joanna newsom " Ys " (2 Viewers)

[Charlie Bucket]

can i start the backlash? its just a con-job and you've all been fooled!! don't believe the hype...

 

[Sufi]

Its great.

There are some fantastic moments in the album.
Its also a measure of a good album that even someone such as I with a short attention span can listen attentively to a 17 min song and love every min of it.

 

[ernesto]

can i start the backlash? its just a con-job and you've all been fooled!! don't believe the hype...

id happily recieve a con-job from Joanna Newsom!!

anywho, its not all hype. i witnessed the new materiel live and it was aural sex

 

[theweeyin]

Listening to it at the mo. Great stuff. I understand why her voice wouldnt be to everyones taste though. She's bloody gorgeous aswell. That Mr Smog is a very lucky man. Bastard.

indeed. she thanks all the usuals in the inlay card. and then she gives 'special thanks' to 'Billy,.......'

wonder whether Billy is Bill Of Smog. he did cat power too. what a bastard. a complete bastard

id happily receive a con-job from Joanna Newsom!!

anywho, its not all hype. i witnessed the new materiel live and it was oral sex

Ugg. Keep yer drooling sexual desires about this little lady to yerselves! Her beautiful music doesn't deserve to be sullied by raging erections

 

[Sufi]

anywho, its not all hype. i witnessed the new materiel live and it was aural sex

ATP??

Man it was so great.

 

[simp]

I liked Milk-eyed Mender. I am a big Van Dyke Parks fan.

But I think that on Ys his arrangements are waaaaaay too intrusive, and the songs go on waaaaaay too long. About as ill-judged a collaboration as Phil Spector producing Leonard Cohen...

Just my 2c worth...

 

[ernesto]

Ugg. Keep yer drooling sexual desires about this little lady to yerselves! Her beautiful music doesn't deserve to be sullied by raging erections

mine's not raging. in fact, it's not in any way angry at all.

ATP??

Man it was so great.

yeah. unreal.

I liked Milk-eyed Mender. I am a big Van Dyke Parks fan.

But I think that on Ys his arrangements are waaaaaay too intrusive, and the songs go on waaaaaay too long. About as ill-judged a collaboration as Phil Spector producing Leonard Cohen...

Just my 2c worth...

maybe Van Dykes arrangements are a bit too intrusive but i think they compliment the harp nicely. maybe a bit lower in the mix. marginally. either way, shabba!

 

[Richie]

I liked Milk-eyed Mender. I am a big Van Dyke Parks fan.

But I think that on Ys his arrangements are waaaaaay too intrusive, and the songs go on waaaaaay too long. About as ill-judged a collaboration as Phil Spector producing Leonard Cohen...

Just my 2c worth...

I pretty much agree with this, unfortunately.. I loved The Milkeyed Mender a whole lot but I find Ys tough going.. I wouldn't have anything against the really long songs if they had the same level of potency as her first batch of stuff but I think they drift a whole lot, there are sections where I find I'm either getting bored, or else cringing at how twee the arrangements are (her first album got called twee all the time, but it really had a kind of modernity and starkness to it that I don't think Ys has).. Part of the fun with the first album was the way the complex harp parts would evoke a whole arrangement in your head, but actually having an orchestra seems to obscure the whole thing with a kind of unneccesary sludge.. Anyway, I'm hoping I'll come around to it eventually. She's doing gigs with an orchestra at the moment, some UK dates being announced so hopefully they'll make it over here at some point, maybe those huge songs come across better in a live setting.

 

[Unicron]

I expected Park's arrangement to be more intrusive then they were. I've only had the chance to half listen to the album once driving home on the way home on Friday night and the only song I really got a chance to listen to Emily before I started to get preoccupied about not crashing into things and I thought that song was fantastic.

 

[nlgbbbblth]

IAbout as ill-judged a collaboration as Phil Spector producing Leonard Cohen...

I think Death Of A Ladies Man is deadly.

 

[simp]

I think Death Of A Ladies Man is deadly.

Don't go home with your hard-on...
!ironyyy

 

[Rogue]

can i start the backlash? its just a con-job and you've all been fooled!! don't believe the hype...

How so? elucidate and elaborate, compare and contrast please.



(sorry, correcting annotated bibliographies at the moment...)

 

[Ciansy]

Ugg. Keep yer drooling sexual desires about this little lady to yerselves! Her beautiful music doesn't deserve to be sullied by raging erections

And there was me thinking that it was the whole point (or thrust, if you will) of her music.

 

[Rogue]

And there was me thinking that it was the whole point (or thrust, if you will) of her music.

A concert harp's a tricky thing to thrust anywhere. Might need some lube with that.

 

[ann post]

y'see now i just wanna talk about shirley temple and cats being abused in middle america by the person from poltergheist.

 

[jimmybreeze]

I really love it."Only Skin"s one of the greatest things iv heard in a long while

 

[Jerry Twig]

even i like this and i'd usually run a mile from this type of thing. that's saying something*

*probably that it's shite

 

[rettucs]

thumbs up from me too. I wish I knew enough about music to be able to criticise the arrangements like others have, but I don't so in my naievity I'll say that I love it.

 

[coast to coast]

i think its very good on first listen but i then i really like all of her songs i've heard. van dyke parks.... good arranger but lets not go over the top here - 'baby' from rufus wainwright's first album. thats a fucking amazing arrangement. dunno why i mentioned that.

 

[travispickle]

I liked Milk-eyed Mender. I am a big Van Dyke Parks fan.

But I think that on Ys his arrangements are waaaaaay too intrusive, and the songs go on waaaaaay too long. About as ill-judged a collaboration as Phil Spector producing Leonard Cohen...

Just my 2c worth...

Death of a ladies man was/is a great record. I doubt the same could be said for this twee, sticky out eared drivel!!!