I understand to each their own, but to dislike this song? My God, the lyrics are simply brilliant, the tune is melodic, I don't get it......I listen to this song several times a week to simply marvel at the simpleness yet complexities all in this song by her!!!!! Go Joni!!!!!!!
This is the way of life: in every human endeavor, in the career of every genius, there is a moment of convergence. In that moment the artist is able to transcend limitation, and achieve something above what we live with every day. Some artists are able to do this many times, but that is very rare. Joni hit her greatest moment of convergence when she recorded this material, and she has recognized it. She has said that making "Blue" almost killed her. And this is the best of "Blue." Her greatest.
The song becomes almost completely different when James Blake sings it. Joni wrote it, and it's her song, and imo her version is better. But James Blake's is still beautiful. Some people seem to think that one version has to suck for the other to be good, and vice versa.
@AlexHamiltonPhoto James Blake did an excellent cover of that song. I can't help but crying listening to his one. They're both masterpieces, even if the song is property of her. Her voice in unreachable, though.
I'll be honest, James brought me here, and I like his version more, but hell she knows how to write songs. I'll listen to "Blue" tomorrow for the first time, I'm sure it's gonna be great, her lyrics and voice are amazing.
I have been a Joni Mitchell fan for many many decades. Joni, along with Judy Collins, Joan Baez, Emmylou Harris, Mary Travers and Buffy St. Marie ~ are folklore in 60's folk music. I know the younger generation(s) get tired of us 60's retreads talking about how that time, and place, was as good as it ever got in music but sometimes, if you tell the truth, it just comes out that way. As much of a cleshay as this might be ~ God I am so pleased that I was there and lived in that moment.
@MrRonnieG I too was there with you Ronnie, and it was a time of great consequence and tribulation. The lyrics in today's music is beginning to mirror the politics and beliefs of today, just as the lyrics of our generation. You must remember that we were living in a time that lost John, Martin Luther, and Bobby. It was a time of fear and conspiracy.
With it came a string of poets who placed their hearts in the politics of the time and were trying to pull us out of the debris and ashes.
Great video, Thank You! And a beautiful way to celebrate Joni on her 68th birthday and all the wonderful music she has shared with us for all these years.
@offmymedsgeezer Yes a national treasure...Canada Has got more than it's fair share of wonderful Musicians,,,Am I envious?...am i? yeeeeeeeeeeees I bleeding well am...LOL love her to death and KD Land And Leonard Cohen and Neil Young and you get the picture (sob)
If you absolutely love Joni you must give Joanna Newsom a try! The music she makes is quite different than Joni's, but she also has a lot of talent and guts. Their voices also remind me a little of each others. I hope you guys listen and surely you'll be amazed;)
Always loved Joni, always will. This is a great collage of her life - so willing she is to bare herself to all of the world. That, my friends, is true courage, and true love..
@gosk8n No, TY Joni. James blake tries too hard and makes the lyrics indistinguishable. Absolute trash. Joni, is the original, and you can understand her lyrics to boot.
@Kaysler I totally agree, heard teh James Blake version first so I looked on wikipedia to see who did the song originally and that brought me here. Joni Mitchell is SO much better at singing this.
@Valrin7236 This is because as you noted that she wrote the song. I saw her perform in 1970 and she brought an entourage of notable guitar players and singer songwriters. It was jaw dropping who walked out on the stage with her. James Taylor, Neil Young, Stephen Stills, Cass Elliot, Poppa John Creech, Sneaky Pete, and about 7 other guests. Including Carole King, and Jim Messina, among others.At the very end they all came to the stage and performed the song Woodstock. It is a timeless moment.
Joni is such a wonderful, talented, singer/songwriter/musician, and has been for so many years now! She will leave this world with treasures of fine music, and fine art! No wonder Dan Fogelberg, my musical hero has her sing on "Nexus" from The Innocent Age album! I think that after I saw that, I knew i had to check out this artist that Dan Fogelberg so admired! Joni is a musical and artistic genius! And I found her to be a beautiful woman! BobbyK
Which is typical of someone who lives outside of Canada.
The line and the lines that follow indicate how beloved her home - Canada - is to her.
The lines - "you're in my blood like holy wine. you taste so bitter and so sweet. oh I could drink a case of you darling, and I would still be on my feet" - they refer both to her lover and to Canada. Joni has said many times that Saskatchewan runs through her veins.
I'm Canadian. Canadians have a huge inferiority complex, whether they want to admit it or not. Living next to the world's superpower will do that to a country. The fact that the greatest female singer / songwriter who ever lived comes from this country ... it makes us feel less inferior, it makes us feel better about ourselves. Times that by 100 when she actually mentions Canada in a song.
