From: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2008 #270 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 Sunday, December 21 2008 Volume 2008 : Number 270 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: onlyJMDL Digest V2008 #269 [Mark-Leon Thorne ] Re: If ["Paul Castle" ] Songs that Make Me Cry (sjc) ["Paul Castle" ] Re: Songs that Make Me Cry (sjc) [Bob Muller ] Re: Songs that Make Me Cry (sjc) [Victor Johnson ] Re: Songs that Make Me Cry (sjc) ["Jerry Notaro" ] A Song that really made me cry [Jeannie ] Happy Solstice [M C ] Re: Songs that Make Me Cry (sjc) ["ron" ] Re: Songs that Make Me Cry (sjc) ["Mark Scott" ] Re: Songs that Make Me Cry (sjc) ["Cassy" ] Re: songs that make me cry vljc ["Cassy" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 19:33:46 +1100 From: Mark-Leon Thorne Subject: Re: onlyJMDL Digest V2008 #269 Hey Michael. So glad to have the company of another Aussie. I'm a long term lister too but only been active since about 2003. That makes four of us from the great land of Oz. You, me, Don and Melissa. I sure hope you can make it to OzFest in March, 2010. Mark in Sydney NP Mind Trips - The Brand New Heavies ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 10:18:00 +0000 From: "Paul Castle" Subject: Re: If Michael wrote: > OMG the Gov. of Illinois is quoting the Kipling poem..... I had a boss once who called his us in for an emergency meeting during some crisis and started by saying, "If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you, you probably haven't grasped the seriousness of the situation!" Happy hols, y'ule PaulC np Tannis Slimmon - 'Ernest Charlie Allan' (Lucky Blue) - fab!! [They drove down to Assiniboine Valley To the top of the Beaver Dam Hill Where the stars go on forever And probably always will"] ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 12:15:45 +0000 From: "Paul Castle" Subject: Songs that Make Me Cry (sjc) Sitting on the sofa watching Randy Newman sing 'Marie' (in a recent concert here in London at St Luke's with the BBC Concert Orchestra) I found myself having a serious 'senior moment' when the violins kicked in as he sang "I'm drunk now, baby but I've got to be Or I never could tell you what you mean to me" Someone has put it up on YouTube - it'll probably be taken down as soon as someone for the BBC spots it, so if you like Randy do try and watch it now - very special, imo. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suHQu_W3KN0 Recently enjoyed reading a blog post by Dougas Newman (no relation as far as I know) called "10 Songs that Make Me Cry" see http://magazine.jamsbio.com/2008/11/06/10-songs-that-make-me-cry/ and http://magazine.jamsbio.com/2008/11/06/10-songs-that-make-me-cry/2/ His choices: "Boots of Spanish Leather" by Bob Dylan (1963) "Needle of Death" by Bert Jansch (1965) "Kathy's Song" by Simon & Garfunkel (1966) "Farewell, Farewell" by Fairport Convention (1969) "Road" by Nick Drake (1970) "Hello in There" by John Prine (1971) "The Last Time I Saw Richard" by Joni Mitchell (1971) "4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)" by Bruce Springsteen (1973) "Anchorage" by Michelle Shocked (1987) "Svefn-g-englar" by Sigur Ros (1999) Quite a few of his choices have done it to me at some time or other - although 'The Last Time I Saw Richard' wouldn't be my first choice from Blue ("River', probably) and I'd not heard Sigur Ros before - a really interesting sound on first listen but this track didn't 'get me', but, as his comments suggest, so much depends on what is going on in your life when you first hear a song. Interested to know what does it for other jmdlers very best PaulC ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 06:24:21 -0800 (PST) From: Bob Muller Subject: Re: Songs that Make Me Cry (sjc) I'm like as far as Joni is concerned, Paul - "Richard" will never bring on the tears but "River" will on occasion. A lot of it (crying) is dependant on my mood. I typically always will cry when I hear Stevie's "You Are The Sunshine Of My Life" because I bought the 45 for my Mom who loved that song and it reminds me of her. I'd be hard-pressed to listen to Jeff Hankins' "The Vow" without breaking down, alcohol or no. Just about any version of "A Place For Us" from West Side Story will also turn the trick. Bob NP: Joni, "Blue" (MOA version) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 09:30:58 -0500 From: Victor Johnson Subject: Re: Songs that Make Me Cry (sjc) On Dec 20, 2008, at 9:24 AM, Bob Muller wrote: > > Just about any version of "A Place For Us" from West Side Story will > also turn the trick. I love Tom Waits' version from Blue Valentine especially. "Somewhere" is the title. Victor ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 09:31:52 -0500 (EST) From: "Jerry Notaro" Subject: Re: Songs that Make Me Cry (sjc) Hello In There and In My Life Jerry Bob Muller wrote: > > > I'm like as far as Joni is