From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2008 #30 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 Website: http://jonimitchell.com JMDL Digest Monday, April 14 2008 Volume 2008 : Number 030 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- RE: lyrics that suck ["Anita Tedder" ] Re: Immortal lyrics njc [David Eoll ] Re: NJC Lyricists [Catherine McKay ] Joni license plate [Patti Parlette ] marcel desilets now on cd baby NJC [Mags ] link to marcel desilets on cd baby [Mags ] John Lennon's Jukebox (NJC) [paulcastle@talktalk.net] re: lyrics that suck ["Jim L'Hommedieu" ] new artist NJC ["Kate Bennett" ] Night Ride Home locus [Dave Blackburn ] Re: Joni license plate ["Cassy" ] Re: Night Ride Home locus ["Jamie's Box of Paints" ] Re: lyrics that suck , neil young edition ["Randy Remote" ] Re: Night Ride Home locus ["Randy Remote" ] Re: Night Ride Home locus [Bob Muller ] Re: The More Things Change, The More They Remain The Same (Joni-influenced content)/Autism [Jeannie ] njc, How do you stop the Stop-Loss? ["Kate Bennett" ] re: NJC Lyricists [David Eoll ] re: njc McCain [David Eoll ] Re: Bob Dylan's Pulitzer Prize , njc -- Dylan's Cheney song [David Eoll <] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 10:15:39 +0100 From: "Anita Tedder" Subject: RE: lyrics that suck 'Girls in tight dresses who drag with moustaches Chick driving fast on bikes with long lashes' The L Word theme tune. Not only the world's worst melody but also worst lyric in the world ever. BTW, ever seen a Harley with eyelashes? How could the producers of this show allow the lesbian community be seen as the uncoolest people in the world by commissioning this dreadful theme music? Anita ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 10:14:52 -0400 From: David Eoll Subject: Re: Immortal lyrics njc > From: Catherine McKay > Subject: Re: Immortal lyrics njc > > We've had that discussion before about whether song > lyrics can be poetry and I think now that, no matter > how good some of the lyrics might be, they usually > don't stand alone whatsoever. I personally liked Jim Morrison's An American Prayer, even though I guess the reviews were mixed, even among Doors fans. I know, technically, it is set to the music of the reuinited Doors, but Jim recorded it as spoken word without a band. One of the final scenes in the Oliver Stone film show these sessions, and the sound engineer, played by John Densmore, asks, "Hey, Jim, where's the Doors?" Some of the poetry also served previously as lyrics from various Doors tunes, and I thought they stood up quite well as spoken word. Needless to say, I don't think Morrison belongs on the list. I'm not his hugest fan, but I do think he was brilliant. Peace, David ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 10:30:29 -0400 (EDT) From: Catherine McKay Subject: Re: NJC Lyricists - --- David Eoll wrote: > > From: "Randy Remote" > > Subject: Re: NJC Lyricists > > > > It occurs to me that if you took one line from > each > > of them, you could make one heck of a bad song. > > De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da. > I stand atop a spiral stair, An oracle confronts me > there. > When you are with me Im free, Im careless, I > believe. You've got to find room for this one, because I think it takes the prize: Ooh baby, wanna put my log in your fireplace Catherine ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- __________________________________________________________________ Looking for the perfect gift? Give the gift of Flickr! http://www.flickr.com/gift/ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 15:16:36 +0000 From: Patti Parlette Subject: Joni license plate Chelsea Morning! The CBS Sunday Morning Show (Hi Jerry!) just had a segment on license plates, which called to heart and mind an idea I had a while back....when I bought my new vehicle and y'all helped with christening song ideas (Hejira won, impossibly gentle hands down) and other advice (Muller said: "Don't drive it into a ditch" -- that son of a b@#$h!) and Patti W. designed those awesome bumper stickers. (WWJD, My other car is a big yellow tax, SIQUOMB, and Don Juan's Reckless Driver?) and Em sent me the "Joni Mitchell Never Lies" one. (Merci encore une fois, cheri(e)s!) Anyway, my idea at the time was to get a Joni vanity plate. I never ended up ordering one because I didn't want to be wrestling with my ego as I drove around on the black road (double-yellow lines) or the fine white lines of the free free way. Also, there would be the repetitious danger that another asshole passing on the right might yell out: "You're so vain!" (Although in 2005 we were not yet talking about those assholes, of course.) The plate I would have picked was: JONI . 