I have had the LP of this since I was 17. I am now 71. With all due respect to Mssrs Dylan, Cohen, and Springsteen, and to Mlles Nyro and Ian, it is Joni Mitchell and Joni Mitchell alone who was the greatest singer-songwriter of my lifetime. Mitchell's gift for melody, and her lyrics, which approach pure poetry, are simply incomparable.
Yes, I agree of Joni's pleasing past. I must say, however, that music is not stationary. My friend, please attempt to find a new path through this tedious existence. Personally, I have found new and endearing friends in Ray Lamontagne and in Robin Motheron. P.S. I just turned 70.
My grandpa and step grandma took my sister and me to Catalina Island last year. I’ll never forget the boat ride to get there. It was early in the morning, 7 or 8am. The sky was full of clouds, it was quite windy, and slightly raining. We got to sit next to a window and watch the playful ocean, and I spotted dolphins a little distance away. It gave me a feeling I don’t think I could describe with words if I tried. It simply felt like this album-Song to a Seagull.
Listening this morning, this grey bleak morning, to Joni Mitchell’s premiere album entitled “Songs from a Seagull” which marked the first time many of us heard her mesmerizing voice which gave rise to countless dreams as we stretched out on sofas, sat comfortably in chairs, and let her words carry us to places our younger selves could only imagine. With eyes closed, a cigarette in hand, its smoke swirling up into the air, her lyrics emerged as the center of our musical compass. Her voice invited us to dream. And all these years later, never tiring of hearing the powerful sweetness of her voice and the lyrical stories of love, loss, hope and transformation.
agreed. she just played the Newport Folks Festival in July 2022, guitar in hand, but surrounded by friends and caretakers.she played a few song with great emotion. And though the other younger singers made sure to add in what can no longer do, they provide that youthful spark she needs to sing better.....at least that's the way I saw. 7 years ago they said she'd never talk agin, let alone sing! Sure, she's old, but she's goof, you think?
She is immensely first-handed. That's the core of it. Mostly people are very second-handed, they find their path in the ruts left by others. In her mature music it's as if she never even knew there are ruts.
Born in November 1943, Joni Mitchell was 24 - 25 years old when she performed/recorded these songs. With songs and music composed by her, what a genius musician sharing the world with us still - fortunate us.
And I love that when she re-recorded Both Sides Now later in life, that the words mean everything. I’ve looked at life from both sides now. And she sings it so reflectively and lovely
@@annmariemcintire999 did you see her at Newport last summer? I wept all the way through it....and then watched it again......At first, all there was were phone videos... but now a filmed, well recorded version of the 35 minute set is on RUclips. It's even better than I thought! What a treasure.
1968. I bought this album and began the start of my Joni Mitchell journey. Her music has been a part of my life since. Grateful I walked this earth the same time as this magical soulful person.
@@jgwire It was breathtaking to see her up on a stage once again. Of my 5 children my youngest daughter is 32 and she is a big fan of Joni so that is a fun thing to see....someone from her generation that "gets it". The rest have grown up here in our house listening to her and they tell me her music is very comforting for them when they hear it. We will not see the likes of Joni Mitchell again in our lifetime for sure.
Joni....what can I say? You have been by my side since the beginning of it all. My best friend, my sister, and so much more. My heartfelt thanks, for then, for now and for always
When I first decided to listen to Joni Mitchell in an attentive way, I started with this, her debut album, so that I could get a notion of her evolution as an artist. And what an evolution it was! This album in particular will always thus have a special place in my aural memories, so much so that it sparked even more my own interest in poetry, painting and music. Thank you, Joni. Seminal is but a word, but one that suits you like silk.
@@harrietb8903 I'm ashamed to admit I loved Joni, but for whatever reason, I never listened to her first record. She always said it was so poorly recorded...Gosh her range is amazing. did u see her at Newport last summer -- whoa!!
Saw Joni before this album came out it was January or Feb. 1968 at Club 47 Cambridge Mass. After her first set before about 60 people i knocked on her dressing room door when it opened i asked if i could see her and i was let in talked to her for about 15 minutes she signed the program for me will never forget that night.
I was 14 years old, baby sitting for some cool neighbors that let me use their turntable the first time I heard this album. I'm in my late 60's and it still makes me smile. :)
Joni is like George Harrison in that she made so much music that most of her fans have never heard it all, but will keep discovering her gifts to us long after she passes into the other realms. I hope to hear it all before I pass myself 💛🌈🙌
There's something about her voice that simply transports me to another, better place. Thank you, Joni, for putting this album on here, in full. I really appreciate it. And thank you for all the many other songs that have lifted us all.
I feel she has poetically audibly expressed all the top secret stuff that makes a woman a woman. Nobody else has ever done this. She is like a maya angelou (if she could sing). Very addicting, the Joni ride…….. ❤
Her debut album what a masterpiece which heralded much bigger things to come. Each song is incredible which to me crescendos to CACTUS TREE in my opinion one of the greatest songs ever written her lyrics guitar and voice are mindblowing much love joni from down under.
I was 17 when I heard Cold Blue Steel and Sweet Fire on the radio. I waited desperately for the DJ to announce the song and singer. I went directly to the record store and began to collect all the albums. Joni Mitchell’s music transformed my life, helped me to understand and define my deep emotions. Now at 68, I still sing the music and find comfort in the melodies and lyrics. What an incredible effect this music has had on my life. How lost I would have been without it. Thank you Joni❤️
me too. I'm 63. I was never obsessive about her stuff, but I like it. Then Hejira came out and I fell in love with that record. Then I stopped listening to her for nearly 25 years or so....I moved on, got into a band -- the 90s came and went. And now, as I get older, I find myself returning to what I first loved: Dylan, Joni, Neil -- though I was so heavy into him that I had to kinda "get away." But I don't listen to him anymore, even though he was my favorite of them all. Anyway, peace out.
Madam, you created a big and important Part of Music History. It is always a great Pleasure to hear and feel your songs. It is always a outburst of Surprises for me.....I love the Pictures behind the Pictures.
Wow, I am age 64, and I have never heard this album. I always remember "Blue" the most, and her beige album, we listenend to her all high school years, and beyond. So nice to hear her again, and all the feelings and memories of another time which reminds me of who i am.
I was 14 when this album was released , Night In The City just did it for me and I was hooked ! Joni is the blessed one ! We are so lucky to have been around for this time ! ✌️ ♥️ 🎶 ☮️ 🇬🇧
The totality of her art , her talent , her soul , her voice , her lyrics transport the listener ( devoted fan ) to a very high place , way beyond the ordinary . Thank you , Queen , your art endures and continues to inspire .
Thank you @Joni Mitchell, love this album, it's one I never acquired. Your music is a gift, and has helps calm me when my depression & PTSD are a challenge. Thank you beautiful Joni for sharing your beautiful music w/ the world! A true diamond in the rough❤
I am 30 years old and am only just now experiencing the music of Joni Mitchell. My mother was a fan growing up. I love this album, Blue is also very good. Thank you, Joni. ❤️
Omg listen to For the Roses, Court and Spark and Song to a Seagull. They are her best but everyone has favorites- Blue and Hejira always come up among her best
@@hansemannluchter643 so right! I wish I could find an interview where Pat talks about how that tour came about. I've never heard him discuss that period of his career which is a shame.
I had an album on tape (Court and Spark) given to me by a friend about 30 years ago and was mesmerised. I picked up different things (of Joni) over the next 10 years from charity shops and kept playing that album also. The day came, I went to an old record shop, all cool but I bought 7 albums that day on CD including this album. I do now have some vinyl as well. Where would you say the healing is in the music? For me fundamentally it is to be understood. My analyst told me...
I listened to joni Mitchell with my mum who I sadly lost 4 years ago. Joni's music takes me back to happy memories, especially the blue album. Her music is my sanctuary when I am lost. Thank you Joni ❤❤
I’ve gone through many phases of musical artists in my life but after discovering Joni on her first album (‘LP’ back then) in 1967 I have remained steadfastly loyal and mesmerised by her genius. No-one like her before or since, unique and magical. As in her lyrics, she ‘took my breath away’ and still does ❤
This album is a masterpiece. My favorite LP from Joni. Her voice can take you to places you've never imagined. We are so lucky to get to experience Joni's music and art
I was 16 when I fell in love for the first time with this music and this album. It has been many many years since I have revisited the vibrations these songs opened deep inside the inner spaces of deep places of awareness. Even though it was just an album, my feelings for this first love has never diminished. Thank You🤍
She brought a new depth of meaning and seriousness to pop culture. And she raised the bar on aesthetics all across the board. A prodigy for sure and I am very grateful to her. I can't I'm imagine the world without her.
