From: les@jmdl.com (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V1 #167 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: les@jmdl.com Errors-To: les@jmdl.com Precedence: bulk onlyJMDL Digest Friday, August 27 1999 Volume 01 : Number 167 The Laborday JoniFest is happening this fall! For information: send a message to Join the mailing list at: ------- The Official Joni Mitchell Homepage is maintained by Wally Breese at http://www.jonimitchell.com and contains the latest news, a detailed bio, original interviews and essays, lyrics, and much more. ------- The JMDL website can be found at http://www.jmdl.com and contains interviews, articles, the member gallery, archives, and much more. ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- RE: OZ speak ["John Low" ] Re: Album suggestions [=?iso-8859-1?Q?Winfried_H=FChn?= ] Re: Opening tracks [Jerry Notaro ] Where I was when I was being there ow, but getting there later [MGVal@ao] Re: Album suggestions ["Mark or Travis" ] Re: Your Next Joni-Purchase ["Jennifer L. Nodine" ] Coyote ["Jennifer L. Nodine" ] David Lahm (JMDL content) [Steve Dulson ] re: album suggestions ["Ray & Cathy" ] PWWAM [Janet Hess ] Re: Scaredy Cat [Martin Giles ] RE: Opening Tracks ["Chad Burkhart" ] Re: Where I was when... [Bob.Muller@fluordaniel.com] Re: Fwd: Opening Tracks [Bob.Muller@fluordaniel.com] Re: Jazz Joni vs Classic Joni/Twisted [Bob.Muller@fluordaniel.com] "Coyote" availability ["Jim L'Hommedieu" ] Re: Where I was when... ["Mark or Travis" ] CD Now - Artist of the Millenium Poll and No Joni! ["Kakki" ] Cruelty Towards Others [Joseph Palis ] Re: Nina Simone ["Mark or Travis" ] SNL Finest Moments [Thunderthumbs ] JC: Question about S&L [Kate Tarasenko ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 00:41:09 PDT From: "John Low" Subject: RE: OZ speak I'm having trouble keeping up with this sudden 'list' interest in the Aussie language. Martin wrote: >Is the expression "Flat out like a lizard drinking" real OZ speak? I >think it comes from Barrie Humphreys. According to a dictionary of Australian colloquialisms I have, the term does indeed pre-date Barry H. According to this book it was certainly in existence in 1944 - used in a novel by Jean Devanny, "By Tropic, Sea and Jungle", published that year. It means, of course, "working flat out without a moment to spare". John (in Sydney). ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 10:01:35 +0200 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Winfried_H=FChn?= Subject: Re: Album suggestions Kim writes: > I guess I can trust this group. Can I get some suggestions as to what my 1st > album > (post Court and Spark, I guess-not exactly sure of the chronology) should be > since I'm feeling ready to take the plunge. > Also what album is Coyote on? I heard her sing this in The Last Waltz and it > was awesome Hi Kim, welcome to the state of de-lurkdom! Hope to read more from you in the future! Coyote is on "Hejira", my personal favorite. Personally, I've had some bad experiences with exposing my friends to this album, but since you've already had a taste of Joni, I'd still recommend this Album to you. It is pretty much inevitable. Winfred in Germany, who is also 29 years old, btw ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 08:03:19 EDT From: MDESTE1@aol.com Subject: Re: Where I was when... This is an interesting thread. The question is why has Jonis music created the effect of remembering where it was first heard. I believe it is because it is impressionistic. Impressionism is not just art. It is mental "agitation". A normal painting is clear and in spite of having many details all the details are refined and resolved as to exactly what they are. The mind has all the answers and the details it needs to determine what the painting is saying or communicating. Impressionism is far different. Impressionism doesnt provide many of the details or asnswerss instead relying on smudges and lines to force the MIND and the IMAGINATION of the viewer to WORK at determining the precise nature of the scene or the meaning. Of course this leaves open the possibility of different minds with their different references coming to different conclusions. That is always possible with impressionism. That is also why I think too much we here arrive at conclusions as to what Joni is saying when it sometimes is clear to me that she may just be saying something way different than one of our conclusions. This art of agitating the mind obviously distracts the mind from what ever it was thinking about at the time the album was heard as we are drawn into the contents of the album. Hence we remember vividly what we were doing and where we were when we FIRST heard the album. Other more simplistic albums leave us free to just sort of feel the music and keep on doing what we are doing. Great hits with great hooks also will cause deep etched memories of first listens but they do it with the strong repreated hook line "We are family". The funny thing is one usually remembers seasons with the hits ie "summer of 69". With Joni it is moments. marcel. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 13:36:09 +0100 From: "Paul Castle" Subject: Where I was when... Valerie Richardson valkraemer@igc.org wrote: >I remember spending a lot of warm summer evenings >that year hanging out with my girlfriends on our street corner. >A car would go by with Joni Mitchell blasting out from the car's >speakers, and everything seemed right with the world. Oh BLESS Valerie - I live this. PaulC ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 08:37:09 -0400 From: Jerry Notaro Subject: Re: Opening tracks Mark or Travis wrote: > > > While we're on the subject, just what the heck are window jars anyway? Mine were old mayonnaise jars, believe it or not! Jerry sp: Babs: I've Dreamed of You (by one of my favorites, Ann Hampton Callaway) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 08:58:12 EDT From: MGVal@aol.com Subject: Where I was when I was being there ow, but getting there later So many Joni "where I was when" memories, so little time.... I remember the day that I bought WTRF. I was attending Nazareth College in Rochester, New York. I bought the album one afternoon in their bookstore, giddy with excitement. It was a real visual feast, what with all of the paintings. I can remember scrutinizing each one and greedily reading the lyrics and liner notes like a starved person at a HomeTown Buffet. Coincidentally, I was also waiting to meet a blind date. In those ancient, no-mobile-phone days, I had no way to contact him to cancel because I had to get home to listen to the album, so I sat and contented myself w/ the aforementioned visual stuff and waited for my date. The focus on WTRF seems to have captured that whole afternoon like a bug in amber. Even as I type this, I can see his green Datsun wagon and remember the dismay that I felt when I noticed that his shoes were some funky-isn't-the-word-for-it, handmade, mountain man kinda thing. I can remember his green, green eyes and how he smelled of patchouli. After exchanging greetings, he asked what I had in mind for the afternoon and I showed him my album and explained how my joni-jones were acting up real, real bad. He graciously accompanied me to the listening lounge in the college's library and sat reading while I plugged in the headphones and listened over and over and over and over, remembering my date not at all until the librarian tapped my shoulder and said that my time was up. Chris the Alien went on to become an important boyfriend in my life, weird shoes notwithstanding. And I think that he never would have made it past the footwear judgment stage had it not been for his patience and understanding while I sat and indulged in that album. MG - back online once again with many many thanks to Al!!! ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 06:47:53 -0700 From: "Mark or Travis" Subject: Re: Album suggestions > Hi Kim, > > welcome to the state of de-lurkdom! Hope to read more from you in the > future! > Coyote is on "Hejira", my personal favorite. Personally, I've had some bad > experiences with exposing my friends to this album, but since you've already > had a taste of Joni, I'd still recommend this Album to you. It is pretty > much inevitable. > > Winfred in Germany, > who is also 29 years old, btw > Checking in with another 'Welcome to the list, Kim' and my $.02. Hejira is great but I would recommend Night Ride Home. I think it would be an easier transition for you from the early albums. Just my opinion Mark in Seattle ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 11:02:03 -0400 From: "Jennifer L. Nodine" Subject: Re: Your Next Joni-Purchase Oh, Kim, I can agree with your fear of letting go of your old favorites to let more in. It's kinda like a fear I have of having any more babies. I have one now, and of course she's my favorite, and I sometimes feel ready, but I'm scared. Scared that there won't be enough time to enjoy them all equally, or enough time to enjoy her as much. Also scared that I won't love them as much as I love her, or that I might love them more. My favorite Joni songs are like kids, I can't imagine what my life was like before I had them. They've grown in depth and meaning to me over the years. But, strangely, the more favorites you add to your repoirtoire, the more your life is enhanced... as a mother of three I'm sure you are happy you didn't stop at one or two! Keep experiencing new Joni, and soon your choice of music while your doing your housework won't be between artists, it will be which Joni CD you want to hear that day. One more thing, I still have alot to experience myself (we're not all Joni EXPERTS, though we like to think so!!) I was stuck where you are not too long ago and have finally started buying new Joni stuff (new to me) and I'm sorry I didn't sooner! Beleive me, you've been depriving yourself-ESPECIALLY IF YOU DON'T HAVE HEJIRA!!!!Go