Joni Mitchell: Classic or Dud

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I'm not normally one for the acoustic singy-songwrity pantheon but I'll be gosh-darned if "Blue" doesn't just *floor* me. So for that, classic.

Trouble is, I'm too unfamiliar with the rest of her work. Enlighten me but answer the thread question as well, please. ;-)

― Venga, Friday, 13 April 2001 00:00 (12 years ago) Permalink

Dud, Dud and thrice Dud. Annoyingly "twee" hippy songstress with a piercing warble that could make dogs' heads explode. Ick!

― alex in nyc, Friday, 13 April 2001 00:00 (12 years ago) Permalink

Is she related to Grant and Phil?

― DG, Friday, 13 April 2001 00:00 (12 years ago) Permalink

I liked "Urge for Going" and "Conversation". Poor homebound Canadian girl!! True though, she does warble too much. Final verdict-dud.

― Joseph Wasko, Friday, 13 April 2001 00:00 (12 years ago) Permalink

Classic. I remember that on one ill-advised attendance of a cadet leadership camp, mentally replaying her better songs in my head was pretty much what got me through the week. Now admittedly I was fourteen and high-strung at the time, but I still reckon she was, when on form, an unbeatable lyricist. The true classic in her back catalogue is _Hejira_, which of course everyone needs, as it strikes the perfect balance between her early directness and her later abstraction (and her early warbling and later nicotine-enhanced rasp, for that matter).

― Tim, Friday, 13 April 2001 00:00 (12 years ago) Permalink

The single worst artist to ever live? Not only do I hate her on principle, but I found Blue to be the most painful album to get through this side of Pink Moon.

― Otis Wheeler, Saturday, 14 April 2001 00:00 (12 years ago) Permalink

'Hejira' is the only album I've heard- 'Song for Sharon' and 'Coyote' in particular are excellent. The lyrics and instrumentation floor me.

― Geordie loves it fretless, Saturday, 14 April 2001 00:00 (12 years ago) Permalink

Pure garbage. Not fit to pick the toenails of Leonard Cohen, Nick Drake, Tim Buckley. Bloody ugly, as well.

― Johnathan, Saturday, 14 April 2001 00:00 (12 years ago) Permalink

cobblers. She was & is HOT!!! "Hejira" is a truly beautiful record, better than all that dylan shite wot folks from old-fart magazines get all hot & bothered over. Joni=classic!

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― norman fay, Saturday, 14 April 2001 00:00 (12 years ago) Permalink

HOT!!! Joni Mitchell! Now you're just being silly.

― Johnathan, Saturday, 14 April 2001 00:00 (12 years ago) Permalink

No, he's NOT! (though it's beside the point)

I got "Blue" and "Ladies of the Canyon" for my parents, not thinking I'd ever want them for myself. And why is it that 'warbling' should be considered a bad sound to listen to? Her voice on those two records is lovely!

― youn, Saturday, 14 April 2001 00:00 (12 years ago) Permalink

I figure there's just something I don't get about her music. I've tried it on for size lotsa times over the years & the only song i ever developed a lasting liking for is "The Jungle Line" off "The Hissing Of Summer Lawns".
I'm glad I still don't get it actually, it means I'm (still) Not Adult-Oriented.

― Duane Zarakov, Saturday, 14 April 2001 00:00 (12 years ago) Permalink

I have Blue and Court And Spark and like both a lot. Blue, especially. I do think, though, that my appreciation has something to do with nostalgia. The whole hippie outlook of that kind of music, (and the sound, too) were what the softer side of the radio was all about when I was a kid in the 70s (both records came out a few years before I would have heard them; but the late 70s still had plenty of that singer/songwriter stuff going.) So I'm not going to cram it down anyone's throat, just because I have certain associations from a certain time & place. I will say that Blue has some fantastic melodies & I'm going to say Classic just on the basis of those two records. I guess I'm more of a hippie than a punk.

― Mark, Sunday, 15 April 2001 00:00 (12 years ago) Permalink

Dud as hell. One only needs to listen to her whining at the Isle of Wight festival. Along those lines, the whole of the 60's folk revival (with Dylan et al) has always escaped my sphere of likes, or even my sphere of intellectual appreciation. It just seems so fake. Or maybe I'm just a cynic.

