From: les@jmdl.com (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2001 #194 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 Thursday, April 26 2001 Volume 2001 : Number 194 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: -------- Bruce Hornsby njc [evian ] Re: Bruce Hornsby (NJC) ["gene mock" ] Re: the album form njc now ["hell" ] Re: the album form ["hell" ] Blue versus Blood On The Tracks ["Jim L'Hommedieu" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 22:38:38 -0600 From: evian Subject: Bruce Hornsby njc The Way It Is would be in my top 10 desert island picks -- Haven't bought a new Bruce for ages, although I LOVED the cover of the one from a year or two ago with the picture of the ugly guy on it. Evian ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 22:13:51 -0700 From: "gene mock" Subject: Re: Bruce Hornsby (NJC) - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alison E" To: Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 6:51 AM Subject: Re: Bruce Hornsby (NJC) > always been at the telluride bluegrass festival. for those of you who are interested in the telluride bluegrass festival music, sam bush"s "peaks of telluride" is a must have. especially his rendition of "same ole river." if that don't get your feet moving and you hand slapping then you must be certifiably dead. just a fyi, later gene ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 17:26:33 +1200 From: "hell" Subject: Re: the album form njc now Evian wrote: > Well, call me corrupted hillbilly white trailer trash, but that kind of > pop culture fluffy crap is just the sort of stuff that I have fun with. > A couple weeks ago, I emailed my best friend Michelle info about a tape > someone was selling on ebay of 42 episodes of "The Facts of Life" and > then we got on the phone and discussed all the episodes listed (Damn you > Americans for getting Nick at Nite! I'd kill for Facts of Life, but I > digress). This sort of thing is more part of my generation's need to > reminisce than it is some sort of moral corruption. For someone who > grew up in the 70's and 80's on Wonder Bread, Bubble Yum, 22 hours of > television a day, etc., all of pop culture, good and bad, becomes part > of our collective past, and I relish it for what it's worth. And damn, > what WAS Mrs. Brady's maiden name?? I agree completely - where would we be without reruns of the Six Million Dollar Man, or documentaries on the Facts of Life stars! This is the stuff I grew up on, and yes, it is more nostalgia than anything else. BTW, Mrs. Brady's name was Carol - husband, Mike! 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, 26 Apr 2001 17:37:37 +1200 From: "hell" Subject: Re: the album form Philip wrote: > I think singles are the essence of great pop/rock/soul music. No album > can compare with the wow of hearing something like I Heard It Through The > Grapevine for the first time. This kind of music continues to be about hit > songs. Albums are just a convenient and economically viable way of > packaging some hit songs interspersed with some filler or not so hit songs. > Almost nobody of consequence in this type of music writes long suites. > Joni has only one song that would not fit on one side of a 7 inch single. > Mediocrities such as Texas and Dido flourish just as easily on single or > album format. Hmmm, fighting words.....! I totally, and unreservedly disagree with you here. Most of Joni's work has been non-single in orientation, and yet here we all are! How on earth could you describe Hejira, or DJRD as a "bunch of hit songs interspersed with some filler or not so hit songs." Ditto to FTR, or Blue, or any of her other 20-odd albums. An album doesn't need to consist of 2 long suites in order to be valid, and the sequencing of songs can make or break an albums appeal. Would you put The Last Time I Saw Richard as Track 1, Side 1? I doubt it. And I wouldn't call Dido a "mediocrity". She's a talented performer, and I'm sure time will bear this out. She's only released one album so far, but back in 1968, so had Joni. Mediocre? I don't think so! 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, 26 Apr 2001 01:41:35 -0400 From: "Jim L'Hommedieu" Subject: Blue versus Blood On The Tracks > All right, unless I hear otherwise "Blood On The Tracks" > wins (this should elicit some responses). Okay Mitch, I'll play. But you won't *like* the way I play. I vote for "For The Roses" and "Desire". What say you to that? :) Lama PS- Welcome home! ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2001 #194 ***************************** ------- 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?