From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2009 #371 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 Friday, December 18 2009 Volume 2009 : Number 371 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: Must Be Santa - Single of the Week - NJC [Lieve Reckers ] Re: Must Be Santa - Single of the Week - NJC [Catherine McKay Subject: Re: Must Be Santa - Single of the Week - NJC Got to admit that, from what I've heard so far, I like and maybe even love this album too. It's embarrassing to admit when I know that Bob, whose musical tastes I often share, thinks it's awful, but it's the truth. I know it's not really good in a "proper" way, but it gives me such a naughty thrill. To follow the descriptions used by Richard's friend Aldon and Catherine, I feel like that music itself is intoxicating. I don't need to be imbibed to start listening, because those songs immediately pour the alcohol down my throat and make me smile and swoon! Lieve in London (in real life almost tee-total) - ------ Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 12:40:05 -0800 (PST) From: Catherine McKay Subject: Re: Must Be Santa - Single of the Week - NJC Aldon is brilliant. He has described it perfectly. I was going to say it would probably help to be a few sheets to the wind before listening, because then you could just sing along - badly - and enjoy yourself immensely. ________________________________ From: Richard Flynn Subject: RE: Must Be Santa - Single of the Week - NJC My friend Aldon has the perfect description of the Dylan Xmas album (which I love): "Imagine a Christmas dinner ca 1956 -- the grandparents and all the cousins are on hand - -- then, after too much turkey and at least three egg noggs more than your dad had, Jewish uncle Bob (married to Aunt Mary during her bohemian college days) gets up and starts croaking along with the family stereo playing the Christmas carols (the arrangements are all right out of the 50s, delightfully so), except for the first part of "I'll Be Home for Christmas," which sounds like Tom Waits threatening to come to your house instead of Santa - - -- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 09:25:21 -0600 From: Robert Procyk Subject: Must Be Santa - Single of the Week - NJC This is a little diversion from the thread, but seeing Catherine's posts made me think of some of the hideous Canadian crap we get stuck with every Xmas. Because of Canadian content regulations, we have been forced to hear some really awful Christmas songs over the years. I actually think we discussed this some other Christmas, but since I'm pushing 40, I'm starting to repeat myself, so bear with me. Anyway, I think I would rather have Dylan rap Xmas tunes in Chinese than have to hear Corey Hart's "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer" again - or as Corey pronounces it "Raayne deee-ahhhh-aaar". And don't get me started on the Doug and and the Slugs Xmas song, or that Bryan Adams thing. You've got to get your hands on the Corey song. It's simply horrible. As for Xmas tunes, I try to avoid them as much as possible, but that doesn't really work when you are married to someone who plays the Xmas station all weekend long. However, to prove I am not a complete Scrooge, I do own a few Xmas cds, with Amy Grant's being my favorite. Happy Xmas, Rob ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 07:03:00 -0800 (PST) From: Rian Afriadi Subject: updating lyrics (times are a-changin) Joni did it "an arm and a leg" on Big Yellow Taxi. I just heard Carole King did it on "Hard Rock Cafe". She changed "You can always sit down and watch the color TV" to "You can always sit down and watch the game on TV" (color TV vs black and white TV sounds ridiculous now) Any other findings? rian NP. Yael Naim - Levater ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 08:34:48 -0800 (PST) From: Catherine McKay Subject: Re: Must Be Santa - Single of the Week - NJC Thanks for the reminder, Rob. I had forgotten about Corey Hart. He has the most bizarre diction ever. I haven't heard that one yet this year and I probably need to hear it. Once. That one is so bad it's good. It's so bad you can't even do a parody of it because it sounds like it is a parody already. And yet, it's not. I don't think I'm familiar with the Doug and the Slugs or Bryan Adams thing. I do remember this horrible song called "Honky the Christmas Goose" that someone was probably trying to tranform into the Canadian version of Rudolph the Red. This goes back years ago. I was just a kid. (Stopped and looked it up on google and it came out in 1965 - and it was performed by Johnny Bower (sung with Little John and the Rinky Dinks!) Maybe it was only a Toronto-area thing, because he was a Leaf. (http://www.hhof.com/legendsofhockey/html/spot_treasurep197601.htm) Until I looked it up, I had no idea a hockey player sang it.) There is some really horrible crap that gets brought out every year, kind of like the shitty Christmas ornaments you keep holding onto, but never actually put on the tree, and then pack away for next year, because you never know... Or the weird stuff some people give you for Christmas that you have to hold onto for a little while in case they show up at your place and ask about it. Last year, someone gave me this truly bizarre scent-diffuser. It was a couple of what I think are supposed to be angels, kneeling beside a candle. (Worshipping it?) You'd put the scented oil in a glass dish