i adore joni mitchell

[progmom]

listening to a new compilation on rhino called "Songs Of A Prairie Girl". Beautiful stuff.

[KT2000]

1. I do too!

Have you seen the DVD of her's. That is great too.

[progmom]

2. there are a couple out there

all good.

i've seen her live a few times too.

[Beaverhausen]

34. the documentary "Woman of Heart and Mind" is great!

amazing concert footage. The live version of "A Case of You" is just the best thing ever.

I saw her live several times...the last being about 7 years ago. I was front row at a Shawn Colvin concert and Joni came out and did 3 songs. I was in tears. Joni's then hubby Larry Klein was touring with Colvin, and it was LA and well...there you go.

[redqueen]

3. Oh yes...

Both Sides Now is one of my all time favorite songs... she's so talented.

[progmom]

10. great song!

:hi:

[sundog]

4. I liked a recent album of hers a lot...

called "Turbulent Indigo" -- I say recent meaning mid-90's.

Anyway, the liner had a lot of her paintings in it. Cool stuff... obviously Van Gogh influenced.

It was great chill out stuff before bed. :)

[progmom]

7. yes - i loved that record too

the first time i saw her live, she got really angry at someone in the audience in the middle of "Sex Kills"...stopped the whole show because she thought the person was giving her the evil eye or something. i got online later that night and discovered she had done the same thing, at the same moment, the night before. i think she just needed to make herself angry enough to sing that song the way she felt it. very interesting.

i met her later that night. she was amazingly sweet to me. we talked about jazz. she signed two of my cds. she even gave me a bunch of roses (which i still have, of course!!)

[sundog]

11. I love the soprano sax on some of the tracks

the crazy thing is... I bought it used, and inside I found a sterling silver ear in a small plastic baggie (something you could put on a necklace)... hmmm

[progmom]

12. the soprano sax is wayne shorter

really? there was an ear? how big? must have been a promo item.

[sundog]

13. bout 1/2 an inch

maybe promo... but the way it was packed looked liek something personal :shrug:

kinda freaked me out :scared:
:P

[saltpoint]

5. Joni Mitchell is an unmatchable creative force.

As a friend once said some years ago regarding her genius:

"I'd pay 500 bucks to hear her read a bus schedule."

I like posts like this that remind me how much I owe to musical artists. The accounts-due column for Joni Mitchell is enormous.

Great photos, too.

[progmom]

9. I paid $80 to hear her sing 3 songs

I was in NY on business. After my business dinner, we drove past Madison Sq. Garden. I saw she wsa playing there with Dylan. Had the guy stop the cab, found a scalper, and ran in to catch the end of Joni's set.

I'm such a dork.

[saltpoint]

15. YOU DID THE RIGHT THING!

Anybody says different has to answer to me. Ticket price is not an important variable.

On rides thru Manhattan past a venue Joni Mitchell is singing inside of, the CONSCIONABLE passenger STOPS THE CAB.

G O O D F O R Y O U !

[progmom]

16. sounds like we agree about yet another musician!

:hi:

[saltpoint]

21. Ja, ja & hi right back, progmom.

Keep on rockin' in the free world.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

6. "The Essential Joni Mitchell"

...although it gets to be a little like The Grateful Dead...die-hard fans will tell you it's ALL essential. SOMEONE'S gonna say I left something off the list (like "Ladies Of The Canyon," I'm guessing...) Here goes, anyway:

1). Blue



2). For the Roses



3). Court and Spark



4). The Hissing Of Summer Lawns



5). Hejira (a real "10 on a 10 scale")



6). Shadows and Light



...To Joni...

:toast:

[progmom]

8. you left off Ladies of The Canyon

;)

and Mingus

[Beaverhausen]

20. and Night Ride Home

my fav of her newer albums.

what I love about her is the variety in her work. Each album was a progression from the last. There is no one "essential" Joni album.

[progmom]

24. I loved Night Ride Home

honestly, there is only one Joni record that i don't immediately swoon over. wanna try to guess which one?

[Beaverhausen]

25. Taming the Tiger? I don't even own that one

what I heard of it I didn't really like.

[progmom]

26. i loved taming the tiger

no - it was Chalk Mark In A Rain Storm. Just didn't connect with me on a classic Joni level.

[Beaverhausen]

28. yeah- that is one of the transitional ones I think.

there are still a few songs on that one I really like.

[welshTerrier2]

18. But sandcastles crumble and hunger is human

i love her "Song to a Seagull" album ... it was Joni's first album and included such great songs as Marcie, Nathan La Franeer and Song to a Seagull ... and many others ...

way back in 1970 (1969?), i sat about 5 feet away from her at one of her concerts ... totally blown away ... she had just returned from Hawaii and had just written "Big Yellow Taxi" ("paved paradise" refers to Hawaii) ...

