Lost the TV show is based off Joni Mitchell's "Jungle Line": discus

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Joni Mitchell lyrics
" The Jungle Line "

Rousseau walks on trumpet paths
Safaris to the heart of all that jazz
Through I bars and girders-through wires and pipes
The mathematic circuits of the modern nights
Through huts, through harlem, through jails and gospel pews
Through the class on park and the trash on vine
Through europe and the deep deep heart of dixie blue
Through savage progress cuts the jungle line

In a low-cut blouse she brings the beer
Rousseau paints a jungle flower behind her ear
Those cannibals-of shuck and jive
They’ll eat a working girl like her alive
With his hard-edged eye and his steady hand
He paints the cellar full of ferns and orchid vines
And he hangs a moon above a five-piece band
He hangs it up above the jungle line

The jungle line, the jungle line
Screaming in a ritual of sound and time
Floating, drifting on the air-conditioned wind
And drooling for a taste of something smuggled in
Pretty women funneled through valves and smoke
Coy and bitchy, wild and fine
And charging elephants and chanting slaving boats
Charging, chanting down the jungle line

There’s a poppy wreath on a soldier’s tomb
There’s a poppy snake in a dressing room
Poppy poison-poppy tourniquet
It slithers away on brass like mouthpiece spit
And metal skin and ivory birds
Go steaming up to rousseau’s vines
They go steaming up to brooklyn bridge
Steaming, steaming, steaming up the jungle line

jäxøñ (jaxon), Thursday, 8 June 2006 22:25 (nineteen years ago)

It's not.

Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Thursday, 8 June 2006 22:31 (nineteen years ago)

I thought the song was about a white junkie jazz trumpeter.

Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 8 June 2006 22:34 (nineteen years ago)

the song can be about whatever it's about, but the show is about the song

jäxøñ (jaxon), Thursday, 8 June 2006 22:37 (nineteen years ago)

"Rousseau" is the only common reference, other than the vague notion of things occurring in a jungle.

Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Thursday, 8 June 2006 22:38 (nineteen years ago)

Rousseau, mathematic circuits, jungles, poppies, soldier's tomb, slave ships (the two black people left on it - OMG I'M KIDDING), etc, etc

jäxøñ (jaxon), Thursday, 8 June 2006 22:40 (nineteen years ago)

so there's someone named Rouseau on the show? (I only saw a couple episodes once in India)

Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 8 June 2006 22:41 (nineteen years ago)

omg

jäxøñ (jaxon), Thursday, 8 June 2006 22:42 (nineteen years ago)

(I really love this song btw, my favorite thing on "Hissing of Summer Lawns")

Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 8 June 2006 22:43 (nineteen years ago)

jaxon = JJ Abrams in disguise?

Okay, I'm buying some of it.

Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Thursday, 8 June 2006 22:44 (nineteen years ago)

shakey, you gotta hear this dark minimal synth version of it i just got on 12" by this group called Low Noise with Thomas Dolby on production. it's so fucking wicked. i wish i had a way to digitize my vinyl

jäxøñ (jaxon), Thursday, 8 June 2006 22:46 (nineteen years ago)

haha yeah let me know when you work that out! I'm in the same boat.

Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 8 June 2006 22:48 (nineteen years ago)

loan me that record jaxon, I'll do it

I also have the Thomas Dolby 12" with a 7 minute live version of it on the b-side, have never heard the original

milton parker (Jon L), Thursday, 8 June 2006 23:11 (nineteen years ago)

(the original Low Noise version that is, the Joni version is classic)

milton parker (Jon L), Thursday, 8 June 2006 23:14 (nineteen years ago)

you dudes need:


http://www.griffintechnology.com/products/imic/

+

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/


so i can hear that track.

pher (pher), Saturday, 10 June 2006 00:38 (nineteen years ago)

two years pass...

any idea where to find that track 2 years later?

baaderonixx, Thursday, 13 November 2008 09:53 (seventeen years ago)

nine months pass...

listening to Burundi: Musiques Traditionnelles yesterday

gets to track 12, "Tambours royaux "Ingoma""

it's the original 'Jungle Line' sample

Milton Parker, Tuesday, 1 September 2009 19:29 (sixteen years ago)

four months pass...

low noise version: http://robotsinheat.com/temp/The%20Jungle%20Line.mp3

jaxon, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 20:50 (sixteen years ago)


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