My dear sister Honora introduced me to Joni's music at 22 when we were sharing a flat/apartment, and now at 70 I'm still discovering and enjoying them both.
First song is "I had a King".... And on Graham Nash's album, Songs for Beginners, his song "I Used to be a King" is the hand in glove fit of the relationship that somehow went in different directions, despite the magnificence while it was alive. The regrets that will torture us til our last breath! Nobody escapes. And the lucky are very few. Michael From Mountains was the birthplace for Song For Sharon! Good Night Joni! But you're probably still up til dawn! LOL It's 4 am here in NY. I should talk!
This is not just a collection of exquisitely crafted songs, but a spellbinding universe which commands one's whole attention while the world as he knew it comes to a breathless standstill.
I can't express enough gratitude for anything Joni Mitchell has done to my soul from the very day I discovered her music. It's transcendal, a world within the universe.
Joni, your music is like therapy and magic at the same time. You've made a huge difference in my life. Your music has held me when no one else could. Thank you for existing and sharing your gift with this world, you've made it a better place to be🙏💚
I have been a fan since I was 17 and I am 72 now and I still think there is only 1 Joni Mitchell I cherish her music and style. It is good thearpy for me when feeling low or melancholy.
I bought this magical album as soon as it was released Joni is a genius singer songwriter and painter. I love everything joni has released I have all of her albums soundtrack to my life joni Mitchell forever ❤❤❤
I am almost 73 years old. I bought this album when it first came out and listen to it endlessly. I had not heard it in years (though Cactus Tree is a song I love to play and sing in open D tuning) and amazingly, when I turned this thing on I suddenly remembered all the words to the songs. Yeah, this brings it all back.
I’ve always loved Mitchell, but sometimes life just drags you right past things like wonderful artists and their music, leaving furrowed fingernail grooves behind. Years later you might have a dream….. recently I dreamed I was bicycling along a dirt road lined with tall trees with my little sister and singing a Jonny Mitchell song I hadn’t heard in decades, and we knew every word, singing the song through to the end. It was wonderful. My beloved sister has been dead for quite a while. I awoke with tears of joy at seeing her again only to find that she was still gone, and that I’d just been dreaming… Apparently, in my old age, a lot of music has some wonderful associations that connect when I hear certain songs. It’s like someone spitting in the holy water when an album like this is constantly interrupted by crass commercials and ads for people too lazy to pick up a new dog toy when they go to the store, and might want some delivered to their house by some poor, overworked a**hole who would normally work at a steel mill if there were any left. But there aren’t. Yes, I’m a bitter old man, I’m ready to go home now, and see my sister and my other loved ones. Now there’s an ad on here from Amazon, wrecking what should have been a beautiful album of music. Music is crap today, and music is life.
Come into a garden with twisty vines, owls above asking for your ticket, slivers of sun crack the leaves on stems of flowers with colors you've never seen... and never will again. Take this trip and you will see me dancing on feathers burning from dragons fire. Joni is charm, song, a treasure of wonders.
I am a "court and spark" kind of guy, I've been listening to it - and not a lot else by Joni - since it was released. One day, however, I saw this Album and for reasons I have yet to discover, I said to myself "I'm going to listen to this until I hit a track I don't care for". I got all the way through, started over - just to make sure I hadn't miss-heard something - and have completely fallen in love with this album. So beautiful and melodic and genuinely heart-felt...amazing.
There’s something very pure and cleansing about joni and especially this album - it seems to clear the way and shine powerful light into the spirit - joni s Scorpio energy allows for this I feel, the ring of truth, very clear and facing the pain of life head on.
I am 72 and this album eluded me for all those years. Blue, Only for the roses, Ladies of the Canyon.... listened to them hundreds of time. The BBC Radio 4 podcast Legend took me to her earlier work and her back story and this album just blew me away.
Her pure voice is clear as crystal , her thoughts are mine , and I think I could have earphones with nothing but this music in my head for the next week
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I have had the LP of this since I was 17. I am now 71. With all due respect to Mssrs Dylan, Cohen, and Springsteen, and to Mlles Nyro and Ian, it is Joni Mitchell and Joni Mitchell alone who was the greatest singer-songwriter of my lifetime. Mitchell's gift for melody, and her lyrics, which approach pure poetry, are simply incomparable.
Yes ! At the TOP ...!
You said it !
me too.
She got Gordon lightfoot to finally listen to the Beatles. She used to stop by his house in Toronto , stay up all night picking until dawn.
Yes, I agree of Joni's pleasing past. I must say, however, that music is not stationary. My friend, please attempt to find a new path through this tedious existence. Personally, I have found new and endearing friends in Ray Lamontagne and in Robin Motheron. P.S. I just turned 70.
My grandpa and step grandma took my sister and me to Catalina Island last year. I’ll never forget the boat ride to get there. It was early in the morning, 7 or 8am. The sky was full of clouds, it was quite windy, and slightly raining. We got to sit next to a window and watch the playful ocean, and I spotted dolphins a little distance away. It gave me a feeling I don’t think I could describe with words if I tried. It simply felt like this album-Song to a Seagull.
You should write a book, perfect
❤️
A poet, you are….❤
@@annalisa14 thank you, Anna 🧡🧡
She sings to the soul. And, my soul has heard her all of my life. Smiles and tears, sometimes at the same time. This old woman can only thank you.
Ahhhhh, we lived in a time of poets who wrote storys and put them to music. Will we ever see their like again? ❤️
Sadly I seriously doubt it 😢
Nah we’re stuck with crap like rap and hip hop, music has regressed since the seventies
Listening this morning, this grey bleak morning, to Joni Mitchell’s premiere album entitled “Songs from a Seagull” which marked the first time many of us heard her mesmerizing voice which gave rise to countless dreams as we stretched out on sofas, sat comfortably in chairs, and let her words carry us to places our younger selves could only imagine. With eyes closed, a cigarette in hand, its smoke swirling up into the air, her lyrics emerged as the center of our musical compass. Her voice invited us to dream. And all these years later, never tiring of hearing the powerful sweetness of her voice and the lyrical stories of love, loss, hope and transformation.
Friends played me this album in January '94 and since then Joni albums have been my go to in the winter. Couldn't ask for better winter music.
Joni Mitchell are S two génois,so créative,Always bringing thé unexpected!
Beautifully said.
This woman exists outside the typical conceptions of modern music. Always exhilarating to hear her soul speak through everything she's ever done.
Exhiliration is a great word to describe this album. The music lifts you immediately without effort.
perfect words to describe this amazing creature , no one like her
💚
Truly one of the most creative people to ever live
agreed. she just played the Newport Folks Festival in July 2022, guitar in hand, but surrounded by friends and caretakers.she played a few song with great emotion. And though the other younger singers made sure to add in what can no longer do, they provide that youthful spark she needs to sing better.....at least that's the way I saw. 7 years ago they said she'd never talk agin, let alone sing! Sure, she's old, but she's goof, you think?
@@jgwire Anyway to get a Video of that July 22 ?
Her chord changes send me out to the sky with the birds and the high winds blowing to the far reaches of the universe….
@@annalisa14 no kidding! her guitar and mandolin playing are ethereal...a grace from another world...such a gifted artist!!
She is immensely first-handed. That's the core of it. Mostly people are very second-handed, they find their path in the ruts left by others. In her mature music it's as if she never even knew there are ruts.
Born in November 1943, Joni Mitchell was 24 - 25 years old when she performed/recorded these songs. With songs and music composed by her, what a genius musician sharing the world with us still - fortunate us.
I believe she wrote Both Sides Now when she was 20!! Can you believe that! She is a talent not of this world.
