In a message dated 1/19/2003 12:55:20 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> When she has... let's see, hmmmmmm... Lead Balloon, > Ray Dad's Cadillac, and the much, much loved Dancing Clown. -Joni, > swing? Ray's Dad's Cadillac - a ROCK song? Not to these ears. Dancing Clown is just a dreadful song, period. You couldn't dress it up in anything and get away with it, unless it was some type of burial garment. Lead Balloon is only slightly better. I would firstly point to Raised On Robbery as Joni showing that she can rock in the classic 12-bar style. Wild Things Run Fast (not just the title track but many on the record) would be submitted as further proof, not to mention her 1983 tour which re-framed several of her earlier songs in a stronger more rocking vein. Of course given her vocal strength (or lack thereof) at present I would submit that her rocking days are behind her, and I don't mean that in any sort of derogatory way. Jason Falkner, Pinhead Gunpowder, Erinn Brown & a host of others also prove that her *songs* can rock. > -so I have to respectfully diagree with you on this one > Bobbo. (And that's not easy for me, as you are lord god among the > masses.) As you know, my friend, no offense taken at all. Indeed I was grateful not to see the words "Iraq", "Bush", or "Smoking Gun" in your post! :~) I guess what's really bumming me is this: I admire Joni first & foremost as a composer & songwriter. If you look at her last half-dozen discs, there's a grand total of (9) new songs. It's just frustrating for me, especially when some of those 9 are as strong as Harlem in Havana, Facelift, Love Puts On A New Face. So I guess I'm only going to be disappointed with her "Joni as interpretive vocalist" revue projects. That's my problem to deal with, and certainly no fault of Joni's. Bob NP: Eddie From Ohio, "Another Saturday Night"
