#album: the milk-eyed mender

[inkblotdemon]

loved this redditor's analysis of Inflammatory Writ

[c-kiddo]

everyone should listen to baby birch by joanna newsom at least once i think . i think so 🐇🪵🕯️

[webkinzasalbums]

The Milk-Eyed Mender (2004) & canary

[tomorrowillbeyou]

joanna newsom - the milk-eyed mender cd booklet

[rebelsandreverb]

Joanna Newsom for BOMB MAGAZINE in 2011

photo by Annabel Mehran

[intertexts]

and i watched how the water was kneading so neatly, gone treacly, nearly slowed to a stop in this heat; in a frenzy coiling flush along the muscles underneath......

[whiteshipnightjar]

Happy 20th anniversary to Joanna Newsom's stunning and inimitable debut studio album The Milk-Eyed Mender!!!

[devilish-parrot]

tally halls music recs from 2006

sourced from the trivia section under each members page on hiddeninthesand.com

albums in pink arent on the playlist because i couldnt find it

Joe Hawley;

Magical Mystery Tour by The Beatles,

Queen's Greatest Hits, Volume 1 & 2,

Switched-On Bach by Wendy Carlos,

Midnite Vultures by Beck,

Rachmaninoff plays Rachmaninoff

His reasons for choosing these was "Just trust me."

Zubin Seghi;

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by The Beatles,

Illinois by Sufjan Stevens,

Funeral by Arcade Fire,

Twin Cinema by the New Pornographers,

Weezer's self-titled debut album

Rob Cantor;

Weezer's self-titled debut album,

XO by Elliott Smith,

The Milk-Eyed Mender by Joanna Newsom, 

OK Go's self-titled album,

Odessey and Oracle by the Zombies

His reason for choosing these albums was "They're five wonderful albums."

Ross Federman;

OK Computer by Radiohead,

Illinois by Sufjan Stevens,

Abbey Road by The Beatles,

Before These Crowded Streets by Dave Matthews Band,

Ben Folds Five's self-titled album

Andrew Horowitz;

Pet Sounds by the Beach Boys,

The Singable Songs Collection by Raffi, Shostakovich's Symphonies Nos. 5 & 9,

Pink Moon by Nick Drake,

Girls Can Tell by Spoon

[inthesirensandthesilences]

last 2 or 3 days ive been spending actually half my waking hours moping listening to this album on repeat I feel unwell

[hairtusk]

2023 faves

albums:

colour green by sibylle baier (perpetual favourite)

the milk-eyed mender by joanna newsom

let england shake by pj harvey

folksongs and ballads by tia blake

consolations (ep) by clara mann

books:

o caledonia by elspeth barker

the well of loneliness by radclyffe hall

the prime of miss jean brodie by muriel spark

remains of elmet (poetry) by ted hughes

the diaries of richard burton

films:

the prime of miss jean brodie 1969

the rainbow 1989

i start counting 1970

the worst person in the world 2021

a field in england 2013

thank you to the eternally lovely grace @sapokanikan for tagging me 🩷🩷🩷 unfortunately i am always far too nervous to tag people, but i always want to see people's top lists, so if you fancy it you can say i tagged you

[chemsexholmes]

Fuck with me

[castiel-013]

The Milk-Eyed Mender is such a lovely album. Sprouting with energy and unbridled. It gives me such winter vibes in the best possible way

[foxglove03]

Songs to exist frightfully off of…songs to go through the effort of googling “how to put a song on a loop on Spotify” and fall asleep in an armchair after getting home at 8 am…songs that will most definitely kill your mood or revive and slap the shit out of you..

“Lakes of Canada” by The Innocence Mission or covered by Sufjan Stevens. Honestly, this is a dealer’s choice kinda thing but if you’re inclined to go with Sufjan, give the original a chance because it’s just as good. The song holds a very strange catharsis for me. It always brings me back to this terrible period of rejection several months ago when everything seemed very world-shattering. I think if I hadn’t listened to this song as much as I have I wouldn’t be able to look back at all.

“Famous Blue Raincoat” by Leonard Cohen was my gateway drug. “And what can I tell you, my brother, my killer, what can I possibly say? I guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you, I’m glad you stood in my way,” is not the line to be left to your own devices to interpret for the first time pissant drunk listening to records.

"Against Pollution" by The Mountain Goats is another song where I just get caught on the execution of one particular line. Just "And a guy came in," absolutely caught me. I have no idea what Mr Darnielle is doing but he's doing it completely right. I personally think the simpler songs instrumentation-wise are the best in TMG's discography.

"Roman Candle" by Elliot Smith is the titular song of his first album. So many songs in there that I wish I listened to years ago. I found out about Elliot when I saw The Scene in The Royal Tennumbaums. Then, I just sleepily waded through his music until I hit this. The song possesses a kind of anger and rawness that belongs to someone with no aim toward mainstream success. It isn't a song written for an audience.

"Sadie" by Joanna Newsom grows on you. I have a bad habit of not being able to read the vibe as far as musical accompaniment goes. I will put on my "The Milk-Eyed Mender" CD while friends are over and trying to sleep in random uncomfortable places. Apparently, this isn't a popular choice. Joanna Newsom's music has a voice that's so rough and fragile, that anyone would love it eventually. May take you a bit...

"Casimir Pulaski Day" by Sufjan Stevens is the most vivid listening experience one could ask for. Talk about sustaining, you know? It's where Sufjan shows his personal interest in the art of the short story. I don't remember when I listened to Illinois for the first time but whenever it was, I should separate my life into before and after. I also feel like I didn't really feel immersed in the album until I rode through Illinois and upstate Wisconsin (an area I feel extremely attached to 3,000 miles away from it) on a bus. The song makes me want to take a cross-country bus. They should make those things cheaper. If you get anything from this list, take a greyhound. They're terribly impractical modes of transportation, more expensive than you'd think, and the best environment for some real artistic contemplation.

[nsewell]

anyone:

me: Have One on Me is the third studio album by American singer-songwriter Joanna Newsom, released on February 23, 2010 via Drag City as the official follow-up to the harpist's highly acclaimed second studio release, 2006's Ys. It is a triple album produced by herself and mixed by long-time collaborators Jim O'Rourke and Noah Georgeson, with the accompanying arrangements by Ryan Francesconi. Have One on Me continues Newsom's use of cryptic, pastoral lyrics, with a further progression of elements of her sound such as the orchestral accompaniment and the arrangements – with the inclusion of diverse instruments like the tambura, the harpsichord and the kaval. The production also flirts with genres such as jazz and blues in some of the tracks, while adding drums and the electric guitar in others. The album is also her first since The Milk-Eyed Mender to include songs played on the piano instead of the harp. Because of health problems, Newsom's voice was damaged during the sessions consequently affecting the overall recording process and forcing the harpist to change her singing style.