A great deal of popular music sounds dated over time. That is to say, it does not age well.
Joni blew past all of that with Hejira. The great classics of literature are so named because they deal with the universal problems and themes that all mankind struggles with. On this album, Joni shares what she has dealt with based on her unique background. Some are drawn in by the spare, haunting, elegant musical atmosphere of this album. Others are pulled in by the austere pain of the lyrics.
@alanparsonsfan Great comment. Another thing I love so much about this is the "winter" atmosphere...I feel the grayness and the frigid temperatures of a bleak snowy day in these songs. The cold blending perfectly with the sadness of an ending love affair. And Jaco's mysterious bass lines. Perfection. I tried to capture all of this in my own homemade video/slideshow of Hejira. This album is a true work of art.
Beethoven and Joni. She appreciated him enough to write a song about him. Beethoven took small phrases and fashioned them miraculously into symphonies. Joni, is an exquisite lyrical storyteller. I'm convinced that Beethoven would have reciprocated and approved of Joni's musical reflections that speak, as his music also did, to life in all its mystery, depth, and ironies (one irony being that humans can choose to be both noble and cruel, and every shade between).
1976, wow time unfolds so fast, I recall listening to this and thinking "How Brilliant is this..." when I was an 18 year old. Now I listen at 53 and think, "Still Brilliant, timeless...Time you elegant thief, sad, but Beautiful.
This song really reflects my life; I am lucky in so many aspects of my life, but never love. I guess thats why there are the greats like Joni, they remind us we're not alone<3
Some of her best music on this album with some of her greatest collaborators. Jaco Pastorious's bass guitar, (especially on Black Crow), and Larry Carlton's guitar are both brilliant. But it's her, those amazing lyrics, the arrangements, that beautiful open tuned acoustic guitar...they'll never be another like Joni Mithcell.
Never lucky at love, but she created some powerful lyrics and music through introspection. She just wanted that white lace, but the God's said, ...no no...you need to suffer for the sake of your art. I'd say it was a fair trade off.
I never have grown attached to The Hissing of Summer Lawns. Too formless, too artfully conceived for me. But Hejira is the great follow-up Court and Spark deserved. Joni has written tremendous songs since but I don't think any of her subsequent albums lived up to Hejira and maybe she hasn't topped an album even since Don Juan's Reckless Daughter but I think Turbulent Indigo and Dog Eat Dog come close. Hejira is probably her fourth best LP for me. That still makes it great haha.
What a breath of fresh air in 1976 when everything in '76 was about disco and the songs were mediocre at best. Loved this then and now, Everything she says in this song is so true. I cannot embellish on anything that has already been said here except that I agree with all of it.
"I have the apple of temptation; and a diamond snake around my arm"
I LOVE JONI. THIS SONG IS PERFECT FOR TONIGHT over metro Denver, where a disturbed Mother Nature put on an incredible light show for more than an hour. I turned off all the lights in the house and watched, and as the thunder outside subsided, I put this song on the stereo.
No one has ever spoken to a women's heart and soul like Joni...but then again, it's not just women she speaks to, but rather a time and place in our collective experience at a certain place in our lives
Every song on this album has layers that only appear as you listen over and over, hidden in lyrics and music. Only a girl from the prairies can understand
You youngsters do not really appreciate how great youtube is. To be able to listen to and see uncounted videos of so much great music....it's wonderful.
"shows why she never had any success,'???? Are you kidding? Or, have you been living under a rock for 30 or so years....or perhaps, you are not yet 30 years old.
@JackSmith07 As you hear it here so it is on original vinyl-I have it and checked. As to whether it is a studio mistake or manufacturing error, how would one know? I do know that it is a fabulous piece of work and I have loved it since first acquiring it many, many moons ago.
Truly amazing that it is so difficult to figure out whether or not it is a disruption in the sampling rate of this CD, or if 6:41 is an actual studio edit. Either way it is preposterous that such a naive cavity exists within the metrical timing of this song for sharon. But i think a person owning the original vinyl can actually answer this horrendous question. Is this a studio mistake or a manufacturing mistake?
I bought this LP in the winter of 1976 when I was living in Highland Park, NJ. Alison Steele (The Night Bird) from WNEW FM in New York played this song during her show. Since I was already a Joni fan since the late 60's I knew that I had to have this LP. I love Joni's poetry and her music makes me feel special. Love you Joni!
Thanks for posting this, my favourite track off my favourite JM album. For me, this is music at its most perfect. I listen to this album whenever I fly into Europe with work, it suits the "above the clouds" thing perfectly, so chilled out and musically perfect and beautiful. Love the hi-hat shuffle on the drums too, think it's John Guerin? Thanks!
I can keep my cool at poker but I'm a fool when love's at stake... cuz I can't conceal my emotions .. what I'm feeling is always written on my face....
I can't find the words for how phenomenally good this song is, lyrically and musically, or how incredibly moving Joni's performance of it. Her music, her genius, is a lot of what keeps some of us going on this planet.
haunting, perfect - everything in its own time, unrushed and I love the counterpoint of her existence compared to Sharon's. The drummer does not get his dues from the critics - great work
Sheer poetry by a musical genius, the extended note Joni holds at the end of the line "crave that day like crazy " at the start of the song sends a shiver of emotion up my spine. J.M. will always be the zenith of the femal singer song writer for me, I simply LOVE all her work, the first 7 or 8 albums being the best, "Hissing" my favourite
Dylan pales. There is no one who develops subtext and imagery like she does. Not in any literary sense, not in any musical sense; this woman is the lost Beethoven, the lost Rimbaud. In a thousand years time critics and will laud her. But I have been listening to her since Song To A seagul. The sense and lovely bitterness in her music and lyrics still send me to bright speculations.
@Tphilpott1 In a hundred years, people will be raving about her genius and she'll be in the same conversation of the greatest poets/musicians in history.
@Tphilpott1 I attended a Dylan concert 10 years ago, and left disappointed at his weak effort. It didn't help Annie Defranco being his start-show either. Get off the stage Bob, and move over for Joni - heh heh.
@Tphilpott1 Man, did you ever hit the nail on the head with Joni's music. So well stated, and SO correct. I've been listening to her music from day one, as have you, and it has been a beautiful, rewarding trip along the way. I come back to her songs all the time and hear or perceive something new every time. That is what great artistry is all about!
I first heard this some months ago. It was so haunting, beautiful, and contemplative all at the same time. The way the guitar sounds on this i think is the most haunting part, like its playing through rain clouds. Terrific sound. Great atmosphere, too. I tend to be a classic rock kind of guy, but this song's quickly becoming one of my all-time favorites.
Does anyone else find themselves crying when they hear this song? This album feels so nostalgic, though it has no business doing so with me, I'm just 19.
Donald Fagan reportedly underwent therapy after releasing The Nightfly because he felt he gave too much of his inner thoughts a public airing and it freaked him out. All this makes you wonder how the likes of Joni copes when she releases material such as this. Heartfelt emotions put into beautiful poetry and set free into the public domain.
There's only one Joni, and she's incomparable. How does one person get all that talent? Probably the best female lyricist in the last 40 years, at least, command of her best instrument, her voice, and more. Jimi Hendrix said she was a genius on guitar. I can listen to "For The Roses" over and over. Like I can listen to the Stones' "Beggar's Banquet" or Elvis Costello's "This Year's Model" the same way. Timeless artists at their absolute creative peakI never tire of either.
Unbelievable that the hesitant, awkward voice of her early records should blossom into this supremely expressive instrument, which is in total command of the lyrics & has so much wit and light & shade and is almost jamming with Jaco Pastorius on bass.
@mhowardONE Goddamn! You got it right, man. So personal, so honest, and so identifiable by any of us who share "the power of reason, and the powers of deep feelings..." You hit the nail on the head. I truly enjoyed your comment because it really captured the spirit of the Joni Mitchell I have loved these many years. And "Song For Sharon" seemed to capsule all of it.
