That’s not true about Blue but I do think it unlocks something that allows for Hissing/Hejira/Don J to occur. The voice is distinctly different from For the Roses - there’s a confidence and assertion that wasn’t quite there before and a quality of playing that opens up towards that electric stuff that’s to come. I love Hissing above all else but I will also make a claim for later albums like Night Ride - she’s mining her past that gap between the 50s and the modern age. And as someone else pointed out those big lush revisitings of her older stuff in new settings are extraordinarily moving.Your intellect is usually above average but perhaps it's in decline lately or you've been boozing too much. Blue is a competent/good but ultimately boring album. Her best songs are all post-1971
The most backwards and confused take conceivable. Blue is a windup toy album: lots of 3-minute perfect pop songs. "Paprika Plains" is the opposite of that, it's pure affect and romantic drifting emotion unbound, untethered, unmechanical.i thin that what you have to understand is that joni cant be considered a human being after blue. listen the Gus' pick. it doesnt get the point. why? becasue there is no point. why is there no point? because it is a woman without a soul. a windup toy. a mannequin.
You’re wrong about Blue but possibly right about DJWDThe most backwards and confused take conceivable. Blue is a windup toy album: lots of 3-minute perfect pop songs. "Paprika Plains" is the opposite of that, it's pure affect and romantic drifting emotion unbound, untethered, unmechanical.
lolBut is it even art?
That's a great way of putting itBlue is looking in, Hissing is looking out.
I like them both, but I prefer looking out.
With Joni, the shift from "I" to "they" was exhilarating and revelatory.
She doesn't have objectives you nonce it's a song about feeling untethered from the world not about taking goal-oriented action
So you DID love that thread@sus
I made 'Don Juan's Reckless Daughter' (the song) my Choon of the Day back in 2019 for some of the same reasons you have been outlining:
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developing a strange obsession with this musician. this one sounds like enya - orinoco from a parallel universe also of course https://musicaficionado.blog/2016/09/26/persian-love-by-holger-czukay/www.dissensus.com
Song To A Seagull