And I love that when she re-recorded Both Sides Now later in life, that the words mean everything. I’ve looked at life from both sides now. And she sings it so reflectively and lovely
@@annmariemcintire999 did you see her at Newport last summer? I wept all the way through it....and then watched it again......At first, all there was were phone videos... but now a filmed, well recorded version of the 35 minute set is on RUclips. It's even better than I thought! What a treasure.
1968. I bought this album and began the start of my Joni Mitchell journey. Her music has been a part of my life since. Grateful I walked this earth the same time as this magical soulful person.
how did you react to her at Newport last summer? I cried all the way through it. What a gift.
@@jgwire It was breathtaking to see her up on a stage once again. Of my 5 children my youngest daughter is 32 and she is a big fan of Joni so that is a fun thing to see....someone from her generation that "gets it". The rest have grown up here in our house listening to her and they tell me her music is very comforting for them when they hear it. We will not see the likes of Joni Mitchell again in our lifetime for sure.
Joni....what can I say? You have been by my side since the beginning of it all. My best friend, my sister, and so much more. My heartfelt thanks, for then, for now and for always
💛
Sweet. ❤
When I first decided to listen to Joni Mitchell in an attentive way, I started with this, her debut album, so that I could get a notion of her evolution as an artist. And what an evolution it was! This album in particular will always thus have a special place in my aural memories, so much so that it sparked even more my own interest in poetry, painting and music. Thank you, Joni. Seminal is but a word, but one that suits you like silk.
She is the most incomparable artist, imho...In so many ways.
Her incredible range, uncanny control, haunting tone, use of falsetto make her one of the great female singers ever.
This is my all time favourite album, now at 65 it still transports me back over the years……the words are beyond beautiful….perfection ❤️
I’m 71 now and feel the same!
@@harrietb8903 72 Same :)
@@harrietb8903 I'm ashamed to admit I loved Joni, but for whatever reason, I never listened to her first record. She always said it was so poorly recorded...Gosh her range is amazing. did u see her at Newport last summer -- whoa!!
Saw Joni before this album came out it was January or Feb. 1968 at Club 47 Cambridge Mass. After her first set before about 60 people i knocked on her dressing room door when it opened i asked if i could see her and i was let in talked to her for about 15 minutes she signed the program for me will never forget that night.
I would not forget that night either. Thanks for sharing. Wow!
Thanks for Reminding me
about Club 47.... I'm 77 now and
Luckily I can go back to then.
Still in Cambridge.....
Wow! What a memory!
Joni's voice is so clear and melodic. Back in the days before autotune. I can hear the emotion and feeling in her voice, its beautiful.
I was 14 years old, baby sitting for some cool neighbors that let me use their turntable the first time I heard this album. I'm in my late 60's and it still makes me smile. :)
Joni is like George Harrison in that she made so much music that most of her fans have never heard it all, but will keep discovering her gifts to us long after she passes into the other realms. I hope to hear it all before I pass myself 💛🌈🙌
yes but she's not a misogynist, unlike george. joni is a real person.
@@bluebellbeatnik4945 huh?
❤
Nope. She's way more of an artist than Harrison.
Agree, music for the soul. x
Her legacy's in the very heart for the whole world
There's something about her voice that simply transports me to another, better place. Thank you, Joni, for putting this album on here, in full. I really appreciate it. And thank you for all the many other songs that have lifted us all.
I feel she has poetically audibly expressed all the top secret stuff that makes a woman a woman. Nobody else has ever done this. She is like a maya angelou (if she could sing). Very addicting, the Joni ride…….. ❤
@@realheidibergmusic that's an interesting observation. thanks.
A work of Art on the level of Van Gogh’s Sunflowers…….absolutely sublime! Perfection! Thank you, Joni! ❤️
I adore every song on this album, I've listened to it (and sung along) for more than half my life, since discovering Joni in my teens ❤ thank you
Me too.. 🤍
Ditto, aren’t we so lucky to have this in our souls x
Me three❤
Love Song to a Seagull… my anthem!
I am so grateful for the talent, beauty and inspiration of Joni Mitchell, and to have grown up with this album.
Grey mornings in Newfoundland facing the sea - this is the soundtrack of our lives. Thank you Joni ...
Joni, is my favorite artist, singer songwriter. Thank you, for all of your creations🙏
Ditto 🥰
Me too, always.
