Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me (RIP blogs)

http://www.dragcity.com/products/have-one-on-me

http://www.dragcity.com/system/album_products/images/1620/large.jpg?1264473665
actually terrible album cover of 2010?

Yeah that's awful.

I don't mind it, but it makes it look like it's on DFA or something.

maybe she's into punk now--good for her

the song on the drag city site is really really good

It's very pretty though kind of minor & interlude-ish compared to the other tracks :P

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

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.

http://images.ola.com/auctions/7807/vmay-355207-1.jpg

if people were to ask me what single album I would advise them to listen to before they die, it's Ys. period.

porch looks pretty nice tbh

xp lol you really want to advise all ppl to listen to an album that 75% of them are going to hate?

fortunately, no one asked you, kshighway ;)

Ys is great, people are nuts

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

how about couplets about rats, is that cool?

yeah

Ys >>> MeM

Ys is more showtuney Americana than prog.

75% is my conservative estimate btw

its fine if u want to stay on the porch bro

u will still have to endure the wrath of my mocking t-shirt/fake license plate

i mean even that albums fans have to admit it has all the ingredients to be extremely polarizing?

also it's called Ys

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeezzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

i love porches. wish i had a porch.

Me too.

planning on sitting on my porch this spring, listening to joanna newsom. or maybe Genesis, not sure.

lol

and playing cafe world, baby.

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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.

It's the record I'd play someone before I killed them, definitely.

Ys is more showtuney Americana than prog.

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

xpost lol Alex

dying here

lolssss

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

gorge

http://www.georgiaartists.org/gorge/gorge1.jpg

oh, nothing sounds like Ys, John. Really. Nothing.

this sounds like a challenge for my good friend Mr. Que

jorge

http://marcys.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/jorge.jpg

The arrangements/instrumentation on Joanna Newsom albums are usually pretty decent, if not impressive. The vocals and lyrics are always horrible.

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.

oh, nothing sounds like Ys, John. Really. Nothing.

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.

LOL

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.

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

"Misty Mountain Hop"

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huge lol jeff

sorry jeff

sorry ~~everyone~~