Wow... Like I don't think I've ever been more moved in a video before🥲I can't WAIT to do more Joni!! If you wanna see the full 2-hour reaction with no cuts check it out on Patreon :) 💗 www.patreon.com/luscent

@oreyish

Жыл бұрын

Very nice reaction, there's just something so unbelievably touching about whole Joni Mitchell's music... If you're gonna do some more reactions to Joni's songs, here's just my suggestion for playlist: 1. Shadows and Light (live) 2. A Case of You 3. Marcie 4. River (live version though) 5. Turbulent Indigo 6. You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio 7. Amelia

@ferrin6182

Жыл бұрын

I"m SO GLAD YOU DID THIS. Joni Mitchell is my favourite musician ever... Try her more experimental stuff, too... Bjork has said she was really influenced by "The Jungle Line"...

@davidburgess3882

Жыл бұрын

Try to get the recent Newport Festival concert. She's 78 now and just recovered from an aneurysm that left her partially paralyzed and unable to speak. But she pulled herself back. But her performance is astounding. Brandi Carlisle and others accompany her. Greatest comeback ever.

@MrDiddyDee

Жыл бұрын

Joni is a brilliant poet, and painter, as well as a unique guitar player, her lyrics are so intelligent and heart felt they can stand up alone even without the music. The key to her guitar playing is in the 50 or so open tunings she has used through her career, after some very early songs which where in standard guitar tuning, she quickly experimented retuning her guitar in a vast variety of ways, which created sophisticated sounds from quite simple moveable chord shapes, a selection of shapes that could be played up and down the guitar neck with easy fluidity. She had suffered from polio in her childhood and didn't have the left hand strength often required when in standard tuning, slackening the strings made it much easier to fret the chord shapes. As her records progressed and she decided to use other musicians to back her up, they were often baffled and amazed by her chord choices, not being musically trained herself she was not able to tell them what she was playing. I don't think Joni sees her painting and her music as separate skills, I think sounds, smells and colours are interchangeable for her, she has been quoted as saying sometimes she has tuned her guitar to nature. You can't go wrong with any of Joni's songs but I would recommend a full reaction to her 'Blue' album, but you might want to have tissues at the ready, most fans agree it is her most intimate, personal record, based around her acoustic guitar, piano or dulcimer like she's in your living room baring her soul and confiding in just you.

@catherinefitzgerald7291

Жыл бұрын

So proud she is a fellow Canadian. Thank you for being so open and honest with your feelings. It's a brave thing to do. Yes it is. Joni Mitchell, in my opinion, is a gift from God. It will be a sad day when she is gone from this world. Then, instead of not knowing anything at all, she will know everything.

Joni’s music is top-tier poetry, elevated by intricate melodies and instrumentation. I can listen again and again and still find new ways to interpret it.

I’m glad I’m not the only one that is reduced to tears after hearing Joni’s reinvention of “Both Sides Now”. The orchestrated version just wrecks me.

@lynnehrgott3091

Жыл бұрын

Brings me to tears EVERY Time I Hear It!

I don't feel like I could be this vulnerable even among my family and friends but here he is letting his emotions out on camera. I admire him for being able to show how he feels like this.

Listening to Joni is like remembering truths from a distant, ancient, permanent core.

My dad was a country staff songwriter in the 90s. We grew up on great songwriters-Paul Simon, the Beatles, Bob Dylan. All that stuff. Somehow, my dad didn’t really mention Joni till my brother and I were in a band in our 20s and writing our own songs. It was like he intentionally held her back from us, like we weren’t ready. We both listened to all of Blue, and my jaw hit the floor. I listened to all of Ladies of the Canyon next. Then, pretty much everything else. My whole life I’ve wanted nothing but to experience great poetry. I got a master’s in English to try to get there. Poured over Keats, Plath, Dickinson, Wordsworth. Nothing ever hit me like the first time I head “River” or “Furry Sings the Blues”. She’s just the best.

