#ian Mitchell band

[bcrdedication]

[winenwind]

Little luscious leprechaun

[gaycityrollers]

[icantbelieveitsnotrock]

[tiredfinch]

also here's marauders music taste hcs (period accurate), but some characters aren't included bc I'm not super deep in fandom so I don't . know/think anything abt them.

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james- I think he'd be a big fan of all the music of the now and maybe 10 ish years earlier. lots of sixties duwopy pop-rock like the beatles, the zombies and the turtles but also more contemporary stuff; Fleetwood Mac, Wings, the Pretty Things, Frank Zappa, the Eagles, Queen and Bowie (not glam, disco. so like thin white Duke era- not that he'd mind glam bowie I just think he'd prefer disco bowie)! also I think like Ambrosia and other 70s pop he'd dig.. but I think he would be totally in love with Fleetwood Mac, especially their album Mystery to Me- because it would remind him of lily. I think he, along with alice, would get lily more into fleetwood mac.

lily - I think she'd really prefer 50s rock and jazz .. blues and soul too, though I don't think she'd mind later rock. she just seems very buddy holly/chet baker/frank sinatra/ray charles/ella fitzgerald/nina simone, I also think she'd really like otis redding but he's 60s lol, oh and I think she would've LOVED the monkees when she wad younger and would think theyre brilliant.

sirius - glam glam glam and then also punk from the late 70s-81.. also goth+post punk music (ie. the cure, echo and the bunnymen, the smiths, siouxsie and the banshees, depeche mode, joy division ect ect) but I always think of goth as sort of a mid-late 80s thing so I don't think he'd have really been exposed to alot of goth bands because he was. in jail... but I think David Bowie, T. Rex, Lou Reed, the Velvet Underground, and then like Television, Patti Smith, the Clash, Iggy Pop, the Stooges. yk.. but also a lot of what James listens to as well!:3 bc they r bff! also I think remus and sirius share great love for queen :)

remus! - folk! and art rock! I think he'd like a lot of the glam sirius listens to and I think he'd be a very big velvet underground fan. as for folk, I think Bob Dylan, Vashti Bunyan, Donovan, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Janis Ian, Simon and Garfunkle, GEORGE HARRISON!! - that sort of vibe.. also also think he'd share folky stuff with lily and she would rather enjoy it !

peter - I don't think he really listens to music tbh, not in the way where he'd have favourites. just whatever is on the radio/the records his friends play!

alice - I think she lovessssss female artists and makes a point to listen to them. Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Janis Ian, Janis Joplin, Tina Turner, Kate Bush, Aretha Franklin, very varied but very girl, because I think Alice is a big fan of women doing things idk. bisexual moment 4 her. I think her and lily would also both share a really great love of Stevie Nicks and be like fanatics of hers.

frank - I think bro LOVES reggae idk. Bob Marley fan. culture/jimmy cliff/the gladiators. I also think he'd like a lot of "dad rock" bands, led zeppelin/steely dan/the eagles/the who/the kinks.. yar naur. he's a man❤️🙂‍↕️

severus - classical music snob, probably inherited from his mom. loathes rock n roll idk. seems like THAT SORT OF GUY..

regulus - lots of classical and jazz, but not in the way severus is like pretentious, I mean coming from a muscianship standpoint. I think he'd especially love miles davis jazz wise and beethoven+liszt classical music wise (ie. I think he'd have a great love for romantic music, even though beethoven isn't usually considered romantic- just LISTEN to moonlight sonata, it is DRIPPING with the emotion of romantic music).

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I also have a list of music artists I think would be witches/wizards in the wizardings world, so I might post that soon:)

[riaaanna]

Queen Fanclub Convention 2023 Part 1: First Impressions

Hello again! This will be another series of posts on my time at the Official Queen Fanclub Convention 2023! This is the first time I've ever joined the convention, and I signed up as a member last year just to be able to go here.

The convention ran from 6-9 October 2023 and took place at Haven Golden Sands Holiday Park, Mablethorpe. Mablethorpe is in the east, which I've never really been to and trains don't really go there from Manchester. Apparently this has been the traditional venue over the years. It's a holiday park by the beach where we stay in caravans and the main events took place in a big hall. I was a bit wary of it at first because it was unfamiliar but it turned out to be quite nice.

