From: les@jmdl.com (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2001 #299 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: les@jmdl.com Errors-To: les@jmdl.com Precedence: bulk Archives: http://www.smoe.org/lists/onlyjoni Websites: http://www.jmdl.com http://www.jonimitchell.com Unsubscribe: mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe onlyJMDL Digest Wednesday, September 26 2001 Volume 2001 : Number 299 The Official Joni Mitchell Homepage, created by Wally Breese, can be found at http://www.jonimitchell.com. It contains the latest news, a detailed bio, Original Interviews, essays, lyrics and much 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: -------- Today in Joni History: September 25 [les@jmdl.com] Today's Articles: September 25 [les@jmdl.com] My Top 10 Desert Island Discs- Tougher Version ["Leslie Ross" ] RE: Red Cross ["Kate Bennett" ] Re: VLJC - First post and 10 desert island discs [Janet Hess ] Re: onlyJMDL Digest V2001 #298 [StDoherty@aol.com] 1995 Billboard Century Awards [Claire Adamson ] Re: 1995 Billboard Century Awards [SCJoniGuy@aol.com] Re: eva cassidy (was 10 desert island discs ...) [cvickery@danielrealty.c] Yahoo! News Story - New 'War Vote' Virus Deletes Computer Files ["Lori R.] Re: Tornado in College Park, MD [TimandMaryPowers@aol.com] Desert Island Discs [Leslie Mixon ] Van Tiels Geburtstag [Mauski4648@aol.com] re: 10 desert island discs [Mags ] Re: 10 desert island discs ["Garret" ] women in rock magazine ["Garret" ] Joni fans should check out new singer Anny [joni fan ] Re: VLJC - First post and 10 desert island discs ["Dolphie Bush" ] 10 desert island cd's ["patricia van nunen" ] joni used in my classroom [christopher blake ] more than a couple of prophets? (sjc) [Anne Sandstrom ] Re: VLJC - First post and 10 desert island discs [Bruyere ] Re: VLJC - 10 desert island songs [<657174974@amena.com>] Re: VLJC - First post and 10 desert island discs [Catherine McKay ] RE: 10 desert island discs [M.Russell@iaea.org] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 03:00:14 -0400 From: les@jmdl.com Subject: Today in Joni History: September 25 On September 25 in Joni Mitchell History: 1987: Jaco Pastorious, the amazing bassist who played on many Joni albums, died today from injuries suffered in a beating at a bar in Florida. - ------------------------ Search the "Today" database: http://www.jmdl.com/today ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 03:00:14 -0400 From: les@jmdl.com Subject: Today's Articles: September 25 On September 25 this article was published: 1998: "Taming the Tiger" - London Times (Review - Album) http://www.jmdl.com/articles/docs/980925lt.cfm - ------------------------ The JMDL Article Database has 633 titles. http://www.jmdl.com/articles ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 07:24:54 +0000 From: "Leslie Ross" Subject: My Top 10 Desert Island Discs- Tougher Version I really love this idea....but it should be songs and not albums...cruel huh?! And then you should declare if you had to lose all but one, which one. Bob and Marcia - Young, Gifted and Black Norman Greenbaum - Spirit in the Sky Bonnie Rait - I can't make you love me Joni Mitchell - Hejira Tom Waits - Kentucky Avenue Kate Bush - This Woman's Work Jimmy Cliff - Many Rivers to Cross Bob Marley - Redemption Song Pheobe Snow - Every Night Abba - My Love My Life ...and the one to retain......impossible.. ....Well, Hejira I suppose but only cos you're all watchin'....:-) Les (London) _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 09:24:11 +0100 From: <657174974@amena.com> Subject: VLJC - First post and 10 desert island discs Hello all. My name is Ayoze, I'm a new Joni fan from Spain. And this, as you can see, is my first post. I've been on the list for a week and just wanted to add my own "top ten essential recordings" (whoa, that sounded pretentious). Laurent Olszer wrote: "I'd like to know what music JMDLers would take to a desert island, where you'd be stuck for the rest of your life? Please: no more than 1 album per artist. Limit: 10" So here we go: Pet Sounds (The Beach Boys) Armed Forces (Elvis Costello and The Attractions) Highway 61 (Bob Dylan) Lark's Tongues In Aspic (King Crimson) Setting Sons (The Jam) Court And Spark (Joni Mitchell) Arthur or the Decline and Fall of the English Empire (The Kinks) Remain in Light (Talking Heads) Skylarking (XTC) We're Only In It For The Money (Frank Zappa and the MOI) I enjoy a lot reading the list and hope to participate more in the future, even if my English isn't very good. After all, SIQUOMB. Ayoze ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 01:26:50 -0700 From: "Kate Bennett" Subject: RE: Red Cross wow, you prevailed! congratulations! >>lot of protest emails went to our HR department and my Company quietly asked us for receipts, then sent a check to the Red Cross, matching ours. I was proud of all involved.