From: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2012 #326 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk Website:http://www.jonimitchell.com Unsubscribe:mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe onlyJMDL Digest Tuesday, October 2 2012 Volume 2012 : Number 326 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: JMDL Digest V2012 #1507 ["Gary Hanick" ] RE: JMDL Digest V2012 #1499 [Mary Morris ] Re: JMDL Digest V2012 #1499 Joni songs that we hate, or don't quite like [Catherine McKay Subject: Re: JMDL Digest V2012 #1507 These are fantastic. What a fine group this was. Seeing the pictures of Joni made me well up. I wish I was there! Sent from my iPad On Oct 1, 2012, at 12:37 AM, "JMDL Digest" wrote: > > JMDL Digest Monday, October 1 2012 Volume 2012 : Number 1507 > > > > ========== > > TOPICS and authors in this Digest: > -------- > Re: Ruby Lake Photos [Rose ] > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2012 11:12:04 -0400 > From: Rose > Subject: Re: Ruby Lake Photos > > Thank you Cassy, simply beautiful :.) > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Sep 29, 2012, at 4:24 PM, "Cassy" wrote: > >> For those of you who are not on Facebook, here is a link to my photographs >> from our Ruby Lake hejira: >> >> https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.4676301994710.185216.1508525181&typ >> e=3 >> >> Ibd love to be able to articulate the weekend but Ibm still processing it >> all. >> >> love, >> Cassy > > ------------------------------ > > End of JMDL Digest V2012 #1507 > ****************************** > > ------- > To post messages to the list, sendtojoni@smoe.org. > Unsubscribe by clicking here: > mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe > ------- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2012 14:10:51 -0700 From: Mary Morris Subject: RE: JMDL Digest V2012 #1499 I have to agree with Paul here. BYT is quite an encapsulation of it's time & a very catchy little song. There are few lead balloons in Joni's work, "Lead Balloon" might be one of my least favorite, or "Blue Motel Room"...she just sounds a litte affected there - not quite on point, as she always is, so when she "slips" a little, it's really noticeable. She's set such a standard for herself that once in awhile there's a clunker I can overlook. GREETINGS FROM THE TRIPLE M Down a gravel road, where the barb wire meets the sky. MARY M. MORRIS > Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 01:15:58 -0400 > From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org > To: joni-digest@smoe.org > Subject: JMDL Digest V2012 #1499 > > > JMDL Digest Friday, September 28 2012 Volume 2012 : Number 1499 > > > > ========== > > TOPICS and authors in this Digest: > -------- > Big Yellow Taxi [Paul Ivice ] > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 01:10:06 -0400 (EDT) > From: Paul Ivice > Subject: Big Yellow Taxi > > From: Betsy > >>> To: joni@smoe.org > >>> Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2012 4:57:28 PM > >>> Subject: BYT and other hippie songs > >>> > >>> Big Yellow Taxi ... tops my list of songs that I wish she could unwrite. > Maybe its the only song on my list....there are less popular songs I could do > without, but they aren't foisted upon me at the pizza parlor. > >>> > I find this comment to be especially strange coming from a Joni fan because > not only is "Don't It Always Seem to Go That You Don't Know What You've Got > Til It's Gone" the lyric of Joni's that unquestionably has become the most > deeply rooted in the social lexicon, but I would also suggest that more than > any other Joni song, the entirety of BYT represents Joni more philosophically, > politically and perhaps even emotionally, > Much like the way Steve Goodman's last verse of "You Never Even Call Me By My > Name," added at the request of David Allen Coe, gathers in a few lines all of > the elements that make it the "greatest country song of all time," within BYT > are all of the key elements -- a broken love affair, saving the environment, > getting back to the land and criticizing some human's overemphasis on profit > - -- that run through almost all of Joni's lyrics, but in no other song of hers > are they so complete and quintessential. > > Paul Ivice ;>) > > ------------------------------ > > End of JMDL Digest V2012 #1499 > ****************************** > > ------- > To post messages to the list, sendtojoni@smoe.org. > Unsubscribe by clicking here: > mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe > ------- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2012 15:30:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Catherine McKay Subject: Re: JMDL Digest V2012 #1499 Joni songs that we hate, or don't quite like Interesting how we all differ. I quite like "Blue Motel Room". I think it's jazzy, bluesy and humourous as well. It doesn't come off as affected to me at all. I don't dislike "Big Yellow Taxi" and agree that it makes its point in a way that has stood the test of time, so I'm not disagreeing that it's a good song. As well, it has provided some oft-used expressions that even non-Joni fans use on a fairly regular basis: "They paved paradise and put up a parking lot" and "[Don't it always seem to go] You don't know what you've got 'til it's gone". (At this point, I'm not even sure whether Joni made that one up or if it existed before this song, but I always think of Joni when I hear anyone say it, or read it anywhere). On the other hand, great song or not, I am tired of hearing it because it has been covered so many times that I think it needs to take a rest for a while and I usually skip it. As for "Lead Balloon," that one's kind of meh to me. I neither like nor dislike it. It certainly wouldn't be in my top 10/20/40 Joni songs. >________________________________ > From: Mary Morris >To: JONIMITCHELL DISCUSSION LIST >Sent: Monday, October 1, 2012 5:10:51 PM >Subject: RE: JMDL Digest V2012 #1499 > >I have to agree with Paul here. BYT is quite an encapsulation of it's time & >a very catchy little song. There are few lead balloons in Joni's work, "Lead >Balloon" might be one of my least favorite, or "Blue Motel Room"...she just >sounds a litte affected there - not quite on point, as she always is, so when >she "slips" a little, it's really noticeable. She's set such a standard for >herself that once in awhile there's a clunker I can overlook. > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2012 #326 ********************************* ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here:mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe