Joanna Newsom - Peach Plum Pear (11.16.06)

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Live @ the First Unitarian Church Sanctuary - Philadelphia, PA November 16th, 2006 eattapes.com

[@donlej7499]

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

[@meowrkerd4rker_]

[@lolalestrange5761]

Yessss!

[@h3arty]

10 years later, and I still come back to this... It brings me home, you know?

[@AsRiHack3x2]

I love how you read so deeply into it, oh the other hand the artist could of just made a mistake. Either or.

[@jakmerriman4499]

@@JoshuaRoss2 no, it’s “I am blue”

[@lucasthelemur7606]

no matter how old this comment is, if you're reading this, this song is still stuck in my head.

[@abih2698]

Lucas the Lemur still?

[@jennytaylor3324]

Me too! Keep coming back to this after maybe 10 years...

[@plu8620]

Still?

[@thomaswilkinson6101]

Happy 3 years bro.

[@chrisrj9871]

Can you hear it now? lol

[@beccahoo]

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]

Who thinks she is grating? Maybe everyone's ears are broken? Magical

[@ShabazzTBL]

@@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.

[@jnmks]

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.

[@obtuse4382]

@@jnmks true

[@Brokenhill42]

@@jeffgoggin1394 One of my coworkers says she sounds like a dying cat.

[@zeldalink3211]

I'v never seen a more profound bond between musician and instrument than when Joanna rests her head on her harp. It's beautiful.

[@lizardportal3211]

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

[@xXJesuslovesyouXx]

100% I was just thinking this exactly.

[@humane143imperfection6]

We desperately need more Joanna Newsoms in the music industry.

[@TerryNationB7]

Have you heard AURORA? (A Norwegian singer/songwriter who performs in English and writes songs with thoughtful, personal lyrics).

[@jnmks]

folklore and evermore by taylor swift is amazing

[@minukarodrigo]

@@jnmks i think it's also influenced by Joanna as well

[@minukarodrigo]

@@TerryNationB7 omg I love her!!! She's Nordic so she has the same accent as Joanna too!!!

[@gringopig]

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.

[@juliusebola9389]

Shut up, dork.

[@gringopig]

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.

[@Jonathanflutist]

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.

[@Danny-zs5bj]

She completely thrashes the harp during the arpeggios at the end, amazing!

[@ridespirals]

arpeggios like that on a harp are just about the coolest musical sound possible

[@ThatChampion]

Milk Eyed Mender songs with the Ys voice are the greatest.

[@batabid95]

I was like 15 years old when I discovered this song. Now I’m 25 and daaamn... i love this song so much.

[@johnworf]

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!

[@francisnorthwood7862]

@Greyfoot Yodel He prolly an heroed for being low test.

[@scoutmiller7734]

I hope you're 52 now and still crying to Joanna.

[@johnworf]

@@scoutmiller7734 she is still a great listen

[@paulsass4343]

you are not alone

[@rtxco1838]

What have you learned in the past 11 years and throughout your life about happiness and fulfillment?@@johnworf

[@xTheOxx]

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.

[@doctorale6347]

Without doubt this is the best performance of 'Peach Plum Pear'. I'm still returning to this song - Amazing!

[@jennatavarez2068]

15 years old, and this music reaches a nook in me I never knew existed before

[@jakmerriman4499]

Do you still listen now, at 23/24/however old you are? :)

[@jennatavarez2068]

@@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!!

[@jakmerriman4499]

@@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!

[@mockcannibalism]

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.

[@gustavodefariaesouza]

Her masterpiece.

[@TheVioletWolf]

This song has permanently carved a space in my heart.

[@0saraphina0]

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.

[@iamlola1981]

i fell for this song - and for the guy who made me hear it.

[@yuelunaa]

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.

[@DearReaderReadAloud]

I love her! I can listen to this song over and over. This live version gave me chills. She's so great

[@댕딩동-o1r]

Leah Scott Me too

[@TenThousandYearDoor]

Leah Williams yeah wow it takes a lot to give me goosebumps these days but holy shit she fucking killed this

[@gracedelphine6530]

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!

[@trierbuhrsmith9487]

Cheese!

[@LegitFUry]

Never listen to Nico, then.

[@gracedelphine6530]

+Captain Stingray why?