I am continually amazed at the way we go through life fooling ouselves into believing we like things we really loathe. For the sixth time in ten minutes the telephone rang. Among other important calls had been a lady trying to sell me lingeie and someone who asked if I were the Kosher market and who seemed annoyed I wasnt. This time I pretended not to hear and made a dive for the tub. My maid, however, cut off my retreat, announcing "Telephone for you Madame," as if it were orchids.
Hejira is my favorite Joni album. Song for Sharon sneaked up on me after repeated listenings over the years. Now is it one of my favorite JM songs, though impossible to pick a favorite. Thank goodness her music was in my life through so many difficult passages, she helped to keep me sane. She gets it.
@TheAnneChristie Agreed. Hejira just rises above most of Joni's work and is really in a spiritual place for me. The title track is one of my top 5 all-time favorites.
My favorite Joni song. It just blew my mind the first time I hear it, and it has been blowing my mind ever since. I would say that Hejira is my favorite album of hers as well. She trimmed away the expansive instrumentation of Court and Spark and The Hissing of Summer Lawns and gave her songs instrumentation that was so simple (usually not much more than guitar and bass), yet spoke such volumes. It's a testament to how so much can be done with so little.
Whilst I too love Hissing of Summer Lawns,and most of her albums ( I have them all), I still think Hejira is in a class of its own. Every song is brilliant, the music is of such high quality and unique in tone ( Thanks to the chemistry with bass man Jaco Pastorious), and the album just oozes fantastic Mitchell imagery and storytelling. A true classic !
33 years ago and still as intelligent, incisive and cutting as ever. Imprinted on my tiny mind. No one comes close. There's Joni....then everyone else.
A great deal of popular music sounds dated over time. That is to say, it does not age well.
Joni blew past all of that with Hejira. The great classics of literature are so named because they deal with the universal problems and themes that all mankind struggles with. On this album, Joni shares what she has dealt with based on her unique background. Some are drawn in by the spare, haunting, elegant musical atmosphere of this album. Others are pulled in by the austere pain of the lyrics.
alanparsonsfan 1 month ago
@alanparsonsfan Great comment. Another thing I love so much about this is the "winter" atmosphere...I feel the grayness and the frigid temperatures of a bleak snowy day in these songs. The cold blending perfectly with the sadness of an ending love affair. And Jaco's mysterious bass lines. Perfection. I tried to capture all of this in my own homemade video/slideshow of Hejira. This album is a true work of art.
SomethingReal1119 3 weeks ago
...the way she says I've got "a diamond sssnake around my arm"....like a hiss!
OlymPigs2010 1 month ago in playlist Favorite videos
Beethoven and Joni. She appreciated him enough to write a song about him. Beethoven took small phrases and fashioned them miraculously into symphonies. Joni, is an exquisite lyrical storyteller. I'm convinced that Beethoven would have reciprocated and approved of Joni's musical reflections that speak, as his music also did, to life in all its mystery, depth, and ironies (one irony being that humans can choose to be both noble and cruel, and every shade between).
billjhyt 1 month ago
1976, wow time unfolds so fast, I recall listening to this and thinking "How Brilliant is this..." when I was an 18 year old. Now I listen at 53 and think, "Still Brilliant, timeless...Time you elegant thief, sad, but Beautiful.
GalaxyHorse 2 months ago 3
Ditto @drachirzim!
Capitol149 2 months ago
This is my favorite Joni album, but is also her saddest.
brianjondavey 3 months ago
This song really reflects my life; I am lucky in so many aspects of my life, but never love. I guess thats why there are the greats like Joni, they remind us we're not alone<3
bigblonde26 3 months ago
Some of her best music on this album with some of her greatest collaborators. Jaco Pastorious's bass guitar, (especially on Black Crow), and Larry Carlton's guitar are both brilliant. But it's her, those amazing lyrics, the arrangements, that beautiful open tuned acoustic guitar...they'll never be another like Joni Mithcell.
timages 3 months ago
and she was the 'some girl' who saw the dress....can't be happy housewife and a songwriting legend at the same time..
