From: les@jmdl.com (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2000 #85 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: les@jmdl.com Errors-To: les@jmdl.com Precedence: bulk onlyJMDL Digest Thursday, March 2 2000 Volume 2000 : Number 085 Ashara has set up a "Wally Breese Memorial Fund," with all donations going directly into the upkeep of the JoniMitchell.com website. Wally kept the website going with his own funds, and it will now be up to Jim to continue. If you would like to donate to this fund, please make all checks payable to: Jim Johanson and send them to: Ashara Stansfield P.O. Box 215 Topsfield, MA 01983 USA ------- The Official Joni Mitchell Homepage can be found 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: Catgirl joins band SJC ["Helen M. Adcock" ] Re: BSN / A Case Of You /1973 "Case of You" Cd Available [SCJoniGuy@aol.c] BSN on the web [Deb Messling ] Re: Geffen article-Joni reference [Rob Jordan ] Re: Geffen article-Joni reference [Don Rowe ] The Times [leslie@torchsongs.com] Fw: BSN on the web ["cassy" ] Re: Fw: BSN on the web ["Ken (Slarty)" ] BSN Broadcast! [leslie@torchsongs.com] Aarg! Where is my BSN! ["Carver, Dax" ] BSN disc replaced [Randy Remote ] HOSL musings ["cassy" ] Re: The Times [CaTGirl627@aol.com] The Joni Mitchell Companion ["Carver, Dax" ] Joni's pretty voice [Relayer211@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 22:40:19 +1300 From: "Helen M. Adcock" Subject: Re: Catgirl joins band SJC Catgirl wrote: >With all this going on I will be lurking but will pop in from time to time. >I love all you guys and thanks for all the confidence at the Joni Fest in >Boston. It really helped give me the extra push I needed!! And if what I've heard from the Jonifest Box Set is anything to go by, you will have huge success - but please don't be too much of a stranger! I bet "from time to time" turns into a lot more than you think. Come on, you know you won't be able to resist us! All the best, break a leg (string), hugs, purrs and "all things Joni"! Hell _______________________________ "I don't believe in livin' in the middle with available extremes" - Carole King hell@ihug.co.nz ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 07:48:25 EST From: SCJoniGuy@aol.com Subject: Re: BSN / A Case Of You /1973 "Case of You" Cd Available <> Proving once again what I've known for awhile... JODY RULES!! Thanks Pally! Bob NP: Artist, "One Kiss At a Time" ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 07:51:42 -0500 From: Deb Messling Subject: BSN on the web This from Jonimitchell.com; don't know if it's too late already. Special note for those of you who may be interested in hearing Both Sides Now on your computers (and since you're reading this on a computer, I'm guessing there may be a few of you out there): Bradford Community Broadcasting in West Yorkshire, England will be broadcasting a 78-minute program devoted to the new CD. Host Karl Dallas tells me that "in addition to including every track from the new album in its entirety, the program also includes 'Both Sides Now' and "A Case of You" from the Miles of Aisles album, plus comparative clips from Glenn Miller, Billie Holiday and Buddy Greco of the songs on BSN." The broadcast will take place at 9 PM GMT (that's 1 PM PST, 4 PM EST if I'm not mistaken -- somebody PLEASE e-mail me if I'm wrong!); you can catch it on the Web by following the link below if you have RealAudio installed on your Web browser. The program is likely to be archived so it can be heard later. I'll let you know what the URL for the archive is when it becomes available. LISTEN TO BOTH SIDES NOW WEBCAST IN REALAUDIO (PLEASE NOTE broadcast time above!) (2/28/00) Deb Messling messling@enter.net http://www.enter.net/~messling/ I love cats. They give the home a heartbeat. - Joni Mitchell ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 13:03:46 +0000 From: Rob Jordan Subject: Re: Geffen article-Joni reference At 12:10 AM 2/29/00 -0700, Steve wrote: >Hello all! > Someone gave me an article about an author who wrote a book about >David Geffen. In a sidebar article, the author talks about some >interesting Joni references-here it is: Extracts from Tom King's new biog of Geffen have been serialised in the Guardian (UK newspaper). There was a Joni reference that amused me. Sorry I don't have it verbatim, but essentially it said that one of Geffen's favourite ploys to attract companions was to comment "Oh, you don't have any Joni Mitchell in your collection - I must get you a copy of Court and Spark - oh, by the way, Joni wrote this song about me!" Rob ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 07:19:58 -0800 (PST) From: Don Rowe Subject: Re: Geffen article-Joni reference - --- Rob Jordan wrote: > but essentially it said that > one of Geffen's > favourite ploys to attract companions was to comment > "Oh, you don't have > any Joni Mitchell in your collection - I must get > you a copy of Court and > Spark - oh, by the way, Joni wrote this song about > me!" > Is it just me, or does this strike anybody else as even scummier than selling JM bootlegs on E-bay? Oh well, consider the source ... Don Rowe ===== "I want a stillness inside, and a quiet of mind, and to stop dreaming of the comfort of strangers." -- Julia Fordham __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 11:23:42 -0800 (PST) From: leslie@torchsongs.com Subject: The Times For those of you who would like to purchase the February 26th issue of the London Times (with the extensive Joni article)- you can order it at the following website: http://www.remember-when.co.uk/index.htm Leslie Mixon ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 14:18:42 -0500 From: "cassy" Subject: Fw: BSN on the web From: Deb Messling >Oops! Here's the link: > >http://www.legend.co.uk/~bcb/bcb.ram > >Would you mind posting this to the list? I'm not >subscribed at work and my message will bounce. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 16:22:44 -0500 From: "Ken (Slarty)" Subject: Re: Fw: BSN on the web As far as I can tell this is tomorrow night at 9pm This url for real audio also works: http://www.bcb.yorks.com/bcb.ram and the web page is: http://www.bcb.yorks.com/index.html cassy wrote: > From: Deb Messling > > >Oops! Here's the link: > > > >http://www.legend.co.uk/~bcb/bcb.ram > > > >Would you mind posting this to the list? I'm not > >subscribed at work and my message will bounce. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 14:01:23 -0800 (PST) From: leslie@torchsongs.com Subject: BSN Broadcast! Special note for those of you who may be interested in hearing Both Sides Now on your computers (and since you're reading this on a computer, I'm guessing there may be a few of you out there): Bradford Community Broadcasting in West Yorkshire, England will be broadcasting a 78-minute program devoted to the new CD. Host Karl Dallas tells me that "in addition to including every track from the new album in its entirety, the program also includes 'Both Sides Now' and 'A Case of You' from the Miles of Aisles album, plus comparative clips from Glenn Miller, Billie Holiday and Buddy Greco of the songs on BSN. The broadcast will take place on Thursday, March 2 at 9 PM GMT (that's 1 PM PST, 4 PM EST if I'm not mistaken - -- somebody PLEASE e-mail me if I'm wrong!); you can catch it on the Web by following the link below if you have RealAudio installed on your Web browser. There's a link on JoniMitchell.com you can follow directly to get to the URL, which is http://www.legend.co.uk/~bcb/bcb.ram. The program is likely to be archived so it can be heard later. I'll let you know what the URL for the archive is when it becomes available. Leslie Mixon ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 18:48:19 -0500 From: "Carver, Dax" Subject: Aarg! Where is my BSN! Every one is talking about their copies and I still haven't received mine! I know, I know, back order. But, when it comes to Joni I never want to wait. I hope everyone is enjoying listening to theirs! :) dax carver ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 18:49:52 EST From: RickieLee1@aol.com Subject: all joni, all the time greetings listers! i bring tidings from the outer regions of lurkdom! it has been all joni, all the time in my car ever since BSN arrived and who else could i talk to about it with, but this list? hence, the intrusion. so here goes: i was listening to "please answer me my love" (is that even what it's called? that old hatbox of a case is rolling around in my backseat somewhere, and i am too lazy to go down and try and catch it to check the title. i hate that box!! but you know which cut i mean...) and this bit of fancy occurred to me. i wondered about joni's motivation for the performance contained in that song. it seems, to my amateur ear, her voice thickens with emotion, that's just a little bit different from the emotion in the other cuts. there are certainly a number of romantic attachments in her life who could provide ample backing, but i wondered if she might not be using what happened between her and the music industry - that tired old beef of hers, as a source for the emotion she achieves in that particular vocal. and couldn't the song be addressed to the armies of fans who deserted her, starting with the release of hissing of summer lawns? is that silly? if nothing else, it put a different slant on what i was hearing and piqued my interest all over again in her gorgeous rendering of those lyrics. so i wondered... hey! it could be!! and then i got to thinking about that exodus, and how it was just - well - inevitable. what else could she have expected, following court and spark with THAT album, HOSL? to a degree, i was one of those fans. i didn't desert her, of course, but i was not thrilled with HOSL, mostly because, i see now, it was just not what i was expecting to hear. how could it have been? HOSL, it seems to me, is not so much a deviation off the course she had been charting since BLUE. it truly was a giant leap forward! really, there should have been at least TWO additional albums between court and spark and HOSL, two more steps in that progression, to lead us to the place that album so fully inhabited. as sophisticated as court and spark was, HOSL was light years further along, abstract and