TAMING THE TIGER - Slow Slide Show - Joni Mitchell video free download
Slow SLIDE SHOW OF JONI & HER CATS: Nietzsche, Pansy, Mojo and El Café off the Album, TAMING THE TIGER. =^..^=
I stepped outside to breathe the air
And stare up at the stars
Big dipper hanging there
Over the rented car
Over the rented car
I'm a runaway from the record biz
From the hoods in the hood and the whiny white kids
Boring!
The old man is snoring
And I'm taming the tiger
(You can't tame the tiger)
Tiger, tiger burning bright
Nice, kitty kitty
Tiger, tiger burning bright
Sophia says "It's hard to catch
And harder still to ride
The time to watch the beast the best
Is when it's purring at your side"
Purring at your side
Accolades and honors
One false move and you're a goner
Boring!
The old man is snoring
And I'm taming the tiger
(You can't tame the tiger)
Tiger, tiger burning bright
Nice, kitty kitty
Tiger, tiger burning bright
In the forest of the night
The moon shed light
On my hopeless plight
As the radio blared so bland
Every disc, a poker chip
Every song just a one night stand
Formula music, girly guile
Genuine junkfood for juveniles
Up and down the dial
Mercenary style
I watched the stars chuck down their spears
And a plane went blinking by
And I thought of Anna
Wild and dear
Like fireworks in the sky
Fireworks in the sky
I'm so sick of this game
It's hip, it's hot
Life's too short, the whole thing's gotten
Boring!
The old man is snoring
And I'm taming the tiger
(You can't tame the tiger)
Tiger, tiger burning bright
Nice, kitty kitty
(Boring!)
Tiger, tiger burning bright
(You can't tame the tiger)
Oh, be nice, kitty kitty
(Boring!)
Tiger, tiger burning bright
Nice, kitty kitty
(Boring, boring!)
Tiger, tiger burning bright
(Fight to the light, fight to the light)
In the forest of the night.
(1998)
Comments
11 years ago
Liesbeth Groothuisen
yeah... just shut up and listen!12 years ago
Protest Songs
What a beautiful and intelligent reflection about William Blake's poem The Tiger! It contains a lot of thoughts about the process of creation, both small (songwriting) and large (wisdom, religions).12 years ago
betta blocker
horseytown works for the music industry or was one of Joni's rejects ??!!13 years ago
hocuspocusfocusable
@lebartonne just as Joni is one in a million...(or one in 6 Billion) Her entire expression is one that couldn't appeal to everyone. The World couldn't handle all the emotion or that many sensitive, intelligent, thinking people. She's not for everyone. Denying her, is just as arrogant as saying she is.13 years ago
MonacoBlast
Lots of comments. I just like to let it pass through me.13 years ago
David Renwick
@horseytown You have some valid points. I don't like her bitterness, and if she just dwelled more on how many millions of fans she has .........13 years ago
RJ Gronewold
You guys don't like it?.. ..don't listen.. problems solved..14 years ago
horseytown
Get over yourself and just do what you do. She has sold millions of albums worldwide, continues to have a steady fan base, her influence is unabated, she has won nine Grammy Awards, I assume she is a multimillionaire... she should be a little more grateful (I don't recall Charles Mingus complaining about his own music being marginal). She might just be mistaken for a "whiney white kid" herself.14 years ago
horseytown
a rearrangement of 'A Case Of You') telling them to play more with their hearts and not their brains. Then claimed that her music was superior to that of her contemporaries because "I had a black sense of feel". Then claimed her loss of high rotation airplay to the fact that she got too arty for the masses ("I went to a minority camp") and recorded a Mingus album. This launched an assault on the state of mainstream music... Blech14 years ago
horseytown
how about you act your age and deal with it. And if you can't accept it, join it and try and understand it. If you can't do that - ignore it. It is not as if shitty commercial music is a new thing. I remember five or six years ago she was given an honorary degree at McGill Univ. here in Montreal and she managed to offend just about everyone with her condescension and arrogance (which is some trick given that it was at McGill). She berated the Faculty Jazz Orchestra (which had just performed..14 years ago
horseytown
I knew in high school who would dedicate far too much time and attention to what others were doing or listening to. If there is a tragic mistake to be made it is deluding oneself that one's interests elevate your existence over that of others. Yeah Joni, rap music (I assume what she was referring to as "hoods in the hood" - and I assume that "whiney white kids" was thrown in to pre-empt accusations of racism or being out-of-touch) is more popular than your brand of adult contemporary -14 years ago
horseytown
she seems entirely unable to come to terms with the fact that it won't get her mainstream top 40 radio play. And so, with the stink of elitism and pseudo-intellectualism, she berates the lowly masses for their failure to recognize her genius. These lines: "I'm a runaway from the record biz/From the hoods in the hood and the whiny white kids/Boring! ... Formula music, girly guile/Genuine junkfood for juveniles/Up and down the dial/Mercenary style" ...remind me of pompous "alt rock" kids...14 years ago
horseytown
While I am not about to argue that Joni Mitchell is untalented or failed to contribute significantly to popular music, I will argue that she has become an insufferable, bitter and self-important has-been that seems to value recognition, adulation and praise over doing what she must do to be the artist she needs to be. While she has not betrayed her desire to produce this sort of unlistenable tepid white jazz,14 years ago
cosmicrider287
inspiring post.14 years ago
tall32guy
1:24. So cute! :)Related Videos
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