the "enough" at 2:59 is just one of the most perfect moments in any song. That little note of anguish and exasperation in what is otherwise a very gentle and whimsical song. That last line that seems so much more personal than the rest of the lyrics, so she paints in a little bit of pain using her voice alone.
@@nuuuabo yeah but kate bush's music is so good she teleported back in time and taught joni mitchell everything she knows. Also Beethoven and Mozart. Plus she invented the wheel!
@@chl0edx Joanna Newsom is miles ahead of Kate Bush, Hounds of Love is a very simple album compared to Have One on Me Bush and her influence is just overrated because of popularity, every element in Newsom's music has more complexity and depth 50 Words for Snow is a very good album but Newsom is still so clear of everyone else
@@nedprinceton7221 Why even compare them, Kate produced all of her songs aswell as write them theyre both powerhouses of their own. I don't think its fair to put two great women against each other.
i love this song so much ❤️ her songs are like ancient greek allegories, so they work in so many dimensions. i think this song is ultimately about forgiveness and redemption, whether its her lover, or god himself. thats where the garden of eden comes in. shes saying that in her version of the garden of eden, rather than banishing adam and eve, she invites everyone and forgives mankind for its follies. she believes everyones endowed with a capacity to redeem themselves for the mistakes they make in life. such a profound and kind sentiment ❤️
When I'm stressed I always listen to this song or sing it and suddenly I'm calm and I feel secure... This song is just so beautiful and amazing! I want to play this at my wedding
This was my favorite Marika Hackman song... until I discovered it wasn't actually hers! So you can imagine the disappointment I felt, followed by complete awe when I first heard the original. Joanna is completely hypnotic, and she's proven to be one of those rare artists (like Kate Bush) that I can't just listen to in the background-- their music demands your full attention
For me, this song is a profound affirmation of life, desire, and their conjunction in life's creation. Despite all the pain and the wrongs we've done to each other, ultimately, all we can do is throw ourselves back into the stream of life's self-creation through its desire for itself, which is a desire for the Other, and only in the ephemeral joy of life can we rediscover life's primordial innocence, our birthright. And despite all the suffering, wars, and betrayals of the past, we can only fall back into our natural faith in the innocence of others, their birthright. To forgive others, opening ourselves up again, is to redeem our own innocence in the return to life's creation. If you fail, try again. If Joanna was born in '82, then '81 was the year she was conceived, when she was just a wicked gleam in her father's wandering eye caught by her mother. The repetition of our origins and our fall into existence is the seed of life's unceasing novelty that blooms into the fruit of nature's paradox of paradise, which is the paradox of our own original innocence.
@@zZZZzzZzzZzzzzzzZzzzz000 I'm more partial to Deleuze personally, but the Lacan is definitely there. I recall writing this when I was deeply engaged in reading Nietzsche's Birth of Tragedy.
I managed to listen to the Eliza cover that some people have been saying was better than the original. I am disappointed to say that the cover was in now way comparable to the original. Joanna knows how to evoke so much emotion with her voice and it's very hard to do that. And I get that technically Eliza has a richer and deeper voice, but she doesn't know how to capture the emotions as well as Joanna. Anyway I love Joanna and I adore Have one on me.
@HaveOneOnMe1 I definely can't take this wonderful song out of my mind! This song blows my mind up n' down, constantly! "I found a plot of land in garden of Eden... I believe in every one..." Just amaze! I'v got the CD album, fab!!! Thanks for posting it! Wish I'll can watch Miss Newsom live at Royal Festival Hall, SouthBank, London on the next 12th of May, 2010! XXX
the way she plays with rhythmic expectations in this song is just masterful. i'm learning it with a simplified guitar accompaniment, but getting the rhythm on the singing is really challenging.
I believe that this song is about all the loves a woman had known, the grief she felt when she lost the ones she thought would stay with her all her life, but that she believes that everything happens for a reason and that she still believes in finding true love, regardless of all the loss she had known and that she will stick to that hope until the love that is meant to last will eventually cross her path.
Anyone else think she needs more songs like this? Please reply because I don't know if I'm the only one. This and Jackrabbits have to be my favourite of her songs, simply because the harp playing is elegant, but so is her voice. It doesn't change pitch every 10 seconds and sound like a small girl. DON'T GET ME WRONG. I like a lot of Joanna's songs, it's just that I fell, her voice is so beautiful singing in a almost continuous pitch compliments it a lot. Agreed?
