From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2012 #1483 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 Thursday, September 27 2012 Volume 2012 : Number 1483 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- RE: JMDL Digest V2012 #1479 ["Gary Hanick" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 17:22:24 -0700 From: "Gary Hanick" Subject: RE: JMDL Digest V2012 #1479 Hard to think of a Joni song that I really "hate", but "Lead Balloon" is sort of annoying, as is most of "Chalk Mark", with the exception of "My Secret Place" and "Corrina Corrina". Did Joni write "Snakes and Ladders" for Mitt and Ann Romney? Seems like a good theme song for them. - -----Original Message----- From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org [mailto:owner-joni-digest@smoe.org] Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2012 4:11 PM To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2012 #1479 JMDL Digest Thursday, September 27 2012 Volume 2012 : Number 1479 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: - -------- BYT and Other hippy songs [Rob And Tracy ] - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 17:21:41 -0600 From: Rob And Tracy Subject: BYT and Other hippy songs Oh Cat, I knew there was a reason I like you so much - I feel much the same way. The Judy Collins version is just so schmaltzy for me. It sounds almost... I dunno... Good Morning Starshine-Ish to me, if you know what I mean. Kinda like it was a Hair reject or something. BYT was on my sh*t list as in "makes me wanna shove pencils in my ears to cause permanent damage", but I gotta say, I am cautiously not as annoyed by it anymore. For me, Help Me and Free Man in Paris are the two I now avoid. And I know it's a sacred cow, but River is going that way too, which I never thought I would say, because it was essentially what blew my mind when I found Joni. But too many people have done it, and frankly, when Sarah M. remakes a song, it's the kiss o' death. Mea culpa I feel guilty even mentioning River..... I admit, I still love CSN's Woodstock, and I like that schmaltzy version by that loungey sounding group - Southern Comfort something or other. LOL, and I admit I love Nazareth's This Flight Tonight. But unlike Sally, though, I love most of Stevie's singles - well, from The Wild Heart and Rock A Little, anyway. As for Bella Donna, I could live without the duets, and why After the Glitter Fades was a single is beyond me. How Still My Love or Outside the Rain shoulda been brought to the masses. Love all the new discussion! Rob Sent from my iPad On 2012-09-27, at 3:57 PM, owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) wrote: > > JMDL Digest Thursday, September 27 2012 Volume 2012 : Number 1475 > > > > ========== > > TOPICS and authors in this Digest: > -------- > Re: BYT and other hippie songs [Catherine McKay ] > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 14:54:57 -0700 (PDT) > From: Catherine McKay > Subject: Re: BYT and other hippie songs > > The ones that annoy me most are the ones that have been covered a hundred million times, often badly. There are a LOT of corny, schmaltzy, mediocre and copycattish versions of BSN around, to the point where, if I hear that yet another artist is going to cover it, I just cringe. I really don't like the Judy Collins version. The arrangement is too bland, and a lot of covers use that version or a similar arrangement, rendered even blander, likely because Judy had the hit with it. In fact, I don't even like hearing Joni sing it anymore. Having said that, every now and then, that song will come on, either one of Joni's versions, or a cover, and I'll think, "Hey - that sounds good!" > > "Big Yellow Taxi" annoys the living crap out of me, no matter who sings it, because too many people just copy what someone else has already done. I don't mind the "Shine" version as much, but would still probably skip it eight times out of ten. I don't care for "the Circle Game" at all. I think I've heard it too often and it just seems interminable sometimes, especially that damn chorus about the seasons going round and round and the painted ponies going up and down - enough already! Likewise "Woodstock." Yeah, yeah, child of god, blah-blah-blah, although I do like "we are stardust/we are golden". "River" is heading towards "Make me wanna barf land" because there are just too many damn covers and now it seems to have morphed into a Christmas standard. The next thing you know, they'll be singing it in churches. Too bad, because I actually like that song, but other people are ruining it, damn them! > > I'm pretty much off most of "Clouds" with the exception of "Tin Angel," "I don't know where I stand," "I think I understand" and "that song about the Midway." > > Most of the time when I hear a Joni song played in a shopping mall, I want to yell, "She did write some other stuff, y'know!" > > > > > >> ________________________________ >> From: Betsy >> To: joni@smoe.org >> Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2012 4:57:28 PM >> Subject: BYT and other hippie songs >> >> Big Yellow Taxi is one of the few Joni songs that you still hear in public. And it tops my list of songs that I wish she could unwrite. Maybe its the only song on my list....there are less popular songs I could do without, but they aren't foisted upon me at the pizza parlor. >> >> As for other disliked signature JM songs, Woodstock has its place in history. Chelsea Morning is also pretty corny, but Joni sings it so beautifully. Judy Collins' version is awful. For a long time, I thought I hated Both Sides Now and The Circle Game, but now I feel like they are deservedly classic. >> >> Does anyone else have songs they just hate? Why? >> >> Betsy > > ------------------------------ > > End of JMDL Digest V2012 #1475 > ****************************** > > ------- > To post messages to the list, sendtojoni@smoe.org. > Unsubscribe by clicking here: > mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe > ------- - ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2012 #1479 ****************************** - ------- To post messages to the list, sendtojoni@smoe.org. 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