----- Original Message ----- From: Sarah Cartwright To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 2:13 PM Subject: Re: Joni only
Fantastic to hear your views, LOTC was the 1st one I bought and I think sub-consciously you do tend to use your 1st as a kind of benchmark. I was so amazed when I listened to THOSL and Hejira, soo different in style to what I was used to. There are still a few songs that just 'don't do it for me' at all e.g.The jungle line ( I have read a few similar posts about that one!), the song Hejira, shadows & light. But as Laurent says it is a matter of personal taste. Now I'm starting to learn more about Joni's life through the book Shadows & Light, it is fascinating to learn what was happening in her life when she was writing a particular song / album. Its like looking at a painting when you know about the artist's life, it makes it all the more compelling and magnetic. I do find it incredible that one song can literally make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up and the next leaves me cold. I am absolutely obsessed with A Strange Boy at the moment ( I have noticed this happens with Joni - it was The Priest / For Free in LOTC), quite literally need to listen to it at least 5 times a day!!!! such sexy instrumentals. Hi Sarah I've noticed over the years that the songs I like at first on a CD are often not my favorites after a few listens. Perhaps they were "easy access" but turn out to lack the complexity that makes one discover new things at each listening. Conversely, songs I never cared for may just "click" on the 10th listen. Then again some songs I'll like forever, Strange Boy is one of them. Be careful not to OD though. You can get too much of a good thing. What else do you listen to? Laurent
