From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2011 #824 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 Monday, January 9 2012 Volume 2011 : Number 824 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Matt Weiner & Rainy Night House ["Betsy Blue" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2012 16:44:40 +0000 From: "Betsy Blue" Subject: Matt Weiner & Rainy Night House On March 30th of last year, Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner was a KCRW Guest DJ. He has some very thoughtful comments, and I'd recommend listening to the whole 13-minute program. Here he talks about one of the five songs he picked to play.b, b* bI picked this song, itbs called bRainy Night House,b and itbs a song that I listen to not only because itbs so - my wife actually turned me on to this song because like everyone else in the post album days, I will just listen to the songs that I already know. I will not just put it on and play through it. And my wife - I donbt know if it was on shuffle or what else it is or if she knew it already - but said, bYou have to hear this song.b Because I was talking about something related to the emotions in this song. B And what I really got out of it besides the depth of the little stories that are being told - the story thatbs being told is - Joni Mitchell, you know, writes lyric songs and they are presented as pop songs in a way. This song has no rules. It structurally has no rules. The voices change in it. It breaks into - therebs a part in it when she talks about the choir and the choir comes on in the middle of this acoustic song. B Itbs just - wherever her imagination wants to go, she depicts it for you, she demonstrates it. And itbs so evocative to me of privacy and dealing with tragedy and also two people trying to be close to each other and, you know, like everything else youbll see that the commonality is the human voice in this thing. Her expression of her voice is something that just I always feel it - and this song in particular itbs so...itbs peculiar, is really what it is. And I love things that are just unrelated to genre and where you just hear the artist saying like, bI know this doesnbt sound like the way a song sounds.b But this is - I have to play this song.bB b, Herebs a link: tinyurl.com/3dcyvacb, And while you're at KCRW.com, Joni's '94 live set with Klein is gorgeous. Betsy NP Night Ride Home (with the infamous "private beach" story) ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2011 #824 ***************************** ------- To post messages to the list, send to joni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------