OK, slighty off the Threefer Madness theme but in the same ball park.
I've often thought of Joni's albums as being trilogys (with a bit of
manipulation):
STAS
Clouds
LOTC
- acoustic, simple (in the nicest possible way)
Blue
FTR
C&S
- more commercial, multi-instrumental
HOSL
Hejira
DJRD
- experimental, jazz-influenced
WTRF
DED
CMIARS
- the '80's albums
NRH
TI
TTT
- the '90's albums
I admit I'm chickening out a bit with the last two.
Perhaps the division between CMIARS and NRH isn't too clear, but to me the
eighties albums are a little awkward (?) whereas NRH is a return to form.
It's tempting to label the nineties albums as the 'confident' albums, as I
tend to see Joni as a Master of her trade completely in control of what she
does with these albums. Although, does that imply that she wasn't before?
I shan't dig around too much for what distinguishes these two trilogies from
each other, or how to best describe them, as I'm being mindful of Joni's
wise words on 'Borderline' regarding labelling things.
And of course, this is ignoring Mingus, MOA, S&L, Hits & Misses.
And as for BSN: didn't she orignally say that she'd make three such albums,
and that this is the first in a trilogy?
Rob
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