Lil Wayne guests on a verse in the closer.
― kshighway (ksh), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 04:21 (fourteen years ago) link
I always forget she's so polarizing. :P
― Salvador Dali Parton (Turangalila), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 04:26 (fourteen years ago) link
Ah, I like her okay. Her voice is kind of grating, tho.
― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 13 January 2010 04:30 (fourteen years ago) link
It's gotten *a lot* better, though. Esp. live. She should use a bit more reverb on her vocals. Also "Only Skin" is an amazing song sung by anyone tbh
― Salvador Dali Parton (Turangalila), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 04:31 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVx_kVtFI9E
― kshighway (ksh), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 04:32 (fourteen years ago) link
As Turangalila said, "polarizing":
I couldn't stand 5 minutes of her voice, much less a whole concert!
absolutely fucking phenominal. some of her stuff i can't listen to such as "peach plum pear". "sprout and bean" is how I got turned on to her. but this is my new faviorite
Also: poor spelling.
― kshighway (ksh), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 04:33 (fourteen years ago) link
ya hoos, serious
― velko, Tuesday, January 12, 2010 11:18 PM Bookmark
Ha, was this deliberate?
― pithfork (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 04:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Well, and listen to this one... I'm pretty sure it'll be on the new album and it's just so heartbreaking and kind of In My Life-ish.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sL0T1yUYkbs
― Salvador Dali Parton (Turangalila), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 04:34 (fourteen years ago) link
; )
― velko, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 04:34 (fourteen years ago) link
I think I'm going to force myself to wait until the new album comes out before I listen to any of the new songs . . . I may have heard a clip a long time ago, but I don't remember. This is probably the album I want to hear more than any other this year.
― kshighway (ksh), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 04:37 (fourteen years ago) link
way too many posts on this already guys
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 04:42 (fourteen years ago) link
not a Joanna Newsom fan?
― kshighway (ksh), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 04:42 (fourteen years ago) link
ill have one on her ME
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 04:45 (fourteen years ago) link
i spent the length of an awful fever with ys blasting on loop and it was an experience as deeply moving and psychedelic as anything any chemicals ever induced in me
^^ i don't usually say this kind of shit
― what u think i steen for to push a crawfish? (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 04:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Seeing her play a week from today...
― Lord Byron Bay of Pigs (SeekAltRoute), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 04:47 (fourteen years ago) link
trust me, it's just as good as when you're not on shit! if you don't want to sit through the whole thing, just try "Emily."
Pa pointed out to me, for the hundredth time tonightThe way the ladle leads to a dirt-red bullet of lightSquint skyward and listenLoving him, we move within his bordersJust asterisms in the stars' set order
― kshighway (ksh), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 04:48 (fourteen years ago) link
also: "hydrocephalitic listlessness"
― kshighway (ksh), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 04:49 (fourteen years ago) link
ban hoosteen
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 04:50 (fourteen years ago) link
http://i47.tinypic.com/2zhljle.gif
― Salvador Dali Parton (Turangalila), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 04:51 (fourteen years ago) link
HI DERE
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 04:51 (fourteen years ago) link
I didn't have the heart to start this one
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 04:52 (fourteen years ago) link
I will also anticipate this record
― sleeve, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 05:27 (fourteen years ago) link
Has it been confirmed that this will be a 3 disc set and more down-to-earth than Ys?
― Moodles, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 05:46 (fourteen years ago) link
No but I sincerely hope there's strings in it :(
― Salvador Dali Parton (Turangalila), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 05:47 (fourteen years ago) link
I kind of think she could make a better record minus the Van Dyke Parks string arrangements. I'd like to hear something a bit more focused.
― Moodles, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 05:58 (fourteen years ago) link
I just hope that horrible live band she was playing with back in '08 aren't a part of this record, god they were grating.
― Hatch, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 07:35 (fourteen years ago) link
I am fucking stoked for this.
― Simon H., Wednesday, 13 January 2010 07:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Cannot wait.
― Jamie_ATP, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 08:54 (fourteen years ago) link
Literally anticipating this quite eagerly.
― krakow, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 09:08 (fourteen years ago) link
I was pretty sure I'd hate this, but hearing that it's a capella means I'll reserve my judgement. I generally find her stuff cloying, annoying, like nails on a chalkboard, however.
― Mordy, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 09:53 (fourteen years ago) link
i think she's fantastic. very very excited to hear a new one...
― shart in a bag, light it on fire (stevie), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 09:57 (fourteen years ago) link
first time i saw her was SXSW a few years back, before the first album was out, and she played next door to a Lookout Records Showcase, and the venue she played had such dreadful acoustics that the sound of 3-chord-punk and conversations at the bar were louder, even right up to the stage, than her harp and singing. but she just played on with such tenacity and good spirits...
