Well, it's been one week and one day since I brought Travelogue home to its little nest (my CD player) and I've had 8 full days to explore it.
I can safely say that this record will be remembered as being great. People may not know quite how to deal with it now, but in 10 or 20 years from now, people will look back at this record with a lot of respect and appreciation. It's so uniquely Joni. No one else has done anything like this before. And the results are rapturous, and lasting. The record's greatest track, in my opinion, is Hejira, and I'm probably just saying that because it's my favourite JM composition of all time. I'm allowing myself to be bias! The waves of strings over the drums and base, the swell of brass at the end of the song and Joni's dramatic and soulful retelling of this emotional journey is haunting. Thank god she did this song on Travelogue! I'm not going to rank the other songs in any kind of lame order, since they all have some sort of virtue and glimmer of gold, albeit some more than others. A week may not be a long time to decide on much of anything, but I know in my heart that Travelogue will stand the tests of time. -Andrew PS: Leonard Cohen's voice is the most sexual, most gratifying male voice I've heard, to those who misunderstood my intention when I called it plain. I love Leonard Cohen and wish he loved me back, baby! Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com