This is about her birth, she born later 81, she explains how it was, parts like ''Naked as a trout'' says it all, or, ''i tilled it with my two hands, and i called my very own'' She is celebrating that she came to the world.
She may have not been born in 81 but she was conceived in 81..., so maybe your on to something with that. Maybe the garden of eden is a symbol for the womb or the earth. she could be singing about just the beginning of her existence or beginning of her mothers pregnancy.
Well, I don't know if it was a typo or a reference to Jesus's death, but the lyrics say "the year of A.D 1". Also, after multiple listens this is definitely a love song. The garden of Eden is the heart of the man she loved first. "it was dirt" might mean he wasn't that great of a guy so she tried to change (tilled) him, but he didn't appreciate her efforts so he left her (cleared right out). She was heartbroken, so she goes somewhere for respite, lets say a bar, and ended up laying all her emotions out to someone else (naked as a trout). She ends up catching the "wandering eye" of another man, possibly the person she was talking to, and they end up dating and starting the "garden" again.The garden party she mentions may be the mutual love they feel for one another, and she's inviting him to lay out all his own emotional baggage. The Saint and the dragon may represent the good and bad aspects of the relationships they had previously and she's telling him that she's okay with that part of him and that she wants to help him heal, as is the rest of the song as far as I can tell.
one interpretation says that it was a play on words. She was concieved in 81' and the death of jesus was allegedly in the year of AD 1. Reason why his death has any relevance to this song would probably be because he died for forgiveness for the sins of humanity and that all are welcome into his kingdom.
After several listens, I'm thinking this is a love song. The garden of Eden is the heart of the man she loved first. "It was dirt" might mean he wasn't that great of a guy so she tried to change him into a better person, but he didn't appreciate her efforts so he left her (cleared right out). She was heartbroken, so she goes somewhere for respite, let's say a bar, and ended up laying all her emotions out to someone else (naked as a trout). She ends up catching the "wandering eye" of another man, possibly the person she was talking to, and they end up dating and starting the "garden" again.The garden party she mentions may be the mutual love they feel for one another, and she's inviting him to lay out all his own emotional baggage. The Saint and the dragon may represent the good and bad aspects of the relationships they had previously, but she's telling him that she's okay with that part of him and that she wants to help him heal, as is the rest of the song as far as I can tell.
It’s a mystical metaphor. Eden is the primordial awareness of divinity, always and already in everything. The dirt is the unchanging ground of phenomena from which the two trees both share. The song signifies a repair of our relationship with that vision, after being cast out by our conceptual dualistic habits.
When I imagine the imagery described in this song I picture a angel relaying a message to god after Adam and Eve were cast out of Eden, and describing the downfall of humanity with a hopeful bitter-sweet tone
Square Enix should hire her for final 2:52 fantasy games. I swear i can hear that little beep sound as you go through the screen while listening to thhis. Its so calm and relaxing and gives me some serious nostalgia
I have this 3 disk album and I am really impressed with the lyric writing and melodies. The vocals sound softer compared to previous work. Definitely not your 4 chord melodies, like most pop songs. See 4 Chord Song by Axis of Awesome. Another artist that I have been following is Cecile Corbel, of France, who also plays harp. Blackbird, Sweetsong, and Mary are some of my favorites.
Don't mind them saying the cover's better. They don't understand Joanna Newsom as much as we do. It takes a lot of understanding, experience and listening. I still find the original the best since it is where all the emotions and purpose are pure.
YEEEEESSS! Since when is glossing through the pitches of someone else's song while plinking out single notes on a ukelele even in the same category as this!?
But the thing is with music, it doesn't even have to make sense! It's just to let thoughts flow, and I don't believe in reviewers judging music either. Music isn't made to be judged, it's made to enjoy and let thoughts and passion flow. :D But I completely respect your opinion :)
Nausicaa Nebulae it's a play on words ad1 would have been the first year after the death of Christ to forgive us of the original sin that Eve made in the Garden of Eden, that sacrifice was are apology and specifically that lyric was talking about the separation when we did learn about Sin and when we were forgiven in the year 1 AD( after death )( 81 )
@sirormadame I'm not sure why the lyrics sheet say A.D. 1; it's always seemed clear to me that she was singing "In the year of '81," as in '81 the song's title, and 1981, which I *think* is Joanna's birth year.
