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Genuine Work of Art: Joni Mitchell's "Blue"
A co-worker put Joni Mitchell's Blue on low volume a few months ago, and I didn't like it. I was immersed in work, and her voice would occasionally rise to unsettle my concentration annoyingly, so I eventually asked him to shut it off.
A twenty year old kid who occasionally hangs out...
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Listen; learn what your feelings are, can be and can teach you.
Uh-oh. I feel an off-topic rant coming on. Hang onto them hats 'n' glasses!... It's time for seerup101 to spill far too much personal information again. Is this a review or a confessional? I may never know.
Sometimes I find myself second-guessing my pursuit of "better" or more creative...
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All I want is a perfect album: Joni Mitchell's Blue
Today my husband left on a long business trip, and I've been feeling a little sad. See, we're newleyweds, and we haven't been apart for this long since our wedding -- or even since we started dating, really.
So when he pulled out of the snowy driveway in the dark colored rental car, I...
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I could drink a case of Joni...
and still be on my feet.
Continuing on in the quoting of lyrics: "It's coming on Christmas, they're cutting down trees, they're putting up reindeer, and singing songs of joy and peace".
Maybe that song (RIVER) from Joni Mitchell's 1971 BLUE is the impetus for my own personal Christmas...
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Happiness, Pain, Sorrow: All In One Album
If there's one thing that'll always be associated with Joni Mitchell, it's Blue. No other album of hers gets as much recognition as this one. It's very easy to see why: the way Joni bared herself with these lyrics and the sparse instrumentation made it stand out. This album garnered no hits, but it... Read full review »
Retrospective In BLUE - Joni Mitchell
Amidst the soft guitar chords and the rich piano stylings of Joni Mitchell's Blue, you will discover the lyrical poems of a seemingly shy woman whose musical musings have influenced more than a few of the last century's songwriters and will surely affect many more to come.
A victim of...
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An Undisputed Classic
I could go on and on about how acclaimed this album is, how it's considered to be one of the greatest albums ever created, the sound of an era and all of the other cliches you might have heard time and time again when classic records are discussed and reviewed. But in this particular review,... Read full review »
I Wish I had a River....I Could Skate Away On
I like a lot of music. Between the two of us, we have an entire free-standing bookcase filled with CDs. I suspect I inherited a lot of it from my family--which has always been fairly music-crazy.
My mother was always a big fan of Joni Mitchell's. When I was very little, she would play...
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THE MIRACLE OF BLUE
I had just gotten my heart broken for the first time,
when I heard this cd,it was an album then and it was 1971.
It expressed to me all the grief and fear and vulnerability
I was feeling and it can still to this day make me cry.
From the first sounds of "All I Want"...
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Simply Perfection
When I was thirteen-I would watch my favorite soap opera Guiding Light-and one day when my favorite couple Beth and Lujack came on-a song was in the background, and this woman was singing: "My old man, he's a singer in the park, he's a walker in the rain, he's a dancer in the dark, we don't need a... Read full review »
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Joni Mitchell / Blue Sealed Cassette
BLUE marks the culmination of Mitchell's early, traditional singer/songwriter period, and it is one of the very best albums of that genre. Though she was already beginning to experiment with elements of pop and jazz, BLUE focuses on Mitchell's skill as a folk singer, showcasing her reedy, expressive voice in duet with her piano or guitar. The arrangements on the album--which feature keys, dulcimer, bass, and assorted percussion--are spare and tasteful, so much so that it is easy to overlook their sophistication. Yet it is ultimately Mitchell's songs that make BLUE such a moving and memorable experience. "All I Want" establishes the themes of wandering and soul-searching that define much of the artist's work, while "My Old Man" and "Carey" explore relationships with a keen attention to detail and emotional truth. Songs like "California" shuffle along with a sunny yearning, but the predominant mood--true to the album's title--is lonely, plaintive and stark, with "River," the title track, and "The Last Time I Saw
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Blue
Joni Mitchell would go on from this 1971 recording to make more popular, more ambitious, and more challenging albums, but she's never made a better one. Working with minimal accompaniment (Stephen Stills and James Taylor are two of the four sidemen), the Canadian thrush summoned an involving song cycle of romance found and lost. Though Blue is an uncommonly intimate representation, it's also astonishingly open and gracious. Songs such as "All I Want," "Carey," "California, and "A Case of You" work equally well as poetry and pop music. DCC's 24-karat-gold version of the 10-song collection offers superior sound quality for a higher price then the standard Warner Bros. CD. --Steven Stolder
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