> have always loved Help Me also, I think it's Joni's happiest, most upbeat, > sing along in the car type song! my earliest memory of Joni is buying Court & > Spark, and cranking it up in in my car with the sun roof open, and being set > free!
Y'know, isn't everything about Court and Spark like that? Car on a Hill has that magnificent line - "Y'know, he make's friends easy, he's not like me, I wait for judgement, anxiously" - which comes slap bang in the middle of that gorgeous, laid-back melody, and makes you think "Yes!" and punch the air in recognition, without allowing the song to get maudlin in any way. Such a hard trick to pull off. I have to say, it's People's Parties that does it for me. Tiny little snippet of a song, but how great is it? "I'm just living on nerves and feelings, with a weak and a lazy mind, and coming to people's parties fumbling deaf dumb and blind...." It is, if I may, one of the all-time Drunk Man Sings Songs In Tuneless But Meaningful Way numbers. or maybe that's just too much information. I'll just go and sober up now.... Adam
