Burundi drum samples and a Fairlight synth. From her masterpiece, The Hissing of Summer Lawns (1975). Also Burundi drum samples on that Adam & the Ants track, but of course!
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Jim Andrews wrote:
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> Wow. I hadn't heard "The Jungle Line" by Joni Mitchell before. That's
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> Rousseau walks on trumpet paths
> Safaris to the heart of all that jazz
> Through I-bars and girders, through wires and pipes
> The mathematic circuits of the modern nights
> Through huts through Harlem through jails and gospel pews
> Through the class on Park and the trash on Vine
> Through Europe and the deep deep heart of Dixie blue
> Through savage progress cuts the jungle line
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> In a low-cut blouse she brings the beer
> Rousseau paints a jungle flower behind her ear
> Those cannibals of shuck and jive
> They'll eat a working girl like her alive
> With his hard-edged eye and his steady hand
> He paints the cellar full of ferns and orchid vines
> And he hangs a moon above a five-piece band
> He hangs it up above the jungle line
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> The jungle line the jungle line
> Screaming in a ritual of sound and time
> Floating, drifting on the air conditioned wind
> And drooling for a taste of something smuggled in
> Pretty women funneled through valves and smoke
> Coy and bitchy wild and fine
> And charging elephants and chanting slaving boats
> Charging chanting down the jungle line
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> There's a poppy wreath on a soldier's tomb
> There's a poppy snake in a dressing room
> Poppy poison poppy tourniquet
> It slithers away on brass like mouthpiece spit
> And metal skin and ivory birds
> Go steaming up to Rousseau's vines
> They go steaming up to Brooklyn Bridge
> Steaming, steaming, steaming up the jungle line
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> The Jungle Line
> Joni Mitchell
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