My parents raised me on singer-songwriters like Joni Mitchell. My Dad would always go to the holy trinity of Carly Simon, Carole King, and James Taylor when he needed to unwind. Those 3 artists always make me think of my Dad laying on the couch with his headphones on, lost in the music.

Greatly appreciate your response and big tears with no shame. Joni’s music does that to a person. She has been gifted greatly from God. Her music and her art will be listened to, studied and cried through for centuries to come. 🥰❤️

It was difficult for me after discovering Joni not to look at her music as the blueprint for excellence. Regardless of the type of music, I appreciate those artists that have come close. Joni is a painter first (most of her CD covers were her paintings and photographs). Every note and lyric is necessary and exact as if all the clutter was stripped away. I think most artists who love her hope that they will create something as beautiful as "insert any Joni song". She is the personification of ART.

Imagine what you experienced during making this video stretched out over almost an entire life. First, I love that you were so moved and got so emotional. I’ve felt that way countless times over the years listening to Joni’s music. I was 13 when I heard her first album right after it was released, and was an instant fan. I waited every year for her newest album to be released. I would play the record and hold the album, reading the lyrics along with the music. Her album releases were EVENTS for me. Everything about her music seemed profound to me. She was a serious musician with many very serious stories and messages, but her music and voice were beautiful and surprisingly original. She had such perceptive views on life and emotions. I could go on for hours about how her music has followed me through so many life experiences. Please listen to as much of her music as you can, starting from the first album and working your way through, because she matures. There are standouts, like Blue and Hejira and some individual songs scattered throughout that are (imho) masterpieces. Too many to list here. I’m so gratified to see younger people catching on to Joni and appreciating her astounding gifts. One song that I never hear mentioned… which is an early favorite of mine… is Cold Blue Steel and Sweet Fire. I just adore that song. Maybe not THE best, but an amazing song.

I am SO happy you listened to some of Hejira. Coyote was the first song where I was like, ‘okay I’m intrigued. I’ll listen to a little more’, and then Song For Sharon just knocked me on my ass. What a brilliant album and artist.

Listening to Joni for the first time brought me exactly this mix of emotions, and the crazy thing is that this feeling doesn't go away, I cried with you in each of the reactions. Joni is a game changer.

As I watch your reactions to Joni,I must exclaim...gosh...someone who feels jonis singing and music as much as I do yes I adore her stunned by her amazingness.

I remember vividly listening to a case of you for the first time while i was biking a few years ago, and when the “love is touching souls, surely you touched mine cause part of you pours out of me in these lines from time to time” part came by, I just had to stop and cried by the side of the road, the way she described this person that although hurt her and is wasn’t perfect with such love and sensitivity was so touching for me, I still listen to the Blue album on a weekly basis and get emotional every time

@moonstone1159

Жыл бұрын

The album BLUE is still an all-time favorite for all the reasons you say. The rest of her discography moves me in the same way.

@lynnehrgott3091

Жыл бұрын

That Song is about Leonard Cohen.

@mdouglasblanco

Жыл бұрын

tive uma experiência um pouco parecida com essa música, só que eu tava me exercitando e tive que parar pra chorar hahah nunca vou esquecer; essa música definitivamente é uma das ‘músicas da minha vida’

"Coyote" is about Sam Shepard, who became one of the great American playwrights of the last century. In his "True West," written several years after "Coyote," the script calls for a pack of coyotes to bark at a few choice moments. I like to think this is his little sly nod to her and this song.

Finally. A PROPER reaction to the genius of this songwriter.

