From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2011 #886 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, January 18 2012 Volume 2011 : Number 886 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: what's your "Joni progression?" [gerard mclaughlin Subject: Re: what's your "Joni progression?" My sister played MOA constantly and I hated hearing that wailing wummin more than anything. One day she went out leaving it on the turntable and as I was about to turn it off I found myself sitting listening , astonished . Before I knew it I had tears in my eyes as she sang about getting her wings and fly-y-y-ing away. I have never looked back. I can't remember the progression from there on in but I got all of them except"the compilations" which I had the impulse just there to call "the consolations"for some bitter old reason I'm sure. I wanted more Joni not all that balloney.Anyway her married years were all not so hot for me although loads of the songs are great and some fab to dance to. When I heard Dancing Queen/Clown I thought I'd never live it down...the embarassment of it still clings like a cold wet thing to my senses. Hissing, Hejira, DRRD, FTR, MOA, they are my favourites. I don't listen much to the others with the exception of Mingus which I love although they all get an airing and when they do I do enjoy them.Sometimes I get hooked on one and stay with it for a while. I do rather like Chalkmark and more than like Turbulent Indigo and Night Ride Home and Taming the Tiger .I'll shut up now ! Great idea this progression ! On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 12:12 PM, Paul Ivice wrote: > Senior year of high school, age 16, I missed most of spring semester > because > of mono and had to repeat English in summer school to graduate. While I > did my > term paper that summer of '71 on H.G. Wells, having just turned 17 that > June, > TWO of the cutest girls in my class did theirs on the Blue album, which had > just come out. > So by the end of summer, I had made Blue the second vinyl album I ever > purchased with my own money (Simon & Garfunkle's Bookends was the first). > While attending a small Illinois college that fall, I had borrowed an > 8-track > copy of Ladies of the Canyon, which I played repeatedly deep into the > night to > settle me down as I stared into a fireplace in the student union during my > first acid trip. > I saw Joni in concert for the first time in February 1972, when I also > discovered Jackson Browne, who opened for Joni and whose first album had > yet > to be released. As I recall, Joni performed Urge For Going that night, but > also was introducing some songs from For The Roses, which was released soon > after. > About the time FTR was released, I picked up Songs To A Seagull and > Clouds,so > by the time Court and Spark came out, my Joni collection was complete. > I saw Joni twice in 1974, first in January at the Chicago Auditorium, then > again in a summer outdoor concert at Ravinia in north suburban Chicago. > I bought Miles of Aisles as soon as it was released; it was so much like > her > concert at Ravinia.. > I heard HOSL at the home of a close friend when it first came out, and > bought > it the next day. > Hejira came out my senior year in college. Listened to that for the first > time > at a small party with some friends/co-workers from the college newspaper. I > still remember Lori O. and Anna in a friendly argument over whether dreams > were false alarms. Lori said not. Hejira was moodier, colder than HOSL and > took a little longer to appreciate, though I think Refuge of the Roads was > the > first song from H that I loved. Today, I would say my favorite song from H > is > Black Crow. > By the mid-'70s I was not only into rock music, but had been drawn into > jazz > by Weather Report and John McLaughlin & the Mahavishnu Orchestra before > exploring more "traditional" forms of jazz, so I loved DJRD and Mingus > immediately when they came out, as well as Shadows & Light. > When Wild Things Run Fast came out, it was not very popular, but I loved it > and defended it against its detractors. It was the last Joni album I really > enjoyed. > It was the preachiness and arrogance of Dog Eat Dog that turned me off to > Joni > for a while. I remember watching her on TV performing the title track of > DED > at that Farm-Aid concert and wondering what had happened to her. It was > like > she had suddenly become cynical and drunk and was boring everyone in some > dark > cafC). > Chalk Mark in a Rain Storm wasn't much better, though I liked Night Ride > Home > a little bit. Turbulent Indigo did not grab me the way her earlier albums > did, > nor did Taming the Tiger, though I bought them all, hoping for a > resurgence of > the spark I'd seen in her earlier music, but I did not see it in any of her > later albums. > > Paul Ivice ;>) ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2011 #886 ***************************** ------- To post messages to the list, send to joni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------