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
^ Joke of the week.
― Megadeth Panel (Ówen P.), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 15:31 (fourteen years ago) link
Arsenal.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 15:32 (fourteen years ago) link
backing band on the new record is vampire weekend
― velko, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 15:34 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, it's not a capella. I was just kidding with someone yesterday.
― kshighway (ksh), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 15:58 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― piscesx, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 22:12 (fourteen years ago) link
Always have wanted a Snoop/Joanna combo "Bitchez and Balloons."
― hardly a giant f-off pickup (Eazy), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 22:21 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Wax Cat, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 22:21 (fourteen years ago) link
if it's not a capella can it be instrumental pls
― ralph pls go (cozwn), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 22:23 (fourteen years ago) link
There's a reggaeton remix of "Bridges and Balloons."
― Hoisin Murphy (jaymc), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 22:28 (fourteen years ago) link
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!
― scott seward, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 22:34 (fourteen years ago) link
http://thedecibeltolls.com/Images/blogginsangry.jpg
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 22:35 (fourteen years ago) link
wait, is that me or you?
― scott seward, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 22:47 (fourteen years ago) link
http://img2.timeinc.net/people/i/2008/gallery/indielove/andy_samberg.jpg
― jaxon, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 22:56 (fourteen years ago) link
Moore Brothers are guesting on this, and I am probably the only one excited about that.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 22:59 (fourteen years ago) link
I was about to say, no one made an easy "the album is produced by the lonely island" type joke or such.
― Michael F Gill, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 23:03 (fourteen years ago) link
It ain't me!
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 23:56 (fourteen years ago) link
Aaanyway. Why is that "sweet, Es(a)me!" song so gorge? sigh :(
― Salvador Dali Parton (Turangalila), Saturday, 16 January 2010 05:21 (fourteen years ago) link
i liked milk eyed mender fine but ys was pretty boring imo
― plaxico (I know, right?), Saturday, 16 January 2010 09:55 (fourteen years ago) link
Well then.
http://towerofsleep.tumblr.com/post/334726662/breaking-news
― Simon H., Sunday, 17 January 2010 21:51 (fourteen years ago) link
Makes sense, tbh. All the new songs are long.
― Salvador Dali Parton (Turangalila), Sunday, 17 January 2010 22:28 (fourteen years ago) link
THREE discs you're kidding.
― piscesx, Sunday, 17 January 2010 23:15 (fourteen years ago) link
http://towerofsleep.tumblr.com/post/335537423/one-sentence-review-of-joanna-newsoms-have-one-on-me
― kshighway (ksh), Sunday, 17 January 2010 23:18 (fourteen years ago) link
this is her Boys For Pele. kinda.
― piscesx, Sunday, 17 January 2010 23:23 (fourteen years ago) link
http://everythingdies.tumblr.com/post/336065768/one-sentence-review-of-joanna-newsoms-have-one-on-me
― Simon H., Sunday, 17 January 2010 23:24 (fourteen years ago) link
Why is everyone so excited about Paul Newman's wife?
― OCONDOR (Pt.1), Monday, 18 January 2010 07:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Saw her play last night.
A LOT of new stuff, a few piano based numbers in the middle and <gasp> almost an outbreak of 'ROCK' was threatened until she quickly returned to the harp. Really enjoyed the long *cough* prog rock-lite *cough* arrangements and Kate Bush, I mean Joanna, sounded great.
And yes, she looked extremely teh hotness.
― Lord Byron Bay of Pigs (SeekAltRoute), Thursday, 21 January 2010 02:45 (fourteen years ago) link
THREE discs you're kidding.― piscesx, Sunday, January 17, 2010 ____________________________________this is her Boys For Pele. kinda.― piscesx, Sunday, January 17, 2010
― piscesx, Sunday, January 17, 2010
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this is her Titanic
― Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 21 January 2010 02:51 (fourteen 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
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.
― 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