I could write a book about how her music has changed my life and my songwriting abilities. But most of all is how her music keeps them "lonesome blues away"
1 of my most saddest times in life is when the surgeon told me that he must excise all 30yrs of memories. Day b4 the surgery I went 4 a walk on the beach n said, "Lord, I lived during sum of the greatest most poignant times. I saw ppl usher in music & spirituality that brought us alive. I don't know if I can take losing these memories". God replied, "My Child all that is written on the wind & forever told is kept in every person's Soul". I smiled warmly & faced that life altering surgery. GBU
@LSW1987 there are events that are associated w/very strong energy. Whether that is something bad or good that happened. So therefore...the greater the impact...the greater the memory of it. And as I stated...all memory is stored in one's soul. "Getting in touch w/one's emotions"....is one of the keys to unlocking these soul memories. In otherwords, what I felt aided in the recalling of it.
@Rossonero072213 its great that we can all have our favourites, dylan, simon, cohen,taylor,crosby,lennon , jim webb and more. but for me joni mitchell is the tops.
This earth has been blessed with the manifestation of such a soul!....this is what a rock spinning in the blackness of space can form......believing in Jesus ain't such a stretch!!!! spread the word!
This earth has been blessed with the manifestation of such a soul!....this is what a rock spinning in the blackness of space can form......beleiving in Jesus ain't such a stretch!!!! spread the word!
Joni, because she is a woman, has never been taken seriously. Her complexity of chords, her sense of poetry is unparalleled. Nash is great, but come on..He's pleasing to the ears but so is smooth jazz.!That's why Mingus wanted to collaborate with her. That's why she counts the jazz greats as her close friends...she's more than just a singer/songwriter.JONI RULES!!!! btw, Joni still paints and writes.Lastly, I think Joni would be happy to know that we are defending her! Read her RS interv. '79!
joni hasn't been taken seriously? she has influenced every singer/song writer of her time, and all who've come afterwards! i suspect her music will still be played hundreds of years after she's gone. very few if any artists of her generation can say that.
Comparing Joni's music and contributions with Graham Nash? Why? So they were together for a short awhile. So their "styles" crossed for a few short years. Joni's contributions were over a much longer period. But then again, Nash's Marakesh Express is one of my all time favorites. Joni's soothing voice and melodies got me through many a night while in Germany in the Army. Yeah, I know, so what. I still listening to these two occasionally. Along with about a million others. Cuidate
@stuartmcfly I respectfully disagree - Nash not only continues to sing and to write, but he continues to take pictures, give lectures and FINALLY get long overdue credit for his many contributions to art and life. His sunny outlook on life has been an inspiration to countless people. His activism and charity work alone shows that he puts his money where his mouth is, too.
to me, joni is perfection. she is a symbol of self expression, joy, confidence and beauty. and not because she looks like a fashion model, she doesn't even need any of that. she is so beautiful.
She Is What You Call A Quadruple Threat.. The Voice, The Writing, The Guitar, & The Piano.. (( Oh Fifth, The Person!,, Wait A Second,Sixth, She Is So Beautiful, Kind, Smart,,)) You Get The Idea Right?
In the end the only thing I really don't care for about her is how she treated Graham. She's actually quite good. I just prefer Nash, since I have enough academic stuff going on.
I'm not about to argue with a Graham Nash fanboy. Mitchell will be remembered by her fans just as much if not DEFINITELY more than stuffy academics. she's ridiculously influential to all kinds of people/artists/etc.
@rosenbar is more likely a classical one anyhow. But the great aforementioned Graham, or Paul McCartney, are going to go down in history as two of the greatest songwriters England has EVER produced.
what does being canadian have to do with anything? big friggin' deal. she was canadian. so what? i think you are racist. and besides, she wasn't all that. below average singer/songwriter. i mean, she was no chrissie hynde or jinx dawson.
@frankyforearmsnycnh look buddy. Maybe you should think before responding to comments. I'm Canadian - meaning, PROUD that she is from Canada. She's from Alberta as well - my home province. She's one of my favourite artists - and the reason I got into songwriting. So don't go calling me names before knowing the full story.
Entiendo que ella es una gran artista, pero no me suena bien este tema en particular, pareciera impostar la voz en forma desagradable en distintos tramos del mismo. Estoy equivocada?
I agree with Drew. Joni has a way of making every moment count as a new way to express herself. I too am a musician/singer/songwriter and she inspires me each time I hear her play!!
I agree with Drew. Joni has a way of making every moment count as a new way to express herself. I too am a musician/singer/songwriter and she inspires me each time I hear her play!!