It's hard to explain. The Canadian psyche is a nice place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live there.
@ApocalypsePlough I personally beg to differ. At least for myself and my circle of friends, we find nothing enviable about the States.
I'm proud of being a Canadian and wouldn't change it or our "superpower" status for anything. Mind you, I haven't been too proud as of late... but I have faith that we'll turn back around eventually. Loving your country is like a relationship, you don't love someone because they're better than everyone else, you love them because of who they are. DFTBA! ~ ♥
@ApocalypsePlough Respectfully, why do you add the word "female" in your description of Ms. Mitchell as greatest female singer / songwriter? I'm not being antagonistic, I promise. I was just trying to think of a male singer /songwriter who is better and I can think of no one. Peace.
@childene - I, & everyone else, do that without even thinking. People get put into categories because it makes them easier to understand. Saying Joni is the greatest female singer/songwriter that ever lived is something few will dispute. Every female singer/songwriter owes her a debt. Few will say they weren't influenced by her.
When you put male singer/songwriters into the mix, it becomes a different story. Dylan is thought by most people to be the best. I don't agree. It's just the way it is.
@fasteddyuk - I have no idea what "taking the piss" means.
Do you mean you were being sarcastic and talking literally about how hard it is to draw Canada?
Don't tell me you're not proud The Beatles are from Liverpool. I don't know how you couldn't be proud.
Same thing with Canadians and Joni. What's missing is that 90% of your population doesn't live within 2 hours of the American border. The inferiority complex is missing. Hard to feel inferior to Belgium or The Netherlands, methinks.
@fasteddyuk - I have no idea what "taking the piss" means.
Do you mean you were being sarcastic and talking literally about how hard it is to draw Canada?
Don't tell me you're not proud The Beatles are from Liverpool. I don't know how you couldn't be proud.
Same thing with Canadians and Joni. What's missing is that 90 per cent of your population doesn't live within 2 hours of the American border. The inferiority complex is missing. Hard to feel inferior to Belgium or The Netherlands, methinks.
If you EVER get a chance to hear Joni's album 'Miles of Aisles' - do it, you won't be disappointed. Not that you would be with any Joni album, but still... you know what I mean.
I think it's impossible for anyone to truly dislike joni mitchells songs. she is one of the few artists that i am emotionally moved by her songs. this amazing voice makes me cry xxx
What a wonder it would've been to see her perform live...
"Go to him, stay with him if you can but be prepared to bleed." I would be honoured to be able to write such a line, not to mention such a song - amazingingly beautiful.
I do not think that there is a Joni Mitchell song that I find to be of a lesser value than another. Joni chose to share such a wonderful, artistic skill and such love in each of her songs. Thanks for sharing this one.
I feel so awful and bad right now. Breaking up with a person that I love but cannot live with. 7 years of memories and smiles. I feel like I am in a daze of nothingness and fear, with a precipice before me. But I have to be strong and gp through with what is honest and right, for both of us. Please God, make this pain stop.
@CelticReject Sometimes we must allow our hearts to take risk. Trusting your heart has to deal with believing you can go through this despite the unforseen circumstances of the future. I know it is the hardest thing to go through... but you will survive.... you have already established a friendship, a friendship that will last forever....... I know this!!!!
You say you love this person?Sometimes we are scared of the future and we make excuses to ruin it for ourselves. Is this person not in love with you anymore? Believe me, love is not easy to find and 7 years is a lot to throw away. I broke up with a wonderful woman and, like you, I thought it was the best to do, although she loved me and I loved her. I regret that decision every single day. Fight and change things! Many marriaged couples will tell you the same.DO NOT GIVE UP!
50 years on, and it is still Joni that brings back to me the sound and feel of the sixties, more evocative to me than the Beatles, The Dead or Dylan. Driving a van around Europe back then, I had one cassete, "Blue" which plugged into the cigarette lighter. Despite playing it non stop for about 6 weeks then I can still listen to and love it now. Possibly my favourite track on the album.
Joni is unbelievable. No matter what medium Joni uses, (paints, voice, piano, guitar. . ) she seems to be able to communicate what each of us feels but has a hard time expressing. Joni is absolutely timeless and always will be.
From what I've heard, I think she's probably talking about how her and her lover have grown apart, but that she still thinks about him from time to time, maybe even still loves him
Joni's music just grabs me heart and soul. Her version of this on "Both Sides Now" is profound. Often, when I listen to her songs, I'm in tears and I know why yet I don't know why - her artistry connects me to life and death, the deeper reality of things beneath the surface. The holiness, the bitterness, the tragedy, the beauty of existence. She reminds me that time is running out, don't waste it, and leave behind the best part of you that it may live on: art, new knowledge, wisdom, a child.