Her debut album what a masterpiece which heralded much bigger things to come. Each song is incredible which to me crescendos to CACTUS TREE in my opinion one of the greatest songs ever written her lyrics guitar and voice are mindblowing much love joni from down under.
the best album of hers, cactus tree kills me every time
I was 17 when I heard Cold Blue Steel and Sweet Fire on the radio. I waited desperately for the DJ to announce the song and singer. I went directly to the record store and began to collect all the albums. Joni Mitchell’s music transformed my life, helped me to understand and define my deep emotions. Now at 68, I still sing the music and find comfort in the melodies and lyrics. What an incredible effect this music has had on my life. How lost I would have been without it. Thank you Joni❤️
This album and Joni's voice are like a beautiful fairy tale of dreams, hope, imagination and Love. Love you Joni ❤
cactus tree is my favourite off this album, a brilliant album that you don't tire of.
Once again I’m lost in a beautiful world of colour , sound and words. Joni Mitchell’s music is woven into my late teenage and adult life. I’m 55 now.
me too. I'm 63. I was never obsessive about her stuff, but I like it. Then Hejira came out and I fell in love with that record. Then I stopped listening to her for nearly 25 years or so....I moved on, got into a band -- the 90s came and went. And now, as I get older, I find myself returning to what I first loved: Dylan, Joni, Neil -- though I was so heavy into him that I had to kinda "get away." But I don't listen to him anymore, even though he was my favorite of them all. Anyway, peace out.
Thanks for uploading the full album, I'm sure we all Joni fans appreciate it :)
Happy to see this album on my feed this morning. Joni's songs take me out of my head like a good book :)
Madam, you created a big and important Part of Music History. It is always a great Pleasure to hear and feel your songs. It is always a outburst of Surprises for me.....I love the Pictures behind the Pictures.
FOREVER, Joni; THIS Planet, Yenus, and Beyond...
One of the greatest albums ever.-- absolutely brilliant.
Intimate poems, set to original music !
⛵Produced by David Crosby
Joni is above them all...an ethereal voice..never to be matched.
Wow, I am age 64, and I have never heard this album. I always remember "Blue" the most, and her beige album, we listenend to her all high school years, and beyond. So nice to hear her again, and all the feelings and memories of another time which reminds me of who i am.
I was 14 when this album was released , Night In The City just did it for me and I was hooked ! Joni is the blessed one ! We are so lucky to have been around for this time ! ✌️ ♥️ 🎶 ☮️ 🇬🇧
We are the same age, Ladies of the canyon hooked me. Top singer/songwriter of our time.
❤❤
Make it hot
Missy
Same here.
Same song..
And
Conversation too...
I started learning to sing and play guitar to this album
The totality of her art , her talent , her soul , her voice , her lyrics transport the listener ( devoted fan ) to a very high place , way beyond the ordinary . Thank you , Queen , your art endures and continues to inspire .
Thank you @Joni Mitchell, love this album, it's one I never acquired. Your music is a gift, and has helps calm me when my depression & PTSD are a challenge. Thank you beautiful Joni for sharing your beautiful music w/ the world! A true diamond in the rough❤
Wonder-FULL-y filled with wonder. (That's how Joni's art always strikes me)
she is the loving, gifted king
Cactus Tree is my favorite songwriting ever.
I'm 66 and this is the first time I have ever heard it before. Mesmerizing music ❣️
I am 30 years old and am only just now experiencing the music of Joni Mitchell. My mother was a fan growing up. I love this album, Blue is also very good. Thank you, Joni. ❤️
Omg listen to For the Roses, Court and Spark and Song to a Seagull. They are her best but everyone has favorites- Blue and Hejira always come up among her best
You've got a lot of amazing music to look forward to. My favourite period of Joni is her 'Jazz' period - Hejira, Shadows and Light, Mingus etc, etc.
Now try 'the arrangement' At the end reflect on the 21st century eh!
@@snowfiresunwind Pat Metheny, Jaco Pastorius (!!) and Joni on Guitar and Vocals!!
It doesn't get better, EVER!
@@hansemannluchter643 so right! I wish I could find an interview where Pat talks about how that tour came about. I've never heard him discuss that period of his career which is a shame.
Joni's songs... With the depth and width of the Ocean, the warmth of a crackling fireplace in December... Girded in strength and timelessness.
We'll Said ....!
@@sharan4700am
RIP David Crosby 😢😭 Long live Joni.
What a Legend ♥️♥️♥️♥️
Song to a Seagull" and "For the Roses" have special places in my heart..🤍🥀
I am the same on both. Massive help to me in difficult times and ongoing on grounding myself.
I'm here from hearing the Lyrics -
"For Loving the Freedom of all flying things" in my head.
Brilliant Lady !
Beautiful.
What a lovely experience, listening to this album for the first time 🕊 Thank You, Joni! Your music is a healing thing
I had an album on tape (Court and Spark) given to me by a friend about 30 years ago and was mesmerised. I picked up different things (of Joni) over the next 10 years from charity shops and kept playing that album also. The day came, I went to an old record shop, all cool but I bought 7 albums that day on CD including this album. I do now have some vinyl as well. Where would you say the healing is in the music? For me fundamentally it is to be understood. My analyst told me...
This is my favourite album ever. There is something so special about it. For dreamers.
Une véritable boite à bijoux...
Thank you, Joni!
I remember playing this record over and over again and following along with the lyrics. Joni was showing us how to write songs.
I listened to joni Mitchell with my mum who I sadly lost 4 years ago. Joni's music takes me back to happy memories, especially the blue album. Her music is my sanctuary when I am lost. Thank you Joni ❤❤
I’ve gone through many phases of musical artists in my life but after discovering Joni on her first album (‘LP’ back then) in 1967 I have remained steadfastly loyal and mesmerised by her genius. No-one like her before or since, unique and magical. As in her lyrics, she ‘took my breath away’ and still does ❤
This album is a masterpiece. My favorite LP from Joni. Her voice can take you to places you've never imagined. We are so lucky to get to experience Joni's music and art
Bless you Joni and thank you for enriching my life, enlightening my soul. Love to you, from my heart.
I was 16 when I fell in love for the first time with this music and this album. It has been many many years since I have revisited the vibrations these songs opened deep inside the inner spaces of deep places of awareness. Even though it was just an album, my feelings for this first love has never diminished. Thank You🤍
god i luv this album sm
Love your vocals. The pirate of penance was very 😎 🫶✨✨✨
She brought a new depth of meaning and seriousness to pop culture. And she raised the bar on aesthetics all across the board. A prodigy for sure and I am very grateful to her. I can't I'm imagine the world without her.
This album is so beautiful, and although I have enjoyed Joni's music for 50 years, this is the first time I heard this..filling my heart with joy❤️💕💫
My dear sister Honora introduced me to Joni's music at 22 when we were sharing a flat/apartment, and now at 70 I'm still discovering and enjoying them both.
Beautiful music. Beautiful memories. I love Joni...
First song is "I had a King".... And on Graham Nash's album, Songs for Beginners, his song "I Used to be a King" is the hand in glove fit of the relationship that somehow went in different directions, despite the magnificence while it was alive. The regrets that will torture us til our last breath! Nobody escapes. And the lucky are very few. Michael From Mountains was the birthplace for Song For Sharon! Good Night Joni! But you're probably still up til dawn! LOL It's 4 am here in NY. I should talk!
I think it’s written about Chuck Mitchell - but Graham Nash’s song may well have been about Joni
This album has been the soundtrack to my life, thank you Joni for adding such beautiful songs to the world…
My favourite album of Joni songs - every track is gorgeous.
EVERYONE here wishes they could thank her.
I guess all we can do is wave from far far away.
I'm here started to listening her music because of her BOTH SIDES NOW.
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Joni saved my life...
I’m so glad
Beautiful!!
I have followed you Joni since the 60s! You are my favorite Guru!
And endless praise of gratitude
For expressing the soul of women!
Love you!
I met her in 2000 at the Mendle...our encounter sent me on a better life trajectory.
Words can't begin to describe the beauty of this song
Which one?
This is not just a collection of exquisitely crafted songs, but a spellbinding universe which commands one's whole attention while the world as he knew it comes to a breathless standstill.