@sandrayoungblood Piss off, seriously. Joni isn't a vending machine that needs to provide you with the sounds you want. She's almost 70 - yeah, I'm sure cigarettes affected her voice but so does age. Her phrasing is still amazing.
You are the kind of person who WOULD say to Van Gogh: Paint another Starry Night, man!
To have this song written for you is as signifcant, I think, as it was for the Earl of Southhampton to have had Shakespeare write the Sonnets for him, the first half, at least. How does it feel, Graham? YOU INSPIRED THIS!! Hope you are worthy of it.
@nicodagger How does Joni feel? The great Graham Nash wrote 'Simple Man', 'You'll Never Be the Same' and the magnificent 'I Used to Be a King' -- and got on with his life, writing and performing even more songs to this day! Nash's music will live on. Can the same be said about Joni's?
@NewHopeNashFan Graham is a good singer/songwriter, but in my opinion, and it's just my opinion, his music doesn't even deserve to mentiioned in the same sentence as hers, in terms of quality. Will Joni's music live on????????????? When Nash has been completely forgotten, Joni will still be revered as one of the greatest songwriters of any age. But again, that's just my opinion, and none of us wil be around to see it. But my comment had nothing to do with the quality of Nash's work.
@nicodagger - I agree completely. How many people would even know who Graham Nash was if not for his relationship with Joni Mitchell?? And, no, he doesn't deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence with Joni as far as songwriting. Joni's near the top of the list of great songwriters. Graham Nash would be lucky if he made the top 100, or even the top 1000. He's a nice guy, but nice doesn't cut it. His work is largely forgettable.
@ApocalypsePlough Thanks. How many songs has Nash written, by himself, that approach this quality? How many are classics? How many people can name 10 Nash hits right now? He did good work with the Hollies and CSN but as a composer he can't carry Joni's tampon.
@nicodagger Graham Nash was too much of a gentleman to embarrass Joni, and even wanted to marry her. SHE broke up with him, remember?
Get deeper into Nash's work than on the surface level and then you'll understand why Nash's songs will stand the test of time and be heard and sung long after he's gone, when Mitchell's will merely be the subject of doctoral dissertations
@nicodagger 1. Teach Your Children 2. Marrakesh Express 3. Just a Song Before I Go 4. Wasted on the Way 5. Carrie Anne 6. On A Carousel 7. Chicago/We Can Change the World 8. Immigration Man 9. I Used to Be a King 10 Jennifer Eccles And that's just the ones that were hit songs. Too many others to mention are VERY good....
@NewHopeNashFan Okay. Yall can argue all you like over who is a "better" or more popular (who cares?!) songwriter or whatever...I think it's silly but it can pass. But Joni Mitchell academic? She doesn't use big words. She doesn't go all Leonard Cohen. She hardly went to college, didn't graduate. Yeah, academics can analyze her words...they can analyze ANYTHING...barns, cars, shoes, Jay-Z lyrics, punk rock. Doesn't make these things academic.
I love this: "We don't need no piece of paper from the city hall keeping us tied and true." How often people have that piece of paper and it's rendered meaningless because they don't honor their word.
This song, with it's multimodal switches, captures that bittersweet nostalgia for someone living that is at once so precious and so painful...I would sing this near every day for a year when my boyfriend and I were on the way out. Still love him; he still loves me. Still miss him and he me. It can't work. Joni captured it.
mpolakow--RIGHT ON, baby. Joni Mitchell has always written and sung straight from the heart and you see it, feel it and take it inside of you for a lifetime. Quite simply, she is one of the finest artists of her time and I am proud to be a part of her generation. Even prouder, when she released her "Shine" album in 2007. The brilliance just goes on and on!
Why are there simply NOT any musicians like this any more? I think culture is dying fast, if not already dead. The chasm between this - which was once popular music and the kind of talentless derisive crap the exists today is staggering.
On the "x, y, and z" of dating requirements so found among the young, my comment earlier about the insecurities of men not being able to keep Joni around was about the double standards. Obviously, too unusual for any man to support and ensure her musical career without making her feel in any way that she would not have to compromise any of it while married, I don't think such talent or its pursuits fall in the category of x, y, or z concerns, for a man or a woman.
Perfection. Even better than the recorded versions. Can't ever find that anywhere. Just curious, does anyone know how tall she is? She towers over the piano, at least compared to me!
