I refuse to believe there is a single more intelligent and beautiful piece of writing on mortality and the will to go on in the face of suffering out there. Like the famous philosophers were rolling in their graves when they got beat by this single song hundreds of years later
every time, the moment the verse starts "and the slow lip of fire moves across the prairie with precision..." tears just shoot out of my face, this song hits me harder than anything I've ever encountered in my life
@ToeJ ToeJ I'll give it a try. This song has a rhythm that goes like rumbling water in a waterfall, it's just thunderous ans unstoppable. Much like the slow lip of fire: even though slow, it's burning away and consuming all there is, and there's nothing she (or we) can do about it but witness it. This verse in the song is where the catastrophe unfolds; now it's impossible to undo. the next thing we know, the rhythm recedes, and all that's left is sorrow and mourning ("why the long face" verses). this song is just unbelievable. i've been listening to it for over 10 years and it doesn't ever get old. i keep discovering new layers of meaning. i've dreamed with it once and i woke up bawling my eyes out. i even got a tattoo of a diamond and sawdust. honestly, i think this song (and all Joanna's corpus) has brought me to a much deeper level of accessing my emotions. oftentimes it's been troublesome. but i'm so grateful that her songs and lyrics are there to help me process my feelings. this song in particular to me has a quality of moving on (which is so exquisitely expressed by the same rumbling rhythm i mentioned earlier): in spitd fo pain, in spite of cold clay of death, she just knows she must carry on to the very end. as she does. profoundly touching.
I mean "I have got some business out at the edge of town, Candy weighing both of my pockets down till I can hardly stay afloat from the weight of them and knowing how the commonfolk condemn what I do to you, to keep you warm Being a woman, being a woman." "There are some mornings when the sky looks like a road There are some dragons who were built to have and hold And some machines are dropped from great heights lovingly And some great bellies ache with many bumble bees." "I saw a rabbit as slick as a knife and as pale as a candlestick and I had thought it'd be harder to do but I caught her and skinned her quick Held her there kicking and mewling upended unspooling unsung and blue told her 'wherever you go little runaway bunny I will find you' and then she ran, as they're liable to do." "And all that I've got And all that I need I tie in a knot And I lay at your feet And I have not forgot But a silence crept over me So dig up your bone Exhume your pine-cone, Sadie" There's a lot of contenders
This song reminds me that despite all the fear and sadness i face, I’m not made of it. I’m made of strong, courageous and beautiful things. One of my favorite songs ever. Pure art.
who started all this shit about her voice being sub par... this girl makes me wanna cry every time i hear her music, her voice is the most beautiful thing ive heard since i can remember so anyone who wants to bash on sumthing that incredible doesnt know jack shit about beauty, this girl is magic, i love you joanna newsom
I remember the night I first heard Joanna sing. It was 1 AM, mid-July, my dearest friend on Skype urging me to listen to Sawdust and Diamonds. I still was unused to her voice, but I tried it out. I just sat on my bed, half-alive, her voice winding tales of things I've never heard but were so, so, familiar to me. The emptiness at the end of each of her songs is the one thing that could ever bring me back to reality.
fragile and massive at the same time. it's like a painting by hieronymus bosch. i had to listen to it a hundred times yet, and still discovering more and more details.
My step father and I saw her in Milwaukee a few years back. She played her first song. We both had a tear in our eye and he looked at me and said "we could leave now and I'd say that was the greatest show I've ever seen".
i love how newsoms songs evoke such emotion and such unanimous yet unique emotions for so many people. i like how most people can agree that when she sings 'and then a slow lip of fire moves across the prairie with precision' it's like riding a subway train straight into the next dimension
Very good point! First time I heard this song was on a rainy day, on the bus, on my way to university, on headset. It felt very casual on the ear, then I felt exactly like that! Auditory hallucination.
I think her voice is magnificent, not something to ignore in deference to the lyrics. It's the old "Bob Dylan can't sing argument," rehashed. We all sing, we all dance, why exile such things to plastic "professionals"?
While I do think there's a certain charm to her almost childlike vocals, if we're being objective, it's not very good. Her lyrical brilliance more than makes up for it.