Sharon was Joni Mitchell's best friend when she was growing up. I think Joni is looking at how life plays out when you choose each side of the fork in the road and how each has its positives and negatives. It also addresses how we always look at the "what ifs" in life and ponder where we might be had we made different choices. Joni always searched for love but she never could handle it when she found it, she needed to move on. Joni once said that "I write music for my sorrow and I paint for my joy." Joni is an amazing painter and I think she accepts that idea. Strangely, she never believed that she could really sing and the only reason she started singing was so that she could play in coffee houses and cafes to make enough money to buy cigarettes. I love Joni's voice and all of her music, she is an amazing icon that so many have forgotten. This is very unfortunate, not so much for Joni, she has made her way and received her fame and fortune, but for those who will never hear her voice or fall into her technically unique and outstanding music and heartfelt poetry. I think Coyote is so much about the types of men she has filled her life with, fun and wild but not one to be settled down with. The musicians who play with Joni on this song and album are top tier and quite famous in their own right. Who wouldn't want to play on a Joni Mitchell album?

oh yes , there are always mystirous things happening around joni mitchells music and its impact on someones own soul and look on the world. she is lyrcally a philosopher and one of the best poets ever. In the early eighties i worked as a taxi driver in berlin , erverybody listened to punk or heavy metal . in that time i reheard joni´s blue and i literally cried. i had that cd then playing for weeks again and again in the cab. one day one of the passengers heard "this flight tonight" and said : i know this song. it took me a while and showing him the booklet to convince him, it´`s jonis song. an though he was a metal fan he was deeply touched by jonis original. Thank you Luscent, Love and Peace and Truth.

I’ve been listening to Joni for 30 years and have obsessed over her music. I’ve watched lots of reactions. You got her better than I’ve seen so far. Enjoy listening to her for the rest of your life. It still makes me cry every time. Thousands of listens later.

Joni's art resonates with people over time. With each listen becoming deeper and more personal. I think that is due to her authenticity. This disables the defenses of sensitive people with inner walls erected from past experiences to lower them and be healed and guided by her. You've earned my subscription! Joni is an artist's artist. "For The Roses" speaks to her identity as an artist. "Turbulent Indigo" won the Grammy for best pop album.

Thank you for sharing your vulnerability with us. It's courageous and refreshing. Joni is and always has been my all-time favorite female singer/songwriter/producer/arranger/musician and person. So moving, so deeply touching.

@Luscent

Жыл бұрын

Aw thank you for watching glad you enjoyed it ☺️

@voodoosleeper

Жыл бұрын

I couldn't have said it better myself.

Awwwww bless. I'm so happy that you're discovering Joni. Along with Kate Bush she's been a constant presence in my life. Her mid period albums are my personal favourites...Court and Spark, Hissing of Summer Lawns, Hejira and her hugely underrated double album Don Juan's Reckless Daughter. Blue is usually referred to as her masterpiece, but it's an album that I rarely listen to because it touches such a deep raw nerve inside me and I end up a blubbering wreck...a bit like yourself. You've got so much amazing music to discover from her back catalogue...what a journey you're on.

@melancho96

Жыл бұрын

Same here - Kate Bush and Joni Mitchell are my favourite musical artists and Joni‘s 1972-1977 period remains my personal favourite as well.

@Missjunebugfreak

8 ай бұрын

I feel the same way. Joni and Kate both changed my life with their approaches to music. Such influential fearless women who created their own sonic worlds. And like you I also love Joni's mid-70s period the most where she really started experimenting and moving away from folk into jazz fusion.

Joni Mitchell is a gift from the Holy Spirit. Thank you for you great reaction.