To correct my comment on her "overriding need" - certainly is not my place to say. What I really meant is that something coming from him made her feel that she would've had to compromise who she was if she had married. Sad. Why couldn't the men in her life have been more secure with themselves.
Joni's self-efficacy modeled for me encouragement many a time. Thank you Joni for being true to yourself.
@NewHopeNashFan Perhaps. But he obviously wasn't secure enough with himself to hold on to Joni. It seems it's always the women adjusting to the men, but no one seemed to be secure enough with themselves to stay with her. Sad for them.
Incredible. Even better than the recorded version, which in my opinion, I can never find from anyone. Her piano work and improvs are beautiful, voice, is captivating.
NewHopeNashFan - on a DVD special, she states her heartbrake with Nash, but her letting go of the relationship was compelled (somehow) by the overriding need to not want to compromise her musical interests. Hmm.. I wonder what made her feel like that. Surely not "disdained stability" for the love she cried over.
No, you're absolutely right, Joni Mitchell is one of a kind, a gem -- a perfect soprano and amazing compositional skills -- the critics were unkind to her, and her jazz-based experimentation led her away from melodies that the general public could easily enjoy, but I can remember her Court & Spark days, when her singles were on the radio all the time -
Be as critical as you like after you write one song that people will hum for years to come. The sentiment alone is worth the title of national poet. She unfortunately put the thoughts to music and moved a whole generation. What have you Done, my self absorbed critic?
Really can't describe with words what watching this did to me.
Notice there is no effects on her voice - there is no background music or stud musicians playing with her. No amazing light show or cool video effects. This is 100% her and quite frankly there isn't an artist today that could touch this.
Whoever posted this, I really can't thank you enough....
As a musician I know that I like to change things up for every performance. It keeps the song fresh for the listeners and it makes having to perform a song many, many times interesting for the artist. Joni tears my heart out with every performance and I can only try to put that much of myself into a song. To me she is as important of an artist as The Beatles, Stevie Wonder or any of the great singer/songwriters of any time period.
@DrewNeri It's all about the projection of the spirit, and Jonis' got plenty of that. Yes, Joni IS as important as all the greats. I just wish she would get her spirit back, and perform again.
@sooterkin1 Cigarettes killed her voice. This was the best era for you, in my opinion. She's always right there exuding reality to her audience of her interpretations. I love watching her as much as listening. She is not distracted by anything and it makes her always right on in every way. Amazing. I love her combined confidence and sweetness. No one compares to her.
It's so sad, to me, to hear Joni post 1990's because her high notes are totally gone - compromised - due to her intense cigarette habit. Funny that no one talks about it. What a waste of enormous talent.
@sandrayoungblood I agree. But look what she brought us - even her visual art. She's just pretty amazing. But, ya, what's up with cigarettes ruling? To each his own, but.. we can't help but appreciate THAT voice.
Strange to me that no one mentions Joni's compromised voice post 1990's, due, no doubt, to her cigarette habit. Such a waste. One can immediately tell the "true," ephebic Joni v. the erroded, diminished tar-laden Joni.
Superb piano playing
MacFeeley 1 month ago 2
My old man's asleep on the couch. :)
xaraELLE 1 month ago 2
@xaraELLE ... ur very lucky ... wish mine was ...
puffykhan 2 weeks ago
AWESOME♥
TheGreeneyes777 1 month ago
I could write a book about how her music has changed my life and my songwriting abilities. But most of all is how her music keeps them "lonesome blues away"
THANK YOU JONI
dvs2751 2 months ago
This is one of my favourites! Thanks for sharing!
othmanhishmeh 2 months ago
Happy Birthday Joni!
Snittster 2 months ago
Still perfect after all these years........
vicknickification 3 months ago
SSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
hap1951 3 months ago
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U just don't hear music like that anymore the 60ies and 70ies were a great period of music. The good ole days
jimbearnh 3 months ago
This.
This is the one.
Right here.
Nothing better.
myoeman 3 months ago
Just listen...
Wendolyn355 3 months ago
dylan's considered the male joni
nohaylamujer 3 months ago
What a beautiful human being.
Maquiladora95 4 months ago
Goddess
funktionweb 4 months ago 3
WE SO LOVE JESUSNJONI
FRANCECHILD 5 months ago
It doesn't hurt Joni's music one bit that she was GORGEOUS...as is her music.
jamb15767 5 months ago
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SamHeald 5 months ago
The beds to big, the frying pans too wide - poet of the 70's and unique singer.
Love !!!!!
WendyWowWard 6 months ago 2
brilliant !!!
LAINIE612 6 months ago
Wow, just plain wow. First time ever hearing this and ......wow!!
SocialistsarePIGS 6 months ago 3
beautiful
ambymkz 7 months ago
halfway through song,. i die,. just a crumpled mess.. of thoughts and emotion,. buh,... i love you Joni,,..
futuristfood 7 months ago
without sounding dirty .. wish I was her old man lol
1974Qball 8 months ago
very good song.
clarax23 8 months ago
wonderful. . .
lind3420 8 months ago
DYLAN IS THE POET
curilokura 8 months ago
@curilokura Joni is considerd the female dylan ,by Rolingstone
vaughnsalem 7 months ago
@curilokura Joni is considered the female Dylan ,by Rollingstone Magazine
vaughnsalem 7 months ago 2
1 of my most saddest times in life is when the surgeon told me that he must excise all 30yrs of memories. Day b4 the surgery I went 4 a walk on the beach n said, "Lord, I lived during sum of the greatest most poignant times. I saw ppl usher in music & spirituality that brought us alive. I don't know if I can take losing these memories". God replied, "My Child all that is written on the wind & forever told is kept in every person's Soul". I smiled warmly & faced that life altering surgery. GBU
HigherWaysWoman 9 months ago
@HigherWaysWoman how would you remember this?
LSW1987 8 months ago
@LSW1987 there are events that are associated w/very strong energy. Whether that is something bad or good that happened. So therefore...the greater the impact...the greater the memory of it. And as I stated...all memory is stored in one's soul. "Getting in touch w/one's emotions"....is one of the keys to unlocking these soul memories. In otherwords, what I felt aided in the recalling of it.
HigherWaysWoman 8 months ago
@HigherWaysWoman what
MrTambourineBoy 6 months ago
@MrTambourineBoy ?????
HigherWaysWoman 6 months ago
Grandiosa Joni Mitchell, innovadora e irrepetible, excelente instrumentista e inconmensurable talento como cantautora!!!
LOPEBEAT 9 months ago
Hermosaa canción !
etralo92 9 months ago
joni mitchell is and always will be the greatest singer and songwriter ever..fact.... end of.....
ahknanowt 10 months ago 21
@ahknanowt
Bob Dylan (although he's not really a singer-songwriter in the 70s mold),Paul Simon, Leonard Cohen etc
Rossonero072213 1 month ago
@Rossonero072213 its great that we can all have our favourites, dylan, simon, cohen,taylor,crosby,lennon , jim webb and more. but for me joni mitchell is the tops.
ahknanowt 1 month ago
@ahknanowt
okay, but it's not a fact.
btw, don't get me wrong, i think joni's up there for sure, but i don't think she's the best.
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This earth has been blessed with the manifestation of such a soul!....this is what a rock spinning in the blackness of space can form......believing in Jesus ain't such a stretch!!!! spread the word!
00000Me1 10 months ago
This earth has been blessed with the manifestation of such a soul!....this is what a rock spinning in the blackness of space can form......beleiving in Jesus ain't such a stretch!!!! spread the word!
00000Me1 10 months ago
Joni, because she is a woman, has never been taken seriously. Her complexity of chords, her sense of poetry is unparalleled. Nash is great, but come on..He's pleasing to the ears but so is smooth jazz.!That's why Mingus wanted to collaborate with her. That's why she counts the jazz greats as her close friends...she's more than just a singer/songwriter.JONI RULES!!!! btw, Joni still paints and writes.Lastly, I think Joni would be happy to know that we are defending her! Read her RS interv. '79!
themar22 11 months ago
joni hasn't been taken seriously? she has influenced every singer/song writer of her time, and all who've come afterwards! i suspect her music will still be played hundreds of years after she's gone. very few if any artists of her generation can say that.
Starz777 10 months ago 8
Comparing Joni's music and contributions with Graham Nash? Why? So they were together for a short awhile. So their "styles" crossed for a few short years. Joni's contributions were over a much longer period. But then again, Nash's Marakesh Express is one of my all time favorites. Joni's soothing voice and melodies got me through many a night while in Germany in the Army. Yeah, I know, so what. I still listening to these two occasionally. Along with about a million others. Cuidate
tomerikac1 11 months ago
@tomerikac1 I think Joni got over Nash long before she got serious about her thinking and music,,after Court and Spark album she was the Idol
vaughnsalem 8 months ago
I miss my old man
andydeee 11 months ago
Shut the Fudge up! Joni destroys Nash's simplistic take on modern life.
Only Joni's music and lyrics still reign true today.
Plus, she sounds amazing.
