Joni Mitchell worship thread

[thirdform]

this is dire i just puked however, its cool how the boat in the video bobs up and down
no artistry left in the husk at this point, only bad vibes joni

what are the standout tracks on blue for you? cos this preceded it.

 

[luka]

every single one except the one that sounds like jingle bells

 

[luka]

i never get hangovers but ive got a crippling one now for some reason. ive not been myself these last few days.

 

[luka]

just put this on for as long as i could bear it and really marvelling at how bad it is.

 

[luka]

completely unfocussed no sense of a song. how could this woman have written blue

 

[thirdform]

every single one except the one that sounds like jingle bells

they all sound like jinglebells.

the issue is she's a one trick pony she excels when she's brooding, not when writing pop songs.

 

[luka]

its a pretty good dimension. but is this brooding?

 

[luka]

i love this so badly. gus must die for denying blue supremacy

 

[thirdform]

its a pretty good dimension. but is this brooding?

more than most of the songs on that record.

But I don't think its a good album though. too whimsy.

 

[luka]

i dont find it whimsical. i think its dierct and honest. my boomer canon has that at the top, then astral weeks, then graceland, and some bob dylans i guess

 

[thirdform]

i dont find it whimsical. i think its dierct and honest. my boomer canon has that at the top, then astral weeks, then graceland, and some bob dylans i guess

look joni is undisciplined as a vocalist. her melisma is given to unnecessary flights of fancy.

That is a strength when she's brooding on seagul, but when she tries to be more concise it lets her down.


This is how to do it. suppress the urge for histrionics whilst conveying emotion.

 

[thirdform]

if Joni tried to sing this she would resort to needless operatic flares

 

[luka]

i agree shes lamentably undisciplined but thats why i think blue is her only album

 

[luka]

i absolutely despise 'music' and wandering about aimlessly.

 

[luka]

Here's my (entirely subjective) best of Joni Mitchell playlist. I'm throwing it together by listening to all of Joni Mitchell's album in chronological order, out of the corner of my ear, at work. Needless to say, this is all being very haphazardly executed.

This is a bad idea, insofar as I can imagine a lot of her ouevre grows on you. Also it's a bad idea cos I'm getting absolutely sick of Joni Mitchell songs going round and round in my head. Nevertheless, the hero must tilt at windmills.

As can be easily seen, I rate Blue' high high high above any earlier album. I've known it for years, but it still seems to me to be absolutely stacked.

I'm onto Court and Spark and I feel I'm missing the point. Don't like the saxophone much.

I will add plentifully from Hejira when I get to it.

At the moment it's an aerial view I'm amassing but will get into the nitty gritty soon.

Set me right, or just join in with the worship.

this is an awful playlist of a man trying to lie to himself. just listen to carey on repeat and bask in genius perfection

 

[luka]

never heard this before strangely moving hearing her do it as a hideous old crone. rubbish obviously but thats what makes it sad.

 

[thirdform]

allah help me but your boy brian eno made an astute observation about this. let me try and find it

Chœur Bulgare Svetoslav Obretenov – Grande Liturgie Orthodoxe Slave
Whenever I listen to this I find myself quite overwhelmed by it. There was an interest in the '70s in that Bulgarian folk singing, the kind of singing where they sing in 2nds. One of the harmonies they use a lot is a 2nd, which is a very unusual interval, and I remember that being around and there being a great album called Le Mystère Des Voix Bulgares, which is an amazing record, so I think I was aware that that part of the world had interesting music. I don't really remember how I got this one other than I bought it in France.
The softness of the male voices is like softly blown flutes. If you grow up in England with the disgusting operatic tradition we have, where the men's voices have to be so manly, it makes you violently ill [laughs]. Hearing the softness of this was so touching to me. There's one section in one of these tracks that is too amazing, where the voices that are all woven together gradually separate out so that all the voices above a certain register keep on going higher and higher and the ones below keep going lower. It ends with this incredible chasm between the voices that is just startling.

 

[thirdform]

i agree shes lamentably undisciplined but thats why i think blue is her only album

yeah, and I think seagul is her only album.

 

[sus]

no artistry left in the husk at this point

It's her first album you nonce

 

[sus]

This one is a standout. It's a favorite of Christian davies, edmunds cousin