From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2006 #116 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk Unsubscribe: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe Archives: http://www.smoe.org/lists/joni Website: http://jonimitchell.com JMDL Digest Wednesday, March 29 2006 Volume 2006 : Number 116 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- RE: Top voices best heard on the dance floor - njc ["patrick leader" ] Re: JMDL Trivia (njc) ["Lori Fye" ] rumi and the dulcimer and my list NJC [mags h ] Re: njc, Both Sides Now of March Madness [Bob Muller ] Joni's Supposed Comments [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 22:52:06 -0500 From: "patrick leader" Subject: RE: Top voices best heard on the dance floor - njc i'm just loving this best voices thread, especially when people write a little bit about the voices that move them. thought i'd focus in on voices i've loved in dance music, voices i first heard on the dance floor that stayed with me. 1. martha wash - in 1990 or so, black box had a huge dance hit with 'everybody everybody' and not long after, c&c music factory had 'gonna make you sweat (everybody dance now)'. this was just about the time that i was really falling in love with dance music all over, house music was hitting new york (and me) and what a huge pleasure it was that martha wash was right there in the middle of it. i'd loved her since she was in 'two tons of fun', backing up sylvester. i'd seen her live in both incarnations, plus, of course, the weather girls' 'it's raining men' had been one of the gayest disco singles ever. but she totally hit her stride in house music, though she had to sue c&c music factory to get credit. she has a huge voice, deep and powerful and gospelly. i have a lot of singles by her, and one self-titled 1993 album. two tons of fun had a mid-tempo song called 'just us' that had a great deal of resonance in my younger days. just one of my all-time favorite voices, through so many years. 2. sylvester - one of the greatest voices ever. though disco was the music of liberation for me, the soundtrack of my coming out, i actually hated it an awful lot of the time. violins made me vomit. sylvester was definitely the exception; i made a point of buying the albums and loved them, they were serious and complete, not throwaways like so much disco pap. and that voice. my favorite sylvester song is called 'i need somebody to love tonight' a slow funky lament. it's haunting. sylvester is one of the earliest and most tragic aids losses, i saw him live for the last time in approx 1984, visibly ill, at the san francisco gay pride parade rally. if he'd lived, he'd have moved as confidently as martha wash into house music, and he would have ruled. 3. byron stingily - former lead singer of the chicago house band 'ten city', he has a truly gorgeous voice, singing mostly in falsetto. definitely reminscent of sylvester, he covered 'you make me feel (mighty real)' in 1999 and had a dance hit. ten city's biggest songs were 'that's the way love is' and 'right back to you'. love this man's voice. 4. caron wheeler - on august 13 1989, a pivotal evening for me, i heard soul II soul's two biggest songs, 'keep on movin' and 'back to life' both for the first time, causing me to fall deeply in love all over again with the dance floor, for years and years. caron wheeler's voice was the soundtrack of 1990 and 91, including her wonderful solo album 'uk blak'. special mention to one song from that album: 'blue (is the colour of pain)' 5. alison moyet - putting her on my dancemusic list because 'situation' and 'don't go' were just shockingly good songs when they hit. so that got me listening to alison, and she never disappointed, though she didn't remain in the dance world. one of my favorite things she ever did was take a 'ode to boy' a bleep-blop '80s song she recorded on her second solo album, and remake it as a rocker. pheeenomenal! 6. grace jones - not so much for the disco songs 'i need a man' and her first version of 'la vie en rose', but for her 80s stuff. 'pull up to the bumper' was a brilliant dancefloor song, and 'nightclubbing' a brilliant album. 'my jamaican guy', 'nipple to the bottle', the icy cold 'warm leatherette'. these were great songs in great performances. her version of 'demolition man' came out before the police's (and was better than theirs). and finally, she recorded 'slave to the rhythm', one of my all-time favorite tracks. put some grace in your face, baby. 7. pauline henry (of the chimes) - i think the best voice of the neo-soul movement of the early '90s. i first heard 'heaven', '123' and the chimes' fantastic remake of 'still haven't found what i'm looking for' on the dance floor, but the chimes' one album has never been out of play in my life. i've heard a lot of 'almost the whole package' voices. she's got the whole package. 8. crystal waters - niece of ethel, she had an odd, huge first dance hit with 'gypsy woman (she's homeless)' riffing on the off-tune humming of a street person getting ready for work. 