The frying pan's too wide.
Amazing
stuartmcfly 11 months ago
Shut the Fudge up! Joni destroys Nash's simplistic take on modern life.
Only Joni's music and lyrics still reign true today.
Plus, she sounds amazing.
stuartmcfly 11 months ago
@stuartmcfly I respectfully disagree - Nash not only continues to sing and to write, but he continues to take pictures, give lectures and FINALLY get long overdue credit for his many contributions to art and life. His sunny outlook on life has been an inspiration to countless people. His activism and charity work alone shows that he puts his money where his mouth is, too.
NewHopeNashFan 11 months ago
almost too much beauty to contemplate
singapore7773 11 months ago 4
I dont think Joni would like you guys arguing on her youtube comment things!
Peace & love people! :)
theresaelsmore 11 months ago 4
@theresaelsmore I actually don't think Graham would either - after all, she may have broken his heart but he still admires her work.
NewHopeNashFan 11 months ago
"Compared to Dylan" WHAT A JOKE!!!!
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Acacialatrice 1 year ago
I've just spent ten minutes trying to work out what she is doing in the piano intro, that lasts forty seconds.
Genius.
avril2 1 year ago
' The bed's too big, the frying pan's too wide " !
Genius !
tonto4848 1 year ago 4
This is beautiful
yoshimano 1 year ago
that's all a real singer needs, is a piano and herself.
Joni needs nothing else, she knows what she has to say
tattoofthesun 1 year ago
to me, joni is perfection. she is a symbol of self expression, joy, confidence and beauty. and not because she looks like a fashion model, she doesn't even need any of that. she is so beautiful.
lucybellecrater 1 year ago 2
She Is What You Call A Quadruple Threat.. The Voice, The Writing, The Guitar, & The Piano.. (( Oh Fifth, The Person!,, Wait A Second,Sixth, She Is So Beautiful, Kind, Smart,,)) You Get The Idea Right?
ArtisanCymbals 1 year ago
@ArtisanCymbals what is she a threat to? wow, never in a million years would I think of Joni as a threat.
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AudriannaFay 1 year ago
In the end the only thing I really don't care for about her is how she treated Graham. She's actually quite good. I just prefer Nash, since I have enough academic stuff going on.
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MadisonBova 1 year ago
I'm not about to argue with a Graham Nash fanboy. Mitchell will be remembered by her fans just as much if not DEFINITELY more than stuffy academics. she's ridiculously influential to all kinds of people/artists/etc.
poeticjournalism 1 year ago
A true painter and an historic gem...stick around Joni.
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keepin away my blues!
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Greatest composer--hands down--of the 20th century.
rosenbar 1 year ago
@rosenbar is more likely a classical one anyhow. But the great aforementioned Graham, or Paul McCartney, are going to go down in history as two of the greatest songwriters England has EVER produced.
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GENIUS.
TMKchld 1 year ago
wow!! it touches me..... soo much skill!
snapathundelicious1 1 year ago
as if she was like sixty in that
nevvyr 1 year ago
luv her
mobiusmaximus 1 year ago
Holy god...
koszlak 1 year ago
And to imagine, she was Canadian too... and the reason I got into songwriting.
wendyjensenca 1 year ago
what does being canadian have to do with anything? big friggin' deal. she was canadian. so what? i think you are racist. and besides, she wasn't all that. below average singer/songwriter. i mean, she was no chrissie hynde or jinx dawson.
frankyforearmsnycnh 1 year ago
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wendyjensenca 1 year ago
@frankyforearmsnycnh look buddy. Maybe you should think before responding to comments. I'm Canadian - meaning, PROUD that she is from Canada. She's from Alberta as well - my home province. She's one of my favourite artists - and the reason I got into songwriting. So don't go calling me names before knowing the full story.
wendyjensenca 1 year ago
@frankyforearmsnycnh Well go watch something else then
nygrwmyd 1 year ago
A true master.
lightgearwire 1 year ago
Entiendo que ella es una gran artista, pero no me suena bien este tema en particular, pareciera impostar la voz en forma desagradable en distintos tramos del mismo. Estoy equivocada?
muchasmusas 1 year ago
I agree with Drew. Joni has a way of making every moment count as a new way to express herself. I too am a musician/singer/songwriter and she inspires me each time I hear her play!!
neal0jerome 1 year ago
I agree with Drew. Joni has a way of making every moment count as a new way to express herself. I too am a musician/singer/songwriter and she inspires me each time I hear her play!!
neal0jerome 1 year ago
SUPER!!!!!