@princebubby so very well put! Thank you for the wonderful insight! Joni Gives me such goose bumps!I have been a fan since the 70's and will be forever!
Why in the fucking shit does YouTube put a US Marines commercial beside a Joni MItchell song. I would like to personally meet the ass fuck who denigrated Joni's song this way.
hello people, i am now confussed. i ve got this song labeled as a freddie mercury s earliest performances when he was known as larry lurex, AM I WRONG. PLEASE HELP ME WITH THIS. sorry if my spell is bad but i am not an english born speaker.
@tavaszitzel No, Joni Mitchell wrote and recorded it for the album "Blue," 1971. It has been covered by many people and bands. Go to Amazon.com and see how many people consider "Blue" to be the greatest album of all time, or at least, their personal favorite.
I'd like to dedicate this comment to my good friend, the late JB., who taught me everything Joni. One day, on the Strip, back in the 70s, he saw his music-art-spirit-goddess, Joni, sitting at a table (was it at the Whiskey? I forget). He was just out of high school, alienated, gay, brilliant, shy. They chatted about guitars, music, and whatnot. She must have recognized a young, fellow artist. She gave him the time of day. It meant so much to him. Two brilliant souls talking steel guitar.
I think James Blacke " A Case of You ( with Joni Mitchell Lyrics)" music is better edited than this one. But, Joni Mitchell´s version is also very good.
I like the sound she achieves with her use of original folk instruments combined with her vocal style, its like appalachian music with current lyrics - really great sound.
This song is so brutally honest about when a seemingly perfect love between two people starts to fall apart and each party drifts away for whatever issue, but the love they will have for each other will remain in their hearts and their blood till their dying day. This is truly a masterpiece.
I have no words...this is just lovely...listen to the lyrics...and compare them with today's blaa, blaa....not to mention the melody....I'm speechless ; D
What a fantastic song eh? I still remember when this song was so....explosive and personal to me. Glad I can listen to it again. Joni and this song....just amazing!
....and so am I. What a fantastic song eh? I still remember when this song was so....explosive and personal to me. Glad I can listen to it again. Joni and this song....just amazing!
Oh I love this women all the time I'm learning more about the greats from the past and more and more am I inspired. So far it seems that I find more and more so I never get bored but had for example Joni been the only great singer in the world I would have been happy only listening to her. Oh I love your voice.
this song was released 23 years before I was born, it's now been 41 years since its release and it's still as magical as ever, timeless!
marlinglover 1 week ago 3
I understand to each their own, but to dislike this song? My God, the lyrics are simply brilliant, the tune is melodic, I don't get it......I listen to this song several times a week to simply marvel at the simpleness yet complexities all in this song by her!!!!! Go Joni!!!!!!!
lynnpwest1 1 week ago
Beautiful.
SouthernGothique 1 week ago
tom baxter version very good also. check it out!
TheHeroglob 2 weeks ago
practical magic <3
raspberrysrokk 3 weeks ago in playlist Favorite videos 5
So dear to me !
bscondict 4 weeks ago
Yeah, beautiful, beautiful song.
pfunk70 1 month ago
i,m a guy and i can say proudly. yes i cry to this song every time i hear it.
1dbjoker 1 month ago 3
@1dbjoker Me too, I teared up bro.
AudioMusiq 1 month ago
This is the way of life: in every human endeavor, in the career of every genius, there is a moment of convergence. In that moment the artist is able to transcend limitation, and achieve something above what we live with every day. Some artists are able to do this many times, but that is very rare. Joni hit her greatest moment of convergence when she recorded this material, and she has recognized it. She has said that making "Blue" almost killed her. And this is the best of "Blue." Her greatest.
lebarosky 1 month ago
The song becomes almost completely different when James Blake sings it. Joni wrote it, and it's her song, and imo her version is better. But James Blake's is still beautiful. Some people seem to think that one version has to suck for the other to be good, and vice versa.
TheBratpacker1 1 month ago
Love this song it is amazing:)....
AntonCruz200 1 month ago
I should probably say that Joni Mitchell brought me to James Blake... but I admit - James Blake brought me here.
AlexHamiltonPhoto 1 month ago 2
@AlexHamiltonPhoto James Blake did an excellent cover of that song. I can't help but crying listening to his one. They're both masterpieces, even if the song is property of her. Her voice in unreachable, though.
theandrew1319 1 month ago 4
Practical Magic fo evahhh
CordeliaBee 1 month ago 4
I'll be honest, James brought me here, and I like his version more, but hell she knows how to write songs. I'll listen to "Blue" tomorrow for the first time, I'm sure it's gonna be great, her lyrics and voice are amazing.
xXDeathTheaterXx 1 month ago
@xXDeathTheaterXx also listen to "For The Roses" it is one of her best albums.