<< ******************************************** Kate Bennett www.katebennett.com sponsored by Polysonics www.polysonics.com Discover the Indies at Taylor Guitars: http://www.taylorguitars.com/artists/awp/indies/bennett.html ******************************************** ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 04:43:01 -0400 From: Janet Hess Subject: Re: VLJC - First post and 10 desert island discs Welcome, Ayoze. We've been waiting for you to join us. :) And that's a first-rate list. Hope to read more and more from you. Cheerz, Janet and Deanna Ivy the Wonderkitty, both of whom really like "Court and Spark" - -------------- You've got to shake your fists at lightning now You've got to roar like forest fire You've got to spread your light like blazes All across the sky Joni Mitchell ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 10:20:45 +0000 From: "Leslie Ross" Subject: Re: VLJC - First post and 10 desert island discs Welcome to the List Ayoze. I hope your stay with us will be a long and enjoyable one. Les (London) > >Hello all. > >My name is Ayoze, I'm a new Joni fan from Spain. And this, as you can >see, is my first post. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 07:30:43 -0400 From: john van tiel Subject: Re: 10 desert island discs ... ... with explanation and -regrettably- too little Joni content (due to rules: one disk per artist) Thanks everyone on-list and off-list for all the birthday wishes. What can I say ... OK, my desert island top 10. 1. Joni Mitchell - Hejira The undisputed Number One is my collection. I postponed buying a CD player in the late eighties until this album was released on CD. It's been the soundtrack of my life. This is probably the only place on the planet where I do not have to explain why. 2. John Martyn - Solid Air This one I share with Master Les and Jody "Wonder Eyes" Johnson. Released almost simultaneously with Hejira, just as timeless and eternal, just as deep, disturbing and soothing at the same time. Like all really good albums, it has to grow on you. Also it is shamefully unknown in the US. DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS! 3. Tom Waits - Blue Valentines Also from the same period. Long, long ago, when I was a teacher of English, my students asked me what music I reallyreallyreally liked. I took along this album, printed (stencilled, it's that long ago!) some of the lyrics and caused a total shock among kids who were into the Police and Olivia Newton-John. I still play the album regularly and continue to think: sooo good. 4. Pat Metheny - Secret Story Considered one of his lesser albums by many PM fans. For me it is the ultimate trip in the bath: hot water, nice scented bath soap, Secret Story in the CD walkman, headphones, volume to loud and .... a real source for extra bubbles in the bath. 5. Barbara - her works from 1963-1966 The French chansonniere who, to me, is at Joni level. Music-wise, text-wise. Especially in this period she shines with pearls, one masterpiece after another (Pierre, Nantes, Ce Matin-l`, Quand Ceux Qui Vont, etc.). Even if you don't understand French, you will immediately recognize the depth. 6. Eva Cassidy - Songbird I review albums for a Dutch music magazine. This was sent to me way before she was as popular as she was now. I remember doing what I always did. I put the album in the tray, pushed the Play button and walked back to my chair to listen. I stopped in mid-stride. What the hell was this? Eva singing Fields of Gold. I went back, totally stunned, pushed Stop, walked to my chair, took the remote and pushed Play again ... Since then I must have given at least 30 copies as presents to people. 7. Crosby Stills Nash - first album Always liked it better than Dij` Vu. I've always remained very partial to the CSNY stuff - Neil's early work, CPR is great, the boxed set has many gems. This is my number 7 on the even days of the month. On the odd days it will be the Beatles' White Album. Wheras on Mondays I would put in Bruce Springsteen's Ghost of Tom Joad. And after 19.00 hrs it would be Mathilde Santing's To Others To One. 8. His Royal Bobness - Highway 61 Revisited Do you, Mr. Jones? He was my highschool hero. He remained my hero in my student days. I once saw him live and thought that he was full of shit. ("Do you, Mr. van Tiel?") I never visited this particular highway. Is it worth a revisit? 9. Kelly Joe Phelps - Sky like a broken clock I know, it's ridiculous to put an album on a desert island disk list that's hardly been out for more than 2 months, but ever since I received the pre-release in June for review, it has hardly been out of my CD player. It had the same effect on me as John Martyn's and Tom Waits' early work - when I heard that, I just knew that I would be playing it for the rest of my life. Brilliant playing, fantastic lyrics, perfect production. 