Absolutely beautiful. Stunning and enchanting. There is a more than slight influence of Kate Bush's Army Dreamers going on here, but both superb in their own right.
Llegué aquí por una película The Adults y debo decir que la película se siente como esos sueños que tenés cuando estás enfermo. Me hizo sentir en un cuento de hadas incluso cuando no hay nada artificial en la peli. Que linda
@the1musiclad Yeah I see that, just some of the slightly unexpected blues chords the first time I listened to this album reminded me loads of the first time I listened to Blue by Joni Mitchell.
Going by the lyrics... the title of "81" is a pun of the actual wording of "A.D. 1". You can't honestly believe that someone who is diversified enough to reference C.S. Lewis (Cair Paravel, in Bridges and Balloons) etc etc isn't canny enough to recognize a pun in her own lyrics and name the song as such? She's enchanting, as are her lyrics... just enjoy without dissecting!
@ler0y182 - it's more a combination of kate bush and melanie (accounting for the bluesy element). joni mitchell had a similar voice but her music was a little different.
"I believe in innocence, little darlin'.
Start again,
I believe in everyone."
I love that! So beautiful.
Her voice is like the harp she plays, she plucks different notes and flows so wonderfully.. I could listen to this all day!
the "enough" at 2:59 is just one of the most perfect moments in any song. That little note of anguish and exasperation in what is otherwise a very gentle and whimsical song. That last line that seems so much more personal than the rest of the lyrics, so she paints in a little bit of pain using her voice alone.
This has to be one of the most beautiful songs i have ever heard.
I’ve sang this to both my sons as they fall asleep 😴, such a beautiful song❤️
I do too! It's my boy's favorite; he asks for it every night. ❤️
I have no doubt in my mind that she is the most talented musician/songwriter in the world as of now.
@@chl0edx didnt joni mitchell compose half of her music like 11 years before kate released her debut
@@nuuuabo yeah but kate bush's music is so good she teleported back in time and taught joni mitchell everything she knows. Also Beethoven and Mozart. Plus she invented the wheel!
@@chl0edx Joanna Newsom is miles ahead of Kate Bush, Hounds of Love is a very simple album compared to Have One on Me
Bush and her influence is just overrated because of popularity, every element in Newsom's music has more complexity and depth
50 Words for Snow is a very good album but Newsom is still so clear of everyone else
@@chl0edx hounds of love is a great alb but joanna's lyrics is ahead of kate bush
@@nedprinceton7221 Why even compare them, Kate produced all of her songs aswell as write them theyre both powerhouses of their own. I don't think its fair to put two great women against each other.
i love this song so much ❤️ her songs are like ancient greek allegories, so they work in so many dimensions. i think this song is ultimately about forgiveness and redemption, whether its her lover, or god himself. thats where the garden of eden comes in. shes saying that in her version of the garden of eden, rather than banishing adam and eve, she invites everyone and forgives mankind for its follies. she believes everyones endowed with a capacity to redeem themselves for the mistakes they make in life. such a profound and kind sentiment ❤️
her songs as allegories - this is it
When I'm stressed I always listen to this song or sing it and suddenly I'm calm and I feel secure... This song is just so beautiful and amazing! I want to play this at my wedding
"I believe, regardless. I believe in everyone." So lovely 💕
The timing she has (swing, syncopation) is genius!
This was my favorite Marika Hackman song... until I discovered it wasn't actually hers! So you can imagine the disappointment I felt, followed by complete awe when I first heard the original.
Joanna is completely hypnotic, and she's proven to be one of those rare artists (like Kate Bush) that I can't just listen to in the background-- their music demands your full attention
Sylvia Jo Goosebumps listening to '81 and reading your comment. It is true. When you listen to Joanna, you listen.
Sylvia Jo covers give a new twist to tracks, both are great
Weird to stop liking a song just because it's a cover.
@@jeffs1546You can believe that, but nobody here has said they stopped liking the cover.
