― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 13 April 2006 02:09 (eighteen years ago) link
reason #7 seconded
10. the sound of the rhythm guitar in "Coyote"
― sleeve (sleeve), Thursday, 13 April 2006 02:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Thursday, 13 April 2006 02:52 (eighteen years ago) link
mingus gets a bad rap, but that part when the party chimes in for the chorus on "God Must Be a Boogie Man" is retardedly genius
― Jaxon von Jaxon (jaxon), Thursday, 13 April 2006 02:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― Masked Gazza, Thursday, 13 April 2006 02:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― Masked Gazza, Thursday, 13 April 2006 03:00 (eighteen years ago) link
I think the idea of flaxen-haired Joni cooing about Birdland did turn a few people off, yes.
but that part when the party chimes in for the chorus on "God Must Be a Boogie Man" is retardedly genius
YES. Really, the whole thing is pretty engaging musically.
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Thursday, 13 April 2006 03:02 (eighteen years ago) link
Either he's gonna have to stand and fightOr take off out of here
― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Thursday, 13 April 2006 03:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 13 April 2006 06:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Thursday, 13 April 2006 07:13 (eighteen years ago) link
Also, it's interesting how Don Juan's Reckless Daughter has suddenly emerged as The Great Lost Joni Album...
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Thursday, 13 April 2006 11:01 (eighteen years ago) link
I hate to say it's become not so much the "great lost album" as "the great difficult "true fan" favourite". That thing where people recommend first the most outre parts of an artists discography so they can feel somehow superior?
I want to listen to Heijira again now...
― fandango (fandango), Thursday, 13 April 2006 11:24 (eighteen years ago) link
Such an evocative image...and that funny little micro-yodel stuck in the middle of the word "cowgirl"...
― Marcel Post (Marcel Post), Thursday, 13 April 2006 13:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 13 April 2006 13:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― Marcel Post (Marcel Post), Thursday, 13 April 2006 13:11 (eighteen years ago) link
Was it written then? I don't have it in front of me, but was that not one of the Mingus-written songs?
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Thursday, 13 April 2006 13:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dominique (dleone), Thursday, 13 April 2006 13:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Thursday, 13 April 2006 14:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― Vornado, Thursday, 13 April 2006 16:01 (eighteen years ago) link
I think I've read that this song was lying around for a while.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 13 April 2006 16:05 (eighteen years ago) link
Except, of course, that this song is written from the perspective of David Geffen.
Tho one could argue that knowing David Geffen well enough to write this sort of song bespeaks an even more ridiculous level of privilege.
― Myke. (Myke Weiskopf), Thursday, 13 April 2006 21:41 (eighteen years ago) link
However am I the only one who thinks the cold war metaphor in "Blue Motel Room" is brilliant?
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 14 April 2006 02:52 (eighteen years ago) link
Geffen was not exactly unreachable back then, he was an up-and-comer - anybody opening for anybody at the Troub from '72-'78 coulda made friends with DG
― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Friday, 14 April 2006 12:35 (eighteen years ago) link
It really works as a somewhat exhausted, 10 at night cooking session record. I never realised how vast, how high she was aiming on this. Not all of it works (and it's no Heijera) but it's prime Joni all the same.
― fandango (fandango), Saturday, 1 July 2006 21:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― fandango (fandango), Saturday, 1 July 2006 21:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― sleeve (sleeve), Saturday, 1 July 2006 22:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― Baaderonixx immer wieder (baaderonixx), Sunday, 2 July 2006 09:20 (seventeen years ago) link
And I count myself among her fans. But . . . shit.
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Sunday, 2 July 2006 09:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Sunday, 2 July 2006 09:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Sunday, 2 July 2006 09:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― Baaderonixx immer wieder (baaderonixx), Sunday, 2 July 2006 11:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― sonofstan (sonofstan), Sunday, 2 July 2006 11:09 (seventeen years ago) link
I always used to think the song was slightly patronising, it's only been in the last year or so that I've felt like I really got the lyrics. And this has been one of my absolute favourite albums for ten years. Odd how sometimes things just slide over you like that.
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Sunday, 2 July 2006 12:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― Vornado (Vornado), Monday, 3 July 2006 14:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― is anyone anticipating the new Baaderonixx? (baaderonixx), Friday, 19 January 2007 10:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 19 January 2007 13:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― is anyone anticipating the new Baaderonixx? (baaderonixx), Friday, 19 January 2007 14:15 (seventeen years ago) link
Likewise Joni could very well have been a diva bitch one minute and then felt deeply uncomfortable with success the next.