2awizardatruestar 1 month ago in playlist My view of the world
this is so much better than james blake
evilthesaurus 1 month ago 4
@evilthesaurus very very true, the original is so much better
gilliemillie 1 month ago
40 years and this song still knocks me off my feet...
aquamoon22 1 month ago 2
I love this song and really enjoyed the slideshow - some of the paintings were familiar, were they from her Turbulent Indigo album?
spiralthreads 1 month ago
James Blake brought me here...thanks Joni. I love this song.
DigitalBoyStudios 1 month ago
I have been a Joni Mitchell fan for many many decades. Joni, along with Judy Collins, Joan Baez, Emmylou Harris, Mary Travers and Buffy St. Marie ~ are folklore in 60's folk music. I know the younger generation(s) get tired of us 60's retreads talking about how that time, and place, was as good as it ever got in music but sometimes, if you tell the truth, it just comes out that way. As much of a cleshay as this might be ~ God I am so pleased that I was there and lived in that moment.
MrRonnieG 1 month ago 2
@MrRonnieG I too was there with you Ronnie, and it was a time of great consequence and tribulation. The lyrics in today's music is beginning to mirror the politics and beliefs of today, just as the lyrics of our generation. You must remember that we were living in a time that lost John, Martin Luther, and Bobby. It was a time of fear and conspiracy.
With it came a string of poets who placed their hearts in the politics of the time and were trying to pull us out of the debris and ashes.
2awizardatruestar 1 month ago
wow.great song, great voice.. just wow
elyvz 2 months ago
ohhhh ... it´s so beautiful !!! :)
Greexii 2 months ago
Joni is just brilliant. And that voice tickles my veins :D This song is so beautiful too - Sigh.
shahw1 2 months ago 2
joni > james blake
evilthesaurus 2 months ago
@evilthesaurus LOL
CandelGoat 1 month ago
parenthood and practical magic.. i'm going to die..
LillePotter 2 months ago
I'll do a cover for NO likes, it's actually such an amazing song :)
mskatieswan 2 months ago
So many wonderful memories. One of my favourite songs.
peacefulriver1 2 months ago
Great video, Thank You! And a beautiful way to celebrate Joni on her 68th birthday and all the wonderful music she has shared with us for all these years.
peacefultime1 2 months ago
she reminds me of sissy spacek
flanud 2 months ago 3
why is breugel in there?
asyoucanimagine 2 months ago
Parenthood brought me here.
googieq 2 months ago 40
@googieq Lol me too. I love Jabar, they need to show more of him...
snickerscrunchers 2 months ago 4
@googieq best show <3
booberry033 2 months ago
Lovely video and sound for one of our national treasures, Joni Mitchell. Thank you.
offmymedsgeezer 3 months ago
@offmymedsgeezer Yes a national treasure...Canada Has got more than it's fair share of wonderful Musicians,,,Am I envious?...am i? yeeeeeeeeeeees I bleeding well am...LOL love her to death and KD Land And Leonard Cohen and Neil Young and you get the picture (sob)
MrSirDel 2 months ago
une voix magnifique!! :)
Nath57022 3 months ago
LoVE THIS SONG! sO NICE <3
ToTheLandOfMushrooms 3 months ago
I was just watching Pratical Magic and was like I KNOW THIS SONG. <3
FrouElise 3 months ago 3
favourite woman !
kushkush52 3 months ago
Love it, great voice!
0602nudger 3 months ago
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If you absolutely love Joni you must give Joanna Newsom a try! The music she makes is quite different than Joni's, but she also has a lot of talent and guts. Their voices also remind me a little of each others. I hope you guys listen and surely you'll be amazed;)
LennLucky 3 months ago
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LennLucky 3 months ago
Always loved Joni, always will. This is a great collage of her life - so willing she is to bare herself to all of the world. That, my friends, is true courage, and true love..
westernjen 3 months ago
Great song - check out Goran Kay. He is about to cover it.
thedotsd 3 months ago
@thedotsd Check out James Blake, he just did.
Jonazzzzzz 3 months ago 4
Oh, I am a lonely painter,
I live in a box of paints !
I'm frightened by the devil
and I'm drawn to those ones that ain't afraid.
I remember that time that 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.
corrirava 3 months ago 3
@corrirava what is this ?
Runnmill 3 months ago
@Runnmill some of the lyrics... if that's wnhat your asking about.
