> Yeah, Phil! > > Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 14:56:27 EDT > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Poor Don Juan........ > > being a recently converted Joni fan I can't believe the harsh criticism that > her work has received.......ESPECIALLY "Don Juan's Reckless > Daughter".................I've got two words....."PAPRIKA PLAINS" !!!!! > OMG, that song is breathtaking!!!!!!! and there are several great songs on > the album (Cotton Avenue, Jericho,Dreamland,Silky Veils of Ardor, and even > slightly weaker songs "Otis and Marlena", "Off Night Backstreet", "Talk to > Me" still approach the level of excellence that most performers don't ever > reach!!! > > > My opinion of Paprika Plains has already been submitted. But I'd like to add that the sequence of Otis & Marlena, The Tenth World and Dreamland is one of my favorites (though the 10th World to my ears goes on for about 3 minutes too long). O&M in particular is wonderfully, trenchantly cinematic. (I have a special fondness for JM's third person story songs.) And Dreamland makes me jump up and dance every time. These tracks, along with Paprika Plains, seem to me almost like an album within an album. They were, if I remember right, sides two and three of the double record set. There's something about the sweep and scope of these four songs that really gets to me. From the Canadian prairie to Miami Royal to the Southern American jungles...as native peoples trade in their beads for bottles supplied by all us fatted flakes as we push our recline buttons down safely esconced in dreamland. Bruce