1 That could mean two things: "Joni is number one" or I am a "Joni one" Get the picture? No? Voila: http://www.dmvplate.state.ct.us/VanityPlate.asp?PlateNo=JONI.1&PlateType=Greenways There are different backgrounds/plates you can chose, but I think Joni would like the "Greenways" one best, don't you think? (WWJD?) I know Ms. Treegreen would! It's pretty green, and there are trees on the left...like a little tree museum and....listen...you can almost hear strains of Benny Goodman, coming through the pine wood trees.... With Joni Love on a Sunday morning, Patti P., avoiding doing my tax returns because all the money money money money goes to the WAR and the bloody changes and they won't give peace a chance it was just a dream some of us had and it makes me absolutely f@#$ing INSANE! How do you stop (it)? Somebody tell me, please! You feel so feeble now. It's so out of hand.... (A little yin yang for you folks.) _________________________________________________________________ Get in touch in an instant. Get Windows Live Messenger now. http://www.windowslive.com/messenger/overview.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_Refresh_getintouch_042008 ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 13:01:54 -0400 (EDT) From: Mags Subject: marcel desilets now on cd baby NJC a dear friend of mine, Marcel Desilets, has been added to cdbaby. Please go and have a listen and purchase a cd if you are so inclined. He's a wonderful, down to earth kinda guy. Lucy met him at my place, in fact, Lucy played on Marcel's beloved Kay guitar. anyway, Marcel thinks that Jenny Goodspeed is wonderful, and can hear the influence of Joni in her songs. and Marcel is a big fan of Bruce Cockburn...as am I...oh this wondrous world of music binds us together, even more. since this is NJC, I just found out that another dear friend of mine in town suffered a heart attack this past Tuesday night. I'm a bit rattled about this to say the least and I guess I'm asking for y'all to send up kind and healing thoughts for him. (he's another kick @ss musician). There's a strong place to grown musically, this Winnipeg. yea, Ive been reading about the ideas for a joni fest up here. I happen to know that a couple of jmdlers will be in the Peg in the summer time. July to be specific. I dont want to arrange a Fest, I dont have the energy/time/talent it takes, but will give you the option to consider attending the Winnipeg Folk Festival, and perhaps meet up with us that way. I'll be wo rking at the festival, but I will have some time off . If you're interested in that....let me know, off list. And at the very least, we can talk about it in a bit more detail. thanks, Mags np: The Wind in the Window, heart melting beautiful. But that's Marcel. - --------------------------------- Instant message from any web browser! Try the new Yahoo! Canada Messenger for the Web BETA ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 13:09:20 -0400 (EDT) From: Mags Subject: link to marcel desilets on cd baby i forgot to send the link to marcel on cd baby. i think y'all will like his work. http://cdbaby.com/found?allsearch=marcel+desilets oh yea, he's a joni mitchell kindred spirit. if y'all decide to come on down to winnipeg this july, you might just get to hear him . as zooby says, much joni to y'all on this chill in the air kinda day. mags - --------------------------------- Be smarter than spam. See how smart SpamGuard is at giving junk email the boot with the All-new Yahoo! Mail ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 13:36:02 -0400 From: paulcastle@talktalk.net Subject: John Lennon's Jukebox (NJC) FAB!!! to find this online - an edition of the 'South Bank Show' about John Lennon's personal jukebox which was discovered a few years ago - a large typewriter-size portable jukebox he owned in the 60s containing 41 of his favourite 45s. http://snipurl.com/john_lennons_jukebox Along with some wonderful old footage, the show includes interviews with likes of Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller, Gary "US" Bonds (who toured the UK with The Beatles as his back-up band and who ended up firing them because "they were pretty bad"), Little Richard, The Isley Brothers, Bobby Parker (whose riff John nicked for "I Feel Fine"), Bruce Channel with Delbert McClinton (who played harmonica on 'Hey Baby'), guitarist Steve Cropper of the Stax house band Booker T & The MGs, (who wrote 'Midnight Hour' with Wilson Pickett and arranged/played on Otis Redding's version of 'My Girl'), Fontella Bass, John Sebastian of The Lovin' Spoonful (whose intro to "Do You Believe in Magic' is "a strangely altered" version of 'Heatwave' by Martha & The Vandellas), Dylan (Positively 4th Street) and Donovan (who rather pompously claims to have taught John "certain things about folk music he needed to know" - like how to fingerpick, resulting in 'Dear Prudence' three days later). Here' s a site listing all 41 songs - great to find quite a few of these were my own personal faves back in the day, too. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/shows/lennon/songlist.html Really fab geer!!! Pauli ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 13:32:28 -0400 From: "Jim L'Hommedieu" Subject: re: lyrics that suck there's a restaurant down the street / it's where hungry people go to eat. ha / ha / ha / ha / stayin' alive / stayin' alive. BGs (I hate that song) dance / dance / dance / let's make some ro-mance. Steve Miller (but I like the song anyway). I guess that's the yin and yang of bad lyrics. Jim L'Hommedieu ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 10:59:00 -0700 From: "Kate Bennett" Subject: new artist NJC I just caught wind of this impressive rising star (listening to the music clips now- WOW!) However, I hear more Shawn C, Ricki L & Alison K than Joni http://cdbaby.com/cd/annasali "If it were a recipe from the Music Business Cookbook it might go something like this: in a blender combine equal parts: Norah Jones, Jewel, Lucinda Williams & Joni Mitchell. add a dash of Shawn Colvin. sprinkle lightly with KT Tunstall. add a splash of Alison Krause. season with Ricki Lee Jones to taste. pulse gently and serve loud." ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 10:55:38 -0700 From: Dave Blackburn Subject: Night Ride Home locus Hi everyone, The list talk has been a bit slim and lacking in Joni content of late so here's an actual topical question for you mavens. We've been doing Night Ride Home for years and it's been one of our most popular Joni covers as it's so easy to get into the imagery and the song is so straightforward with no Martian chords. The other day we got into a spirited debate about where the night ride actually takes place. Vote A was for Hawaii (Hula girls, Ukulele Man, and an actual dark horse running alongside the car. Vote B was for somewhere out in the desert, maybe around Las Vegas, a familiar drive for most Southern Californians. Out there are plenty of silver power lines, caterpillar tractors, big blue moon and neon signs of things like ukulele players and hula dancers. I proposed that the big Dark Horse, red tail lights on his hide, was in fact a brand name for some kind of big rig truck and as you merge onto a freeway it is right along side and you rev for stride. We never resolved the debate but I said I'd pose it to the gurus. What 'a ya got....? Dave ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 12:19:09 -0700 From: "Cassy" Subject: Re: Joni license plate From: "Patti Parlette" <<< The plate I would have picked was: JONI . 1 >>> It was 1994 that Turbulent Indigo came out, serendipitously Michigan began allowing 7 characters on their license plates the same year and after listening to Sex Kills I began to really think about Joni-personalized plates, in 1999 I finally ended up purchasing SIQUOMB for myself. When I moved to the Seattle area last year I was very nervous that it wouldn't be available but it was so I've continued the tradition. I've been wearing that plate since October 1999 and I don't know what I'd do without it. My other possibilities at the time were: SEXKILS (they wouldn't let me have this) HEJIRA LAKOTA (I decided to use this one to name my dog instead - R.I.P.) TWISTED COYOTE FORFREE I was wishing I had more letters available because I would have loved to have SISOTOWBELL DAWNTREADER BLACKCROW Did you decide to get the plate, Patti? <<< Patti P., avoiding doing my tax returns because all the money money money money goes to the WAR and the bloody changes and they won't give peace a chance it was just a dream some of us had and it makes me absolutely f@#$ing INSANE! How do you stop (it)? Somebody tell me, please! You feel so feeble now. It's so out of hand.... >>> Patti, you're my heroine! love, love, love, Cassy If Iraq's biggest export was broccoli, would we still be there ? ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 20:24:40 +0100 From: "Jamie's Box of Paints" Subject: Re: Night Ride Home locus Well, if we're going to go along with her painting of the same name ('Big Blue Moon There' 1987) I will say Kauai - which is an island (or a place? My geography of Hawaii isn't great) in/near Hawaii. And the video will also go along with the beach idea. However the 'open road' and 'horse' images that she brings to it, take it away from my idea of Hawaii. OK so the horse is a metaphor for a car but she brings it to the table. As archivist to the jonimitchell.com/painter website I'm ashamed to say that I don't seem to have a copy of this painting on the site! Must hunt for it. Though I did have it hanging on my wall, as it was a poster for the exhibition Much Joni Jamie Zooby On 13/04/2008, Dave Blackburn wrote: > Hi everyone, > The list talk has been a bit slim and lacking in Joni content of > late so here's an actual topical question for you mavens. > > We've been doing Night Ride Home for years and it's been one of our > most popular Joni covers as it's so easy to get into the imagery and > the song is so straightforward with no Martian chords. The other day > we got into a spirited debate about where the night ride actually > takes place. Vote A was for Hawaii (Hula girls, Ukulele Man, and an > actual dark horse running alongside the car. Vote B was for somewhere > out in the desert, maybe around Las Vegas, a familiar drive for most > Southern Californians. Out there are plenty of silver power lines, > caterpillar tractors, big blue moon and neon signs of things like > ukulele players and hula dancers. I proposed that the big Dark Horse, > red tail lights on his hide, was in fact a brand name for some kind > of big rig truck and as you merge onto a freeway it is right along > side and you rev for stride. We never resolved the debate but I said > I'd pose it to the gurus. > > What 'a ya got....? ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 10:13:40 -0700 From: "Randy Remote" Subject: Re: NJC Lyricists From: "David Eoll" > Updated Worst Lyricists: > 1 Randy Remote > 2 Sting > 3 Neal Peart While I've always wanted to be the best at something, I cannot possibly take all the credit, since you did all the work. I suggest we split the royalties 80/20, me/you. Seems fair since it was my idea. Maybe we could be the new Lennon/McCartney of bad songs. Anyway, very funny, and there are some truly bad lines in there, though I would submit for Robert Plant the immortal: If there's a bustle in your hedgerow, don't be alarmed now RR ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 11:32:40 -0700 From: "Randy Remote" Subject: Re: lyrics that suck , neil young edition From: "Jim L'Hommedieu" > dance / dance / dance / let's make some ro-mance. Steve Miller (but I > like the song anyway). Snake eyes, french fries, I got lots of gas Full moon and a truckin' tune You don't have to ask C'mon baby, let's go downtown... Hello cowgirl in the sand Is this place at your command? Old enough now, to change your name When so many love you, is it the same? Got mashed potatoes Got mashed potatoes Got mashed potatoes Ain't got no t-bone (repeat over and over for 9 minutes) Rapid transit. Public service. I'm standing in my line. Melt down. Containment. I'm standing in my line - -Neil Young ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 12:42:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Em Subject: Re: lyrics that suck , neil young edition NJC I thought it was "full moon and a jumpin' tune" hmmmm.... that falls into the "really bad lyrics that I nonetheless love" category... :) Em - --- Randy Remote wrote: > From: "Jim L'Hommedieu" > > dance / dance / dance / let's make some ro-mance. Steve Miller > (but I > > like the song anyway). > > Snake eyes, french fries, I got lots of gas > Full moon and a truckin' tune > You don't have to ask > C'mon baby, let's go downtown... > > Hello cowgirl in the sand > Is this place at your command? > Old enough now, to change your name > When so many love you, is it the same? > > Got mashed potatoes > Got mashed potatoes > Got mashed potatoes > Ain't got no t-bone > (repeat over and over for 9 minutes) > > Rapid transit. > Public service. > I'm standing in my line. > Melt down. > Containment. > I'm standing in my line > -Neil Young ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 12:54:57 -0700 From: "Randy Remote" Subject: Re: Night Ride Home locus From: "Dave Blackburn" > We've been doing Night Ride Home for years and it's been one of our > most popular Joni covers as it's so easy to get into the imagery and > the song is so straightforward with no Martian chords. The other day > we got into a