TitchesYerhh 3 months ago
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Hi @TitchesYerhh !
Yeah you are wright. This is part of the lyrics, from 1:44 to 2:27.
I really love this part !
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corrirava 3 months ago
Hi @Runnmill !
This is part of the lyrics, from 1:44 to 2:27.
I really love this part !
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corrirava 3 months ago 2
Thank you james blake!
gosk8n 3 months ago 101
@gosk8n why?
MrAnon135 2 months ago
@MrAnon135 For Introducing me to more great music :) you listen to his cover?
gosk8n 2 months ago
@gosk8n No, TY Joni. James blake tries too hard and makes the lyrics indistinguishable. Absolute trash. Joni, is the original, and you can understand her lyrics to boot.
Kaysler 1 month ago
@Kaysler I totally agree, heard teh James Blake version first so I looked on wikipedia to see who did the song originally and that brought me here. Joni Mitchell is SO much better at singing this.
Valrin7236 1 month ago 2
@Valrin7236 This is because as you noted that she wrote the song. I saw her perform in 1970 and she brought an entourage of notable guitar players and singer songwriters. It was jaw dropping who walked out on the stage with her. James Taylor, Neil Young, Stephen Stills, Cass Elliot, Poppa John Creech, Sneaky Pete, and about 7 other guests. Including Carole King, and Jim Messina, among others.At the very end they all came to the stage and performed the song Woodstock. It is a timeless moment.
2awizardatruestar 1 month ago in playlist My view of the world
@gosk8n for ruining a song?
MrBaudelaire1991 2 weeks ago
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",had her sing.." just correcting the grammar below I need to proofread, but I'm doing 1000 things at once! BobbyK
bobby7771117 3 months ago
",had her sing.." just correcting the grammar below I need to proofread, but I'm doing 1000 things at once! BobbyK
bobby7771117 3 months ago
Joni is such a wonderful, talented, singer/songwriter/musician, and has been for so many years now! She will leave this world with treasures of fine music, and fine art! No wonder Dan Fogelberg, my musical hero has her sing on "Nexus" from The Innocent Age album! I think that after I saw that, I knew i had to check out this artist that Dan Fogelberg so admired! Joni is a musical and artistic genius! And I found her to be a beautiful woman! BobbyK
bobby7771117 3 months ago
Canada's Princess! xo
seeohdeewhy420 4 months ago
<3
cinemacec 4 months ago
wonderful tune!!!
lurana125 4 months ago
"I drew a map of Canada, Oh Canada"
Non-Canadians will never understand how much that one single line means to Canadians.
ApocalypsePlough 4 months ago
@ApocalypsePlough Yeah, Canada has lots of jagged bits. Tricky job.
fasteddyuk 4 months ago
@fasteddyuk - I don't think you get what I meant.
Which is typical of someone who lives outside of Canada.
The line and the lines that follow indicate how beloved her home - Canada - is to her.
The lines - "you're in my blood like holy wine. you taste so bitter and so sweet. oh I could drink a case of you darling, and I would still be on my feet" - they refer both to her lover and to Canada. Joni has said many times that Saskatchewan runs through her veins.
ApocalypsePlough 4 months ago
I'm Canadian. Canadians have a huge inferiority complex, whether they want to admit it or not. Living next to the world's superpower will do that to a country. The fact that the greatest female singer / songwriter who ever lived comes from this country ... it makes us feel less inferior, it makes us feel better about ourselves. Times that by 100 when she actually mentions Canada in a song.
It's hard to explain. The Canadian psyche is a nice place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live there.
ApocalypsePlough 4 months ago
@ApocalypsePlough I personally beg to differ. At least for myself and my circle of friends, we find nothing enviable about the States.
I'm proud of being a Canadian and wouldn't change it or our "superpower" status for anything. Mind you, I haven't been too proud as of late... but I have faith that we'll turn back around eventually. Loving your country is like a relationship, you don't love someone because they're better than everyone else, you love them because of who they are. DFTBA! ~ ♥
AwkwardAndAwesome 4 months ago
@ApocalypsePlough Respectfully, why do you add the word "female" in your description of Ms. Mitchell as greatest female singer / songwriter? I'm not being antagonistic, I promise. I was just trying to think of a male singer /songwriter who is better and I can think of no one. Peace.
childene 3 months ago
@childene - I, & everyone else, do that without even thinking. People get put into categories because it makes them easier to understand. Saying Joni is the greatest female singer/songwriter that ever lived is something few will dispute. Every female singer/songwriter owes her a debt. Few will say they weren't influenced by her.