crying during Coyote.... I FELT THAT😭

You've been washed over by the waves of the Sea of Joni! :D I greatly appreciate listeners and reviewers like yourself, that are able to truly hear and feel the depth and multiple layers of her music and lyrics, instead of treating it like typical "fluffy pop songs". I've been deeply moved by Joni's music and art since the beginning of her recording career, with those sounds and lyrics so profound to my then very young ears and heart! :D Only much later did I realize WHY her music was so interesting... with features like changes in key and changes in timing in the middle of a song, over 50 different guitar tunings, her unique chords/chord voicing, dulcimer playing, her piano playing... :D and of course that voice, and her ability to "tell a story" and express emotion with it! :D Her songs were so inspired by nature/environment and the people she met throughout her life. Re: "The Beat of Black Wings" - In the late 60's she often performed for military personnel, and she encountered that young soldier after a concert.. At first he was red-faced and angry, but soon he was sobbing and shaking in her comforting embrace as she listened to his stories... she wasn't ready to write about it until many years later.. and it's likely that listeners wouldn't have been ready for it back when it occurred, either. When she recorded that 2nd version of Both Sides Now in 2000, she stood in the middle of a group of musicians from the London Symphony, and sang LIVE as they played. They captured that final product in 2 or 3 takes! And those "stiff upper lip" professional symphony musicians were in tears and struggling to maintain their composure to complete the song because they were so moved by those lyrics and her vocal performance! Yeah, that song is DEEP! :D YOU felt the same things THOSE symphony musicians felt! :D But for a REALLY mind-blowing, heart-exploding experience, watch the live performance of it at the Newport Folk Festival in July 2022... preferably AFTER watching some of the previous songs! And pay attention to the other musicians on-stage during and after her performance! OMG, knowing what she's had to overcome these past 7-8 years after coming so close to death and having to re-learn everything? Words fail to express my emotions of watching THAT performance over, and over, and over! And seeing some of the other musicians actually JUMPING for JOY as they watched her playing guitar? No words! :D With 200-some original songs plus a few "covers" among about 20 albums, you can enjoy new experiences with Joni's music for quite some time! :D

Both Sides Now - the lyrics are so brilliant Joni tells a story of joy & disillusionment. This masterpiece hits even harder as you age & experience all the ups & downs of live & life . Watching Joni at 80yo perform it at ‘24 Grammys was so moving

I have heard "prisoner of the white lines of the freeway" hundreds of times, and you reminded me of just what a devastating lyric that is.

I can't believe I was on the edge of my seat trying not to cry with your reaction, Baca use I KNEW exactly that feeling of hitting the wall with Joni's music. I came across her music when I was a kid, I saw the artwork for her Both Sides Now (2000 album) and I was captivated by the painting of this woman smoking a cigar but just staring blankly at you. I didn't know anything about her, but there used to be these scanners on the record shop where you could listen to previews of the album. And when I scanned it I thought it was too mature for my ears (cause I was growing up with Britney, Avril Lavigne, and such...) but I guess I kept it in my memory. Then a few years later I came across the Court And Spark album and fell in love with "Help me", I decided to investigate a bit more since I now had streaming platforms to make it easier to know about who she was, and.. As soon as I started listening, it broke me. Both Sides Now was life-changing, and finally getting to hear the orchestral 2000 album was magnificent. I finally heard the whole thing years after, as an adult, while I was traveling for work and I was staying in this cabin with a huge class window surrounded by rainy nature... Oh I couldn't sleep that day. Joni has changed my perspective every single time I listen to her music, she paints these stories so clearly inside my head.

Just found your channel and I'm thrilled to find such a sensitive & intuitive reactor. I found your Blue video first and became a subscriber. Im truly looking forward to watching more of your reactions.

Thank you so very much for this video. It’s so comforting to watch another soul being moved as much as I am (and all these beautiful people in the comments) by the music of a living legend. I still am moved to tears when listening to so many of her songs. I still can’t help but cry every time I listen to Catcus Tree and Both Sides now. Can’t wait to see more reactions of Joni’s discography! ❤

Thank you for loving Joni. She is a wondrous talent! (This was cathartic. Thank you for your sensitivity, my brother from another mother. 🙏🫂)

You are the only music reactor that truly grasped the meaning and emotion of these songs and on a first listen. Congratulations

I grew up with joni on the AM radio in the 70s. I would listen to her to drown out the domestic violence downstairs late into the night. I could still hear them of course, and cringe in terror... But there she was, along with other incredible women singers that were her peers and contemporaries I'd play all night trying to sleep. Disconnect from the fights, connect to their songs. It's hard to not lose it when a certain song comes on and flashes me back.