10. Boubacar Traori - Mariama West African (Mali) griotte singer. I have no idea what he is singing about (except when he sings in French) but his guitar is spell-bindingly hypnotic and so is his voice. I keep playing this album and it always soothes me. My first 45: The Animals - House of the Rising Sun My first album: The Beatles Greatest Hits (a Dutch compilation from 1966) My first classical album: JS Bach - Brandenburger Concertos My first concert ... now here's a unique one: I was 13 (in 1967) and went to a concert of The Fortunes, a British band that was very popular in Holland in 1965-1967. I was only allowed by my parents because it was up the road in a big barn-turned-theatre and because it was on Sunday afternoon. The support act was a bunch of weirdos I had never heard of before. All kinds of slide projections with coloured water to strange psychodelic sounds, shouting on the stage (unlike The Fortunes who sang very much in tune - on their records, that is). And these freaks were about to release their first record in the Netherlands, a song called Arnold Layne. I was 13, I was watching the legendary Pink Floyd with Syd Barrett (support act to The Fortunes), and I had no clue! But then, I also saw Van Morrison with the Dutch band Cuby & The Blizzards and I loved every second that he shut up - Van, whose Astral Weeks and Beautiful Vision painfully did not make it to the top 10 (certainly top 20 material). Oops, this got a bit out of hand. Oh well, for a lurker ... John (still in the US, but about to fly to Holland again) NP Gillian Welch, The Revelator (Great Album - Would certainly make it to the residential island top 10) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 07:31:24 EDT From: StDoherty@aol.com Subject: Re: onlyJMDL Digest V2001 #298 Just ten .... dagnabit 1.Billie Holliday (anything) 2. Aretha - Spiriti in the Dark 3. Joni - For the Roses 4. Steve Earle - The Mountain 5. Etta James - At Last 1960 6. Altan - Harvest Song 7. Beethoven's 3rd 8. Teddy Wilson and Lester Young 9. The Blind Boys of Albabama - Spirit of the Century 10. Faron Young - Greatest Hits ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 09:24:10 -0400 From: Claire Adamson Subject: 1995 Billboard Century Awards Hello! I am DESPERATE for a copy of the 1995 Billboard Century Awards on tape. You know, the one where Peter Gabriel does this fantastic introduction of Joni? If anyone can help me out, please send me an email at claire@harbourfront.on.ca. thank you thank you thank you! ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 09:45:25 EDT From: SCJoniGuy@aol.com Subject: Re: 1995 Billboard Century Awards <> Desperado, why don't you come to your senses?! ;~) Claire, that clip IS available as a part of one of the JMDL video trees. If nobody else can help you out, I can. Bob ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 09:23:53 -0500 From: cvickery@danielrealty.com Subject: Re: eva cassidy (was 10 desert island discs ...) the birthday boy, john van tiel, wrote: <<6. Eva Cassidy - Songbird I review albums for a Dutch music magazine. This was sent to me way before she was as popular as she was now. I remember doing what I always did. I put the album in the tray, pushed the Play button and walked back to my chair to listen. I stopped in mid-stride. What the hell was this? Eva singing Fields of Gold. I went back, totally stunned, pushed Stop, walked to my chair, took the remote and pushed Play again ... Since then I must have given at least 30 copies as presents to people.>> and again, i scream in anguish. i have purchased this disc six times. six. i have purchased it in a big CD warehouse larger than a football field. i have purchased it in an intimate CD boutique. i have purchased it at the local hippie record store, which has a few CDs for those of us heretics who have shunned vinyl. i have purchased it in alabama and in mississippi. all six copies have had this enormously irritiating hiss that sounds as though my speakers were salvaged from a chevy nova. why, oh why???? am i forever destined to hear *about* eva cassidy and never *hear* eva cassidy? and i've been *such* a good girl, too! cindy ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 08:18:14 -0700 (PDT) From: "Lori R. Fye" Subject: Yahoo! News Story - New 'War Vote' Virus Deletes Computer Files I purposely did not tag this message NJC. Be careful, all. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010924/tc/tech_votevirus_dc_3.html Lori in MD ~ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 11:41:43 EDT From: TimandMaryPowers@aol.com Subject: Re: Tornado in College Park, MD In a message dated Tue, 25 Sep 2001 12:44:11 AM Eastern Daylight Time, Janet Hess writes: > Tonight several tornadoes cut through the Washington, DC area. The campus of the University of Maryland, College Park, where Joni played in the Joni-Dylan tour, was especially hard hit. Tragically, two people died in a car on the campus. Hello, We were directly in the path of that tornado, which hit Laurel, MD also. It took off the roof of the high school a couple miles from our house. My husband was hiding in the laundry room with the cats (I wasn't home). of course, one of the cats wanted to be right by the window and watch everything. Our screen door was torn and we lost power but we're OK. Trees down everwhere. Mary ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 09:10:01 -0700 From: Leslie Mixon Subject: Desert Island Discs If I had to limit my choices to ONLY ten, they would be: Joni - Miles of Aisles Aretha Franklin Live at Fillmore West Richard Thompson - Mock Tudor Beatles - Abbey Road Carole King - Live at Carnegie Hall James Taylor - Hourglass Billie Holiday - The Verve Silver Collection Rickie Lee Jones - Naked Songs Stevie Wonder - Music of My Mind Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Four Way Street Leslie ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 12:12:36 EDT From: Mauski4648@aol.com Subject: Van Tiels Geburtstag Lieber John, viele liebe Gruesse aus Deutschland nachtraeglich zu deinem Geburtstag: Gesundheit, Gl|ck mit deiner Liebsten und Zufriedenheit. Karin ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 14:23:56 -0400 From: Mags Subject: re: 10 desert island discs Preamble: Not cast in stone, definitely not. This is an impulsive 'today' list...and of course if I was on that aforementioned desert island, Brei would be with me (talk about paradise!) and he would have his ten with him so I can't lose ;-) 1. Alternate Blue Joni Mitchell (brilliant, beautiful, incredible.. lots of wonderful surprises!! Thanks Brei for this wonderful gift. 2.Songbird.. Eva Cassidy... I heard Eva Cassidy long before she became popular too...I was completely blown away by this angel's voice. In my last job at the book store, I sold more Eva CD's than any other artist just by putting this CD on and letting her speak her stories. She is magnificent. And I meant the present tense. To me, she lives on, still, and forever. 3.Sarah McLachlan Vara Radio Sessions...Sarah like you've never heard her before. Uncle John, thank you for this. John can explain the history behind this CD much better than I ever could...it is breathtaking. Riveting. 4.Jonatha Brooke LIVE mostly because this CD always, always, always makes me so happy and it reminds me of the first trek across the US that Brei and I made to last year's fest. Plenty of fine memories woven within those lyrics. 5. Loreena McKennitt either Mask and the Mirror or Book of Secrets (I cant decide!) brilliant work, both of them. I will bring one, so Brei can bring the other ;) 6.Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon an old favourite 7.Garnet Rogers Speaking Softly in the Dark (especially because of The Enchanting) 8.Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds Live at Luther College precious collection of acoutical Dave with Tim. Dave's passion is incredible, especially here. 9.Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending (okay so it's a song, it deserves to be in a list of CDs) brilliant, soulful, perfect. Iona Brown is the song bird of the violin. Enough to stop me in my tracks and keep me there. Spellbound. 10.Eleanor McEvoy Yola (see description of Jonatha Brooke above). Another Brei connection. okay that's it. For the moment. Mags np: The Lark Ascending thank you Uncle John, again! - -- And this loving is a drawing close, a tuning in, an opening. Until one perfect moment; but how can it be expressed? A receiving, an enfolding as I cradle you in my arms. Within my heart, within my soul, You are my true love. --Lui Collins - --- _~O / /\_, ___/\ /_ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 19:25:52 +0100 From: "Garret" Subject: Re: 10 desert island discs Right about now this list looks like this: Joni Mitchell: Shadows and Light Patti Smith: Radio Ethiopa Paul Simon: The Anthology Radiohead: Kid A Bjork: Debut Rufus Wainwright: Rufus Wainwright Jeff Buckley: Mystery White Boy Janet Jackson: Velvet Rope REM: usually Monster, but Today: New Adventures in HiFi Chemical Brothers: Surrender ask me again tomorrow and the list will change drastically. it would be very different also if the "one cd per artisit wasn't there":-) GARRET ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 20:20:30 +0100 From: "Garret" Subject: women in rock magazine I'm not sure if tihs is old news. I was in tower records teh other day and came upon a magazine (one of the guitar magazines doing a special i think), something to the effect of "100 best/greatest/most talented women in rock". Always on the look out for Joni i flicked through it. Of course, our Joan is indeed there. There is a picture of Joni in concert with her guitar, i'm guessing from mid 70s. The blurb said something like: noone else has inspired more women to pick up a guitar and start writing. They mentioned her alternate tunings, and even said that her forays into jazz territory were at least accomplished, and at most awe inspiring (i think that's what it said). SO, i flicked through it and found everyone from Christine McVie and Stevei Nicks to Cher (i was delighted at this inclusion), to Madonna, to Janis, to Jonatha Brooke, to Mellisa Etheridge. Everyone i could think of was in there. GARRET ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 12:07:49 -0700 (PDT) From: joni fan Subject: Joni fans should check out new singer Anny Anny Listen & Behold Strange & Beautiful White Lipstick Girl Purple God Slowly Soulmate Gonna Get Mine Saint Louis, The Angels Fly Is This What You Died For? Medusa Love Is Water Monsters And Magical Sticks At the End Of The Road Visit Annyworld Anny Some say Anny casts a spell on all who listen to her songs. Others say her imagination inspires them to higher levels of inner understanding. All say the music of Anny is worth hearing over and over again. You are invited to know more about Anny so that you can deepen and enrich the time you spend listening to her songs. Get email alerts & NEW webcam video instant messaging with Yahoo! Messenger. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 12:18:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Don Rowe Subject: re: 10 desert island songs Wow ... 10 songs. Requires a whole new way of thinking. Let's see how this works, in no particular order: Joni -- My Secret Place (just can't resist the irony of being stranded on a desert island playin' this one over ... and over ... and over!) Julia Fordham -- The Comfort of Strangers The Fixx -- How Much Is Enough Seal -- Crazy Richard Thompson -- Bee's Wing Brian Eno -- I'll Come Running Ry Cooder -- That's The Way The Girls Are In Texas Bruce Springsteen -- Brilliant Disguise Pink Floyd -- Comfortably Numb Fleetwood Mac -- Bleed To Love Her (from The Dance) Hey, that's a not bad mix ... think I'll make it when I get home! Don Rowe ===== Visit me anytime at http://www.mp3.com/donrowe ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 14:33:55 -0500 From: "Dolphie Bush" Subject: Re: VLJC - First post and 10 desert island discs welcome Ayoze mack - ----- Original Message ----- From: <657174974@amena.com> To: Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 3:24 AM Subject: VLJC - First post and 10 desert island discs > Hello all. > > My name is Ayoze, I'm a new Joni fan from Spain. And this, as you can > see, is my first post. I've been on the list for a week and just wanted > to add my own "top ten essential recordings" (whoa, that sounded > pretentious). > > Laurent Olszer wrote: > "I'd like to know what music JMDLers would take to a desert island, > where you'd be stuck for the rest of your life? > Please: no more than 1 album per artist. > Limit: 10" > > So here we go: > > Pet Sounds (The Beach Boys) > Armed Forces (Elvis Costello and The Attractions) > Highway 61 (Bob Dylan) > Lark's Tongues In Aspic (King Crimson) > Setting Sons (The Jam) > Court And Spark (Joni Mitchell) > Arthur or the Decline and Fall of the English Empire (The Kinks) > Remain in Light (Talking Heads) > Skylarking (XTC) > We're Only In It For The Money (Frank Zappa and the MOI) > > I enjoy a lot reading the list and hope to participate more in the > future, even if my English isn't very good. After all, SIQUOMB. > > Ayoze ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 15:37:47 EDT From: SCJoniGuy@aol.com Subject: re: 10 desert island songs Ain't no way I could pick 10 songs as my favorite songs, but I couldn't go wrong with these 10: 1. Paprika Plains (So much depth, I could probably hear something new with each listen) 2. Blue Moon by the Marcels (Just about the most fun song to sing along with ever) 3. Golden Lady by Stevie Wonder (same as above, and I love the modulations he ends with) 4. A Change Is Gonna Come by Sam Cooke (a beautiful and very moving song, soulful and powerful) 5. Ring of Fire by Wall of Voodoo (an insanely demented cover, just for the fun quotient) 6. Hat Trick by America (because it's three, three, three songs in one! Also a lot of fun to sing to) 7. Rambling Man by The Allman Bros. (fun to sing and play air guitar to...) 8. Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana (more air guitar, and I gotta have at least one good head banger in the bunch!) 9. Strange Messengers by Patti Smith (like Paprika Plains, this song has a lot of depth...I get something out of it with every listen, and it always moves me) 10. Pulse by Ani Difranco (same as above) Tomorrow's list would be different I'm sure, and of course I'm leaving about ten quadzillion great ones behind... Bob ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 15:16:45 -0500 From: Mark Domyancich Subject: re: 10 desert island songs Well, I have to begin by saying that I listen to live stuff much, much more than any studio release, so that's why my list is a little slanted. In no particular order: 1) Phish, Lizards, 7/21/91 - Page's piano solo is the BEST! It makes the whole show worthwhile 2) The Slip, Invisible Man, 6/7/96 - mix is awful on my recording, but I love the F beat throughout the song (the NOTE! Not the swear!) 3) Dave Matthews/ Tim Reynolds, sometime in 2/97, Captain (aka #40) - hard as shit to play on the guitar but an awesome intro 4) Joni, Paprika Plains - nuff said 5) Jerry Garcia/David Grisman - Arabia 6) Tim Reynolds, Valley of Flowers 7) James Taylor, Fire & Rain 8) Phil Lesh & Friends, 4/15/99, Shakedown Street 9) Medeski, Martin & Wood - Note Bleu 10) Edie Brickell, Lost in the Moment That would be a sweet compilation! Mark ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 23:50:17 +0200 From: "patricia van nunen" Subject: 10 desert island cd's very difficult. only 10!! 1* joni mitchell : hejira 2* nick drake: five leaves left 3* henryk gorecki: symphony no.3 4* paul simon: graceland 5* eva cassidy: songbird 6* meshell ndegeocello: bitter 7* tori amos: little earthquakes 8* tricky: maxinquaye 9* geoff smith: 15 wild decembers 10*bjork:debut so difficult!!! patricia ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 18:15:18 EDT From: Fauchja@aol.com Subject: Firsts Out of lurk-dom. This is an ok subject First 45 - Surfin' Bird by the Trashmen First 33 - Meet the Beatles First cassette - Realization by Johnny Rivers First 8 Track - Luxury Liner by Emmylou Harris First concert - Donovan Desert Island Discs Court and Spark - Ms. Mitchell Rust Never Sleeps - Mr. Young Will the Circle Be Unbroken - NGDB and Friends David Bromberg by David Bromberg (the Japanese pressing of his 1st lp) Strngs of Steel by Michael Hedges Sgt Pepper - Beatles Graceland - Paul Simon Aereo Plane - John Hartford Other Voices, Other Rooms - Nanci Griffith Who's Next - Who ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 16:43:56 -0600 From: "Norma Meatheringham" Subject: silliness, etc. we can all listen and sing a long with Eva as she sings Pete Seeger's 'Oh Had I A Golden Thread'... from her 'Songbird' or "Live At Blues Alley'. OH, HAD I A GOLDEN THREAD Oh, had I a golden Thread And needle so fine I've weave a magic strand Of rainbow design Of rainbow design. In it I'd weave the bravery Of women giving birth, In it I would weave the innocence Of children over all the earth, Children of all earth. Far over the waters I'd reach my magic band Through foreign cities, To every single land, To every land. Show my brothers and sisters My rainbow design, Bind up this sorry world With hand and heart and mind, Hand and heart and mind. Far over the waters I'd reach my magic band To every human being So they would understand, So they'd understand. Words and music by Pete Seeger (1958) (c) 1959 by Stormking Music Inc. ~~~~~~~~~~ Most of us go to our grave with our music still inside of us. Happiness comes through doors you didn't even know you left open. ~ Author Unknown I've learned that it takes years to build up trust, and it only takes suspicion, not proof, to destroy it. and finally, most important of all... (Gas Warfare Act) You may flatulate in front of a woman only after you've brought her to climax. But if you trap her head under the covers for the purpose of flatulent entertainment, she's officially your girlfriend. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 16:10:23 -0700 (PDT) From: christopher blake Subject: joni used in my classroom hi all! from time to time i actually write to you all, mostly i lurk and enjoy. i wanted to let all the jmdlers know that i have found a way to get joni's music into my 8th grade english classroom! I set up my class like a record label executives convention and had the students grouped by label. i then played three songs (real song titles/ficticious artist names) and the students have to compose, in groups, a persuasive essay to be presented in class tomorrow about one artist that they would or would not sign to their label. the three songs were: janis' acoustic 'me & bobby mcgee', frank zappa's 'peaches en regalia' and joni's 'big yellow taxi'[the 'friends' remix - i'm trying to be hip ya know]. i am waiting to see how many students choose joni and whether or not any of them will sign her. some students knew the song but said that they have heard it in a different form. i will post the results soon. p.s. to all the folks who attended new england's jonifest: i'm sorry i never got the chance to get there, this is my first year teaching and the dates were conflicting. please "stay in touch". have an awesome day - chris(topher) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 19:25:14 -0400 From: Anne Sandstrom Subject: more than a couple of prophets? (sjc) I've been listening to Night Ride Home. "Slouching Towards Bethlehem" is one of my favorite songs of hers. Maybe even my favorite. It's so eerily prophetic right now. (Yes, yes I know it's based on Yeats.) I even heard someone on NPR yesterday saying they couldn't find any appropriate poetry for these times. Her former English professor said with rather formal academic indignation "Have you forgotten your Yeats?" Anyway, if you look in the book we all signed at JoniFest, Ashara, you'll see that there's a picture of me (I think it's the first page) with a falcon on my gloved fist. I quoted STB below it. Seems rather weird now. I read the lyrics to my sister. She was totally spooked. And how's this for weird? My brother is a meteorologist for the National Weather Service down in the D.C. area. He tracked the tornadoes. They swept through an area I used to stay often (I dated someone down there a number of years ago.) Anyway, my brother got his tax rebate check yesterday. He went to sign it over to the fund for the firemen's families. When he saw the local address he was supposed to send it to, he realized the building had been destroyed by the tornado. "Surely some revelation is at hand..." lots of love Anne ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 19:35:26 EDT From: TimandMaryPowers@aol.com Subject: Re: 10 desert island cd's I must say, I'm really surprised at the absence of Simon and Garfunkel from everybody's lists! my 10 1. Simon and Garfunkel, Tales from New York 2. Faure Requiem 3. Connemara Siren Song (a great Celtic CD with sea themes. On amazon) 4. Joni Court and Spark 5. Paul Simon Rhythm of the Saints 6. Mozart Requiem 7. Chopin favorites 8. Anonymous 4 Star in the East 9. Joan Baez Noel 10. Bach Mass in B minor If you have a chance, check out Connemara - they are great. Mary ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 20:13:48 -0400 From: Gary Zack Subject: Re: 10 Desert Island CDs Here's my list and I'm sticking to it ;~D (for today) (in no particular order) 1) Laura Nyro - New York Tendaberry 2) Joni Mitchell - Ladies Of The Canyon 3) Jim Croce - I Got A Name 4) Michael Johnson - Then & Now 5) Brenda Lee - Little Miss Dynamite 6) Alanis Morissette - Spacecakes 7) Ella Mae Morse - Barrelhouse, Boogie And The Blues 8) Peter, Paul & Mary - Album 1700 9) James Taylor - Gorilla 10) Jennifer Warnes - The Hunter My first concert: Peter, Paul & Mary - this had to be in the mid 60s - they just blew me away.... My first Joni concert - Stratford 1969 at the Avon Theatre. Ian & Sylvia had played the night before. A few of us waited outside the stage door after the show, and they let us in to meet her. She was beautiful, just sitting on a plank perched between two sawhorses as I recall...I asked her if she'd be coming back to Detroit, and she signed the large program and the smaller insert leaflet for me. It was total love from then on....it's unbelievable that I still remember some of the songs she did from that show.... Gary ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 20:25:53 -0400 From: Bruyere Subject: Re: VLJC - First post and 10 desert island discs Welcome Ayoze !! Don't worry ...English is my only language and I still have trouble with it ! :-) Heather At 09:24 AM 9/25/01 +0100, 657174974@amena.com wrote: >Hello all. > >My name is Ayoze, I'm a new Joni fan from Spain. And this, as you can >see, is my first post. I've been on the list for a week and just wanted >to add my own "top ten essential recordings" (whoa, that sounded >pretentious). > >Laurent Olszer wrote: >"I'd like to know what music JMDLers would take to a desert island, >where you'd be stuck for the rest of your life? >Please: no more than 1 album per artist. >Limit: 10" > >So here we go: > >Pet Sounds (The Beach Boys) >Armed Forces (Elvis Costello and The Attractions) >Highway 61 (Bob Dylan) >Lark's Tongues In Aspic (King Crimson) >Setting Sons (The Jam) >Court And Spark (Joni Mitchell) >Arthur or the Decline and Fall of the English Empire (The Kinks) >Remain in Light (Talking Heads) >Skylarking (XTC) >We're Only In It For The Money (Frank Zappa and the MOI) > >I enjoy a