i love the small but significant change to the lyrics: "i am blue and unwell" on the studio album vs "i was blue and unwell" in this video. it just made me happy that it's past tense now
Oh you people, with your comfortably accustomed ears. Broaden your minds. Joanna is technically correct in her singing, and her tone, whilst not easy, is remarkable; evocative, emotional, like nothing I've ever heard before. Her songs--and her delivery of them--take me to places I've never been before. Why do we consider hers a grating tone? Why is the unfamiliar automatically bad? She's not easy. But she is rewarding!!
@@jeffgoggin1394 Especially here. I can see people not liking the recorded version but this is very normal sounding to me. Or maybe I’ve listened so much that it now sounds normal haha.
That is too rumassy and dramatrox. How can you homoglobe a braminis in a gremesimical manner of this type without considering the veribound and the jigun-laguns? I can categorically zecresse and progmatidolibrate to every fremmissy occupying this fallatose that, this is nothing but an erravication of a mere catomisimism. So kindly disregard the raframmy and the wacrozzy.
jess. jess. it's so beautiful. she plays two melodies that's off beat at once, that's pretty challenging, and the way she moves here fingers, it's like looking at an magician doing some turbo charged mind expanding work that takes you to the peak of your imagination into the fairytale world . such a beautiful creature. joanna
Forget trivialities of male obsession with female performers or confusion about vocal style. Joanna Newsom is one of the best melodicists and lyricists of all time. Up there with the best of our revered heroes. Unlike those of the past, she's happening now.
I love that in this performance she sings "and I was blue" instead of "and I am blue" like in the recording on the album. Her attitude and musical style totally reflect it too! She seems so completely renewed and optimistic. And the run at the end... So happy! Fantastic.
You know what kills me? It's the fact that she wrote and recorded this song beautifully on a harpsichord, then REVERSED the part played by her right hand to play it on the harp. She's like Rain Man or something, that kind of talent is not normal.
@@jakmerriman4499 I have every album, know every word to Divers. I almost saw her on her last tour in 2019 but it didn't work out 😭 hoping and praying she tours again after pandemic restrictions are lifted. Hoping and praying for another album!!
@@jennatavarez2068 amazing! Exactly what I was hoping for. God it’s so beautiful that 15 year old you and you now are connected by that same thread. So glad to hear you still love her!
I will never know the true significance of this song, or why it affects me so, but I will always know that Joanna is a heaven-sent angel. She saves my life.
Those lyrics: "And we were galloping manic To the mouth of the source and we were swallowing panic In the face of its force" I mean, that's just unique.
I do enjoy this song so much, but I also adore these wonderful lyrics! This song, in whole, is so precious to me that I rarely share it with people because I fear they don't feel it like I do.
I listen to this song every day and think of you and of us lying under the blanket on the floor in the dark...and sad is does not approach the sorrow I feel. That I caused. Be well always.
I’ve been listening to Joanna for almost 15 years. Maybe I’ve just become more emotional with age but, now whenever I listen to her music it makes me cry.
I normally can't stand eccentric voices at all, and honestly the first time I heard this that's what I thought. But then I listened to this video a couple more times and now I love it! It still sounds extremely grating, but a good kind of grating. A totally awesome unique kind of grating!
Artists such as Joanne Newsom are such a gift to the world. She is her total self...a true original...and you either love her...get her...or you don't. And, it's all good.
Nachdem ich die z.Zt. verfügbaren Newsom-Harfennoten geordnet habe, scheint das hier das einzige Stück zu sein, was ich jemals auf der Harfe werde spielen können *fg* :-D. DANKE, TH-cam, dass ich diese außergewöhnliche Künstlerin hier gefunden habe. Die ganzen süßllichen O'Carolan-CDs habe ich danach verschenkt ;-)))
I heard a song by her on a commercial. Her voice alone was the reason i got on youtube and tracked her down. There are plenty of singers who sound the same. It's the unusual or unique sounding voices that are always remembered. Whether you like her sound or not you will always be able to identify it. Bob Dylan and Janis Joplin also had/have a strange way of singing but i don't see anyone talking bad about them. Try and enjoy what is unique and life will never be dull. Just my opinion though.
Joanna pulled me right in. One of my favorite songs ever. I have a great appreciation for the way she sings. At first, I thought she was Anais Mitchell, but as I listened further, I realized that was not so. Hope to see her live. Thanks for posting!
This is one of the most beautiful and soul-touching performances I have ever seen. Such talent. So angelic. So deep. Such an honor to watch. Wish with my everything I was there.
