Joanna Newsom - Divers (clusterfuck topic tbd)

more like joanna noisome

I would love for a linguist to break down her singing accent for me

wish she'd troll w/ the full Milk Eyed Mender harsh voice on this album

Well the jabs against her are the same as back then, so job done I guess.. Wish the haters didn't take as much space as they do, though.

I think she developed a vocal condition which means she can't sing that way anymore.

I think she developed a vocal condition which means she can't sing that way anymore.

Breaking news: people who didn't like Joanna Newsom before still don't like Joanna Newsom. Please keep us updated on all the developments in this story. Please.

feel like only a podcast could cure them

update 4 u. I still don't like her music.

I think she developed a vocal condition which means she can't sing that way anymore.

probably less "developed" and more "was asking for", given the mechanics behind singing and how painful (to the throat, not the ears) what she was doing sounded

RIP larynx

xp ozymandian

hey everyone, no one cares that you find Joanna Newsom bothersome or whatever

um welcome to a joanna newsom thread on ilm, a music message board on the internet

hence me making a pointless comment

Breaking news: people who didn't like Joanna Newsom before still don't like Joanna Newsom. Please keep us updated on all the developments in this story. Please.

I ate a unicorn

i liked the last album a lot, found it amazing really, so i am looking forward to hearing this

Yeah, it was probably the best album that came out that year. But she used to sing in a peculiar voice so it's probably also garbage.

1. By no means was it.
2. It was.

don't you have some old spoon records to jizz over

Hello, my name is Johnny Fever. I'm typically easy going and open to loving many types of music. I do make sure, though, to carve time out of my busy schedule to endlessly slam Joanna Newsom and, if necessary, people who won't shut up about her. BECAUSE SHE IS TERRIBLE!

:D xoxoxoxo

JF, I would like to explain objective facts to you, basically they are things like 'Joanna Newsom is great' that can't be argued with because science.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mh1omjfKPU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmePpqPl9nw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iby_PR6nlr4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RZPgGxmFnE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Asq2mzj8PEE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnvK60ylKIY

no artist should be judged by his or her fans' terrible cover versions

debatable

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=kendrick+lamar+ukulele+cover

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=metallica+ukelele

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=slayer+ukelele

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=beethoven+ukelele

xp uh em, let me finish. that is because an artist should be judged by his or her songmeanings.com interpretations.

from postmeanings.thread:

Hello, my name is Johnny Fever. I'm typically easy going and open to loving many types of music. I do make sure, though, to carve time out of my busy schedule to endlessly slam Joanna Newsom and, if necessary, people who won't shut up about her. BECAUSE SHE IS TERRIBLE!

:D xoxoxoxo

― Johnny Fever, Monday, August 10, 2015 1:29 PM (42 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Fever says his name is 'Johnny Fever' because that is actually not his name. Though he is 'typically' easy going and open to many types of music, Fever notes in this post that there are indeed instances when he is not so easy going and open. 'carve' has double meaning here because Fever is a professional pumpkin carver. 'busy' is likely sarcastic because halloween is more than 2 months away.

I think it's fair for JN fans to ask, isn't there a place around here where I can go to get pumped about a new JN album without people just treating it like a pile-on jokefest that never ends? However there is also an answer to that ask, it just arrived via Unicorngram, and it's "no"

look there are two kinds of music fans: those that enjoy some good 'gism and those that don't. Joanna's songs load me up with that good 'gism is the thing.

'gism is of course short for syllogism

Majority of the posts actually positive so far?

All those clips except "81" are songs from her first album, right? The woman that does "81" sounds good to me. I don't know, I especially enjoy listening to her songs with a lyric sheet. New song is beautiful.

the multi-tracked vibrato minute of this is so rad & promising

that song is intersting, i could get into this. i've sort of avoided her because she's california royalty, which i know is like my own hang-up. well i guess i don't have to buy anything.

Ys is still is that mindblowing monument of an album.

is it too much to ask the no-newsom crew to comes up with some new zings, you guys have had like 5 years.

look there are two kinds of music fans: those that enjoy some good 'gism and those that don't. Joanna's songs load me up with that good 'gism is the thing.

― oh, i am a lonlely poster. i live in a box of posts. (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, August 10, 2015 4:27 PM (27 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

'gism is of course short for syllogism

― oh, i am a lonlely poster. i live in a box of posts. (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, August 10, 2015 4:27 PM (27 minutes ago) Bookmark

this is straight up gross

just trying to touch hearts larger than a thimble, but I apologize

cad otm though

the multi-tracked vibrato minute of this is so rad & promising

yeah, i've only heard her music casually, but this the first thing that makes me want to hear more.

Have One On Me is most probably my favorite album ever.

hoom was my favorite album of 2010 definitely

"in california" makes me instantly cry

hoom was my favorite album of 2010 definitely

― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Monday, August 10, 2015 7:35 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

um excuse me it's "whom"

HOOM had some amazing highlights but I never listen to the whole thing

Ys is just the right portion of Newsom for me

I'll ride for Milk-Eyed Mender all day but let's be honest there's no car on the road that gives better mileage than unicorn jokes

the lyrics to the new song are also great but imo she's a great lyricist and only gets better with each record

so the arrangements could be roughly identical to hoomicorn and there'd still probably be a lot there for me in terms of progression

ok actually never mind "waltz of the 1st lightborne" should have the texture a van der graaf generator song

strange animal!

https://www.reddit.com/r/JoannaNewsom/comments/11zd18x/good_intentions_paving_company_with_robin/

and good intentions paving co. with fleet foxes

well this is an absolute and unexpected delight, it all sounds fantastic, although I hope she plays more harp on the supposed forthcoming album.

all sound like you would expect new joanna newsom songs to sound. "the air again" is a highlight

waiting until i have time to give a close listen before i dive into these new pieces, but just seeing her pop up on the newsfeed has me down the youtube rabbit hole with joanna, and stumbled on this show from the initial ys street band tour that has absolutely immaculate sound. wow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEIH7FUwbfE

I saw her solo a month before that show, at Bennington College. It was a peak live music experience: was only familiar with the Milk-Eyed Mender material to that point, and was totally unprepared for the grandeur of the Ys tracks. As I remember it, the show was in kind of a modest multipurpose room, with a few hundred people sitting on the floor in front of a stage that was a foot or two elevated from us.

Yeah, that is an amazing recording, I've listened to it many times. I don't think she's ever been better than in that period.

hoo boy i sure would like jn to do like... the rest of her music with robin pecknold involvement. that's a collaboration that needs to endure.

ugh no i know i am the minority but i liked her as a noisy loner not as a mannered decadent

ya don't know if i can agree with that statement but she's definitely too iconoclastic for that to become her primary aesthetic

The Bottletree gig is an awesome recording indeed, a classic in itself. I think I still have a CD-R with it burned somewhere lol.

Worth noting that fairly recently a guy on YouTube cleaned it up (getting rid of the glitches in "Emily" and "Monkey & Bear"). He also uploaded high-quality recordings of shows from every one of her tours, all with links to MP3 320 kbps downloads on Google Drive as well. Well worth checking out!

Here they are:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMhu9WD0R5W2UtpGX_GaLML8HyWwgg0_f

This tour was the first time I saw her perform, exact same set, and still my favorite version of her band. As soon as she started "Bridges and Balloons" it was clear that she had been working on her singing, and had added much more breath, control, and subtlety than on the original recording.