MrChubbleyWarner 3 months ago
One of the biggest music artists in 20th Century,...
MKPesich 3 months ago
Never lucky at love, but she created some powerful lyrics and music through introspection. She just wanted that white lace, but the God's said, ...no no...you need to suffer for the sake of your art. I'd say it was a fair trade off.
mygirlruth 3 months ago
I never have grown attached to The Hissing of Summer Lawns. Too formless, too artfully conceived for me. But Hejira is the great follow-up Court and Spark deserved. Joni has written tremendous songs since but I don't think any of her subsequent albums lived up to Hejira and maybe she hasn't topped an album even since Don Juan's Reckless Daughter but I think Turbulent Indigo and Dog Eat Dog come close. Hejira is probably her fourth best LP for me. That still makes it great haha.
journeythruthepast 3 months ago
It's great stuff...does anyone feel nostalgia for the simpler songs with great emotional depth like 'This flight tonight'? I know I do.
talstory 3 months ago
I used to listen to this over and over again when I was depressed over a breakup or whatever. It was GREAT self-pity music!
thebehtbeht 3 months ago
I was always looking for a song with my name, which is Sharon. It's funny ... I used to play the mandolin.
wafflelicyous 4 months ago
This was the best CD she ever made! This is my favorite because it reminds me of me...the diamond snake around my are and all. LOL!
awomanwonderful 4 months ago
She had the hardest working lips in the music industry..just to form all those words so purely. i voice I could just kiss.
waavdaav 4 months ago
always wanted to be her
inkychinkychinaman 4 months ago in playlist Joni Mitchell - 35 songs
I like the song Hejira--the road..mirroring windows, loving strangers--rock, flesh n bone or something.
stevensondavid096 4 months ago
The only Tphilpott message that came from me is the one on Top Comments. I have no idea how the subsequent messages bear my name.
Tphilpott1 5 months ago
No. 9 Dream of John Lennon's in 1974 is a masterpiece as this is. Classic.
calalilygirl 5 months ago
What a breath of fresh air in 1976 when everything in '76 was about disco and the songs were mediocre at best. Loved this then and now, Everything she says in this song is so true. I cannot embellish on anything that has already been said here except that I agree with all of it.
calalilygirl 5 months ago
Still no dislikes and still an asshole free zone
trufflehund 6 months ago
@trufflehund How on earth can you NOT like wonderful Joni?
NinaFrida 5 months ago
Joni at her peak, lyrically and vocally. A cheer for the backing vocals, too. Sublime.
gwranda 7 months ago
What I feel may be her best verse,ever:
n this vigorous anonymity
A blank face at the window stares and
stares and stares and stares and stares
And the power of reason
And the flowers of deep feeling
Seem to serve me
Only to deceive me
smsneath 7 months ago
"I have the apple of temptation; and a diamond snake around my arm"
I LOVE JONI. THIS SONG IS PERFECT FOR TONIGHT over metro Denver, where a disturbed Mother Nature put on an incredible light show for more than an hour. I turned off all the lights in the house and watched, and as the thunder outside subsided, I put this song on the stereo.
radiopete 8 months ago
...this soul of mine will continue to drink in more life through a Joni song then mortality would normally permit...
HiVybe 8 months ago
100% Like :-).
trufflehund 8 months ago
No one has ever spoken to a women's heart and soul like Joni...but then again, it's not just women she speaks to, but rather a time and place in our collective experience at a certain place in our lives
TheZayne34 8 months ago
the cover album is just as great as the album...i notice that joni write the lyrics for album on the road from maine to los angeles
ColdOasisU2 8 months ago
Joni is my therapist. She gives me clarity, and her lyrics tell me that my feelings/beliefs are commonplace. So much to know....
