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  1. Red Hadron Collider

    Red Hadron Collider The Hammerhead

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    This is specially for Milk, who thinks Joni Mitchell is **** and sings flat. My youngest daughter recently bought me three albums - Hits, Blue and Court and Spark. I listened to them all the way down to Ely on Monday.

    Quite simply, she's a genius and deserves to be on the top table with the likes of Steely Dan, Neil Young, Elvis Costello, Earth, Wind and Fire and a few others others.

    She comes ninth in the Rolling Stone Greatest Songwriters of all time (higher than Young and ***en and Becker and a lot of other massive names. Oh and Milk: she doesn't sing flat. She's heavily jazz-influenced and sings through notes. She's pitch perfect.

    "Mitchell came out of the coffee-shop folk culture of the Sixties, and she became the standard bearing star of L.A.'s Laurel Canyon scene. But her restless brilliance couldn't be confined to one moment or movement. She began with songs that only by her later standards seemed simple: "Clouds," "Both Sides Now," "Big Yellow Taxi." But then, banging on her acoustic guitar in startling ways or playing modernist melodies at the piano, she unfurled starkly personal lyrics that pushed beyond "confessional" songwriting towards an almost confrontational intimacy and rawness. "When I realized how popular I was becoming, it was right before Blue," she recalled, in reference to her 1971 masterpiece. "I went, 'Oh my God, a lot of people are listening to me.

    Well then they better find out who they're worshiping. Let's see if they can take it. Let's get real.' So I wrote Blue, which horrified a lot of people, you know." Mitchell's run of albums from 1970's Ladies of the Canyon to 1974's Court and Spark, on which she perfected a jazz-bent studio pop, rival any streak of record-making in pop history, and her lyrical depictions of the ecstasy and heartbreak that came with being a strong woman availing herself of the sexual independence of the Sixties and Seventies offer a unique emotional travelogue of the era. "I had no personal defenses," she said of her writing at the time. "I felt like a cellophane rapper on a pack of cigarettes."

    Blue horrified a lot of people.


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    Number Nine in the greatest ever. Once Milk has contributed, this can be moved to the mucic thread.
     
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    Red Hadron Collider The Hammerhead

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    Proper ****-up with the title <laugh>
     
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    saintanton Old

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    Shocker.


    Don't start Milk off again- he was bad enough last time.
     
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  4. moreinjuredthanowen

    moreinjuredthanowen Mr Brightside

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    I sense one strong feeling here.
     
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    luvgonzo Pisshead

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    Big Yellow Taxi is class.
     
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  6. Red Hadron Collider

    Red Hadron Collider The Hammerhead

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    Which is?
     
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    Red Hadron Collider The Hammerhead

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    Allman Brothers Band are up there as well <ok>
     
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    moreinjuredthanowen Mr Brightside

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    outrage milk dared call her ****e..
     
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  9. FedLadSonOfAnfield

    FedLadSonOfAnfield Lad

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    that's his permanent setting
     
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    Who wrote this, btw?
    As far as I recall, "Clouds" was an album, not a song.
     
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    Tobes Warden Forum Moderator

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    Jonjo Shelvey?
     
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    "Both Sides Now" is what he's thinking when he goes in for a tackle.
     
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  13. Zingy

    Zingy #ziggywould

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    Who's Joni Mitchell? I've never heard of him...
     
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  14. Milk not bear jizz

    Milk not bear jizz Grasser-In-Chief

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    She is ****!
     
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    FedLadSonOfAnfield Lad

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    It's spelled Johnny Mitchell FFS <doh>











    :wink:
     
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    Zingy #ziggywould

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    Is he the one who copied that Counting Crows song "Big Yellow Taxi"?
     
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    Milk not bear jizz Grasser-In-Chief

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    Even Guy Mitchell is better than Jonjo Mitchell.
     
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  18. FedLadSonOfAnfield

    FedLadSonOfAnfield Lad

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    Grant and Phil Mitchell have got better voices
     
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    Milk not bear jizz Grasser-In-Chief

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    Somewhere in an alternate universe RHC has sobered up because of an intervention and ripped his ears off after trying to listen to JM whilst unitoxicated.
     
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  20. Red Hadron Collider

    Red Hadron Collider The Hammerhead

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    ****ing Philistine
     
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