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Printablei fell in love with her when my dad played 'help me' then i started getting into her other albums as i got older. i am genuinely moved by 'blue' i did not know she made 'case of you', i'm really fond of her version to. | |
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MoonSongs said: Lammastide said: Oh, how I wish Joni would at least drop a new song or two every so often -- maybe for internet release -- if she won't altogether come out of retirement.
I so miss her poetic insights. As do I ~ the poetry, melody and passion of her music are difficult to find in music today. Lisa Gerrard comes to mind, but in a vastly different venue. Yeah... Lisa's stuff is similarly passionate, lush, yearning, visionary. But her work is obviously esoteric by design; whereas Joni has always been way practical. Wow... I guess I never thought about Joni that way:  As cerebral and artful as her work can be, it's always so practical. So down-to-earth. The existentialist dreamer; the sheltered housewife and the beer-chugging trucker could all find something to relate to -- to use -- in Joni's work. (Well, except maybe her Mingus-era stuff.   )
I suppose that goes along with her genius. Ὅσον ζῇς φαίνου
μηδὲν ὅλως σὺ λυποῦ πρὸς ὀλίγον ἐστὶ τὸ ζῆν τὸ τέλος ὁ χρόνος ἀπαιτεῖ.” | |
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Everytime I put on Joni, it never fails to amaze me just how incredible she is at conveying emotion with her voice. There's something about it that draws you in, makes you pay attention and listen.
But though I love it, "Help Me" leaves me with a very disturbed, unsettled feeling. Like I should be remembering something bad that happened, but can't. I never could figure out why. "A Watcher scoffs at gravity!" | |
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I love performers that can make personal, honest music without being wimpy and drowning me in treacle, and I don't think there's a better example than Joni Mitchell. | |
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Joni's rendition of Woodstock = perfection. "A Watcher scoffs at gravity!" | |
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meow85 said: Joni's rendition of Woodstock = perfection.
I've listened to that one on repeat for nearly an hour before. It's brought me near tears. Makes me wonder, with such a focus on love, peace and music, how in the world we've ended up where we are now. [Edited 8/4/06 12:04pm] Ὅσον ζῇς φαίνου
μηδὲν ὅλως σὺ λυποῦ πρὸς ὀλίγον ἐστὶ τὸ ζῆν τὸ τέλος ὁ χρόνος ἀπαιτεῖ.” | |
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I just noticed in the TV Guide about an hour ago that this was going to be on, and now here's this thread. 
I've seen it already, although I'd love to watch it again.  It's on here on Saturday night at 10:00 p.m. though, and I'll be gone.  "I saw a woman with major Hammer pants on the subway a few weeks ago and totally thought of you." - sextonseven | |
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Good thread. I first got hip to Joni through my mom. She had some of her albums when I was little. When I was 12, my girlfriend's mom also was into Joni and was always playng Joni whenever I was over there. At that time, I played my mom's Joni's album "Blue" which, I think, is probably my fave of hers. Other Joni album's I dig too are "Don Juan's Reckless Daughter", "Court and Spark" and "Both Sides Now". Joni ALWAYS struck me as a deep, deep artist. Deeper than many. My fave folk artists are definately Ritchie Havens and Cat Stevens, but Joni is somewhere else to me. Which is cool, too. SynthiaRose said "I'm in love with blackguitaristz. Especially when he talks about Hendrix."
nammie "What BGZ says I believe. I have the biggest crush on him." http://ccoshea19.googlepa...ssanctuary http://ccoshea19.googlepages.com | |
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paligap said: I first started checking Joni out because so many of my musical favorites were either huge fans of hers, or had actually collaborated with her at some point. Back in the early 80's, I was into artists like Prince, Jaco and Weather Report, Narada Michael Walden, The Police, The Yellowjackets, Al Jarreau, Herbie Hancock, and Thomas Dolby, and they would all rave about Joni, as a performer and musician as well as a songwriter. Then one day, I happened to be in a video shop and they were playing what turned out to be Joni's "Shadows and Light" concert--of course I was blown away-- Joni and her guitar, rolling through great tunes like "Coyote", "In France They Kiss On Main Street", "Black Crow", "Amelia", "The Dry Cleaner From Des Moines"--slammin!, and with Pat Metheny, Jaco, Mike Brecker, Lyle Mays and Don Alias as the backing band!!!! So I knew had to back-track and do some catching up (oh, and I bought their only video copy of the concert that day, !)...I dove into the Joni Mitchell catalog, and I've been a huge fan ever since...
... The doc showed her music's progression into those great collabs. At the beginning she appeared to be very waif-like but down the road it was clear that "she could hang with the dude(s)". According to Mike Landau, "She wasn’t at all shy when I played with her...she was downright assertive at times! And musically, she’s really in her own league." http://www.vintageguitar....asp?ID=124 I was still most impressed with the command and presence she had just playing solo. tA  Tribal Disorder
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