THESE FORUMS NOW CLOSED (read only)
Fun Stuff => BAND => Topic started by: pilsner on 03 Feb 2010, 00:27
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The new album will be 3 discs (http://stereogum.com/archives/new_joanna_newsom__good_intentions_paving_company_112401.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+stereogum/cBYa+(stereogum)&utm_content=Google+International) and have this cover:
(http://stereogum.com/img/joannanewsom-haveoneonme-aa-thumb.jpg)
Drag City is streaming a track which I love (http://www.dragcity.com/), Good Intentions Paving Company. Seems she's still doing epics but is incorporating instrumentation in her recordings closer to what she performs with.
For the sake of completeness, here is a link to 81 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Greq05zAS9g), which was pre-released last week.
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Would you: Have one on Joanna Newsom
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No.
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My sister loves this girl, and can eerily imitate her pitch-shifting vocals to a 'T'.
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Yessss
ed- now that I think about it 3 discs is a lot. I know it's been a long time since her last album but I hope there's a good reason it's so long.
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Y'know it's not lying to just say nothing right
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Yessss
ed- now that I think about it 3 discs is a lot. I know it's been a long time since her last album but I hope there's a good reason it's so long.
One full CD is puppy jpgs. Half of another is Joanna's new spoken word project "Poems for Galadriel".
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Her voice sounds really great in this song!
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"this re-branding of Joanna Newsom as some fashion model-meets-Starbucks songstress is too much for me to take."
Urgh, I knew someone was going to say this..
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Yes, please.
Not you, Tommy.
Not you.
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Drag City has posted another track, Kingfisher (http://www.dragcity.com/), as well as the track list.
Easy 6:04
Have One On Me 11:02
’81 3:52
Good Intentions Paving Company 7:02
No Provenance 6:25
Baby Birch 9:30
On A Good Day 1:49
You and Me, Bess 7:13
In California 8:42
Jackrabbits 4:23
Go Long 8:03
Occident 5:31
Soft As Chalk 6:29
Esme 7:56
Autumn 8:02
Ribbon Bows 6:11
Kingfisher 9:11
Does Not Suffice 6:45
Yes, that adds up to more than 120 minutes or 2 hours of solid music. I'm not sure where she is going to fit the puppy jpgs on those 3 discs.
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The puppy jpegs are going to come in the booklet.
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Downlodable Multimedia content
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Holy fuck, Kingfisher is BEAUTIFUL.
:cry: :-D :cry: :-D
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I totaly second that. This is gonna be her best album if every track is like that. Wow.
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Anyone read this yet? (http://www.cokemachineglow.com/dailyops/5153/joannanewsom-goodintentions-2010)
I think I can sort of see where the dude is coming from, although maybe he is being a bit cynical. Also, I have never heard anyone say that she took her lyrics down a notch on Ys.
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Down a notch?? What album was this guy listening to? Only Skin and Sawdust and Diamonds alone pack in as much lyrical trickery and intensity as most of Milk Eyed Mender combined :-/
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Whaaaat? (http://www.roanpress.com/ourbooks.html)
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I'm not sure I understand why that exists.
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A pictorial preview of Tommy's chapter follows.
(http://farm1.static.flickr.com/22/37518666_937ed68cc8.jpg)
No one has left any reviews on the amazon page (http://www.amazon.com/Visions-Joanna-Newsom-Editor-Buchanan/dp/0981596843/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1266004166&sr=8-2) by the way.
Not that I'm suggesting that anyone here should leave a satirical review. That would be wrong.
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This just leaked.
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:-o
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This just leaked.
Hopefully you are not talking about Tommy's bladder.
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Why not both???
Anyway so, it's pretty good. Yeah, that's what I'm going with for now. I'll post something more substantive when I've listened to it a few times (in a few days in other words).
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Anyone know what the quality of the leak floating around the web is? Don't wanna waste my time with it unless it's really good.
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Should be alright, with a little lookin' around you might even find FLAC copies
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My CD copy came in the mail today. I will be putting the entirety on the mediaf!re thread in 320.
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woooooooooooord
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SO STOKED
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I really wanna give this a listen but Megaupload is so sloooooooooooow and now you're upload a 320 version. Fuck you, Tyler and your apropos of my life bullshit.
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Yeah I downloaded the v0 version but I'm just gonna wait for Tyler because for all I know it is a transcode and fuck that shit
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This is really, really good and beautiful... I mean, wow. Well worth any kind of wait - Ys Street Band to the nth degree.
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I'm really happy with it so far. I've listened once and plan to again soon. Only gonna listen to one disc at a time though. All 3 discs in a row's too much to digest.
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I am disappointed by the lack of puppy jpegs
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TO THE MEDIAF!RE THREAD.
This one's on me.
HURR HURR HURR
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For those who would prefer not to download prior to buying, but do want to listen, NPR is streaming the album in its entirety (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123981491). As usual, Bob Boilen wrote something well expressed and interesting:
Some make music because they want to, but Joanna Newsom makes music because she has to — at least that's my guess. Newsom possesses the sort of artistic bravado that could only come from inner passion. She's just released her latest vision: A work called Have One on Me, it's two hours long, it fills three discs, it hardly has a hook or a hit, and you simply must hear it.
Actually, I'll rephrase that: You must hear "Have One on Me" when you're ready for a musical adventure. This isn't casual listening, and while that's usually code for "This record is hard to get through," this isn't a difficult record. It's even pleasant enough to put on in the background, but what you lose from a casual listen is the poetry and grace of an album filled with love and loss. I think Newsom is a magnificent storyteller.
These lines are from the title track:
It was dark; I was drunk and half-dead,
And we slept, knocking heads,
Sitting up in the star-smoking air,
Knocking heads like buoys
And a few lines later:
Meanwhile, I will raise my own glass
to how you made me fast
and expendable
and I will drink to your excellent health,
and your cruelty
Will you have one on me?
If you're still not sure whether you want to spend the next few hours with Newsom, I suggest trying the song "Baby Birch." Texturally, it's one of the most compelling tracks on a record with a lot of orchestral adventures. This song, however, has more textural counterpoint, with an edgy electric guitar appearing alongside Newsom's harp. That electric guitar is performed by Ryan Francesconi, and he's also playing acoustic guitar, Bulgarian tambura (long-necked lute) banjo, mandolin and soprano recorder — and that's just on the one song. Francesconi did the arrangements and conducting on the record, though Newsom wrote her own harp and vocal arrangements.
Those vocals are the friendliest and most welcoming I've heard from her: Her voice sounds richer, more restrained and relaxed — perhaps the result of adjustments she's made after developing vocal-cord nodules in early 2009. Those small squeaks I've come to love are still there, but they're less frequent and more effective. There's new beauty in a voice that's traditionally been, to put it diplomatically, polarizing.
This is a lot of music. I'm still taking it all in, and I can't do it on a whim. But Have One on Me is a journey worth taking.
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Sometimes Tommy reminds me of that creepy, slightly drunk uncle you only see once a year, for obvious apparent reasons, at a family function.
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Except this one never goes home
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And you have to share your room with him.
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You people are just snobs. You'll pee on a dirty street corner, in filthy public urinals and communal swimming baths but not on this beautiful young lady.
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I wish this thread had never happened.
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Tommy have you ever considered that perhaps Joanna Newsom does not want to be peed on
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Perish the thought!
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hay guys what is tommy's favorite band
The Kings of Pee-On!
(as seen on Meebo)