Bravo. Thanks for being a sensitive human! I think a lot of us are affected this way by Joni's music and words. This is what it's all about.

Beautiful reaction, good sir. I've read that while recording the updated "Both Sides Now", a number of orchestra players ended up in tears, too. So, you are in very good company Luscent. I still get choked up every time I go back to it, which have been many. Peace.

She wrote paved paradise after a trip to Hawaii. The natural beauty paved over.

I love your reaction. I love how you read lyrics and meaning. Joni Mitchell is a treasure. Thank you for this reaction. ❤

The video of Joni playing Coyote with Bob Dylan on rhythm guitar at Gordon Lightfoot's house is legendary.

You’ve got to watch her coming on stage with Brandi Carlisle recently, she’s had a lot of vocal problems as she’s aged and it’s such a lovely thing to see her sing again.

I didn’t think I could be more impacted by Jodie’s music but you made it even more special some how ❤

Felt the same way after hearing her later version too. It’s truly a gift, isn’t it?

@Luscent

11 ай бұрын

Oh god it really is

Great reaction! Love that you were able to find something wonderful from all of her different eras. There’s so much more to explore, and I’m excited for you. Joni is a 💎!

I discovered Joni as a 13 year old bassist, checking out what all the fuss was about with some guy called Jaco Pastorius. With no internet to source music from, I borrowed Joni's 'Don Juan's Reckless Daughter' from the local public library. That was 40 years ago. Since that day I have, of course, been obsessed with Jaco, but quite unexpectedly, I discovered the woman who I consider to be one of the greatest song writers to have ever drawn breath, who has been with me through all my chops and changes of taste and personal preferences. I straight out love her in a way that it should not be possible to love someone you never met. Might I also add that she is the only artist who has ever made me weep out loud, sitting on my own, just absorbing her soul through every note. I totally get your reaction.

Thank you for sharing that with us. Joni can still have that effect on me and I sometimes wish I could hear her for the first time again 💜

Wonderful! I'm still taking it all in! I first heard JM in 1971 over the FM radio ("A Case of You") and was blown away by her voice, musicality, and lyrics! Her music is timeless. It has a way of piercing your soul.

Thanks!

I literally had the exact same ugly-cry reaction to Both Sides Now the first 50 times I heard it. The same goes with Cactus Tree. And I still cant get through Circle Game without sobbing. Listening to Joni is like staring at the cosmos. Awesome and humbling, with truth and beauty at every turn. As an aside, former Supreme, the late great Mary Wilson did a stunning live version of Both Sides Now thats on youtube.

Fascinating watching you discover Joni. Sharon, Coyote and Cactus Tree are my favorites and it’s interesting your analysis/emotional reaction mirrors my own discovery on the Joni journey. I hope Joni watches this video. She’d be so pleased at how her artistry touches you so personally.

I can't even wait for your video! I grew up listening to Joni.. Glad you are finding out about her. Wondering which music you will hear next. The song. 'Don Juan's Reckless Daughter' is one of my favorites showing off er literary talent. She should have a Pulitzer too since Dylan got one. Hejira is my favorite album. Hope you have fun! PS,,, There's a song called BLUE.....

Your analysis of Coyote is extraordinary, and very moving.

Please if you make another of these react to little green, it’ll wreck your soul in the most beautiful way

Old man referred to a woman's beau during the late 60' early 70's. Big Yellow Taxi came from "Ladies of the Canyon"; her third studio LP. So yes she was still quite young. You should see the music video done for "Beat of Black Wings", very artistically done by Joni Mitchell. The Beat of Black Wings is probably the song that caused like an R-rating (whatever the equivelent for music is) for the LP. I like how you noticed the different styles of Joni. You might want to explore her LP's in chronological order to get a better feel of the progression of her styles.