Travelling there would have been a chore from Manchester. I would have had to take a total of four(?) hours of train with two changes and get off at Skegness before taking an hour of shuttle to the venue. But fortunately I didn't have to, thanks to my friend and saviour Ian who very kindly allowed me to tag along from Stafford (only an hour from Manchester) all the way to Mablethorpe. He was the reason I survived the entire convention so big cheers to him from here on!

Here's the full programme for the convention! As you can see lots of fun things ahead - but we'll cover the first welcome night for now!

I decided to arrive as per schedule but it was already so crowded and I struggled to find a spot, until I managed to get one at the back near the bar. So learned my lesson from then on to always come in early if I ever want to get a good spot to see the stage and screens clearly (and avoid the horribly noisy bar). While a good portion of people were properly paying attention to the event there was also about half the room who were just chattering among themselves and catching up with each other. So from early on I could already tell that the place is full of regulars, treating the event as a reunion more than anything. (Looking at photos from previous years, you can tell that "Queen Convention" banner on the stage has been reused too many times lol)

It was a bit intimidating to come in as a newbie (and I missed that newbie welcome session too). I told the reception desk I was new and they were very welcoming. I didn't expect them to do anything for me but then just before the event started, Queen Fanclub president herself Jacky came up to my table just to say hello to me the newbie! She was so nice and really made sure I felt welcome. The picture below is from a later night but here is she!

It was about an hour ish of meeting new friends (including Cilla who ended up being great company through the entire weekend - big shoutout to her!! 🥺💖) and chatting before the event started. Jacky made a lovely welcome speech, which specifically made sure newbies feel welconed right after our chat! And we received a welcome video from Brian - filmed on the first day of the QAL tour in the US just before they went on stage. Credits to David Taylor for the first part of the video which I merged with mine (Brian's part).

Afterwards there was also Doug Bogie (left) making an appearance on stage. He is apparently an active regular at the Queen Convention, being involved behind the scenes and everything, which I didn't know and is pretty cool. Aside from him Barry Mitchell was also quite active but has apparently recently taken ill (right), so we all sent him well wishes (and later on wrote on a huge get well soon card for him).

And finally - the band of the night! Live Killers (a Queen tribute band) took the stage and this was the second time I saw them live, the first being in Montreux. They were with a different vocalist iirc, but they were just as fantastic! And as a bonus... Tim Staffell made a surprise appearance on stage and sang Doin' Alright with the band!

Overall a great first night! I didn't want to stay up too late so I could prepare for the next full day. The next few posts will mostly focus on each guest panel, as they're the highlights and main reasons for me coming to the convention. As always thank you for reading!

[haveyouheardthisband]

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The Best Album Per Year for Sixty Years

No-one asked for it, of course, but I do like making lists, so here's me pondering what have been the best Long Players in the album artform the past 60 years. I originally tried to keep it to just one per year, but many years that proved impossible: when listing multiple albums I have tried ranking them with the one I feel narrowly edges out the others first, and I use lower case to indicate an album that is not at the same level as others on the list but was the best I've heard from that time.

Feel free to have fun with the list and make up your own.

