at the beginning of "Elsewhere" when she sings "the cum inside me in the space where I can breathe", that really speaks to me
― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, December 5, 2019 8:09 PM (fifteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
qft
― ingredience (map), Thursday, 5 December 2019 20:27 (four years ago) link
Remember Rabbit in the Moon's Lunasol remix of "Fear"?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rRgjvna7bk
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Thursday, 5 December 2019 20:28 (four years ago) link
RITM also did a good mix of "Possession":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcyhDX-tIRU
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Thursday, 5 December 2019 20:30 (four years ago) link
Initially parsed that as RATM.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 5 December 2019 20:31 (four years ago) link
That would have been the most interesting thing RATM ever did
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Thursday, 5 December 2019 20:33 (four years ago) link
Multiple xposts - “Elsewhere” is definitely a queer liberation anthem tho.
― Tim F, Thursday, 5 December 2019 20:40 (four years ago) link
okay now I want to vote "Hold On" just for the last 30 seconds alone, my god
― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 6 December 2019 21:39 (four years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Tuesday, 31 December 2019 00:01 (four years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Wednesday, 1 January 2020 00:01 (four years ago) link
it's a long way down
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 4 May 2022 18:34 (one year ago) link
"fear" is the dopest shit anyone ever recorded
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 4 May 2022 18:37 (one year ago) link
My favourite thing about "Plenty": the way the drums go into half-time at the beginning of the first chorus, then continue in regular time into the second chorus, as if there's been a burst of confidence... and then go into half-time when the chorus is nearly finished, as if the song's stopped in its tracks, becoming aware of what's really at stake.
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 4 May 2022 18:48 (one year ago) link
I assume I voted for "Fear", but looking at the results on this thread make me feel guilty - how can "Ice" and "Wait" and the title track all have zero votes?
― Tim F, Thursday, 5 May 2022 01:36 (one year ago) link
Oh shit.
“Wait” is such a perfect song that is probably easy to look past but that I feel only Sarah at that particular point in time could do? There’s something so... vague yet portentous about it? Love the way she slightly varies the chorus melody throughout.
But then “Ice” is just devastating. As are “Elsewhere” and the final two tracks.
― Tim F, Thursday, 5 December 2019 19:54 (two years ago) bookmarkflaglink
Just expanding on this point, the way that sometimes the melody drops on "the dream" and sometimes rises really explicates musically the idea of it being a "precious little thing" - both precious and little (or perhaps rather chimerical, fragile, a mirage). It's masterful songwriting IMO.
― Tim F, Thursday, 5 May 2022 01:43 (one year ago) link
The only strike against “Fear” is that I’m less in love with her head voice than I wish I was
I’m listening to the live Mirrorball album now and it’s so nice to hear an organic and adult version of “Vox”
An old friend of mine always used to slap her knee and say “pristine velvet” whenever McLachlan’s name was mentioned
― a legible shriek (flamboyant goon tie included), Thursday, 5 May 2022 01:49 (one year ago) link