From: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2007 #384 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 Monday, December 3 2007 Volume 2007 : Number 384 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: Joni Essentials [Monika Bogdanowicz ] Subject: Joni Essentials [walter yablonsky ] Re: Travelogue [Mark-Leon Thorne ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2007 19:41:30 -0800 (PST) From: Monika Bogdanowicz Subject: Re: Joni Essentials Oh you heard then? Remember how Starbucks signed Joni for the two album deal? Well, recently she said her next project is going to be singing the white pages to a jazz backing. :) -Monika Michael Paz wrote: Are you kidding? She could sing the white pages and it would be the bomb. - --------------------------------- Be a better pen pal. Text or chat with friends inside Yahoo! Mail. See how. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2007 19:48:58 -0800 (PST) From: walter yablonsky Subject: Subject: Joni Essentials Essentials: (pick 3) 1. song to a seagull (could be the best album ever made...) 2. for the roses (...well next to this one. it's my fave joni) 3. hejira (sometimes this one's my fave too. these are definitely my top 3) Recommended: (pick 3) 1. hissing of summer lawns (her most complex) 2. clouds (wasn't there such a change between albums 1(stas) & 2(clouds?) i do love this one a lot though. and i think her singing is just fine. 3. court and spark (still has surprises after a thousand plays) Be careful: (pick 3) 1. don juan's reckless daughter (get rid of "paprika plains" and it is yet another perfect album. perhaps her last) 2. night ride home (a great comeback) 3. turbulent indigo (this one gets better with age) Go ahead and skip: (pick 3) 1. dog eat dog (save for "impossible dreamer" & "empty try another") 2. the recent double one with the orchestra (i like the previous one, "both sides now" tho) 3. (those are the only 2 i dislike) Live: (pick 1) 1. "miles of aisles" To start with: (pick 1, some compilation) 1. "hits & misses." i dislike most of the others. especially when she sneaks in those orchestral ones over the originals. in general i'm kind of tired of "blue," (even tho it's a classic of course.) and i don't see why everyone is so down on "taming the tiger." i like that one fine. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 15:17:58 +1100 From: Mark-Leon Thorne Subject: Re: Travelogue Hi Eric. I can understand your dismay at the "dissing" Travelogue has gotten. It seems to polarise its audience. Firstly, I love the concept and was anxious to hear it when I heard what Joni was trying to do. Several artists have tried something similar. Mostly the artists were poor when they first recorded their songs and, once they had some cash to spare, fulfilled their dream of recording the songs again in a way they wanted to but were unable to before. Joni was older and wiser than when she recorded most of those songs. She had learned a lot more about music and was much more in control. Obviously, she was inspired by how Both Sides, Now turned out and must have thought, "Wouldn't it be lovely to have that rich full orchestra sound behind some of these other songs?" So many people have reinterpreted her songs so, why not Joni herself? I love the covers that Bob has so diligently kept us abreast of. They give us a new perspective on the songs that we love. I'm even warming to the jazz and instrumental interpretations. What's even more interesting though is the artist's own re-interpretation of her own songs, 10, 20 years later. If I was a recording artists, I would jump at the chance to do my songs over with a full orchestra behind me. Sure, some of the songs weren't quite what I was expecting and maybe even Joni wasn't completely satisfied with the end result but it is what it is and I for one, am so glad she made the attempt. As you mentioned, Joni even outdid her originals on some of them. The Dawntreader for example. The Travelogue version was the inspiration for my wallpaper of the same name. It's not so much based on that version but it inspired me to listen to the song (in both forms) much more closely and it is now one of my favourite Joni songs. I hope Joni keeps experimenting. She just gets more interesting with everything she does. Just my AU$0.02 Mark in Sydney NP a Summer storm outside my window. ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2007 #384 ********************************* ------- 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)