Joanna thank you for DARING to be SOO DIFFERENT than anything out there. Your lyricals are unique to you throughout all music, poetry, and prose in all lands and through all time.It must have been SOO scary to perform music like this to popcorn Americans but your are appreciated by many. Relish the criticisms of the common about your wonderful voice. She sings about things that artists no longer sing about and she does the singing the music and the composing.
Everyone says this song is about life and death but when I listen it I think about relationships and how we give ourselves to people through love and we put our fate in their hands.
You know, after listening to her for some time, I don't even care how she sounds. Anyone who can come up with lyrics so moving and full of raw emotion deserves to sing them, no matter how they sound.
And darling, we will be fine; but what was yours and mine Appears to me a sandcastle That the gibbering wave takes But if it’s all just the same, then will you say my name; Say my name in the morning, so that I know when the wave breaks I wasn’t born of a whistle, or milked from a thistle at twilight No; I was all horns and thorns, sprung out fully formed, knock-kneed and upright Impossibly beautiful 😱
This is honestly one of the most beautiful and close to perfect songs of all time. I don’t even know how else to put it. . . . Its a perfect culmination of: Joanna’s heavenly and unique voice. . . . . Some of the most poetic words that cut me with razor sharp precision in my heart and soul while giving me goose bumps and hair standing straight of my skin. . . . . . and of course the music itself. The song has so many parts like a story, a book...and even with all its changes, each part transitions to the next as smooth and natural feeling as water moving. Not many songs has done what this song has to me....... and the others that do are on a very small list. This is up there with Radiohead’s, “Pyramid Song” and “How to disappear completely”. Thank you for this song Joanna.......It truly is a gift that is priceless..... one that has made a difference in my life for the better and one I could not imagine not having so close to my heart.
Oh man, if she isn't the most magnificent lyricist I've ever known. I wish one day she'd collect all her lyrics, like poems really, into a book ... I'd buy it in a heartbeat. I hardly care how she sings, when she can write like that, and play the harp like she can.
Its hard to not to want to say that this is the perfectly written song i have encountered. By far the most lyrical genius of our time. flawless poetry.
Although I prefer the live versions of this on youtube, this is still a great version and the fact that you've got the words as well helps me really focus. One of my favourite Joanna songs ever. This, only skin and cosmia are my three favourites among a host of favourites from this wonderful young lady!
I love this because her voice isn't this picture perfect ringing bell. It's strange and somewhat unnatural. I love that because somehow this, along with the beautiful harp and I'm just calmed by the sound. It feels like things I've known for hundreds of years and thing I've yet to discover.
I was listening to this with my wife, and Joana sang "why the long face? And though our bodies recoil from the grip of the soil, why the long face?" and my wife replied "Because I'm a horse!". I can't listen to this song without laughing now :)
There's a tremendous amount of meaning in this song when you look at it through the idea of a Deus Ex Machine. A machine used in a play that comes in as the hand of God or fate. There's a tremendous amount of imagery of stage mechanics---her as a fake bird being controlled by strings, being pulled up and down by a church bell. The real and fake, God and fate, life and death, etc. I just discovered this song yesterday, so I'm still working through it. But, it is beautiful.
I've never heard anyone interpret this song like this but I feel like it could be like a story of someone trying to get help through intense mental illness, with all the toxic stigma and "treatments", and how all she wants to do is help people feel better. At the beginning she wonders if someone at the top will wait for her, (maybe a parent?) and speaks of that bell in her ear that she wants to be rid of. Here parents try to keep her in place, pushed in the tree where she looks nice. The doctors string her up and stuff her full of sawdust and diamonds. her world is burning as the doctor cuts into her mind. She speaks of just doing what she ought to do, as the birds sing and burro bucks, she reaches out to comfort our sad, long face. But even after all of this, that damnable bell returns to ring in her ear! As weak as she appears she is full of love, even though she bears this generational curse, she just wants to be called by name lovingly… She's not born of a whistle or anything special, she came from pain and suffering, and she, like us, deserve to know goodness and to flourish. To be more than what ails us.
This song always makes me cry. Not sure what it is because i dont even know the meaning of the song. Its her voice and the music she makes that makes me feel like there's beauty in this world. She makes me feel.
I recently read the album was partly centered around the death of her best friend, is this song about that friend? When she says “From the top of the white stairs, do you wait for me there?” I feel like it might be talking about her friend in heaven, waiting for her.
i wasn’t born of a whistle or milked from a thistle at twilight! no, i was all horns and thorns sprung out fully formed, knock-kneed and upright! so, enough of this terror we deserve to know light! and grow evermore lighter and lighter!!!! you would have seen me through but i could not undo that desire!!!!! joanna moves me like water and fire yet i am still grounded on this earth pyre!!!!!!!!
are you mistaking the little jump her voice does between registers for autotune? because she replicates that little warble in live videos, check out the 2006 live recording at the unitarian church in pennsylvania on youtube. she sings it perfectly there, i don't see why they'd need to use autotune on the album. and in an interview she said they've only ever used autotune once, on a single flute note in Have One On Me, lol
Not getting too melodramatic, but I downloaded leaks before this released and it was kinda better. She used to sob uncontrollably while performing this song and then they told her that was bad for some reason.
well, it seems there are different definitions in english and german (that's where I come from), although there also are several sub-definitions one of which might suit yours als well as mine. english wiki says: "a melodic or harmonic configuration that creates a sense of repose or resolution." it also says "A harmonic cadence is a progression of (at least) two chords that concludes a phrase, section, or piece of music", which is the meaning of "cadence" I learned at the university. ;)
This song is one giant epic emotional rollercoaster, but if I had to choose, 8:20 would be the most emotional.. even if I don’t fully understand what she means
She's considering her musical existence, her physical existence and what comes at the end. You just need to let it seep into you - there's no obvious comprehension; it just happens over time.
Life can feel like we are fake ornaments, pulled around by strings. But when we throw ourselves entirely into the role we marionette We find we are not stuffed only with common things like cardboard and old magazines But that some of that common sawdust of the universe has turned to diamonds. Beauty and love; the whole course individual human journeys, and the generations they form; emerge from the most mundane of things, because there is nothing else to emerge from.
you are correct, but even if a person's lack of understanding is frustrating, try to educate rather than patronize. you're more likely to shut out logical explanations and think with a closed mind if you are being talked down to.
I have to post this on my Facebook page, Please Match my adoration for this artist with a welcome "Yes!!!" to bring this beauty to my page!!! Please...!!!
Okay, if there is anyone that has the ablum 'Ys' would it be possible for you to send me a message with the track listiing? I can't find it anywhere on google, and if I do, it only comes up with the first disk track list and provided that the information on this video is correct, there is clearly more tracks that I can't find the name of. Thanks in advance/anyway!
I don't know why but this thought just occurred to me..if Joni Mitchell had passed away this would certainly be her modern reincarnation.I've heard a lot of music in 44 years..but I can't begin to wrap my head around this. It's staggering on so many levels.
Actually a cadence is only the chords used to resolve a a chord sequence not the whole sequence itself. For instance the 12 bar blues ends with a plagal cadence (IV-I)
hm, a cadence is actually always more than one chord; in fact it is defined as a sequence of chords in opposite to a single chord. the 12-bar-blues-scheme is a cadence, as well as the typical folk scheme I-IV-V-I. 8)
Every 6-8 months I go into a phase where I exclusively listen to Joanna Newsom, and it's so cathartic
God same 😂✨🌼
totally a thing for me, too
I never get out of that phase 😳
HEY MAN ITS BEEN LIKE 8 MONTHS
JUST WONDERIN IF UR BACK TO LISTEN TO HER
@@flixemerson4191 HEY MAN YEAH IM BACK IN IT FOR THE FORESEEABLE !!