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1962 Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan 1963 The Freewheelin' - Bob Dylan 1964 another side of - bob dylan 1965 Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan 1966 Pet Sounds - The Beach Boys / Blonde On Blonde - Bob Dylan / Revolver - The Beatles 1967 Magical Mystery Tour - The Beatles / The Velvet Underground & Nico / Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme - Simon & Garfunkel / Safe As Milk - Captain Beefheart 1968 Astral Weeks - Van Morrison / The White Album - The Beatles / Bookends - Simon & Garfunkel / We're Only In It For The Money/Lumpy Gravy - Frank Zappa 1969 Let It Bleed - The Rolling Stones / Abbey Road - The Beatles / In A Silent Way - Miles Davis 1970 Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon & Garfunkel / Plastic Ono Band - John Lennon 1971 Imagine - John Lennon / Blue - Joni Mitchell / What's Goin' On - Marvin Gaye/ 2 - Moondog 1972 Exile On Main Street - The Rolling Stones / Discover America - Van Dyke Parks / Clear Spot - Captain Beefheart / Ege Bam Yasi - Can 1973 Raw Power - Iggy And The Stooges 1974 Blood On The Tracks - Bob Dylan 1975 Horses - Patti Smith / Discreet Music - Brian Eno / Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd / Velvet Donkey - Ivor Cutler 1976 The Ramones - The Ramones 1977 Low - David Bowie / New Boots & Panties - Ian Dury / Marquee Moon - Television / 77 - Talking Heads 1978 Music For Airports - Brian Eno / This Year's Model - Elvis Costello / Third (Sister Lovers) - Big Star / More Songs About Music & Food - Talking Heads 1979 Unknown Pleasures - Joy Division/ Fear of Music - Talking Heads / Into The Music - Van Morrison / Sheik Yerbouti - Frank Zappa / Rust Never Sleeps - Neil Young 1980 Remain In Light - Talking Heads / Closer - Joy Division / One Trick Pony - Paul Simon / Common One - Van Morrison 1981 Faith - The Cure 1982 Thriller - Michael Jackson / 1999 - Prince / 4 - Peter Gabriel / Too Rye Ay - Dexys Midnight Runners / Big Science - Laurie Anderson / Nebraska - Bruce Springsteen 1983 Swordfishtrombones - Tom Waits / Murmur - R.E.M. / Hearts & Bones - Paul Simon / Off The Bone - The Cramps 1984 Purple Rain - Prince & The Revolution / Hatful Of Hollow - The Smiths / Various Positions - Leonard Cohen / Reckoning - R.E.M. / The Unforgettable Fire - U2 1985 Don't Stand Me Down - Dexys Midnight Runners / Rain Dogs - Tom Waits / Around The World In A Day - Prince & The Revolution / Suzanne Vega - Suzanne Vega / Hounds of Love - Kate Bush / Hunting High & Low - A-ha 1986 Parade - Prince & The Revolution / So - Peter Gabriel / The Queen Is Dead - The Smiths / Graceland - Paul Simon / Steve McQueen - Prefab Sprout / Blood & Chocolate/King of America - Elvis Costello 1987 Sign O The Times - Prince / The Joshua Tree - U2 / Strangeways Here We Come - The Smiths / Actually - Pet Shop Boys / Tango In The Night - Fleetwood Mac 1988 Irish Heartbeat - Van Morrison & The Chieftains / Green - R.E.M. / Viva Hate - Morrissey / The Serpent's Egg - Dead Can Dance / Surfer Rosa - Pixies / Naked - Talking Heads / Introspective - Pet Shop Boys / I'm Your Man - Leonard Cohen / Blue Bell Knoll - Cocteau Twins 1989 Disintegration - The Cure / Technique - New Order / Doolittle - The Pixies / Oh Mercy - Bob Dylan / Avalon Sunset - Van Morrison / Rei Momo - David Byrne / Behaviour - Pet Shop Boys / Candleland - Ian McCulloch 1990 Extricate - The Fall / The Good Son - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds / Songs For Drella - Lou Reed & John Cale / Jonathan Goes Country - Jonathan Richman 1991 Screamadelica - Primal Scream / Achtung Baby - U2 / The Bootleg Boxset - Bob Dylan 1992 It's A Shame About Ray - The Lemonheads / Henry's Dream - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds / Automatic For The People - R.E.M. / Good As I Been To You - Bob Dylan / The Future - Leonard Cohen 1993 Debut - Bjork / Dubnobasswithmyheadman - Underworld / Exile In Guyville - Liz Phair / Neroli - Brian Eno / Come On Feel - The Lemonheads / Zooropa - U2 / Vena Cava - Diamanda Galas