PolideucePrimo 1 year ago
@sandrayoungblood Piss off, seriously. Joni isn't a vending machine that needs to provide you with the sounds you want. She's almost 70 - yeah, I'm sure cigarettes affected her voice but so does age. Her phrasing is still amazing.
You are the kind of person who WOULD say to Van Gogh: Paint another Starry Night, man!
STFUGTFO1 1 year ago 53
@STFUGTFO1 i'll smoke to that.
dermotoblong 10 months ago
@STFUGTFO1 Great comment!!
greenthumbguy1 9 months ago
@STFUGTFO1 sick F**ks what do they know
deniseguzzardo 6 months ago
what an amazing talent!!!
kendstephe 1 year ago
her piano playing slays me
babshabits 1 year ago 2
you can't indeed rock and roll whew you are 70 or folk either
atfatw 1 year ago
To have this song written for you is as signifcant, I think, as it was for the Earl of Southhampton to have had Shakespeare write the Sonnets for him, the first half, at least. How does it feel, Graham? YOU INSPIRED THIS!! Hope you are worthy of it.
nicodagger 1 year ago
@nicodagger How does Joni feel? The great Graham Nash wrote 'Simple Man', 'You'll Never Be the Same' and the magnificent 'I Used to Be a King' -- and got on with his life, writing and performing even more songs to this day! Nash's music will live on. Can the same be said about Joni's?
NewHopeNashFan 1 year ago
@NewHopeNashFan Graham is a good singer/songwriter, but in my opinion, and it's just my opinion, his music doesn't even deserve to mentiioned in the same sentence as hers, in terms of quality. Will Joni's music live on????????????? When Nash has been completely forgotten, Joni will still be revered as one of the greatest songwriters of any age. But again, that's just my opinion, and none of us wil be around to see it. But my comment had nothing to do with the quality of Nash's work.
nicodagger 1 year ago
@nicodagger - I agree completely. How many people would even know who Graham Nash was if not for his relationship with Joni Mitchell?? And, no, he doesn't deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence with Joni as far as songwriting. Joni's near the top of the list of great songwriters. Graham Nash would be lucky if he made the top 100, or even the top 1000. He's a nice guy, but nice doesn't cut it. His work is largely forgettable.
ApocalypsePlough 1 year ago
@ApocalypsePlough Thanks. How many songs has Nash written, by himself, that approach this quality? How many are classics? How many people can name 10 Nash hits right now? He did good work with the Hollies and CSN but as a composer he can't carry Joni's tampon.
nicodagger 1 year ago
@nicodagger haha so true.
RenoRaider 1 year ago
@nicodagger Graham Nash was too much of a gentleman to embarrass Joni, and even wanted to marry her. SHE broke up with him, remember?
Get deeper into Nash's work than on the surface level and then you'll understand why Nash's songs will stand the test of time and be heard and sung long after he's gone, when Mitchell's will merely be the subject of doctoral dissertations
NewHopeNashFan 1 year ago
NewHopeNashFan 1 year ago
@ApocalypsePlough Funny, but I believe it's Nash that writes songs everyone seems to recall. Mitchell's work is academic.
NewHopeNashFan 1 year ago
@NewHopeNashFan Okay. Yall can argue all you like over who is a "better" or more popular (who cares?!) songwriter or whatever...I think it's silly but it can pass. But Joni Mitchell academic? She doesn't use big words. She doesn't go all Leonard Cohen. She hardly went to college, didn't graduate. Yeah, academics can analyze her words...they can analyze ANYTHING...barns, cars, shoes, Jay-Z lyrics, punk rock. Doesn't make these things academic.
Graham Nash is nice. So is Joni.
friendofthedevil 1 year ago
She wrote this about Graham Nash when they were dating...
philliphiggi1 1 year ago
precious, just precious. my god how she amazes me again and again.....
Agoateeman 1 year ago
Gives me chills...
littlewing19380 1 year ago
Most talented musician to have ever perform in public. Simple, emotional, melodic, well improvised and performed. In short---TALENTED.
bigkozlov 1 year ago
WTF
jlzecchin69 1 year ago
I love this: "We don't need no piece of paper from the city hall keeping us tied and true." How often people have that piece of paper and it's rendered meaningless because they don't honor their word.
SaarduLady 1 year ago
DVS. Well put. She was and still is - a song-writing genius. So many pretenders copied her. Never reached the heights. Never will.
leinstermad 1 year ago
This song, with it's multimodal switches, captures that bittersweet nostalgia for someone living that is at once so precious and so painful...I would sing this near every day for a year when my boyfriend and I were on the way out. Still love him; he still loves me. Still miss him and he me. It can't work. Joni captured it.
musicalidea 1 year ago
wow beautiful voice, just have to listen.
