Someone else said she sounds like a small child sucking on a mouthful of gobstoppers.
Either way, the harp is pretty.
― dmun, Monday, 3 January 2005 11:42 (twenty years ago)
― firstworldman (firstworldman), Monday, 3 January 2005 11:45 (twenty years ago)
― lee smith, Monday, 3 January 2005 14:01 (twenty years ago)
― Melissa W (Melissa W), Monday, 3 January 2005 14:07 (twenty years ago)
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 3 January 2005 14:09 (twenty years ago)
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 3 January 2005 14:14 (twenty years ago)
― mike h. (mike h.), Monday, 3 January 2005 14:22 (twenty years ago)
― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 3 January 2005 14:35 (twenty years ago)
― miccio (miccio), Monday, 3 January 2005 15:16 (twenty years ago)
Annie's not bad either.
― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Monday, 3 January 2005 15:22 (twenty years ago)
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 3 January 2005 15:35 (twenty years ago)
Normally with these 'difficult' voices I think you either automatically 'get' it or don't - I've never thought of eg Björk, Tom Waits as unappealing vocalists een though I totally understand why others might. Joanna Newsom IS an unappealing vocalist to me - it's so mannered and so unrelenting in its one mannerism - but still I keep returning to it. I don't know if I'll ever work out whether I like her or not.
― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 3 January 2005 15:41 (twenty years ago)
― mike h. (mike h.), Monday, 3 January 2005 16:10 (twenty years ago)
― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Monday, 3 January 2005 17:04 (twenty years ago)
― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 3 January 2005 17:07 (twenty years ago)
*(I love her voice, incidentally)
― Chuckling at the Tomkat's Marquee (Ben Boyer), Monday, 3 January 2005 17:57 (twenty years ago)
― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Monday, 3 January 2005 17:59 (twenty years ago)
― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 3 January 2005 18:34 (twenty years ago)
― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 3 January 2005 18:38 (twenty years ago)
― Space Is the Place (Space Is the Place), Monday, 3 January 2005 19:38 (twenty years ago)
Quite curious to hear more tho.
― IT-A-Piers, Monday, 3 January 2005 23:15 (twenty years ago)
― wombatX (wombatX), Monday, 3 January 2005 23:28 (twenty years ago)
― shookout (shookout), Monday, 3 January 2005 23:29 (twenty years ago)
― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 3 January 2005 23:41 (twenty years ago)
― darin (darin), Monday, 3 January 2005 23:46 (twenty years ago)
― Piers, Monday, 3 January 2005 23:48 (twenty years ago)
― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 00:11 (twenty years ago)
― Salvador Saca (Mr. Xolotl), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 00:11 (twenty years ago)
― ambrose (ambrose), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 00:41 (twenty years ago)
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 01:02 (twenty years ago)
― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 01:14 (twenty years ago)
― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 02:31 (twenty years ago)
― cs appleby (cs appleby), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 05:35 (twenty years ago)
or Gilda Radner doing Emily Latella
― donut christ (donut), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 06:55 (twenty years ago)
― reo, Tuesday, 4 January 2005 07:26 (twenty years ago)
― The Mad Puffin, Wednesday, 5 January 2005 16:48 (twenty years ago)
― The Mad Puffin, Wednesday, 5 January 2005 16:57 (twenty years ago)
― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Thursday, 6 January 2005 03:52 (twenty years ago)
"Don't go into the liiiight" plink strum twang.
― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Thursday, 6 January 2005 04:03 (twenty years ago)
― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Thursday, 6 January 2005 04:04 (twenty years ago)
― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Thursday, 6 January 2005 04:05 (twenty years ago)
― Dan K., Thursday, 6 January 2005 04:24 (twenty years ago)
― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Thursday, 6 January 2005 04:30 (twenty years ago)
― mottdeterre (mottdeterre), Thursday, 6 January 2005 08:00 (twenty years ago)
― Ken L (Ken L), Thursday, 6 January 2005 08:06 (twenty years ago)
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/01/06/MNGJ1ALTGV1.DTL
is he finally coming out?
― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 6 January 2005 21:18 (twenty years ago)
http://www.dragcity.com/video/JNewsom_sm2.mov
I think the weird old woman from Poltergeist wins.
Still, it's pretty nice stuff, if you can get past her voice.
― darin (darin), Thursday, 6 January 2005 21:41 (twenty years ago)
― yr mom, Thursday, 6 January 2005 21:48 (twenty years ago)
I think Gavin is gayer than Christmas. But I'd've preferred Matt Gonzalez.
― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Friday, 7 January 2005 01:42 (twenty years ago)
― Maria D. (Maria D.), Friday, 7 January 2005 03:26 (twenty years ago)
― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 7 January 2005 03:28 (twenty years ago)
― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 7 January 2005 03:35 (twenty years ago)
― Piers, Friday, 7 January 2005 12:49 (twenty years ago)
― Alba (Alba), Friday, 7 January 2005 13:04 (twenty years ago)
i think of some minor hanna barbera cartoon character when i hear her
― debden, Friday, 7 January 2005 13:19 (twenty years ago)
― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 7 January 2005 13:32 (twenty years ago)
― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Friday, 7 January 2005 16:09 (twenty years ago)
― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 7 January 2005 16:14 (twenty years ago)
Because she sounds like a normal California resident with a non-screechy voice when she talks?
― mike h. (mike h.), Friday, 7 January 2005 17:19 (twenty years ago)
― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 7 January 2005 23:55 (twenty years ago)
― dog latin (dog latin), Saturday, 8 January 2005 18:53 (twenty years ago)
― shookout (shookout), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 06:23 (twenty years ago)
― Sara Sherr, Monday, 17 January 2005 09:11 (twenty years ago)
the album is ok, but the voice is very central obv. i like the book of right on a whole lot, but the rest hasnt really grabbed me
― charltonlido (gareth), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 12:02 (twenty years ago)
― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 12:05 (twenty years ago)
Thank you Dog Latin, so I wasn't going mad when I said this:
She was on Jools Holland's show at the weekend. Bizarrely, she reminds me of Kevin Coyne! -- Dadaismus (kcoyne3...), November 9th, 2004.
― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 12:06 (twenty years ago)
― debden, Tuesday, 25 January 2005 12:24 (twenty years ago)
― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 12:30 (twenty years ago)
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 00:04 (twenty years ago)
― Sean M (Sean M), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 02:41 (twenty years ago)
vg
― (1411), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 03:02 (twenty years ago)
― b e o w o o l f, Wednesday, 2 February 2005 07:23 (twenty years ago)
― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 15:45 (twenty years ago)
― imbidimts (abeta), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 16:11 (twenty years ago)
― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 16:17 (twenty years ago)
you don't know how happy this description makes me...
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 17:17 (twenty years ago)
― (1411), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 17:59 (twenty years ago)
― Mr Deeds (Mr Deeds), Monday, 14 February 2005 05:07 (twenty years ago)
Apparently he's arranging her new album.
http://www.bandoppler.com/0306_F_Van_Parks.htm
― Hatch (Hatch), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 19:33 (nineteen years ago)
― sean gramophone (Sean M), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 20:07 (nineteen years ago)
― file under cozy techno (fandango), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 21:42 (nineteen years ago)
― js (honestengine), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 22:43 (nineteen years ago)
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 17:53 (nineteen years ago)
― joe x, Friday, 31 March 2006 19:23 (nineteen years ago)
― sean gramophone (Sean M), Friday, 31 March 2006 19:32 (nineteen years ago)