Song to a Seagull
Fly silly seabird
No dreams can possess you
No voices can blame you
For sun on your wings
My gentle relations
Have names they must call me
For loving the freedom
Of all flying things
My dreams with the seagulls fly
Out of reach out of cry

I came to the city
And lived like old Crusoe
On an island of noise
In a cobblestone sea
And the beaches were concrete
And the stars paid a light bill
And the blossoms hung false
On their store window trees
My dreams with the seagulls fly
Out of reach out of cry

Out of the city
And down to the seaside
To sun on my shoulders
And wind in my hair
But sandcastles crumble
And hunger is human
And humans are hungry
For worlds they can't share
My dreams with the seagulls fly
Out of reach out of cry

I call to a seagull
Who dives to the waters
And catches his silver-fine
Dinner alone
Crying where are the footprints
That danced on these beaches
And the hands that cast wishes
That sunk like a stone
My dreams with the seagulls fly
Out of reach Out of cry

[Marnieworld]

14. I love Joni

I wish her voice didn't change so much with age. She is the truest definition of artist that there is.

[Beaverhausen]

17. Any unreleased stuff on that compilation?

What's on it?

Joni is the best!

I have some bootlegs if anyone is interested.

i have an alternate version of the Blue album (with a really different version of This Flight Tonight) and an alternate version of the Hissing of Summer Lawns album.

I also have the live recording from a few years ago when she went and played in (I think near actually) Woodstock.

[progmom]

23. I have some boots myself

Perhaps we should compare notes! :D



1. Urge For Going
2. Tea Leaf Prophecy
3. Cherokee Louise
4. Ray's Dad's Cadillac
5. Let the Wind Carry Me
6. Don Jaun's Reckless Daughter
7. Raised on Robbery
8. Paprika Plains (remix)
9. Song for Sharon
10. River
11. Chinese Cafe/Unchained Melody
12. Harlem in Havana
13. Come in From the Cold

[Kenneth ken]

19. I'm conflicted

is there any reason to buy this new cd?

No new songs on it; apparently a remix of Paprika Plains, but how much does it vary from the Don Juan's Reckless Daughter version?

PS - this is the essential Joni Mitchell as far as I'm concerned:

Song To A Seagull
Clouds
Ladies Of The Canyon
Blue
For The Roses
Court And Spark
Miles Of Aisles
Hissing Of Summer Lawns
Hejira
Don Juan's Reckless Daughter
Shaodws and Light
Wild Things Run Fast
Dog Eat Dog
Chalk Mark In A Rainstorm
Night Ride Home
Turbulent Indigo
Taming The Tiger
Both Sides Now

Nice to Have:
Mingus - there's too much chat on this, with the speakers not identified, and often barely audible.

Good Art work with this:
Travelogue - I don't really care all that much for the rearrangements on this.

Something I didn't Know About:
Big Yellow Taxi

:hi:

[Beaverhausen]

22. Travelogue grew on me- it did take a while though

but I agree about the "essential" Joni. See my post above. (or below...not sure where it is)

[progmom]

27. you don't need this compilation

but you might check out the CD she compiled for Starbucks of music she's been listening to recently. Interesting stuff.

[Kenneth ken]

35. that's kind of what I thought - thanks.

and thanks for the tip on the Starbuck's CD - the lounge is about the only place I ever hear about music. Otherwise, if I don't happen across it in the store, I never know about any new releases.

:hi:

[GalleryGod]

29. My Big Sis dragged me to her concert at U of Pa. in 1967.

Irvine Auditorium..it was so cool...i felt so folky and rad!:woohoo:
I begged her to take me to BAEZ 6 months later...she made me buy BOTH Tix!:wtf:

I didn't care !

I.A. is still there..great acoustics!

[progmom]

30. cool! you saw her before her first album came out!!

if you check out her website: www.jonimitchell.com there is a great chronology of concerts and appearances. maybe you can find your concert on there!

[GalleryGod]

31. The tickets were $3.50

Everybody came through Penn on the Folky/Radical Railway!:hippie:

Joni, Baez,Judy, Pete Seeger,Arlo....

When everything was crisp and clearB-) and there were No Limits!

[welshTerrier2]

32. that chronology is great ...

i saw her in Syracuse, NY on 12/1/69 ...

and then again with the Rolling Thunder Review on 11/21/75 in Boston ... this concert included Dylan, The Band, Van Morrison, Neil Young and Joni Mitchell, Joan Baez, Roger McGuinn and more ...

thanks for the link ...

[nytemare]

33. "I really don't know life at all"

I love "Both Sides", one of my favorite songs of all time.

on edit: see what happens when I don't read prior posts??? LOL! :)