Coyote is one of the jaco songs. He is the greatest bass player to ever live, my channel is devoted to him. My last videos features jaco-joni tracks

Love her soooo much! We need another Joni's songs selection reaction

What also really got me was when she did A Case of You with the orchestra each time she sang ‘I would still be on my feet’ it was phrased that even after all this time she still feels it: She still feels in love with someone through all this time, she would still be on her feet. The original is stunning and so moving and with the orchestra when she is older it feels like she has really lived a life and now reaffirming how she feels. She is a stunning talent, one of the greats of the 20th Cantuary. She can really capture being human. Her music will be around long after there is no KZread. Great reveiw/reaction. You should do the original Case of You then like you did with Both Sides Now do the much later version with the orchestra.

My first memories of Joni and her music happened actually a year or so ago at my work. I was sleeping probably 2 hours/day, commuting a lot between school and work--couch surfing to avoid Boston traffic when possible and sometimes sleeping in my car or only having 1 meal a day to be able to afford the part of tuition that wasn't loans. That meal was usually a free sandwich/salad and drink from my work--a small family sandwich shop run by incredibly hard-working and thoughtful people who've lived a lot of life. It was during a morning shift when one of my bosses (Denise, who is I think in her early 70s) came up to talk to me about how I was doing as a person. After telling her some of what was going on, she shared a part of her life story with me and put on Joni's music on our front of house playlist before opening saying, "This music helped me find the peace in a time where I felt the loss of any control in my life" and reassuring me that no matter what was going on in my life that they would be there for me. Honestly? It really helped but I think now as I'm heading out of that constant fatigue and entering into challenges of a different sort, that the music and Denise's support are helping me even more to have perspective and frankly, be increasingly present for my own life, well-being, as well as the people in it. Anyways, sorry for the ramble, Dan. Your words actually brought me to tears and it's taken an embarrassingly long time to type up this comment but I also wanted to thank you for welcoming vulnerability and kindness in your community! Wishing you all the best, --Emrys

Tremendous and very moving reaction. From Hejira, be sure to listen to “Amelia”…it’s stunningly beautiful as well. One more thing, if you enjoyed the lyrical depth of Joni’s music, then you may also find Natalie Merchant’s songbook worth a listen. In particular listen to the album “Tigerlilly”, San Andreas Fault, River, Carnival, Wonder, and Jealousy are all notable in my opinion. The album “Ophelia”, is also very strong. Goodnight and thanks again.

@Luscent

Жыл бұрын

Thank you I'll check it out!

Joni Mitchell is the greatest songwriter of our generation.

Yes Joni is somehow different, her music is like a secret door into an alternative unworldly reality. I was a young man experiencing love for the first time when I first heard these songs, a confusing complex time in my life. I truly thought then that life had so much to offer now, I realise over 50 years later that I was wrong ,nothing else was going to even remotely compare the mysteries of love or the beauty of Joni’s music.

Cactus Tree: Joni has had at last i read, 40 some love songs written about her. She was the quintessential hippie chick - so beautiful & romantic. I believe this song is about her plethora of varied suitors & her independent nature. Definitely in the top three of her most beautiful melodies, to me :))

Toronto police cars used to be coloured yellow. Americans kept hailing them so they changed to the regular white and blue.

Ok, so I'll forgive you for not knowing what DDT is 🙂, but your astute observations and emotional connection are stunning. Getting at or attempting to get as-as you say, "things unknowable" or "beyond words" about Joni's music, every layer, every note, word, harmony... Beautiful.

Joni is the true original. She created her own chord figures, which resulted in unique chord progressions. Song are almost never structured in the conventional verse-chorus sequence, but are rather based on melodic repetition. Her way of singing is not a showcase of abilities or technique, but serves, almost as in a melodic way of talking, the melody through a very specific phrasing. Lyrically, no one comes even close to her. A sentence doesn't equal a single line, and concepts take entire verses to develop. Only a genius could write a song deep like Both Sides Now in their early 20s. You're the first one I ever know who was moved by Coyote.

@davidmoreno7581

Жыл бұрын

Beautifully put! No one comes close... indeed.

Really, really beautiful reaction. "Both Sides Now" and "The Circle Game" are two of my all-time favorites.