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:12 (seventeen years ago) link
Night Ride Home carried me through autumn, that thing is underrated - even her gigantic-ego resetting of a Yeats poem works for me
― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― fandango (fandango), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― is anyone anticipating the new Baaderonixx? (baaderonixx), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― M@tt He1g3s0n: oh u mad cuz im stylin on u (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:32 (seventeen years ago) link
Not so good, nowhere near as good... and occasionally fucking terrible.
― fandango (fandango), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:00 (seventeen years ago) link
Joni is nearly always bad at those straight rock'n'roll-ish tracks.
I really should get round to hearing/owning Taming The Tiger, Shadows And Light (Live)... and maybe Both Sides Now and Travelogue just to complete things.
― fandango (fandango), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― fandango (fandango), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:04 (seventeen years ago) link
The Boss CE-1 chorus/vibrato pedal was released in 1976 and was the first chorus effect in a pedal format to be available; it is very likely a part of the guitar sound on Hejira, along with a phaser pedal giving a "liquid" swirling effect - likely the MXR Phase 90 which had been released in 1974 and was the first product sold by MXR. Then one or two more layers of guitars, including an acoustic, would be added and then be panned left, center and right, giving the album its lush panoramic texture full of modulated movement.
https://jonimitchell.com/library/view.cfm?id=4622
― Feel a million filaments (Sund4r), Wednesday, 10 June 2020 19:36 (four years ago) link
then you have mad Jaco on top playing with a delay pedal that sounds like a chorus (iirc). very cool sounding album. I can't abide folk Joni but this is an all-timer for me
― Rik Waller-Bridge (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 10 June 2020 19:39 (four years ago) link
Seems like they're guessing, though.xp
― Feel a million filaments (Sund4r), Wednesday, 10 June 2020 19:44 (four years ago) link
Killer Live show from around the Hejira days https://youtu.be/bLKb9Ms68ME
― calstars, Wednesday, 10 June 2020 20:42 (four years ago) link
yeah, i was wondering if it was just a good old phase 90; i know the effects market was infinitely smaller back then and it could've only been one of a handful. i play a phase 90 a lot in my own music because, again, i just love how it sounds. makes sense, even if it is just an educated guess.
thanks for that link, cal. will definitely check it out later.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Thursday, 11 June 2020 16:44 (four years ago) link
!!! that band
― ACABincalifornia (voodoo chili), Thursday, 11 June 2020 16:59 (four years ago) link
yeah shadows and light is a great live album, and I love that dvd. persuasions on the title track *shivers*
― brimstead, Thursday, 11 June 2020 18:18 (four years ago) link
love the version of dreamland too
― brimstead, Thursday, 11 June 2020 18:20 (four years ago) link
Oh, it was the Shadows and Light show? That's my favourite Joni some/many days.
― Feel a million filaments (Sund4r), Thursday, 11 June 2020 19:11 (four years ago) link
and now is the time for me to admit that i just now learned about the existence of that album.
off to discogs!
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Friday, 12 June 2020 01:07 (four years ago) link
I was always under the impression that the modulation sounds on the album were from Roland Jazz Chorus amps. I used to have a 70s one and could get the same chorus/vibrato sounds (though the chorus circuit in the amp is basically the same as the CE-1). Joni actually claimed a few times that the amp was actually designed for her, but I've never found any corroboration for that.
― whitehallunity, Friday, 12 June 2020 02:37 (four years ago) link
The Roland jazz chorus is the most trebly amp I’ve ever played through as a humble guitar player. Not for everyone.
― calstars, Friday, 12 June 2020 03:24 (four years ago) link
Free manhttps://open.spotify.com/track/60eqXSs8J3c4QERz7AqvBH?si=NVaPkBIRQVOHEEe4GVvALw
― calstars, Friday, 12 June 2020 03:27 (four years ago) link
it definitely sounds like the precursor to those Jazz Chorus sounds that were so big in the 80s
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 12 June 2020 03:53 (four years ago) link
Shame they didn’t play Help Me. Would have kicked with this group
― calstars, Friday, 12 June 2020 04:03 (four years ago) link
man, a Phase 90 and a CE-1. the most basic modulation setup for guitar. Leg
― flappy bird, Monday, 15 June 2020 04:43 (three years ago) link
― calstars, Thursday, June 11, 2020 11:24 PM (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink
Thin as paper
― flappy bird, Monday, 15 June 2020 04:44 (three years ago) link
If you haven't seen this ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxMwGTQ1bzU
― lukas, Tuesday, 1 September 2020 18:54 (three years ago) link
oh heck the whole thing is available https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLKb9Ms68ME
― lukas, Tuesday, 1 September 2020 18:59 (three years ago) link
just looked at the comments and ... apparently a pristine concert performance by a once-in-a-lifetime supergroup is already pretty well known? news to me anyway.
