onlyJMDL Digest wrote: > > onlyJMDL Digest Saturday, May 12 2001 Volume 2001 : Number 148 > > The 'Official' Joni Mitchell Homepage, created by Wally Breese, can be > found at http://www.jonimitchell.com. It contains the latest news, > a detailed bio, Original Interviews, essays, lyrics and much much more. > > The JMDL website can be found at http://www.jmdl.com and contains > interviews, articles, the member gallery, archives, and much more. > > Information on the 4th "Annual" New England JoniFest: > http://www.jmdl.com/jfne2001.cfm > > The Joni Chat Room: http://www.jmdl.com/chat.cfm > ========== > > TOPICS and authors in this Digest: > -------- > First entry ["Laurent Olszer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] > RE: First entry ["Wally Kairuz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] > Going to California [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > All hail to Yael!! [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > TTT ["J.David Sapp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] > Re: JMDL Digest V2001 #212 -- LK influence [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Re: First entry [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Re: Confessions and Joni's Best Albums [Don Rowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] > re: Border Crossings article/LK influence ["c Karma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] > California ["William Waddell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] > Chiming in again [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] ____Frederick: > I am very sorry if this offends, but what the hell happened to Joni in the 80's? >WTRF, DED and CMIARS are all 85% awful. I do think it's a matter of taste. A simple case of "do I sing along when I listen to this, or don't I?" For me, if I am singing along without even thinking about it, I am won over. I don't understand people's dislike of WTRF, for instance -- it's so singable! -- unless people just don't like jazz or something. Or -- once again, it all comes down to personal taste. There are songs I love on DED and on CMIARS, too -- songs that touch me where my singing starts, what can I say? Some songs bore the shit out of me -- Paprika Plains, for instance, just gets on my nerves for the most part -- but maybe that's because I'm a person who likes singable songs, not because the song itself is lacking in whatever it takes to be a good song -- For although the words to Joni's songs often articulate my own sensibilities better than I can articulate them myself -- she is the Anais Nin of song -- I am a person who usually hears melody and harmony before actual words. Luckily Joni's lyrics are easy to hear and they are so perfectly blended with her arrangement (of everything!) that her songs hit right in the heart but they don't skip on past the head either. SShe is incredible, I say, incredible! And how can she not know it? Of course she knows it, and she isn't falsely modest. I suggest that if it were a man saying some of the things about his own work that Joni says about hers, no one would even blink and the word 'arrogant' would not even come up. Thank God for us that Joni has a good strong sense of self and the guts to put that out there in her music. Kate of the North w > > > > > !