This is an excellent video.

The best way to get the full experience of Joni's incredible musical journey, is to start with her first album, "Clouds", and proceed forward. That way, you can get the full experience, especially the evolution. Just discovered your channel. Many blessings❤❤ P.S. She is an amazing painter and has done all her album covers.

Hejira as an album, what it did for me I’m not really sure. The moody environment of it really resonated with me when I started listening to it. Refuge of the Roads and Song for Sharon were and still are my absolute favorites. When I started listening to Joni, I was just barely 16. Obsessed with my own mortality, everything spiritual and just being really lonely and wallowing in that. Hejira spoke to me in that a reoccurring theme throughout the album is immortality. Or just generally trying to leave your mark on the world. Along with that though, Hejira has a fiercely analytical edge to it that myself who was and still is trying to figure out other people really resonated. I don’t think it helped my obsession that as a tarot card reader my favorite card is the Wheel of Fortune. it’s the card that after meeting with multiple gurus and psychics over the album (Song for Sharon, and Refuge of the Roads) it’s the one card she makes direct reference to. It’s just an incredible way to end an album about traveling and its effect on her, to someone who’s never had the ability to travel. It’s literally been less than a year since I’ve started listening to her, but I feel that being able to “read” her “travelogue” before I’m able to spread my wings is something invaluable. (College starting this summer!!) I’ve spent a lot of my time afraid for what my future has laid out for me, and this album deeply comforted that. It’s kind of allowed me to have a sort of vicarious freedom. 💗💗💗💗💗

I'm only in the intro currently, but Joni has been part of my music listening life for as long as I can remember. (Canadian Radio laws and such). I just saw your 'A Case of You' reaction and I am really excited to probably cry along with you here.

You insult us if you asume that we were not paying attention to the lyrics of Joni's songs. She is a poet whose observations of life are key to her art. She wrote Big Yellow Taxi after viewing a recently consrtucted car park in Hawaii. Her musicianship was extraordinary and she was able to call on the best musicians to work with, CSN&Y, Charles Mingus, Jacko Pastorius , Pat Metheny etc. Nowadays she has been working with many folk and country musicians following her lounge performances with Brandi Carlisle. (Apologies if I have misspelled any name). David Crosby described her as 'the best and most influencial musician alive'.

She said she was in Hawaii overlooking the shore in a hotel. There was a parking lot where there was nature last time she was there.

If you really want a tear jerker by Joni, Little Grren is a go-to.

That's a lot of tears. I've been listening to Joni's music on and off for 50 almost years and only recently have I started to cry everytime I hear her, whatever the song is. I got to this point where the simple idea of Joni Mitchell makes me cry sometimes. Isn't that insane?

My friend, just wait until you hear “both sides now” in your 50’s, that’s when it truly breaks you into a thousand pieces.

Thank u for showing your vulnerability and honest reaction! You've gotta do full length reactions to Blue and For the Roses. These albums changed my life

Lyrically no one can touch her.

@Missjunebugfreak

8 ай бұрын

The only person who even gets close is Joanna Newsom but even so Joni is just in her own league as a lyricist. Such a poet that touches your soul and gives you so much to think about with her words.

Such wonderful lyrics and reaction. One thing I get out of the lyrics, is that even though she has seen life from both sides, good and bad, it is the *illusions* that she recalls. She does not dwell on the bad. She still thinks of clouds as castles in the air, of love as a fairytale come real, and she still has dreams for her life. It is these dreams that have won out and gives her hope for life yet to come. It doesn't bother her that she has seen it all and knows so little.

You need to hear her version at Newport folk festival recently. After she suffered an aneurysm. It will break you

A few months ago I was going through something, and I was not doing so well mentally. So I decided to buy "Hejira" on vinyl, as a little treat to myself. Listening to it is such a cathartic experience, it's so stunning. Loved to see Cactus Tree on the playlist btw! One of my favourite

I'm so happy to see my favorite Joni song here (Song for Sharon). So lovely to see you moved by her. You should check out ELECTRICITY from For the Roses.

In interviews, Joni Mitchell described her songs and writing style as being similar to her painting style. I think of them more like hand grenades. She pulls the pin and lobs it at you, and the longer you sit with it, the bigger it hits you.

Another amazing maturity can be found in the song “Lush Life”. Written by billy Strayhorn at the ripe old age of 22.

You can't really go wrong with her albums from any period (especially since you liked Beat of Black Wings from the 80's, which a lot of people hate), but Joni at her most diverse musically is from 1974 (Court & Spark) to 1977 (Don Juan's Reckless Daughter), mixing folk rock blues jazz African Brazilian making it all her own, from just voice & guitar to full orchestrations. Her 90's albums are also really good - Night Ride Home and Turbulent Indigo.

Suggestion: Review the Court and Spark album (1974). My Joni point of entry; a fantastic, jazzy pop album (with depth and complexity of course). The best.

Joni Mitchell's Song to a Seagull and Tori Amos's Little Earthquakes are the best pop albums every made.

Glad you enjoyed Joni's music. I first heard A Case of You (I think on Practical Magic?). I am also a big Bob Dylan fan and love the album Tangled up in Blue, which I believe he wrote in response to Joni's album Blue. So I would recommend both of those albums to you.

In case you were wondering, Sharon is a lifelong friend of Joni.

I bought the album Clouds when I moved from Calgary to Vancouver in 1996, and I put it on when I drove over the Port Mann bridge and saw my future shining on the horizon. The track Chelsea Morning is bright and sunny and optimistic and I will never forget that moment it came on as I drove down the Transcanada Highway toward downtown that morning. Please react to the entire Blue album. It will destroy you, in the best way. Greatest album ever.

Joni is incredible!! You should do the Blue album!!

My favorite is “the circle game”

Aw Babes ❤❤

Wonderful reaction! Love that you comment on so many aspects of her music. However, I really think Joni’s music is best by the whole album as each is a kind of journey into whatever her current state of mind was like. That’s how all Of us who discovered her when she began experienced her music. I know album listening is kind of old school now but during the 60’s and 70’s it was the way they were put together. We felt these artists were speaking to us and the times we were growing up in but I do think this music provides the same wealth of wisdom, ideas, questioning and reaching that is timeless. I wonder if you have heard of Laura Nyro… she was another great songwriter in that period and of course Carol King. Of the female artists, these are the ones I listen to regularly after 50 yrs. ❤❤❤ I don’t know if it helps to know any of the autobiographical side of her inspirations. Coyote for instance was written about Sam Shepard the playwright. I was acquainted with Sam during the late 70’s and early 80’s and her images describe him perfectly. He wouldn’t fly so he famously drove cross the US or wherever he had to be driving solo. 😊 Oh I kind of think you might like Tim Buckley. His albums were also very poetic and adventurous musically.

@debramandra6338

9 ай бұрын

I concur about Laura Nyro. True brilliance, poetry, and passion. ❤

If you want to really be moved listen to 'a case of you' from 'blue'

yeah mate. There is truly nothing like Cactus Tree. It's killed me for 50 years

If a few of Joni’s songs did this to you, you should definitely go through her whole catalogue. Starting with Blue from 1971 (her 4th album) to Mingus 1979 and including her live album Shadows and Light with one of the best bands ever assembled, Joni had a run of music that had no match. I include even the Beatles run here. There is no single song during this years that you could consider a filler

Help Me!

She is the goddess.

Damn Luscent. You got trainwrecked. Are all your reactions like this or just Joni?

@Luscent

7 ай бұрын

haha i know right!!this is probably the most Ive been destroyed tbh but there are a few Taylor and Lana ones that ruined me too hahaa Adele too!

react to jeff buckley next! that would be so lovely.

I think both sides now is the greatest song ever written.

Have you seen Ricky Gervais's After LIfe?