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Joni Mitchell All respects payed here to Joni please!!! Listening to the Hissing of Summer Lawns right now- fantastic, and not even her best “If I can shoot rabbits/then I can shoot fascists” | |
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"Paprika Plains" from Don Juan's Reckless Daughter -- Mmmm Mmm! | |
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Blue is one of my favorite albums of all time. This one and Plastic Ono Band are two of the most honest albums I have ever heard. | |
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Don't Interrupt The Sorrow is my fave off this disc...the imagery is very Joseph Campbell... "...literal people are scary, man literal people scare me out there trying to rid the world of its poetry while getting it wrong fundamentally down at the church of "look, it says right here, see!" - ani difranco | |
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My old man
He's a singer in the park He's a walker in the rain He's a dancer in the dark We don't need no piece of paper From the city hall Keeping us tied and true No, my old man Keeping away my lonesome blues from "My Old Man" from BLUE One of the most beautiful albums ever made! Every minute of last night is on my face today.... | |
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Come in from the Cold
Back in 1957 We had to dance a foot apart And they hawk-eyed us from the sidelines Holding their rulers without a heart And so with just a touch of our fingers I could make our circuitry explode All we ever wanted Was just to come in from the cold Come in Come in from the cold (we were so young) Oh come in Come in from the cold We really thought we had a purpose We were so anxious to achieve We had hope The world held promise For a slave to liberty Freely I slaved away for something better And I was bought and sold And all I ever wanted Was just to come in from the cold Come in Come in from the cold (we were so sure) Oh come in Come in from the cold I feel your leg under the table Leaning into mine I feel renewed I feel disabled By these bonfires in my spine I don't know who the arsonist was Which incendiary soul But all I ever wanted Was just to come in from the cold Come in Come in from the cold (you were so warm) Oh come in Come in from the cold I am not some stone commission Like a statue in a park I am flesh and blood and vision I am howling in the dark Long blue shadows of the jackals Are falling on a pay phone by the road Oh all they ever wanted Was just to come in from the cold Come in Come in from the cold (I was so low) Oh come in Come in from the cold Is this just vulgar electricity Is this the edifying fire (it was so pure) Does your smile's covert complicity Debase as it admires (just a flu with a temperature) Are you just checking out your mojo (oohoo) Or am I just fighting off growing old (just a high fever) All I ever wanted Was just to come in from the cold Come in Come in from the cold (it was so pure) Oh come in Come in from the cold I know we never will be perfect Never entirely clear (when the moon shines) We get hurt and we just panic And we strike out Out of fear (you were only being kind) I fear the sentence of this solitude 200 years on hold (for my loving crime) Oh and all we ever wanted Was just to come in from the cold Come in Come in from the cold (when the moon shines) Oh come in Come in from the cold When I thought life had some purpose Then I thought I had some choice (I was running blind) And I made some value judgments In a self-important voice (I was outa line) But then absurdity came over me And I longed to lose control (into no mind) Oh all I ever wanted Was just to come in from the cold Come in Come in from the cold (you were so kind) Please come in (so kind) Come in from the cold Come in come in Come in from the cold by Joni. http://elmadartista.tumblr.com/ http://twitter.com/madartista | |
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I LOVE Joni.
One of the most honest, poetic singer-songwriters there's ever been. Some of her many albums are of variable quality, but the top ones - Clouds, Hissing, Blue etc - are just SO good, so emotional. | |
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Paprika Plains
by Joni Mitchell --- It fell from midnight skies It drummed on the galvanized In the washroom women tracked the rain Up to the make-up mirror Liquid soap and grass And Jungle Gardenia crash On Pine-Sol and beer It's stifling in here I've got to get some air I'm going outside to get some air Back in my hometown They would have cleared the floor Just to watch the rain come down They're such sky oriented people Geared to changing weather I'm floating off in time I'm floating off I'm floating off in time When I was three feet tall And wide eyed open to it all With their tasseled teams they came To McGee's General Store All in their beaded leathers I would tie on colored feathers And I'd beat the drum like war I would beat the drum like war I'd beat the drum I'd beat the drum like war But when the church got through They traded their beads for bottles Smashed on Railway Avenue And they cut off their braids And lost some link with nature I'm floating into dreams I'm floating off I'm floating into my dreams I dream paprika plains Vast and bleak and God forsaken Paprika plains And a turquoise river snaking (Where crows gaze vigilant on wires Where cattle graze the grasses Far from the digits of business hours The moon clock wanes and waxes But here all time is stripped away Nowhere on these plains Is a sprout or an egg in evidence To measure loss or gain Only a little Indian band Come down from some windy mesa No women to make them food and child No expressions on their faces I'm low in a helicopter