Entertainment For Lively Minds
Joanna Newsom (again)
Posted by Twangothan on 1 April 2010 - 7:41pm.
No one has mentioned the lovely packaging of the new Joanna Newsom album. It is a 3 CD set in a very tactile heavy card box containing the discs in individual slip sleeves, each with its own cover pic - one of which I show here in the interests of completeness.
Oh, and the music is just as good.
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I'm not shallow
nor easily swayed by cheap advertising. However I have ignored Ms Newsom until now but I will have a sneaky listen on Spotify, only because of your last sentance, it's all about the music.
Absent From Spotify
Ms Newsom seems to be completely absent on Spotify - is the new offering worth a punt?
most of the reviews i've seen look favourable
Yes, yes and thrice yes
I am unreservedly in love with the new Joanna Newsom record and would recommend you buy it today. The review in the latest Word is spot on; it's the kind of record you'll be coming back to in years to come.
Agree
It is amazing. Just on one listen I am smitten. Mind you I loved the earlier stuff so I knew what I was in for. There's loads on You Tube if you want to try before buying.
Try this. Fabulous.
Thanks for the Youtube
Thanks for the Youtube thingy - is it just me but doesn't she sound a bit sort of odd - I couldn't stand more than 30 secs of this.....
If you want a lady who looks pleasing and can sing - Cara Dillon - enchanting !
I'm glad that window's shut.
Otherwise she'd catch her death.
Now Martha Wainwright's off sprogging, has Jo Newsom decided to take advantage of the vacancy in the Flash A Bit Of Leg But Remain Musically Worthy market?
wouldn't mind
strummin' 'er 'arp - kno wot I mean?? Eh? Eh?
No, I don't.
What do you mean?
i think i know what he means ...
... but only if it stays sharp to the bottom of the glass
He wants to show her his..
..diminished chord.
I imagine she'd be disappointed
with anything less than a Dominant 9th.
I'd be happy
with a quick glissando and a nice cup of tea
Now, that I can help with.
Harp Segues & Riffs sound bite harp sound bites
Ah Gauntlet
you truly a fair damsel be
quoth the knave Sheev, the very fool he
Never mind that harp bird - she's forgotten
She's a good plucker - but her singing's rotten
"good plucker"
Is that rhyming slang?
Thanks for the ode, Sheev. It's not everyday a girl gets a poem written about her...
And if I may reply in kind...
There was a Word blogger named Sheev,
Who had many tricks up his sleeve,
He wooed with his rhyme,
That showed talent sublime,
And wordplay like you wouldn't believe.
Ahem..
You might need the Magic Crowbar
There once was a young girl called Gauntlet
Who had good looks but she didn't flaunt it
Quite unlike Ms Newsom
Who really looks gruesome
But with Photoshop, who would have thought it?
"Magic Crowbar"?
I've not heard it called that before!
And thank you - it's not every day a girl gets two poems written about her. Also, I can't decide whether I like best that it flatters me, or disparages J-New.
Branching out from the limerick as a form now...
There was a man named Lenny Law
By day he dealt with teeth
At night the girls collapsed in awe
At what lay underneath.
OK..
Some girls, they see it as great fun
Some others see it, scream and then run
Some others, after much wine
Think it elephantine
And try to feed it a bun.
Oh, really?
There was a man filled with delusion,
About the size of his protrusion.
The girls they all tried,
Their disappointment to hide,
So he never became disillusioned.
Ahem...
There once was a woman called Newsom
Whose singing was frightfully gruesome
When she started to wail
Menfolk would turn pale
And empty the hall by the twosome.
*applauds*
Gruesome Newsom, it might just catch on.
Once more, with feeling.
There once was a girl named Joanna
Who played the harp not the piano
She divided opinion
In the Word dominion
Cos she sung like a strangled soprano.
Rather like:
From the Sunday Times' review of Dan Cruickshank's "Secret History of Georgian London", another book I evidently must read.
"Maypole"
I like that.
that pot plant looks like it needs a water
and perhaps a feed or maybe freshen up the compost or really push the boat out and just repot it.
At long last...
Newsom displays something about herself that I like.
What about the empty bottles on the shelf above?
Are we to assume that she has just partaken of a fulsome liquid lunch? Her rather precise pose would suggest not.
And can I just add that those drapes look like dust traps.