Where is Shakira’s ass when ya need it?

How come popular culture went off erect nipples?

Ah! The “lost” music of youth! Loved it then, still listen to it now. As Tbogg says, today’s music (for the most part) really does suck.

No beach reading here in western Montana. It is currently 3 F and snowing.

Well, them’s the way I always heard they should be…

I was way too hip to have the crush on Carly Simon that I did back then…

Or how I gained an appreciation for South of the Border horn playing:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/produ…..038;sr=8-1

It’s sunny and 13 in northern NY, but I’m still going to hold off on the beach for a few months.

I remember hearing Carly sing “That’s the Way I’ve Always Heard it Should Be” on the TV when I was at the end of high school, and it was revelatory to me. Such a deeply despairing and cynical song. It spoke to the times, to my version of the times at least.

Great post!
Look for Carly singing That’s The Way I Thought It Should Be and Anticipation LIVE from Central Park on youtube.
I love the So Far Away performance..James was such a stoner! And Carole so 50’s perky!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqQlfFuQFXo

A more recent version of “Both Sides Now” by Joni Mitchell. I saw her on that tour where she was singing mostly standards with a big band behind her. Incredible phrasing.

I saw her at The Bitter End in NYC just after she’d released her first album and my cousin once chased her down a fire escape when she was briefly part of the NY folk scene. Great artist.

Brings back so many memories for me in my early years of album collecting and playing them on my Sansui turntable with the music blasting through my Fisher Speakers and tuner. Each of the artists you feature here are part of my collection. Thanks for the post.

Funny how folks of a certain same-ish age have found their way to TBogg’s. I’m not keeping track enough to know, though, is there any overlap between the commenters on this post (I recognize all the music, and still have my copy of Tapestry, thanks) and the ones with all those funnysounding post-70s (-80s?) band and song names in the weekly random ten post?

[signing off before I concede needing to change my handle to MsFogey]

Hello, I’m 38 and a great fan of Joni Mitchell due to my big sis being a fan. Have seen her many times live. She has the most beautiful voice and phrasing.

Don’t change your handle.

Because we respected… talent. And other stuff.

Linda Ronstadt’s Hasten Down the Wind, too?

(The Living in the USA picture disc had a certain appeal as well.)

Yeah, big crush on Ronstadt here in the late seventies.

Because we respected… talent. And other stuff.

Remarkable talent displayed by Carly in Playing Possum as well. Much one-handed applause was awarded.

Having read Girls Like Us when it first came out, and re-read it a couple weeks ago, I especially appreciated Sheila Weller’s presentation from a woman’s POV of three women from very different backgrounds who made their ways largely on their own terms in a guy-run business. I read a ton of books about the musicians whose works form the soundtrack of my life, and almost all of them are about men, and by men. Some of these books are simply magnificent. But the “chick singer” label can be horrendously diminishing. I especially appreciated Weller’s wry comparison of Joni Mitchell’s genuinely penniless boho youth–secretly bearing and giving up a daughter for adoption in 1965, with whom she reunited more than thirty years later–to Bob Dylan’s self-scrubbing of his suburban, nice-Jewish-frat-boy background, and his stint reading old newspapers in the New York Public Library as subjects for his songs. Granted, both Dylan and Mitchell are treasures, but Weller’s astringent point is that Mitchell downplayed the risky aspects of her background, for fear of social ostracism, while Dylan made up his ramblin’-man persona out of whole cloth… or newsprint. Definitely a book worth reading!

Let’s go to the collection: 2 Carly albums; 2 Carole albums; 6 Joni albums. Nearly 20 Linda albums.

Hmm.

I demand to see Shakira’s ass!

Anyone else remember the SNL bit that Gilda Radner did, where she’s singing some Powerful Woman song and the men in the room–producer, manager, etc.–continually stop her, belittle her, etc.? Always thought that was a brilliant piece.

I think I remember something from an old National Lampoon album (the one with Mr. Rogers interviewing the bass player).

“I’m a woman,
I’m a human,
I’m a sister.
I’m a singer,
I’m a person,
I am me.
I have to take some time,
to get myself together,
I have to take some time so I can be,
free..”