For me, this song is a profound affirmation of life, desire, and their conjunction in life's creation. Despite all the pain and the wrongs we've done to each other, ultimately, all we can do is throw ourselves back into the stream of life's self-creation through its desire for itself, which is a desire for the Other, and only in the ephemeral joy of life can we rediscover life's primordial innocence, our birthright. And despite all the suffering, wars, and betrayals of the past, we can only fall back into our natural faith in the innocence of others, their birthright. To forgive others, opening ourselves up again, is to redeem our own innocence in the return to life's creation. If you fail, try again.
If Joanna was born in '82, then '81 was the year she was conceived, when she was just a wicked gleam in her father's wandering eye caught by her mother. The repetition of our origins and our fall into existence is the seed of life's unceasing novelty that blooms into the fruit of nature's paradox of paradise, which is the paradox of our own original innocence.
This sounded profoundly lacanian.
@@zZZZzzZzzZzzzzzzZzzzz000 I'm more partial to Deleuze personally, but the Lacan is definitely there. I recall writing this when I was deeply engaged in reading Nietzsche's Birth of Tragedy.
This sounded like a trite word salad which says very little about the song.
@@oisinoc8533 A "trite word salad" sounds like a contradiction which says very little about what you didn't understand.
i'm in love with this song
Love her harp playing skills & her childlike voice but the best part are her lyrics which are truly mindblowing 😘
i love this album so much… i only discovered joanna this year, but i’m so excited to know her music for the rest of my life
one of the most important musicians to ever live
i agree
I managed to listen to the Eliza cover that some people have been saying was better than the original. I am disappointed to say that the cover was in now way comparable to the original. Joanna knows how to evoke so much emotion with her voice and it's very hard to do that. And I get that technically Eliza has a richer and deeper voice, but she doesn't know how to capture the emotions as well as Joanna.
Anyway I love Joanna and I adore Have one on me.
Agreed. Eliza mucks the lyrics up and sounds like she took the song literal.
@HaveOneOnMe1
I definely can't take this wonderful song out of my mind!
This song blows my mind up n' down, constantly!
"I found a plot of land in garden of Eden... I believe in every one..."
Just amaze!
I'v got the CD album, fab!!!
Thanks for posting it!
Wish I'll can watch Miss Newsom live at Royal Festival Hall, SouthBank, London on the next 12th of May, 2010!
XXX
Starting the new year off with this one.
the way she plays with rhythmic expectations in this song is just masterful. i'm learning it with a simplified guitar accompaniment, but getting the rhythm on the singing is really challenging.
Björk's daughter Ísadóra made a sweet cover of this song! Too much love for Joanna
This has been one of my favorite songs for the last eight years or so. Thank you, Joanna!
Thank you, Love you ❤️
The harp arrangement and vocal performance are so perfectly balanced. Absolutely gorgeous. Gets me to stop and pay attention every time.
Came across this randomly. I haven't heard it since I lived in Japan 4 years ago. Instant memories, instant tears
I believe that this song is about all the loves a woman had known, the grief she felt when she lost the ones she thought would stay with her all her life, but that she believes that everything happens for a reason and that she still believes in finding true love, regardless of all the loss she had known and that she will stick to that hope until the love that is meant to last will eventually cross her path.
i love this. I've listened to it over and over
I feel like a spell is being cast on me every time I listen to this song. It's so magical and lovely.
this is my favorite song by joanna that I've heard so far ;)
Anyone else think she needs more songs like this? Please reply because I don't know if I'm the only one. This and Jackrabbits have to be my favourite of her songs, simply because the harp playing is elegant, but so is her voice. It doesn't change pitch every 10 seconds and sound like a small girl.
DON'T GET ME WRONG. I like a lot of Joanna's songs, it's just that I fell, her voice is so beautiful singing in a almost continuous pitch compliments it a lot. Agreed?
I just love this song, thanks Jack and Eliza!
This is about her birth, she born later 81, she explains how it was, parts like ''Naked as a trout'' says it all, or, ''i tilled it with my two hands, and i called my very own'' She is celebrating that she came to the world.
+Syber Trooper damn maybe she/he didn't know chill the fuck out lol
+Geeky M.O.B mAybe she was making a guess
She may have not been born in 81 but she was conceived in 81..., so maybe your on to something with that. Maybe the garden of eden is a symbol for the womb or the earth. she could be singing about just the beginning of her existence or beginning of her mothers pregnancy.
Well, I don't know if it was a typo or a reference to Jesus's death, but the lyrics say "the year of A.D 1". Also, after multiple listens this is definitely a love song. The garden of Eden is the heart of the man she loved first. "it was dirt" might mean he wasn't that great of a guy so she tried to change (tilled) him, but he didn't appreciate her efforts so he left her (cleared right out). She was heartbroken, so she goes somewhere for respite, lets say a bar, and ended up laying all her emotions out to someone else (naked as a trout). She ends up catching the "wandering eye" of another man, possibly the person she was talking to, and they end up dating and starting the "garden" again.The garden party she mentions may be the mutual love they feel for one another, and she's inviting him to lay out all his own emotional baggage. The Saint and the dragon may represent the good and bad aspects of the relationships they had previously and she's telling him that she's okay with that part of him and that she wants to help him heal, as is the rest of the song as far as I can tell.
one interpretation says that it was a play on words. She was concieved in 81' and the death of jesus was allegedly in the year of AD 1. Reason why his death has any relevance to this song would probably be because he died for forgiveness for the sins of humanity and that all are welcome into his kingdom.
First heard in the ending credits of "The Adults" produced by Michael Cera. Odd cringe movie but had some good to it too. Love this song now...❤
I believe in innocence - what a plain but powerful line.
This is so beautiful!! I love you Joanna!!
Totally my favourite song of all time
Very nice work! Thank you.
I’ve listened to sooo much music and this is just so so so tops. Flowing lyrical magical emotional beauty.
everything turns beautiful when this song plays
This song is just perfect, I can't stop humming it.
her voice is so pretty and soothing
This is absolutely cash money. Why have I not heard of this incredible girl until recently?
What a horrible way to compliment her
My friend Hannah from Oregon brought me here.
First Joanna song I ever heard!
i heard this song on the radio and was utterly vanquished. so haunting
what a beautiful song.
so calming
After several listens, I'm thinking this is a love song. The garden of Eden is the heart of the man she loved first. "It was dirt" might mean he wasn't that great of a guy so she tried to change him into a better person, but he didn't appreciate her efforts so he left her (cleared right out). She was heartbroken, so she goes somewhere for respite, let's say a bar, and ended up laying all her emotions out to someone else (naked as a trout). She ends up catching the "wandering eye" of another man, possibly the person she was talking to, and they end up dating and starting the "garden" again.The garden party she mentions may be the mutual love they feel for one another, and she's inviting him to lay out all his own emotional baggage. The Saint and the dragon may represent the good and bad aspects of the relationships they had previously, but she's telling him that she's okay with that part of him and that she wants to help him heal, as is the rest of the song as far as I can tell.
There likely is no single meaning to the song.
It’s a mystical metaphor. Eden is the primordial awareness of divinity, always and already in everything. The dirt is the unchanging ground of phenomena from which the two trees both share. The song signifies a repair of our relationship with that vision, after being cast out by our conceptual dualistic habits.
Eliza! thanks u!
When I imagine the imagery described in this song I picture a angel relaying a message to god after Adam and Eve were cast out of Eden, and describing the downfall of humanity with a hopeful bitter-sweet tone
this is so beautiful i have to cry
I think Good Omens.
God brought me here and sang it to me
Merry christmas JO
Square Enix should hire her for final 2:52 fantasy games. I swear i can hear that little beep sound as you go through the screen while listening to thhis. Its so calm and relaxing and gives me some serious nostalgia
I have this 3 disk album and I am really impressed with the lyric writing and melodies. The vocals sound softer compared to previous work. Definitely not your 4 chord melodies, like most pop songs. See 4 Chord Song by Axis of Awesome. Another artist that I have been following is Cecile Corbel, of France, who also plays harp. Blackbird, Sweetsong, and Mary are some of my favorites.
what a pure voice
Jacksgap and Eliza brought me here. Fwll in love with the song!!
La sua voce è unica.... 🧡🙏🧡
Don't mind them saying the cover's better. They don't understand Joanna Newsom as much as we do. It takes a lot of understanding, experience and listening. I still find the original the best since it is where all the emotions and purpose are pure.
