Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me (RIP blogs)

10:40 a.m., Feb. 23: Purchase Joanna Newsom's new album Have One On Me

10:41 am Feb 23: *dies and goes to heaven*

Seriously lolling over here guys, way to go!

10:37 a.m., Feb. 23: Riding unicorn through clouds

― tylerw, Tuesday, February 23, 2010 12:38 PM

massive lols

These CDs do not want to come out of the paper sleeves easily.

paper/cardboard sleeves are a scourge. i hate that trend in packaging so damn much

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None of the stores near my office (mostly big boxes) have this yet. ;_;

Jackrabbits is really beautiful and sad.

Yes, love her vocal on that one. I kind of see what people were saying upthread about the repetitive melodies but obviously this is going to take a while to unpack fully.

so is k$h not posting because he's in a state of awe and ecstasy, or because he's super disappointed?

"the repetitive melodies" -
yeah,those lazy one line melodies are always boring...though lots of people love Nick Drake so i guess i'm in the minority here..

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kind of confused by this claim of yrs tbh

Wow, Popmatters trashed the fuck out of this. 4/10.

It's Popmatters . . .

ooo. those ellipses look ominous.

Popmatters isn't awful. I really like their in-depth articles actually, plus I like their book and comics coverage. The reviews are hit and miss, but they do have some great writers (ILM's own Adrien Begrand - their fantastic metal writer).

Popmatters isn't awful, but I spent a good deal of time over the past few months going through some of their features--mostly the ones that talk about general cultural trends--and I didn't think many of them were very good. I'm interested in reading some of Adrien's metal writing though . . . I'll have to check it out later.

who's hoomin' who?

It's Popmatters . . .

It's PopMatters, thank you.

Bored New World: How the Zach Braff Prototype Is Slowly Killing American Music

Entire movies are soundtracked by the supposedly self-aware acoustic stylings of Joe Latte.

lol, the comments on that PopMatters review are almost indistinguishable from the fanboy comments on the Edge's Killzone 2 review from last year. http://www.edge-online.com/magazine/killzone-2-the-edge-verdict

I'm not linking to it; it doesn't deserve to be linked to. Let's just say Killzone 2 got a 7...and as a frame of reference, Let's Tap for the Wii got an 8. As we said, we're not about to question if there are legitimate reasons, and we're well aware of the often drastic differences in review policy from one publication to the next. But this is nothing more than a blatant attempt at attention, and if it were a strict editorial that doesn't really have any impact on the consumer, we wouldn't blink an eye. But this is assigning a numerical value to a game that basically says, "it's good, but there are better titles out there for your money." This...is...a...lie. That's right, a lie. Like it or not, opinions exist on a sliding scale, and we're not saying everyone is going to enjoy KZ2, but this review is akin to saying something similar about "The Godfather II" or "Citizen Kane." We all know that Guerilla's title is one of the best FPSs ever made; anyone who knows this industry and has a functioning brain will admit to this. They may not like it, but they will admit to its quality. This is what good reviewers do.

This record may have faults, but to give it a 4/10 is just ridiculous. There’s a difference between subjectivity and an obstinate insistence on being a part of the anti-hype. To say that this record is anything less than an astonishing achievement just means that you weren’t paying any attention. Clearly, you sat down and listened all in one fell swoop, which isn’t how she presented it. This isn’t an entree - it’s an amuse bouche, an appetizer, a fish course, a pasta, a meat, a dessert and an aperitif. If you want a quick bite at Mickey D’s, plenty of other artists can give you that.

They don't lie to the consumer to get some sort of underground "elite cred."

im thinking popmatters just wants the publicity. probably only listened through once.

The Travelocity Gnome rates this album a perfect 11 out of 10 Gnomish Tunics and the shill at Pitchfork has 9.2 chubby for this album, so take that and stroke it PopMatters!!!

(This isn't really the thread for this, but Jason Gross's essay for the The Best Music Scribing Awards 2009 was great.)

popmatters review should have just stuck to "its too long" without dragging billy corgan into the mess

between the p4k + popmatters reviews, the p4k one is the one that sounds like the author didn't spend a lot of time with the album.

im thinking popmatters just wants the publicity. probably only listened through once.

oh so thats why pop websites review music!

they both sound like they took a lot of time with the record(s)? the popmatters guy is frustrated that its long and sounds unfocused--i think this is a fair criticism--whereas mark enjoys its length and doesnt find it unfocused

from p4k review

One significant difference between Newsom and Mitchell is that the latter, especially early in her career, was writing songs that would sound good on the radio. For better or worse, Newsom is not a pop singer-- that's just not what she does. So I don't want to overstate this record's accessibility.

This is the primary reason I can't love Newsom no matter how many Mitchell comparisons she gets. (nb Joni is my favorite artist of all time.)

To say that this record is anything less than an astonishing achievement just means that you weren’t paying any attention.

sigh

PAY ATTENTION.

What?

Haha, it's just hilarious how re: this album many people react as if you have to *study* it as if it were molecular neuroscience before even considering having any opinions about it.

To say that this record is anything less than an astonishing achievement just means that you weren’t paying any attention.

That was me, btw.

jk

I wonder how dumping Bill Callahan for Andy Samberg will affect the Newsom aesthetic?
http://andysamberg.blogspot.com/2007/12/andy-samberg-kisses-joanna-newsom.html

whereas mark enjoys its length and doesnt find it unfocused

I didn't get this impression from the Pfork review. He pretty much said that he finds the length challenging for a traditional, start-to-finish listen, but has enjoyed coming and going from the album as he pleases, picking up in a different spot each time he puts it on the stereo. And that's not a good *album*, that's a set of songs by the same artist that are pleasing in small, random doses, basically as if they were on an iPod Shuffle.

omg in re: popmatters comments

You will live to regret this review. Your name and reputation are forever etched in history now, and generations will read this review in incredulous wonder at the man who rated this enduring work of art a 40/100. It is because of reviews and reviewers like you that I started my own blog 2 weeks ago. But no anger here - just pity.

Comment by ***** — February 23, 2010 @ 10:02 am

(I wrote that one too.)

(Still haven't listened to the record.)

joanna peesom

Do you need help getting it out of the paper sleeve?

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joanna peesom

― (uh oh I'm having a fantasy)

Nice juxtaposition of username and corresponding post.

The Sistine Chapel. Guernica. Have One On Me.

pitchfork gave this cd a “9.2”

‘nuff said.

Makes a fella glad he decided to start writing for PM again. Probably will never hear this album, keeping my Joanna Newsom non-streak alive.

Do you need help getting it out of the paper sleeve?

man, those sleeves are a pain

Comments in a Dommy P Tori Amos review >>>> these ones.

only a sexist would give this album a bad review

Luckiliy pitchfork sees the genius of this album and awarded it with a 9.2. Suck on that !

It is easy to say that Tusk, and Sandinista are masterpieces, everybody knows that. But at the time, it divided critics, they called it too big. And that’s what this guy is saying overall. There is no filler, everything is in its place, and the 3 disc thing is a way to help people to listen to it the right way!

lol i wanted to actually listen to this album and like it but now i'm not so sure