My only thing about the hugging-the-record Tumblr is that none of the people on it are actually hugging the record, except for maybe on guy but it's hard to tell.
― ksh, Thursday, 25 February 2010 01:59 (fourteen years ago) link
*one
all of those "huggers" need professional help
― Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 25 February 2010 02:00 (fourteen years ago) link
ok...so i've listened to this 3 times through//and the only song i'm not really feeling as yet is Ribbon Bows
― tincub, Thursday, 25 February 2010 02:00 (fourteen years ago) link
Is that second hugger Mike White?
― dylan's craggy larynx (jaymc), Thursday, 25 February 2010 02:02 (fourteen years ago) link
hey, that village voice article isn't terrible!
― by another name (amateurist), Thursday, 25 February 2010 02:14 (fourteen years ago) link
although i think maybe he gets some lyrics wrong and consequently understates their weirdness.
― by another name (amateurist), Thursday, 25 February 2010 02:15 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't want to be flip about this, because I do think Newsom is someone who rewards a patient and curious ear, but I've listened to the album twice now and I'm still waiting for it to click with me. Lots of people seem to be welcoming her new, mellower, more rounded voice; me, I never had a problem with the old one, and I miss its raw spark. More than that, though, I'm just not finding a lot to latch onto. There's something to be said for giving the songs more space, but I *liked* that Ys seemed to breathlessly spiral from one dynamic melody to the next. "Good Intentions Paving Company" is the only one so far that's made my ears perk up. But again: she's not someone I write off easily, so I'll be digging in further.
― dylan's craggy larynx (jaymc), Thursday, 25 February 2010 02:15 (fourteen years ago) link
@ksh There will be more huggy/makey-outy ones to come.
― Ursell Anning, Thursday, 25 February 2010 02:20 (fourteen years ago) link
stoked
― joagga lousome (acoleuthic), Thursday, 25 February 2010 02:21 (fourteen years ago) link
can you wear a daisy-chain and ride a pony in the next one? it would do her music justice :)
Maybe most importantly, her lyrics are easier to follow and harder to tune out.
"Easier to follow" I get, "harder to tune out" I don't. Newsom's first two records were filled with this marvelously dense poetry bubbling with polysyllables and sung so up-front and eagerly, it was almost impossible to tune it out. And I'm someone who tunes out lyrics as a matter of course. I guess his point is that all of that relentless thorniness was wearying; maybe my point is that that's what it takes for someone like me to pay attention to words.
― dylan's craggy larynx (jaymc), Thursday, 25 February 2010 02:35 (fourteen years ago) link
some of these reviews are making it sound like I would really dig this record tbh
think I'll listen to old mercyful fate records instead tho
― Lee Dorrian Gray (J0hn D.), Thursday, 25 February 2010 02:55 (fourteen years ago) link
J0hn, have you heard any of her older stuff?
― ksh, Thursday, 25 February 2010 03:01 (fourteen years ago) link
you're joking right? I was a pretty big stan for Milk-Eyed Mender actually, as I've said multiple times on this thread I think she's a pretty great lyricist. but the joys of her music are mere appetizers for the full banquet spread of making fun of people who like her music.
unless you mean pre-MEM in which case no I haven't
― Lee Dorrian Gray (J0hn D.), Thursday, 25 February 2010 03:07 (fourteen years ago) link
pre-MEM she recorded under the name "amy grant"
― strongohulkingtonsghost, Thursday, 25 February 2010 03:10 (fourteen years ago) link
No, I wasn't joking! Just missed the part where you mentioned you've heard her stuff before. Somehow. But that's cool!
― ksh, Thursday, 25 February 2010 03:13 (fourteen years ago) link
ha!
― Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 25 February 2010 03:15 (fourteen years ago) link
amy grant wishes she could write about unicorns as well as joanna newsom
― Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 25 February 2010 03:16 (fourteen years ago) link
in 2004 I wrote this about her:
Joanna Newsome’s better than, umm, all them other space-alien voiced women with harps who made records this year. (Keep your pants on, haters: I also dug The Milk-Eyed Mender, though the way some of you people started giving it the Bjork treatment — using words like “special,” or, worse, “sacred” — made me wanna spit bile just to maintain a little cosmic balance.)
however I feel I have streamlined my style now and would like to amend that graf to read "lol unicorns"
― Lee Dorrian Gray (J0hn D.), Thursday, 25 February 2010 03:17 (fourteen years ago) link
also joanna newsome will never make a record as good as any of amy grant's records no matter how hard she tries and anybody who says otherwise is wrong & lying
― Lee Dorrian Gray (J0hn D.), Thursday, 25 February 2010 03:18 (fourteen years ago) link
that includes amy grant's christmas records btw & also the song "grape, grape joy"
― Lee Dorrian Gray (J0hn D.), Thursday, 25 February 2010 03:19 (fourteen years ago) link
amy grant v. joanna newsom is less interesting than amy grant v. easy-e, which was the subject of another brilliant ilx thread.
― Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 25 February 2010 03:20 (fourteen years ago) link
*yawn*
― guammls (QE II), Thursday, 25 February 2010 03:20 (fourteen years ago) link
― guammls (QE II), Wednesday, February 24, 2010 10:20 PM (36 seconds ago)
see we warned you not to listen to HOOM & now you're sleepy
don't blame the messengers man
― Lee Dorrian Gray (J0hn D.), Thursday, 25 February 2010 03:21 (fourteen years ago) link
there are presently-working women songwriters who are considerably better than AG who don't get mileage because they don't give christian dudes a born-again boner
― velko, Thursday, 25 February 2010 03:23 (fourteen years ago) link
amy grant's charms do not affect only christians. she has shiksappeal.
― Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 25 February 2010 03:24 (fourteen years ago) link
lol u mad velko
― Lee Dorrian Gray (J0hn D.), Thursday, 25 February 2010 03:25 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah i don't know about that... but now i'm rocking "don't break the oath" and have awoken.. must jump around
― guammls (QE II), Thursday, 25 February 2010 03:26 (fourteen years ago) link
HOOM is a great dance record, it's true.
― Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 25 February 2010 03:27 (fourteen years ago) link
is this woman like a fine wine or what seriouslyhttp://img.coxnewsweb.com/B/00/61/27/image_7027610.jpg
― tylerw, Thursday, 25 February 2010 03:27 (fourteen years ago) link
pretty sure baby baby was about a unicorn
Baby, baby, go walkin' through the forestThe birds above a-singin' you a chorus
― velko, Thursday, 25 February 2010 03:27 (fourteen years ago) link
man don't even get me started tyler
greatest artist of the 20th century, no exceptions
― Lee Dorrian Gray (J0hn D.), Thursday, 25 February 2010 03:28 (fourteen years ago) link
i don't share j0hn's love for her music (it's . . . okay), but she's definitely a cutie.
― Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 25 February 2010 03:28 (fourteen years ago) link
birds just out of frame
http://www.goldenwoodstudio.com/uploads/images/Unicorns/FUN403_Unicorn%20Forest.jpg
― velko, Thursday, 25 February 2010 03:28 (fourteen years ago) link
man don't even get me started tylergreatest artist of the 20th century, no exceptions― Lee Dorrian Gray (J0hn D.)
― Lee Dorrian Gray (J0hn D.)
ladies and gentleman, J0hn has joined the chorus of praise for HOOM
― ksh, Thursday, 25 February 2010 03:28 (fourteen years ago) link
uhhhh . . . HOOM is 21st century.
― Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 25 February 2010 03:29 (fourteen years ago) link
he's talking about amy grant, i think.
before her, music was a cold emotionless wasteland
I shudder to remember it
xpost of course I'm talking about amy grant
― Lee Dorrian Gray (J0hn D.), Thursday, 25 February 2010 03:30 (fourteen years ago) link
what a disaster for my zing
― ksh, Thursday, 25 February 2010 03:30 (fourteen years ago) link
underrated post btw
http://rlv.zcache.com/born_to_kill_in_tha_name_of_peace_hat-p148803330279896550qz14_400.jpg
― that guy who doesn't get it but doesn't know he doesn't get it (M.V.), Thursday, 25 February 2010 03:34 (fourteen years ago) link
well this is playing out exactly as i hoped
― strongohulkingtonsghost, Thursday, 25 February 2010 03:34 (fourteen years ago) link
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3162/3042224345_ac658df896.jpg
picture I took at her concert, seconds before I first learned how to feel
― Lee Dorrian Gray (J0hn D.), Thursday, 25 February 2010 03:35 (fourteen years ago) link
Joanna Newsom's music made me human again, after years of feeling numb to everything
― ksh, Thursday, 25 February 2010 03:36 (fourteen years ago) link
so, to sum up: 1) listen to mercyful fate 2) listen to amy grant 3) no unicorns
― Lee Dorrian Gray (J0hn D.), Thursday, 25 February 2010 03:36 (fourteen years ago) link
it made me realize that special, spiritual, cosmos-disturbing music is possible in a post-In the Aeroplane Over the Sea world
― ksh, Thursday, 25 February 2010 03:37 (fourteen years ago) link
john i've sure you've felt that before, many times
― strongohulkingtonsghost, Thursday, 25 February 2010 03:37 (fourteen years ago) link
3) no unicorns
you make me sad. take it back.
― Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 25 February 2010 03:37 (fourteen years ago) link
hoping j0hn didn't learn how to feel for the first time during that concert
― Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 25 February 2010 03:38 (fourteen years ago) link