From: les@jmdl.com (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2000 #470 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: les@jmdl.com Errors-To: les@jmdl.com Precedence: bulk Archives: http://www.smoe.org/lists/joni Websites: http://www.jmdl.com http://www.jonimitchell.com Unsubscribe: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe JMDL Digest Monday, August 28 2000 Volume 2000 : Number 470 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. --- Ashara has set up a "Wally Breese Memorial Fund" with all donations going directly towards the upkeep of the website. Wally kept the website going with his own funds. it is now up to US to help Jim continue. If you would like to donate to this fund, please make all checks payable to: Jim Johanson and send them to: Ashara Stansfield P.O. Box 215 Topsfield, MA. 01983 USA ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- New Thread Joni Lyrics ["M & C Urbanski" ] Re: Album thread NJC [FMYFL@aol.com] reply to M.Bird re: Talk to Me lyrics ["c Karma" ] Re: Comfort in melancholy ["Patricia O'Connor" ] Re: NJC Robbie Robertson, now RLJ [Joseph Palis Subject: New Thread Joni Lyrics We just moved into a new house and we have a train track in our back yard. I told the hubby that every time a train went by, I'd start singing "Just Like This Train". Anyhow as we were...well you know, I start singing in my head "And oh, oh, my, my, when that train comes rolling by..." So the new thread is this... Name as many lyrics with a theme such as trains or birds or whatever. Trains: I'm always running behind the times, Just like this train when that train comes rolling by I took a plane to a taxi, and a taxi to a train It was just plane shadow to train shadow We put our pennies on the rails, And when the train went by Anybody game?? Marilyn ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 23:24:59 EDT From: FMYFL@aol.com Subject: Re: Album thread NJC << Name the first record, 1. You owned. Someone else said this already, but the first 45 my folks gave me was from "Lady and the Tramp".........."We are Siamese" 2. You bought. The 45 to The Beatles "Lady Madonna" 3. You remember parents or guardians playing. I was exposed to lots of jazz from Dad, but what sticks out in my mind that the whole family enjoyed was Louis Prima with Sam Butera and Keely Smith. (Was anyone else blessed with that exposure besides me?) 4. The cover art of which struck early interest for you. Beatles "Sgt. Peppers Lonely Heart Club Band" 5. You played over and over. (not necessarily yours) as a kid I used to play my older sister's "Soldier Boy" by the Shirelles (my parents first clue that I would be gay :~) As an adult I would play Joni's "Electricity" over and over.........and I still do. >> Jimmy (catching up on days of digests) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 04:00:35 GMT From: "c Karma" Subject: reply to M.Bird re: Talk to Me lyrics I always thought that the person she aimed that line toward was a writer. I associated the "ribbons" with a typewriter, since the song was written before word processors and computers became standard. Sometimes it helps to be old. Some anachronisms exist in Joni's songs, like "a helicopter lands on the PanAm roof" and "He put a quarter in the Wurlitzer." CC _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 00:11:30 -0400 From: "Patricia O'Connor" Subject: Re: Comfort in melancholy DSK wrote: > Almost every time I look down Park Avenue and see that building I think of these > lines. They're so perfect. The building does look just like a huge tombstone, a > broad grey vertical rectangle that straddles the avenue (the only building in NY > that does that). > Plus, to go even further (because I just can't stop now :-), the PanAm building > did become a tomb of sorts when there was an accident there years ago and several > people were killed. It's not been used as a landing pad since then. That was > after Joni had written her song but, who knows, maybe her > in-tune-with-the-universe subconscious self could see it coming. I'm a little late on this one, but I had deja vu when I read it, most likely it's synchronicity. Quoting myself from 1997: A helicopter lands on the Pan-Am roof Like a dragonfly on a tomb I love these lines because of the perfectness of their imagery. Perfect because of the ugliness of the building, a 59 storey mistake, Prince Gropius de Bauhaus' TOMB, an octagonal mass of cast-concrete (and did I mention UGLY?), blocking the view through to Park Avenue. (What's the difference between an architect and a doctor? A doctor buries his mistakes.) Helicopters haven't landed on this monstrosity, since 1977 when a 'dragonfly' fell off of the 'tomb' and into the street, killing 5 people. On Hissing, Joni credits Tom Wolfe's "The Painted Word", his attack on abstract expressionism, as the inspiration for "The Boho Zone". I can't remember and I'm too lazy to do the research, but I'm guessing that Wolfe attacked the Bauhaus in this book, since his next assault on the Art World, "From Bauhaus To Our House" was aimed at 20th century architecture and Walter Gropius in particular. Patricia O'Connor p.a.oconnor@att.net ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 00:15:15 EDT From: FredNow@aol.com Subject: Re: Firsts NJC In a message dated 8/27/00 9:18:20 PM, SCJoniGuy writes: >Even my wife, who doesn't notice music much, asked me who I was listening >to, and said that it was very nice... Please thank your wife for me ... glad I registered on her radar. - -Fred Simon ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 22:01:31 -0700 From: "Brenda J. Walker" Subject: Re: Firsts > Name the first record, > 1. You owned. Miles Davis - Round About Midnight. My dad gave it to me. > 2. You bought. Isley Brothers - Showdown All those songs with parts 1 & 2 were had some great funk going on...Ernie Isley is a guitar hero. > 3. You remember parents or guardians playing. Sam Cooke and the Soul Stirrers - Gospel Soul of Sam Cooke & the Soul Stirrers, Vol. 1 Dean Martin - A Winter Romance - Baby, It's Cold Outside! > 4. The cover art of which struck early interest for you. Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street The photographs were very engaging.... > 5. You played over and over. (not necessarily yours) Todd Rundgren - Hermit of Mink Hollow - Fade Away I was 12 and it seemed to make sense to me emotionally, thinking I was in love. I listened to it all the time at the public library and then at home when they changed their checkout policy for music. The public library also led to the discovery of Joni, Jackson Browne and Dave Brubeck. Brenda np - James Taylor - River - from the Tribute show ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 13:17:43 +0800 (JST) From: Joseph Palis Subject: Re: NJC Robbie Robertson, now RLJ > > Bill, thanks for pitching in with that Robbie info...I'm surprised at RLJ's > new project as she basically did a covers project with "Pop Pop", a record > which I liked a lot, except for the fact that you have to turn it up so > frickin loud to hear it! RLJ also released GIRL AT HER VOLCANO which is mostly old standards, like SOMETHING COOL, MY FUNNY VALENTINE, UNDER THE BOARDWALK, etc. This is her rarest of rare albums and I urge everyone to purchase one if you see a copy. Its like seeing an item you may not see again in your lifetime, or at least, that's how I look at that album and the performances in it. Joseph (who owns a tape of the album but never the CD version) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 02:07:26 EDT From: PPeterson4@aol.com Subject: first record thread first record i owned: Soundtrack to Cinderella first i bought: Johnny Horton / Ballad of New Orleans and Mission Bell by one of those vocal groups "Our love is higher than a mission bell (how deep?) deeper than a wishin well....) remember parents playing: Croatian polka music cover art: Revolver first i played over and over: a demo record called "Hearing is Believing" that came with our family's first RCA Victor hi fi. It had excerpts from classical pieces like Peter and the Wolf, Dance of the Seven Veils, Overture to Lohengrin, etc. I was about five and I played the grooves off that record. And for the rest of my life, whenever I'd hear one of those classical pieces in its entirety for the first time, at some point the excerpt I knew would kick in and I was familiar with every note. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 14:07:10 +0800 (JST) From: Joseph Palis Subject: Re: Your Record Thread Poll (NJC) Name the first record 1. You owned. David Benoit's FREEDOM AT MIDNIGHT and Basia's PROMISES 2. You bought. same as above 3. You remember parents or guardians playing. My father plays Neapolitan Tarantella in his violin or else he sings "IF Ever I would Leave You" to me to make me sleep. But recordwise, its THE SOUND OF MUSIC, David Nadien's Humoresque album, and lots of Schubert and big band music (Sammy Kaye). 4. The cover art of which struck early interest for you. Pepe Jaramillo Meets Carmen Cavallaro 5. You played over and over. Moon River (orchestral version) Joseph np: Diane Schuur - New York State of Mind ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2000 #470 ***************************** ------- Post messages to the list at Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe joni-digest" to ------- Siquomb, isn't she?