― Vornado, Friday, 27 May 2005 14:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Emancipation of Baaderonixx (KERERU 4 LIFE!) (Fabfunk), Friday, 27 May 2005 14:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Friday, 27 May 2005 14:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 27 May 2005 14:56 (nineteen years ago) link
There's a lot of songs on the album that set up an idealisation/reality split, where the music is at least nominally on the side of the idealisation.
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 27 May 2005 15:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 27 May 2005 15:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Friday, 27 May 2005 15:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 27 May 2005 15:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― Will Elliott, Tuesday, 18 October 2005 19:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 20:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 20:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 21:53 (eighteen years ago) link
Hejira is also my favorite. 'Coyote' may be my favorite Joni Mitchell song. Jaco's bassline is something else on that tune.
― Earl Nash (earlnash), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 22:51 (eighteen years ago) link
I took her to a hockey game, too.
Yeah.
Good times.
― M. V. (M.V.), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 01:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 02:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― Baaderonixx weaves a daisy chain for... SATAN!! (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 16:25 (eighteen years ago) link
I've been listening to Court & Spark most lately, actually. I only pull out Hejira for special occasions, when I really need it.
― derrick (derrick), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 01:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― Baaderonixx weaves a daisy chain for... SATAN!! (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 10:35 (eighteen years ago) link
Having said that, didn't Joni have some erotic obsession with black men in the 1980s or something?
Don't forget, however, that we're talking about an album which is 30+ years old now. A lot's gone on in that time - and we can't really retrospectively apply the values we have today.
The Hissing Of Summer Lawns is a wonderful album, though. It ended up, along with Saint Etienne's last one, being the soundtrack to Summer 2005 for me. Her evocation of West Coast America contrasted with suburbia in Harry's House is intoxicating. And anyone who's had an affair with a 'free-thinking' bastard will relate directly to Don't Interrupt The Sorrow.
― klee (klee), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 10:39 (eighteen years ago) link
Put me down as a huge fan of [i]Hejira[/i] who needs to get [i]Hissing of Summer Lawns[/i] on cd after not having heard it for years. The box set of her 80's Geffen albums is endlessly fascinating. I forgot how good [i]Dog Eat Dog[/i] is. Surely "The Three Great Stimulants" is one of her best late career songs.
William
― WB, Saturday, 14 January 2006 16:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Saturday, 14 January 2006 16:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 2 February 2006 23:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 2 February 2006 23:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 2 February 2006 23:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 3 February 2006 00:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Friday, 3 February 2006 00:14 (eighteen years ago) link
I think Hejira has some of the most well-crafted, evocative, etc. etc. etc., lyrics of any record I could name. Hissing of Summer Lawns is elliptical and inscrutable and disillusioned in the best possible way, but her narrative powers were at their absolute peak on Hejira, imho. It's had a huge influence not just on my own writing, but on the way I've processed events in my own life.
And in contrast to Hurting, above, I absolutely love the way it sounds - sparse, wintry, bell-clear. It's a gorgeous, timeless record, one of my top five of all time.
― Myke. (Myke Weiskopf), Friday, 3 February 2006 00:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 3 February 2006 00:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― Vornado, Friday, 3 February 2006 00:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Friday, 3 February 2006 01:22 (eighteen years ago) link
C&S has pretty great high points (title track! Trouble Child!) but there are some fillers and it somehow lacks the cohesiveness of the two following albums.
― Baaderonixx, born again in Xixax (baaderonixx), Friday, 3 February 2006 08:57 (eighteen years ago) link
Ironically, for all the talk of Hissing's arty inscrutability she was much better on that album at matching complex lyric and melody, and Hejira simply circumvents the problem by mostly jettisoning choruses. I actually consider For The Roses and Court & Spark to be Joni's "difficult" growing pains albums, and the subsequent two albums to be much more fully realised and comfortable-sounding.
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 3 February 2006 10:01 (eighteen years ago) link
That's why I love it. There are refrains in these songs - The "white lines on the freeway" section of "Coyote"; "Amelia, it was just a false alarm" - but they're narratives, art-songs, not as beholden to a "pop" formula. It taught me so much when I was a kid about what a song can consist of. Mark Eitzel is one of the few songwriters who comes close to Joni's work in this form; for some reason, I find it much more intriguing than feeling shoehorned (to borrow your word) into the standard verse/chorus/verse formula.