― shart in a bag, light it on fire (stevie), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 09:59 (fourteen years ago) link
Her live performance of "Sawdust & Diamonds" solo on the harp was a brilliant thing. Also she's never been "precious" and never remotely close to "twee": Ys is as far away from twee and "fairydust and pixies" as you could possibly come. She's a great writer, nevermind the music, which luckily is as good (at least on Ys -- I've seen lately it's become popular to like 'Milk-Eyed' better, but I think Ys is leaps and bounds better.
― abcfsk, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 10:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Laurie Nyro isn't twee.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 10:45 (fourteen years ago) link
I saw her after Ys, and although I respect her songwriting and orchestration....it was just boring to listen to a whole concert of 10-minute songs. Plus, lately she does this really grating SQUEAK with her voice at the beginning of each new line.
― Sam Weller, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 10:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Hooray for this sort of thing.
― We should have called Suzie and Bobby (NickB), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 10:56 (fourteen years ago) link
so excited for this but also glad that the hardcore will still be there clinging to cat-voice metaphors
― schlump, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 11:13 (fourteen years ago) link
im looking forward to this but yall should give up on trying to convince other people to like her
― max, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 14:32 (fourteen years ago) link
and the other half of yall should stop posting in threads about artists who u dont like
Sweet.
― Hoisin Murphy (jaymc), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 14:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Seeing her in March with a 7 piece band (strings?)... really hope this is good.
― sofatruck, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 15:02 (fourteen years ago) link
hearing that it's a capella
Wait, what?
― Simon H., Wednesday, 13 January 2010 15:05 (fourteen years ago) link
It's not a capella. Someone made a joke upthread.
― Salvador Dali Parton (Turangalila), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 15:13 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6q_mHFfOMWE
― Zeno, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 15:19 (fourteen years ago) link
ah, durrr.
― Simon H., Wednesday, 13 January 2010 15:25 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah i know..
― Zeno, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 15:27 (fourteen years ago) link
It's actually spoken-word.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 15:28 (fourteen years ago) link
Which particular word?
― Mark G, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 15:28 (fourteen years ago) link
Antidisestablishmentarianism
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 15:29 (fourteen years ago) link
Sorry, I sneezed.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 15:30 (fourteen years ago) link
i would say divers is the best album of the 2010s
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 17 December 2020 04:28 (three years ago) link
(did the lol unicorns crew shitting up the first attempts to discuss this ever bother to hear to it because the zings are particularly misplaced for this album)
This thread is in my POX of ilx threads.
― The Battle of Taylor Swift's "Evermore" (PBKR), Thursday, 17 December 2020 13:20 (three years ago) link
It's the record I'd play someone before I killed them, definitely.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Tuesday, January 26, 2010 3:52 PM (ten years ago) bookmarkflaglink
― The Battle of Taylor Swift's "Evermore" (PBKR), Thursday, 17 December 2020 14:29 (three years ago) link
I've typed this before but if you have Newsom on vinyl it's fun to run them at 45 rpm
― flamboyant goon tie included, Thursday, 17 December 2020 17:27 (three years ago) link
Pulled this out again last night and made it through about 3/4s of it before I crashed out (started with disc 2 tho). Made for a lovely listen with the first snow of the season sticking to the ground. "Does Not Suffice" is such a terrific closer.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 17 December 2020 17:39 (three years ago) link
9 years ago there was a moment when I shared Go Long with a young woman and it expressed perfect romantic tension.Have One on Me was incredible from day one when the game was to agree on what was the best CD (still 2).I haven't returned much to Newsom since Divers, after slightly over-obsessing with her (since Ys) but I can always return to her. Divers took a bit of time due to the crackling pastoral folksy village atmosphere and high-pitched register, but the compositions and highs are there: Sapokanikan and the slower more solemn songs: A Pin-Light Bent, the title song, the closer. It's interesting that she hasn't recorded a new album since then... I wonder what she thinks of it, if she feels like she has exhausted her style.A lot of memories from travelling to London alone to see her (as a young man), then in Zurich through three hours of rain and traffic a Friday night and we got there late, and finally to make it up in a concert place in Luzern that is used for opera and shaped like a boat for perfect acoustics.
― Nabozo, Thursday, 17 December 2020 21:03 (three years ago) link
On a Good Day - the opening track of disc 2 - I think it is one of her most concise and beautiful songs
― Dan S, Thursday, 17 December 2020 23:27 (three years ago) link
Horrible 70's album titles like I've Got My Own Album to Do
― Adoration of the Mogwai (Deflatormouse), Friday, 18 December 2020 01:44 (three years ago) link
whatever
― Dan S, Friday, 18 December 2020 01:58 (three years ago) link
she's made four albums in a row that are almost perfect, can't think of many other artists today that applies to
― Dan S, Friday, 18 December 2020 02:48 (three years ago) link
I will always love Joanna Newsom for having the Moore Brothers sing on this album — worth checking out: https://themoorebros.com/
― tylerw, Friday, 18 December 2020 03:00 (three years ago) link
Deflatormouse actually makes a good point - there is a tension between the highly colloquial sense of the title, and the actual resonance of it after you take in the title track.
