<<In this respect, I feel DED was an angry album, as was pointed out; but it was also a bold move (wild, untamed, or to sum it up: genuine).>>
Major disagreement with that; DED is ANYTHING but genuine - it's contrived and manipulated by synthesizer and machine from start to finish. Now I don't mean anything negative by that, just that I don't see it as "wild","untamed" or "genuine". Joni "untamed and genuine" is Blue or STAS or Turbulent Indigo. Joni "wild" is DJRD and HOSL to a lesser extent. It isn't even totally angry...after all, look at it's opening and closing: "Good Friends" & "Lucky Girl"...not a lot of anger there. The only "concept" I see in DED is Dolby & Klein trying to fit the perpetual musical square peg that has always been Joni Mitchell into the musical mish-mash that was 1985. Miles away from genuine. Bob NP: The Beatles, "It's All Too Much"