arcane. what was arcane about court and spark? so, of course, she lost a huge portion of her audience, all the one's who simply were not prepared and would not go where she was leading. the sad part is that she never got them back. and it's a pity, because this album, BSN, deserves a much wider audience than she has tried to access in ages and ages, and i doubt if it's going to get it. and that, listers, is the sum total of my thoughts on joni mitchell, this first day of march, 2000. except for this question, and i hope you answer, because i am really curious. is there ANYONE'S heart that doesn't break, just a little bit, when they hear joni sing "it's love's illusions that i recall..." ? god! all the complaints about what she's done to her voice should be silenced by what she accomplishes on that line alone! the artistry makes my heart clench. no wonder the orchestra was in tears! her voice always was her greatest instrument. nothing much has changed. i hope this finds all of you well. peace, ric ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 18:21:00 -0800 From: Randy Remote Subject: Joni news The rear cover of the March 4 issue of Billboard has a full page ad for BSN. It is a cropped blowup of the "Heart on Her Sleeve" painting, it is so large and clear you can see the brushstrokes and the texture of the canvas. I must say it looks better up close than at a distance. The caption over her head is "A classics love affair", at the bottom "Joni Mitchell" and "Both Sides Now", "Classic love songs performed by contemporary musical great Joni Mitchell accompanied by members of the London Symphony Orchestra. Featuring the songs:"Both Sides Now," "Stormy Weather," "A Case Of You," "You're My Thrill" and many more." Production credits for Larry and Joni in small print, management info,and the reprise and jonimitchell.com websites AND THIS: [TNT Logo] Be sure to catch "An All Star Tribute to Joni Mitchell" April 16th at 9 PM est/pst on TNT !!!!!!!!!!!!! If you are near a newstand, this is worth a look if not the six bucks..... RR ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 18:25:58 -0800 From: Randy Remote Subject: BSN disc replaced I got my replacement disc from Reprise today. It only took them 5 days to send it. It came in a clear jewel case, and though it had come off the spindle, was not scratched. To get your scratched disc replaced, send the damaged disc along with your name and mailing address to Warner Bros. Records Quality Assurance 3300 Warner Blvd Burbank, CA 91505 or call (818) 953-3208 **Thanks to Deb M for this info** ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 21:45:40 -0500 From: "cassy" Subject: HOSL musings RickieLee writes: >and then i got to thinking about that exodus, and how it was just - well - >inevitable. what else could she have expected, following court and spark with >THAT album, HOSL? to a degree, i was one of those fans. i didn't desert >her, of course, but i was not thrilled with HOSL, mostly because, i see now, >it was just not what i was expecting to hear. how could it have been? > >HOSL, it seems to me, is not so much a deviation off the course she had been >charting since BLUE. it truly was a giant leap forward! really, there >should have been at least TWO additional albums between court and spark and >HOSL, two more steps in that progression, to lead us to the place that album >so fully inhabited. as sophisticated as court and spark was, HOSL was light >years further along, abstract and arcane. I recently emailed a list member about one release he had missed referencing on his web site. It was Miles of Aisles, and in my view it was very pivotal in her career. C&S was probably one of Joni's more commercially accepted releases, but then came her MOA tour (I was fortunate to attend two of the shows). Accompanied by Tom Scott and the L.A. Express, she used a "larger" sound with a great deal of jazz influence. After buying HOSL, I believed that she had spent so much time around jazz musicians on her tour that her creative juices flowed, as they are wont to do, in a new direction. It was just my opinion, but I believed MOA was a foreshadowing of the jazzier era of Joni. I guess I was one of those "die-hards" who listened to HOSL (and still do) I enjoyed the fact that Joni had taken me by surprise with some delicious new sounds. It seemed that she was shadowing my own tastes, once again. The crisp clarity of Larry Carlton's guitar wowed me, the rhythms intrigued (an stirred) me. I went out and bought records by the Crusaders so I could hear more of Joe Sample, Larry C. and Wilton Felder (I continue to keep up with Sample's releases). As always she surrounded herself with some of the best musicians the genre had to offer at the time. I would like to say HOSL is my favorite release of Joni's, but my favorite tends to change with the wind, I could make a case for each of her releases being my favorite at one time or another. Cassy NP: Shades of Scarlett Conquering ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 22:31:43 EST From: CaTGirl627@aol.com Subject: Re: The Times In a message dated 3/1/2000 2:10:36 PM Eastern Standard