Joni Mitchell-If I Had A Heart

[butfulmuzik]

This song knocks you on your ass, gets into your heart and soul, and lives there forever right alongside all the other amazing song's by this brilliant artist. One of Joni's best!

[AleekahTV]

"If I had a heart, I'd cry"

Tell it, Joni. Tell it.

[mhasting22]

She can still sing circles around most of the people in the biz, and the themes are perfect.  If only my life had been so full.

[neccowaif9]

This song always reminds me that I do, in fact, have a heart.

[steelydrwu]

A lot of talk of smoking on some of Joni's Video songs on here. The next time you pass a mirror look in and ask the person what have you created.

[JehericoC]

What a lovely texture Joni's voice has. The instrument has changed over the years but the virtuoso who plays it has not. Still genius.

[neilerone]

Shine was and is just great! Joni is and was and will be just Joni,like no one else in the music business, and a spokesperson for sanity in a world losing much of its mind and nature. She is my heroine!

[chanman215]

joni at her best is the best!!! this is not her best!

[beelzabubba]

Still an unapologetic chain smoker.... she should get together with Lemmy from Motorhead. I think they'd make a cute couple. I wish they were my parents.

[celticblue2]

She is or was a long time smoker. Her voice sounds pretty good for that abuse.

[grace30ishify]

her voice changed through the years but her soul is still there i love her voice even when she is old .

[seraphima55]

all because of smoking...



[1jetdrvr]

@seraphima55 Thank you, Dr. Who...?

[hanayo9]

Fanatstic song - been playing this album All week Cheers for post

[MrFcordeiro1]

"Shine",best record of Joni in many years...It's an excellent album...

[johnnyjemimah]

It's a fact that smoking does effect the voice negatively. Some singers do have a harder time reaching the higher notes when they are smoking. But Joni's voice suits the kind of music she does now anyway.

[handyman1017]

A nice song but haven't heard the album. Joni always sounds good, no matter how old she is. She has insisted that it's her age, not her smoking, that has lowered her voice and I suspect she's correct. After all, SHE ought to know. Many good singers have been smokers.  Since her more recent, jazz-inspired style is so different from the folk-inspired, original artistry of her twenties, when she was in her prime, musically, artistically, and socially, why worry about it.

[butfulmuzik]

This is Joni at her mature best. Simply stunning, simply beautiful, simply great Joni, but then you have never let me down when it comes to your artistry. Another painting in your head. I am SO proud to just be a part of your generations of music!

[holyburn]

Happy birthday, Joni.

[TheNigelr]

Thanks again blackkendoll82.

[atfatw]

the 'salt vampire' is as ugly inside as she is outside beware!

[peterm3964]

This is NOT a great recording . I miss tape and tubes .and wood and iron cored coils and magnets and hiss and buzz and feeling and all those thing I used to try to get rid of . Most of all I miss the SIZE of analogue music .

[upquidproquo]

I Marvel at Joni's Brilliance!

My Mind is Happiest when I am Listening to Joni's Music.

Music for the Soul but especially For The Brain!!

[ghanick]

Probably the best song on "Shine", along with "Shine" and "If". You have to understand the context in which it was written. People are already starting to forget the horror that was the Bush administration. "Shine" is a lot about ecological disaster, which certainly predated Bush. But she makes enough references to his "holy wars" and his idea that actions had no consequences (we all LIVING THROUGH the consequences of his policies). This was really a very hopeless period of our history.

[rosenbar]

JM is probably the finest song writer of the past 100 years. Her male colleagues don't seem to be critiqued for their vocal changes associated with maturing.

[mekigal]

Jeeze People , we won't be singing that ding dung when the population crash is upon us in in 2028. The aged population and all . I have a heart and I cry for people that don't seem to know humans are animals of the earth. But all in all I love how melodic the song is. Sounds so good!

[mossymando]

Musicians trigger all kinds if things in people. Mostly they should realize that there is no "best" any kind of music. It's how you respond, what you bring to it. Portuguese "Fado" and Japanese "Shakuhachi"-flute are only supposed to be (sung), or played by mature adults... being that they can bring life experiences to the medium.Personally I LOOK for Joni's recent music... I want to hear how she hears things now, now in the sixties.

[ABSTRACTTK1A]

YOUR HEART SHINES FOREVER.

[RUuser]

It sounds like someone channeled Jerry Garcia's 70s pedal steel playing. I wouldn't be surprised if it isn't even a pedal steel in the background. Still adds much to the song.

[butfulmuzik]

A powerful, haunting, brilliant song by a woman who is simply on of the greatest artists of our time. Joni, you DO have a heart and I sure as hell cried when I listened. Thank you from my heart to yours for every beautiful gift of song and poetry you've shared.

[TheNigelr]

Thanks Blackkendoll82, this is beautiful!

[ramblnrose]

I've been an Activist for many years and this song says it all!

Blessings,

Kathleen

[TimeWarpLady]

I am proud to say I share Joni's November 7th birthday. (Wish I shared her talent!!) Thank you for posting this. She has got to be one of the most influential singer-songwriters ever!

