I've been waiting so long for something like this, not knowing to what extent there was unreleased material beyond the Hissing demos, this is just amazing.
― MaresNest, Friday, 18 August 2023 13:58 (one year ago) link
Seems like he just gave up on the Peruvian thing and the Brazilian thing or did he?
― Blecch on Blecch (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 18 August 2023 18:03 (one year ago) link
Ha, sorry, wrong thread!
― Blecch on Blecch (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 18 August 2023 18:38 (one year ago) link
Tom Scott & The L.A. Express
― dow, Friday, 18 August 2023 22:32 (one year ago) link
There was just enough Tom to tip the scales, and that kind of sound was having a moment or more---
― dow, Friday, 18 August 2023 22:34 (one year ago) link
reaction time before purchase decision: <10 msec
same. posted to this thread, then ordered
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Friday, 18 August 2023 22:59 (one year ago) link
how do I shot pre-order
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Friday, 18 August 2023 23:52 (one year ago) link
ah ok, done
hope I get the 7x7 print!
https://store.jonimitchell.com/
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Saturday, 19 August 2023 00:41 (one year ago) link
Great demo of what's potentially a great song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5P2go-2efwE
― birdistheword, Saturday, 16 September 2023 05:17 (one year ago) link
Joni Mitchell explains to Cameron Crowe in the Archives Vol. 3 liner notes: “[‘Like Veils Said Lorraine’] was a piece of dialogue that happened with the real-estate woman. I had almost found the land where I would build my little (stone-cabin) house. Lorraine was the real-estate woman who showed me properties. She had a Marlene Dietrich kind of look. She was a platinum blond and she was elegant. She had lived in China with her husband, so she was kind of worldly… and glamorous. It’s an account of our conversation. At some point, I switched to another realtor, and found the property where I would live. It was a piece of an old lumber-jack town. It wasn't on the market, but it called out to me. Houses are important to me, and I know how to pick them. I investigated it and I found out who owned it. I paid what she wanted, and she thought she took me. I thought I got a deal. (laughs) So we were both happy.”
― birdistheword, Saturday, 16 September 2023 05:18 (one year ago) link
what a treat
― corrs unplugged, Tuesday, 19 September 2023 09:14 (one year ago) link
THIS BOX
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 00:40 (eleven months ago) link
yeah it rules
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 01:55 (eleven months ago) link
other cool things I noticed at first:
a neat instrumental ("Sunrise Raga") that I think is also prev unreleased?her horror upon first re-hearing the piano medley, as told to the interviewer in the linersthe goofin' around medley with James Taylor is super funthe early "Twisted" I like even more than the band version, plus lyric flubs and giggles
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 02:01 (eleven months ago) link
oh and the tunes w/Neil shredding
A couple of memos I just recently got:Graham Nash w Joni Mitchell: "Our House" demo:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYjRzQc_ch4
Joni w Neil & Stray Gators: "You Turn Me On (I'm a Radio)" demo:http://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#sent/KtbxLthNPsswdGjwZhDhqMMTPvwXWqzhHL?projector=1
― dow, Saturday, 14 October 2023 18:33 (eleven months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tE9arLNixB4
― dow, Saturday, 14 October 2023 18:35 (eleven months ago) link
The "Hissing..." alternates and demos are beeeeyoooooootifulll
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Saturday, 14 October 2023 22:33 (eleven months ago) link
Joni came out for the encore of the Brandi Carlile & Friends show at the Hollywood Bowl tonight, seated on her royal throne flanked by Brandi and Annie Lennox (the other friends included Wendy & Lisa, Allison Russell, and the two singers from the band Lucius). They played “Shine” (which Brandi said was her favorite JM song), “Ladies of the Canyon” and “The Circle Game” with the whole crowd singing along to the chorus, the music ringing out through the night air, just a stone’s throw from Laurel Canyon. Absolutely magical.
― donna rouge, Sunday, 15 October 2023 07:07 (eleven months ago) link
I was there too - it was terrific.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Sunday, 15 October 2023 07:41 (eleven months ago) link
Happy birthday, ma'am.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfYT_RMhvLA
― hat trick of trashiness (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 7 November 2023 13:57 (ten months ago) link
Goodness. Some of the very early opinions on this site are unbelievable.
Happy birthday Joni
― Duke, Tuesday, 7 November 2023 22:18 (ten months ago) link
ffs, you're not kidding, Duke. I had actually forgot how bad it could be back then.
― Toshirō Nofune (The Seventh ILXorai), Wednesday, 3 January 2024 21:42 (eight months ago) link
we paved livejournal and put up a fap zing lot
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Wednesday, 3 January 2024 21:44 (eight months ago) link
This message board as a whole is the best reminder I have of what the internet was like in the early 00s. Basically just a bunch of what we’d now call hot takes (mostly attention seeking it seems) and name calling and a lot of people who felt freely open to criticize each other from behind a keyboard when I know if they ever ran into each other in real life not a word would be said.
