Debras sShea wrote:
>I can't join the WTRF-bashing club either, however, since I >like the
energy of
>that cd. It's not a favorite or one of her best but I think >it's great that
>Joni was so wildly in love that she was crazed (or maybe it >was drugs... I
>don't know... I much prefer the love idea... drugs don't >always produce
>euphoric feelings the way early love can). I think Joni >somewhere said it's
>much more difficult to write happy songs and WTRF shows that >to be the case.
>Why ponder relationships enough to write complex lyrics when >life is so
>completely enjoyable? Who wants to (or can) dissect that? So, >stuck in the
>middle of her collection of cds about romantic angst and >melancholy and
being
>hypercritical is this aberration with lyrics so lightweight >they're
downright
>silly sometimes. It does have some snappy tunes, though, and I >can enjoy it
>for that. Solid Love is one of my favorites because of the >sheer joy of
it and
>the way the lyrics twist within the music, which is typical >Joni.
>I wonder what we'd all think of this album if it had been done >by anyone
other
>than Joni. My guess is it would be more highly regarded, or at >least
>appreciated as a decent pop album.
>Debra Shea
Hear, hear! ;-)
I loved WTRF. It was so refreshing for her to be happy, and sing about
it! When my friend Terri heard it for the first time, and heard Larry
Klien's double and triple line bass playing on YDFT, she said- sounds just
like the kind of thing she did 10 years ago, with her strange chords and
progressions, only the 80's version. I had to agree. Joni's style is all
over that album, but you just have to listen thru all the frosting to hear it.
As a songwriter, its so hard to pop out of the mold you have created for
yourself. I've only recently noticed that I have. Even Stevie Nicks once
said that the same chords came out every time she sat at the piano. (I hate
that when that happens! LOL!)
Joni has occasionally, but like Debra mentioned, it was great to finally
hear HER again with NRH. Another fave of mine- (after 2 Grey Rooms, how
could it not be?)
There are albums of hers that I don't listen to often. Heck, there are
some songs I don't listen to at all. All I know is that when it comes to
those recordings, that's where she was at the time, and I at this point in
my life, I can't relate. At some point in time I had loved some of them.
Now they don't touch me as much or at all.
But part of her is in each and every one of those songs, and they are
forever Joni, sharing herself with us in them.
Thank you, Joni...
NPIMH: Number One
My new JM Tee shirt: Everything I know about life I learned from Joni
Mitchell
Steve
