From: les@jmdl.com (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2000 #668 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: les@jmdl.com Errors-To: les@jmdl.com Precedence: bulk Unsubscribe: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe Archives: http://www.smoe.org/lists/joni Websites: http://www.jmdl.com http://www.jonimitchell.com JMDL Digest Friday, December 22 2000 Volume 2000 : Number 668 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. ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Portraits Has Arrived!-VLJC ["Megan" ] fave Xmas Pop songsNJC [catman ] best NJC [catman ] Re: Beatles Trivia -NJC [FMYFL@aol.com] Re: fave Xmas Pop songsNJC [FMYFL@aol.com] Foni Mitchell live (NJC but FMC) [Fonimitchell@aol.com] Re: Court's in session... [philipf@tinet.ie] Re: Beatles Trivia -NJC [philipf@tinet.ie] RE: fave Xmas Pop songsNJC ["Wally Kairuz" ] court and spark, the idiom njc ["Wally Kairuz" ] Joni in NZ ["Hell" ] Re: 'Twas the night before Christmas (LONG but FUN!) [SCJoniGuy@aol.com] Re: Joni in NZ [SCJoniGuy@aol.com] beatles trivia njc [evian ] yoko njc [evian ] til tuesday njc [evian ] Re: Holiday greetings ["Mark or Travis" ] Re: Strange... very strange ["Jim L'Hommedieu" ] Re: Joni Mitchell LIVE in Austria [AsharaJM@aol.com] Re: Joni Mitchell LIVE in Austria ["Stephen Epstein" Subject: Portraits Has Arrived!-VLJC - ----- Original Message ----- From: Don Rowe To: Megan Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 2:16 PM Subject: Re: Fw: Problems with shipment #1991976301350 > Try this one: > > service@mp3.com > > It's their customer service e-mail address, where they > claim to try and respond in 24 hrs. Couldn't hurt at > this point! > > Best of luck. > > Don Rowe > > ===== > Visit me anytime at http://www.mp3.com/donrowe > Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. > http://shopping.yahoo.com/ Hi Don, Finally! I just received "Portraits of the Season " in todays (rather late) mail. And it was worth waiting for. This is a lyrical, beautiful album that I highly recommend to anyone looking for a Christmas CD that is not run-of-the-mill.The best stuff on here is Don's original compositions, "Portraits of the Season", "Homecoming", and "The Angel & the Shepards". I love the way the flute comes in at just the right moment on "Portrait", and "Homecoming " is just an exquisite song, probably my favorite,but it's hard to pick one, they're all beautifully written, produced, & arranged. I also love the arrangements of the traditional carols as well, particularly the twist on "Carol of the Bells", re-titled "Carol of the Winds" because it's done all with woodwind insruments, instead of bells--just gorgeous! Now this is my kind of Christmas album--congradulations, Don. I feel honored to have such talented people on the list- now I'm dying to check out the rest of your catalogue! I'm definitly taking this one with me to my Christmas party at work-maybe get some new DR fans in the process.I'm sending the other one to my brother in L.A. & I'll let you know what he thinks and BTW, your keyboard playing is good, even reminds me of early Joni, like the intro to "Rainy Night House" (which I always loved), or "Blue Boy".And of course, the real litmus test was Lindsey, who proclaimed it," Pretty music, Mommy!" :~) Merry Christmas, Don! Megan ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 23:28:20 +0000 From: catman Subject: fave Xmas Pop songsNJC Of course I don't know if these are known in the USA, Can or anywhere other than here but these are my favourites: every single one of them a huge hit and pure pop: So this Is Xmas -ELP Merry Xmas Evereybody -Slade the one by Wizard -the title of which escapes me Mary's Boy Child by Boney M(or Harry Belafonte but prefer the Boney M version) Lonely This Xmas - Mud(tho I always thought it was Elvis) Ones i really dislike-any of those by Cliff Richard! - -- bw colin colin@tantra.fsbusiness.co.uk http://www.geocities.com/tantra_apso/index.html ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 23:31:30 +0000 From: catman Subject: best NJC I guess many will have gone for Xmas already and most will have by Saturday so I'd like to take this time to wish you all a very happy time(however you celebrate now) and hope that 2001 is the best year you have ever had. - -- bw colin- who is likely to post on Xmas day! colin@tantra.fsbusiness.co.uk http://www.geocities.com/tantra_apso/index.html ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 18:38:32 EST From: FMYFL@aol.com Subject: Re: Beatles Trivia -NJC In a message dated 12/21/00 5:50:23 PM Eastern Standard Time, guitarzan@saber.net writes: << Victor Johnson wrote: Eleanor Rigby does not work because the Beatles played along with the strings. RR: They didn't. >> Thank you Randy!!! I now have found two sources that said the Beatles did not play instruments on Eleanor Rigby, but Paul says my sources are wrong. Yoko's coming over to dinner tonight, I'll ask her. She'll probably just tell me "it's a dog town, it's a dog town, it's a dog dog dog dog dog town" :~) Jimmy ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 18:56:43 EST From: FMYFL@aol.com Subject: Re: fave Xmas Pop songsNJC It may not be my fave Xmas Pop song, but it looks like I'll be playing a lot of Elvis Presley's "Blue Christmas" this year :( Merry Christmas, Happy Chanukkah, and Joyous Kwansa to everyone else! Jimmy (waiting for the holidays to be over) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 19:01:19 EST From: Fonimitchell@aol.com Subject: Foni Mitchell live (NJC but FMC) Foni Mitchell + support Wednesday 14th March 2001 Folk Plus, The Boundary Hotel, Walsall, England. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 00:28:35 -0000 From: philipf@tinet.ie Subject: Re: Court's in session... Bob wrote: > > Also both "court" & "spark" could have a HOST of definitions; they can both > be nouns/verbs etc. > Is Court And Spark an original Joni ism ? I don;t know why but I assumed it's not. For example there's a lo fi country band from San Francisco called The Court And Spark and I don't think they called themselves after the Joni record. http://www.dreamchimney.com/CourtandSpark/ Philip ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 00:38:16 -0000 From: philipf@tinet.ie Subject: Re: Beatles Trivia -NJC > Good Night-Orchestra and Ringo's vocal. > > Eleanor Rigby-String quartet accompaniment. > > She's Leaving Home-String section accompaniment. > To get even more trivial. the christmas records that the Beatles used to send out to fan club members had some unaccompanied songs. In fact I remember one track which featured no Beatle just Tiny Tim. Philip ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 22:14:06 -0300 From: "Wally Kairuz" Subject: RE: fave Xmas Pop songsNJC isn't it ''i believe in father xmas''?? i used to like that song very much!!! i remember when the single came out. colin wrote: So this Is Xmas -ELP colin ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 22:20:36 -0300 From: "Wally Kairuz" Subject: court and spark, the idiom njc i may be talking rubbish here [as usual] but i'm almost sure that court and spark is something Shakespearean, it's in one of his plays or something, like when you say ''by the picking of my thumbs''. any eng lit majors out there? and i'm sure there's an interview somewhere in which joni discusses the origin of the title. wallyK ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 14:34:27 +1300 From: "Hell" Subject: Joni in NZ I was bored at work this morning (it being the last day, and me having no work to do) so I thought I'd do a search on a NZ search engine for Joni and see what appeared: 1. Luke Hurley (NZ guitarist) cites Joni as an influence 2. Chris Lloyd Guitar Studio includes Joni in "artists covered" (don't think there's an album, Bob!) 3. Jo Cotton cites Joni as favourite musician (she is a member of the group TrueBliss - which was "constructed" a couple of years ago after holding nation-wide auditions for girls between 17 and 23, similar to the Spice Girls and Australia's Bardot) 4. Duncan Stuart (children's author - one of his books has been made into a movie "The Whole of the Moon" and deals extremely well with two teenagers at opposite ends of the social scale, both with cancer) cites Joni as a "person I admire - unbelievable grace and talent" 5. From www.click2music.co.nz biography on Annie Lennox: "She was soon lauded as one of the great female singer-songwriters, in the same class as Carole King, k d lang and Joni Mitchell. That final comparison must be very dear to Lennox, as she has oft cited Mitchell, probably our greatest living English-language composer, as a significant influence on her own songwriting." Love that last one - not sure who the author is (it didn't say), but I like how they think! Merry Xmas (or just Happy Day for those with other beliefs!) again Hell ____________________________ "To have great poets, there must be great audiences too." - Walt Whitman hell@ihug.co.nz Visit the NBLs (Natural Born Losers) at: http://www.nbls.co.nz ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 20:48:38 EST From: SCJoniGuy@aol.com Subject: Re: 'Twas the night before Christmas (LONG but FUN!) << Bob, just be sure to keep your wits and record it for all of us. ;-) >> LOL! I will, you can betcha!! ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 21:07:23 EST From: SCJoniGuy@aol.com Subject: Re: Joni in NZ << (don't think there's an album, Bob!) >> Still, Hell, if you're so bored, let's get out there and hit those record stores! There might be some surprises! :~) Thanks for sharing all those 'influence' pieces...it is amazing how many artists have been influenced by Joni. I'll share a tidbit I read tonight in the same vein... I got this great book from Alison & Jeff in NY called "Rock - The Rough Guide" (Kakki had given me their top 100 book at Ashara's, and I polished it off on the trip home) THIS one is about 1200 pages long and features virtually every rock artist that ever recorded! It's heavenly for us sluts! Thanks Jeff and Alison!! Anyway, here's what they say about Tori Amos' "Little Earthquakes": "It was compared, inevitably, with Kate Bush; however, its originality and strength, both in lyrics and melodies, and the complexity of its piano playing and orchestration, suggested far more than a Kate Bush clone; indeed a talent that stood in line with the likes of Joni Mitchell" Of course they have a