lot reading the list and hope to participate more in the >future, even if my English isn't very good. After all, SIQUOMB. > >Ayoze ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 20:34:53 -0400 From: Bruyere Subject: Re: Tornado in College Park, MD So glad that you guys are safe! Heather At 11:41 AM 9/25/01 -0400, TimandMaryPowers@aol.com wrote: >In a message dated Tue, 25 Sep 2001 12:44:11 AM Eastern Daylight Time, >Janet Hess writes: > > > Tonight several tornadoes cut through the Washington, DC area. The > campus of the University of Maryland, College Park, where Joni played in > the Joni-Dylan tour, was especially hard hit. Tragically, two people died > in a car on the campus. > >Hello, > >We were directly in the path of that tornado, which hit Laurel, MD >also. It took off the roof of the high school a couple miles from our >house. My husband was hiding in the laundry room with the cats (I wasn't >home). of course, one of the cats wanted to be right by the window and >watch everything. Our screen door was torn and we lost power but we're >OK. Trees down everwhere. > >Mary ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 02:30:49 +0100 From: <657174974@amena.com> Subject: Re: VLJC - 10 desert island songs First, I must thank everyone in the list for their warm welcome. It makes me feel proud of being a Joni fan. My 10 favourite songs could be these: 1. All I Want (you know that one). The first Joni song I ever heard and still my favourite. 2. Give Me Shelter (The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed). Wonderful and apocalyptic. 3. Marquee Moon (Television - Marquee Moon). One of the very few punk songs that lasts more than ten minutes, but there's not a single second wasted. And I don't even like punk. 4. Paperback Writer (The Beatles). 5. Starless (King Crimson - Red). Makes me wanna cry. 6. Goon Squad (Elvis Costello - Armed Forces). Very difficult choice. This simply rocks very hard. 7. Peaches En Regalia (Frank Zappa - Hot Rats). What can I say? Beautiful beyond words. 8. This Will Be Our Year (The Zombies - Oddesey and Oracle). Gorgeous in its simplicity. 9. Alone Again Or (Love - Forever Changes). 10. Help Me, Rhonda (The Beach Boys - Summer Days). Ayoze ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 22:33:18 -0400 (EDT) From: Catherine McKay Subject: Re: VLJC - First post and 10 desert island discs - --- 657174974@amena.com wrote: > Hello all. > > My name is Ayoze, I'm a new Joni fan from Spain. Welcome to the party, Ayoze. As for me, I always refuse to play the desert island game because I'm spoiled rotten and I want it all. Also, the practical side of me suggests there would be no way to play these discs anyway, but if I said that, I guess I'd be ruining it for everyone else, so let's just pretend I didn't say that. Get your free @yahoo.ca address at http://mail.yahoo.ca ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 23:01:01 -0400 From: "James L. Leonard" Subject: Re: 10 desert island discs (SJC) In alphabetical order (and cheating with box sets, in most cases) ... 1. Allman Brothers Band - The Fillmore Concerts 2. John Coltrane - The Classic Quartet: Complete Impulse! Studio Recordings 3. Miles Davis - Miles Davis Quartet 1965 - '68 4. Duke Ellington - The Centennial Edition: Complete RCA Victor Recordings 5. Dexter Gordon - The Complete Blue Note Sixties Sessions 6. Pat Metheny Group - Travels 7. Joni Mitchell - Shadows And Light 8. Thelonious Monk - The Complete Riverside Recordings 9. Van Morrison - It's Too Late To Stop Now 10. Neil Young - Weld Jim ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 07:34:59 +0100 (BST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?khalil=20alkari?= Subject: [none] salam my frend my name is khalil from bahrain. i am joni mitchel fan from georg bush time in kuwait. i like joni mitchal and thing muslim stick up washington is very interesting. I like song carey i like yellow taxi song and my fren like islam song hijra. i want meet many joni mitchal fren,,,,, inshala ,khalil in bahrain Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 08:53:17 +0200 From: M.Russell@iaea.org Subject: RE: 10 desert island discs Oh, yes! Lark Ascending!!! On 25 September 2001 20:24, Mags [SMTP:pholden@iprimus.ca] wrote: > 9.Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending (okay so it's a > song, it deserves to be in a list of CDs) brilliant, > soulful, perfect. Iona Brown is the song bird of the > violin. Enough to stop me in my tracks and keep me > there. Spellbound. > > Mags ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2001 #299 ********************************* ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here: mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe ------- Siquomb, isn't she?