I love Help Me. It is the first Joni song I ever heard (cracked my musical world right open) and it remains one of my favorites (especially in combo with Court and Spark and Free Man - what a trio). The major 7th chords just slay me -- how perfectly they reflect the experience of falling in love - the risk you take letting someone you know that you're falling in love with them - wonderful and awful all at the same time. And she takes the big leap in the third verse -- after falling in love "again" and "too fast" -- I think I'm falling in love *with you*. sigh. Jenny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Here I go again, writing about HELP ME. (I had used the "H" word as the "subject" and so those posts got bounced.)
Anyone out there as big a fan of HM as I am? Delightfully perverse as she is, Joni has sort of "disowned" her only Top 10 hit, claiming it's an "ingenue" song. At the risk of incurring the wrath of our Joan, I don't think it IS that. The woman of HP has been around the block a few times; and I'd love to hear the mature Joni tackle it (shades of "Falling in love again / Never wanted to..."). I think it's a brilliant song: short, pithy, economical, universal, lighter than air. And "'Cause I've seen some hot hot blazes / Come down to smoke and ash" gets me every time. If she ever does do an album with her excellent jazz combo (pretty please, Joni?), wouldn't SMOKE AND ASH be an apt title? MICHAEL in Toronto Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now