― JM, Monday, 16 April 2001 00:00 (12 years ago) Permalink

'My Old Man' (Blue) astonishes me. I used to hear it as a kid, and rediscovering it recently made me shiver with - with memory, nostalgia, something recovered, I suppose; but also with what felt like its innate qualities, the extraordinary intuitive suppleness of the melody, her delivery of it, the plangency of the piano chords. The one thing that let me down was reading the lyrics (I'd not really made them out from listening), which didn't measure up to the sheer emotional charge of the pure aural experience at all.

― the pinefox, Wednesday, 18 April 2001 00:00 (12 years ago) Permalink

I hate "Big Yellow Taxi" with a passion called hate, to paraphrase Mr Weller and Ms Headon. But wherever "Night In The City" is (not on 'Blue' I don't think), I like it there.

More to the point, did anyone see that Norwegian girl doing Joni Mitchell on Stars In Euro Eyes?

― Tom, Thursday, 19 April 2001 00:00 (12 years ago) Permalink

Yeah Tom ...she had scary teeth

― Geordie Racer, Thursday, 19 April 2001 00:00 (12 years ago) Permalink

"whining"? "Warbling"? Are some posters getting Ms Mitchell mixed upw/joan baez? (now she was *d*u*d*!) I think Joni Mitchell's voice is very pure-sounding, not warbly at all.

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― NoRMaN FaY, Thursday, 19 April 2001 00:00 (12 years ago) Permalink

By 'warbling', I thought people meant that she used vocal effects - modulations in pitch, etc. - too much, with the implication that her singing was skilled, but heartless, like Mariah Carey's. I think her voice sounds very pure, too, and didn't know that the terms were mutually exclusive.

Norman, it's funny that you mention Joan Baez in relation to this. Joan Didion has this essay about her in which she writes: "When it was time to go to high school, her father was teaching at Stanford, and so she went to Palo Alto High School, where she taught herself "House of the Rising Sun" on a Sears, Roebuck guitar, tried to achieve vibrato by tapping her throat with her finger, and made headlines by refusing to leave the school during a bomb drill." I love the myth that's suggested by these facts, esp. in relation to the setting.

― youn, Thursday, 19 April 2001 00:00 (12 years ago) Permalink

10 months pass...

That's an interesting thread. The positions are quite clear. I'd say my favorite post in here was the Pinefox's. "My Old Man" is an emotionally very intense song with great lyrics: "But when he's gone. Me and them lonesome blues collide. The bed's too big. The frying pan's too wide". She delivers this song in a pure and vulnerable way which is typical for her. As a lyricist she is a genius. A line like "I could drink a case of you and I would still be on my feet" is simply beautiful. I always loved her crystal-clear articulation. So it really makes me wonder that the Pinefox did not get the vocals on "My Old Man".

She warbled most on the first album where she sings false in places. That record is even for me as a fan hardly bearable. I am with Tom concerning "Big Yellow Taxi". Musically it is terrible whereas from the lyrics and the premonition of men destroying nature it is pure genius. "Woodstock" is another of her melodically inferior songs. "Last Flight Tonight" also never gripped me. Absolutely essential are "Blue", "Court and Spark" and "Hejira".

BTW Joan Baez who I always found too folky made a great album in 1992 called "Play Me Backwards".

― alex in mainhattan, Sunday, 24 February 2002 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

surely it is women who destroy nature, with their lipstick and their hairspray...

as i am allergic to the entire countryside, i liked that they paved over paradise and put up a parking lot: asphalt = better than pollen dust, IMO

― mark s, Sunday, 24 February 2002 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

she is so yearningly honest , i find that refreshing

― anthony, Tuesday, 26 February 2002 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

Some reasons to admire Joni:

1. The completely unique sound she gets out of an acoustic guitar on "Blue". 'A Case Of You' = classic.

2. "The Hissing Of Summer Lawns": my definition of Pazz & Jop. Also includes Burundi music way before it was fashionable to do things like this.

3. A band like Nazareth can do great covers of her material. Also her vocal lines are ideal fodder for bootlegs (as Fluke demonstrated years ago). Recontextualisation and all that.

4. She kept Jaco busy - hence fewer shitty Jazz Rock records were made.

(I'm joking about No.4 alex!)

― Jeff W, Tuesday, 26 February 2002 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

she uses capos well

― amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 29 August 2003 07:45 (9 years ago) Permalink

"blue" reminds me of summer camp. fond memories.

― amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 29 August 2003 07:50 (9 years ago) Permalink

Uber Classic! I have to second Jeff's points about the amazing angular guitar tones she got (cf. Blue) and the pazz and jop..
Lyrically she is much more than the fay hippie she's been portrayed as. She's got a great gift of observation re. people and relationships, which I guess puts her in the 'mature' category... Also, that kind of hippie outlook, she started out with, gave her a great perspective on the end of that dream during the 70s, as fantastically displayed on her classic trilogy: Court & Sparks, Hissing of Summer Lawns and Hejira

― Fabrice (Fabfunk), Friday, 29 August 2003 08:02 (9 years ago) Permalink

While I find "Blue" slightly overrated, here excellent mid 70s output ("Court And Spark", "Hissing Of Summer Lawns", "Hejira") definitely makes her classic. No doubt about that.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 29 August 2003 10:12 (9 years ago) Permalink

ok how big a bummer is it when Geir likes what u like

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Friday, 29 August 2003 12:01 (9 years ago) Permalink

...and conversely how reassuring it is to find that Geir likes an artist you loathe

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 29 August 2003 13:38 (9 years ago) Permalink

she uses capos well

and/or multiple alternate tunings, some of her own invention, i believe?

she's one of the greats, compositionally, subject-matter-wise and maybe persona-wise. and yes, arguably hot, if you like the personality. and probably harder than anyone who thinks she's "twee".

Both For the Roses and Court and Spark are arguably better than Blue. Her best singing (and guitar-playing?) may be on the otherwise middling though convenient pre-C&S-greatest-hits live Miles of Aisles

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 29 August 2003 13:49 (9 years ago) Permalink

j0hn otm.

― amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 29 August 2003 13:59 (9 years ago) Permalink

Saskatchewan ROOLZ

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 29 August 2003 17:33 (9 years ago) Permalink

I'm not sure why I never answered this the first time around. Joni's one of my all-time favorites. Just listened to Don Juan's Reckless Daughter the day before yesterday, The Hissing of Summer Lawns is also a great one. Her dour seriousness as of late is a bit of a pity, but what a huge talent.

― Sean (Sean), Friday, 29 August 2003 17:55 (9 years ago) Permalink

I love Blue. I dunno ´bout her later stuff, though.

― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Friday, 29 August 2003 18:12 (9 years ago) Permalink

gabbneb her tunings are often fairly conventional (open D and G are probably her most used non-standard tunings). she has a real grace with the open tunings (e.g., "you turn me on (i'm a radio)") that requires a level of skill fairly uncommon, maybe someone like malkmus, someone who can sing and (uppercase) PLAY pretty sophisticated lines simultaneously.

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 29 August 2003 18:19 (9 years ago) Permalink

Geir Hongro has made me listen to Court and Spark again after I had mentally filed it away as something to sell or to give to my parents, and I'm glad. There's a version of 'Just Like This Train' on one of those KCRW compilations, which I like a lot. I'm trying to figure out why the arrangements on the album aren't as straightforward for me.

― youn, Friday, 29 August 2003 18:21 (9 years ago) Permalink

(but possibly her inventedness is maybe variations on D and G... hey! again kinda like malkmus!)

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 29 August 2003 18:21 (9 years ago) Permalink

Also, having Charles Mingus call you up and say here's some songs I wrote for you, why don't you put some lyrics to them is pretty classic.

― Sean (Sean), Friday, 29 August 2003 18:22 (9 years ago) Permalink

(but ultimately maybe more like richard thompson, burt jansch or even anne briggs)

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 29 August 2003 18:26 (9 years ago) Permalink

the title track to "court and spark" was running through my head last night, despite not having heard it for years.

i wish i liked anne briggs more.

― amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 29 August 2003 18:26 (9 years ago) Permalink

(i wish i knew who anne briggs or bert jansch were shocker)

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 29 August 2003 19:02 (9 years ago) Permalink

they are some guitarists i got into in college shortly after i first heard the led zeppelin bbc session ("white summer/black mountain side") and how it was page's electric rip of several bert jansch songs. it turns out jansch learned the originals from friend/partner anne briggs... but primarily 60s british folk stuff, he was in pentangle and had a lengthy solo career, she stopped playing after a couple records.

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 29 August 2003 19:08 (9 years ago) Permalink

anne briggs was an english folk singer who started out singing unaccompanied traditional ballads for topic records. later she made a few singer-songwriter type records, with a traditional quality to them. she was very good-looking and had a reputation as a free spirit. she dated bert jansch, who is a v. famous english guitar player/songwriter/singer who wrote "needle of death" and was in pentangle. briggs was a pretty good guitar player too and a decent songwriter. i don't like her voice much on the ballads stuff, it's been claimed as unadorned but it sounds florid to me. the lp the time has come though is very pretty.

just noticed gygax's post. well, a 2nd opinion then.

― amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 29 August 2003 20:11 (9 years ago) Permalink

i mean she was good looking and a free spirit since every liner note written about her seems to mention those things. apologies.

― amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 29 August 2003 20:11 (9 years ago) Permalink

I find For The Roses quite frustrating. Some great stuff on there, but so much of it sounds so... awkward.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 30 August 2003 07:10 (9 years ago) Permalink

dated bert jansch, who is a v. famous english guitar player/songwriter/singer

That should read v. famous SCOTTISH guitar player etc., hope you never meet Bert on a dark night!

― Dadaismus (Dada), Sunday, 31 August 2003 12:43 (9 years ago) Permalink

thx for the correction.

― amateurist (amateurist), Sunday, 31 August 2003 19:07 (9 years ago) Permalink

I can't believe the amount of dissent; without doubt, classic.

― christoff (christoff), Friday, 5 September 2003 12:59 (9 years ago) Permalink

3 years pass...

Expanded 2CD remasters of "Court And Spark", "Hissing Of Summer Lawns" and "Hejira" were supposed to have been released by January this year. They are not yet in the shops half a year later.
Does anyone know what happened and when and if they are due?

― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 11 July 2007 20:20 (5 years ago) Permalink

she dumped them in the ocean, I heard.

― sw00ds, Wednesday, 11 July 2007 20:26 (5 years ago) Permalink

Skipping 102 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

xp aero, surely you could keep private copies for yourself?

― thomasintrouble, Friday, 9 November 2012 14:10 (7 months ago) Permalink

record everything in code

― Albert Crampus (NickB), Friday, 9 November 2012 14:32 (7 months ago) Permalink

In Moscow they canoodle on Leningradsky Prospekt, that sort of thing

― Albert Crampus (NickB), Friday, 9 November 2012 14:32 (7 months ago) Permalink

xxp and make sure that any friends who could be your max brod die before you do.

― Merdeyeux, Friday, 9 November 2012 14:34 (7 months ago) Permalink

Make real sure.

― how's life, Friday, 9 November 2012 14:40 (7 months ago) Permalink

we live in a world of Max Brods now. destroy everything

― Inconceivable (to the entire world) (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 9 November 2012 14:45 (7 months ago) Permalink

esp grocery lists

― cruel silver of hope (Eazy), Friday, 9 November 2012 14:45 (7 months ago) Permalink

Brod only saved, what, Amerika, The Trial, and The Castle? Three of my least fav. Kafkas

― beef richards (Mr. Que), Friday, 9 November 2012 14:54 (7 months ago) Permalink

My favorite was in that bunch.

― cruel silver of hope (Eazy), Friday, 9 November 2012 14:55 (7 months ago) Permalink

i thought those little short stories (my favorites of his) were published while he was alive.

― beef richards (Mr. Que), Friday, 9 November 2012 14:58 (7 months ago) Permalink

and to be fair to Brod, he did tell Kafka he wouldn't burn the papers

― thomasintrouble, Friday, 9 November 2012 15:00 (7 months ago) Permalink

we only have Brod's word on that & he's a pretty untrustworthy motherfucker so I don't buy it

― Inconceivable (to the entire world) (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 9 November 2012 15:03 (7 months ago) Permalink

I should start a separate Thread of Max Brod hate though I get real irrational when I think about that dude I wanna beat his ass

― Inconceivable (to the entire world) (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 9 November 2012 15:04 (7 months ago) Permalink

I thought the story was only published in The Trail but nah ok

"Before the Law" (German: "Vor dem Gesetz") is a parable contained in the novel The Trial (German: Der Prozess), by Franz Kafka. "Before the Law" was published in Kafka's lifetime, first in the New Year's edition 1915 of the independent Jewish weekly Selbstwehr, then in 1919 as part of the collection Ein Landarzt (A Country Doctor). The Trial, however was not published until 1925, after Kafka's death.

― cruel silver of hope (Eazy), Friday, 9 November 2012 15:04 (7 months ago) Permalink

I read everything here until The Shorter Stories this past summer and I was blown away by how good they were, good job, Franz!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Complete_Stories_of_Franz_Kafka

― beef richards (Mr. Que), Friday, 9 November 2012 15:06 (7 months ago) Permalink

under, not until

― beef richards (Mr. Que), Friday, 9 November 2012 15:06 (7 months ago) Permalink

i'm sure those individual album scores are hella arbitrary but a 10 for court and spark/hissing and an 8 for hejira? :\

― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Friday, 9 November 2012 16:26 (7 months ago) Permalink

heh, my thoughts exactly. i don't think any of them are 'perfect' albums.

