Russ wrote > 'Two Grey Rooms'......can I just swoon, > now? Thanks. >
> Yes, many (most ?) of us think of TGR as a top song. Today, I had another epiphany into why I have loved Blue for almost 32 years. I sat down at the piano to try to learn to play My Old Man (thanks Janine), and was left (after a brief initial session with the sheet music) in amazement that such early work could have so much in it. In particular, the use of successive half tones in the melody and related harmony (juxtaposed to her trademark leaps), the unusual key change (or at least, effective key change) to the chorus and back, the major to minor chord shifts, and the trademark use of non-tonic bass chords. And, the lyrics to boot. What a fantastic song ! And I bet that relatively few of us would put it among their top 5 on that album !!!! My personal ranking has historically put it at number 8 !!!I I'm moving it up to number 5, but refuse to lower the rankings of any of the others :-) This is a good example of something that I (and no doubt most of us) have observed in reading the posts to this list. Namely, that Joni's work is of such extraordinarily high and consistent quality that almost all of her songs have something so noteworthy about them that they have found their way onto somebody's "personal favorites" list. That is a telling testament to her body of work, IMO. Bob's Art
