From: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2010 #340 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 Saturday, December 11 2010 Volume 2010 : Number 340 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- 1978 Review ["Epley, Keith" ] Re: New Library item: Daughter: Bitterness With a Steely Edge [Em Subject: 1978 Review Hmmmm-Critics and Philistines(I prefer a long-i- in the last syllable on this one!). You know what, maybe "I" was feeling just like Joni at that moment of DJRD or maybe I was 19 or 20 and thought this woman was putting every other singer/songwriter out of work with her brilliance. Hadn't the reviewer heard "Marcie," the saddest, most dejected song of unrequited love? Maybe my favorite song by Joni Mitchell, the Joni Mitchell who doesn't feel the "Urge" to "paint a starry night again, man"? That does it. I ain't gonna read "King Lear," as "Willy the Shake" must have had a bad day and didn't write "Much Ado About Nothing" again. Shake and Joni are always "Much Ado About Something, " no matter what they write. My best friend and I sat in my backyard, rural Kentucky, drinking "B&J and Coke," singing: "Who left her long black hair in our bathtub draaaaaain," twang, twang, twang. I know a young woman who is graduating college, herself a "woman of heart and mind," and she's getting a gift of "Hejira," (she has all the pen sets she'll ever need) the best album by the best singer. And my "opinion" puts us back on the gold standard. LOL Smooches and Happy Holidays to "all y'all" from here in Hooterville; and remember, "Happiness is the best facelift." ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 06:56:59 -0800 (PST) From: Em Subject: Re: New Library item: Daughter: Bitterness With a Steely Edge I get he review. Once one can accept that the other Joni is gone forever, one can learn to suck on the colder tit (and appreciate it that there's any tit at all) and maybe even prefer the coolness. It belongs to her - she can do what she wants with it. Her art did take the turn to the "acidic and strident" - I totally agree. A matter of taste. From Hissing on, maybe it's just me, but I can really sense the cocaine presence. The froze-nose unhappiness lurking about and constricting the heart. Doesn't mean the music was bad....just froze-nose affected - like so many things in the late 70's. (kind of like in that movie "Boogie Nights" or in the movie "Blow") I don't think she was purposely being cold - in fact I think she tried hard to heat DJRD up. The album is peppery. So its warmth comes from pepper rather than from normal human warmth. And that's any artist's right! It's just that many people so loved the old WARM tit, that the COLD tit seemed rude and uninviting. Some liked the cold peppery tit right off the bat (to be fair, let's say "cool peppery tit") - and some grew to like it. (like me...I'm in the 2nd category) So I don't disagree with this review. I also would be curious how he came to feel about the album later on. Em - --- On Thu, 12/9/10, Merk54@aol.com wrote: From: Merk54@aol.com Subject: Re: New Library item: Daughter: Bitterness With a Steely Edge To: joni@smoe.org Date: Thursday, December 9, 2010, 1:18 PM Wow! I can't believe this review of DJRD. It is the complete opposite of how I feel about this work. Very timely since I just listened to it 3 times in the last couple of days. If you want to read a pretty hateful review of DJRD, this is it. Jack In a message dated 12/9/2010 11:38:47 A.M. Central Standard Time, TheStaff@JoniMitchell.com writes: http://jonimitchell.com/library/view.cfm?id=2321 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 09:41:53 -0700 (MST) From: TheStaff@JoniMitchell.com Subject: New Library item: A Poet Named Joni Mitchell Title: A Poet Named Joni Mitchell Publication: Open City Date: 1968.6.14 http://jonimitchell.com/library/view.cfm?id=2326 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 18:39:11 -0700 (MST) From: TheStaff@JoniMitchell.com Subject: New Library item: Single of the Week Title: Single of the Week Publication: Radio & Record News Date: 1978.2.28 http://jonimitchell.com/library/view.cfm?id=2327 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 20:56:42 -0500 From: Gerald Notaro Subject: Re: New Library item: Single of the Week I'm afraid my assessment to DJRD was similar at the time. It took me years to appreciate its genius. Jerry On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 8:39 PM, wrote: > Title: Single of the Week > Publication: Radio & Record News > Date: 1978.2.28 > > http://jonimitchell.com/library/view.cfm?id=2327 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 21:16:49 -0500 From: "Richard Flynn" Subject: Re: New Library item: Single of the Week I loved Hejira from the get-go, but I was lukewarm about DJRD. I appreciate it now, but I still don't love it. Better than Mingus,that's for sure. Sent via DROID on Verizon Wireless - -----Original message----- From: Gerald Notaro To: TheStaff@jonimitchell.com Cc: joni@smoe.org Sent: Sat, Dec 11, 2010 02:01:00 GMT+00:00 Subject: Re: New Library item: Single of the Week I'm afraid my assessment to DJRD was similar at the time. It took me years to appreciate its genius. Jerry On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 8:39 PM, wrote: > Title: Single of the Week > Publication: Radio & Record News > Date: 1978.2.28 > > http://jonimitchell.com/library/view.cfm?id=2327 ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2010 #340 ********************************* ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here: mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe