ga •ound A vialon ! jsoa-dft vlalonl*, Joni Mitchell's Moderation Kissing To Be Cultured Rickle Lee Jones). For The Roses had panles Joni In a way that enhances her Joni comes full circle in an some minor accompaniment, but It wasn't vocals In a way that challenges the perfec­ until she teamed up with the entire LA. tion of the vocal duets of Blllle Holiday and Lene Lovich and Culture Club Express in 1974 that she achieved totally Al Hlbber. Shadows and Light is a sincere album reflecting fifteen years full, purely unadulterated, pop. It wasn't album, It reflects the growth Mitchell made hokey-pokey trash pop, mind you, but an down the long road of Introspection, im­ find no affection perfection, and fame. The haunting ot/ilng /usts /or tong",slngs Jonl sions of a person's psyche, they painted elusive, Introspective, fast-paced pop. remakes of "Woodstock"and "Furry Sings Mitchell on her latest album Wild portraits of completely unabashed honesty. Court and Spark was a successful album, ops...well I guess It's too late. I'll The Blues" prove her ability to really sing Lene Lovich used to be able to express Things Run Fast, from the song There were touches of Laura Nyro here, as commercially, as well as critically, and her have to go through with It and some strange sort of romantic Ideal In her I the blues. The remake of her own "Chinese Cale". and that perhaps, Is the well as Joan Baez, but the poetic Imagery place In the music business was firmly O write the review. I really don't music and In the way she sang-yelped. 9 "Woodstock" Is almost frightening, and statement that Is most Interesting on .lout's as well as melodic beauty were un­ established. want to do this you know. I'm not Inspired. know she sounds rehashed, yelping purely 8 gives the 'Woodstock' era a chillingly, near newest portrait of life In a love-obsessed precedented. Her next studio album, He)lra was also It might be a carry-over from the Librium,, for effect rather than out of affection. Miss­ 2 apocalyptic feeling. On first listening to the world. I say Interesting, because Mitchell, A beautiful and talented woman Is hard well recleved, at this point In Jonl's life she I've been prescribed but I think not. I'm ing also Is the muted, love-Inspired cut, I was struck by the transformation she who has been recording now for over fif­ to Ignore, but one that Is successful Is Im­ began to concern herself with settling down afraid It's from the two records I'm about to psychotic paranoia that used to shine teen years, has not only lasted for ages and possible. Such was the case for Jonl after and kept threatening her manager Eliot had made since her first days as review-- Lene Lovlch's "No Man's Land" through (especially on "Telepathy" from ages, but has created works of near genius the release of Clouds and Ladles 0/ The Roberts that this tour was the last tour, but 'spokeswomen' for the time. and the Culture Club's debut album "Kiss­ Stateless.) Now she sounds a little In not only the genres of folk (Ladles Of Cannon. Friends with Nell Young since her somehow, she kept moving. Each love af­ Rushing ahead to the present, 1982 and ing To Be Clever." I hate to say it, but these loo secure, bolstered by her tiny army of The Canyon and Blue), and pop (Court early days in Canada (they lived In the fair seemed to be a 'false-alarm' as she con­ IVIfd Things Run Fast. 1 admit It- I have albums are Incredibly boring, uninspired synthesized robot guerillas. To put It and Spark) but In )az2 as well (Mlngus and same neighborhood and used to )oke fessed her broken heart In the touching mixed emotions about the album. In many, and unimaginative. simply-- she's trapped In a sound and Im­ her live, brealhtaklngly beautiful Shadows about becoming famous) she became Im­ classic "Amelia". Her own existence, and many ways It Is very beautiful. First the ex­ age the way the "Flash and the Pan" are and Light). Interesting because it seems the mersed in the folk/art/hlpple scene with the reason for It was plaguing her ceptional: the musicianship. Over the past Damian VanDenburgh trapped and all too easily recognizable by eternally lovelorn poetess of the past has CSN & Young, plunged into a relationship relentlessly; "HeJIra" put It best: "I look at fifteen years Jonl Mitchell has become one the synthesized respirator vocals of their shed her ballad-like bravado and adapted with Graham