Time, leslie@torchsongs.com writes: << For those of you who would like to purchase the February 26th issue of the London Times (with the extensive Joni article)- you can order it at the following website: http://www.remember-when.co.uk/index.htm Leslie Mixon >> Leslie!!! You rule. I just wonder how much it will cost? Looks great though!! Catgirl ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 23:17:10 -0500 From: "Carver, Dax" Subject: The Joni Mitchell Companion I've been reading an article out of the JONI MITCHELL COMPANION every night before I go to bed. As a lover of every Joni album, I was very surprised at the reaction the media had to Joni since THE HISSING OF SUMMER LAWNS. The article, written by Noel Coppage from Stereo Review in 1976 is not a bad review of the album though he complains of Joni's "how much 'reality' is good for us." However, I just can't believe all the remarks about Joni switching from first person singular to the narrative. First of all, 4 of the 10 songs are in first person. Second, this isn't the first time she's used the narrative voice (anyone remember MARCIE, LADIES OF THE CANYON)? I just don't see what the point is to bring this up. I'm 25 and came into Joni when NIGHT RIDE HOME came out. So, I wasn't raised on her. I immediatley fell in love with her after hearing the album. Someone told me she was great and I picked up the album at a used CD store (I didn't want to take any chances!!!). Within the next few months or so I had gone out and bought every Joni album! I bought them in order because I have this thing about doing things in order. I listened to them in order too. When she sang follk, I loved folk; when she switched to folk-rock, I loved folk-rock. It was the same for the confessional rock, the jazz-rock and the jazz. Remembering my growing up in the early 80's, her 80s stuff really hit home to me. I loved it. Then I got back to NIGHT RIDE HOME and loved it even more. And since then, I've loved each album as they've come out. She's so wonderful. Anyway, now that you know where I'm coming from, back to Joni. Did everyone think Joni would continue to write and sing songs like FOR THE ROSES and COURT AND SPARK? C'mon! This is a woman whose musical style had already changed on every album she produced. Therefore, a switch from first person to narrative should not have been a big deal. THE HISSING OF SUMMER LAWNS is absolutely some of the best writing I've ever seen on an album! Don't get me wrong, I love love love BLUE, FOR THE ROSES and COURT AND SPARK and the writing is great on those albums as well. I think the problem wasn't as Mr. Coppage stated. I think the problem is the Pop audience of ANY era. Unfortunate for them, many people grow up listening to a certain kind of music and then stick with that all through their lives, causing them to put up blinders to new music. This is why our parents don't like our music and their parents didn't like their music. Though I would never classify Joni as a Pop artist (because I have unfortunate negative thoughts about the word Pop due to the fact that Pop culture is so trendy), she had become in the minds of people from 1971 through 1974 a Pop artist. But, Joni was never a Pop artist really, she was an experimentalist. It had to be good for her, not for the music machine. So, when she took on a new experiment, which actually started with COURT AND SPARK but nobody recognized that then, her Pop fans turned away from her as they do. Many of these same people today (now older) are still listening to the same music they loved in the early seventies and still won't give new music a try. This isn't a hypothesis I just came to. In 1998 I went to see Joni Mitchell at her concert in Atlanta. (It was great, we got to sing Happy Birthday to her!). She was singing SONG FOR SHARON and this older guy from behind me yelled out "Sing Some Old Stuff!" I was floored!!! I turned around and looked at him in the eye (red from pot I'd say) and said, "Do you even know Joni Mitchell! This is old and one of her finest at that!!" So, Joni lost some of her fans. Fortunately, she picked up new fans. The book goes on to an article written in The Village Voice by a Perry Meissel in 1977 titled AN END TO INNOCENCE: HOW JONI MITCHELL FAILS. This article is much much more insulting than the last. He calls the lyricism in HEJIRA "an embarrassment" to her listeners!!! On top of that, the entire, lengthy article sounds like it was written by what I like to call an academic / English snob. As an English major who just graduated in 1998, I met many of these self-important people who thought their ideas of how words should go together were superior to everyone else's. Anyway, Mr. Meisel comes to his over-stated conclusions about HEJIRA by comparing a line from one song with a line from another song even when the songs are clearly about different topics. I know the theme of the songs flow together, that is what makes it a great album. He even goes as far to say that Joni has always thought of herself as a poet because she writes her lyrics in the sleeves of her albums! How absurd is that? Basically, he's calling her self-important