best album cover? easy--for the roses- maybe a bit prejudiced cause its my fave lp but i think the blue green filter is amazing and i just love joni's face AND that outfit
best descriptive of contents inside? has to be song to a seagull that illustration literally has half the songs within the drawing! and joni representation? clouds and travelog i just love those paintings and each well represents joni at that point in her life i find the van gogh portrait trite and embarrassing onto my reactions on first listening to joni lps--- (clouds & ladies) i initially only reacted to the more rolickin tunes (ie: chelsea and conversation) but eventually of course warmed up to the entire lps. went back and bought "seagull", and loved it (the best of the 3 i thought) (still do!!) and then proceeded to buy the albums as they came out NEVER once being dissapointed finding all of them fresh and amazing UNTIL "wild things"-(so pedestrian, for joni, i thought horrible painting as well) the same with "dog" and "chalkmark" (i eventually LEARNED to like several songs from each of these) but "night ride home" set things on track again for me with "turbulent" and "taming the tiger" completeing a "comeback"(for me) trio. one odd thing-i remember when "hissing" came out in the dead of winter--(such a summery album) and conversely "hejira" came out in the middle of summer! it didn't bother me-i like mixing up the seasons (i have christmas lights in my windows year round!) and...they're comming to take me away ha ha.... one last thing-its nice that joni and ex hubby are chattin-let's just pray it isn't a musical collaboration! xxx walt The most personalized portal on the Web!
