From: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2007 #314 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org 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 Thursday, October 4 2007 Volume 2007 : Number 314 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- SJC love songs [missblux@googlemail.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 11:22:12 +0200 From: missblux@googlemail.com Subject: SJC love songs Hey, here are my five oere contribution to the love song discussion... I fell in love with Hejira for reasons I wasn't sure about for many years, I think I just thought it was somehow extremely cool and sophisticated in a sensitive and erotic way. It took me years to realize that the album in many ways deals with love, the pain and the divine side of it. No doubt, I love it because, as a wise jmdler said to me, it vibrates in a way that I do too. Like when you tune the guitar: you play an A on the E-string, and the A-chord vibrates. Joni is the clearly sounding A, my heart is the A-string :-) So, it's not because an album is about love that you get curious. If I bought records simply because I'd heard they were about love I'd have to buy 80% (?) of all music that is published. What happens is that you hear something and you think - huh, what's that...I wanna hear it again? And it turns out to be a love song, and you buy it. (Uhm, given that 80% of all pop songs are love songs, maybe I'm wrong, maybe you hear something you like and in 80% of the cases it'll be a love song...?). Nothing sad about listening to love songs. Love is the greatest beauty and if we could all understand it and behold it (sorry about the dramatic archaism) we might fight, exploit and devastate less. It's about finding out what's inside you and the more you understand that the more you'll understand the rest of the world. People write so many love songs I think because love is the greatest mystery that they need to solve, in order to move on. It's interesting that hatred doesn't inspire that many songs. Weird in fact?! Amen...... Bene - -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: Bob.Muller@Fluor.com > sales as most people would sooner listen to topics of love than to the > dire state of the orb.> > > That doesn't make much sense to me. I've NEVER bought an album based on > what topic a songwriter was singing about and I doubt that people do > that...pick up a CD, try and figure out the subject matter, and then > decide whether or not to buy it. If any of you do engage in that kind of > behavior I'd like to hear it. Doesn't make sense to me either...and what I also disagree with is this statement suggests that there's something sad about wanting to listen to love songs. Music is all about love. It's not the job of music to solve the problems of the world. Love songs are everywhere. The opera arias I'm learning (Addio, fiorito asil & Una furtiva lagrime) are love songs...I keep learning more and more jazz standards- they're love songs. There's nothing wrong with wanting to listen to love songs. Sure, the world is in dire straits but that's not a determining factor in the music I listen to or buy, nor does the music I listen to or buy have anything to do with my feelings or concerns about the state of the world . At the end of the day, you still have to laugh or smile and/or find something to be happy about. Victor ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2007 #314 ********************************* ------- 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? (http://www.siquomb.com/siquomb.cfm)