Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me (RIP blogs)

438 messages and no one has heard the record yet

Oh that's not true at all. I'm sure someone at cloth-eared yokel at Drag City has listened to it by now.

In other news JD Salinger died without hearing Ys.

good thing they play Ys in heaven pretty much 24-7

That doesn't matter to JN fans though. It's gotta be heard while in the full flush of life or it don't count.

Would you know my name
If you heard Ys in heaven
Will it be the same
If you heard Ys heaven
I must be strong, and carry on
Cause I know Ys don't belong
Here in heaven

guys i think at 443 posts you may be running out of jokes to make about joanna newsom, her music, and her fanbase

good innings though

(i actually like JoNew fine, just having a laff ... a+++ tears in heaven reference btw)

Can someone with more time on their hands take this scene from Manhunter and replace the Iron Butterfly with something from Ys? k thx bye

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6cVuJiREPE

how much do harps cost?

xp

LOL

first genuinely funny post in this thread

btw the title track of this is a monster with a gorgeous bridge and a completely unexpected wordless coda

But now you've told us, so we will expect it.

:P

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4036/4322945262_a5c3ecc41e.jpg

Can't decide if this is better or worse.

that song streaming on drag city sounds a lot like "army dreamers" by kate bush
her voice is much improved!

http://images.uulyrics.com/cover/w/world-party/album-private-revolution.jpg

xpost Is that to do with the waltz rhythm she's playing on the harp?

probably, i mean they don't really sound that alike but army dreamers immediately came to mind within seconds of listening to it, also her voice and phrasing sounding a bit more like kate than before, at least in that song

Hatch, is that the real cover? Man, I'm a fucking iTunes dude, but I'm buying this shit on vinyl.

Oh shit, definitely the real cover: http://www.dragcity.com/products/have-one-on-me

TRIPLE LP TIME!

Does anyone know if Drag City ships download codes with their LPs?

Good question. The whole concept of free mp3s with a purchase of LP has made me very enthusiastic about buying vinyl. I think any record company that does this is on the right track.

Love the album cover. I had been scratching my head over the all black version because it seemed just too half-assed for her. This is much more what I'd expect. I like how she always seems to be one-upping herself.

Moodles OTM. The first "artwork" we saw was awful, but this is awesome. I don't even have a turntable, but I want to buy the vinyl just to have it. I'll almost definitely do so if there's a download code. Maybe I'll email Drag City and ask them.

450+ posts of jokes and no one has used the phrase "quit harping on her music" or something similar

for shame people

for shame

Great photo for the album cover but I'm still not to keen on the typographic choice.

Edwardian color-tinted postcard cover artwork? Success.

I don't know anything about fonts, but it reminds me of the font from Clockwork Orange movie posters.

But the picture is great.

that song streaming on drag city sounds a lot like "army dreamers" by kate bush

she is sounding a lot like kate bush lately. and it's not just her voice/phrasing, even her songwriting. it's kind of disappointing because whatever you think about her, until recently you could never say "she sounds just like [insert name]".

between that and picturing a naked + sweaty adam sanberg during her tender love ballads....

I agree that the new song sounds a bit like Kate Bush, but I think she's not a bad person to be compared to.

Strangely, prior to this song I had been reminded a bit of Kate Bush simply in the way it took both singers a couple albums to really grow into their voices. Kate's voice sounded very thin and child-like on her first album or two, but over time she gained a lot of depth and breathiness.

Joanna Newsom seems to be headed in the same direction, though unlike Kate Bush, she wasn't born with a golden voice. She's had to work a bit harder to get to a "good" singing voice.

Why has she been trying to look so damn sexy lately?

Why not?

Shes trying to sell records I guess ;)

Great photo for the album cover but I'm still not to keen on the typographic choice.

The font works really well for me. The whole cover reminds me of something you would see from that era in the early/mid 70s when imagery and design from the 20s/30s made a comeback. See also The Sting, Bugsy Malone and this Stones tour poster...

http://www.postersnthings.com/posters/rolling_stones_euro_tour_70.jpg

BUSTED

classic poster imo

lol

ilu nabisco

Why has she been trying to look so damn sexy lately?

― Evan, Monday, February 1, 2010 10:57 PM (43 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Why not?

― Salvador Dali Parton (Turangalila), Monday, February 1, 2010 10:59 PM (40 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Shes trying to sell records I guess ;)

― Evan, Monday, February 1, 2010 11:03 PM (37 minutes ago) Bookmark

blarg

Hey, in the right light...

The way Newsom makes music seems — at best — very, very distantly related to the texture of your everyday life in the here-and-now part of the world. Harps, dancing bears, walnut-shell boats: I have never seen any of these things in a bodega.

it's unfair to splice this out of nabisco's longer graph, in which it's making a case that newsom's aesthetic and rhetoric are distinctly exotic and alien, and the piece goes on to defuse the idea that these things are overbearing. but i have problems with this idea generally. i don't think people consume in such a literal way, or only look for poetry in realms similar to their own - i feel like the connective point between j-new and annoying teenage fans is the emotion and conclusions she draws on her experience, even if monkeys and bears are stand-ins for girls and boys. the particulars in her lyrics are markedly unfamiliar but those things are interchangeable and don't affect our understanding of things.

i don't know if the opprobrium towards people listening to music outside of their immediate sphere - rich white kids listening to hip hop or whatever - even exists anymore, or is solely in my imagination, but i think the argument against that is that we don't relate to art according to its superficial variables but in its themes; we might not spend much time in the forest but can understand a midsummer night's dream or whatever. joanna newsom's waiting to be pigeonholed, and there are enough anomalous aspects to her music & persona for critics to wave a flag about, but it maybe irks me slightly when the charge of being precious and flighty is hung on something interchangeable.

xp
blarg

― schlump, Monday, February 1, 2010 11:43 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Hey, in the right light...

― Evan, Monday, February 1, 2010 11:51 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

was blarging at the idea that j new dared to bare flesh purely as a capitalist strategy fwiw

Haha oh I wasn't seriously suggesting that.

yeah, schlump, Max wrote some interesting things about that later! I was definitely skimming over the ways things like allegories are referring to the here-and-now. What's interesting to me is that her sorta "make-believe" aesthetic is actually the least affected option for a harp player with a voice like that -- playing stuff we perceive as more here-and-now might seem bizarre for her!

Interesting how that album cover, though, is a definite leap in contemporary here-and-now imagery for her.

I still think this is going to be my album of the year. Still haven't heard a note! Man, music is awesome.

So will there be an equivalent thread bitching about this album when it inevitably tops the Pitchfork and Pazz & Jop lists?

Can someone explain Joanna Newsom to me? I just don't get it.

see there's this bear and a monkey and the wizard of Ys.