And if that ain't enough, she's behind that moog bass groove too.

love this song

Aw man I read Jungle Love at first and got weirdly excited.

Great track from a great album.

This sequence of studio albums is probably my favorite material from her.

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theAudience said:

This sequence of studio albums is probably my favorite material from her.

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Mine too, although Mingus took a bit of getting used to.

I can't really fault her first six albums, either, so that makes ten winners in a row!

Cloudbuster said:

Mine too, although Mingus took a bit of getting used to.

I can't really fault her first six albums, either, so that makes ten winners in a row!

I just admire the fact that she wasn't afraid to start to detour away from the kind of albums that made her popular initially.




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Cloudbuster said:

theAudience said:

This sequence of studio albums is probably my favorite material from her.

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Mine too, although Mingus took a bit of getting used to.

I can't really fault her first six albums, either, so that makes ten winners in a row!

and Blue & Court & Spark being her most popular albums (as far as I know), she was definitely on a roll

IMO Court & Spark was where she really found a new voice (literally and figuratively) that I could really get into. I like Blue and For the Roses, but I don't love them quite as much as C&S and after.

theAudience said:

Cloudbuster said:

Mine too, although Mingus took a bit of getting used to.

I can't really fault her first six albums, either, so that makes ten winners in a row!

I just admire the fact that she wasn't afraid to start to detour away from the kind of albums that made her popular initially.

Yeah, that's one of the qualities I generally go for with music artists, right back to The Beatles.

I tend to lose interest if an artist stays with one sound for too long.

There are exceptions, though. I like Sade and George Michael yet their albums are fairly interchangeable.

Perhaps it's a blessing that they're not very prolific.

NDRU said:

Cloudbuster said:

Mine too, although Mingus took a bit of getting used to.

I can't really fault her first six albums, either, so that makes ten winners in a row!

and Blue & Court & Spark being her most popular albums (as far as I know), she was definitely on a roll

IMO Court & Spark was where she really found a new voice (literally and figuratively) that I could really get into. I like Blue and For the Roses, but I don't love them quite as much as C&S and after.

I think it's the upfront nakedness of her earlier work that enchants me.

Maybe you'll be more appreciative of it as you get older, as happened to me.

Or maybe you're already old.

I love the way she sings the opening line, "Rousseau walks on trumpet paths"...

Great imagery, although that's expected with Joni.

Would love to see a CGI music video for this song.

Cloudbuster said:

NDRU said:

and Blue & Court & Spark being her most popular albums (as far as I know), she was definitely on a roll

IMO Court & Spark was where she really found a new voice (literally and figuratively) that I could really get into. I like Blue and For the Roses, but I don't love them quite as much as C&S and after.

I think it's the upfront nakedness of her earlier work that enchants me.

Maybe you'll be more appreciative of it as you get older, as happened to me.

Or maybe you're already old.

I'm not crazy about her high voice in the early years, but that is my main complaint, not the material

Tortilla said:

I love the way she sings the opening line, "Rousseau walks on trumpet paths"...

Great imagery, although that's expected with Joni.

Would love to see a CGI music video for this song.

CGI?

I agree, great imagery. It took me awhile to appreciate this song, when I first got into Joni's music last year, "Shades of Scarlett Conquering" used to be my fave song from this album, now its a tie.

Love what Herbie Hancock did with it btw....

Herbie totally re-worked Edith and the Kingpin, not once but twice

Probably not for everyone, but it is so different from either the original or the one he did with Tina Turner on his album. And even knowing the song, it is just bizarre to listen to the music vs. the vocals.

Harlepolis said:

I agree, great imagery. It took me awhile to appreciate this song, when I first got into Joni's music last year, "Shades of Scarlett Conquering" used to be my fave song from this album, now its a tie.

yeah it was probably the last song on the album that I liked. I am not sure why. Maybe it represented how this album took me by surprise. It's the first really different song on the album. Maybe I was disappointed when I first heard it.

NDRU said:

Herbie totally re-worked Edith and the Kingpin, not once but twice

Probably not for everyone, but it is so different from either the original or the one he did with Tina Turner on his album. And even knowing the song, it is just bizarre to listen to the music vs. the vocals.

Not a big fan of tribute albums, but the "Letters From Joni" is def a keeper. In fact, it was the album along with Chaka's reading of "Man From Mars" that made me go back and listen to Joni's music again.

I have say, and I've said this before, listening to Joni's music at first wasn't easy. Hejira was the first album that caught my attention, maybe because it reflected my mood at the time.

Joni has one of the most comforting voices in music history, ever.

one of the best songs e.v.e.r.

must have heard it a thousand times by now and everytime it comes up on shuffle

or I just decide to dust off that album again, my heart makes a little jump.

IstenSzek said:

one of the best songs e.v.e.r.

What he said.

HamsterHuey said:

IstenSzek said:

one of the best songs e.v.e.r.

What he said.

And I always thought that the sample she used in the background around 2:56 minutes into the song also was used in the intro of Carmen Elektra's Good Judy Girlfriend. But I am probably just hearing it wrong.

Weird song. I think I like it, but I won't know until I hear it about a dozen times.