--- Mike Pritchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Leonard > Feather's review of > Mingus starts with (quoting from memory, don't sue > me) "This is a > wonderful piece of work". I agree entirely and don't > know why people > don't 'get' it. > The only joni I don't care for is Wild Things Run > Fast. I don't know why > people criticise Dog Eat Dog so much, because, for > me, WTRF is far and > away the clunker of the collection.
That's the way I feel too. If I had a choice between WTRF & DED, I'd choose the dog. Yes, I like Chinese Cafe (and really wish that Joni would make a full recording of "Unchained melody" by itself - maybe on he new disc? Wouldn't that be nice? Joni, if you're listening....??) but I'm not as blown away by it as so many people are. I can't put my finger on the reasons why WTRF doesn't do much for me (I don't out-and-out hate it - let's face it, even Joni at her least-best is, well, Joni!!!) Maybe it's because she's too gosh-darn happy (heh-heh). I never heard Mingus when it first came out, so I wonder how I'd have felt about it if I had listened to it back then. I wonder whether I would have liked it, or just not gotten it at all. I only bought the album - and heard it for the first time - a few years ago, but I love it. When I first got it, I played it over-and-over-and-nothing-but for weeks - my kids were going crazy. I think Joni's voice (her singing) was at its best during that period, when she had matured, but where smoking and age hadn't dried it out so much. My favourite of all for her vocal style is probably Don Juan. There is so much exuberance in her singing - Cotton Avenue is so full of life and joy and fun. Listening to Joni's stuff after not hearing it for a while is always a new discovery. I find things I hadn't noticed before - after all these years, the music, the lyrics, the singing, everything are still fresh and timeless. ______________________________________________________________________ Find, Connect, Date! http://personals.yahoo.ca