[sherrylynn70]

Thank you so much for this. Miss Joni Mitchell

[TLoveKing]

B n D, U are my hero, I love Joni Mitchell too. Thanks for sharing and cheers from Poland :)

[PowderSpirit3]

when i was just a itty bitty girl my bf sister had a little 45 record player and we would play this song over & over & over

Its what i refer to as "Real Music" the lyrics & emotions from that time were REAL ! Thx for sharing & Memories

Thx to my sweet PJ for the send XO

[AVIOKINAM]

Johnny Mitchel and Donald Fagen are not from this Earth. They come to us with some messages that people have understand. But only few of them. Strange...

[paulo101]

@AVIOKINAM Johnny Mitchel? I lol'd.

[durgaaa]

Corrrection, they ARE from this planet. Only they are gifted with the PERCEPTION to see what's going on without explanation. They SEE, while most people are blind. They don't need explanation since they can see.

[cawobeth]

the truth hurts...yet, thank you Joni for always singing truth. I know that you cry for how could you even know what crying is, let alone sing of this painful love ? I appreciate your sharing how deeply you care. No frills, just truth.

[JoniFan56]

We don't have a heart, or we would not treat Holy Earth the way we do.

[vanindigo]

So beautiful - a Joni classic - thanks so much...

[sookiestackhouse2u]

yeah, joni mitchell ... IF YOU HAD A HEART, you wouldn't have given your only daughter away for adoption after having raised her for the first 2 years of her life.

[lancitos]

I love Joni, but what's with the cheesy lounbge bar backbeat? It doesn't fit the song. Sounds like an old Lowery organ beat.

[nohaylamujer]

@lancitos

my view exactly. i was just saying that maybe she felt less insecure with drums and that omnipresent sax... if you listen carefully the chord progressions are very interesting. too bad joni didn't trust her piano, expressive vocals and haunting narratives alone to do this album.

[RandaldGreenwalt]

I saw it through, figured it out.

She's presented a straw man. She does have a heart.

Buit does not want to admit it.

Why, I cannot imagine.

[RandaldGreenwalt]

Beautiful but so strange from the artist who blew the world I knew away back in 1971 with 'Woman of Heart and Mind," and I mean in every way, the sharp thought, the righteous anger, and the deep sense of sorrow.

And now she seems to have settled, in more than she's written than just this, that she has no heart.

It doesn't sound right, it doesn't seem right, and something is very wrong here. Maybe I'm speaking to my own guilt, and Joni shouldn't have to be the Madonna of the Road, and yet.

[lemusiclover01]

so beautiful !!

[ladyladydah]

Just Beautiful One of my favorite Songs. Thanks for adding it to You Tube for others to check out.

[rickdanko4eva]

joni, rickie, dylan, danko, jackson, young....the best anyday!

[PowderSpirit3]

beautiful !!! only joni :)))

[passjay]

beautiful arrangement..this is lovel to the spirit and soul..thanks for the post

[Birkebine]

Yeah, Rickie Lee is also great.

[fayedunawayfan]

Love Joni and wondering do Joni diehards also like Rickie Lee Jones. I do.

[Elston1969]

Great, If I had a heart I'd cry.

[MicroWorldLover]

Hear, hear, It's what she was getting at, I think, in her interview with Charlie Rose (it's on his website), in 2007.

[RandaldGreenwalt]

Yes, indeed. I sent the Charlie Rose 'Green Room' interview to someone I love.

The conclusion is that she is indeed a woman of heart, and most especially, mind, careful of worry but more importantly, uprighjt and righteous to this day.

Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful...just beautiful all over.

[DANOSURF911]

Simply listen and absorb the lyrics and how Joni expresses this place in time...I am humbled to say thanx to an artist that helped me thru my early teens, and even now, I look so forward to anything she releases...

[manumoka]

She's great, this album's great, but her vocals (range, creativity) have become lazy. Still, this is a great track and Shine is a great album, and I'm really glad she got inspired to sing and speak again.

[mrrichardfeder]

Jeez. It's called "aging." Cigarette smoking doesn't help. 'Older Joni' is still better than younger ________ (whomever).

[tall32guy]

I agree with that for sure.

[jmiller05]

I would never say her vocals are lazy. She hasnt a three octave range anymore, so has to rely on a more textured, alto vocal. Also she's nearly 65, she's hardly going to be singing like a 21 year old.

[ruben1956]

Thank god she doesnt sing like a 21 year old. Now she has nothing more to prove and all that so she is free to sing, finally

[Khultan]

@ruben1956 What the heck kind of comment is that?!?

[Ahhnn]

@jmiller05

Well, provided a 21 year old sang very very well ;)

[Robinwhiteart]

@jmiller05 Yes! you understand about aging and singers! She is still so good. Her works lasts the test of time. I loved her work when both she and I were young. She still sounds good! Just different more mature, maybe happier more accepting. That's not bad for a long life in a hard profession that chews people up and spits them out.

[sookiestackhouse2u]

@jmiller05 ... smoking heavily will also affect your vocals. joni, unfortunately, was a big smoker - a big *no-no* for a singer. she even admits to this in other interviews. smoking affected her voice in a big way over the years. just look at someone like judy collins, for example. the woman never smoked and she's up there in age and still sounds similar to the way she did when she was a much younger person. don't smoke, people ...

[millie1235]

@jmiller05 I agree... and besides that, I think her voice fits her age perfectly. She sounds so wise.

[talktalk666]

awesome