? The underside? The wet part? The index? The table of contents? Or the future of music? We think the answer, like God’s grace, speaks for herself.
For lo, Joanna Newsom, balladeer without compeer, Nevada City’s native daughter and Aureate Laureate of these Austral climes, comes riding down the mountain (sidesaddle, natch) to undertake a limited Los Angeles solo residency at The Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever, May 15th through May 19th, 2024!
Though she rides alone this time, Joanna comes equipped with her usual blistering wind-up double punch to wreak raptures upon harp and piano alike.
I know what you’re thinking — we’re all thinking it — What’s in the saddlebag, Newsom? It’s hard to tell from here, but darn if she doesn’t seem to be packing new tunes! What’s your pleasure? The golden oldies? Perhaps a cover song or two? A 17-minuter for the large-bladdered among us? Over the space of these five nights she’ll sing some, strum some, pluckety plunk some, and probably sonically boggle your noggin. The noggin inside your heart.
You should only read this next part if you're a child, or know one who's cool: the May 18th show will be a 3:30pm (doors at 2:30) Matinee Performance strictly for kids under 18 (and their keepers), where Mrs. Newsom has promised to forgo the "blue" material we've all come to know (and respect) her for, and instead tailor the setlist to be not only suitable for children, but specifically designed with them in mind. Tickets for this show will only be available for the little ones (and their keepers), a policy as ironclad as it is unenforceable!
Now as for the rest of the dates, old timer — mark them on your calendar, tattoo them on your forehead, brand them on the back of your wizened hands, but remember — only a ticket will get you in the door.
What side of history do you want to be on? The underside? The wet part? The index? The table of contents? Or the future of music? We think the answer, like God’s grace, speaks for herself.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 11 March 2024 14:04 (two months ago) link
what on earth is a joanna newsom show tailored specifically for children going to be like
i hope that new album is coming soon, those new songs she debuted last year were wonderful and it's been nearly a decade!
― ufo, Monday, 11 March 2024 14:11 (two months ago) link
That is thee most Drag City press release of all thee Drag City press releases; also, ofc, a Joanna Newsom show tailored to children is a Joanna Newsom show
― Funding Hostile (Craig D.), Monday, 11 March 2024 15:21 (two months ago) link
(I have to assume her 'blue' lyrical content would go way over the heads of those whose lil' ears are protected)
― Funding Hostile (Craig D.), Monday, 11 March 2024 15:23 (two months ago) link
lol at any kids being able to pick out anything from her songs, "blue" or not. "Mommy, what did the pretty harp lady mean when she sang 'And the articulation in our elbows and knees makes us buckle, and we couple in endless increase as the audience admires'?"
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 11 March 2024 15:33 (two months ago) link
You'd be surprised -- I had to take my nephew's iphone away after I caught him texting about "cockles" and "cowries"
― Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Monday, 11 March 2024 16:09 (two months ago) link
The perk and protection of being a Drag City artist is having Rian Murphy press releases that take the piss out of press releases while also getting the info across.
― paisley got boring (Eazy), Monday, 11 March 2024 16:26 (two months ago) link
Very weird to have a kids show at the fucking CEMETARY
― The SoyBoy West Coast (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 11 March 2024 16:40 (two months ago) link
Hey, they gotta learn somehow.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 11 March 2024 17:02 (two months ago) link