1994 Selected Ambient Works Vol. II - Aphex Twin / Toward The Within - Dead Can Dance / Let Love In - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds / Dummy - Portishead / Autogeddon - Julian Cope / Vauxhall & I - Morrissey 1995 Anthology - The Beatles / The Ugly One With The Jewels - Laurie Anderson 1996 Boys For Pele - Tori Amos 1997 Ladies & Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space - Spiritualized / The Boatman's Call - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds / Time Out Of Mind - Bob Dylan / Vanishing Point - Primal Scream 1998 Up - R.E.M. / I'm So Confused - Jonathan Richman 1999 Play - Moby / I See A Darkness - Bonnie Prince Billy 2000 XTRMNTR - Primal Scream / All That You Can't Leave Behind - U2 / The Marshall Mathers LP - Eminem / Kid A - Radiohead / KY - Lemon Jelly 2001 Vespertine - Bjork / Love & Theft - Bob Dylan / No More Shall We Part - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds 2002 The Eminem Show - Eminem 2003 Room On Fire - The Strokes / The Man Comes Around/Unearthed - Johnny Cash / The Wind - Warren Zevon 2004 Has Been - William Shatner / How To Dismantle An Atom Bomb - U2 / You Are The Quarry - Morrissey / The Milk-Eyed Mender - Joanna Newsom / Smile - Brian Wilson 2005 Another Day On Earth - Brian Eno / Le Fil - Camille 2006 Modern Times - Bob Dylan / Surprise - Paul Simon / Love - The Beatles 2007 for emma, forever ago - bon iver 2008 vampire weekend - vampire weekend 2009 No Line On The Horizon - U2 / The XX - The XX 2010 show me the face - michelle gurevich 2011 Angles - The Strokes / So Beautiful or So What - Paul Simon 2012 Life Is People - Bill Fay / Old Ideas - Leonard Cohen 2013 Comedown Machine - The Strokes / Crimson Red - Prefab Sprout 2014 Ghost Stories - Coldplay / 1989 - Taylor Swift 2015 ★ - David Bowie 2016 Lover, Beloved - Suzanne Vega / Stranger To Stranger - Paul Simon 2017 American Dream - LCD Soundsystem / antisocialites - alvvays 2018 music for installations - brian eno 2019 weezer (teal album) - weezer 2020 rough & rowdy ways - bob dylan 2021 happier than ever - billie eilish 2022 dragon new warm mountain i believe in you - big thief

[dollarbin]

Mitchell Mondays #3:

Chelsea Morning

Artists cannot outperform Joni Mitchell's with her own songs. Most who attempt to do so wind up sounding like Neil Diamond: he's all bluster, bombast and bongos.

The strings here are pretty cool actually, even though they have no idea what song it is that they are appearing in. And the uncredited bass player rocks. Still, the overwhelming sense one gets is that Neil Diamond needs to shut the hell up.

Chelsea Morning may have stupefied the kids in the studio audience in Joni's live TV take, above, but it got all kinds of musicians' hearts racing back in the day. Mitchell was not yet an untouchable icon so everyone from gave her ode to a sexy summer day a go. Check out this earnest and clear headed Finish version which even tries to recreate Mitchell's ricocheting vocal gymnastics at the close:

And at least this male-led soft rock Swedish take features fewer of Diamond's swaggering spin moves:

Who can blame all these Scandanavians for giving the song a go? Chelsea Morning places perky bounce alongside rippling joy, plus it contains a singularly brilliant appeal for new love: "Oh, won't you stay, we'll put on a day and we'll talk in present tenses."

As with so many of Mitchell's early masterpieces Fairport Convention and Judy Collins were the first to take up the challenge that is Chelsea Morning.

Fairports' pre-Sandy Denny version came first. They do a seasick Beatles thing with the Ian Matthews' verses, Richard's teenage guitar playing is alternatively bold and dull, the percussion is bonkers and there's a fender bender depicted at the end: the band, who'd barely set foot outside central England at that point, seemingly imagined the Chelsea neighborhood in New York to be one big cartoon traffic jam.

I love everything Fairport touched in this era so my objectivity is suspect when I say their version is great. Even so, it surely is not the song's apex.

Judy Collins 69 version is equally busy and decidedly less cool: a rock band, which probably features Stephen Stills on bass, bongos and balogna, competes here with a bubble blowing birthday orchestra. Collins lets the song get stuck between her Wildflowers orchestral and her Who Knows Where the Time Goes light/psych rock phases. And no one in Chelsea is happy about it.

Great as Collins could be on occasion, her take simply does not work. Indeed, like every other attempt at Chelsea Morning, her cover sends us hurtling back to Joni's own unfussy, jubilant and utterly complex original solo arrangement.

It's simply Joni's song: no one else has ever really understood what it would be to stand in her posh shoes.

So maybe the key is to not even try and channel her. That possibility lead us to my favorite cover of Chelsea Morning, which comes compliments of the great bossa nova / funk act Brasil 66. Band leader Sergio Mendes, who just passed away this fall, set a smooth American, Lani Hall, at the mic in 1970 and told everyone involved to avoid swing the song without any sense of mimicry.