get it now, I promise you will not be disappointed. Sincerely, Jenny CT RMuRocks@aol.com wrote: > > Kim intros and says: > > << I guess I can trust this group. Can I get some suggestions as to what my > 1st > album > (post Court and Spark, I guess-not exactly sure of the chronology) should be > since I'm feeling ready to take the plunge. > Also what album is Coyote on? I heard her sing this in The Last Waltz and it > was awesome >> > > Well, Kim, no one is going to roll their eyes at you here...belated welcome! > > And as for your question - you answered it yourself..."Coyote" is on Hejira, > which is the greatest record of all time by anyone ever and should be your > next purchase! > > Bob, who'll turn 29 again in a month or so... > > NP: Sugarloaf, "I Don't Need You Baby" ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 11:30:03 -0400 From: "Jennifer L. Nodine" Subject: Coyote Hi all, does anyone remember me mentioning "Steve Hax", my Coyote? I think it was a thread about Amelia and the false alarm. I remember wondering if I would be 80 years old and still crying over him. Anyway, I was visited by him in a dream again last night. In my dream, he breaks into my house and will not leave until I agree to leave my husband and run off with him because he has finally discovered that I was THE GIRL for him and that he can't live without me anymore. As guilty as I felt when I woke up, I found myself wishing I could go back to sleep and keep that dream going. Dreams...and false alarms. - -Jenny CT ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 09:05:04 -0700 From: Steve Dulson Subject: David Lahm (JMDL content) I was delighted to see our very own David Lahm on TV last week, on the PBS special on women songwriters. David was talking about his mother, Dorothy Fields, and played piano on a couple (?) of songs. It's always nice to be able to put a face with an e-address! ############################################################## Steve Dulson Costa Mesa CA steve@psitech.com "The Tinker's Own" *NEW* website at: http://www.tinkersown.com "Southern California Dulcimer Heritage" http://members.aol.com/scdulcimer/ "The Living Tradition Concert Series" (Website soon!) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 08:50:21 -0700 From: "Ray & Cathy" Subject: re: album suggestions Hi Kim- I have to agree with Mark in Seattle. I think Night Ride Home is a good choice to venture forth in...or Chalk Mark in a Rain Storm. Cathy in Oregon ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 12:33:30 -0400 From: Janet Hess Subject: PWWAM Oh, my. For various reasons, I'd held off on buying "Painting With Words And Music." This summer hasn't been the cheeriest I've ever seen; as some JMDLers will recall, I had a mastectomy a couple weeks ago. So I decided I deserved a treat, and I ordered PWWAM. It arrived yesterday. Here's my report: PWWAM is worth any number of surgeries! I'm both amazed that I hadn't sent for PWWAM before and incredibly glad that it has come into my life at this particular moment. It's amazing, of course, but it's also extraordinary medicine. Maybe in a few days I can say something more coherent about this. As it is, though, I simply feel immeasurably rich to be alive in a world that includes the art of Joni Mitchell. What a treat! Hugs, Janet and Deanna Ivy the Wonderkitty And Mark Isham is no slouch, eh? - ----------------- So when you see a man who's broken / Pick him up and carry him. And when you see a woman who's broken / Put her all into your arms 'Cause we don't know where we come from / We don't know what we are. Laurie Anderson, "Ramon" ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 18:32:41 +0100 From: Martin Giles Subject: Re: Scaredy Cat Violet said.. Yes I can. I've always thought that it's just the pessimist in me, but I've been thinking. It actually goes back to the mid 1970s for me. I was a huge fan of the band 'Yes', having got into their albums Fragile, Close To The Edge and Relayer. Then they released Going For The One which had only a couple of good tracks. The came Tormato. Which has to be one of the worst albums ever produced by any one at any time ever. Ever. It was such a disappointment that I have always felt a sense of trepidation rather than excitement when buying a new album by a favorite artist. Thankfully I've rarely had a similar disappointment, and never with Joni. As Bob said - you've answered your own question. Get Hejira as soon as your legs can get you to the record shop. Also, Shadows and Light is a live album with Coyote on - I agree with David (?) Lahm, this version is better than the original, as IMO are nearly all the versions on this album. Which isn't to say that I dislike any of the originals, I just feel the live performances of them, with the dream backing band of Metheny, Mays, Pastorius, Alias and Brecker are so full of atmosphere and vitality... Actually I have probably developed a very unhealthy obsession with SAL. For which I have no intention of seeking a cure!! All the best. Martin. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 14:55:00 PDT From: "Chad Burkhart" Subject: RE: Opening Tracks Folks, I just thought that I would add my opinion to the choice of Harlem as the opening track to TTT. It is probably redundant but I thought that I'd say it anyway. I can't really see that Joni could have chosen a better track to open the album with. The first time that I put the CD in the carosel, I knew that I was going to love it. I have to agree that the VG8 sounds so mystical in the intro to that song and well it is one of my favorite songs on the album, aside from maybe the Crazy Cries of Love (which I am glad she changed from Love's Cries) and Facelift. Regarding Lead Balloon as an opener, I am so glad that she didn't put that track at the beginning!! After about an hundred listens, and the past discussion of the word sic I have found a brand new appreciation for the song but I have to admit that I downright hated it for a long while. It is way heavier than I would ever have expected from Joni but now I really like the song and the balance it gives the album. Had she opened TTT with Lead Balloon, I don't know if I ever would have listened to the whole album (well OK, it's Joni so I know that I would) but I don't think I would have ever given the album the same attention that I have. I think it's a great album and though I digress, the point is that I think that Harlem is a great opener. On another note, I can't believe this concert with James Taylor at the beeb in 1970. Just when I thought that I had conquered the wheepies with the song For Free, along comes this version. It sends goosebumbps crawling all over my body. I have always loved the song, both on LOTC and MOA but this is even better for me. And the final song, JT's Close Your Eyes, is brilliant. I think that I have found a new interest in Taylor, sorry Cat Stevens, you'll have to share runner up to Joni with a new man. LOL Cheers,Yours always, Chadly From Mountains ICQ = 41775889 Go where you will go to Know that I will know you Someday I may know you very well ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 10:51:31 -0400 From: Bob.Muller@fluordaniel.com Subject: Re: Where I was when... Frozen Valerie Screaming from the Gallery says: <> Valerie, firstly, thanks for sharing those pictorial memories - I could almost smell the Red Zinger! :~) Second, Hejira ALWAYS stops me in my tracks so that IT becomes the primary focus for me, so like you, I don't have the memories tied to it like I do with some of her other work. Last Sunday was my last as a Sunday School teacher for awhile, and I brought in Hejira for background music...STUPID ME! I'd start to talk about something, all of a sudden, Black Crow begins, and I'm turning it up and telling the kids, "OK, now what Joni's talking about here is..." (I'm LOL at myself now...) I tried to tie the songs into Christian themes, but the point is, I couldn't focus on what I was supposed to be doing...Joni had me under her Hejira-spell! Bob ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 11:12:04 -0400 From: Bob.Muller@fluordaniel.com Subject: Re: Fwd: Opening Tracks David said: <> Hear Hear! And it also leads me to believe that I wish she had stuck "Little Green" (which she wrote way back when) on Clouds or LOTC. As much as I love it in its heartwrenching beauty, it too is a bit of a stylistic and thematic sore thumb. At least Carey and California are companion pieces, the others all seem to "fit" alongside each other. Urge For Going *really* would be an odd man out I think... Bob NP: Haircut 100, "Milk Farm" ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 15:26:23 -0400 From: Bob.Muller@fluordaniel.com Subject: Re: Jazz Joni vs Classic Joni/Twisted Alan threw out a couple of bones that I HAVE to pick: <> I may agree with the latter, but certainly not the former. Nothing wrong with being a hippie, but I never was one and more importantly am more interested in making memories than in trying to hold on to the past. <> Maybe if James' songwriting had grown like Joni's has, he wouldn't HAVE to be a jukebox to make ends meet. And I like JT as much as the next guy, mind you...the warmth of his voice, the agility of his guitar work... <> Don't know how much "later" you refer to, but I'd put in that category: Stay In Touch The Sire of Sorrow (Job's Sad Song) Borderline Two Grey Rooms Passion Play Well, you get the point (and I didn't even mention Hejira (oops, just did) ...these songs all qualify as masterpieces of composition and lyrical brilliance as far as I'm concerned. Nothing wrong with keeping the oldies close to your heart, so long as you keep your mind open to the new... Respectfully submitted, Bob NP: Crack The Sky, "Safety In Numbers" ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 20:43:27 -0400 From: "Jim L'Hommedieu" Subject: "Coyote" availability "Coyote" is on the soundtrack "The Last Waltz", 'Hejira', the "Shadows And Light" concert video, and on the "Shadows And Light" album. These 3 versions are remarkably similar to each other. - -- All the best, Jim L'Hommedieu ** Get well Wally! ** Tolerance, tolerance, tol... ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 17:47:40 -0700 From: "Mark or Travis" Subject: Re: Where I was when... > This is an interesting thread. The question is why has Jonis music created > the effect of remembering where it was first heard. I believe it is because > it is impressionistic. .....(snip) ...Hence we remember vividly what we were doing and where > we were when we FIRST heard the album. Other more simplistic albums leave us > free to just sort of feel the music and keep on doing what we are doing. > Great hits with great hooks also will cause deep etched memories of first > listens but they do it with the strong repreated hook line "We are family". > The funny thing is one usually remembers seasons with the hits ie "summer of > 69". With Joni it is moments. marcel. I find these comments interesting in light of the information that was provided at the exhibit I saw of Impressionist painting recently. Part of what the impressionists were trying to achieve was a more candid quality to their work. Apparently they sought to capture the moment as it happens instead of producing a more posed or composed picture. So maybe in the process of painting her aural pictures, Joni manages to work some strange magic and somehow she also captures the moments in our lives as we listen to her. As a result, those moments are forever interwoven with her music. Mark in Seattle ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 20:28:22 -0500 From: Mark Domyancich Subject: Re: Where I was when... Bob, I would love to be in your class, or any class with a teacher who appreciates Joni as much as you do! ;-D At 10:51 AM -0400 8/26/99, Bob.Muller@fluordaniel.com wrote: >Last Sunday was my last as a Sunday School teacher for awhile, and I >brought in Hejira for background music...STUPID ME! I'd start to talk about >something, all of a sudden, Black Crow begins, and I'm turning it up and >telling the kids, "OK, now what Joni's talking about here is..." (I'm LOL >at myself now...) Mark NP-Grateful Dead-Mississippi Half Step ___________________________________ | Mark Domyancich | | Harpua@revealed.net | | http://home.revealed.net/Harpua | |_________________________________| ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 18:04:17 -0700 From: "Kakki" Subject: CD Now - Artist of the Millenium Poll and No Joni! Anyone checked out this new poll/contest from CDNow yet? They have the temerity to not have listed Joni as a choice! There is, however, an "Other" option and I suggest we flood their system with our write-in votes! Oh, and by voting, you are automatically entered in a contest to win GAP jeans and khakis for life. Here's the link: http://www.cdnow.com/cgi-bin/mserver/redirect/leaf=gap/from=rex:x:cdn:9825t Khaki ;-) NP: Country Joe & The Fish - Rock & Soul Music ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 20:08:58 -0600 From: Bounced Message Subject: He.lp a JMDL'er spend some cash! From: RMuRocks@aol.com Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 21:39:39 EDT Hi All, Fellow JMDL'er Lori in France needs some he.lp in selecting some new stereo equipment (Amp). I'm not a stereophile but I know some of you are. Here's her request: << Need to tell them we've got 100watt JBL Studio Monitor 4312 speakers, then they will know what we're dealing with. I knew that the amp wattage should at least match if not exceed the speaker wattage. Also want to hook up a Fostex 4 track & my electric piano. I also know from being in recording studios what these guys use, but we can't afford that. They could e:mail me privately so they don't bore the list to death.>> Thanks on Lori's behalf for any help you can render. Bob ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 10:16:15 +0800 (CST) From: Joseph Palis Subject: Cruelty Towards Others Just as I used to dislike Nina Simone before because of her alleged "verbal cruelty" to Dusty Springfield where she reportedly was inflamed upon learning that Dusty is singing the blues. Joni was a bit nasty to Alanis herself. I am not a fan of Alanis but I respect her as a songwriter. When my friend told me about this, I remembered flashing a grin as if to justify Joni's sometimes truculent self. And I can't explain why I still listen to Ethel Waters even if she said negative things to both Billie and Lena Horne. > > And while I'm in the confessional mode (Kakki, you will appreciate > this) I also have to admit that I pretty much walled myself off to > Sarah Vaughan because Billie Holiday told a story in her > 'autobiography' about being snubbed by Sarah right after Billie got > out of prison. I have since found out that Billie and William Dufty > perpetrated a lot of myth, exaggeration and out & out fabrication in > 'Lady Sings the Blues', a lot of