Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me (RIP blogs)

xp LOL

Where is the monkey in the poster though?

ILM in mocking Joanna Newsom and the people who enjoy her music shocker!

you're right, this thread was better when people posted stuff like "album of the year and I haven't even heard it yet."

i like that inflammatory writ song off her 1st album which is 50% "yo this is a song abt a song btw" and 50% "clever wording"

cliffs notes--the monkey and the bear escape from the farm and travel together. the monkey makes the bear dance and sing for people in order so that they can make money to live on their own. the monkey keeps telling the bear that he loves her and its all for her benefit, that eventually they will get somewhere pleasant and happy. but the monkey is also jealous. he hears a rumor that the bear is bathing alone every night in caves near the sea. he goes to spy on her and gleefully plans on confronting her about bathing in a dirty place. but the its too late--the bear has left her skin behind and is swimming out to sea.

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how dare i express subjective hyperbolic excitement for the follow-up to my favorite record

ksh--protip--youre not going to win this fight

uh there is like zero mention of any feast in that synopsis

yo guys exciting news I just got off the phone with a publicist, turns out joanna n. got a thousand hugs from ten thousand lightning bugs, spread the news

The best way to approach these things, kshingway, is to expect artists to shit on you.

I think this thread was better when it was just kshighway threatening to take Y's to old folks home and forcing people on their deathbeds to listen to it.

max: appreciated

"somewhere pleasant and happy" = "the feast in the east"

it's not an actual feast? :(

thinking of salo atm

Where are the sloppy seconds?

sigh

I think this thread was better when it was just kshighway threatening to take Y's to old folks home and forcing people on their deathbeds to listen to it

Oh so he joined a death panel, eh.

The feast is to the east? What about the vessel with the pestle?

i like the idea of Ys being on the soundsystem on death row

also "words that rhyme" is not the same as "clever wordplay"

the term "wordplay" should never have been allowed outside the confines of the academy tbh

http://images.clipartof.com/small/12106-Clay-Sculpture-Of-Two-Dogs-Howling-Clipart-Picture.jpg

^ max and kshighway

yeah, u have to keep an eye on it or itll run out in front of traffic
xp

http://impressive.net/people/gerald/2007/04/11/10-23-25-sm.jpg

^ max and kshighway

Chased by a bear. x-post

can I just, as a public service to kshighway, suggest listening to Owen Pallett / Final Fantasy, if he has not already? depending on what precisely you like about Ys, you might really enjoy his new one. thank you for your attention.

^^^ should've someone expressed this via a funny jpg

(somehow)

http://www.searchviews.com/wp-content/themes/clean-copy-full-3-column-1/images/the_more_you_know2.jpg

Is that thing under the fence supposed to be a bear? It looks like some sort of badger.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyBn8kGCsg8

my main problem with Ys, by the way, is that a lot of the arrangement seemed really ornamental and distant (as opposed to integral and necessary), which I think is why so many people prefer hearing small-group live recordings -- it'd probably have been a better record if she'd recorded it that way.

also "words that rhyme" is not the same as "clever wordplay"

― plaxico (I know, right?), Tuesday, January 26, 2010 9:48 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark

and the little white dove
made with love, made with love:
made with glue, and a glove, and some pliers

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nabisco: Thanks for the Pallett recommendation! (I really love your P4k review of it too.) I just went to Amazon Mp3 and bought it, and I'm looking forward to listening to it later.

Saw her once a couple of years ago at the Royal Albert Hall, Roy Harper was the support act and he did all 4 (long) songs from Stormcock. JN later on referred to it as one of her favourite albums, and suddenly Ys made a lot more sense.

i think she is the least jordan-friendly artist maybe ever

yeah, she said you're a douche

Have One On Me Unless You're That A-hole Jordan

i told her to stfu that your a nice guy btw

thx bro

Douche is the least rhymable word in the english language I think, she would not have used that word.

jordan's a douche, like lyndon larouche

works 4 me tbh

that mr. que is such a douche/he should learn how to fermez his bouche

jordan i heard tony allen is guesting on the new one

Okay, you all know this is a regular horse of mine, but: that dove bit is at best a play on two already similar senses of the phrase "made with," no?

The reason this is a regular horse of mine is that I would really hate it if we reached some point where using any kind of basic poetic or rhetorical technique in your lyrics -- even a really simple and straightforward one like that -- suddenly became an occasion for "oo, aren't you clever" and "how pretentious / 'twee' is that," etc., because I'm pretty sure we don't collectively want lyricists to feel like they should speak with unadorned, monosyllabic directness to avoid seeming too uppity about it.

I realize Newsom is not a great person to ride this particular horse for, because yes, she really pushes and foregrounds the use of poetic language and very planned/crafted phrasing. But, you know, still. It's not like she's exactly symptomatic of a giant glut of that sort of thing, right?

Spelunking rhymes with clunking.

quoted re: the suggestion (i think - couldn't actually tell which side plaxico was coming down on) that she was just long words and rhymes, you know - was just pulling some example of a technique. i maybe don't belong here because if i've got a horse it's selective quoting to prove or disprove quality of a lyricist; i think just about anyone's going to write something which fits one of the profiles of basic or pretentious lyricism (be it 'be my, be my baby, be my little baby' or 'i don't believe in an interventionist god' or whatever). maybe this precludes lyrical discussion altogether.

I would really hate it if we reached some point where using any kind of basic poetic or rhetorical technique in your lyrics -- even a really simple and straightforward one like that -- suddenly became an occasion for "oo, aren't you clever" and "how pretentious / 'twee' is that," etc.

nabisco I don't know how to break this to you