I can't express enough gratitude for anything Joni Mitchell has done to my soul from the very day I discovered her music. It's transcendal, a world within the universe.
Her music takes me back to a place and time that will stay with me forever. Our generation is leaving behind music that will never die.
Joni has put wondrous poetry into music. The first song on this album has such unusual chords. It sounds mythic to me.
A beautiful work of art! The album is a masterpiece
Beautiful !🇫🇷🙏🏻👍🏼🍒
Joni, your music is like therapy and magic at the same time. You've made a huge difference in my life. Your music has held me when no one else could. Thank you for existing and sharing your gift with this world, you've made it a better place to be🙏💚
Words cannot explain the absolute beauty, timbre and versatility in this voice... The best ever❤❤
Fabulous debut album from Joni that even some of her ardent fans don't know about. Timeless!
I have been a fan since I was 17 and I am 72 now and I still think there is only 1 Joni Mitchell I cherish her music and style. It is good thearpy for me when feeling low or melancholy.
Gibraltarian, stunningly powerful songs ! Thanks to Joni for these very personal stories, set to music.
I had forgotten how beautiful these songs are
I bought this magical album as soon as it was released Joni is a genius singer songwriter and painter. I love everything joni has released I have all of her albums soundtrack to my life joni Mitchell forever ❤❤❤
what a great Artist one of the most inovative and creative of our last century
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And it's the original mix, which I prefer. Lovely!
I am almost 73 years old. I bought this album when it first came out and listen to it endlessly. I had not heard it in years (though Cactus Tree is a song I love to play and sing in open D tuning) and amazingly, when I turned this thing on I suddenly remembered all the words to the songs. Yeah, this brings it all back.
I love this album and i love Joni Mitchell, immense musician and artist.
I’ve always loved Mitchell, but sometimes life just drags you right past things like wonderful artists and their music, leaving furrowed fingernail grooves behind. Years later you might have a dream…..
recently I dreamed I was bicycling along a dirt road lined with tall trees with my little sister and singing a Jonny Mitchell song I hadn’t heard in decades, and we knew every word, singing the song through to the end. It was wonderful.
My beloved sister has been dead for quite a while.
I awoke with tears of joy at seeing her again only to find that she was still gone, and that I’d just been dreaming…
Apparently, in my old age, a lot of music has some wonderful associations that connect when I hear certain songs.
It’s like someone spitting in the holy water when an album like this is constantly interrupted by crass commercials and ads for people too lazy to pick up a new dog toy when they go to the store, and might want some delivered to their house by some poor, overworked a**hole who would normally work at a steel mill if there were any left. But there aren’t.
Yes, I’m a bitter old man, I’m ready to go home now, and see my sister and my other loved ones.
Now there’s an ad on here from Amazon, wrecking what should have been a beautiful album of music.
Music is crap today, and music is life.
She sings our soul indeed 🎶🎶🎶🎶✨✨✨✨love Joni
Come into a garden with twisty vines, owls above asking for your ticket, slivers of sun crack the leaves on stems of flowers with colors you've never seen... and never will again. Take this trip and you will see me dancing on feathers burning from dragons fire. Joni is charm, song, a treasure of wonders.
I am a "court and spark" kind of guy, I've been listening to it - and not a lot else by Joni - since it was released. One day, however, I saw this Album and for reasons I have yet to discover, I said to myself "I'm going to listen to this until I hit a track I don't care for". I got all the way through, started over - just to make sure I hadn't miss-heard something - and have completely fallen in love with this album. So beautiful and melodic and genuinely heart-felt...amazing.
There’s something very pure and cleansing about joni and especially this album - it seems to clear the way and shine powerful light into the spirit - joni s Scorpio energy allows for this I feel, the ring of truth, very clear and facing the pain of life head on.
I am 72 and this album eluded me for all those years. Blue, Only for the roses, Ladies of the Canyon.... listened to them hundreds of time. The BBC Radio 4 podcast Legend took me to her earlier work and her back story and this album just blew me away.
Her pure voice is clear as crystal , her thoughts are mine , and I think I could have earphones with nothing but this music in my head for the next week
Bellissima sorpresa, grazie di cuore Jony. From Italy.