What emerges served as a blueprint for everyone, including Mitchell herself, who wanted to transition Joni's music away from white washed soundscapes. Mendes' piano sends nearly all of Joni's incense, jewels and curtains airborne and aloft.

The rainbow simply never washes away with this song. It's always out there, eager to shine on us. We just need to take the time to look.

[toulousea]

intro post cause why not

random facts about me: my fav food is mac m cheese pizza , my hair is curly (i’m kinda mad idfk how to draw curly hair),im puerto rican and columbia,i love sally face, i like art i can’t spell, im american and my fav flower is a stargazer lily

favorite musicians/bands: maya hawke, conan gray, eminem, 21 pilots and girl in red probably more but i can’t think of any others

favorite youtubers: moriah elizabeth, and tara yummy

favorite books: solitaire and radio silence

favorite tv shows: stranger things, heartstopper, shameless, young royals, eyewitness, and chucky

favorite movies: home, minions/ despicable me, enola homes and the mitchell’s vs the machines

favorite celebrities: MILLIE BOBBY BROWN, maya hawke, gaten matarazzo, billie eillish, katie douglas and tara yummy

favorite fictional characters: dustin henderson, jane hopper, robin buckley, and erica sinclair from stranger things, tori spring from heartstopper phillip shea, lucas from eyewitness, simon from young royals, ian gallagher, mickey milckovich from shameless devon evans from chucky bob, tim from minions, frances, aled from radio silence

things ill probably talk about here: all the shows i said the osemanverse , gay stuff, sally face, music, my random thoughts at any given moment, and more gay things

[ninjapotatohead]

Bruh, imagine still treating Pontaff like utter garbage when Prime delivered us such cringe-nuggets like "I heart you too, Shadow!" that would have the fandom bitch to no end had they been a part of the show's writing team.

Anyways, still look forward to seeing Edge Tails get an undeserved redemption because clearly this show operates on Fwiendship Fixes Evweything bullshit. And that only hack writers would think is still solid storytelling. /sarcasm

And these are the same damn people who will get on our case about criticizing the IDWverse and much of Ian's writing (and unprofessional attitude), acting as if we'd ever send him death threats and shit for not doing what we want them to do (according to their strawman arguments anyway) when they aren't above doing the same to Pontaff themselves... and Takashi Iizuka... and Jason Griffith... and Aaron Webber... and Yuji Uekawa... and Roger Craig Smith... and Paramount... and Hardlight... and Dave Mitchell.

Also, funny you mention Nine, because my GF actually called him "Nine Inch Tails" (a parody of the goth band Nine Inch Nails")... and I shall call him that from now on!

[bcrdedication]

[winenwind]

For Ian Mitchell on his birthday this ✨✨✨❤️❤️❤️❤️

[gaycityrollers]

so I love my new colored pencils

[mywifeleftme]

265: Elyse Weinberg // Elyse

Elyse Elyse Weinberg 1968, Tetragrammaton (Bandcamp)

It surprises me a bit that Elyse, the sole LP released by Elyse Weinberg before her music was rediscovered in the ‘00s, isn’t more widely feted as a minor psych folk classic. It seems appropriate that it was a member of Elephant-6 cornerstone Elf Power that tracked her down, because her sound has nearly the exact mixture of bric-a-brac whimsy, ragged naïveté, and raw clomping noisiness that would be the Athens collective’s signature. Backed by early American prog band Touch, Weinberg flits between faux-European folk ballads and shambling West Coast hippie music a la Melanie. It would be the ideal soundtrack to a short animated film in a Ralph Bakshi style about the dreams of a medieval peasant woman who inadvertently foraged a load of magic mushrooms. The arrangements throw violin, spoons, tabla, sitar, barrelhouse piano, and harpsicord into the mix, but as grandiose as tracks like “Meet Me at the Station” can get, it’s Weinberg’s raspy yowl that holds centre stage. She’s an excitable vocalist, and she can occasionally verge on tea kettle shrieking, but for the most part she is captivating: her rendition of Burt Jansch’s “Deed I Do” quavers with stoned need, while “Here in My Heart (Underneath the Spreading Chestnut Tree)” and “Last Ditch Protocol” have an unmistakably original weirdness.