The sound of her voice is her unique charm. Who wants to listen to artists that all sound the same like the music is now in 2020...not me. OPEN YOUR MIND. Forget what you know and you will get her special beauty❤.
@@ivan1793 I can't remember if I'd read it somewhere or it's my interpretation, it may have been a conversation in the Joanna Newsom Sh*t Posting Facebook group
Cada vez que escucho esta cancion solo ciento ganas de llorar... Toca los mas profundos sentimientos de infancia, de vida, de vejez.....esta mujer es simplemente increible.
Thanks so much for posting this video. When her voice becomes soft - softer compare to studio recordings - she gives me the feeling that she reaches some kind of true meaning (even if I don't know what it's all about).
![Joanna Newsom - Live @ The First Unitarian Church Sanctuary - Philadelphia, PA - 11-16-06 [HD]](/img/n.gif)
i love the small but significant change to the lyrics: "i am blue and unwell" on the studio album vs "i was blue and unwell" in this video. it just made me happy that it's past tense now
Yessss!
10 years later, and I still come back to this... It brings me home, you know?
I love how you read so deeply into it, oh the other hand the artist could of just made a mistake. Either or.
@@JoshuaRoss2 no, it’s “I am blue”
no matter how old this comment is, if you're reading this, this song is still stuck in my head.
Lucas the Lemur
still?
Me too! Keep coming back to this after maybe 10 years...
Still?
Happy 3 years bro.
Can you hear it now? lol
Oh you people, with your comfortably accustomed ears. Broaden your minds. Joanna is technically correct in her singing, and her tone, whilst not easy, is remarkable; evocative, emotional, like nothing I've ever heard before. Her songs--and her delivery of them--take me to places I've never been before.
Why do we consider hers a grating tone? Why is the unfamiliar automatically bad?
She's not easy. But she is rewarding!!
Who thinks she is grating? Maybe everyone's ears are broken? Magical
@@jeffgoggin1394 Especially here. I can see people not liking the recorded version but this is very normal sounding to me. Or maybe I’ve listened so much that it now sounds normal haha.
That is too rumassy and dramatrox. How can you homoglobe a braminis in a gremesimical manner of this type without considering the veribound and the jigun-laguns? I can categorically zecresse and progmatidolibrate to every fremmissy occupying this fallatose that, this is nothing but an erravication of a mere catomisimism. So kindly disregard the raframmy and the wacrozzy.
@@jnmks true
@@jeffgoggin1394 One of my coworkers says she sounds like a dying cat.
I'v never seen a more profound bond between musician and instrument than when Joanna rests her head on her harp. It's beautiful.
jess. jess. it's so beautiful. she plays two melodies that's off beat at once, that's pretty challenging, and the way she moves here fingers, it's like looking at an magician doing some turbo charged mind expanding work that takes you to the peak of your imagination into the fairytale world . such a beautiful creature. joanna
100% I was just thinking this exactly.
We desperately need more Joanna Newsoms in the music industry.
Have you heard AURORA? (A Norwegian singer/songwriter who performs in English and writes songs with thoughtful, personal lyrics).
folklore and evermore by taylor swift is amazing
@@jnmks i think it's also influenced by Joanna as well
@@TerryNationB7 omg I love her!!! She's Nordic so she has the same accent as Joanna too!!!
Forget trivialities of male obsession with female performers or confusion about vocal style. Joanna Newsom is one of the best melodicists and lyricists of all time. Up there with the best of our revered heroes. Unlike those of the past, she's happening now.
Shut up, dork.
She completely thrashes the harp during the arpeggios at the end, amazing!
arpeggios like that on a harp are just about the coolest musical sound possible
I love that in this performance she sings "and I was blue" instead of "and I am blue" like in the recording on the album. Her attitude and musical style totally reflect it too! She seems so completely renewed and optimistic. And the run at the end... So happy! Fantastic.
This song has permanently carved a space in my heart.
You know what kills me? It's the fact that she wrote and recorded this song beautifully on a harpsichord, then REVERSED the part played by her right hand to play it on the harp. She's like Rain Man or something, that kind of talent is not normal.
I was like 15 years old when I discovered this song. Now I’m 25 and daaamn... i love this song so much.
This song meant so much to 16 year old me, still hits at 31 ♥️
Timeless, na na na na... ❤🎶🎧 📻
[12/31/2024, listening to this few hours before 2025].
