mitchell has to critize everything,, she never approves of anybody's livestyle.. she is liberated from everything.. what's so wrong about having a green summer lawn.. if thats the choice of a man and woman its THEIR choice
the concept I've come to realize is plain to see.
A woman carrying the weight of being and dealing with a strict man who seems to never be around, and the poor woman "stays with the love of some kind" Hey it's they're choice.
Can I say that Joni Mitchell is the instrument of vioce and soul. I would have loved to be her keyboard..this is my goal as far as my musical reality is concerned. She sings about is life, and we all know that living with each other is not the easiest task God has given us...The "Hissing" on summer lawns...Me thinks they were in San Luis Obispo..lots of rattlers on the summer lawns there. Peace and Jazz!!
Springtime 1976, driving through the hills of Virginia to move back to Charleston, West, Va....sunny mountain peaks, clear blue skies, bright yellow sun, wide open road, wind in my hair and The Hissing of Summer Lawns
One of my all time favorite albums by Joni Mitchell. A true artist. I bought this cassette at a thrift store a couple of years ago and I play it so often I am afraid it is going to break.
@AleekahTV - That's Max Bennet on bass guitar. If you want to be enamoured even more, check out Joni's live album 'Miles of Aisles' which also has Max B. on bass. Awesomess defined.
Probably my favourite Joni album fell in love with it from the first listening on its release and NO " Diamond Dog " is not a reference to Bowie she is commenting on a women trapped in a empty banal and souless existence in affluent middle class California suburbia where material wealth is everything. As I remember far from this album being panned it received rave reviews in England, one music paper (NME) called it one of the best albums of that year ....
In 1988 I bought this record for 5 cents at a used record store to use as a prop...when I got it home I listened to it just for fun. I was instantly transfixed and mesmerized by the incredibly lush and intricate tapestry of music. The title track will haunt me until the day I die.
When this album came out, I'd been listening to Joni for 10 years. This work was widely panned by critics and 'fans' alike when it first came out. But like 5891jonathan and others, I too was blown away. There only a handful of singer/songwriters who have ever been this skilled musically AND lyrically. Most amazing, is that Joni has always considered music her 2nd medium - her first being painting. Crosby, Nyro, Rickie Lee Jones - so few...
I LISTENED to this album before I actually "went there" - GOSH - how INSIGHTFUL!!! It's ALL TRUE - and just LOOK at our ECONOMY TODAY! I'm GLAD I'm "OUT" of that "Uppet Middle-Class" CRASS!!!
I love this album the best of all her albums. The Joni Mitchell Tree grew a new branch in a completely new direction! I love all her work, but this floored me when I first heard it.
I use to visit my uncle in the mid-70's and he lived in Laurel Canyon and I remember seeing Joni cruising in her Mercedes. My uncle said that is the lady who sings all the cool songs I turned you on to..Great times. i miss my uncle and those times..Joni, We all adore you!!
"The Hissing Of Summer Lawns" is my favourite Joni-album. Dunno why, but it always sets my mood to a very philanthropic and forgiving state. Most of her other albums feature tunes of comparable impact, but only "Hissing" has that all-embracing, bittersweet, impeccable coherence of a tragic love affair in hindsight. Or of a perfect Tequila Sunrise, if you wish...
The most amazing thing is to listen to Joni's voice and how it has changed over the many years of her career. I know that this is what smoking does to you but I still love it. (Not the smoking, Joni's voice.)
Back in the day I used to smoke up and get lost in the artistry and subtleties of this music. It was like entering a complex beautiful new world of sound, something like heaven may be... Actually I can see the term "intelligent design" applying nicely here.
This alvum cover is a painting of a National Geographic Magazine cover. I discovered it a few years after the album came out, just looking through The National Geographic Magazine portion of my father's beautiful and extensive libary. These were in the cellar. I couldn't believe it, when I saw the magazine cover. I stared at it extensively and held the mag for days(reading, etc). Nowhere n the magazine is Joni's name mentioned,anywhere and no credit is given to NGM on Joni's album,anywhere.
@TheElissaS FAIL! Credit is given to National Geographic Magazine in her liner notes (very plain for all to see) and thanks is given to Norman Seeff. You have to look at the inside liner notes from this 1975 release.
I sing this song as I drive along delivering groceries now and then ,reminds me of going fishing to lakes lakes in Carrickfergus,Northern Ireland as I used to take a recording of the album with me. Hissing Of Summer Lawns is a great album
@Giblinkbob good comment.I like those, the"that album really helped me duuring a bad time,or memories the song brings .Jon will forever cathch this 31yr old man. As i a\lways say, Disocering Joni 3ys ago, has set me a-fire.
Writing this, hearing it in the background.it's hard not to close my eye's and feel it to it's fullest.As I ususally do w/ most of her songs.Joni's by far the BEST.To me she proved there was a such a thing,This w/ what's to your ft RIGHT proove that,.
I was in tenth grade listening to this album in my room. Stuck in suburbia in Ohio in 1975 - what a treat his was! Even though I couldn't relate - being 15 years and all. However, it did prove that life was much music could be so deep and beautiful as well. That music wasn't just Aerosmith and Heart! Not that there is anything wrong with those two bands...but you know what I'm saying, right?
Foretski, yes they did (Rolling Stone) trash this album when it came out. Funny though that as time has progressed they have had a change of heart and NOW it is just SO great according to their tired asses. I have to laugh at RS for the fact that they have done this with other records from this period, such as Neil Young's "Comes A Time" (received two stars in their 1978 Album Guide but five stars in a 2002 issue). Rolling Stone is a constant contradiction of themselves every issue.
amo este y muchos otros discos de la época. Necesito que alguien me ayude con la siguiente información. Necesito saber cual es la afinación que Joni usa en el tema "blck crow" de del album "Hejira". DEsde ya muchas gracias
It drives me crazy that the unitiated think of Joni as ' Big Yellow Taxi' when her evolution was SO eclectic and all-encompassing. Though my ultimate fave album is 'Hejira', every ONE of her releases is a classic compared to all around her.
This album is awesome from start to finish. I was introduced to Joni's work which I had never really gotten into after reading a Prince interview. I was missing so much. I got this album, which I still have and played it over and over, memorizing each line and every inflection. The album, the themes, the lyrics.....seamless intros and outros. This is a masterpiece, point blank and period.
Wow. I remember when I bought this album as a teenager, expecting it to be similar to her other stuff and was blown away by the total difference. What happened to hippie Joni? Ah, but I fell in LOVE with this new Joni. I just love love love all of her stuff - all thru the ages she has wowed me like no other. No other musician moves me to tears, joy and reflective mode like JM. SIQUOMB indeed.
@dvs1572 : Race: I thought this was about a trophy wife in the hills, and her rich hubby keeping her locked away, as she looks over the hills from her balcony. Chippendale furniture,so much crap that never gets used. All money, no substance.
@marcking1975 "darkness, no color no contrast" "he gave her his darkness to regret" "theirs a black fly buzzing" "still she stays with the love of some kind, it's the ladies choice??? I don't know. My first thought about the song was the same as yours, but then I got to thinking....Your interpretation makes more sense. As if she stays there without shame, but at the same time not wanting the public to know.
@dvs1572 : After a little more thought, there may be something to it. The lyrics mention a "diamond dog." She could be looking in the mirror at herself, with her new necklace and see herself as a begging little pet of her husbands. On the other hand, a "diamond dog" is also a famed pet of Issac Newton, who famously knocked over a candle onto his workdesk, ruining years of calculations and theories in a fire.
@marcking1975 This idea of a secret lover, someone with "darkness", may be in there. Of course, he could just be a depressive ass whose overbearing personality could be a "love of some kind". Cheers!
So many layers & cross-references - the hissing of hosepipes the snakes in the Jungle Line, perhaps, or the one that "slithers away on grass like mouthpiece spit". The lady trapped in Harry's House in suburbia: "he gave her a roomful of Chippendale that nobody sits in" - what a great line! They're all great lines.
I've been pondering that lately. It's as if EVERY line is perfect, no one could put it that way. A bad lyric can be compared to the flow of beautiful melody, meaning a bad Joni line would stick out like a sore thumb.Just as a wrong note in a melody does.She's at times to much for me to fathom. Like 'Barangrill' its as if the lyrics came so naturally and quick.being a songwriter at 31.discovering Joni 3yrs ago has really did a number on me.How is all of this to be?
Joni lost a few fans with her moves into jazz, but gained at least 1 ... me. I was never a fan of the acoustic days, but Melody Maker had it as album of the year (yah boo Rolling Stone) so I bought it on spec. And hated it. But it grew and grew, and now it is an all time classic.
This Album is uniquely original, yet somehow strangely familiar as if the music has arrived across the Galaxy from a home long forgotten...it evokes many images.
When this album came out I was 21 and splitting up with my abusive husband. My mom and dad were also splitting up. These songs spoke to me in such a personal way and helped me to understand my emotions and sort things out. Joni was way ahead of everyone else. She is the most talented woman singer/songwriter of her time, passionate, poetic, musically gifted, has it all.
@tweetyli1 . hi , just wanted to say, I'm sorry you went through that rough time when this came out, because I was recovering from a medical malady and was just getting back into my "great adventure" , I was 22, and was getting ready to move back to a town where I had lived earlier, .......I had youth, I had freedom and I had Joni Mitchell
An amazing and significant marker in Joni Mitchell's artistic development away from folk and to jazz. Too bad so many of her fans weren't ready for a similar move in their appreciation of her genius.
@PoetryMan11...... amen, a great and evolutionary step, it seemed to come about suddenly after "Court and Spark",.....but time had been compressed, during this era and music reflected the awesome amount of change that took place in a very short time span
Thanks so much for filing in that "lost period" when everybody thought Joni had lost her mind because she was moving on artistically from folk to jazz and most of her couldn't make the move. Joni is a perceptive genius and we are the better for the remarkable history of her artistic journey this particular project represents.
I'm old enough to remember when this album came out. The picture of the snake and the silhouettes holding it is from an actual picture from an old National Geographic. Old mind just can't remember which one. Pre 1973.
