From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2012 #946 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 Sunday, July 1 2012 Volume 2012 : Number 946 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- RE: Songs of Healing ["patrick leader" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2012 00:16:09 -0400 From: "patrick leader" Subject: RE: Songs of Healing hi dave - thanks for your kind words. healing and the first side of initiation are probably my two favorite todd collections (and therefore near the top of my alltime sides of music) but i get your point about his tendency to fart in church. healing has a song called 'golden goose' which, now that i think about it, fits in pretty well with the theme of the album, but is one of the most musically annoying songs on the planet. so when i bought and taped the album, i skipped the song, just like i did 'dancing clown' which is the only clinker off of chalkmark. for years i forgot the song was even on the album. speaking of healing joni songs, did we mention cool water and corrina corrina? patrick np - 'sleep' eric whitacre stephen layton, conductor. polyphony - -----Original Message----- From: Dave Blackburn [mailto:beatntrack@sbcglobal.net] Sent: Friday, June 29, 2012 9:19 AM To: patrick leader Cc: Bob.Muller@Fluor.com; Happy The Man; joni list Subject: Re: Songs of Healing, now NJC Patrick, awesome piece about Todd's "Healing" album, especially the observation about the concerto form. I would add to what you say that Todd/the speaker has a dream in which he is chosen to be a healer himself ("the world need a healer", "you will be a healer", "It's time to make the world a little wiser" etc) and the album unfolds from there exploring different facets of what that means: compassion, karma and so on. In some ways it follows on from the themes explored in "Initiation" five years earlier, one of rock's finest albums in my opinion. I have been a Todd Rundgren fan with extreme misgivings: he can make a simply breathtaking album and then follow it with something worthless. Even the songs within one album can be that way. It's as if he has his quality control turned off and can't tell the difference. Unless he feels the need to take the mickey out of his own seriousness, I suppose. Dave On Jun 28, 2012, at 9:18 PM, patrick leader wrote: > hey all - > > i've never thought of todd's 'healing' as a healing album. it's an album > about the need for healing, especially of the world and society. and the > need for personal emotional healing, for example in the song 'compassion'. > by the way, 'time heals' is from the 'healing' release, the original package > included a standard 12" lp and a 7" inch 45 with 'time heals' b/w 'tiny > demons', a song about germs or viruses. > > however, the title song 'healing' actually does seem intended to actively > assist healing. the form is concerto, three movements, fast slow and fast, > (it was the whole of the second side of the lp on the original) and the > lyrics are as if todd was leading a meditation. the principles are very > influenced by buddhism, and the sound is electronic psychedelia. healing > part ii is particularly entrancing, with fakish sitar sounds curling around > lines like this: > > Where you are going > You cannot take your body > You are on a journey, > The baggage is too heavy > > You can leave your legs behind you, > You will learn to fly > You can leave your arms behind you, > You will touch the sky > You can leave your head behind you, > You are thought itself > You can leave the rest behind you, > You are breath itself > > although soothing is not the same as healing, there's a lot of overlap > (aspirin doesn't heal joint pain, but by bringing down inflammation, it > facilitates healing). simularly, soothing emotional pain is not the same as > healing it, but there's no clear line between the two. > > for soothing the emotional pain of soul-wrenching grieving, the song i've > gone to most in my life is kate bush's 'moments of pleasure'. i found so > much comfort in that song in the years after it was released (1993 - 1996), > which were the years of the aids epidemic in which i lost the most friends. > and it also helped continue my process with my mother, even though the song > was released 15 years after her death in 78. kate wrote it partly to > process the death of her own mother. > > the simplest message of the song is, 'remember what you loved about them', > but that wasn't always easy in those years of pain. > > patrick > > np - string quartet no. 2, jefferson friedman chiara string quartet > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-joni@smoe.org [mailto:owner-joni@smoe.org]On Behalf Of > Bob.Muller@Fluor.com > Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2012 12:58 PM > To: Happy The Man > Cc: joni list > Subject: Re: Songs of Healing > > > Maybe not necessarily about Healing, but "I Think I Understand" talks > about overcoming fear which is a component of healing. I get courage from > it. > > Also "Don't Give Up" by Peter Gabriel, "Everything's Coming Our Way" by > Santana, "Sure Feels Good" by Elvin Bishop, "Time Is A Healer" by Eva > Cassidy, "Healing" by India.Arie, . > > Todd Rundgren has an entire album titled "Healing" but I'm not overly > familiar with it. He also has a "Time Heals" that I AM familiar with. > > Bob > > NP: Ani Difranco, "Evolve" > ------------------------------------------------------------ > The information transmitted is intended only for the person > or entity to which it is addressed and may contain > proprietary, business-confidential and/or privileged material. > If you are not the intended recipient of this message you are > hereby notified that any use, review, retransmission, dissemination, > distribution, reproduction or any action taken in reliance upon > this message is prohibited. 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