From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2012 #1499 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, September 28 2012 Volume 2012 : Number 1499 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Big Yellow Taxi [Paul Ivice ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 01:10:06 -0400 (EDT) From: Paul Ivice Subject: Big Yellow Taxi From: Betsy >>> To: joni@smoe.org >>> Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2012 4:57:28 PM >>> Subject: BYT and other hippie songs >>> >>> Big Yellow Taxi ... 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. >>> I find this comment to be especially strange coming from a Joni fan because not only is "Don't It Always Seem to Go That You Don't Know What You've Got Til It's Gone" the lyric of Joni's that unquestionably has become the most deeply rooted in the social lexicon, but I would also suggest that more than any other Joni song, the entirety of BYT represents Joni more philosophically, politically and perhaps even emotionally, Much like the way Steve Goodman's last verse of "You Never Even Call Me By My Name," added at the request of David Allen Coe, gathers in a few lines all of the elements that make it the "greatest country song of all time," within BYT are all of the key elements -- a broken love affair, saving the environment, getting back to the land and criticizing some human's overemphasis on profit - -- that run through almost all of Joni's lyrics, but in no other song of hers are they so complete and quintessential. Paul Ivice ;>) ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2012 #1499 ****************************** ------- To post messages to the list, sendtojoni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------