Well Kat,
I know where this came from & I’m happy to indulge myself, let alone you.
Had three complete listens to ‘Clouds’ now & I am happy to concede I like it better than the initial foray.
Just about ready to move onto your second recommendation
“Blue”
Thanks as per usual
In a 1996 interview with the Los Angeles Times, Mitchell explained: “I wrote that in Philadelphia after some girls who worked in this club where I was playing found all this colored slag glass in an alley. We collected a lot of it and built these glass mobiles with copper wire and coat hangers. I took mine back to New York and put them in my window on West 16th Street in the Chelsea District. The sun would hit the mobile and send these moving colors all around the room. As a young girl, I found that to be a thing of beauty. There’s even a reference to the mobile in the song. It was a very young and lovely time… before I had a record deal. I think it’s a very sweet song, but I don’t think of it as part of my best work. To me, most of those early songs seem like the work of an ingenue.”
Bill and Hillary Clinton named their daughter Chelsea after this song.
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May 22, 2010 at 10:47 am
yousendit link:
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May 22, 2010 at 10:00 pm
Well Kat,
I know where this came from & I’m happy to indulge myself, let alone you.
Had three complete listens to ‘Clouds’ now & I am happy to concede I like it better than the initial foray.
Just about ready to move onto your second recommendation
“Blue”
Thanks as per usual
May 22, 2010 at 10:30 pm
Pete,
It is my desert island album.
Maybe the associations endear it to my heart-listening in Bolga, the funny red Christmas bulb sucking the extra current and rewinding with a Bic pen.
May 23, 2010 at 12:30 am
In a 1996 interview with the Los Angeles Times, Mitchell explained: “I wrote that in Philadelphia after some girls who worked in this club where I was playing found all this colored slag glass in an alley. We collected a lot of it and built these glass mobiles with copper wire and coat hangers. I took mine back to New York and put them in my window on West 16th Street in the Chelsea District. The sun would hit the mobile and send these moving colors all around the room. As a young girl, I found that to be a thing of beauty. There’s even a reference to the mobile in the song. It was a very young and lovely time… before I had a record deal. I think it’s a very sweet song, but I don’t think of it as part of my best work. To me, most of those early songs seem like the work of an ingenue.”
Bill and Hillary Clinton named their daughter Chelsea after this song.
May 24, 2010 at 9:07 am
sblake,
I love watching her, and the audience too was fun to see.
I didn’t know about the mobile. This is among my favorite of her songs because of the wonderful imagery. I can see what she sings.
May 25, 2010 at 4:45 pm
I guess the “jewel light” reference at least was to the mobile. ALWAYS great to hear (or see) her early stuff. What a “piper of Hamelin” she was then!
May 25, 2010 at 9:47 pm
Rick,
She had the most amazing voice back then. I still like her voice even with its smoke huskiness.