Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me (RIP blogs)

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HI DERE

I didn't have the heart to start this one

I will also anticipate this record

Has it been confirmed that this will be a 3 disc set and more down-to-earth than Ys?

No but I sincerely hope there's strings in it :(

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.

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.

I am fucking stoked for this.

Cannot wait.

Literally anticipating this quite eagerly.

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.

i think she's fantastic. very very excited to hear a new one...

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...

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.

Laurie Nyro isn't twee.

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.

Hooray for this sort of thing.

so excited for this but also glad that the hardcore will still be there clinging to cat-voice metaphors

im looking forward to this but yall should give up on trying to convince other people to like her

and the other half of yall should stop posting in threads about artists who u dont like

Sweet.

Seeing her in March with a 7 piece band (strings?)... really hope this is good.

hearing that it's a capella

Wait, what?

It's not a capella. Someone made a joke upthread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6q_mHFfOMWE

ah, durrr.

yeah i know..

It's actually spoken-word.

Which particular word?

Antidisestablishmentarianism

Sorry, I sneezed.

^ Joke of the week.

Arsenal.

backing band on the new record is vampire weekend

Yeah, it's not a capella. I was just kidding with someone yesterday.

Can't bloody wait for this. Still kicking myself for missing the YS Manchester show not a few hundred yards from me.

Oh and for anyone who wants a mash-up of Peach Plum Pear and Someone Great by Lcd (not many of you i don't doubt) it's here:
http://www.myspace.com/jickajick

Always have wanted a Snoop/Joanna combo "Bitchez and Balloons."

Very excited. I liked the stuff she did with the band, and thought the EP was great, so I'm hoping it's more stuff like that. I find the Van Dyke Parks arrangements on Ys the album's only weak link in a way; often quite distracting and sometimes even out of time. The EP has a much better sense of a bunch of musicians playing together in the same room.

if it's not a capella can it be instrumental pls

Always have wanted a Snoop/Joanna combo "Bitchez and Balloons."

There's a reggaeton remix of "Bridges and Balloons."

man, i really tried to watch those clips posted above and i just can't do it. made it about two minutes in for both of them. some things really are an acquired taste!

http://thedecibeltolls.com/Images/blogginsangry.jpg

wait, is that me or you?

http://img2.timeinc.net/people/i/2008/gallery/indielove/andy_samberg.jpg

Moore Brothers are guesting on this, and I am probably the only one excited about that.

I was about to say, no one made an easy "the album is produced by the lonely island" type joke or such.

wait, is that me or you?

It ain't me!

Aaanyway. Why is that "sweet, Es(a)me!" song so gorge?
sigh :(

I do really enjoy The Decemberists' version of "Bridges and Balloons"

Re: that video, I don't think I've ever seen anyone capo at the 10th fret before!

Hah, I was thinking exactly that

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.

kinda love that she's still not on streaming (afaik?)

I suspect she never will be

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.

kinda love that she's still not on streaming (afaik?)

she's on apple music like the rest of drag city, they're still holding out with spotify

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.

don't spoil it for me

Joanna Newsom could power her own cryptocurrency with the heat generated from those takes

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.

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Is this your daughter: baby singing sprout and the bean ?

Ha! No, that's not her I'm afraid...

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?"

There is a blacksmith and there is a shepherd and there is a butcher boy
And 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 candlestick
And 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 blue
Told her wherever you go little runaway bunny I will find you

And then she ran
As they're liable to do

Be at peace baby, and be gone
Be at peace baby, and be gone