― GAY HIPSTER BATMAN ON HIS WAY TO A CIRCUIT PARTY (donna rouge), Friday, 9 November 2012 16:32 (7 months ago) Permalink

The review is best on For The Roses, I think. Leaving aside the score I think the Hejira bit was too high-level (even just relative to the still-short treatment the other albums got).

― Tim F, Friday, 9 November 2012 20:44 (7 months ago) Permalink

Jessica otm for saying that Hejira is for old people tho

― polish your turds for beer and hugs (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 9 November 2012 21:04 (7 months ago) Permalink

"old" meaning over-30s that is

― polish your turds for beer and hugs (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 9 November 2012 21:05 (7 months ago) Permalink

this is true, the police confiscated my copy

― GAY HIPSTER BATMAN ON HIS WAY TO A CIRCUIT PARTY (donna rouge), Friday, 9 November 2012 21:06 (7 months ago) Permalink

i'm sure those individual album scores are hella arbitrary but a 10 for court and spark/hissing and an 8 for hejira? :\

I appreciate Hopper throwing down the gauntlet for Hissing and giving it a 10 -- that record is always, always the one I play for people who only know the earlier records, those first two tracks in a row destroy all preconceptions of what she's about. Even if Hejira goes deeper for many fans once you are a fan, the idea of using the 10s to flag the three you think fencesitters should hear first sort of works for a PF review

Reckless Daughter = my favorite

― Milton Parker, Friday, 9 November 2012 21:08 (7 months ago) Permalink

loved the review, going to go home tonight and listen to as many of them as possible

― Milton Parker, Friday, 9 November 2012 21:09 (7 months ago) Permalink

I think Jessica is probably right in general but Hejira was my favourite album in the world at 14 and Court & Spark is the golden run album it took me longest to warm to fully.

― Tim F, Friday, 9 November 2012 21:13 (7 months ago) Permalink

totally got lost again in Reckless Daughter last night, there's no way it isn't the high point for me. it's too bad this review steers people away from it, less by dealing with the music than by going all P.C. on the packaging. you can rail on the fact that Joni dressed herself as an Indian with a word balloon saying 'How!', but to then immediately transition into mentioning 'Paprika Plains' as the highlight of the record without mentioning... the lyrics... well, space constraints, I guess? You can, in passing, safely call out blackface as not-okay-ever, but when you've got a jazz-fusion record with the artist in blackface with a word balloon next to her face saying 'Mooslems, Mooooslems! Heh, Heh, Heh', then there is officially something more complicated going on than you are ever going to be able to deal with in under one paragraph

I mean, yes, Mingus made me nervous the first time I heard it, but one night last year I came home and put it on and it was perfect, from beginning to end

― Milton Parker, Saturday, 10 November 2012 21:46 (7 months ago) Permalink

Noticed they'd released a box of all of her lps to the late 70s, it was in the local HMV this week. I couldn't see anything on it about remastering so wondered, assume a box like that does indicate that though.
Had been thinking of getting hold of a few of those lps if I could get hold of a decent remaster.

Anybody got that set?

― Stevolende, Saturday, 10 November 2012 22:17 (7 months ago) Permalink

sorry just took a quick glimpse back at previous messages, & didn't seem to be what was being talked about. But now I see that was the reason the thread was revived.
It just was something I'd meant to google when I saw it on the shelf but had slipped my mind on getting home so was interested if anybody had 1st hand familiarity with it yet.

― Stevolende, Saturday, 10 November 2012 22:20 (7 months ago) Permalink

I've bought it and played through "Court", "Hissing" and "Hejira". Don't think they've been remastered, the packaging doesn't say, but it only lists the year of release on each record, and usually the year of the remastering is added, isn't it? Plus, I added "Hejira" to my ipod and the volume level is low. But it sounds good, anyhow, so I don't complain.