15 years old, and this music reaches a nook in me I never knew existed before
Do you still listen now, at 23/24/however old you are? :)
@@jakmerriman4499 I have every album, know every word to Divers. I almost saw her on her last tour in 2019 but it didn't work out 😭 hoping and praying she tours again after pandemic restrictions are lifted. Hoping and praying for another album!!
@@jennatavarez2068 amazing! Exactly what I was hoping for. God it’s so beautiful that 15 year old you and you now are connected by that same thread. So glad to hear you still love her!
Milk Eyed Mender songs with the Ys voice are the greatest.
I will never know the true significance of this song, or why it affects me so, but I will always know that Joanna is a heaven-sent angel. She saves my life.
Those lyrics:
"And we were galloping manic
To the mouth of the source
and we were swallowing panic In the face of its force"
I mean, that's just unique.
Without doubt this is the best performance of 'Peach Plum Pear'. I'm still returning to this song - Amazing!
this is one of the most beautiful people i have ever seen. i love the way that she doesn't seem to be able to control herself, she feels it so deeply.
Her masterpiece.
I do enjoy this song so much, but I also adore these wonderful lyrics! This song, in whole, is so precious to me that I rarely share it with people because I fear they don't feel it like I do.
i have come back and watched this video a million times over the years. it is always beautiful like the first time i heard it.
my. most. favorite. video of all time.... alltime.
Reminder to watch it again!
I love her! I can listen to this song over and over. This live version gave me chills. She's so great
Leah Scott Me too
Leah Williams yeah wow it takes a lot to give me goosebumps these days but holy shit she fucking killed this
i'm still here 2023 from 2008... love her unique and irreplaceable voice
I listen to this song every day and think of you and of us lying under the blanket on the floor in the dark...and sad is does not approach the sorrow I feel. That I caused. Be well always.
i fell for this song - and for the guy who made me hear it.
Oh goodness she plays the harp so majestically and her voice is perfectly tuned to the different chords in her song, she is truly magnificent.
The fact that all musicians are different and have their own styles, is amazing. the world couldn't ever get boring with people of such beauty [:
❤❤
Who’s here crying to this in 2018
Alexa Martin *in 2019 👊😔
meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
2019 :)
2023
I think I like this better live...even more than the recorded version...beautiful
I’ve been listening to Joanna for almost 15 years. Maybe I’ve just become more emotional with age but, now whenever I listen to her music it makes me cry.
I normally can't stand eccentric voices at all, and honestly the first time I heard this that's what I thought. But then I listened to this video a couple more times and now I love it! It still sounds extremely grating, but a good kind of grating. A totally awesome unique kind of grating!
Cheese!
Never listen to Nico, then.
+Captain Stingray why?
I had the exact same experience
Grace Delphine k
I heard this song today and had no idea what or who it was and I’m obsessed!!!
Welcome to the wonderful world that is Joanna Newsom's music!
What a force of nature. Just wonderful.
I'm feeling a bit silly watching this as tears run uncontrollably down my face. For christ's sake i'm a man of 42!
@Greyfoot Yodel He prolly an heroed for being low test.
I hope you're 52 now and still crying to Joanna.
@@scoutmiller7734 she is still a great listen
you are not alone
What have you learned in the past 11 years and throughout your life about happiness and fulfillment?@@johnworf
song brings back so many child hood memories : / makes me sad knowing the best times are done
The best times are tomorrow if you choose to make tomorrow your best times. Nothing is ever fully over.
The outro arpeggios are beyond amazing. Such technique!
I can't quite describe it, but, listening to her the first time, I feel like I've heard this before...
Have listened to this many times...wonderful, and that ending is AMAZING.
I'll never not love Joanna Newsom. I first discovered her 9 years ago.. and to this day I'm still in love with this song and her in general. 💜
Just amazing. I am honored simply to watch her living.
There's something about her music that's just.. hypnotizing.. I love it!!
Artists such as Joanne Newsom are such a gift to the world. She is her total self...a true original...and you either love her...get her...or you don't. And, it's all good.
Love this song! her voice is soo different and the Harp is a PLUS.
Beautiful style, she is like a breeze of fresh air... thank you Joanna
i used to listen to her when i was 14, Sitting here tonight back here back to her at 28 in tears. Beautiful
This performance always brings tears to my eyes. She’s a virtuoso, pure talent, poetry, artistry, straight from the soul
This is my favourite version of this song, so beautiful.
Nachdem ich die z.Zt. verfügbaren Newsom-Harfennoten geordnet habe, scheint das hier das einzige Stück zu sein, was ich jemals auf der Harfe werde spielen können *fg* :-D.