spirited debate about where the night ride actually > takes place. Okay, I thought this song was about a road trip she took with Larry to Canada ie home. (Or home being back to L.A.). I don't know about the Hawaiian images, but the song is pretty vague in general. One of our Joni herstorians surely knows. RR ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 13:29:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Bob Muller Subject: Re: Night Ride Home locus Nope - Hawaii is the correct answer, but we do have some nice parting gifts for you Mr. Remote. Here's an excerpt from an interview with Chris Douridas in 1994: Music up: "Night Ride Home.") CD: It's so nice listening to you guys play this song and to see your exchange of smiles at that one point in the song where you say, "I love the man beside me." JM: Oh, yeah, this was a beautiful trip we took. It was. We went to -- fourth of July we went to Hanalei. Was it Hanalei? Larry Klein: Yeah, it was Kawai, yeah. JM: And we had a really nice evening and there was like a lot of, like, local kind of hula stuff while it was light, and then there was a band -- there were two bands. A traditional ukulele band, like slack-key band playing in one room, and then there was a rock band playing in the other. And we befriended the wife of one of the band members that night. Then the drive home was really kind of surreal. Actually you've got to get kind of a pre-setting to it. We rented this house and before we left, the people who rented the house next to us had decided to have this barbecue on our beach. Now we weren't going to be using that beach that night, but when you pay for a private beach, it kind of like bugs you to see these people like frying burgers on your beach, you know. CD: You want to at least be able to look at it. JM: So -- and plus they were shooting off these rockets, right? And I was standing at the window thinking that's our beach, you know. We paid for that beach and everything. So anyway, then logic enters into it and you think, well, you know, we're not going to be using it, we're going on the other side of the island. So we go over to the other side of the island. We have a pleasant evening listening to this traditional music and a little bit of the rock. And we're coming home -- either we had a tinted windshield in the car or else there was a real blue moon, but the clouds were scudding overhead real fast. They were moving like, you know, on our route anyway they were moving right to left across, and there was a big blue moon hanging in the sky. LK: Oh, yeah. JM: And everything seemed enchanted. The dots on the highway seemed enchanted. The wires as they scooped along outside the window seemed more silver than ever and in the distance we thought we saw a flying saucer land. We couldn't figure it out. It was like this patch of light in the middle of the field. Well when we came up on it, it was a big yellow tractor with the headlights on and guys in overalls with one leg up on the bumper drinking beer and laughing in the middle of this cane field. Then when we came to our turn-off, this horse loped alongside of us literally with the taillights of our car reflecting on his hide and his big eye staring in the window. When we got back to the house, we walked in and it smelled of burn. It smelled like wet firewood. Went into the bedroom, and we had just found a kitten a couple of days earlier, a little runty kitten, like, that was prematurely weaned and really high-spirited. And we left her in there. We came into the house and there was a stink of fire, wet fire. Went into the bedroom. The bed had been moved out into the middle of the room and all the bed clothes were soggy and there was a big hole in the roof and a note from the neighbors who'd had the barbecue on our beach saying, "Gee, suddenly your roof caught fire. We don't know how it happened, but we rented your house on our last vacation so we knew where the spare key was so we stuck a garden hose, like, up on your roof and we came -- " but they started the fire -- CD: With their rockets. JM: -- because they were with their rockets at the beginning of the evening and this little kitten was in there. But the whole thing was kind of surreal and enchanted. LK: Like a film. JM: Yeah, it was like this funny little film. ********************************************************* Bob NP: Joni, "Two Grey Rooms" Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 14:01:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeannie Subject: Re: The More Things Change, The More They Remain The Same (Joni-influenced content)/Autism How are y'all? I don't know why I have been so sensitive lately. The doctor says it's depression and the priest told me it was compassion and that is why I mourn, morning, noon and night, these days. I'm sure many of you have seen the documentary on HBO On Demand on the subject of autism and the innocent dance of love the autistic children perform. I can't help the emotions of joy when I see autistic children bloom and the pain I feel for the ones still locked away in a world of no communication. There is this sweet child who sings Joni's, ' Urge For Going' so real and so free and beautifully at the beginning of the documentary. Mr. and Mrs. Steven Stills and their unbelievably special, funny and intelligent autistic son appear on the documentary. I praise all parents who teach their children well under any circumstance such as Steven Stills and and his beautiful wife and so many other compassionate and determined people who give their all and who truly are the pioneers and seekers of mental health. Jeannie Brian Gross wrote: http://www.journalstar.com/articles/2008/04/10/news/local/doc47fd46f94c509613389585.txt Brian, who continues to firmly believe there is Joni-content everywhere. - ----------------------------------------------------------- Politicians and diapers both need to be changed often. And usually for the same reasons. - ----------------------------------------------------------- Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ~nj~ Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 19:13:17 -0400 From: David Eoll Subject: Re: NJC Lyricists "Does anybody remember laughter?" :) Randy Remote wrote: > From: "David Eoll" > >> Updated Worst Lyricists: >> 1 Randy Remote >> 2 Sting >> 3 Neal Peart > > > While I've always wanted to be the best at something, > I cannot possibly take all the credit, since you did all > the work. I suggest we split the royalties 80/20, me/you. > Seems fair since it was my idea. Maybe we could be > the new Lennon/McCartney of bad songs. Anyway, > very funny, and there are some truly bad lines in there, > though I would submit for Robert Plant the immortal: > If there's a bustle in your hedgerow, don't be alarmed now > RR ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 17:11:43 -0700 From: "Kate Bennett" Subject: njc, How do you stop the Stop-Loss? Kudos to the LA Times & the journalist for this sad story. If only the same amount of publicity went into the reality of soldiering as does the selling of the war based on myths. But then who would want to go to war? I hope this young man chooses to walk the path of helping himself. I am glad there is help out there for him. I wonder if that is available for all, or just the ones who have the focus of the media & who GWB sends a letter & cigar to. Remember GWB is jealous of these guys because they get to fight & if only he wasn't employed he'd be over there too. :~[ (snarly face) Something in this story reminded me of my friend who spoke in similar terms about his experience (Vietnam) when facing someone you are supposed to kill. In my friends case, something otherworldly spiritual came over him & instead of killing his opponent he put down his weapon. Both young men cried. My friend was in special forces on his second tour, had been offered a position in the CIA as an operative (trading guns for heroin). He walked away from it all in a moment & miraculously was not jailed. I met him soon after all this happened but only recently heard his story. Kate >How many people, I wonder, know that the young man who's image was used to sell the war is suffering from PTSD? Like many of his comrades from this war and wars past, he returned home a shadow of his former self: http://tinyurl.com/4vvzpj I urge you to watch the video that goes with this article: http://tinyurl.com/3m2e3k< ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 19:30:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Monika Bogdanowicz Subject: Re: lyrics that suck , neil young edition Well in Neil's defense, that first set of lyrics wasn't written by him. The song was mostly written by Danny Whitten. Neil's lyrical contribution to it was minimal--his lines only were the "sure enough they'll be selling.../moon lines." This is a song sung by Whitten which Crazy Horse did in or around '70. Neil found a recording of it (live I believe) and slapped it onto "Tonight's The Night" feeling this song was essential to that album. As for the mashed potates lines, well maybe he had just smoked up prior to writing those and was REALLY hungry. Haha, that