― Mule, Saturday, 10 November 2012 22:33 (7 months ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

Thanks to recommendations by ilx's own Mordy, I got a used copy of Clouds and Heijera today - my first two Joni albums ever (I only knew maybe one or two songs before that)

I planned to listen to both today, but Clouds appears to be stuck on repeat :)
i love it so much

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 26 December 2012 23:22 (5 months ago) Permalink

(truthfully I was looking for Blue or Court + Spark but the record store had neither and I had a gift card burning a hole in my pocket. turns out settling for these two was a lovely decision)

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 26 December 2012 23:23 (5 months ago) Permalink

Wait till you get 'Blue,' then you'll be in heaven. I love a lot of her other work, but 'Blue' really stands above on every level.

― Soundslike, Wednesday, 26 December 2012 23:33 (5 months ago) Permalink

Do people love or hate Jaco's bass on Hejira? My dad is reading a Jaco bio where he claimed that Joni offered him a few hundred thousand to impregnate her (for his musical talent, I suppose). I hate to see it, but I can totally imagine her doing that!

― Iago Galdston, Wednesday, 26 December 2012 23:43 (5 months ago) Permalink

hate to say it (and I'd hate to see it!). sorry bout that

― Iago Galdston, Wednesday, 26 December 2012 23:44 (5 months ago) Permalink

I love Jaco's bass. Anyone who says otherwise should not be trusted on anything.

― Tim F, Thursday, 27 December 2012 01:22 (5 months ago) Permalink

I guess I'm not the only one who thinks Hejira would be nowhere near as good without him. I don't like to think of myself as a fretless bass guy but between this and Mick Karn, I guess I am!

― Iago Galdston, Thursday, 27 December 2012 01:35 (5 months ago) Permalink

I'm generally not a fan of fretless electric bass guitar, but yeah, Hejira is unimaginable without it.

I came late to Clouds, thinking she would still be finding her feet. Boy, was I wrong. Might be my second fave Joni, after Blue.

― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Thursday, 27 December 2012 01:42 (5 months ago) Permalink

i'd like a thread of indispensable bass albums, come to think of it!

― Iago Galdston, Thursday, 27 December 2012 01:50 (5 months ago) Permalink

Listened to some of Heijera on the drive home...fretless bass takes some getting used to, at least for me. But so far i love Amelia, and the title track.

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 27 December 2012 02:36 (5 months ago) Permalink

It will grow on you, at least on this record. This record also grows on you, stealthily. But I am now so deep into Hissing of Summer Lawns I can't see out of it.

― Iago Galdston, Thursday, 27 December 2012 03:02 (5 months ago) Permalink

4 weeks pass...

http://dangerousminds.net/comments/joni_mitchell_amazing_live_bbc_in_concert_performance_from_1970

― Mordy, Saturday, 26 January 2013 15:24 (4 months ago) Permalink

Brilliant.

― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Saturday, 26 January 2013 16:35 (4 months ago) Permalink

Thank you.

― banjoboy, Saturday, 26 January 2013 17:59 (4 months ago) Permalink

2003 was my wake up year, crunched Summer Lawns / Hejira / Don Juan's Reckless Daughter down to one cassette and it never left the car

Just created a Joni Mitchell 1975-80 playlist on Spotify -- will be interested to see if this is finally what makes me turn the corner on her.

― Naive Teen Idol, Sunday, 27 January 2013 22:15 (4 months ago) Permalink

Oh man, Amelia is something else.

― Naive Teen Idol, Tuesday, 29 January 2013 13:49 (4 months ago) Permalink

4 months pass...

http://www.cbc.ca/q/blog/2013/06/05/joni-mitchell/

― Mordy , Thursday, 6 June 2013 03:45 (1 week ago) Permalink

_2003 was my wake up year, crunched Summer Lawns / Hejira / Don Juan's Reckless Daughter down to one cassette and it never left the car_
Just created a Joni Mitchell 1975-80 playlist on Spotify -- will be interested to see if this is finally what makes me turn the corner on her.

Fwiw, it was. Love this era unconditionally.

― Naive Teen Idol, Saturday, 8 June 2013 00:25 (1 week ago) Permalink

Bought Ladies of the Canyon the other day and loved it. Shared "Big Yellow Taxi" on Facebook and promptly got told by one of my friends that Counting Crow's version was "much, much better".

― arctic mindbath (President of the People's Republic of Antarctica), Saturday, 8 June 2013 00:28 (1 week ago) Permalink

wow, this has to be one of the most obnoxious '2001 ilm' openings to a thread ever

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Saturday, 8 June 2013 00:41 (1 week ago) Permalink

Did you see the 90 min profile done for CBC in 2003? http://vimeo.com/20279550#

― that's not my post, Tuesday, 18 June 2013 06:51 (Yesterday) Permalink

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