..i am LOVING a case of u and help me.
what other songs or what albums of hers should i check out?

Get 'Blue' as quick as possible...

Court & Spark rocks!!!

My first thought: "Blue"

My other favorite album is "The Hissing of Summer Lawns"



THE JUNGLE LINE

Rousseau walks on trumpet paths
Safaris to the heart of all that jazz
Through I bars and girders-through wires and pipes
The mathematic circuits of the modern nights
Through huts, through Harlem, through jails and gospel pews
Through the class on Park and the trash on Vine
Through Europe and the deep deep heart of Dixie blue
Through savage progress cuts the jungle line

In a low-cut blouse she brings the beer
Rousseau paints a jungle flower behind her ear
Those cannibals-of shuck and jive
They'll eat a working girl like her alive
With his hard-edged eye and his steady hand
He paints the cellar full of ferns and orchid vines
And he hangs a moon above a five-piece band
He hangs it up above the jungle line

The jungle line, the jungle line
Screaming in a ritual of sound and time
Floating, drifting on the air-conditioned wind
And drooling for a taste of something smuggled in
Pretty women funneled through valves and smoke
Coy and bitchy, wild and fine
And charging elephants and chanting slaving boats
Charging, chanting down the jungle line

There's a poppy wreath on a soldier's tomb
There's a poppy snake in a dressing room
Poppy poison-poppy tourniquet
It slithers away on brass like mouthpiece spit
And metal skin and ivory birds
Go steaming up to Rousseau's vines
They go steaming up to Brooklyn Bridge
Steaming, steaming, steaming up the jungle line

Definitely Court & Spark

Then:

Blue
For the Roses
Hissing of Summer Lawns
Hejira

of course, there's always Hits

Before your next breath...get BLUE!

The entire album is beautiful perfection. You'll end up loving every song and knowing every word and it will blow you away!

COURT AND SPARK, HEIJERA, HISSING OF SUMMER LAWNS, LADIES OF THE CANYON are all brilliant as well!

Yup, Court And Spark and Blue

are perfect to start off with...

and My favorites, (the ones that really turned me out, ), are:

and Chalk Mark In A Rainstorm

ooo thanx 4 the help yall..i think i'll check out blue since most of yall said it

Also, if you want to see her in performance, check out the Shadows and Light DVD:

1979 concert, featuring a stellar line up of musicians: Jaco Pastorius:Bass, Pat Metheny: Guitar, Lyle Mays, Keyboards, Michael Brecker, Sax, and Don Alias, Drums and Percussion...great concert, although the interspersed "video" sequences probably don't hold up that well...

yeah..Blue and Lawn are my favs....

paligap said:

This, indeed, is the summum of Joni's career. Marmelstein has hipped me to the later Joni Mitchell, her smokey voice is sublime on albums like Travelogue, which is an amazing album, but totally unlike the works Paligap is hipping you to. First check out his tips, then move over to this.

There's a fantastic DVD on her that covers her career and life to present. For 20 bucks, it will give you a great overview of the various phases of her music, as well as alot of insight into her.

Tom said:

Yup, This one, it's a great overview!

Joni Mitchell: Woman Of Heart And Mind



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paligap said:

awsome dvd get it now !!!