EVERY JOANNA NEWSOM SONG OBJECTIVELY RANKED INTO TIERS.
List is 100% objective, however there is no ranking within tiers.
ELDER GOD TIER
>Only Skin
>Go Long
GOD TIER
>Emily
>Easy
>Have one on Me
>Baby Birch
>Monkey and Bear
>Divers
>Anecdotes
>Sawdust and Diamonds
>Cosmia
>Clam, Crab, Cockle, Cowrie
>Peach Plum Pear
>No Provenance
>In California
>Soft as Chalk
>Time, as a Symptom
>Leaving the City
>Sapokanikan
>Waltz of the 101st Lightborne
>En Gallop
>Inflammatory Writ
>Sadie
>A Pin Light Bent
GREAT TIER
>81
>Good Intentions Paving Company
>On a Good Day
>Bridges and Balloons
>The Sprout and the Bean
>Jackrabbits
>Occident
>This Side of the Blue
>Goose Eggs
>The Things I say
>You Will Not Take my Heart Alive
>Cassiopeia
>What We Have Known
>Colleen
>The Book of Right On
>Kingfisher
>Does Not Suffice
>Swansea
GOOD TIER
>Flying a Kite
>Yarn and Glue
>Esme
>Ribbon Bows
>You and Me, Bess
>Same Old Man
MEH TIER
>Autumn
>The Fray
SHIT TIER
>Three Little Babes
You have autism.
>>60326373
It's really amazing to see how an artist with something like seven hours of music represented here could have written only three sub par songs over her entire career. When someone says Joanna Newsom isn't the greatest modern songwriter I laugh in their retarded face.
>>60326409
Nope. Still got autism. Rubbish bait too. Your life must be fun.
Joanna Newsom is shit for nerds that play world of Warcraft to masturbate to lmao
>>60326459
>Telling the truth
>Bait
Suck my dick dude.
I can jive with this, props on recognizing how good Go Long is
>>60326336
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fucking most autistic thing ive seen today holy shit
>>60326336
I appreciate you OP
>>60326336
Move Autumn, You and Me, Bess and Emily up a tier and I can sort of agree with this.
>>60326803
Emily, Sawdust and Diamonds and Have on on Me could maybe be Elder God Minus, but they just aren't quite as good as Go Long or Only Skin.
>>60326336
I wish she'd re-record "Peach, Plum, Pear" with harp and her current voice
>>60328040
her old voice is what made that song great
and i bet she would never have gotten recognition if her vocals in that song weren't as "shocking"
Good list, but Colleen should be in God tier.
>>60328040
>>60328098
OP here, my favourite version of PPP and the one which I've listened to the most is her live recording from Paris in 2010, I believe. The vocals are more subdued and the song isn't as strident (though I like the album version as well)
>>60328120
You think? I do like Colleen, but It's just not one of her songs that really stands out to me as a spectacular gem. I like all the songs in good-great tier a lot, by the way.
>>60328187
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CprS7irIVCE
2010 PPP is great except for that phone or camera noise at about 2:21.
>>60328326
Yes, this is the one I find myself listening to most of the time. I honestly like the tempo of Sapiokanikan live more than the album versions as well, though it's been growing on me as well.
I would really like to see a competently recorded live album with more minimalist versions of some of her best songs. Maybe we'll get that before five more years.
>>60328363
*Sapokanikan - My computer autocorrects this
Agreed with most things, though put Does Not Suffice in the highest tier, 81, Kingfisher, And Balloons and Bridges up a tier whilst putting down Autum and Divers down a tier.
Cosmia (Ys Street Band) is elder god tier, and the fact you didn't even include it anywhere worries me
>>60328527
I prefer it to the original Cosmia now that you mention it. It's not as good as Only Skin or Go Long though!
>>60328423
Maybe Does Not Suffice should go up one, but it can't be in Elder God, I'm sorry :(
>>60326336
swap "Autumn" and "Goose Eggs." Drop "Easy" and "A Pin..." down a level, put "The Things I Say" in God Tier, and put "Baby Birch" in Elder God tier.and I'll think that's a great list
>>60329081
honestly "The Things I Say" is nearly elder god tier for me. One of the most crushing songs I have heard in years
Autumn should be in God Tier.
>>60326336
someone should do this for Radiohead
>>60326485
Exactly this. Listen to real music you fucking nerds
Sawdust & Diamonds is so pretty
>>60326336
the fedora simply....tipped itself
>>60329081
>>60329225
Maybe I underrated The Things I Say a little because it's so short and I really preferred the version recorded live over the album version which I've been listening to lately. It might be God Tier, I could agree, album version just doesn't do it all for me.
Goose Eggs is definitely not Meh Tier, though it might belong in Good Tier, however it has grown on me since first listening to it so maybe you just need to listen to it more.
Won't drop Easy because it's exceptional. So is Pin.
Baby Birch is amazing, and it's amazing live but I just don't see it as being as good as Only Skin or Go Long, though the ending to BB is one of her best moments period.
Oh hey and I forgot about Erin and Yarn and Glue.
GOOD TIER
>Yarn and Glue (could be great if it ever got a reboot)
MEH TIER
>Erin (although it's very cute)
>>60330411
Oh wait, no, I did include Yarn and Glue... Well... yeh, it's good. I would like a reboot but it's nice that her early songs exist as they are.
