what am i going to read now, ilx??
― ksh, Wednesday, 10 March 2010 18:47 (fourteen years ago) link
a book???
i had three rasin bagels this morning b/c of P4k's influence iirc
― ksh, Wednesday, 10 March 2010 18:48 (fourteen years ago) link
loooooool @ the title change
― ksh, Wednesday, 10 March 2010 18:52 (fourteen years ago) link
Has Drag City ever had a "hit" out of the gate? It's not what they do, at all. They don't even advertise.
― can it compete with the wagon wheel (Eazy), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 18:52 (fourteen years ago) link
(Er, they advertise heavily with posters and the like, but nothing in magazines et al.)
― can it compete with the wagon wheel (Eazy), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 18:53 (fourteen years ago) link
She has beautiful and unique voice, but I must admit I’m amongst the shrugging classes on this one. Maybe I’m not smart enough to understand Newsom’s brilliant lyrical innovation, twisted phrases and eccentric anachronistic nuances.
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― ('_') (omar little), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 18:53 (fourteen years ago) link
waning influence of not advertising
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 18:53 (fourteen years ago) link
"Meanwhile, Sade, a much less artistically complicated singer who represents simple concepts of romantic experience, though ignored by the tastemaking websites and tepidly received by old establishment media critics, is selling records hand over fist."
In the benighted past, artistically complex, critically acclaimed triple albums are a license to print money because everyone based their purchasing decisions on the opinions of critics. Finally their iron grip on popular taste has been broken!
― gotanynewsstory? (Dorianlynskey), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 19:33 (fourteen years ago) link
"a much less artistically complicated singer who represents simple concepts of romantic experience"
― ksh, Wednesday, 10 March 2010 19:47 (fourteen years ago) link
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― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 10 March 2010 19:49 (fourteen years ago) link
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/matsononmusic/2011299572_joanna_newsom_is_bringing_lyri.html?prmid=head_main
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― guapism rules (The Reverend), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 19:50 (fourteen years ago) link
I see a 3D unicorn in there.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 10 March 2010 19:51 (fourteen years ago) link
The creek is lying flat and stillIt is water though it's frozen
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 10 March 2010 19:52 (fourteen years ago) link
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/ABPub/2009/05/07/2009193213.jpg
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 10 March 2010 19:52 (fourteen years ago) link
DEAR SEATTLE, GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE
― guapism rules (The Reverend), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 19:52 (fourteen years ago) link
As in hiphop, so it was in other pop musics: the aughts devalued lyrics.
― ksh, Wednesday, 10 March 2010 19:52 (fourteen years ago) link
Now, rarely do songs bring one back for the audio equivalent of a poetry class's "close reading."
― ksh, Wednesday, 10 March 2010 19:53 (fourteen years ago) link
Most articles, regardless of topic should have a concluding graf that begins: "Meanwhile, Sade ..."
― tylerw, Wednesday, 10 March 2010 19:53 (fourteen years ago) link
"here's an attempted transcription"
hey douchetruck get a physical copy
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 10 March 2010 19:54 (fourteen years ago) link
"an example of Newsom's wordstyle"
― ksh, Wednesday, 10 March 2010 19:54 (fourteen years ago) link
she's bringin lyrics back (YEAH)them other singers don't know how to act (YEAH)
― we call him black Nev coz he's black & his names Neville (HI DERE), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 19:55 (fourteen years ago) link
The extended piano/voice/lonely trumpet breakdown toward the end is just lung-collapsingly beautiful.
― ksh, Wednesday, 10 March 2010 19:56 (fourteen years ago) link
FROM THE COMMENTS:
Some really good observations about JoNew here, but you're overlooking the whole crop of "literate" rock that emerged in the '00s: Death Cab, the Decemberists, Two Gallants, Okkervil River, M. Ward, Newsom herself (her first album came out in '94). These weren't exceptions to a rule but a strong, valid set of artists maintaining a tradition. In pop music, lyricism always battles with the immediacy of sonic flourish, but it's never disappeared.
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― lmfao @ credulity (velko), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 19:57 (fourteen years ago) link
You call her JoNew in the night, don't you.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 10 March 2010 19:57 (fourteen years ago) link
it collapsed after the privileging of the immediacy of sonic flourish
― ksh, Wednesday, 10 March 2010 19:57 (fourteen years ago) link
note to self: never write in a manner evocative of the phrase "lung-collapsingly beautiful" ever again because it makes you look like a big dick
― we call him black Nev coz he's black & his names Neville (HI DERE), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 19:57 (fourteen years ago) link
JoNew in the nightexchanging glances. . .
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 10 March 2010 19:58 (fourteen years ago) link
interesting that newsom's first album came out when she was about 13, did not know that
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 10 March 2010 19:58 (fourteen years ago) link
how could we possibly forget the great "two gallants"
http://thegurglingcod.typepad.com/thegurglingcod/images/2008/02/12/the_more_you_know2.jpg
― ksh, Wednesday, 10 March 2010 19:59 (fourteen years ago) link
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― ksh, Wednesday, 10 March 2010 20:00 (fourteen years ago) link
But winning though the piano-bar melody might be, and heavy as the breakdown is, the words captivate more. As with "On A Good Day," the rest of "Have One On Me," and Newsom's entire repertoire, the lyrics on "Good Intentions Paving Company" are slavish to basic poetry principles (mad internal and end rhymes, maximized assonance/consonance play) but nonetheless communicate resonant images and feelings.
I am not 100% convinced that "slavish" is the word he really meant to use there.
― we call him black Nev coz he's black & his names Neville (HI DERE), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 20:00 (fourteen years ago) link
Exchanging gallants?
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 10 March 2010 20:01 (fourteen years ago) link
also: maximized assonance/consonance play
― we call him black Nev coz he's black & his names Neville (HI DERE), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 20:01 (fourteen years ago) link
chicks got MAD end rhymes
NO^^^^^^
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 10 March 2010 20:01 (fourteen years ago) link
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have one on her, kids!!
― ksh, Wednesday, 10 March 2010 20:01 (fourteen years ago) link
maximized assonance
i mean we've all seen the pictures. . .
bloggers really not coming off well itt
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 10 March 2010 20:02 (fourteen years ago) link
missing the halcyon days of real blogging rite now
― ksh, Wednesday, 10 March 2010 20:02 (fourteen years ago) link
douchetruck is golden
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 10 March 2010 20:02 (fourteen years ago) link
We're living in a time that's thirsty for artists like Californian singer/songwriter/harpist Joanna Newsom.
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― lmfao @ credulity (velko), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 20:03 (fourteen years ago) link
If a blogger is hit over the head with a harp and nobody hears it...
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 10 March 2010 20:03 (fourteen years ago) link
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― lmfao @ credulity (velko), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 20:04 (fourteen years ago) link
lol @ tapestry
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 10 March 2010 20:04 (fourteen years ago) link
wish there was a video of Devendra Banhart covering the Fleet Foxes dude covering Joanna Newsom
― ksh, Wednesday, 10 March 2010 20:05 (fourteen years ago) link
The sound of the song makes one feel something, obviously — if one has no reaction to her whinny-ing voice medieval-Cali-pop song style, one's cord is unplugged
― ksh, Wednesday, 10 March 2010 20:08 (fourteen years ago) link
seriously though, why can't people enjoy this woman's music without turning into insufferable pompous bags of fuck?
xp: what the holy hell
― we call him black Nev coz he's black & his names Neville (HI DERE), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 20:09 (fourteen years ago) link
all of you who dislike JN's music are permanently broken
― ksh, Wednesday, 10 March 2010 20:09 (fourteen years ago) link