― lukas, Tuesday, 1 September 2020 19:45 (three years ago) link
Yeah, I was aware of that concert on YouTube. But always worth spreading the word
― Duke, Wednesday, 2 September 2020 11:24 (three years ago) link
i was not aware, thanks!
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 2 September 2020 14:04 (three years ago) link
Terrific review (10!)
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/joni-mitchell-hejira/
― jaymc, Sunday, 4 December 2022 05:23 (one year ago) link
was an 8.0 last time. gonna go read this now
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Sunday, 4 December 2022 05:44 (one year ago) link
that review is wonderful
― estela, Sunday, 4 December 2022 07:57 (one year ago) link
yeah like hanging out with a super-literate friend who loves the album as much as I do
― assert (matttkkkk), Sunday, 4 December 2022 08:04 (one year ago) link
yes, thanks for sharing
haven't listened to the album since it was taken off spotify
now I'm listening again
it is the best
― corrs unplugged, Sunday, 4 December 2022 09:15 (one year ago) link
that’s funny because I haven’t listened to Spotify since then
― assert (matttkkkk), Sunday, 4 December 2022 12:22 (one year ago) link
touché
― corrs unplugged, Sunday, 4 December 2022 12:59 (one year ago) link
bit of a dickish comment from me tbh
― assert (matttkkkk), Sunday, 4 December 2022 13:14 (one year ago) link
goat album. outstanding review. accurate score.
― ミ💙🅟 🅛 🅤 🅡 🅜 🅑💙彡 (Austin), Sunday, 4 December 2022 14:40 (one year ago) link
As someone who benefits greatly from context and narrative, this may be personal, but to me, a great review falls somewhere between reading and listening. Even as you're reading it there are subtle recalibrations of sense memory taking place, different positions from which to view experience opening up; I return to the music altered, the music changed too. Hard to explain. Anyway, that was a great review.
― Shard-borne Beatles with their drowsy hums (Chinaski), Sunday, 4 December 2022 14:51 (one year ago) link
blue motel room perfectly understated, suits hejira like buckets of rain does blood on the tracks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Raw8Hmlj4c
honey tell 'em you've got... ggggeeeerrrms
― corrs unplugged, Tuesday, 17 October 2023 11:43 (seven months ago) link
Thank you; we've got our first cold morning in Savannah and this will be the perfect thing to listen to while driving the kids to school.
― Cow_Art, Tuesday, 17 October 2023 11:48 (seven months ago) link
Coyote's in the coffee shopHe's staring a hole in his scrambled eggsHe picks up my scent on his fingersWhile he's watching the waitresses' legs
awful good
― corrs unplugged, Sunday, 18 February 2024 12:45 (three months ago) link
The lyrics are just next level, the sheer craft of them.
Something I was struck by recently is how perfectly each opening line sets up the song’s story (not in the sense of encapsulating it; more like dropping a pin on a map and then exploring outwards from there) and draws you in:
- “No regrets, Coyote / we just come from such different sets of circumstance”- “I was driving across the burning desert when I spotted six jet planes / Leaving six white vapor trails across the bleak terrain”
etc.
You immediately want to know what is coming.
― Tim F, Sunday, 18 February 2024 21:27 (three months ago) link
This is my favourite JM album. Going to listen again right now.
― Duke, Sunday, 18 February 2024 23:18 (three months ago) link
https://i.postimg.cc/QNwMpKvS/Screenshot-20240530-213416-Firefox.jpg
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Friday, 31 May 2024 04:38 (one week ago) link
Great deep dive into Hejira in the new Uncut, (featuring a few bits, I must confess, by me)https://www.uncut.co.uk/publications/uncut-july-2024-146032/
― Piedie Gimbel, Friday, 31 May 2024 11:51 (one week ago) link
I'll have to get my hands on it!
― corrs unplugged, Friday, 31 May 2024 17:51 (one week ago) link
There are some good live videos of this era of Joni Mitchell and her all star jazz band with Jaco, Pat Metheny, Michael Brecker and Don Alias online.
Definitely worth looking up on the tube.
― The Artist formerly known as Earlnash, Friday, 31 May 2024 19:43 (one week ago) link
This is my favorite Joni album (although Court comes close) but it only hits at full impact in mid-late Autumn.
― Slim is an Alien, Friday, 31 May 2024 20:02 (one week ago) link