'In California' (I guess it's called) is still in my head, but I'm no whistler I'm afraid...
― Lord Byron Bay of Pigs (SeekAltRoute), Thursday, 21 January 2010 05:19 (fourteen years ago) link
A pretty good recording from the Sydney gig last week has gone up on D!MEAD0Z3N with around 6 new songs, band sounds great too, strings, brass, minimal drums.
― Joe Pass Filter (MaresNest), Thursday, 21 January 2010 21:12 (fourteen years ago) link
http://pitchfork.com/news/37690-new-joanna-newsom-song/
Well, now we can reveal a little more about Have One on Me. For one thing, it's a triple album. You read that right: Have One on Me will take up three CDs and three LPs. Ambitious!
― kshighway (ksh), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 17:41 (fourteen years ago) link
my album of the year already, and i haven't heard a note
http://www.dragcity.com/products/have-one-on-me
― kshighway (ksh), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 17:45 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.dragcity.com/system/album_products/images/1620/large.jpg?1264473665actually terrible album cover of 2010?
― More than 22 years have already passed after I obtain this DX7. (Future_Perfect), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 19:31 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah that's awful.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 19:42 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't mind it, but it makes it look like it's on DFA or something.
― Hoisin Murphy (jaymc), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 19:43 (fourteen years ago) link
maybe she's into punk now--good for her
― that sex version of "blue thunder." (Mr. Que), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 19:45 (fourteen years ago) link
the song on the drag city site is really really good
― abcfsk, Tuesday, 26 January 2010 19:52 (fourteen years ago) link
It's very pretty though kind of minor & interlude-ish compared to the other tracks :P
― Salvador Dali Parton (Turangalila), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 19:56 (fourteen years ago) link
25 bones for a triple LP ain't bad!
I skipped Ys, proggier doesn't mean better for me, but I think she's a pretty fucking excellent lyricist & that first album had some very solid jams on it
chances of me ever making it through a triple album that's not on Dust-to-Digital or Deutsche Grammophon are like 1000-1 tho tbh
― Lee Dorrian Gray (J0hn D.), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 20:01 (fourteen years ago) link
lyrics are even better on ys than her earlier stuff imo. snagging the not van dyke parks'd live arrangements of the songs is pretty crucial too i think. but if u cant handle 13-minute harp epics u should stop running with the big dogs and get on the porch.
― max, Tuesday, 26 January 2010 20:25 (fourteen years ago) link
http://images.ola.com/auctions/7807/vmay-355207-1.jpg
― max, Tuesday, 26 January 2010 20:26 (fourteen years ago) link
if people were to ask me what single album I would advise them to listen to before they die, it's Ys. period.
― kshighway (ksh), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 20:28 (fourteen years ago) link
porch looks pretty nice tbh
― tylerw, Tuesday, 26 January 2010 20:28 (fourteen years ago) link
xp lol you really want to advise all ppl to listen to an album that 75% of them are going to hate?
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 26 January 2010 20:32 (fourteen years ago) link
fortunately, no one asked you, kshighway ;)
― that sex version of "blue thunder." (Mr. Que), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 20:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Ys is great, people are nuts
― randy e. bugler (jeff), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 20:33 (fourteen years ago) link
but if u cant handle 13-minute harp epics u should stop running with the big dogs and get on the porch.
yeah if I'm listening to 13-minute epic songs in a rock/pop mode they better have a shredding solo and some wicked distortion or I want my money back, that is just how I break it down to an extent
I also hate Gabriel-era Genesis so even tho my hat is genuinely & sincerely off to Ms. Newsome's lyrical chops any day I gotta take a pass on any 13-minute epic songs until/unless they involve a Rat pedal & some corpsepaint
― Lee Dorrian Gray (J0hn D.), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 20:33 (fourteen years ago) link
how about couplets about rats, is that cool?
― that sex version of "blue thunder." (Mr. Que), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 20:34 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah
Ys >>> MeM
Ys is more showtuney Americana than prog.
― Salvador Dali Parton (Turangalila), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 20:34 (fourteen years ago) link
75% is my conservative estimate btw
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 26 January 2010 20:34 (fourteen years ago) link
its fine if u want to stay on the porch bro
― max, Tuesday, 26 January 2010 20:34 (fourteen years ago) link
u will still have to endure the wrath of my mocking t-shirt/fake license plate
― max, Tuesday, 26 January 2010 20:35 (fourteen years ago) link
i mean even that albums fans have to admit it has all the ingredients to be extremely polarizing?