A classic album that never seems to lose it's appeal as the years pass - something for every mood - tirelessly performed like she really meant it - a landmark.
I recall listening to this one day and imagining that Prince must've liked the album. Later on, that same day, I read in Q magazine Joni saying how pleased she was when Prince said that it was his favourite record.
Ladies of the Canyon was fabulous too. But this album is my favourite. I heard In France.... one night on the radio, I was 13 and it just blew me away.......she never fails to nail it.
She has the voice you would never get tired of. The entire album takes me back to a simpler time in life when things were slower no food preservatives, no bar codes. Back then people would speak to you out of kindness. It doesn't seem that long ago.
She is my most supreme muse. After all these years of listening to music she is one of the few that I can truly say are still with me as much today as when I was first turned on to her excellence back in the early 70s!
I was in the process of moving back to Charleston, West Va.,.......from my home in Stafford, Va.......another episode , another life......Joni moved with me
Comparing the rolling stones to the brilliance of Joni Mitchel is very unforgiving, The rolling stones are great , but Joni Mitchel never mind you wouldn't understand...
Yea you right, my bad. I jumped to the punch . No ones insulting you. Why do you feel the need to make rude gestures and insult people, because of their preferences. You come on this site to call people idiots so what does that make you? Is it safe to assume you don't like her? With that being said get off the site that us idiots are on and go listen to nina...
I've seen Ms Mitchell live 5 times and own every record she has made. There is really no need for me to listen to Nina. But I do occasionally listen to Nina Hagen and don't ever tell me to get off an internet site. Now go away. Thank you.
RS actualy did not say that. The original review was 50/50 - they liked the lyrics but not the music (and they were stupid and short-sighted about this, obviously). Joni somehow translated that into 'worst album of the year' and has repeated it over the years in spite of the fact that it is not actually true. In any event, time has proven Joni to be the visionary.
@Forestski Idiots, indeed! HISSING is my fourth favorite Joni album, after BLUE, COURT & SPARK, and HEJIRA. There isn't a single Joni album that doesn't have something of value; she is THE genius poet/songwriter/singer/musician of the 20th Century.
I got into this LP because of the great gatefold embossed cover, with the line drawing on the cover and the Joni in knit bikini doing the backstroke photo on the inside...of course the arrangements and psychologically surgical lyrics surpassed the exterior, but it's all insane brilliance here
He bought her a diamond for her throat.He put her in a ranch house on the hill. She could see the valley barbecues from her window sill. See blue pools in the squinting sun, Hear the hissing of summer lawns. For me David Hockney's work set to music. A perfect suburban middle class prison. Dark although the sun is always shining and the grass is always green
I was lucky enough to be invited to an exibition of Jonis' paintings for friends and the press and saw a couple of pieces that reminded me of Hockney's 'cut-up' technique but done in pastels. Did not have the guts to ask Joni if he inspired her! Oh well.
There's such great musical fit and cool feel to the amazingly defined lyric details to anything Joni Mitchell writes. Here it is again zeroing into this upper middle class sounding urban scene. It's like I got to tour some oddly elite secretive neighbors nice yard, house, and personal life all at once. I can almost smell the cut grass listening to this song and felt that the people were sorta tanned and superficial but I think theyre perhaps passable as good host to some random guestlol.
Jaco didn't play with her at this point. He came in on Hejira, her next record. This is still Max Bennett (a very good player) and the great Larry Carlton on guitar. Metheny played later on Shadows and Light...not sure about any other stuff.
You're hearing the mighty Fender Rhodes. 88 keys of modulating stereo tine wonderful. Before commercially available synthesizers, the keyboard of choice, although heavy as a small piano, all the keyboard players I knew in the 60s and early 70s had 'em.
mitchell has to critize everything,, she never approves of anybody's livestyle.. she is liberated from everything.. what's so wrong about having a green summer lawn.. if thats the choice of a man and woman its THEIR choice
tomsurfing007 1 day ago
I'm From the UK, up to me I would give her a dam hood or whatever it may be called. Joni is Canadian. Ill Write to the Queen
tmaxyb 2 months ago
the concept I've come to realize is plain to see.
A woman carrying the weight of being and dealing with a strict man who seems to never be around, and the poor woman "stays with the love of some kind" Hey it's they're choice.
DARKNESS, NO COLOR, NO CONTRAST
dvs2751 3 months ago
pure..pure...pure mitchell!!... this album has given soooooo much to todays female artists!!!...pure honey!,,,such a talented lady!!..
sortofsorted 3 months ago
I'm curious as to other peoples opinions on the concept of the song. I seem to come up with a new concept for the song a lot. what do you guys think
dvs2751 3 months ago
I eat to feed my body.
I listen to Joni to feed my soul.
mygirlruth 3 months ago 2
....give em Hell Mitch!!!
OlymPigs2010 3 months ago 2
Can I say that Joni Mitchell is the instrument of vioce and soul. I would have loved to be her keyboard..this is my goal as far as my musical reality is concerned. She sings about is life, and we all know that living with each other is not the easiest task God has given us...The "Hissing" on summer lawns...Me thinks they were in San Luis Obispo..lots of rattlers on the summer lawns there. Peace and Jazz!!
gailoyer 4 months ago
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blackandtanful 5 months ago in playlist YouTube Mix for Joni Mitchell
@blackandtanful 彼女は多くのジャンルを融合し、それに彼女自身を作ること
mygirlruth 4 months ago
Springtime 1976, driving through the hills of Virginia to move back to Charleston, West, Va....sunny mountain peaks, clear blue skies, bright yellow sun, wide open road, wind in my hair and The Hissing of Summer Lawns
purpleskycalm 5 months ago
@purpleskycalm
Joni's music is a great travel companion.
mygirlruth 4 months ago
@purpleskycalm You leave me envious !
diether81 3 months ago
No Autotune.
blickumblickum 5 months ago
The only real JAZZ player/singer of our era.
doughtymqan 5 months ago
She is an angel...
eloisealice 6 months ago
Joni Mitchell is a genius. God Bless her...
MrSeeDoubleU 6 months ago
thank you I finally found this song . oh how I love this song.
jonny14u 6 months ago
What a TRACK!!!
Nitramdraddil 6 months ago
One of my all time favorite albums by Joni Mitchell. A true artist. I bought this cassette at a thrift store a couple of years ago and I play it so often I am afraid it is going to break.
buster1969bell 6 months ago
that bass.
I'm enamored
AleekahTV 6 months ago
@AleekahTV - That's Max Bennet on bass guitar. If you want to be enamoured even more, check out Joni's live album 'Miles of Aisles' which also has Max B. on bass. Awesomess defined.
verminosity 6 months ago
@verminosity and Robbin Ford on the Guitar the best!
zinman916 4 months ago
if she could sing till the end of time it still wouldnt be long enough..!!!!!!!!!
jonnygator1 6 months ago
It took me until the year 2011 to stumble across this gem! Man, I've been missing out...
PercivalFromWales 7 months ago
Probably my favourite Joni album fell in love with it from the first listening on its release and NO " Diamond Dog " is not a reference to Bowie she is commenting on a women trapped in a empty banal and souless existence in affluent middle class California suburbia where material wealth is everything. As I remember far from this album being panned it received rave reviews in England, one music paper (NME) called it one of the best albums of that year ....
cpfc001 7 months ago
In 1988 I bought this record for 5 cents at a used record store to use as a prop...when I got it home I listened to it just for fun. I was instantly transfixed and mesmerized by the incredibly lush and intricate tapestry of music. The title track will haunt me until the day I die.
Tonyous 7 months ago
how could you not like joni mitchell
allfiredup200099 7 months ago
When this album came out, I'd been listening to Joni for 10 years. This work was widely panned by critics and 'fans' alike when it first came out. But like 5891jonathan and others, I too was blown away. There only a handful of singer/songwriters who have ever been this skilled musically AND lyrically. Most amazing, is that Joni has always considered music her 2nd medium - her first being painting. Crosby, Nyro, Rickie Lee Jones - so few...
Lman9552 7 months ago
i MEANT - UPPER MIDDLECLASS
kathyblood 8 months ago
I LISTENED to this album before I actually "went there" - GOSH - how INSIGHTFUL!!! It's ALL TRUE - and just LOOK at our ECONOMY TODAY! I'm GLAD I'm "OUT" of that "Uppet Middle-Class" CRASS!!!
kathyblood 8 months ago
Does the "diamond dog" at 1:42 refer to David Bowie?
Lagaletteinfernale 8 months ago
oh the musicianship, the sweet melodic interplay.... captured!
millvalleyrn 8 months ago
Definitely a part of the 'California Mellow Mafia'...............KNX-FM (remember them?) used to play a lot of this music. :)
Bearhawke42 8 months ago
@Bearhawke42 Oh yes, I remember KNX-FM!
bobareebop 8 months ago
I love this album the best of all her albums. The Joni Mitchell Tree grew a new branch in a completely new direction! I love all her work, but this floored me when I first heard it.
5891jonathan 8 months ago 13
@5891jonathan well almost, but I do love Hejira, too.
ruben1956 5 months ago
This was the first music of Joni I heard.
What the hell was that?
Entranced!
My favourite artist of all time.
24577147 9 months ago 3
Great sound!
jeamphe 9 months ago
"Hissing" has to be, in my opinion, the most beautifully arranged of all Joni albums.
vaniglio 10 months ago 2
I use to visit my uncle in the mid-70's and he lived in Laurel Canyon and I remember seeing Joni cruising in her Mercedes. My uncle said that is the lady who sings all the cool songs I turned you on to..Great times. i miss my uncle and those times..Joni, We all adore you!!
LBjim 10 months ago 3
hey I used to listen to her in france too!
erikberggren1 10 months ago
who is the one asshole who disliked this song????????
akil333 11 months ago
@akil333 it's ok. just a lost soul - joni would forgive them... lol!
skelly2212008 8 months ago
"The Hissing Of Summer Lawns" is my favourite Joni-album. Dunno why, but it always sets my mood to a very philanthropic and forgiving state. Most of her other albums feature tunes of comparable impact, but only "Hissing" has that all-embracing, bittersweet, impeccable coherence of a tragic love affair in hindsight. Or of a perfect Tequila Sunrise, if you wish...
ballonfisch 11 months ago 5
r.i.p.
Myrna4Loy 11 months ago
One of Joni's greatest works. Joni is my HERO.
champlain9 11 months ago
This Album is my everything
ricemilk 11 months ago
Amazing poetry
stellai06 11 months ago
Amazing poetry...
stellai06 11 months ago
darkness
shelleybobelly1 11 months ago
besides Joni being a genius....so are the people who post comments about her. Joni....we're here, we're near...you're used to it!
shelleybobelly1 11 months ago
Just shhhh and listen to the hiss...
Clayomayo 1 year ago
The most amazing thing is to listen to Joni's voice and how it has changed over the many years of her career. I know that this is what smoking does to you but I still love it. (Not the smoking, Joni's voice.)
wescan1313 1 year ago
once i found myself homeless. this was the only tape i had, i listened to it about a 1000 times. memories
singapore7773 1 year ago 42
@singapore7773 You're never homeless with Joni.
blickumblickum 5 months ago 3
@singapore7773 I was a mechanic in a very unforgiving environment. This is perfect
tmaxyb 2 months ago
@singapore7773 how long were you homeless for, so i can calculate listens per hour/day, jakey's got a head for maths you see
Illyriaable 18 hours ago
Back in the day I used to smoke up and get lost in the artistry and subtleties of this music. It was like entering a complex beautiful new world of sound, something like heaven may be... Actually I can see the term "intelligent design" applying nicely here.
ytcarol 1 year ago 2
@ytcarol
I can relate to that !
myklmusic 1 year ago
In getting caught up in the song, someone visualized the "darkness," tripped, and accidentally hit the "thumbs down" button.
EAnthonyMusic 1 year ago 2
..theres a black fly buzz'n..theres a heatwave burn'n in the masters voice..hiss'n summer lawns...szzz..
OlymPigs2010 1 year ago
why isn't there a video/clip of the jungle line, that song is amazing.
KOSMICKEN09 1 year ago
@KOSMICKEN09 Go ahead, Create one ;)
eelcobuitenhuis 1 year ago
"no color no contrast" love that part
7thvenom 1 year ago 3
Soothing cool and summery. This is one of my fav albums along with Hejira.
DancingEar08 1 year ago
DARKNESS
dvs1572 1 year ago
diamond-dog carrying a cup & a cane....too much pride too much shame
shelleybobelly1 1 year ago
This alvum cover is a painting of a National Geographic Magazine cover. I discovered it a few years after the album came out, just looking through The National Geographic Magazine portion of my father's beautiful and extensive libary. These were in the cellar. I couldn't believe it, when I saw the magazine cover. I stared at it extensively and held the mag for days(reading, etc). Nowhere n the magazine is Joni's name mentioned,anywhere and no credit is given to NGM on Joni's album,anywhere.
TheElissaS 1 year ago
@TheElissaS FAIL! Credit is given to National Geographic Magazine in her liner notes (very plain for all to see) and thanks is given to Norman Seeff. You have to look at the inside liner notes from this 1975 release.
pacific707 1 year ago
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The hissing of summer lawns, apparently some stuff she was going through, when she was young, married to whoever it was, the hissing......yes
familyjewellsable 1 year ago
The hissing of summer lawns, apparently some stuff she was going through, when she was young, married to whoever it was, the hissing......
familyjewellsable 1 year ago
Hissing of summer lawns...my favorite Joni song...it's the 70's for me :)
timothymolony 1 year ago
I sing this song as I drive along delivering groceries now and then ,reminds me of going fishing to lakes lakes in Carrickfergus,Northern Ireland as I used to take a recording of the album with me. Hissing Of Summer Lawns is a great album
Giblinkbob 1 year ago
@Giblinkbob good comment.I like those, the"that album really helped me duuring a bad time,or memories the song brings .Jon will forever cathch this 31yr old man. As i a\lways say, Disocering Joni 3ys ago, has set me a-fire.
Writing this, hearing it in the background.it's hard not to close my eye's and feel it to it's fullest.As I ususally do w/ most of her songs.Joni's by far the BEST.To me she proved there was a such a thing,This w/ what's to your ft RIGHT proove that,.
PEACE
DVS
dvs1572 1 year ago
Come on someone; search on "La Rue Montorgueil (Monet)." I guarantee you an interesting insight. Tell me what you see.
jbrramsey 1 year ago
Search on; La Rue Montorgueil (Monet).
Can't get a link to work in this window.
jbrramsey 1 year ago
Psst, wanna know why kisses are like bright flags hung on holidays...?
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jbrramsey 1 year ago
i remember loving this album.. almost forgot it exsited.. so loving this post ! hey thanks for the memorys
TheSabybaby 1 year ago
How about that feel??? so perfect.
dvs1572 1 year ago
I was in tenth grade listening to this album in my room. Stuck in suburbia in Ohio in 1975 - what a treat his was! Even though I couldn't relate - being 15 years and all. However, it did prove that life was much music could be so deep and beautiful as well. That music wasn't just Aerosmith and Heart! Not that there is anything wrong with those two bands...but you know what I'm saying, right?
amraprules 1 year ago
@amraprules tell me about it!
shelleybobelly1 1 year ago
Gorgeous album.
geekygirl111 1 year ago
Foretski, yes they did (Rolling Stone) trash this album when it came out. Funny though that as time has progressed they have had a change of heart and NOW it is just SO great according to their tired asses. I have to laugh at RS for the fact that they have done this with other records from this period, such as Neil Young's "Comes A Time" (received two stars in their 1978 Album Guide but five stars in a 2002 issue). Rolling Stone is a constant contradiction of themselves every issue.
rcarpenter1963 1 year ago
I'm 14 again....
shelleybobelly1 1 year ago
amo este y muchos otros discos de la época. Necesito que alguien me ayude con la siguiente información. Necesito saber cual es la afinación que Joni usa en el tema "blck crow" de del album "Hejira". DEsde ya muchas gracias
druguls 1 year ago
Dude , wake and see the ladies rock. no thing is better. Hold it.
stjohngreen1 1 year ago
It drives me crazy that the unitiated think of Joni as ' Big Yellow Taxi' when her evolution was SO eclectic and all-encompassing. Though my ultimate fave album is 'Hejira', every ONE of her releases is a classic compared to all around her.
jimdivax 1 year ago 2
This album is awesome from start to finish. I was introduced to Joni's work which I had never really gotten into after reading a Prince interview. I was missing so much. I got this album, which I still have and played it over and over, memorizing each line and every inflection. The album, the themes, the lyrics.....seamless intros and outros. This is a masterpiece, point blank and period.
BLACKSENSUALITY 1 year ago 2
Such warmth and sound quality are rarely found along with superb songs like Joni's nowadays
Huija 1 year ago
budin 2
treygroove65 1 year ago
This album is a masterpiece.
ncbeach22 1 year ago
good song thanks for the post
180flynn 1 year ago
Joni is my hero
msmarlarenee1 1 year ago
Wow. I remember when I bought this album as a teenager, expecting it to be similar to her other stuff and was blown away by the total difference. What happened to hippie Joni? Ah, but I fell in LOVE with this new Joni. I just love love love all of her stuff - all thru the ages she has wowed me like no other. No other musician moves me to tears, joy and reflective mode like JM. SIQUOMB indeed.
jesmarluk 1 year ago
....So good its Scary!!!!!!!
OlymPigs2010 1 year ago
I'm curious as to how others interpret this song? Could this song deal with race and relationships?
dvs1572 1 year ago
@dvs1572 : Race: I thought this was about a trophy wife in the hills, and her rich hubby keeping her locked away, as she looks over the hills from her balcony. Chippendale furniture,so much crap that never gets used. All money, no substance.
marcking1975 1 year ago 3
@marcking1975 "darkness, no color no contrast" "he gave her his darkness to regret" "theirs a black fly buzzing" "still she stays with the love of some kind, it's the ladies choice??? I don't know. My first thought about the song was the same as yours, but then I got to thinking....Your interpretation makes more sense. As if she stays there without shame, but at the same time not wanting the public to know.
Cheers my friend.
dvs1572 1 year ago
@dvs1572 : After a little more thought, there may be something to it. The lyrics mention a "diamond dog." She could be looking in the mirror at herself, with her new necklace and see herself as a begging little pet of her husbands. On the other hand, a "diamond dog" is also a famed pet of Issac Newton, who famously knocked over a candle onto his workdesk, ruining years of calculations and theories in a fire.
marcking1975 1 year ago
@marcking1975 This idea of a secret lover, someone with "darkness", may be in there. Of course, he could just be a depressive ass whose overbearing personality could be a "love of some kind". Cheers!
marcking1975 1 year ago
@dvs1572
So many layers & cross-references - the hissing of hosepipes the snakes in the Jungle Line, perhaps, or the one that "slithers away on grass like mouthpiece spit". The lady trapped in Harry's House in suburbia: "he gave her a roomful of Chippendale that nobody sits in" - what a great line! They're all great lines.
allangmiller 1 year ago
"they're all great lines"
I've been pondering that lately. It's as if EVERY line is perfect, no one could put it that way. A bad lyric can be compared to the flow of beautiful melody, meaning a bad Joni line would stick out like a sore thumb.Just as a wrong note in a melody does.She's at times to much for me to fathom. Like 'Barangrill' its as if the lyrics came so naturally and quick.being a songwriter at 31.discovering Joni 3yrs ago has really did a number on me.How is all of this to be?
dvs1572 1 year ago
@allangmiller Amour, Mama, not cheap display! This is Rock and Roll.
Annamandabella 1 year ago
Joni lost a few fans with her moves into jazz, but gained at least 1 ... me. I was never a fan of the acoustic days, but Melody Maker had it as album of the year (yah boo Rolling Stone) so I bought it on spec. And hated it. But it grew and grew, and now it is an all time classic.
allangmiller 1 year ago
What Would Rolling Stone know ?
Bluesdirections 1 year ago
This Album is uniquely original, yet somehow strangely familiar as if the music has arrived across the Galaxy from a home long forgotten...it evokes many images.
GalaxyHorse 1 year ago 3
WOW! The new Comment "Notations" by YouTube REALLY Zuck!!!!!!!!
Shamagogue 1 year ago 2
When this album came out I was 21 and splitting up with my abusive husband. My mom and dad were also splitting up. These songs spoke to me in such a personal way and helped me to understand my emotions and sort things out. Joni was way ahead of everyone else. She is the most talented woman singer/songwriter of her time, passionate, poetic, musically gifted, has it all.
tweetyli1 1 year ago
@tweetyli1 . hi , just wanted to say, I'm sorry you went through that rough time when this came out, because I was recovering from a medical malady and was just getting back into my "great adventure" , I was 22, and was getting ready to move back to a town where I had lived earlier, .......I had youth, I had freedom and I had Joni Mitchell
calerouan 1 year ago
The Hissing of Summer Lawns tour was the very first concert I ever attended.
eurotomm 1 year ago
An amazing and significant marker in Joni Mitchell's artistic development away from folk and to jazz. Too bad so many of her fans weren't ready for a similar move in their appreciation of her genius.
PoetryMan11 1 year ago
@PoetryMan11...... amen, a great and evolutionary step, it seemed to come about suddenly after "Court and Spark",.....but time had been compressed, during this era and music reflected the awesome amount of change that took place in a very short time span
calerouan 1 year ago
Thanks so much for filing in that "lost period" when everybody thought Joni had lost her mind because she was moving on artistically from folk to jazz and most of her couldn't make the move. Joni is a perceptive genius and we are the better for the remarkable history of her artistic journey this particular project represents.
PoetryMan11 1 year ago
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dvs1572 2 years ago
This is one of my Favorites, of Joni's releases, it's Fantastic, still, after all these years. Thank you for this post.
bei1016 2 years ago
Excellent - but when has Joni Mitchell not been excellent? Thank you for this upload.
luvmyasianman 2 years ago 26
great song by a special lady with great voice and acclectic stylings, the 60's and 70's would not have been the same without her influence
BLUESMANRONCHICAGO 2 years ago
I'm old enough to remember when this album came out. The picture of the snake and the silhouettes holding it is from an actual picture from an old National Geographic. Old mind just can't remember which one. Pre 1973.
gailsh 2 years ago
That is not a picture, but rather a painting by Joni.
stellagranos72 2 years ago
@ stellagranos72
Could be u r both right
Could be a painting she made based on a NatGeo photo ;)
smartalek1 2 years ago
thank you!
TheNigelr 2 years ago
Look at the snake being controlled by the figures of control as the snake writhes well. Oh well, people don't suffocate each other, do they?
peetolator 2 years ago 2
A classic album that never seems to lose it's appeal as the years pass - something for every mood - tirelessly performed like she really meant it - a landmark.
M
mikeyg1959 2 years ago
I recall listening to this one day and imagining that Prince must've liked the album. Later on, that same day, I read in Q magazine Joni saying how pleased she was when Prince said that it was his favourite record.
candelise 2 years ago
Ladies of the Canyon was fabulous too. But this album is my favourite. I heard In France.... one night on the radio, I was 13 and it just blew me away.......she never fails to nail it.
xxxChrist 2 years ago 5
One of my favorite albums. Court and Spark is great too.
Anthrofocus 2 years ago 2
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54car54 2 years ago
You people are hilarious. Anyway, this is great stuff, one of my favorite albums of all time.
joe44850 2 years ago 3
She has the voice you would never get tired of. The entire album takes me back to a simpler time in life when things were slower no food preservatives, no bar codes. Back then people would speak to you out of kindness. It doesn't seem that long ago.
meko390 2 years ago 4
I love this album deeply, the Boho Dance is may favourite track.
stacksovids12 2 years ago 2
...and on every metal thorn just a little blood of his own...
she's so brilliant
Buttons61 2 years ago 2
She is my most supreme muse. After all these years of listening to music she is one of the few that I can truly say are still with me as much today as when I was first turned on to her excellence back in the early 70s!
Agoateeman 2 years ago
I was in the process of moving back to Charleston, West Va.,.......from my home in Stafford, Va.......another episode , another life......Joni moved with me
calerouan 2 years ago
Didn't Rolling Stone call this the worst album of the year when it first came out? Idiots.
Forestski 2 years ago 27
Comparing the rolling stones to the brilliance of Joni Mitchel is very unforgiving, The rolling stones are great , but Joni Mitchel never mind you wouldn't understand...
meko390 2 years ago
Screw you. I was referring to Rolling Stone magazine, not the rock group called The Rolling Stones. Perhaps it's you that does not understand.
Forestski 2 years ago
Yea you right, my bad. I jumped to the punch . No ones insulting you. Why do you feel the need to make rude gestures and insult people, because of their preferences. You come on this site to call people idiots so what does that make you? Is it safe to assume you don't like her? With that being said get off the site that us idiots are on and go listen to nina...
meko390 2 years ago
I've seen Ms Mitchell live 5 times and own every record she has made. There is really no need for me to listen to Nina. But I do occasionally listen to Nina Hagen and don't ever tell me to get off an internet site. Now go away. Thank you.
Forestski 2 years ago
Please accept my sincere apology. Seriously...I was out of line.
meko390 2 years ago
RS actualy did not say that. The original review was 50/50 - they liked the lyrics but not the music (and they were stupid and short-sighted about this, obviously). Joni somehow translated that into 'worst album of the year' and has repeated it over the years in spite of the fact that it is not actually true. In any event, time has proven Joni to be the visionary.
stellagranos72 2 years ago
@Forestski Idiots, indeed! HISSING is my fourth favorite Joni album, after BLUE, COURT & SPARK, and HEJIRA. There isn't a single Joni album that doesn't have something of value; she is THE genius poet/songwriter/singer/musician of the 20th Century.
billyguns2 1 year ago 2
@Forestski Actually it was the worst album he had ever heard lol
Joebycool 1 year ago
@Joebycool which was ridiculous btw... obviously for some reason it just became unfashionable to like Joni Mitchell around 1975. IDIOTS.
Joebycool 1 year ago
@Forestski Jazz musicians such as the Rolling Stones will not know good music if it bit them in the ass.
Bluesdirections 1 year ago
@Forestski
Apparently Rolling Stone had said it was the worst album TITLE of the year - but it got twisted over the years.
But Rolling Stone had said some other unpleasant stuff about her a few years earlier.
FredGumbo1 1 year ago
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@Forestski @Forestski
Apparently Rolling Stone had said it was the worst album TITLE of the year - but it got twisted over the years.
But Rolling Stone had said some other unpleasant stuff about her a few years earlier.
FredGumbo1 1 year ago
@Forestski They DID?????? WTF!! It's another one of her classics and easily my favorite!
pacific707 1 year ago
@pacific707 Actually, they just called it the worst album NAME of all time. The rest is folklore :D
neilnriley 1 year ago
@neilnriley I love the name. I KNOW that hiss...
rodneyhatch56 1 year ago
@Forestski Amen to that...Rolling Stone sees itself as being an ultimate authority-that is its great weakness.
GalaxyHorse 1 year ago 2
@Forestski
They didn't , they just said it was the worst album title (which is also not true)
Treepitband 1 year ago
I got into this LP because of the great gatefold embossed cover, with the line drawing on the cover and the Joni in knit bikini doing the backstroke photo on the inside...of course the arrangements and psychologically surgical lyrics surpassed the exterior, but it's all insane brilliance here
MKUltra3 2 years ago 3
He bought her a diamond for her throat.He put her in a ranch house on the hill. She could see the valley barbecues from her window sill. See blue pools in the squinting sun, Hear the hissing of summer lawns. For me David Hockney's work set to music. A perfect suburban middle class prison. Dark although the sun is always shining and the grass is always green
zenobiaelissa 2 years ago 5
Yes, you got it bro......
calerouan 2 years ago
I was lucky enough to be invited to an exibition of Jonis' paintings for friends and the press and saw a couple of pieces that reminded me of Hockney's 'cut-up' technique but done in pastels. Did not have the guts to ask Joni if he inspired her! Oh well.
candelise 2 years ago
There's such great musical fit and cool feel to the amazingly defined lyric details to anything Joni Mitchell writes. Here it is again zeroing into this upper middle class sounding urban scene. It's like I got to tour some oddly elite secretive neighbors nice yard, house, and personal life all at once. I can almost smell the cut grass listening to this song and felt that the people were sorta tanned and superficial but I think theyre perhaps passable as good host to some random guestlol.
lllwindrunner 2 years ago 2
yes brother I smell it too........and a sweet smell it is
calerouan 2 years ago
Best album ever made?
martinjp1958 2 years ago
One of the best for sure.
TheFobster 2 years ago 3
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locals1only 2 years ago
Jaco didn't play with her at this point. He came in on Hejira, her next record. This is still Max Bennett (a very good player) and the great Larry Carlton on guitar. Metheny played later on Shadows and Light...not sure about any other stuff.
stretch54 2 years ago
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decem10ber 2 years ago
Isn't this the first Joni album to feature Pat Metheny and the terribly missed virtuoso Jaco Pastorius?
4rainbowed 2 years ago
V.nice-is "The Jungle Line" on YouTube?
tskilove 2 years ago
This kinda sounds like the "Theme from Taxi".
glimmer2158 2 years ago
You're hearing the mighty Fender Rhodes. 88 keys of modulating stereo tine wonderful. Before commercially available synthesizers, the keyboard of choice, although heavy as a small piano, all the keyboard players I knew in the 60s and early 70s had 'em.
sliderossian 2 years ago 3
And essential for this seventies sound..
zenobiaelissa 2 years ago 2
50 Ways to Leave Your Lover ...
sliderossian 2 years ago