--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm always running behind the times when it comes to > Joni's work. I hopped > off the train at "Hejira" and didn't get back on > until "Chalk Mark." But I > really have grown to love "Hejira" lately. (I guess > that's probably why I am > reserving judgment on "Travelogue" for a few > decades! )
[...] > > Has this happened to you? Have you ever grown to > love any of Joni's work many > years after it was released? Am I going to be put in > the JMDL slow class for > admitting this? That's a good question, Smurph and sounds like it could make for a good thread. I had to go back & make a chart of when Joni's albums came out and compare them to what was happening in my life at each one. I first got on the train at Clouds, shortly after it was released, when I was 16. I was immediately hooked & so went and bought Song to a Seagull. Over the course of the next few years I bought each album as soon as it came out, until Miles of Aisles in fall of 74. I was at university in Quebec city that year, so I missed this one. I did hear it later at my sister's place and loved it, but never bought it for years. Then went back to buying as soon as they came out for Hissing and Hejira. Then was a long gap and that's because that was around the time I met my (shit-head) ex-husband. So I fell away from Joni for Don Juan, Mingus and Shadows and Light. Got back on for WTRF and DED, then fell off the train again for Chalk Mark and Night Ride. Got back on for Turbulent Indigo (at whichpoint, I went back and bought CM and NR). Haven't fallen off the train since. Discovered JoniMitchell.com and jmdl.com just before Taming the Tiger and at that point bought the ones I had missed. The ones that stand out for me (of the ones I missed, that is) are Mingus and Don Juan. I don't think I had even heard any individual songs off either of these (except for maybe "God must be a boogie man" which sounded familiar for some reason) and it was like falling in love all over again. I don't think falling off the train - or running behind the times - is necessarily a bad thing if you can discover something you never knew before, or rediscover something you thought you had known. ===== Catherine Toronto ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca
