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| 4.5 superb | WhatAreTheTodds | September 25th 15 |
Dude is Joni Mitchell even good like she clearly doesn't know how to thrash
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| 3.0 good | George Browne | May 1st 19 |
She has a great singing voice, even more beautiful lyrics, sweet guitar performance. Songs are written as anthems. LEGENDARY
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| 5.0 classic | kheman1317 | July 28th 18 |
Such an angelic and soothing voice and such beautiful lyrics. I had such a wonderful time listening to this album. It might be the best solo album from a female artist that I've heard yet.
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| 5.0 classic | TomBombadil | September 21st 16 |
Is this the best album ever by a solo woman? I guess you could say so. It's Joni's best album for sure.
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| 4.0 excellent | nukethewhale | July 7th 16 |
More than other albums from this time period, this seems like the record that all the cool kids in the early 70s were
listening to.
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| 4.5 superb | tawnyAnt | July 8th 14 |
Blue is defined by songs arranged so earnestly and sensitively that they don't just accompany Joni's words but turn them into profundity.
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| 4.0 excellent | IlGagario | May 29th 23 |
That cover shot says it all: an intense inner narrative, tinged with the blue of melancholy and regret, on a path of self-analysis that from afar regain what is near, rediscovering what makes us ourselves. This record is one of the most outspoken confessions put together by an artist, in which an unguarded Joni lays bare that troubled time marked by the end of his love story with Graham Nash, the difficult new relationship with James Taylor and her escape vacation through Europe. The instrumentation is kept as usual to a minimum and that combines perfectly with the intimate matter treated in the selection. Appalachian dulcimer, guitar and piano are the solitary tools that weave tunes as introspective as solemn, the result of a musical genius that here pushes as far as possible the folk format before dedicating to more challenging forms and genres that could suit better the continuing development of Joni's boundless talent. "All I want" is a hopelessly romantic insight in her story with Taylor where the author struggles to sustain the love ambition even with all the turbulence she was experiencing. The track works masterfully, how the lyrics are fitted throughout the dulcimer strumming is really able to enhance and elevate the tune's signifiance. Another superb interweaving of words and musical fluency is the Nash dedicated "My old man". A more classic folk number, that brings us back to the past "Clouds" album, is the touching "Little green" that was conceived several years prior in the aftermath of her daughter's adoption process. After the cheerful intermission of "Carey", the pianistic intensity of the outstanding title track dives hard in then boyfriend James Taylor's issues and is the best Joni's performance in this record. "California" is the awareness of herself and the recovery at the end of this analysis record, while the cryptic "This flight tonight" is the elegy about lovers departure from which regret and hope equally spring. Then the albums stucks in a permanent slowness and essentially repeats its authorial formula for still good but weaker material than the aforementioned.
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| 4.0 excellent | charlopiano | September 30th 21 |
I had never heard a Mitchell song before, but based on her appearance, I thought that she had a raspy, crooner voice, so I was really surprised to hear he's vocal range. The songwriting is excellent though I have to say I wasn't totally impressed by the composition. These instrumentation aren't very impressive, and kinda drag the rest a lot since the rest is so good.
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| 4.0 excellent | Orangentorte | March 12th 21 |
"I remember that time you told me
You said, "Love is touching souls."
Surely you touched mine.
'Cause part of you pours out of me
In these lines from time to time."
Wow.
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