over the candle to make your place smell Christmassy. It was just SO weird that I did what everyone in our building does when they want to get rid of stuff: put it in the laundry room. Someone must have seen it and liked it and took it because I checked the next day and it was gone. All the Star Trek novels and out-of-date textbooks that someone else left months ago are still there. I have to say that downsizing from a house to an apartment really hardened my heart and made me finally get rid of a lot of crap I had been holding onto just because I used to have a basement. I think that Christmas does bring out the masochist in us. Maybe we need to suffer as we feast. That explains the dysfunctional family get-togethers, the overindulgence in buttery foods and resulting heartburn, the tendency to drink way too much. I could go on, but you get the picture. And we still get nostalgic about this stuff. If you can dissociate yourself from it and just observe, if you're lucky enough to have the luxury to do this, even that can be fun in its own weird way. On the other hand, if you're the one stuck making Christmas dinner, you might as well start drinking early because it's going to be a LOOOOOONNNNG day - dem turkeys takes forever to cook. ________________________________ From: Robert Procyk To: joni@smoe.org Sent: Thu, December 17, 2009 10:25:21 AM Subject: Must Be Santa - - Single of the Week - NJC Anyway, I think I would rather have Dylan rap Xmas tunes in Chinese than have to hear Corey Hart's "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer" again - or as Corey pronounces it "Raayne deee-ahhhh-aaar". And don't get me started on the Doug and and the Slugs Xmas song, or that Bryan Adams thing. You've got to get your hands on the Corey song. It's simply horrible. __________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Canada Toolbar: Search from anywhere on the web, and bookmark your favourite sites. Download it now http://ca.toolbar.yahoo.com. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 08:38:45 -0800 (PST) From: Catherine McKay Subject: Re: Must Be Santa - Single of the Week - NJC Just for the record, despite my talk about drinking, which continues in an email I just posted, I really do not drink all that much or very often. In fact, it has been at least a score and five since I last drank myself into near-oblivion. In fact, if I have more than two drinks these days, I'd probably just fall asleep. It's just that the Dylan album sounds to me like a drinkin' thing. ________________________________ From: Lieve Reckers To: jonipeople LIST Sent: Thu, December 17, 2009 5:41:58 AM Subject: Re: Must Be Santa - Single of the Week - NJC Got to admit that, from what I've heard so far, I like and maybe even love this album too. It's embarrassing to admit when I know that Bob, whose musical tastes I often share, thinks it's awful, but it's the truth. I know it's not really good in a "proper" way, but it gives me such a naughty thrill. To follow the descriptions used by Richard's friend Aldon and Catherine, I feel like that music itself is intoxicating. I don't need to be imbibed to start listening, because those songs immediately pour the alcohol down my throat and make me smile and swoon! Lieve in London (in real life almost tee-total) - ------ __________________________________________________________________ Be smarter than spam. See how smart SpamGuard is at giving junk email the boot with the All-new Yahoo! Mail. Click on Options in Mail and switch to New Mail today or register for free at http://mail.yahoo.ca ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:45:04 -0600 From: "mack watson-bush" Subject: Re: Must Be Santa - Single of the Week - NJC My favorites are either, and I hate Christmas, Garland singing "Have yourself a Merry Christmas', (the ending is too beautiful), or Karen Carpenter singing 'Merry Christmas Darling.' Then again I like Crosby and 'White Christmas' too and Robert Goulet singing the one 'can you hear the .....?' Can't remember the words. lol. Maybe I don't hate it as much as I let on. mack ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:28:58 EST From: fmyfl@aol.com Subject: Re: Must Be Santa - Single of the Week - NJC Nothing's worse than Barbra Streisand singing "Jingle Bells", although the rest of the CD is pretty good. Jimmy ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:09:15 -0800 From: "Mark" Subject: Re: Must Be Santa - Single of the Week - NJC Oh come on, Jimmy! Babs' Jingle Bells is a hoot! Hand over that gay card, buster! big ;-) Mark in Seattle - -------------------------------------------------- From: Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2009 10:28 AM To: Subject: Re: Must Be Santa - Single of the Week - NJC > Nothing's worse than Barbra Streisand singing "Jingle Bells", although the > rest of the CD is pretty good. > > Jimmy ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:10:39 -0800 From: "Mark" Subject: Re: Must Be Santa - Single of the Week - NJC - -------------------------------------------------- From: "mack watson-bush" Robert Goulet singing the one 'can you hear the > .....?' Can't remember the words. lol. Are you thinking of 'Do You Hear What I Hear?', Mack? Mark in Seattle ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2009 #371 ***************************** ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here: mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------