It's also easy to imagine it as the title of, say, a Tanya Tucker album from 1978 with her dressed as a diner waitress on the cover.
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 18 December 2020 15:19 (three years ago) link
Good Intentions Paving Company is sort of an indie standard now isn't it?
Anyway, this is very nice indeed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzM-3XzMjQQ
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Monday, 24 May 2021 10:04 (two years ago) link
Curious what those who hate Newsom's voice would make of this cover.
― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 24 May 2021 13:36 (two years ago) link
"A bunch of years back", eleven to be precise, but shut up, 2010 was yesterday. Sometimes I even forget that she put out Divers after that.Skimmed through the comments at the time of release, goddamn that thread was a happy mess.The cover is a nice performance but really lacks the piano and the style is really softened and the dynamics ironed out. It's almost a different song.
― Nabozo, Monday, 24 May 2021 14:43 (two years ago) link
It does highlight just how strong Newsom is at writing original and complicated melodies, but yeah, the original has a lot more personality.
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Monday, 24 May 2021 16:03 (two years ago) link
In my initial Joanna obsession phase, back around when Ys came out, I DLed a lot of random covers of songs from Milk-Eyed Mender. A lot of those are great because her voice was so polarizing and different then (read: worse). But for any subsequent stuff, not sure I've ever heard a cover of her that I preferred to the original.
Would love for her to rerecord MEM now. Would be fantastic with some light tasteful accompaniment, but even if she kept it a solo affair, it would be revelatory to have a nice studio-quality copy of her singing all those songs now that she can sing.
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Monday, 24 May 2021 16:29 (two years ago) link
I do really enjoy The Decemberists' version of "Bridges and Balloons"
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Monday, 24 May 2021 16:50 (two years ago) link
Re: that video, I don't think I've ever seen anyone capo at the 10th fret before!
― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 24 May 2021 17:21 (two years ago) link
Hah, I was thinking exactly that
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Monday, 24 May 2021 17:37 (two years ago) link
I love MEM, probably still my favourite of her records. My daughter was obsessed with it a few years back, when she was 3 or so, and knew all of Inflammatory Writ off by heart, along wih a few others. She would demand it whenever in our car, or indeed anybody's car, and both sets of our parents were entirely dumbfoudned by Newsom's voice when they heard it.
She's not so fussed about Newsom now and probably doesn't remember the words to the songs anymore - she's big into King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard at the moment - but I have a photo of Joanna that Steve Gullick took of her when we were covering her at SXSW 2004 to put up in my daughter's bedroom when I get around to getting it framed, and I'd still like to take her to see Joanna play live, if and when she ever plays here again.
― burnt hombre (stevie), Tuesday, 15 June 2021 19:19 (two years ago) link
kinda love that she's still not on streaming (afaik?)
― intern at pelican brief consulting (Simon H.), Wednesday, 16 June 2021 00:04 (two years ago) link
I suspect she never will be
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Wednesday, 16 June 2021 00:14 (two years ago) link
also, I think about the title to this thread often, and it always makes me giggle to think that a new Joanna Newsom album could singlehandedly cause blogs (whatever they were) to come crashing down. Seems quaint now.
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Wednesday, 16 June 2021 00:16 (two years ago) link
she's on apple music like the rest of drag city, they're still holding out with spotify
― ufo, Wednesday, 16 June 2021 00:19 (two years ago) link
The subtitle in this thread wasn't a suggestion that her record release would overwhelm traffic to music blogs, it was a response to the article in NOW Magazine suggesting that, because Have One On Me didn't break sales records, therefore blogs/Pitchfork/music criticism were revealed as impotent.
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 16 June 2021 01:38 (two years ago) link
don't spoil it for me
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Wednesday, 16 June 2021 03:06 (two years ago) link
Joanna Newsom could power her own cryptocurrency with the heat generated from those takes
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Wednesday, 16 June 2021 03:08 (two years ago) link
― burnt hombre (stevie), Tuesday, June 15, 2021 9:19 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
Is this your daughter: baby singing sprout and the bean ?
― Nabozo, Wednesday, 16 June 2021 17:46 (two years ago) link
Ha! No, that's not her I'm afraid...
― burnt hombre (stevie), Wednesday, 16 June 2021 20:57 (two years ago) link
I've been jamming this recently, but despite the medieval joplinisms my senescent brain keeps trying to turn all of the songs into "donald, where's yer troosers?"
― massaman gai (front tea for two), Thursday, 17 June 2021 05:29 (two years ago) link
There is a blacksmith and there is a shepherd and there is a butcher boyAnd there is a barber who's cutting and cutting away at my only joy
I saw a rabbit as slick as a knife and as pale as a candlestickAnd I had thought it'd be harder to do but I caught her and skinned her quick, held her there
Kicking and mewling upended unspooling unsung and blueTold her wherever you go little runaway bunny I will find you
And then she ranAs they're liable to do
Be at peace baby, and be goneBe at peace baby, and be gone
― Indexed, Thursday, 26 January 2023 22:14 (one year ago) link