Born in Chatham, Ontario, home of Fergie Jenkins and TekSavvy Internet, Weinberg was no poor unfortunate hard done by the music biz. She was a fellow traveler of Canada’s folk elite in the ‘60s (Mitchell, Lightfoot, Ian & Sylvia etc.), apparently made an appearance on The Tonight Show, and her pal Neil Young played on a few tracks from her abortive second record Greasepaint Smile.* In any case, the first record didn’t sell, the label went bankrupt before the second could come out, and her manager dumped her before she could finish recording a third. I guess after that she took the hint. That’s a shame, because between Elyse and its Stonesier follow up there are at least a handful of tracks I like as much as anything to emerge from the first wave of folk rock.

* I’ve seen it asserted that Young plays on Elyse, but I doubt it; it doesn’t sound like him at all. I think the confusion stems from the 2001 Orange Twin reissue, which appends “Houses,” a song from the then-unreleased Greasepaint Smile featuring Young, as a bonus track. “Houses” quickly became Weinberg’s best-known song and it is a masterpiece in my estimation—so fair warning to anyone familiar with the digital version who buys an original pressing of Elyse, as it will not include that track!

265/365

[gerogerigaogaigar]

The Beatles - A Hard Days Night

The people who made this list are no longer trying to suck The fab four's dicks but rather vore them entirely. The fab vore if you will. A Hard Days Night is by far the least interesting of their early catalogue, showcasing more of the same with only a couple memorable songs. It's sometimes celebrated for being their first album of all original songs, but I think a few covers would be fine actually. I think covers are fine. Go fuck yourself. 6/10. See me after class.

New Order - Power, Corruption & Lies

I don't know how they did it, but after Ian Curtis' passing the remaining members of Joy Division kept on making music with each other. Things couldn't stay the same though so under a new name and with a new sound they set out as New Order. Power, Corruption & Lies is their second album but it's the first where they really cemented their sound. The atmosphere is calm, mellow, but fundamentally sad, and somehow still danceable. A sound unlike other new wave/synth pop/post punk artists it captured the gothic atmosphere but with much bubblier and instrumentation. This album really proved that it wasn't just Ian Curtis, everything these musicians touch turn to gold.

The Beastie Boys - Check Your Head

I love this period in The Beastie Boys' career. They were just fuckin around making whatever came to their head. I love the way songs are more like sketches of ideas and there's little in the way of structure holding it all together. These guys know exactly how camp they are and they lean into hard. Beyond just hip hop they have a lot of funk and punk tracks on this one which rounds out the sound nicely and allows them more room to goof off in.

The Slits - Cut

Punk could not confine the late 70s mavericks known as The Slits. They have the manic energy of the punk scene, but they're style was influenced by dub, reggae, and post punk. Ari Up is an amazing vocalist who can go from gentle whisper to screeching shout without acknowledging any of the step in between. The jittery and chaotic nature of the music is antithetical to the club scene in almost every way yet it still manages to be danceable. It's a beautiful crime for a punk band to commit, danceable music.

Janis Joplin - Pearl

Janis Joplin's voice is probably the most irreplaceable loss that the music world ever suffered. Joplin had evolved since the summer of love when she sang for Big Brother And The Holding Company. Still just as raspy and soulful as ever but with a new sense of maturity. She's more wistful on Pearl than ever before but no less bluesy and rough. Joplin's biggest hit came in the form of Me & Bobby McGee a cover of a Kris Kristofferson song of all things. Every song is a little masterpiece, but the best bit, for me at least, is Mercedez Benz a cheeky little acapella number that delights me every time I hear it.

Joni Mitchell - The Hissing Of Summer Lawns

Not content to just be another adult contemporary artist Joni Mitchell took the slight jazz influence from her previous album and ramped up the experimentation to eleven. Mitchell's lyricism is already some of the best and the creative arrangements that fill this album add to the unique tone of every song. Mitchell's usual conversational tone is well matched in songs like In France They Kiss On Main Street or Harry's House/Centerpiece, but others like The Jungle Line use synths and jazz bass to create a tense atmosphere. An art pop masterpiece The Hissing Of Summer Lawns exists in a pantheon of albums that really only contains Tim Buckley and other Joni Mitchell works anyway.