'making happy' was the second hit. then, off her next album, '100% pure love' which completely rocked my world. some great other songs on that album. she covered 'twisted' at some point; i haven't heard it. 9. cheryl lynn - i mentioned her in my divas post. great instrument. honorable mention: ultra nati, robert owens (right to my gizzard), n'dea davenport, lady miss kier, and you know there are more jfp while writing this post - stingily, sylvester, caron wheeler ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 22:56:04 EST From: JRMCo1@aol.com Subject: Re: dave lenihan & condi rice, njc This is real: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/29/sports/29duke.html?hp&ex=1143608400& en=bd795bd918a52700&ei=5094&partner=homepage - -Julius In a message dated 3/26/06 12:01:48 PM, JRMCo1 writes: > Not much to discuss. Lenihan was fired by his own bosses for using a > racial epithet on live radio. He had only been at the station two weeks. The > outcome should've been the same had he used the slur directed at anyone. Anyone > at all. > > Breaking news! Racism is still rampant. What a scoop. (yawn). > > -Julius > > > In a message dated 3/26/06 11:40:01 AM, levatorvelipalatini@yahoo.com > writes: > > > > hey guys, > i just GOTTA know what everyone thinks about this > controversy! > jen (who is in joni elementary school hoping to catch > up with you who have a doctorate in joni) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 20:05:36 -0800 (PST) From: Bob Muller Subject: Re: top voices (njc) Good call, Kakki - her version of BSN is pure killer. And I can't think of Natalie without thinking of riding around with my Dad and her hit "Everlasting Love" was playing on the radio and I was thinking to myself "God, she can SING, this is AWESOME" and my Dad said "Boy, this is awful" and I just laughed to myself. Bob NP: Joni, "You've Changed" Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 19:38:09 -0800 From: "Lori Fye" Subject: Re: JMDL Trivia (njc) > O.K. so we will probably never really know for sure but I would > say that: > > "Who on the jMDL has slept with the most people on the > jMDL?" > > and > > "Who on the jMDL has WANTED to sleep with the most > people on the jMDL?" > > just might be one and the same person - LOL Nope. I only qualify for the second category. ; ) Lori ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 20:01:29 -0800 (PST) From: mags h Subject: rumi and the dulcimer and my list NJC I found this little Rumi quote in a book today at work...I wonder if Joni has seen it? Today, like every other day, We wake up empty and frightened. Don't open the door to the study And start reading. Take down the dulcimer. Let the beauty we love Be what we do. There are hundreds of ways To kneel and kiss the ground ***** some of my list, off the top of my head is as follows: beth gibbons eddie vedder (especially 'crazy mary') bono (especially on joshua tree) jeff buckley (hallejulah) david grey dave matthews ben harper jack johnson xavier rudd bob marley beth orton sheila chandra sade tori amos ani difranco brendan perry bill withers sam cooke frank sinatra ella fitzgerald nina simone jackson brown eagle and hawk (all great singers) imogen heap kd lang jane siberry lead singer of the scorpions (dont have his name handy just now ) the following are canadians that i adore: cara luft mark reeves daniel roy murray pulver (now in egospank, formerly crash test dummies) keith and renee (easily amused) gordon lightfoot marc jordan bruce cockburn deb talan lisa winn jacob moon monica schroeder aengus finnan let us go then you and i ~t.s.eliot~ I'll keep on moving Things are bound to be improving these days These days- These days I sit on corner stones And count the time in quarter tones to ten, my friend Don't confront me with my failures I had not forgotten them ~jackson browne~ - --------------------------------- New Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. Call regular phones from your PC and save big. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 20:13:14 -0800 (PST) From: Bob Muller Subject: Re: njc, Both Sides Now of March Madness C'mon J-Ray, > > You are only supposed to pick 20 but I know. We should have made it 100! I > had many that others noted (close cuts with Milton Nascimiento, Robert > Plant, Jim Morrison and Allison Krauss) but had to limit it to the moment > and I figured they would be included elsewhere so.... And Astrud Gilberto, > McCartney and absolutely Sinatra. Wish we could all be close by and just go > see a lot of them together when they play. Also, Natalie Cole - she is > consistently one of the most astounding singers I've ever seen. > > Kakki ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 22:40:06 -0600 From: "mack watson-bush" Subject: Conn- duke njc Sorry Patti. Hated to see that. Not from either state so I can write it. That officiating was ..... hmmm..... interesting, to write the least. Get that alot when Duke, either team, plays. mack. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 22:18:22 -0800 From: Subject: Joni's Supposed Comments Hi Rick, I don't know about a "concert" but I have read and heard that she sometimes gets up impromptu and sings in small cafes in town. As for the rest, I find it surprising - although she is quite the raconteur in a small crowd and maybe just was having fun. I wouldn't worry, though, because she previously nicked Bush in an article around the time of the last election. Maybe she didn't care for Kerry, either ;-) Kakki ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2006 #116 ***************************** ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here: mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------