And the wind from whirling blades Flaps their woven blankets And flags their raven braids How came they to this emptiness? How came they to this dream? How came I to this view From a flying machine Of earth and air and water And a band of Indian men Without herds or flocks or crops Or families or fires to tend? Like a phoenix up from ashes now A blanket figure springs With a fist raised up to turquoise skies Like liberty And at the point of vanishing Where the sky and the earth meet A bomb blooms Deadly mushroom White Gold Heat Like a phoenix up from ashes Up from violent mysteries And growing 'till the giant blast Is to it like a golfer's tee there comes a child's beach ball And memory takes me back to the beach to toss it up to the garage to get it patched A pink and yellow beach ball Rolling Grand Detached Turning the blues and greens of earth From space probe photographs I float out of the hovercraft Naked as infancy And weightless And drifting Horizontally Like a filing to a magnet Like the long descent of rain I am drawn I fall against the ball And lose paprika plains I suckle at my mother's breast I embrace my mother earth I remember perforated blinds Over the crib of my birth And just as Eve succumbed To reckless curiosity I take my sharpest fingernail And slash the globe to see Below me Vast Paprika plains And the snake the river traces And a little band of Indian men With no expressions on their faces) The rain retreats Like troops to fall on other fields and streets Meanwhile they're sweet talking and name calling And brawling on the fringes of the floor I spot you through the smoke With your eyes on fire From J&B and coke As I'm coming through the door I'm coming back I'm coming back for more! The band plugs in again You see that mirrored ball begin to sputter lights And spin Dizzy on the dancers Geared to changing rhythms No matter what you do I'm floating back I'm floating back to you! --- Copyright © 1976; Crazy Crow Music | |
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VANITYSprisonBYTCH said: My old man
He's a singer in the park He's a walker in the rain He's a dancer in the dark We don't need no piece of paper From the city hall Keeping us tied and true No, my old man Keeping away my lonesome blues from "My Old Man" from BLUE One of the most beautiful albums ever made! Now that is my fave Joni tune EVER. Serious! PURRR | |
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sermwanderer said: All respects payed here to Joni please!!! Listening to the Hissing of Summer Lawns right now- fantastic, and not even her best
hmmm. hissing IS my fav joni album... | |
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How many studio albums has she done? And have any of them been remastered? | |
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Jasziah said: "Paprika Plains" from Don Juan's Reckless Daughter -- Mmmm Mmm!
16 minutes + of pure bliss. | |
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Tom said: sermwanderer said: All respects payed here to Joni please!!! Listening to the Hissing of Summer Lawns right now- fantastic, and not even her best
hmmm. hissing IS my fav joni album... It is fantastic isn't it? An artist with integrity and soul. Joni would NEVER sell out “If I can shoot rabbits/then I can shoot fascists” | |
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i dreamed of 747s over geometric farms, dreams Amelia...dreams and false alarms. | |
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Joni is queen of my music library. "Sweet Bird" and "Don't Interrupt the Sorrow" are my faves from HISSING. Ὅσον ζῇς φαίνου
μηδὲν ὅλως σὺ λυποῦ πρὸς ὀλίγον ἐστὶ τὸ ζῆν τὸ τέλος ὁ χρόνος ἀπαιτεῖ.” | |
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VANITYSprisonBYTCH said: My old man
He's a singer in the park He's a walker in the rain He's a dancer in the dark We don't need no piece of paper From the city hall Keeping us tied and true No, my old man Keeping away my lonesome blues from "My Old Man" from BLUE One of the most beautiful albums ever made! agreed! | |
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PhilG said: VANITYSprisonBYTCH said: My old man
He's a singer in the park He's a walker in the rain He's a dancer in the dark We don't need no piece of paper From the city hall Keeping us tied and true No, my old man Keeping away my lonesome blues from "My Old Man" from BLUE One of the most beautiful albums ever made! agreed! Not trying to start anything,but some of the stuff was Joni was doing during the Blue period,was inspired by I DON'T WANT TO BE NORMAL,because normal is part of the status quo,which I don't want to be a part of- Tori Amos | |
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As much respect as her old albums get [they are my favs too]
she did make some pretty amazing and strong compositions in her later career. The Magdalene Laundries being one of them. I remember I'd just seen a long documentary [not the film] about those Magdalene houses with interviews by some of the surviving women and it was shocking, to say the least. A few days later I heard that song for the first time and it just completely knocked me off my feet. I just sat there, listening, and cried like a child, made no sound, didn't breath, just had a sourcer full of tears streaming slowly down my face. That's honest music, the kind of music that touches some central nerve inside of you. Timeless and real. and true love lives on lollipops and crisps | |
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Join is always ringing in my ears, like a conscience I never had, much respect for the lady who wrote blue | |
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Joni Mitchell never lies... yes SIR! | |
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