I refuse to believe there is a single more intelligent and beautiful piece of writing on mortality and the will to go on in the face of suffering out there. Like the famous philosophers were rolling in their graves when they got beat by this single song hundreds of years later
this is the single most poetic thing i have heard in my entire life. She plays on my heartstrings.
every time, the moment the verse starts "and the slow lip of fire moves across the prairie with precision..." tears just shoot out of my face, this song hits me harder than anything I've ever encountered in my life
llama this song makes me cry too ☺
that’s where i cry too
Same but with the "why the long face" verse
@ToeJ ToeJ I'll give it a try. This song has a rhythm that goes like rumbling water in a waterfall, it's just thunderous ans unstoppable. Much like the slow lip of fire: even though slow, it's burning away and consuming all there is, and there's nothing she (or we) can do about it but witness it. This verse in the song is where the catastrophe unfolds; now it's impossible to undo. the next thing we know, the rhythm recedes, and all that's left is sorrow and mourning ("why the long face" verses). this song is just unbelievable. i've been listening to it for over 10 years and it doesn't ever get old. i keep discovering new layers of meaning. i've dreamed with it once and i woke up bawling my eyes out. i even got a tattoo of a diamond and sawdust. honestly, i think this song (and all Joanna's corpus) has brought me to a much deeper level of accessing my emotions. oftentimes it's been troublesome. but i'm so grateful that her songs and lyrics are there to help me process my feelings. this song in particular to me has a quality of moving on (which is so exquisitely expressed by the same rumbling rhythm i mentioned earlier): in spitd fo pain, in spite of cold clay of death, she just knows she must carry on to the very end. as she does. profoundly touching.
Typing this after sobbing, which a song has never rmade me do, and which began at that literal moment. It's spellbinding
“And they will recognize all of the lines of your face in the face of the daughter of the daughter of my daughter” Best lyric of all time?
And now she has a daughter :’)
This song always hits hard, but that line can't go by without starting the waterworks.
This is one messed up song lol
This whole album has potential 'greatest lyrics of all time'.
I mean
"I have got some business out at the edge of town,
Candy weighing both of my pockets down
till I can hardly stay afloat
from the weight of them and
knowing how the commonfolk condemn
what I do to you, to keep you warm
Being a woman, being a woman."
"There are some mornings when the sky looks like a road
There are some dragons who were built to have and hold
And some machines are dropped from great heights lovingly
And some great bellies ache with many bumble bees."
"I saw a rabbit as slick as a knife and as pale as a candlestick
and I had thought it'd be harder to do but I caught her and skinned her quick
Held her there
kicking and mewling upended unspooling
unsung and blue
told her 'wherever you go little runaway bunny I will find you'
and then she ran, as they're liable to do."
"And all that I've got
And all that I need
I tie in a knot
And I lay at your feet
And I have not forgot
But a silence crept over me
So dig up your bone
Exhume your pine-cone, Sadie"
There's a lot of contenders
This song reminds me that despite all the fear and sadness i face, I’m not made of it. I’m made of strong, courageous and beautiful things. One of my favorite songs ever. Pure art.
I love how there's not a sense of "conclusion" to the way she sings "desire" for the last time. It's just left unresolved.
who started all this shit about her voice being sub par... this girl makes me wanna cry every time i hear her music, her voice is the most beautiful thing ive heard since i can remember so anyone who wants to bash on sumthing that incredible doesnt know jack shit about beauty, this girl is magic, i love you joanna newsom
I remember the night I first heard Joanna sing. It was 1 AM, mid-July, my dearest friend on Skype urging me to listen to Sawdust and Diamonds. I still was unused to her voice, but I tried it out.
I just sat on my bed, half-alive, her voice winding tales of things I've never heard but were so, so, familiar to me. The emptiness at the end of each of her songs is the one thing that could ever bring me back to reality.
fragile and massive at the same time. it's like a painting by hieronymus bosch. i had to listen to it a hundred times yet, and still discovering more and more details.
This is midevil from another time .it could go back a 1000 years. Timeless
"It is terribly good to carry water and chop wood, streaked with soot, heavy booted and wild-eyed."
No other artist (that I've discovered) can make me cry like this
My step father and I saw her in Milwaukee a few years back. She played her first song. We both had a tear in our eye and he looked at me and said "we could leave now and I'd say that was the greatest show I've ever seen".
i love how newsoms songs evoke such emotion and such unanimous yet unique emotions for so many people. i like how most people can agree that when she sings 'and then a slow lip of fire moves across the prairie with precision' it's like riding a subway train straight into the next dimension
Literally- all of her music shoots me out of a cannon into a new dimension i’ve never been in!
It's kind of incredible how Joanna can explain something so huge a topic as life and death and still do it justice. Amazing.
this makes me feel close to understanding the meaning of life
Her voice is unique and different. Peaceful, yet disturbing. If you listen to all ten minutes, you have a 78.7% chance of auditory hallucinations.
Very good point! First time I heard this song was on a rainy day, on the bus, on my way to university, on headset. It felt very casual on the ear, then I felt exactly like that! Auditory hallucination.
Try full-on visuals.
I think her voice is magnificent, not something to ignore in deference to the lyrics. It's the old "Bob Dylan can't sing argument," rehashed. We all sing, we all dance, why exile such things to plastic "professionals"?
Her voice is astounding.
Yeah but she’s actually an amazing singer
Only a crazy person would say that Joanna isn’t an incredible singer.
i love how all the replies just ignored the actual sentiment of the comment, everyone saw 'cant sing' and joannas name then started typing
While I do think there's a certain charm to her almost childlike vocals, if we're being objective, it's not very good. Her lyrical brilliance more than makes up for it.
Joanna thank you for DARING to be SOO DIFFERENT than anything out there. Your lyricals are unique to you throughout all music, poetry, and prose in all lands and through all time.It must have been SOO scary to perform music like this to popcorn Americans but your are appreciated by many. Relish the criticisms of the common about your wonderful voice. She sings about things that artists no longer sing about and she does the singing the music and the composing.
daWaatcher1 I literally had my face buried in a bag of popcorn as I was reading this comment. Damn, you caught me lmao!
Who else can't help but cry to this?
Every time. This and Baby Birch
yaaaas
"Be at peace, baby... and be gone"
I heard this when I was 30 and started sobbing and hadn't cried in 10 years since my dad died
like a shout-spring
I love how this song seems to convey all of the sorrow I've ever felt while still bringing me to a place of pure jubilation.
I can not decipher a meaning however it calms me. I almost dont want to know what this song means. Its beautifull
Everyone says this song is about life and death but when I listen it I think about relationships and how we give ourselves to people through love and we put our fate in their hands.
i see no difference between these two interpretations
man... I'm not your typical romantic person, but this song is just magical. God bless you Joanna.
oh my god I've heard this hundreds of times and still...tears and goosebumps every time! a masterful artist.
You know, after listening to her for some time, I don't even care how she sounds. Anyone who can come up with lyrics so moving and full of raw emotion deserves to sing them, no matter how they sound.
i like rap/hip hop and i even rap myself but i love this shit
First song that ever made me cry
And darling, we will be fine; but what was yours and mine
Appears to me a sandcastle
That the gibbering wave takes
But if it’s all just the same, then will you say my name;
Say my name in the morning, so that I know when the wave breaks
I wasn’t born of a whistle, or milked from a thistle at twilight
No; I was all horns and thorns, sprung out fully formed, knock-kneed and upright
Impossibly beautiful 😱
An absolute masterpiece i was lucky enough to see her in greenman 2007
I wish her music were on spotify :(
It is on Tidal!
Rustbelt Van-Life tbh it’s not that expensive to buy it (like 1st album £3!!!)
Oh yeah she’s had a problem with Spotify I believe :-)
This is honestly one of the most beautiful and close to perfect songs of all time. I don’t even know how else to put it. . . . Its a perfect culmination of: Joanna’s heavenly and unique voice. . . . . Some of the most poetic words that cut me with razor sharp precision in my heart and soul while giving me goose bumps and hair standing straight of my skin. . . . . . and of course the music itself. The song has so many parts like a story, a book...and even with all its changes, each part transitions to the next as smooth and natural feeling as water moving.
Not many songs has done what this song has to me....... and the others that do are on a very small list. This is up there with Radiohead’s, “Pyramid Song” and “How to disappear completely”.
Thank you for this song Joanna.......It truly is a gift that is priceless..... one that has made a difference in my life for the better and one I could not imagine not having so close to my heart.
Oh man, if she isn't the most magnificent lyricist I've ever known. I wish one day she'd collect all her lyrics, like poems really, into a book ... I'd buy it in a heartbeat. I hardly care how she sings, when she can write like that, and play the harp like she can.
her voice sounds impeccable to my punk rock ears
Listening to this late at night on the radio, I am so glad I stayed awake to hear the name of the song
Its hard to not to want to say that this is the perfectly written song i have encountered. By far the most lyrical genius of our time. flawless poetry.
Although I prefer the live versions of this on youtube, this is still a great version and the fact that you've got the words as well helps me really focus. One of my favourite Joanna songs ever. This, only skin and cosmia are my three favourites among a host of favourites from this wonderful young lady!
A mix of icelandic björk magicalness, rural irish folk tales, foolish pirates, and janet devlin's sisters.
I love this because her voice isn't this picture perfect ringing bell. It's strange and somewhat unnatural.
I love that because somehow this, along with the beautiful harp and I'm just calmed by the sound. It feels like things I've known for hundreds of years and thing I've yet to discover.
I was listening to this with my wife, and Joana sang "why the long face? And though our bodies recoil from the grip of the soil, why the long face?" and my wife replied "Because I'm a horse!". I can't listen to this song without laughing now :)
it's a donkey, though!
There's a tremendous amount of meaning in this song when you look at it through the idea of a Deus Ex Machine. A machine used in a play that comes in as the hand of God or fate. There's a tremendous amount of imagery of stage mechanics---her as a fake bird being controlled by strings, being pulled up and down by a church bell. The real and fake, God and fate, life and death, etc.
I just discovered this song yesterday, so I'm still working through it. But, it is beautiful.
do you still think about this?
imcyborg
and the creation myth that separates gender today with the blame of women’s desire/eves apple/ continuing to recreate
@@hopearmstrong1475 Do you still wonder if they're still thinking about this? Cuz I am...
I've never heard anyone interpret this song like this but I feel like it could be like a story of someone trying to get help through intense mental illness, with all the toxic stigma and "treatments", and how all she wants to do is help people feel better.
At the beginning she wonders if someone at the top will wait for her, (maybe a parent?) and speaks of that bell in her ear that she wants to be rid of.
Here parents try to keep her in place, pushed in the tree where she looks nice.
The doctors string her up and stuff her full of sawdust and diamonds.
her world is burning as the doctor cuts into her mind.
She speaks of just doing what she ought to do, as the birds sing and burro bucks, she reaches out to comfort our sad, long face.
But even after all of this, that damnable bell returns to ring in her ear!
As weak as she appears she is full of love, even though she bears this generational curse, she just wants to be called by name lovingly…
She's not born of a whistle or anything special, she came from pain and suffering, and she, like us, deserve to know goodness and to flourish. To be more than what ails us.
I cry my heart out every time I listen to this album 'til I can't see and my hands are trembling.
This song always makes me cry. Not sure what it is because i dont even know the meaning of the song. Its her voice and the music she makes that makes me feel like there's beauty in this world. She makes me feel.
I recently read the album was partly centered around the death of her best friend, is this song about that friend? When she says “From the top of the white stairs, do you wait for me there?” I feel like it might be talking about her friend in heaven, waiting for her.
i wasn’t born of a whistle or milked from a thistle at twilight! no, i was all horns and thorns sprung out fully formed, knock-kneed and upright! so, enough of this terror we deserve to know light! and grow evermore lighter and lighter!!!! you would have seen me through but i could not undo that desire!!!!! joanna moves me like water and fire yet i am still grounded on this earth pyre!!!!!!!!
This touches my grief so perfectly. Stay; tomorrow needs you.
Amazing.
I have to forget about this song..it’s too powerful to know and walk around in real life
are you mistaking the little jump her voice does between registers for autotune? because she replicates that little warble in live videos, check out the 2006 live recording at the unitarian church in pennsylvania on youtube. she sings it perfectly there, i don't see why they'd need to use autotune on the album. and in an interview she said they've only ever used autotune once, on a single flute note in Have One On Me, lol
4:39 when the harp does that thing
Ruby S only a musical genius would ever think to do that exact thing
I know almost all of her songs word for word, I love her music.
Easily one of the best written song ever put to recording. It and Sadie are remarkable, in particular, of her works.
One of my favorites!! So peaceful!
8:27 wow great lyrics
my heart & hair raise
I don't know why, but every time she starts the part at 5:00, my heart breaks. There's something so sad about it.
"just to lift your long face"
This song is profound.
one of the best songs i've ever heard!
When I hear this music, I hear what I love.
Not getting too melodramatic, but I downloaded leaks before this released and it was kinda better. She used to sob uncontrollably while performing this song and then they told her that was bad for some reason.
+gibberconfirm I can believe that. I often start crying just listening to it.
+gibberconfirm Oh my god I love her so much :')
the only live performance i've seen of this song, she was crying by the end.
rreally'???? those leaks outtakes still exist ??
This is such a beautiful song and the lyrics are amazing, how does she remember them all when she's performing?
i love this.
well, it seems there are different definitions in english and german (that's where I come from), although there also are several sub-definitions one of which might suit yours als well as mine. english wiki says: "a melodic or harmonic configuration that creates a sense of repose or resolution."
it also says "A harmonic cadence is a progression of (at least) two chords that concludes a phrase, section, or piece of music", which is the meaning of "cadence" I learned at the university. ;)
The reason she sounds so good is because you can relate to her voice. The average jo hasn't got a smooth tone. Plus she has emotion and drama
what a gorgeous song
I listened to Have One on Me, then Only Skin, but I can't do this, not in a row. That's just too much perfection in a day.
When I hear this I do wanna cry. I’m not gonna state which reason, but I wanna cry
This song is one giant epic emotional rollercoaster, but if I had to choose, 8:20 would be the most emotional.. even if I don’t fully understand what she means
She's considering her musical existence, her physical existence and what comes at the end. You just need to let it seep into you - there's no obvious comprehension; it just happens over time.
Life can feel like we are fake ornaments, pulled around by strings.
But when we throw ourselves entirely into the role we marionette
We find we are not stuffed only with common things like cardboard and old magazines
But that some of that common sawdust of the universe has turned to diamonds.
Beauty and love; the whole course individual human journeys, and the generations they form; emerge from the most mundane of things, because there is nothing else to emerge from.
holy shit
Powerful
such an amazing song......
best song in the world
you are correct, but even if a person's lack of understanding is frustrating, try to educate rather than patronize. you're more likely to shut out logical explanations and think with a closed mind if you are being talked down to.
4/4 is a time signature. A cadence is used to resolve a song at the end, usually it is just one chord.
forgot how much i love this song. but don't tell anyone... i'm usually an edm fan.
My favorite by far, although i love almost all of her music.
I like your style.
magical song
God I wish everyone/ more people at least, could listen and understand this music. I wish the people I knew could have the patience to listen to it.
8:19 fuck yes
say my name in the 'mourning'
so I know when the wave breaks
shit this just hit me so so hard!! and i've been singing along for ages... mind blown
I have to post this on my Facebook page, Please Match my adoration for this artist with a welcome "Yes!!!" to bring this beauty to my page!!! Please...!!!
This song makes me cry
Thoroughly agree!!
If this track doesn't make you cry then I don't know what will
And though my wrists and my waist seem so easy to break still my dear I would’ve walked you to the edge of the water
Okay, if there is anyone that has the ablum 'Ys' would it be possible for you to send me a message with the track listiing? I can't find it anywhere on google, and if I do, it only comes up with the first disk track list and provided that the information on this video is correct, there is clearly more tracks that I can't find the name of. Thanks in advance/anyway!
My god, I really do think I'm in love with Joanna Newsom, she's beautiful.
Why do you change your voice?
bjork brought me here
this is fucking good jesus
+Alex Foo Omg eva khatchadourian
I don't know why but this thought just occurred to me..if Joni Mitchell had passed away this would certainly be her modern reincarnation.I've heard a lot of music in 44 years..but I can't begin to wrap my head around this. It's staggering on so many levels.
Does anyone know where the image at the very beginning of the video is from?
I am new here, and her singing sounds to me like mix of Ane Brun and little bit of Bjork. Is it common comparison or is it just me?
yes, yes, this song is very beautiful. but can anyone explain the meaning of the lyrics to me please?
Actually a cadence is only the chords used to resolve a a chord sequence not the whole sequence itself. For instance the 12 bar blues ends with a plagal cadence (IV-I)
unreal
hm, a cadence is actually always more than one chord; in fact it is defined as a sequence of chords in opposite to a single chord. the 12-bar-blues-scheme is a cadence, as well as the typical folk scheme I-IV-V-I. 8)