and vain throughout the entire article and says that until she confronts it (her work being compared to the mythology of the garden (WOODSTOCK?)) within her conscious imagination, her work will be haunted by the prospect of its own annihilation. He even states that Joni "clearly lacks any real understanding of what her work is or how it behaves!" He does give her some credit though for some great lines and states that her voice is better than ever. Overall though, the article is condesending. I've read over it a multitude of times and really I still can't figure out quite what he is trying to get at with all of his comparisons. It's so convoluted that an English major (whose entire academic career was spent writing critical essays on literature) can not understand it. It's almost like he is purposely looking for something wrong with this album. Of course, I have to admit my own failing. I love Joni's work and HEJIRA is one of my favorite albums. I understand a lot of what she is saying on that album (as with all of her albums) and I feel very close to it. Therefore, I don't see the critic's points. But, truly I don't think Joni failed with HEJIRA or HISSING at all. The article on DON JUAN'S RECKLACE DAUGHTER and MINGUS where amazing enough, very positive. This brought me some relief. Okay, sorry everyone that this post was so long. later dax ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 23:30:44 -0500 From: "Carver, Dax" Subject: FW: The Joni Mitchell Companion arrgh! also, sorry for all the grammatical mistakes. It's 11:30, way past my bedtime. tired tired dax > -----Original Message----- > From: Carver, Dax [SMTP:DC200009@Exchange.AtlantaGA.NCR.com] > Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2000 11:17 PM > To: joni@smoe.org > Subject: The Joni Mitchell Companion > > I've been reading an article out of the JONI MITCHELL COMPANION every > night > before I go to bed. As a lover of every Joni album, I was very surprised > at > the reaction the media had to Joni since THE HISSING OF SUMMER LAWNS. The > article, written by Noel Coppage from Stereo Review in 1976 is not a bad > review of the album though he complains of Joni's "how much 'reality' is > good for us." However, I just can't believe all the remarks about Joni > switching from first person singular to the narrative. First of all, 4 of > the 10 songs are in first person. Second, this isn't the first time she's > used the narrative voice (anyone remember MARCIE, LADIES OF THE CANYON)? > I > just don't see what the point is to bring this up. > > I'm 25 and came into Joni when NIGHT RIDE HOME came out. So, I wasn't > raised on her. I immediatley fell in love with her after hearing the > album. > Someone told me she was great and I picked up the album at a used CD store > (I didn't want to take any chances!!!). Within the next few months or so > I > had gone out and bought every Joni album! I bought them in order because > I > have this thing about doing things in order. I listened to them in order > too. When she sang follk, I loved folk; when she switched to folk-rock, I > loved folk-rock. It was the same for the confessional rock, the jazz-rock > and the jazz. Remembering my growing up in the early 80's, her 80s stuff > really hit home to me. I loved it. Then I got back to NIGHT RIDE HOME > and > loved it even more. And since then, I've loved each album as they've come > out. She's so wonderful. > > Anyway, now that you know where I'm coming from, back to Joni. Did > everyone > think Joni would continue to write and sing songs like FOR THE ROSES and > COURT AND SPARK? C'mon! This is a woman whose musical style had already > changed on every album she produced. Therefore, a switch from first > person > to narrative should not have been a big deal. THE HISSING OF SUMMER LAWNS > is absolutely some of the best writing I've ever seen on an album! Don't > get me wrong, I love love love BLUE, FOR THE ROSES and COURT AND SPARK and > the writing is great on those albums as well. > > I think the problem wasn't as Mr. Coppage stated. I think the problem is > the Pop audience of ANY era. Unfortunate for them, many people grow up > listening to a certain kind of music and then stick with that all through > their lives, causing them to put up blinders to new music. This is why > our > parents don't like our music and their parents didn't like their music. > Though I would never classify Joni as a Pop artist (because I have > unfortunate negative thoughts about the word Pop due to the fact that Pop > culture is so trendy), she had become in the minds of people from 1971 > through 1974 a Pop artist. But, Joni was never a Pop artist really, she > was > an experimentalist. It had to be good for her, not for the music machine. > So, when she took on a new experiment, which actually started with COURT > AND > SPARK but nobody recognized that then, her Pop fans turned away from her > as > they do. Many of these same people today (now older) are still listening > to > the same music they loved in the early seventies and still won't give new > music a try. > > This isn't a hypothesis I just came to. In 1998 I went