From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2014 #681 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, May 11 2014 Volume 2014 : Number 681 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- =?utf-8?B?V291bGQgeW914oCmIFlFUyEhISAgSGFwcHkgTW90aGVyJ3MgRGF5I Epvbmkh?= =?utf-8?B?ISE=?= [LC Stanley Subject: =?utf-8?B?V291bGQgeW914oCmIFlFUyEhISAgSGFwcHkgTW90aGVyJ3MgRGF5I Epvbmkh?= =?utf-8?B?ISE=?= Thank you Shari for asking the list to "push back being so critical" of Joni. B It gags me personally to see a bunch of relative amateurs compared to Joni being so critical. Nobody on this list comes close to the expertise and talent of Joni, and until somebody does it is musical masturbating (the real word!!) of egos.B Okay, steam's off now and on to the real meat of the listb& Thank you Garret and Jamie for your very touching posts!!! Your posts were a great way to start mother's day. B Happy Mother's Day Jonib& you are my musical mother in a very real sense, and I love you!!! Love,B Laura Garret wrote: My first Joni album was Hits which I got a couple of years after it was released. I loved it by the end of the first track.B I had known Chelsea Morning for years as my dad had had it on a tape he had made from his brother's records.B He had mislabelled the singer as Janis Joplin. In searching out Chelsea Morning I became a Janis fan. My dad's tape had long been lost so I became convinced that my memory of the song was inaccurate. Me: Great story Garret!! B Janisb& that's funny!!! A friend I had not seem for years sent me a gift voucher for a music shop unexpectedly.B I was browsing and liked the cover of Hits. Just like you said Jamie,B discovering Joni really set a high standard in what I considered to be great music.B A lot of the music I had listened to as a teenager suddenly seemed less powerful,B less genuine,B and less interesting. Me: My sentiments and experience too! B And it still holds. As far as I can recall I then started buying other Joni albums that were represented on Hits. I joined JMDL in 1999 I think.B BSN was on the horizon.B I got caught up in the excitement here.B I was still discovering Joni albums and beginning to get my head around her progression as an artist. I had just gone to university and my friends thought my new infatuation was mad. I really like Night Of The Iguana and really like your comments about it. Garret Me: B There are so many incredible songs on Shine, and I agree with Joni that it is her best album so far. B It is higher innocence in the Blake sense. On 9 May 2014 12:41, "Jamie Zubairi Home" wrote: > I'm loving this discussion! For me CMIARS was the first new album I came in > on in 1988 having only just fell in love with LOTC and I kinda thought 'Oh > WOW, I guess she's gone the way of Marianne Faithful, vocally' so it took > some time to really get used to, having really loved the helium soprano > that got me hooked, it was a complete turnaround to getting used to a new > artist. I had it on tape and it was one to really immerse myself in once I > had bought a better sound system. I loved the production of it, especially > the haunting piano on My Secret Place and the layering of instruments. > Someone said it was a choral album, with guest vocalists, which I'd never > thought of as that before, more a dutes album but, yes, it does fell like > more of a choric album. > Me: Brilliant!!! B I love it!! > I guess I don't buy that much new music, or listen to new musicians, having > being spoilt by the high standards that I hold Joni in and people always > try and recommend me so-and-so "because she's just like Joni". (Really? I > can't hear it - or yeah, she's too like Joni, where is SHE in it?) but now > I've got into other artists who come from a folk root, but mainly bands > (Anathallo, Beirut, Fanfarlo etc etc) who don't bear any resemblance to > Joni's music but they tend to have a horn section, multiple voices and good > arrangements... so she's given me that at least). Me: B Lourde, Haim. B I like these. B They are young and will be interesting to follow, but nobody will ever come close to Joni for me. > > My favourite thing about Shine is that 'Night of The Iguana' DOESN'T have > any castanets in it, real, or synthesised, just where you're expecting to > hear them in the arrangement just after she says "Can you hear the > castanets?" (No). > I do like Shine for all the crochety grandma-ness of it. I can't wait to > hear a sung version (if ever there will be) of 'This Rain'... will love to > hear what she'll do with the limited range. > > Anyway, welcome to the fold > > Jamie Zubairi ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2014 #681 ***************************** ------- To post messages to the list,sendtojoni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------