― zacata, Wednesday, 3 January 2024 21:46 (eight months ago) link
Er, not “as a whole” implying that it’s the same now, but nowhere else do I consistently come across posts from 20 years ago that serve as a reminder of the above.
― zacata, Wednesday, 3 January 2024 21:50 (eight months ago) link
“ felt freely open to criticize each other from behind a keyboard when I know if they ever ran into each other in real life not a word would be said”this is a good thing tho!!!!!!
― brimstead, Wednesday, 3 January 2024 22:01 (eight months ago) link
Why is it a good thing? If you wouldn't say something to someone's face, you shouldn't say it to them online.
― lord of the rongs (anagram), Wednesday, 3 January 2024 22:26 (eight months ago) link
insert that won't do emoticon here
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 3 January 2024 22:53 (eight months ago) link
xp political speech, /trenchant blah blah never mind me
― brimstead, Wednesday, 3 January 2024 23:36 (eight months ago) link
I guess I just meant “saying stuff” not “saying stuff TO ppl”, please disregard I don’t mean anything
― brimstead, Wednesday, 3 January 2024 23:37 (eight months ago) link
Classic
― ꙮ (map), Thursday, 4 January 2024 13:45 (eight months ago) link
The legendary Joni Mitchell will perform her first Los Angeles headlining show in over 24 years at the Hollywood Bowl on Saturday, October 19 – joined by the Joni Jam. Pre-sales start tomorrow at 10 a.m. with password JJAM24. Tickets go on sale to the public Friday, February 2 at 10 a.m.
― birdistheword, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 18:55 (seven months ago) link
I saw her a few months back at Hollywood Bowl with Brandi Carlile (where the "Joni Jam" portion was not explicitly advertised the way this one is).
They only did, I think, three of Joni's songs. Joni herself was not in great shape. She was very much buoyed by all the women surrounding her (Brandi, Annie Lennox, Allison Russell, a few others). Annie Lennox especially. Nevertheless the pure joyousness of the atmosphere was incredible, and I'd imagine a full set would be wonderful.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Wednesday, 31 January 2024 01:58 (seven months ago) link
Just noticed that both Joni and Neil are back on Spotify.
― meatster of puppets (peace, man), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 16:54 (six months ago) link
Yep. After Neil Young saw that Joe Rogan and his misinformation podcast was now available from multiple outlets and he didn’t want to boycott them all, he decided to go back on Spotify. Then Joni did the same.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 27 March 2024 17:00 (six months ago) link
'joni back on streaming' status update:
"sex kills" back in regular rotation, as the natural of things should be.
ps-hi alfred. you defend "sex kills" for your reasons stated above (all of which are good) , but also because we all know it's some of her best work. ♡i heart complainy joni♡
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Monday, 1 April 2024 23:48 (five months ago) link
What's bad from this era are a lot of finger-pointing songs about societal ills and the media. She'd written songs like this throughout her career, but at this point they became scolding and self-righteous.
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 2 April 2024 00:09 (five months ago) link
total banger.
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Tuesday, 2 April 2024 00:14 (five months ago) link
I don't mind scolding and self-righteousness when the groove is food.
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 2 April 2024 00:20 (five months ago) link
And good food.
Is justice
Just.. ice?
― Premises, Premises (flamboyant goon tie included), Tuesday, 2 April 2024 00:37 (five months ago) link
Are notifications
Not if I cat ions?
― Premises, Premises (flamboyant goon tie included), Tuesday, 2 April 2024 00:38 (five months ago) link
I dislike "Sex Kills", me, but it does seem to me to be a rejoinder to/echo of Prince's "Sign O The Times", throwing some mutual respect back at the guy, which I like
― Premises, Premises (flamboyant goon tie included), Tuesday, 2 April 2024 00:42 (five months ago) link
Welp, Joni Mitchell appears to have changed the cover art to Don Juan's Reckless Daughter for the new reissue. pic.twitter.com/FejENxOJAw— all_ages (@all_ages) April 30, 2024
― Never fight uphill 'o me, boys! (President Keyes), Tuesday, 30 April 2024 16:19 (four months ago) link
Just surprised that a hand in a dog’s mouth was the culmination of 45 years of stewing on what must have been regret over the original cover
― Slim is an Alien, Tuesday, 30 April 2024 16:48 (four months ago) link
I imagine it is less regret and more her people went to her and said we can't put out a cover with you in blackface in 2024.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Tuesday, 30 April 2024 17:01 (four months ago) link
Wait, that’s her? I even own a copy but I guess I never really looked all that closely, just figured it was some guy.
― Slim is an Alien, Tuesday, 30 April 2024 17:31 (four months ago) link
The album jacket is a photomontage and includes three photographs of Mitchell. In the foreground she is in blackface as her "reputed alter ego, a black hipster named Art Nouveau".
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 30 April 2024 17:32 (four months ago) link
The David Yaffe and forthcoming Ann Powers book go at lengths to describe wtf was on her mind (the Powers book best).
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 30 April 2024 17:33 (four months ago) link