Nash, and moved In with him the granite marker/those tributes to eterni­ hell of a musician. Both her guitar and Don't get me wrong-- I do like new lead singer, George Young. an acceptence of love even Donna Sum- ty, to finality/then I look at myself and two cats on Laurel Canyon in Califor­ piano playing are ready good. Her voice music and I do try to keep an open mind In S,ill luii true, Lene Lovich Is a one mer could admire. here/chicken scratching for my Immortali­ nia. Though that relationship was also ill- has changed a lot over the years, also. regards to such but I )ust can't avoid the album singer who should have quit while ty. fated (as most love-affairs with Jonl seem Back In the days of Song To A Seagull her blatant soulless quality of this music. Where she was ahead. Nothing on "No Man's Debbie Millman to be). It produced some of the prettiest ] do I begin? Side one of Lene Lovich I sup­ Land" merits mention. It all blends together to the first side of this album. "Do you real­ one Is worthless. songs In folk music that year. From Joni: pose. Before I even start the reviews I leaving the listener with no Impressions - ly want to hurt me-do you really want to Side two Is rarely-covered ground for Roberta Joan Anderson has come along "Willie", the sentimental appraisal of her Joni has grown up and she's so straight. should probably mention that right now I'm Ironlcally similar to the desert wasteland make me cry." After listening to this song, me. The titles alone scare me off. "White way since the days she was singing In the everlasting love (Willie Is Graham's listening to "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" scene on the album cover. what was an initial appeal for mercy Boy"(dance mix), "Boy, Boy (I'm the little nightclubs of Saskatchewan, Canada. nickname): "Willie Is my child, he Is my by Bob Dylan and still I have no qualms Moving onward, not upward, Cullure becomes a point of debate. If this song pro­ boy)" "White Boys Can't Control It" and Intending to go Into the graphic arts, she father ... I would be his lady all my life" Gone are the heart-wrenching, love-lamenting about doing a disservice to these albums. Club's new album Kissing to be Cleuer left vides any Inspiration, It's towards taking "Take Control." It reads like a decided after one year of art college that and from Nash: "Our House" :"Starlng at Believe me, I'll listen again even as I write, me with the same Impression-- lhat of no karate lessons Instead of going oul looking miscalculated example of the distributive she prefered to play guitar and sing. An In­ the fire for hours and hours while I listen to but it will come to the same end-- an over­ Impression at all. If you've heard "Haircut for Boy George. Rather than getting that theory and sounds even worse than that. tuitive and fresh talent from the day she you play your love songs all night long for lyrics, in its place are the acceptances of love, whelming desire to either sleep or pul on a 100," "Adam and the Ants", "Bow Wow Involved I usually skip to the next song, I should apologize, but what more can I entered the life of musician, she attracted me, only for me." different record. How does one go about Wow" or Joe Jackson's Night and Day "I'm Afraid of Me." With good reason, too. say? This music Is so bland and the attentions of guitarist Chuck Mitchell in Well, (or some reason Nash couldn'l attachments, and corny, heart-warming getting Inspired by uninspired music? then you don't have lo even guess what If my mind ever began thinking of music anonymous lhat even my medication can't the early sixties while she was singing the handle her dedication, and they split up. Guess I'll try this green plll(lt was prescribed Cullure Club sounds like. Culture Club Is this spastically peppy. I'd be a little bll con­ get me out of the stupefied rut that this rounds In Canada. Married after only a Mitchell went Into seclusion, then travelleo as well-- don't wory.) A gulp of waler, a another gimmicky band in a gimmicky cerned as well. music resides In. If I have any concerns brief courtship, their marriage was Ill-fated to Greece, where she lamented her lost responsibilites melancholy exhalation and voila-- the genre thai has yet to equal it reigning Having a relatively weak stomach, I about this music at all, It rests with Ihe as soon as Jonl began Intensely pursuing love, and wrote songs.