Line Out - Comments on Attention fans of Joni Mitchell, Joan Didion, and/or Sean Nelson http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/12/attention_fans_of_joni_mitchell_joan_did Incidentally, three of my favorite things. There's a piece today about being obsessed with a certain Joni Mitchell song--Ron Rosenbaum calls "Amelia" the best Joni Mitchell song ever. Rosenbaum mentions a couple other songs that he has been similarly obsessed... Copyright 2008 Fri, 14 Dec 2007 12:00:46 -0800 Fri, 14 Dec 2007 17:12:43 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by rtm Well, it's not necessary to trash Court and Spark in order to make the case that Hejira is a better (and also, in my opinion, best) album. Why is Amelia (and Hejira) so fucking great? Easy answer. Better poetry.

Court and Spark is one of a series of fantastic albums written by a singular songwriter at the peak of her powers. She follows it with The Hissing of Summer Lawns, more musically experimental. Hejira moves fully into poetry, and to be honest, as much as the guy was a prick, some of Jaco's best work.

Simple.

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