I agree with Tim 99%, although I admit to being charmed in a hokey way by the "energetic flapping" of "Raised on Robbery". And, yes, the form of Court and Spark is a marvel - that middle stretch through to "Trouble Child" is hard to beat.
"Twisted" just shoots the plane right down, though. What was she thinking...
― Myke. (Myke Weiskopf), Friday, 3 February 2006 12:21 (eighteen years ago) link
Whereas the more complex, visually arresting stuff always comes once, so you're struggling to absorb it even as it fades from hearing (the title track especially, lyricism as exquisite bloodletting)
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 3 February 2006 12:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 3 February 2006 12:40 (eighteen years ago) link
Even with "Just Like This Train" and the title song and "Down to You"?
I actually consider For The Roses and Court & Spark to be Joni's "difficult" growing pains albums, and the subsequent two albums to be much more fully realised and comfortable-sounding.
This is very OTM, regarding For The Roses, which is never mentioned much even though "Barandgrill" and "Electricity" and of course "You Turn Me On (I'm A Radio) [an even better pop song than "Help Me"].
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Friday, 3 February 2006 13:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― Baaderonixx, born again in Xixax (baaderonixx), Friday, 3 February 2006 14:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― Anne, Sunday, 23 April 2006 18:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Sunday, 23 April 2006 20:22 (eighteen years ago) link
Is anyone able to describe the differences with the new remixed version on that compilation she released last year? I haven't heard it.
― milton parker (Jon L), Monday, 24 April 2006 01:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― Le Baaderonixx de Benedict Canyon (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 15:10 (eighteen years ago) link
There is absolutely zilch on the Rhino website about this, however, at least as far as I can see.
Can anyone independently confirm? And are there tracklists available? Can we expect previously unreleased material, or is this gonna be the more typical 'alternate, demo and live versions' cash-grab?
― zebedee (zebedee), Friday, 12 January 2007 16:17 (seventeen years ago) link
!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
― lex pretend (lex pretend), Friday, 12 January 2007 16:25 (seventeen years ago) link
OTOH it doesn't get much better than Joni. Will wait & see...
― fandango (fandango), Friday, 12 January 2007 16:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― is anyone anticipating the new Baaderonixx? (baaderonixx), Saturday, 13 January 2007 12:24 (seventeen years ago) link
Joni MitchellDecember 21, 2006, 3:30 PM ETJonathan Cohen, N.Y.Bjork, Prince, James Taylor and Elvis Costello are among the artists who have recorded covers for "A Tribute to Joni Mitchell," due in the spring via Nonesuch. The 12-track set also boasts contributions from Sarah McLachlan, k.d. lang, Emmylou Harris and Sufjan Stevens.
In related news, Billboard.com has learned that Mitchell has been recording original material at a Los Angeles studio in recent weeks. It is unknown in what form she plans to release the music; she angrily announced she was quitting the music business in 2002 after her last album, "Travelogue."
Here is the track list for "A Tribute to Joni Mitchell":
"Free Man in Paris," Sufjan Stevens"Boho Dance," Bjork"Dreamland," Caetano Veloso"Don't Interrupt the Sorrow," Brad Mehldau"For the Roses," Cassandra Wilson"A Case of U," Prince"Blue," Sarah McLachlan"Ladies of the Canyon," Annie Lennox"Magdalena Laundries," Emmylou Harris"Edith and the Kingpin," Elvis Costello"Help Me," k.d. lang"River," James Taylor
― is anyone anticipating the new Baaderonixx? (baaderonixx), Saturday, 13 January 2007 12:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 13 January 2007 13:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― lex pretend (lex pretend), Saturday, 13 January 2007 13:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Saturday, 13 January 2007 14:13 (seventeen years ago) link
lol @ Sufjan Stevens "unfettered and alive" my ass
― fandango (fandango), Saturday, 13 January 2007 14:17 (seventeen years ago) link