FLASHBUDDHAI 1 year ago
Thank you so much for this video
rubyrose456 1 year ago
Joni Mitchell: WE LOVE YOU!
Cris1949 1 year ago
"...and he tells me all his troubles, and he tells me all my charms..." I love that line.
greenthumbguy1 1 year ago 4
@greenthumbguy1 I like "The bed's too big, the frying pan's too wide"
lgcrooks 1 year ago
mpolakow--RIGHT ON, baby. Joni Mitchell has always written and sung straight from the heart and you see it, feel it and take it inside of you for a lifetime. Quite simply, she is one of the finest artists of her time and I am proud to be a part of her generation. Even prouder, when she released her "Shine" album in 2007. The brilliance just goes on and on!
butfulmuzik 1 year ago 3
thx for posting
beautiful
IgorLueska 1 year ago 2
Why are there simply NOT any musicians like this any more? I think culture is dying fast, if not already dead. The chasm between this - which was once popular music and the kind of talentless derisive crap the exists today is staggering.
mpolakow 1 year ago 4
yawn
LdyChatterleysPlover 1 year ago
Incredible song and performance - plus she looks absolutely gorgeous in this video.
bfdhvcnvvbjdn 1 year ago 3
love you joni!
AsboDolche 1 year ago
On the "x, y, and z" of dating requirements so found among the young, my comment earlier about the insecurities of men not being able to keep Joni around was about the double standards. Obviously, too unusual for any man to support and ensure her musical career without making her feel in any way that she would not have to compromise any of it while married, I don't think such talent or its pursuits fall in the category of x, y, or z concerns, for a man or a woman.
Catlovertea4 1 year ago
Perfection. Even better than the recorded versions. Can't ever find that anywhere. Just curious, does anyone know how tall she is? She towers over the piano, at least compared to me!
Catlovertea4 1 year ago
La più grande di tutti i tempi.
LuFigi 2 years ago 2
she has to be one of the bravest artists ever
warlockboyburns 2 years ago 5
Hey we were all so young in those days........
hopefully we still value love a bit more than x, y and z......and can lead and influence by our example
TheNigelr 2 years ago
Many a long and lonely day and night ..your music kept me going. Thank you JONI
oneeyedstar 2 years ago
To correct my comment on her "overriding need" - certainly is not my place to say. What I really meant is that something coming from him made her feel that she would've had to compromise who she was if she had married. Sad. Why couldn't the men in her life have been more secure with themselves.
Joni's self-efficacy modeled for me encouragement many a time. Thank you Joni for being true to yourself.
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NewHopeNashFan 2 years ago
@NewHopeNashFan Perhaps. But he obviously wasn't secure enough with himself to hold on to Joni. It seems it's always the women adjusting to the men, but no one seemed to be secure enough with themselves to stay with her. Sad for them.
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NewHopeNashFan 2 years ago
Incredible. Even better than the recorded version, which in my opinion, I can never find from anyone. Her piano work and improvs are beautiful, voice, is captivating.
NewHopeNashFan - on a DVD special, she states her heartbrake with Nash, but her letting go of the relationship was compelled (somehow) by the overriding need to not want to compromise her musical interests. Hmm.. I wonder what made her feel like that. Surely not "disdained stability" for the love she cried over.
Catlovertea4 2 years ago
Unfortunately it is just you on this particular occasion but on other occasions it wasn't you
kentusmaximus 2 years ago
Is it me or is this the perfect song for a gay wedding? "we don't need no piece of paper from the city hall..." haha
bukakkeguy 2 years ago
thank you, joni. thank you thank you
drumcircler 2 years ago
God, is it me? Or is her talent really rare?She doesn't miss a note.Her voice is clear as a bell..
misspeggy7 2 years ago 22
@misspeggy7
No, you're absolutely right, Joni Mitchell is one of a kind, a gem -- a perfect soprano and amazing compositional skills -- the critics were unkind to her, and her jazz-based experimentation led her away from melodies that the general public could easily enjoy, but I can remember her Court & Spark days, when her singles were on the radio all the time -
SupernalOne 2 years ago 3
Besides her voice and song writing....she was a downright breathtaking beauty.
fpngan 2 years ago
@misspeggy7
she is amazing, but she plays the wrong chord at 2:30
sk80soarus 1 year ago
I always wanted to play piano but I was taught violin for 7 years.
