9. Joni Mitchell - All I Want (11-17-72)

[boopdogg]

Joni Mitchell is amazing. I discovered her and Laura Nyro about a year ago and love every single one of her songs. I've just turned fifteen and I will never give up on good music. The 'songs' in the charts today don't qualify at all!

[RoadNasty]

@boopdogg Great stuff isn't it? Check out Carole King also. Vashti Bunyan's "Train Song" from back then is superb too.

[makafeke]

This song always gets me. This is amazing.

[elliottdebra452]

a creative genius and unrecognized comedienne :)

[crockyoshighty]

Joni's songs are the only ones I know all the lyrics to by heart including musical accompaniment, and I'm a bloke! The only men that normally know all the words to songs are usually . . . well you know, Chiropodists. Ta for posting. :o)o:

[msawbe]

@crockyoshighty Man.... I remember in my High school parking lot 20+ years ago hanging with the fellows' drinking beer and a Joni Mitchell song pop'd on the radio. I'm groovin to it' and the next thing I hear is "WTF is this shit! So I spoke up and asked' don't change the station. So of course' these metalheads laughed' and called me every insult you're manhood name in the book. I just laughed and rode with it' it wasn't my radio' but they knew if I wanted to' I could take the keys and the car.

[MusicForYourFunk]

@msawbe

i was introduced to Joni as a small child by my mother. before the age of 9 i know every word of every one of her albums up to that time.

my pals used to make fun of me a bit , until i told them the lyrics to BLUE

("...Acid, booze, and ass

Needles, guns, and grass

Lots of laughs, lots of laughs

Everybody's saying that hell's the hippest way to go

Well I don't think so

But I'm gonna take a look around it though ..."). suddenly they thought i was super cool , lol .

yes, i said, i am!

[ThurmontTerrier]

Man, on christmas eve, who can ask for anything better than the minor miracle of Joni's voice? Don't have much use for religion but when I hear her sing, I think she was chanelling something angelic from another place

[Beestroker]

I love this song! I wish we could celebrate genuine talent rather than fucking gobshite twats who clog up the airwaves and tutor our youth in the ways of (in anti-Withnail terms, "wrongness"). God bless those who try to make a difference in a postive manner..and fuck the charlatans shagwipes who pervert the good and pollute the popular airwaves. They are nothing less than dictatorial criminals. Sadly, a vast percentage of idiots fall for the hard sell and mistake a fucking racket for music! LFCx

[Guitasteef]

All I really really want our love to do

Is to bring out the best in me and in you too

All I really really want our love to do

Is to bring out the best in me and in you

I want to talk to you, I want to shampoo you

I want to renew you again and again

Applause, applause - life is our cause

When I think of your kisses

My mind see-saws

[Guitasteef]

I want to wreck my stockings in some juke box dive

Do you want - do you want - do you want

To dance with me baby

Do you want to take a chance

On maybe finding some sweet romance with me baby

Well, come on

[Guitasteef]

Oh I love you when I forget about me

I want to be strong I want to laugh along

I want to belong to the living

Alive, alive, I want to get up and jive

[Guitasteef]

I am on a lonely road and I am traveling

Traveling, traveling, traveling

Looking for something, what can it be

Oh I hate you some, I hate you some

I love you some