concerned, Paul - "Richard" will never bring on > the tears but "River" will on occasion. A lot of it (crying) is dependant > on my mood. I typically always will cry when I hear Stevie's "You Are The > Sunshine Of My Life" because I bought the 45 for my Mom who loved that > song and it reminds me of her. > > I'd be hard-pressed to listen to Jeff Hankins' "The Vow" without breaking > down, alcohol or no. > > Just about any version of "A Place For Us" from West Side Story will also > turn the trick. > > Bob > > NP: Joni, "Blue" (MOA version) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 08:53:20 -0800 (PST) From: Jeannie Subject: A Song that really made me cry Warren's last live performance on David Letterman soon after he announced he was suffering with mesothelioma and was dying and I was devastated. The name of the song is Mutineer. Randy Newman's wonderful performance reminded me of that bittersweet night of tears. Jeannie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmjTQqJXtgs ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 15:10:30 -0800 (PST) From: M C Subject: Happy Solstice On Sunday, December 21, at 7:04 am EST, 12:04 UT, the Winter Soltice occurs. For those of us in the cold of the northern hemisphere, it's the shortest day and longest night of the year, and from then on the days get longer and the nights shorter. All this is opposite for the southern hemisphere, where they are starting summer. Happy Solstice, everyone, wherever you are. - - mc ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 01:13:03 +0200 From: "ron" Subject: Re: Songs that Make Me Cry (sjc) jerry wrote Subject: Re: Songs that Make Me Cry (sjc) > Hello In There and In My Life i cannot listen to hello in there, it chokes me up too much & i switch it off. others which really crack me up; midhelle shocked - the ballad of penny evans, (now released on the revised short sharp shocked) emmylou harris - millworker alison krauss - down to the river to pray mary gauthier - christmas in paradise rory block - mother marian, & the dvd of shadows & light i cant believe i have had this video for ages, but only watched it twice. its all i can take.... ron ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 18:46:48 -0800 From: "Mark Scott" Subject: Re: Songs that Make Me Cry (sjc) - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Castle" > > Interested to know what does it for other jmdlers > 'Being Alive' from the musical 'Company' (especially Streisand's version on 'The Broadway Album') 'Light One Candle' and 'Blowin' in the Wind' from Peter Paul and Mary's 'A Holiday Celebration' 'Sara' by Stevie Nicks w/Fleetwood Mac 'A Total Eclipse of the Heart' by Bonnie Tyler - cheese maybe, but it has a memory associated with that just won't die Those are the main ones that come to mind at the moment. The test is to try and sing the song. If I can't get through it myself without it sticking in my throat, it's one of 'those' songs. Mark in Seattle ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 22:45:31 -0800 From: "Cassy" Subject: Re: Songs that Make Me Cry (sjc) And I will never forget the floodgates that opened the first time I heard "Both Sides Now" from the Both Sides Now CD... I thought I'd never stop sobbing. If Iraq's biggest export was broccoli, would we still be there ? ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 23:35:45 -0800 From: "Cassy" Subject: Re: songs that make me cry vljc Music moves me in a way nothing else does. At various times in my life different songs have made me cry and that can be so cathartic especially when you "need a reason" to allow yourself to be moved to tears. Each of the following songs has moved me to tears at different times. Beloved Wife - Natalie Merchant Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again - from Phantom of the Opera - because I chose the music for my dad's memorial service. This was one song I know he loved and it just fit so well (He was once a friend and father...) Cold Wind - Willy Porter - it's a song sung about a friend with AIDS and moves me immensely Just Won't Burn - Susan Tedeschi - If I'm in a certain mood Sacrifice - Robbie Robertson (The story of Leonard Peltier told by Leonard) Don't Give Up - Peter Gabriel Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley's rendition Anderson's Luck - JackoPierce Get It Together - India.Arie It's a Man's World - duet with James Brown and Pavarotti Down To You - Joni Mitchell And still the list's not done... oh well, I won't bore you all with more. Warmly, Cassy NP: Ian Moore - Muddy Jesus finished playing and P.Diddy with Usher - I Need a Girl started If Iraq's biggest export was broccoli, would we still be there ? ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2008 #270 ********************************* ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here: mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe