Oh my, Very well written post and all I can say is oh my.
There may be others out there in JMDLer land who agree with you and have tried to say what you said so genteelly and gingerly that no one noticed. And here you went and said it. Oh my. There is at least one other JMDLer who is not me who is nodding in agreement with your post. I think of a few of the tracts rise above your description, but just a few. Your second paragraph is laugh at loud funny and too close to true to be anything but painful. Your last sentence is great. Oh my. Oh well, now I will be on the shit list with you. Oh my. I shant sign my name to this because I have less courage than you. Oh my. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have been a Joni fan for over 30 years. I own all of her LPS/cassettes/CDS. > There is no artist I think more highly of than Joni Mitchell. Travelogue, > however, has been a major disappointment. It is definitely my least favorite > CD of everything she has ever done. I've had it for a week now and listened > to it every day since last Tuesday and several times in its entirety. I keep > hoping something will kick in for me and I'll start liking it, but the last > few listens have been painful. I have now retired it and filed it on my Joni > shelf. Maybe I'll get it out and listen to it every now and again, but I > really can't imagine why I would do that. I don't think there is a single > song on Travelogue that is better than the original versions. The Travelogue > versions aren't even interestingly different. > > Travelogue reminds me of a 101 Strings version of Joni Mitchell. Do you > remember those? 101 Strings of the Rolling Stones, the Beatles, etc. > Travelogue also reminds me of the times in the late 60s and 70s when older > singers would try to perform some of the "hip" songs of the time. So you had > Dinah Shore singing Paul Simon's 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover. But if some > other singer, besides Joni, had made this album of Joni's songs she would be > run out of town. Only Joni could get away with this, and get praised for it > in some quarters. > > I know this is not a popular opinion on this list and at times I seriously > have to wonder if I somehow got some kind of different version than the one > everybody else is listening to. Maybe I got some kind of early demo version > by mistake. The Emperor's New Clothes comes to mind.... > > Between the last two CDs and Joni's ranting in the press, my love for her is > waning, and I can only hope that she will bounce back minus Larry Klein, and > minus the orchestra, with some new material. > > Wouldn't it be nice to hear Joni in a studio with a guitar and a piano and > some new songs? I'm not asking her to paint a starry night again. In fact, > it seems like what she's attempted with Travelogue is to paint a starry night > again, and it didn't work.