DANKE, TH-cam, dass ich diese außergewöhnliche Künstlerin hier gefunden habe.
Die ganzen süßllichen O'Carolan-CDs habe ich danach verschenkt ;-)))
I love this performance. I could watch it all day
You can say what ever you want about her voice, but this is music with true expression. You can feel she means every word.
I heard a song by her on a commercial. Her voice alone was the reason i got on youtube and tracked her down. There are plenty of singers who sound the same. It's the unusual or unique sounding voices that are always remembered. Whether you like her sound or not you will always be able to identify it. Bob Dylan and Janis Joplin also had/have a strange way of singing but i don't see anyone talking bad about them. Try and enjoy what is unique and life will never be dull. Just my opinion though.
Joanna pulled me right in. One of my favorite songs ever. I have a great appreciation for the way she sings. At first, I thought she was Anais Mitchell, but as I listened further, I realized that was not so. Hope to see her live. Thanks for posting!
This is one of the most beautiful and soul-touching performances I have ever seen. Such talent. So angelic. So deep. Such an honor to watch. Wish with my everything I was there.
This is my favorite version of this song.
This video helped me traverse so many infinite sidewalks and mental gymnastics since 2011. Thank you, OP and especially Joanna.
she KILLED that shit!
(note the extremely satisfied expression after her last strum)
sublime
This song breaks my heart every time
imo so much better live than the album version
I can't decide. Every time I listen to one, I feel like listening to the other right afterward.
I close my eyes and imagine Tommy Pickles singing.
I love that accomplished smile at the end.
One of the best things i ve heard in my life and i ve heard a lot...
Tears in my eyes !!!
Love this performance! Beauty!!
The sound of her voice is her unique charm. Who wants to listen to artists that all sound the same like the music is now in 2020...not me. OPEN YOUR MIND. Forget what you know and you will get her special beauty❤.
This sends chills down my spine. I really love this live show. I think this is one of the best ones she has played.
Watch it go, well you've changed so-o-o-ome...Water runs from the snow...
she writes such amazing songs!!!
She's spectacular. It's overwhelming.
I love her so much
she is so interesting and i love that harp it is the greatest and the way she sings is like no other
this was on my 6th birthday! i love you, joanna newsom!
my fav performance of this tremendous song. her Ys-era voice is so very sweet...
so love this song - great version, too
OHMYGOD! i heard joanna on a commercial and i almost died of pure joy! =D way to go, Joanna!
That. That was just bloody gorgeous.
Thank you for capturing such a beauty playing such mesmerizing music. She's absolutely stunning in all aspects.
Beautiful version!
Great song and great version!
Love it ! Something very magical/story book about her voice.
Still listening in 2023
watching it for years.....still breathtaking.....a big BOW
Amazingly beautiful! I soooo wish she would re-record this and more of the older tracks.
First song I ever heard from her. I've been in love since.♥
Am i already in heaven ? A touch of grace !
Every time I listen to her, I know I just won't be able to listen to anything else for the next few days except her albums on constant repeat.
I love her so much. First time i heard this song live i cried. A lot. Lol
When she doesn't say "pear" the last time, it's just heartbreaking..
blahblahbleh Y
Winter glitter the pear is a metaphor for Joanna, and the peach and plum are the people who actually get together in the end
@@sheab101 Is that your interpretation or did you read it somewhere?
@@ivan1793 I can't remember if I'd read it somewhere or it's my interpretation, it may have been a conversation in the Joanna Newsom Sh*t Posting Facebook group
@@sheab101lmao i love that that’s a facebook group
Cada vez que escucho esta cancion solo ciento ganas de llorar... Toca los mas profundos sentimientos de infancia, de vida, de vejez.....esta mujer es simplemente increible.
I love her old unique, precious voice and the way she carefully plucks the strings of the harp. She has a charm other sdon't have
This is amazing... and what she can do with her harp. Oh my god, it just blows me away.
Thanks so much for posting this video. When her voice becomes soft - softer compare to studio recordings - she gives me the feeling that she reaches some kind of true meaning (even if I don't know what it's all about).
I agree this is my favorite version!
This is breathtaking
So much emotion!!!!!! I LOVE HER!!!! oh, Joanna!
Amazing! Inspiring! Heavenly!
My carpal tunnel hurts watching this.
I love her voice. The more you listen to it, the better it gets.
omg I've fallen in love with this
This is insanely beautiful.