I'm so glad I found this
same watch mojo brought me here I love this women's voice
I don't know why but this song calms me down about all the thought on death we have daily.
She's amazing.
Omg, heard this song on jacksgap too! I absolutely love this song
I love you, Joanna. ❤️
Joanna Newsom brought me here..
@Piano :-(
Yes, yes she Y’s...
"I believe"..."regardless of"...."believe in everyone".
This girl should be more famous so I can listen to her songs on Spotify
She's ethically opposed to Spotify.
I love how its really A.D 1 not '81 , (garden of eden)
I love this song now. thanks Jacksgap :)
@JansRox
On my wedding day, wish I can listen to this anthem of beauty!
U'r perfect Little Magic Joanna Newsom from outta space!
Congrats!!!
she’s inviting us to a garden party that’s so cute
YEEEEESSS! Since when is glossing through the pitches of someone else's song while plinking out single notes on a ukelele even in the same category as this!?
But the thing is with music, it doesn't even have to make sense! It's just to let thoughts flow, and I don't believe in reviewers judging music either. Music isn't made to be judged, it's made to enjoy and let thoughts and passion flow. :D But I completely respect your opinion :)
Me too she is BLOODY AMAZING!
She is too precious
How this isn’t on Spotify is a crime
Joanna chose not to put it there.
frm the union of the year of 81. it's in the title.
Nausicaa Nebulae it's a play on words ad1 would have been the first year after the death of Christ to forgive us of the original sin that Eve made in the Garden of Eden, that sacrifice was are apology and specifically that lyric was talking about the separation when we did learn about Sin and when we were forgiven in the year 1 AD( after death )( 81 )
well...almost but not quite. AD is not "after death", it's Anno Domini. AD1 would be when Christ was an infant.
@sirormadame I'm not sure why the lyrics sheet say A.D. 1; it's always seemed clear to me that she was singing "In the year of '81," as in '81 the song's title, and 1981, which I *think* is Joanna's birth year.
@Pongolyn
she was born early '82... i have always taken 'the union in '81' to be that of her parents.
Such a beautiful song... Thanks to 'The Adults ' movie.
Absolutely beautiful. Stunning and enchanting. There is a more than slight influence of Kate Bush's Army Dreamers going on here, but both superb in their own right.
So good the night for kids ❤❤❤❤
Eliza and jacksgap brought me here amd now am in love with this song
Ikr but i love this song
I can picture a forest nymph playing this.
That's literally what I was thinking
Pretty much originally performed by a forest nymph
This is how the sirens lured men to their shores.
But with the mind and literary talent of a near genius New York novelist ?
omg. they introduced me too :3
Llegué aquí por una película The Adults y debo decir que la película se siente como esos sueños que tenés cuando estás enfermo. Me hizo sentir en un cuento de hadas incluso cuando no hay nada artificial en la peli. Que linda
god, that's awesome. where do you live to get radio like that? birmingham radio only plays songs that are featured in beer commercials.
Jack and Eliza made a cover of this on the channel Jacksgap and this is how we found out about this awesome song!
@averyellis
it was on a college radio station i think, and they like their obscure music...
woow this is beautiful she should try to sell her songs to disney , like her songs are soo fairtale like soo cute
@the1musiclad Yeah I see that, just some of the slightly unexpected blues chords the first time I listened to this album reminded me loads of the first time I listened to Blue by Joni Mitchell.
Going by the lyrics... the title of "81" is a pun of the actual wording of "A.D. 1". You can't honestly believe that someone who is diversified enough to reference C.S. Lewis (Cair Paravel, in Bridges and Balloons) etc etc isn't canny enough to recognize a pun in her own lyrics and name the song as such? She's enchanting, as are her lyrics... just enjoy without dissecting!
2024?
@ler0y182 - it's more a combination of kate bush and melanie (accounting for the bluesy element). joni mitchell had a similar voice but her music was a little different.
eargasm.....i cant discribe with other words!!!
i wanna go to the garden party :(
Found myself crying when it finished. I dont know why
"The adults" end credits
@ameltingcloud wherever you live, you are so lucky. My local radio stations are utter shit!
This is so BOOM to me!