which found its way into the movie > version. Sarah always denied this story and said she would never have > snubbed Lady. I recently made a tape for Kakki of Sarah performing in > a concert at Carnegie Hall (that also featured Lady Day) from 1954. > I've been listening to my own copy of this tape a lot lately and I'm > becoming more & more enchanted with Sassy. What amazing things she > did with that voice! > > But nobody will ever take Billie's place with me..... > > So maybe I should give RLJ another chance. Maybe. Maybe not. > > Mark in Seattle (born a Taurus if what my parents told me is > true.....but according to Ashara I think I'm a Leo!) > > ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 19:54:50 -0700 From: "Mark or Travis" Subject: Re: Nina Simone > Just as I used to dislike Nina Simone before because of her alleged > "verbal cruelty" to Dusty Springfield where she reportedly was inflamed > upon learning that Dusty is singing the blues. > > Joni was a bit nasty to Alanis herself. I am not a fan of Alanis > but I respect her as a songwriter. When my friend told me about this, I > remembered flashing a grin as if to justify Joni's sometimes truculent > self. And I can't explain why I still listen to Ethel Waters even if she > said negative things to both Billie and Lena Horne. I believe Ms. Waters said that Billie sang as if her shoes were too tight. I'm still not sure what I think about Nina Simone. Leslie Mixon sent me a tape that had some selections from 'The Colpix Years' that I like quite a lot. The arrangements are pretty jazzy and Nina's voice is pretty smooth. So I bought a Verve disc called 'After Hours'. It's mostly Nina accompanying herself on piano. There are some songs I like. 'Images' is sung a cappella and is very powerful and striking. But the vibrato she uses sometimes is so warbly that it's very hard to get used to. She does connect emotionally, though, on a level that very few singers manage to do. On one track she is playing 'Good King Wenceslas' on the piano as accompaniment to her vocalization of Rogers & Hart's 'Little Girl Blue'. Bizarre! It seems to work but I have a hard time getting past the fact that she's playing this Xmas carol behind this standard. It's not like Joni playing 'Jingle Bell's' under 'River' or Laura Nyro playing 'Joy to the World' with 'Xmas In My Soul'. She also sounds like a much older woman than the one pictured on the cd (the tracks on 'After Hours' were all recorded in the 60's.) Can anyone give me a little perspective on Nina Simone? I'm intrigued but not sure I want to buy a lot more or her music. Mark in Seattle ps: Kakki, I will gladly take suggestions about which of Sarah's music to invest in. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 02:01:49 -0400 From: Thunderthumbs Subject: SNL Finest Moments I have been suggesting someone put out a collection of all the music, and musiciams that has played over the years. Glad someone else was thinking the same thing. SNL is one of two all time favorite shows of mine. The other is The Wonder Years. Anywho, I can't decide which of all the artists would have been my favorite on the show. One that I know I really liked was Paul Simon during his Graceland days, and also James Taylor (I think) did "Baby Boom Baby", and "Never Die Young". I have never seen it, but if I had, I'd put Level 42 (my favorite band) right up there at no. 1 doing "Something About You" off the World Machine album of 1985. Anyone see this? I think the Finest SNL moments is at the end credits, when the SNL Band does the theme song closing credits- particularly the later shows of the late 80's-the 90's when the Sax player goes nuts, and has a "saxophone orgy" overtop the band's music every week. I haven't had a real Saturday night unless I've heard this. You all know the moments I'm talking about. Coltrane eat your heart out. I'll take the SNL ending credits any day. I can't stress this enough. Right up there is all the interlude music where the band plays between skits, and lead-ins to commercials- especially the G.E. Smith era. Also, it was really nice to hear the neat arrangement of seasonal tunes that the band came up with every year. When I grow up (yeah right) I want to play in the SNL Band. "Well now, isn't that special?" Dana Carvey Fan, Brad ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 00:51:21 +0000 From: Kate Tarasenko Subject: JC: Question about S&L Question: Are there two different videos for "Shadows and Light," one being a concert video, and another a "conceptual"/music-type video? Or is it one and the same? Comment: Thunderthumbs wrote re SNL's saxophony: "Coltrane eat your heart out." TT: Trust me when I tell you that all those sax-boys wouldn't find themselves worthy to shine Trane's shoes, may he RIP. Kate in CO ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V1 #167 ****************************** The Song and Album Voting Booths are open! 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