When you put male singer/songwriters into the mix, it becomes a different story. Dylan is thought by most people to be the best. I don't agree. It's just the way it is.
ApocalypsePlough 3 months ago
@ApocalypsePlough Don't worry, I was just taking the piss. I don't think you got what I meant, which is typical of someone who lives in Canada.
fasteddyuk 4 months ago
@fasteddyuk - I have no idea what "taking the piss" means.
Do you mean you were being sarcastic and talking literally about how hard it is to draw Canada?
Don't tell me you're not proud The Beatles are from Liverpool. I don't know how you couldn't be proud.
Same thing with Canadians and Joni. What's missing is that 90% of your population doesn't live within 2 hours of the American border. The inferiority complex is missing. Hard to feel inferior to Belgium or The Netherlands, methinks.
ApocalypsePlough 4 months ago
@fasteddyuk - I have no idea what "taking the piss" means.
Do you mean you were being sarcastic and talking literally about how hard it is to draw Canada?
Don't tell me you're not proud The Beatles are from Liverpool. I don't know how you couldn't be proud.
Same thing with Canadians and Joni. What's missing is that 90 per cent of your population doesn't live within 2 hours of the American border. The inferiority complex is missing. Hard to feel inferior to Belgium or The Netherlands, methinks.
ApocalypsePlough 4 months ago
this song is hype! no wonder james blake did a version, damn!
clemens2205 4 months ago
I love this song - and you did a great job of the video - love the artwork.....!!
Brooklinres 4 months ago
One of my favorite songs of hers, this brings back so many memories. Just beautiful music, voice and astounding paintings. Bravo!
SeventhHeaven5655 5 months ago
If you EVER get a chance to hear Joni's album 'Miles of Aisles' - do it, you won't be disappointed. Not that you would be with any Joni album, but still... you know what I mean.
verminosity 5 months ago
@verminosity "Miles of Aisles" is superb.
princebubby 4 months ago
I'm a grown man and this song makes me cry. thanks Joni.
gezma12 5 months ago
a masterpiece
stormy32316 5 months ago
yada yada yada James Blake yada yada great song = Top Comment
DRPLUS2 5 months ago 3
I think it's impossible for anyone to truly dislike joni mitchells songs. she is one of the few artists that i am emotionally moved by her songs. this amazing voice makes me cry xxx
What a wonder it would've been to see her perform live...
katiekitkatisme 5 months ago
Joni Mitchell is so heatwarming with her music :)
Kelseyeverose639 5 months ago in playlist Music
perfect woman
jonnyparkes6 5 months ago
"Go to him, stay with him if you can but be prepared to bleed." I would be honoured to be able to write such a line, not to mention such a song - amazingingly beautiful.
rendellable 5 months ago
I do not think that there is a Joni Mitchell song that I find to be of a lesser value than another. Joni chose to share such a wonderful, artistic skill and such love in each of her songs. Thanks for sharing this one.
thedeeliciousplum 5 months ago
Practical Magic brought me here
pokamonmaster1997 5 months ago
this is beautiful
MelissaSevern 5 months ago
I feel so awful and bad right now. Breaking up with a person that I love but cannot live with. 7 years of memories and smiles. I feel like I am in a daze of nothingness and fear, with a precipice before me. But I have to be strong and gp through with what is honest and right, for both of us. Please God, make this pain stop.
CelticReject 5 months ago
@CelticReject Sometimes we must allow our hearts to take risk. Trusting your heart has to deal with believing you can go through this despite the unforseen circumstances of the future. I know it is the hardest thing to go through... but you will survive.... you have already established a friendship, a friendship that will last forever....... I know this!!!!
afiboi 5 months ago
@CelticReject
You say you love this person?Sometimes we are scared of the future and we make excuses to ruin it for ourselves. Is this person not in love with you anymore? Believe me, love is not easy to find and 7 years is a lot to throw away. I broke up with a wonderful woman and, like you, I thought it was the best to do, although she loved me and I loved her. I regret that decision every single day. Fight and change things! Many marriaged couples will tell you the same.DO NOT GIVE UP!
MrShadowonthewall 5 months ago
50 years on, and it is still Joni that brings back to me the sound and feel of the sixties, more evocative to me than the Beatles, The Dead or Dylan. Driving a van around Europe back then, I had one cassete, "Blue" which plugged into the cigarette lighter. Despite playing it non stop for about 6 weeks then I can still listen to and love it now. Possibly my favourite track on the album.
muteswan53 5 months ago
i cant stop crying now.
