Re: Joni Mitchell - The Hissing of Summer Lawns (1975)

by Nightjar Fri Jun 12, 2020 9:06 pm

This is a perfect example of the brilliance of her open tuning style.

The deft plasticity and serpentine dynamic is almost uncanny.

by Nightjar Fri Jun 12, 2020 9:07 pm

Ageing and self-delusion.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Fri Jun 12, 2020 9:08 pm

Track 10 - Sweet Bird.

by Nightjar Fri Jun 12, 2020 9:08 pm

This is why people like Miles Davis and Mingus rated her above all other white mainstream artists.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Fri Jun 12, 2020 9:09 pm

Sounds a bit like Prelude.

by Nightjar Fri Jun 12, 2020 9:09 pm

The Call of the Wendigo wrote:Track 10 - Sweet Bird.

How are you a whole song behind me now. oh no

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Fri Jun 12, 2020 9:10 pm

Synths.

by Nightjar Fri Jun 12, 2020 9:10 pm

Experimental final track.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Fri Jun 12, 2020 9:11 pm

Hold on. This is Shadows and Light. shifty

by Nightjar Fri Jun 12, 2020 9:11 pm

Stately.

Strange.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Fri Jun 12, 2020 9:13 pm

Sudden ending. llama

by Nightjar Fri Jun 12, 2020 9:13 pm

This is quite Wendy Carlos-esque.

by Nightjar Fri Jun 12, 2020 9:14 pm

Pow!

It's a strange journey.

It's brilliant.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Fri Jun 12, 2020 9:15 pm

It is over.

It wasn't my kind of thing. It was too jazz-chordtastic, melodically unfocused and rhythmically irregular for my liking but she has a nice voice and clearly put a lot of work into writing enough words to fill the songs up with.

Now to look back at the thread and see what everybody else made of it. Excited

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Fri Jun 12, 2020 9:16 pm

I shall give it 3 stars.

by Nightjar Fri Jun 12, 2020 9:19 pm

In context to the albums before and after this it represents a kind of finale to the smooth, jazzy narratives of the few previous years but doesn't really presage the cool confidence of Hejira ('76).

Hejira I would, BTW, say is in many and most respects, her greatest album.

In all of them.

In truth.

by Nightjar Fri Jun 12, 2020 9:20 pm

Well, someone's an idiot. sad yes

by Nightjar Fri Jun 12, 2020 9:22 pm

This album gets 3.3/5.

Really?

Screw you! evil tongue

by Guest Fri Jun 12, 2020 9:23 pm

I think the only mid 70s laid back sophisticated American thingy I like is Neil Young Young.

Not sure he counts.

by Nightjar Fri Jun 12, 2020 9:23 pm

I think that that's one of the most unfair overall scores an album's had so far.

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