Megan wrote about DITS from HOSL, +ADw-First, I have to say this is one of my favorite JM songs of all time, as well as a source of endless speculation for me.+AD4- I couldn't agree more. Endless speculation big time on a song that shivers me timbres, so to speak, each and every time I hear it. The sheer obscurity of the words , for me anyway, lends to the never-ending wonder of the song. :-) Definitely one of her most impenetrable and I'd be quite happy to leave it that way, though should we ever be enlightened as to the meanings of Petrified wood and Ethiopian wall and ... I'll sure lend an ear. From day one, the entire song (to be heard as a whole) blew me away and only years after when I found the guitar tuning and tried to play it, did I realise I couldn't and never would be able to. She went up in my estimation even more. DITS is in my top 5 for sure if not top 3. In no particular order, though as is so often said here on the Line, tomorrow's choice might be different. Don't Interrupt the Sorrow Song for Sharon Down to You Ludwig's Tune Don Juan's Reckless Daughter No, it's impossible to choose just five. Funny though that three of them begin with Do. Doh a dear Joni. I see Joni's work having three principle eras with a fourth emerging. STAS to LOTC / FTR is her first period. FTR / C+ACY-S to DJRD / Ming her second. Ming to TI / TTT her third. TTT / BSN her current. I'll stick my neck out and say there's a treading water time in those lost 80s. That's how I see it anyway and the five songs I've aforementioned all belong to the second phase. That's when I found Joni and I suppose it's the one era that I relate to most. Biased opinion of course but I think it's her best. Willy the Shake