CelticReject 5 months ago 2
Joni is unbelievable. No matter what medium Joni uses, (paints, voice, piano, guitar. . ) she seems to be able to communicate what each of us feels but has a hard time expressing. Joni is absolutely timeless and always will be.
mararlmar 5 months ago
From what I've heard, I think she's probably talking about how her and her lover have grown apart, but that she still thinks about him from time to time, maybe even still loves him
Quinton111100 5 months ago
la mejor cantante de todas. ella y janis, pero joni creo que muchísimo más. peace!
feralayo 5 months ago 2
Thanks for this!!!
babebleu57 5 months ago
princebuddy, your words about joni mitchell were beautiful and wouderful
aruba121 5 months ago
Joni's music just grabs me heart and soul. Her version of this on "Both Sides Now" is profound. Often, when I listen to her songs, I'm in tears and I know why yet I don't know why - her artistry connects me to life and death, the deeper reality of things beneath the surface. The holiness, the bitterness, the tragedy, the beauty of existence. She reminds me that time is running out, don't waste it, and leave behind the best part of you that it may live on: art, new knowledge, wisdom, a child.
princebubby 5 months ago in playlist Joni Mitchell 43
@princebubby So well said...
Raina430 4 months ago
@princebubby shes cool but beauty is in the eye of the beholder...which is you,lucky dog !
robertmck12 4 months ago
@princebubby so very well put! Thank you for the wonderful insight! Joni Gives me such goose bumps!I have been a fan since the 70's and will be forever!
SuperScotch23 2 months ago
Why in the fucking shit does YouTube put a US Marines commercial beside a Joni MItchell song. I would like to personally meet the ass fuck who denigrated Joni's song this way.
Celtokee 6 months ago
@Celtokee
you just denigrated her song by writing 'ass fuck' beneath it.
matthewcrawford1963 5 months ago
@Celtokee Are those the same Marines that protect your sorry ass?
danocolvin1 5 months ago
kd lang's version of this is spellbinding.
sweethairyjesus 6 months ago
Listening to the lyrics I start to wonder if Mike Skinner of The Streets listens to Mitchell. They have a very similar way of writing.
fetmabebis 6 months ago
i meant this perfomance, obviously not the song.
tavaszitzel 6 months ago
hello people, i am now confussed. i ve got this song labeled as a freddie mercury s earliest performances when he was known as larry lurex, AM I WRONG. PLEASE HELP ME WITH THIS. sorry if my spell is bad but i am not an english born speaker.
tavaszitzel 6 months ago
@tavaszitzel No, Joni Mitchell wrote and recorded it for the album "Blue," 1971. It has been covered by many people and bands. Go to Amazon.com and see how many people consider "Blue" to be the greatest album of all time, or at least, their personal favorite.
jilkat25 5 months ago
Constantly in the darkness? Where's that at? If you want me I'll be in the bar! Joni feeds my soul too...I hope it didn't cost her too much
655321ism 6 months ago in playlist Joni Mitchell
Constantly in the darkness? Where's that at? If you want me I'll be in the bar!
655321ism 6 months ago in playlist Joni Mitchell
@655321ism
She says "Barn", not "Bar". :)
KittiesandMe22 6 months ago
Thumbs up if you first heard this in Practical Magic and fell in love with it.<3
LuvorHate95 6 months ago 2
"I am a lonely painter...
I live in a box of paints" The most beautiful, simplistic, truthful lyric I've ever heard in my life. I dedicate my life to this one lyric <3
marymaragrady 6 months ago 2
Una de las mejores cantantes (:
martzfrida 6 months ago
I'd like to dedicate this comment to my good friend, the late JB., who taught me everything Joni. One day, on the Strip, back in the 70s, he saw his music-art-spirit-goddess, Joni, sitting at a table (was it at the Whiskey? I forget). He was just out of high school, alienated, gay, brilliant, shy. They chatted about guitars, music, and whatnot. She must have recognized a young, fellow artist. She gave him the time of day. It meant so much to him. Two brilliant souls talking steel guitar.
Ladyrants 6 months ago 3
good
champiification 6 months ago
I think James Blacke " A Case of You ( with Joni Mitchell Lyrics)" music is better edited than this one. But, Joni Mitchell´s version is also very good.
