Review 1 of 57

nathandominic writes:

5of 5 Stars

Christian hoard should be ashamed.... Ys is the best album of 2006. It's a vivid masterpiece, a beautiful painting that you walk into. An outstanding piece of art in the broadest sense. Further proof Rolling Stone has become a joke.

Feb 2, 2008 00:59:27

Review 2 of 57

cypherpunk writes:

5of 5 Stars

Haha, Rolling Stone is out of touch and irrelevant!

Dec 5, 2007 13:30:17

Review 3 of 57

trisarahtops writes:

5of 5 Stars

I am appalled. Two stars? Avenged Sevenfold was given three and half. Did you even listen to Ys? Did you even appreciate the lyrics and the stunning composition? Or were you too busy looking at the clock?

Nov 11, 2007 16:43:12

Review 4 of 57

fckchristianhoard writes:

5of 5 Stars

Hey, Christian Hoard, screw you. It's reviews like this that show why Rolling Stone is COMPLETELY out of touch with the direction in which music is going. Reviewers like Pitchfork Media are intelligent enough to look at music and determine its merit by listening to music with fresh ears, but Rolling Stone seems more interested in finding the next Dylan or Springsteen. Rolling Stone doesn't even deserve to review albums if this is the shit they are going to put out - one sentence that completely misses the point of Ys by calling it an EP and complaining about song length?

Nov 3, 2007 09:41:44

Review 5 of 57

thedudefromty writes:

5of 5 Stars

First of all, I registered so I could tell Christian Hoar off. I am an avid fan of Rolling Stone Magazine, and having read it basically every week for a long time, the one thing I truly disagree with is letting this baffoon review cd's. Rolling Stone, please stop letting Christian Hoar review CD's. He always gets the albums that Rob Sheffield should be reviewing. Rob Sheffield should be the only one reviewing albums, then it's a level playing field, because this bozo is really getting on my nerves.

Jun 30, 2007 11:35:48

Review 6 of 57

witebuddha writes:

5of 5 Stars

Seriously one of the best albums of 2006. I registered to RS for the soul purpose of this terrible review. Rolling Stone seems to be the only one giving this album anything less than a 4/5 or 9/10...

Silly to see someone write something so short for an album that intricate and meaningful.

Joanna Newsom's Ys is the most strikingly beautiful album I have listened to years.

I'm just glad to see so many other people have been touched by her work.

The polls are in, Ys is a wonderful, you just can't see it.

as a closing note: Ys is NOT an EP... its been said many times, but I like to reiterate that your ignorance is showing

May 30, 2007 23:22:50

Review 7 of 57

CrackedLCD writes:

5of 5 Stars

I can't really find the words to describe my sheer disbelief that Rolling Stone gave this record such a poor rating!!

A collection of beautiful poems set to music that makes you drift off into another little world, her voice is perfect in every way. I love it and have done since i bought it about 5 or 6 months ago!

Apr 3, 2007 06:29:30

Review 8 of 57

Warzawa writes:

1of 5 Stars

I tried. I tried so deperately hard to LOVE this album. I'm so obsessed with Milk-Eyed Mender that I wanted to think YS is a masterpiece. I even instantly gave it five stars because I trusted that the album would slowly unveil itself even though nothing really interested me at the outset. But sadly I've come to realize that it's just terrible. The music is wandering, the vocals are blurred, and nothing sticks. People say the lyrics are the strongpoint but here's my response to that: This is MUSIC. I shouldn't have to read to appreciate it.

True, I loved the lyrics on Milk-Eyed Mender and that is one of the strong points of that album, but I could enjoy them simply by listening. Every line on that album seems important, quirky, silly, or intelligent. Plus, the vocals are so intriguingly strange that it made me want to listen to them. Nothing on Ys does that for me. The songs feel meandering and infinite. They're so painful everytime I try to sit down and listen to them I can only tolerate them for so long. And that's BAD. You're listening to someone who has sat through Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music on more than one occasion...and I can't even sit through this...

Mar 1, 2007 18:34:45