to see Joni > Mitchell > at her concert in Atlanta. (It was great, we got to sing Happy Birthday > to > her!). She was singing SONG FOR SHARON and this older guy from behind me > yelled out "Sing Some Old Stuff!" I was floored!!! I turned around and > looked at him in the eye (red from pot I'd say) and said, "Do you even > know > Joni Mitchell! This is old and one of her finest at that!!" > > So, Joni lost some of her fans. Fortunately, she picked up new fans. > > The book goes on to an article written in The Village Voice by a Perry > Meissel in 1977 titled AN END TO INNOCENCE: HOW JONI MITCHELL FAILS. This > article is much much more insulting than the last. He calls the lyricism > in > HEJIRA "an embarrassment" to her listeners!!! On top of that, the entire, > lengthy article sounds like it was written by what I like to call an > academic / English snob. As an English major who just graduated in 1998, > I > met many of these self-important people who thought their ideas of how > words > should go together were superior to everyone else's. Anyway, Mr. Meisel > comes to his over-stated conclusions about HEJIRA by comparing a line from > one song with a line from another song even when the songs are clearly > about > different topics. I know the theme of the songs flow together, that is > what > makes it a great album. He even goes as far to say that Joni has always > thought of herself as a poet because she writes her lyrics in the sleeves > of > her albums! How absurd is that? Basically, he's calling her > self-important > and vain throughout the entire article and says that until she confronts > it > (her work being compared to the mythology of the garden (WOODSTOCK?)) > within > her conscious imagination, her work will be haunted by the prospect of its > own annihilation. He even states that Joni "clearly lacks any real > understanding of what her work is or how it behaves!" > > He does give her some credit though for some great lines and states that > her > voice is better than ever. Overall though, the article is condesending. > I've read over it a multitude of times and really I still can't figure out > quite what he is trying to get at with all of his comparisons. It's so > convoluted that an English major (whose entire academic career was spent > writing critical essays on literature) can not understand it. It's almost > like he is purposely looking for something wrong with this album. > > Of course, I have to admit my own failing. I love Joni's work and HEJIRA > is > one of my favorite albums. I understand a lot of what she is saying on > that > album (as with all of her albums) and I feel very close to it. Therefore, > I > don't see the critic's points. But, truly I don't think Joni failed with > HEJIRA or HISSING at all. > > The article on DON JUAN'S RECKLACE DAUGHTER and MINGUS where amazing > enough, > very positive. This brought me some relief. > > Okay, sorry everyone that this post was so long. > > later > dax > ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 00:03:19 -0500 From: "cassy" Subject: Re: The Joni Mitchell Companion The long post was welcome Dax. I love to read other peoples opinions, even when they differ from my own. I have to say that your opinions don't differ from mine much at all though! I discovered Joni Mitchell during my sophomore year in high school (boy am I getting old) that was thirty years ago. With anticipatory anxiety I bought each record as it came out, wondering what changes she might have undergone THIS time. It seems she has sung my whole life, it used to amaze me that her apparent emotions often parrallelled my own but I have come to accept it now. When CD technology hit the mainstream I balked, not wanting to change with the times. Then I realised it was inevitable and succumbed to trying to replace all my favorite LPs with CDs. I now own all of Joni's LPs and CDs along with a few limited items such as the TI booklet, BSN display unit and NRH limited issue. I have the original Hejira poster, framed, hanging in my living room. I can't believe I only recently found my way to this list. I'm amazed daily at the depth of feeling Joni's fans have for her (rivalling my own I'm sure) I thank you for posting as you did, I am like a sponge soaking in all this wonderful information about my favorite lady and I don't worry about grammar, mine isn't all that great anyway. Thank you Cassy ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 00:13:56 EST From: Relayer211@aol.com Subject: Joni's pretty voice People talk about they love Joni's deeper voice,because of it's maturity and life experiance,but for some reason I love high,pretty voices like early Joni Mitchell and Judy Collins and Karen Carpenter.(maybe Karen's voice wasn't high,but it was very pretty.)Does anyone else feel this way? Also: My top 5 Joni albums are :1)For The Roses 2)The Hissing of Summer Lawns 3)Blue 4)Court and Spark 5)Clouds ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2000 #85 ******************************** ------- Post messages to the list at Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe onlyjoni-digest" to ------- Siquomb, isn't she?