Luismcvaz1 6 months ago
How could you not like this? O.O
idavisje1 6 months ago 2
So very lovely. Joni's music feeds my soul.
myrealtorjanie 6 months ago
I like the sound she achieves with her use of original folk instruments combined with her vocal style, its like appalachian music with current lyrics - really great sound.
k6musicteacher 6 months ago
James Blake's cover is also very good
Freebase421 6 months ago
James Blake's cover is just as soulful. Love this song
olooshia 6 months ago
no wonder joni is the musician s musician this is a masterpiece
buggeringon 6 months ago 2
Wow she's sexy as well as incredibly talented.
mike25496 6 months ago
What an absolutely amazing and pure voice. So beautiful. Ismail Pandor
rodnap100 6 months ago 2
that voice,them lyrics,whats not to love!!!
slapbush 6 months ago 2
This song is so brutally honest about when a seemingly perfect love between two people starts to fall apart and each party drifts away for whatever issue, but the love they will have for each other will remain in their hearts and their blood till their dying day. This is truly a masterpiece.
moatsiebeethovenbach 6 months ago 2
I adore this song.
uhhuhkrystal 7 months ago 14
@uhhuhkrystal Fantastic comment; very well put; I feel exactly the same.
tskehan1 4 months ago
Absolutely the best.
kokopelliize 7 months ago
Prince does this song justice, but I wish he sung more of the song. His version is quite short.
amusedbygod 7 months ago
Me gusta mucho sta cancion... fue incluida en el Soundtrack de Practical Magic ♥ I could drink a case of youuuuuu darling! ♥
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justplayfm 7 months ago
amazing <3
bradyw95 7 months ago
That second picture in the slide show, what is that? It was used in Lars Von Trier's "Melancholia".
basement94 7 months ago
@basement94 Pieter Bruegel the Elder - he Hunters in the Snow 1565
aliciagovinda 7 months ago in playlist Nick Drake//Elliott Smith//JoniM
maybe the greatest heartfelt song of love to canada.
UpstairsMaid 7 months ago 2
Very nicely put together, thanks so much for posting.
uradragon 7 months ago
Joni is the best of the best...girl, woman, artist, goddess.
FromaRandom 7 months ago
its about leonard cohen
roisinbrowne 7 months ago
who is the painter?
39napkins 7 months ago
@39napkins she paints too, and has done a few of her own album covers including 'song to a seagull' and 'ladies of the canyon'
richardodonoghue 7 months ago
@39napkins Answer: Most likely Joni Mitchell!
FromaRandom 7 months ago
Joni Mitchell rocked my world the first time I heard her in 1970. She continues to rock my world today.
LizKay09 8 months ago 2
è fantastica..
plepleple8 8 months ago
go listen to jonathan groff's interpretation, its awesome.
zmarfeffkowana 8 months ago
I have no words...this is just lovely...listen to the lyrics...and compare them with today's blaa, blaa....not to mention the melody....I'm speechless ; D
Mattiwhoof 8 months ago
Such an amazing artist!! :)
SageRyan1 8 months ago
I love that song .
michaimeskinsek 8 months ago
this is my favorite song.
get some new pictures you dick
i mean more
oh canada?
cutiepie5250 8 months ago
this is my favorite song.
get some new pictures you dick
cutiepie5250 8 months ago
get some new pictures you dick
cutiepie5250 8 months ago
:)
0ntology 8 months ago
she is the best.... i like her voice most
abcdefghi8999 8 months ago
What a fantastic song eh? I still remember when this song was so....explosive and personal to me. Glad I can listen to it again. Joni and this song....just amazing!
TheKanaraja 8 months ago
....and so am I. What a fantastic song eh? I still remember when this song was so....explosive and personal to me. Glad I can listen to it again. Joni and this song....just amazing!
TheKanaraja 8 months ago
I love this song, I love her voice, I put it on, again and again...
Mmscvet 8 months ago
This song is beautiful - from an age when singers has a brain
ukguytemp 8 months ago
OH CANADA
lucidzirkus 9 months ago
I hear pain in this song...
maybe it makes me hear my pain..
</3
etralo92 9 months ago 2
@etralo92 I feel the same!
Mmscvet 8 months ago
I remember that time... ♪♫
etralo92 9 months ago
Oh I love this women all the time I'm learning more about the greats from the past and more and more am I inspired. So far it seems that I find more and more so I never get bored but had for example Joni been the only great singer in the world I would have been happy only listening to her. Oh I love your voice.
rekoonsghjkl 9 months ago
I like how people are mentioning James Blake. I can't stop listening to his cover. But Joni Mitchell is much better. GIRL CRUSH.
shazaha 9 months ago
i came here from the james blake cover
jfimneg1 9 months ago 7
I like it :)
etralo92 9 months ago
tsk, wonder if.........
Leslie33635 9 months ago
how can someone possibly hit the dislike button on an angel singing?
atlantarubber 9 months ago
the original is sooo awsome..james blake did an amazing job with his cover as well
jordanryanstiles89 10 months ago 15
she's soo pretty ( :
facelessfan777 10 months ago
so beautiful.. thank you
racyweb 10 months ago