Ascaidh 2 years ago
Well, you are still alive! Your story is not over. Learn piano if that is what you yearn to do.
23SarahBeth 2 years ago 2
1970 - Joni is nailin' it even then........
TheNigelr 2 years ago 5
wow she's awsome, there is a year 12 girl that sings this song heaps good aswell. type anna crotti on youtube
justsingers 2 years ago 3
she is fantastic. best female musician ever!
Liedealist 2 years ago 8
Why is she so amazing? Let me tell you, when I am down, all I need is for her to sing to me.
LoveTruth86 2 years ago 7
How is it possible that someone can be this good, in all ways imaginable?
dvs1572 2 years ago 54
Thanks for the tears and the goosebumps, Joni.
greenthumbguy1 2 years ago 9
Holy Awesomeness.
ZinkDude 2 years ago 4
De gustibus non est disputandum
fgsfdsmonkey 2 years ago
mmmm in lov before I was born :)
1974Qball 2 years ago
Voice of an Angel.....
killybay2 2 years ago 3
her palette is so pale and beautiful
Appalachian stunner.
She inspires my work.
jun7per 2 years ago 4
Be as critical as you like after you write one song that people will hum for years to come. The sentiment alone is worth the title of national poet. She unfortunately put the thoughts to music and moved a whole generation. What have you Done, my self absorbed critic?
trydreamin 2 years ago 11
Of course you could do better!
You can not criticise perfection!! Crawl back into your hole.
nappadang1 2 years ago
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She's too strong on her transitions.
Way too strong.
Other than that, she has great control on her falsetto.
xzile123 2 years ago
HAUNTING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
germanbudgie 2 years ago 2
puro genio.
lorishaka67 2 years ago
i am and have always been in love with joni thank you you are truely beautiful.
superduper655 2 years ago
The greatest musician / singer / songwriter of my life time !
Just the perfect poet !
tonto4848 2 years ago
Thank you Joni Mitchell for sharing your gift with us. Your music helped me get through many troubled times in my youth.
You are still and always will be amazing.
champlain9 2 years ago 2
Really can't describe with words what watching this did to me.
Notice there is no effects on her voice - there is no background music or stud musicians playing with her. No amazing light show or cool video effects. This is 100% her and quite frankly there isn't an artist today that could touch this.
Whoever posted this, I really can't thank you enough....
ocajinoj 2 years ago 10
You can tell she was still tweaking this song because there are differences here and the album version.
jjj1951 2 years ago
As a musician I know that I like to change things up for every performance. It keeps the song fresh for the listeners and it makes having to perform a song many, many times interesting for the artist. Joni tears my heart out with every performance and I can only try to put that much of myself into a song. To me she is as important of an artist as The Beatles, Stevie Wonder or any of the great singer/songwriters of any time period.
DrewNeri 2 years ago 47
@DrewNeri It's all about the projection of the spirit, and Jonis' got plenty of that. Yes, Joni IS as important as all the greats. I just wish she would get her spirit back, and perform again.
sooterkin1 1 year ago
@sooterkin1 Cigarettes killed her voice. This was the best era for you, in my opinion. She's always right there exuding reality to her audience of her interpretations. I love watching her as much as listening. She is not distracted by anything and it makes her always right on in every way. Amazing. I love her combined confidence and sweetness. No one compares to her.
Catlovertea4 1 year ago
@Catlovertea4
It's so sad, to me, to hear Joni post 1990's because her high notes are totally gone - compromised - due to her intense cigarette habit. Funny that no one talks about it. What a waste of enormous talent.
sandrayoungblood 1 year ago
@sandrayoungblood I agree. But look what she brought us - even her visual art. She's just pretty amazing. But, ya, what's up with cigarettes ruling? To each his own, but.. we can't help but appreciate THAT voice.
Catlovertea4 1 year ago
@Catlovertea4
Strange to me that no one mentions Joni's compromised voice post 1990's, due, no doubt, to her cigarette habit. Such a waste. One can immediately tell the "true," ephebic Joni v. the erroded, diminished tar-laden Joni.
sandrayoungblood 1 year ago
@DrewNeri that.gals.better
49mrjd 1 year ago
@DrewNeri
Amen
skismith39 1 year ago
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emilypaskus 2 years ago
Just listen to what she plays before she sings at about 0.39
stillavril 2 years ago
Best musician of all times!!!
She's just soooo good...
too bad there's soo little video footage of her singing...
carmelrotem 2 years ago