very lengthy piece on Joni, which I'll transcribe over the holidays when I get bored, or maybe next week at work while I'm bored! :~) Bob NP: Erykah, "Bag Lady" ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 20:32:45 -0600 From: evian Subject: beatles trivia njc Haven't gone through the digest yet, but Helga from Germany was the first to answer with Sie liebt Dich, which I believe (although I could be wrong) charted at #97 on the Hot 100, and, I think, remained on the charts for two weeks. Why I know this bit o' trivia, I don't know..... Evian ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 20:42:35 -0600 From: evian Subject: yoko njc Hey Beatles folks, I have a question for you. Did Yoko ever hit the Hot 100 as a solo artist? What about "Walking on Thin Ice?" If it didn't, it's a shame... I love that frigging song!!!! Also, anyone have a spare copy of Yoko's GRAPEFRUIT they wanna sell? Evian np: Hole "Live Through This" ....I'm the one with no soul........ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 20:49:36 -0600 From: evian Subject: til tuesday njc Wally, I LOVE "What About Love!" I've heard some Aimee fans say that 'Til Tuesday is an embarrassment to her, but damn, that was such a good song... and the first TT album was/is great -- "Love in a Vacuum" and "Looking over my Shoulder" are irresistible. I read somewhere that Stevie Nicks recorded a demo of "What About Love", but when I asked some people from my old FM list about it, they kept thinking I was talking about Heart's "What About Love" so I just gave up -- Nikki, get on this one for us ;) Happy Xmas y'all! Evian NP -- Hole still..... Oh God, I must seek treatment for this Courtney Love obsession... ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 19:10:55 -0800 From: "Mark or Travis" Subject: Re: Holiday greetings > Chappy Chanukkah. > Get your free @yahoo.ca address at http://mail.yahoo.ca > And to all the pagans, HAPPY SOLSTICE! Mark in Seattle ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 22:28:27 -0500 From: "Jim L'Hommedieu" Subject: Re: Strange... very strange C'mon. You guys both know that Pat Boone is an Artist. He was trying to Grow. Artists can't Sit Still. They have to Grow or they Die. Victor: <> Muller: Strange indeed...the cover features Pat with an open leather vest...what was he thinking? He certainly didn't pick up any new fans and probably alienated the few that he had at that point... ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 00:29:52 EST From: AsharaJM@aol.com Subject: Re: Joni Mitchell LIVE in Austria Paul wrote: << In order for your medication to work, you really need to take it EVERY day. Skipping it for days at a time like this obviously sends you off the even keel. >> I think it is just so sad Paul, that you feel you have to put people down like this, especially newcomers to this group. I found the things Manhard said very interesting, and goes right along with many of the things I myself have written in my newsletter during the past 7 years. Tell you what, Paul: Why don't you pick on someone "your own size" like me, who has been around for years. I've just about had it with this mean-spiritedness. It's no wonder I am losing interest in reading my Joni mail when this is the kind of thing is constantly in my face. Disappointedly, Ashara ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 01:17:53 -0500 From: "Stephen Epstein" Subject: Re: Joni Mitchell LIVE in Austria Here here!! Think we should all do our best to reel it in a bit here. Great post Ashara!! Stephen in Vancouver NP: Isley Bros- You're all I Need AsharaJM@aol.com on 12/21/2000 09:29:52 PM Please respond to AsharaJM@aol.com To: joni@smoe.org cc: (bcc: Stephen Epstein/Agmont) Subject: Re: Joni Mitchell LIVE in Austria Paul wrote: << In order for your medication to work, you really need to take it EVERY day. Skipping it for days at a time like this obviously sends you off the even keel. >> I think it is just so sad Paul, that you feel you have to put people down like this, especially newcomers to this group. I found the things Manhard said very interesting, and goes right along with many of the things I myself have written in my newsletter during the past 7 years. Tell you what, Paul: Why don't you pick on someone "your own size" like me, who has been around for years. I've just about had it with this mean-spiritedness. It's no wonder I am losing interest in reading my Joni mail when this is the kind of thing is constantly in my face. Disappointedly, Ashara ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 07:16:13 -0000 From: philipf@tinet.ie Subject: Re: Best of 2000 NJC Broadcast - Noises Made By People Lambchop - Nixon Low - Christmas Badly Drawn Boy - Hour Of Bewilderbeast Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs Yo La Tengo - Then Nothing.... PJ Harvey - Stories from the city... Future Sounds Of Jazz vol 7 Joni - BSN CDRs: : Beck live at Witness, Cat Power - Peel Session Joni Covers from our pal Bob. Philip ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2000 #668 ***************************** ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here: mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe ------- Siquomb, isn't she?