would explain the length, lack of direction and the words then! -M, who likes the lyrics to Cowgirl In The Sand Randy Remote wrote: Snake eyes, french fries, I got lots of gas Full moon and a truckin' tune You don't have to ask C'mon baby, let's go downtown... Hello cowgirl in the sand Is this place at your command? Old enough now, to change your name When so many love you, is it the same? Got mashed potatoes Got mashed potatoes Got mashed potatoes Ain't got no t-bone (repeat over and over for 9 minutes) Rapid transit. Public service. I'm standing in my line. Melt down. Containment. I'm standing in my line - -Neil Young Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 19:46:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Monika Bogdanowicz Subject: Re: NJC was Lyricists - now the Who Oh yes, I have heard it. It is fantastic. Live At Leeds is killer. I had wondered why the original, full length concert was never released.....well until it was....and why for so long? -M David Eoll wrote: > From: Monika Bogdanowicz > Subject: Re: NJC Lyricists > > Here's an example of bad lyrics but in a good song. I love the > Who. Big Who fan here. Pinball Wizard is a really good song...strong > music....strong vocals...good melody......though the lyrics are all > very silly. A pinball wizard? Really? However, I still consider > that a good song. Hey, Monika. Have you heard the 2001 re-release of Live At Leeds? They include the entire concert on 2 discs. They played Tommy pretty much in its entirety, which is on Disc 2. The downside is that the Tommy part is mixed differently somehow from the rest of the concert. I don't know what they did, but there is this annoying reverb that is not there on Disc 1. Makes them sound like they're playing in a giant tin can. But, if you can overlook that, its a fantastic set. Peace, David (who is a deadhead, and therefore used to listening to crappy recordings of great concerts) Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 23:22:14 -0400 From: David Eoll Subject: Re: NJC was Lyricists - now the Who Live At Leeds is actually one of the first albums I ever owned. I won it in a card game when I was in the 3rd grade or so. Seriously, my friends and I would play poker and bet "stuff" instead of chips. I think the record actually belonged to one of my friend's older sisters. :) He was the youngest of six (?) and the only boy. He was the stereotypical pain-in-the-ass little brother who always got into your stuff. I seem to remember I won a KISS record in the same game. Destroyer maybe? Cheers, David Monika Bogdanowicz wrote: > Oh yes, I have heard it. It is fantastic. Live At Leeds is killer. I had wondered why the original, full length concert was never released.....well until it was....and why for so long? > -M > > David Eoll wrote: > > From: Monika Bogdanowicz > >>Subject: Re: NJC Lyricists >> >>Here's an example of bad lyrics but in a good song. I love the >>Who. Big Who fan here. Pinball Wizard is a really good song...strong >>music....strong vocals...good melody......though the lyrics are all >>very silly. A pinball wizard? Really? However, I still consider >>that a good song. > > > Hey, Monika. Have you heard the 2001 re-release of Live At Leeds? They > include the entire concert on 2 discs. They played Tommy pretty much in > its entirety, which is on Disc 2. The downside is that the Tommy part > is mixed differently somehow from the rest of the concert. I don't know > what they did, but there is this annoying reverb that is not there on > Disc 1. Makes them sound like they're playing in a giant tin can. But, > if you can overlook that, its a fantastic set. > > Peace, > David (who is a deadhead, and therefore used to listening to crappy > recordings of great concerts) > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 23:29:22 -0400 From: David Eoll Subject: re: NJC Lyricists > From: Monika Bogdanowicz > Subject: NJC Lyricists > > 10 Jim Morrison I think Morrison is one of those guys, either you love him or hate him. Either he's a poetic genius, or an overrated egomaniac. I like him, so I wouldn't include him here. > 12 David Crosby Even though Almost Cut My Hair isn't my favorite CSN song, I do like it, and I particularly like the police car line. But even if you don't like this particular song, some of his lyrics in other songs are really fantastic. I agree, it seems like having even one stinker is enough to land you on this list. > 23 Robert Plant They nailed this one. If I had to choose the worst lyric to any Led Zeppelin song, I too would've picked the "Gollum