[@EmeseVida]

I had the exact same experience

[@Brossicle1]

Grace Delphine k

[@h.e.pennypacker4439]

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.

[@chriptselstrood2229]

my. most. favorite. video of all time.... alltime.

[@mark_midmark]

Reminder to watch it again!

[@glengoolia]

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.

[@smasha5211]

I think I like this better live...even more than the recorded version...beautiful

[@Dustorama]

Who’s here crying to this in 2018

[@2б3ЛПФНикитаСемкин]

Alexa Martin *in 2019 👊😔

[@rllybuffdude27]

meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[@catherineinghram2044]

2019 :)

[@ashriihi]

2023

[@Cavator]

The outro arpeggios are beyond amazing. Such technique!

[@rontaylor8197]

What a force of nature. Just wonderful.

[@lordkieta]

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.

[@FanofDawn]

I can't quite describe it, but, listening to her the first time, I feel like I've heard this before...

[@gemcyborgd1202]

We speak in the store I'm a sensitive bore You seem markedly more And I'm oozing surprise But it's late in the day And you're well on your way What was golden went gray And I'm suddenly shy And the gatherin' floozies Afford to be choosy And all sneezing darkly In the dimming divide And I have read the right books To interpret your looks You were knocking me down With the palm of your eye This was unlike the story It was written to be I was riding its back When it used to ride me And we were galloping manic To the mouth of the source We were swallowing panic In the face of its force And I am blue I am blue and unwell Made me bolt like a horse Now it's done Watch it go You've changed some water runs from the snow Am I so dear? Do I run rare? And you've changed some Peach, plum, pear... Peach, plum...

[@ZentetsukenVII]

Watch it go, well you've changed so-o-o-ome...Water runs from the snow...

[@vvela555]

I heard this song today and had no idea what or who it was and I’m obsessed!!!

[@frau_blucher1777]

Welcome to the wonderful world that is Joanna Newsom's music!

[@brunaldoc6193]

song brings back so many child hood memories : / makes me sad knowing the best times are done

[@comicjohn]

The best times are tomorrow if you choose to make tomorrow your best times. Nothing is ever fully over.

[@whatever8892]

i'm still here 2023 from 2008... love her unique and irreplaceable voice

[@ferolhumphrey]

Just amazing. I am honored simply to watch her living.

[@TheDanielson1993]

imo so much better live than the album version

[@Plant_Parenthood]

I can't decide. Every time I listen to one, I feel like listening to the other right afterward.

[@VoldakHorasimov]

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.

[@Lastalliancefan411]

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 [:

[@priyajoshi2323]

❤❤

[@CheerJaja]

When she doesn't say "pear" the last time, it's just heartbreaking..

[@winterglitter2373]

blahblahbleh Y

[@sheab101]

Winter glitter the pear is a metaphor for Joanna, and the peach and plum are the people who actually get together in the end

[@ivan1793]

@@sheab101 Is that your interpretation or did you read it somewhere?

[@sheab101]

@@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

[@mickthechild]

@@sheab101lmao i love that that’s a facebook group

[@yesicarolon4274]

Love this song! her voice is soo different and the Harp is a PLUS.

[@chunkypuff91]

There's something about her music that's just.. hypnotizing.. I love it!!

[@joemansueto7573]

Have listened to this many times...wonderful, and that ending is AMAZING.

[@drunkentar]

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.

[@heatheryyy]

This is my favourite version of this song, so beautiful.

[@psychicsandwich7]

This is my favorite version of this song.

[@mukaeluhg6474]

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. 💜

[@bluwombn]

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!

[@sakamamoto]

Beautiful style, she is like a breeze of fresh air... thank you Joanna

[@daveteves]

I close my eyes and imagine Tommy Pickles singing.

[@Saskidan]

Love this performance! Beauty!!

[@lovelylobsters]

I love this performance. I could watch it all day

[@TheColeTruth]

I love that accomplished smile at the end.

[@JustLoveKrishna]

she writes such amazing songs!!!

[@nelson3300]

she KILLED that shit! (note the extremely satisfied expression after her last strum) sublime

[@KeybladeMaster33]

I think I like this toned down version of the song better than the album version, it lets you focus more on the lyrics, the music on the album kind of hurts my ears when the song first begins.