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 26 January 2010 20:35 (fourteen years ago) link
also it's called Ys
― that sex version of "blue thunder." (Mr. Que), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 20:35 (fourteen years ago) link
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeezzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
i love porches. wish i had a porch.
Me too.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 20:36 (fourteen years ago) link
planning on sitting on my porch this spring, listening to joanna newsom. or maybe Genesis, not sure.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 26 January 2010 20:40 (fourteen years ago) link
lol
― Salvador Dali Parton (Turangalila), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 20:45 (fourteen years ago) link
and playing cafe world, baby.
― the clones of tldr funkenstein (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 20:46 (fourteen years ago) link
xpost
Mr. Que: :-)
call all destroyer: it's definitely polarizing, and, sure, a lot of people will hate it. still, my recommendation stands. one record before you die: Ys.
― kshighway (ksh), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 20:47 (fourteen 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, 26 January 2010 20:52 (fourteen years ago) link
ok this is where I get pretty haterific. been listening to showtunes for the last hour-plus. to which showtunes would you compare the stuff on Ys?
still, my recommendation stands. one record before you die: Ys.
please don't say things like this about any record unless Bernard Purdie plays drums on it - thanks
― Lee Dorrian Gray (J0hn D.), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 20:53 (fourteen years ago) link
xpost lol Alex
dying here
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 26 January 2010 20:54 (fourteen years ago) link
lolssss
― tylerw, Tuesday, 26 January 2010 20:56 (fourteen years ago) link
oh, nothing sounds like Ys, John. Really. Nothing. I just meant more in the sense of general signifiers - the songs being written in movements, the Cole Porterish starts and stops, the orchestration, the exalted sense of drama.
This pic was attached to the ID3 tag of the song that's streaming:
http://i591.photobucket.com/albums/ss360/zachdallas/newsom-81-tag.jpg
gorge
― Salvador Dali Parton (Turangalila), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 20:59 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.georgiaartists.org/gorge/gorge1.jpg
― that sex version of "blue thunder." (Mr. Que), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 20:59 (fourteen years ago) link
oh, nothing sounds like Ys, John. Really. Nothing.
this sounds like a challenge for my good friend Mr. Que
― Lee Dorrian Gray (J0hn D.), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 21:00 (fourteen years ago) link
jorge
http://marcys.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/jorge.jpg
― max, Tuesday, 26 January 2010 21:00 (fourteen years ago) link
The arrangements/instrumentation on Joanna Newsom albums are usually pretty decent, if not impressive. The vocals and lyrics are always horrible.
― won't you be my GAPDY / come and make it rain down on NME (Curt1s Stephens), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 21:01 (fourteen years ago) link
KING LEAR: To thee and thine hereditary ever Remain this ample third of our fair kingdom; No less in space, validity, and pleasure,(85) Than that conferred on Goneril. Now, our joy, Although the last, not least; to whose young love The vines of France and milk of Burgundy Strive to be interest; what can you say to draw A third more opulent than your sisters? Speak.(90)
JOANNA: Nothing, my lord.
KING LEAR: Nothing!
JOANNA THE GORGE: Nothing.
KING LEAR: Nothing will come of nothing: speak again.
I CANT BELIEVE I'M DATING THE DUDE FROM SNL: Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave(95) My heart into my mouth: I love your majesty According to my bond; nor more nor less.
― that sex version of "blue thunder." (Mr. Que), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 21:02 (fourteen years ago) link
gahhhhh it sounds like a woman singing and playing a harp with some orchestra edits added in later. it sounds like something you can imagine yourself.
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 26 January 2010 21:02 (fourteen years ago) link
LOL
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 21:03 (fourteen years ago) link
i get that her voice isnt everyones thing but she is a terrific lyricist curtis!! i mean not even just in substance--shes got an amazing grasp of scansion & rhythm. i think the main reason i like her is the lyrics.
― max, Tuesday, 26 January 2010 21:03 (fourteen years ago) link
I meant compositionally and didn't mean to imply that some woman singing with an orchestra & a harp is unusual in itself
Recommend me more songs like Only Skin plz
― Salvador Dali Parton (Turangalila), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 21:05 (fourteen years ago) link
"Misty Mountain Hop"
― that sex version of "blue thunder." (Mr. Que), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 21:05 (fourteen years ago) link