stole my girlfriend" line from Ramble On. I can't believe they actually thought that was a good idea. I don't know if I actually read the Hobbit 38 times, but it was a bunch, and it sure didn't seem to generate any interest for me among the females. I don't know what Plant's secret was. Oh... that's right, he was a rock star. > 38 Paul McCartney "Bang, bang, Maxwell's silver hammer came down upon her head/Bang, bang, Maxwell's silver hammer made sure that she was dead." I can't listen to that song without picturing John Lennon pounding his head against the wall, as Paul says, "Let's run through it again, shall we?" He had a whole slew of these "vaudeville" songs. Maxwell's Silver Hammer, Martha My Dear, Your Mother Should Know, When I'm Sixty-four, Honey Pie. It just sounds like he should be dressed in one of those red&white striped jackets, straw hat, and a cane, doing some tap dance and singing, as a shephard's hook appears from off-stage somewhere to drag him away. Ugh. Its just not for me. Paul had his moments, but... John's my favorite Beatle, George is my favorite ex-Beatle. Cheers, David ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 23:57:03 -0400 From: David Eoll Subject: re: njc McCain > From: Patti Parlette > Subject: njc, Got MLK? in which David spouts off about politics again WARNING! > > David wrote: > > So, forgive me for not getting the joke when McCain does his little > Jan & Dean routine: "Bomb, bomb, bomb. Bomb, bomb Iran." I think > that's exactly who he is, another immature frat boy who can't wait to > get his finger on the trigger of the world's biggest military. And > I'm not having any kind of sense of humor at all about that. > > ***** > > Friends don't let friends spout off alone. ; ) > > I can't get over that one. How DARE he make a joke about bombing > human beings! Think of what his job was in Viet Nam. Kind of puts that joke in a different light, doesn't it? This is someone who has actually bombed human beings. Which makes his attitude about bombing Iran even more ghastly. He should know better. Peace, David ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 01:43:51 -0400 From: David Eoll Subject: Re: Bob Dylan's Pulitzer Prize , njc -- Dylan's Cheney song > From: "Jim L'Hommedieu" > Subject: Bob Dylan's Pulitzer Prize , njc > > No joke. He got a "special Pulitzer" on April 8th. > Has everyone heard Dylan's song about Dick Cheney? Its phenomenal and he totally has Cheney's number. I found the lyrics online. Here, check it out: Come you masters of war You that build the big guns You that build the death planes You that build all the bombs You that hide behind walls You that hide behind desks I just want you to know I can see through your masks You that never done nothin' But build to destroy You play with my world Like it's your little toy You put a gun in my hand And you hide from my eyes And you turn and run farther When the fast bullets fly Like Judas of old You lie and deceive A world war can be won You want me to believe But I see through your eyes And I see through your brain Like I see through the water That runs down my drain You fasten the triggers For the others to fire Then you set back and watch When the death count gets higher You hide in your mansion As young people's blood Flows out of their bodies And is buried in the mud You've thrown the worst fear That can ever be hurled Fear to bring children Into the world For threatening my baby Unborn and unnamed You ain't worth the blood That runs in your veins How much do I know To talk out of turn You might say that I'm young You might say I'm unlearned But there's one thing I know Though I'm younger than you Even Jesus would never Forgive what you do Let me ask you one question Is your money that good Will it buy you forgiveness Do you think that it could I think you will find When your death takes its toll All the money you made Will never buy back your soul And I hope that you die And your death'll come soon I will follow your casket In the pale afternoon And I'll watch while you're lowered Down to your deathbed And I'll stand o'er your grave 'Til I'm sure that you're dead - ---- This song was written back in 1963 when Dick Cheney was only 22. I'm pretty impressed that Bob was prescient enough to see what Dick would amount to even back then. Genius. Sheer genius. The man deserves a Pulitzer. Peace, David ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2008 #30 **************************** ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here: mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------