[@danielward6369]

This song breaks my heart every time

[@bruce1jubber]

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.

[@FazeNot]

Beautiful version!

[@haylievonbischoffshausen1233]

i used to listen to her when i was 14, Sitting here tonight back here back to her at 28 in tears. Beautiful

[@g.taylorseawell9799]

This video helped me traverse so many infinite sidewalks and mental gymnastics since 2011. Thank you, OP and especially Joanna.

[@harfe4you]

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, KZbin, dass ich diese außergewöhnliche Künstlerin hier gefunden habe. Die ganzen süßllichen O'Carolan-CDs habe ich danach verschenkt ;-)))

[@eljayMach]

Amazingly beautiful! I soooo wish she would re-record this and more of the older tracks.

[@girtisholland]

My carpal tunnel hurts watching this.

[@AbstractNumbers]

Thank you for capturing such a beauty playing such mesmerizing music. She's absolutely stunning in all aspects.

[@RobertoGilli]

Great song and great version!

[@universalheartforever]

this was on my 6th birthday! i love you, joanna newsom!

[@Verichai]

Has her voice aver sounded better? Wow.

[@Lemankus]

so love this song - great version, too

[@bewhoyoumust]

This performance always brings tears to my eyes. She’s a virtuoso, pure talent, poetry, artistry, straight from the soul

[@matthewtyler92]

You can say what ever you want about her voice, but this is music with true expression. You can feel she means every word.

[@Aveluss]

She's spectacular. It's overwhelming.

[@Z3R0TH3V01D]

That. That was just bloody gorgeous.

[@Lisa_Evers]

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.

[@joeagger]

my fav performance of this tremendous song. her Ys-era voice is so very sweet...

[@teresaovermier767]

Still listening in 2023

[@TMMikeeInc]

watching it for years.....still breathtaking.....a big BOW

[@Panzer4mk]

Love it ! Something very magical/story book about her voice.

[@mnmsocca96]

This is amazing... and what she can do with her harp. Oh my god, it just blows me away.

[@Erukantan]

Just above average voice: Check. Excellent Harp Playing: Check Touching Music: Check Soul (of a different type): Check Voice [again] that somehow makes you want to keep coming back and hearing more: Double Check So many of you are saying that her voice is..well..gross. Unlike all of the taps, pads, variable bars, fk ALL the damn technology and repeating music nowadays what she has is real music. The kind our forefathers would've listened to around a dinner table. Nuff said other then excellent

[@ConsiderableGravity]

OHMYGOD! i heard joanna on a commercial and i almost died of pure joy! =D way to go, Joanna!

[@stephanbe67]

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).

[@PaulDavisify]

she is so interesting and i love that harp it is the greatest and the way she sings is like no other

[@bubblegumprincess22]

First song I ever heard from her. I've been in love since.♥

[@ZentetsukenVII]

I agree this is my favorite version!

[@ranice]

This sends chills down my spine. I really love this live show. I think this is one of the best ones she has played.

[@tamtamj8787]

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❤.

[@trierbuhrsmith9487]

Is that a guitar

[@PatFreakinRickTV]

Trier Buhrsmith i hope this is a joke

[@trierbuhrsmith9487]

PatFreakinRick Duh

[@eusebiros]

No, it's a bazukas

[@misssmartypants371]

Trier Buhrsmith It's a harp, you idoit.

[@misssmartypants371]

I was being ironic btw.

[@takachie9923]

One of the best things i ve heard in my life and i ve heard a lot...

[@takachie9923]

Tears in my eyes !!!

[@SugaryXoXSweet]

this is so beautiful

[@justforthesparks]

this coment prompted me to check out diamanda galas ages ago, and now she's one of my favorite artists!! all exposer is good exposer!!

[@scottwebster8756]

I loved her episode on Portlandia when Fred and Carrie are "helping" her.

[@XxFadexX]

This is the best version I could find of this song :P

[@AmIFreeYet]

omg I've fallen in love with this

[@pipermintz]

on my birthday of all days, much love

[@mebrightside8126]

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.

[@mykitteniskillingmebaby]

I love her so much

[@micahcraven6576]

I love her so much. First time i heard this song live i cried. A lot. Lol