Word: songs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...King, a song written soon after her separation, Joni describes the frustration that led her to divorce: lean'tgo back there any more You know my keys won 'tfit the door You know my thoughts don't fit the man They never can they never can "She was into her Magic Princess trip," Mitchell explains...
Joni's tune in New York is captured in her first album, Song to a Seagull. It features a complete cast: rude cabby, disillusioned divorcee, lonely transient and demanding lover-all of whom rise above stereotype to complement the leather-and-lace personality of 24-year-old Joni Mitchell. In Cactus Tree, a song Joni describes as a "grocery list of men I've liked, or loved, or left behind," she weighs her freedom against the merit of several suitors before dismissing them...
...mongering machine," the "military industrial complex" which will bring riot police out to face protesters; she is the "System" which we in the 70's have to cope with: a system which uses seductive promises of monetary security and personal advancement to entice us into joining it. Was this song (written by Hendrix) something one could hear in a German cabaret during the Weimar Republic...
...comedian at all-he's a lyricist. When he jogs on stage with a couple of guitars and one-liners flying, you're not sure if you are going to hear a twenty-year-old Henny Youngman or a nervous Pete Seeger. But be patient. Misch fuses comedy and song and comes up with some of the funniest lyrics since the days of Tom Lehrer...
...expect him to belt out anything as simple as "the Catholics hate the Protestants and the Protestants hate the Catholics." Between the surrealistic "song of trunks" and his ode to overdue library books, Misch seems about as far removed from the mainstream as a comedian can get--and still be funny...