From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2011 #508 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://jmdl.com JMDL Digest Wednesday, November 16 2011 Volume 2011 : Number 508 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Kate's Snow, etc. NJC ["Betsy Blue" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 16:00:58 +0000 From: "Betsy Blue" Subject: Kate's Snow, etc. NJC Maybe I'm not "not British enough" for Kate...maybe I'm just not getting it. Kate seems to be in a different world. I. get the same feeling from Tori and Bjork at times. Part of it is their vocalization and part of it is the actual lyrics. I still don't understand most Tori-isms, even though she's from the US. Joni's observations are of this world and human beings, although her perspective is sort of otherworldly. Hearing her music is a little like stepping away from an impressionist painting. She also has great diction and didn't cover with too much production until the late 80s. (Yes, CMIARS, I'm talking about you.) Everything makes some sense on first listen, and you pick up more as time goes on. It's hard for me to think of Hejira as "new" or "difficult" because it has always been there for me. Ever since my little fetal ears developed, anyway. To me, it's as perfect as an album with no piano could be. On a tangent, I miss albums! Like Lesson in Survival's seamless transition into Let the Wind Carry Me. What is Underneath the Streetlight but sounding brass and tinkling cymbals without Love? It seems like there are fewer and fewer albums worth listening to or buying in whole. And the packaging, which was such a joy to behold back in the day, hardly matters now. I remember studying the Sgt Pepper LP for ages as a kid. End of Rant. Betsy ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2011 #508 ***************************** ------- To post messages to the list, send to joni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------