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Joanna Newsom: Ys or No?

Ys I read about the Van Dyke Parks credits & Stereophile's Pick-of-Month review & other press to the effect that this album succeeds against all odds as a work of genius. I'm no philistine, but while listening to sound bytes at Barnes & Noble, I flashed back to Bluto at the Animal House toga party smashing that folkie's guitar to bits on the staircase. Has anybody fully digested this album without the impulse to murder/suicide?
dgarretson
jlind325is
113 posts
 
I should add this is the first time i have heard Joanna Newsoms work. I have been meaning to purchase more of her music. Have any of you heard her other work in the band "The Pleased"? I was thinking about trying them as well.
mwheelerk
121 posts
 
YAWN! I didn't get it at all. Hardly a change in any song in music texture and a voice that does nothing at all.
stace
10 posts
 
This is one I'll put away and probably never play again.
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davt
500 posts
 
I just bought it, never heard her music before. I really liked it, very different, strange, yet musical. I appreciated the uniqueness of it. To much music today sounds all the same.
chadnliz
3,736 posts
 
Quick thanks to Dan for his donation of this disc to a poor Music Lover! It is errrr' Unique.
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