Longtack55 9 months ago 2
this is the almost perfect album !! hejira should be in one of those space capsules that is sent out to let other worlds know we are there !!
captainsteve58 9 months ago 3
A superb album. Of course they all are by Joni.. No one, no one
comes close to her artistry, her intellect, her depth, and her insight.
She would be laughed at today - because she is too smart, too good
and too wise compared to today's spectacles that are quickly stamped out
by the uneducated and inane. That is what sells today. Very sad that we have digressed.
gaulfdeziner 9 months ago
Every song on this album has layers that only appear as you listen over and over, hidden in lyrics and music. Only a girl from the prairies can understand
123pinecone 9 months ago
Joni's greatest album and certainly one of her greatest songs. Every line speaks volumes. Joni's music burnishes the soul.
ghanick 9 months ago
Yea! You got past the music nazi censors
You youngsters do not really appreciate how great youtube is. To be able to listen to and see uncounted videos of so much great music....it's wonderful.
chuckm51 10 months ago 3
Yea! You got past the music nazi censors
chuckm51 10 months ago
I was thinking of a site where I submitted a poem. Several people
commented that the poem was "too long". Glad I was not the author
of this...if that means anything. Epic poems are Mitchell's specialty.
Shows why she never had any success. Although I never wrote
anything as good as this. This song could not have possibly
been written by a man. That's me.
spoildn8410 10 months ago
@spoildn8410 Do you remember what site it was? I'd like to start submitting some of my stuff, also. Thanx :0)
SomethingReal1119 10 months ago
@spoildn8410
"shows why she never had any success,'???? Are you kidding? Or, have you been living under a rock for 30 or so years....or perhaps, you are not yet 30 years old.
TheZayne34 6 months ago
@JackSmith07 As you hear it here so it is on original vinyl-I have it and checked. As to whether it is a studio mistake or manufacturing error, how would one know? I do know that it is a fabulous piece of work and I have loved it since first acquiring it many, many moons ago.
TheThirdWiseMonkey 11 months ago
Truly amazing that it is so difficult to figure out whether or not it is a disruption in the sampling rate of this CD, or if 6:41 is an actual studio edit. Either way it is preposterous that such a naive cavity exists within the metrical timing of this song for sharon. But i think a person owning the original vinyl can actually answer this horrendous question. Is this a studio mistake or a manufacturing mistake?
JackSmith07 11 months ago
funny how i couldn't relate to this album for so long and only when i did i noticed that road she had inside her body on the album cover.
amazing, pure rare gold, this woman.
KobLobs 11 months ago
time flies, this song never ends and you never want it to. and when it does you just repeat it and sink in it again.
pure gold.
KobLobs 11 months ago 2
I bought this LP in the winter of 1976 when I was living in Highland Park, NJ. Alison Steele (The Night Bird) from WNEW FM in New York played this song during her show. Since I was already a Joni fan since the late 60's I knew that I had to have this LP. I love Joni's poetry and her music makes me feel special. Love you Joni!
champlain9 11 months ago
Joni, You are the BEST!
Cris1949 1 year ago
pure magic - the greatest album ever by the greatest woman
moz1953 1 year ago 2
I've always loved this song...listening to it for the first time in 20 years.
Gives me goosebumps
nickgall100 1 year ago 3
Instant chills.
twinoak170 1 year ago
poetic magic, pure class. xxx
yetiflicker 1 year ago
Thanks for posting this, my favourite track off my favourite JM album. For me, this is music at its most perfect. I listen to this album whenever I fly into Europe with work, it suits the "above the clouds" thing perfectly, so chilled out and musically perfect and beautiful. Love the hi-hat shuffle on the drums too, think it's John Guerin? Thanks!
Stationlightyears 1 year ago 3
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Stationlightyears 1 year ago
No one comes close! AmyK
sandey1234 1 year ago
I can keep my cool at poker but I'm a fool when love's at stake... cuz I can't conceal my emotions .. what I'm feeling is always written on my face....
Frottagecub 1 year ago 13
Judging by the likes, this is an asshole-free area
trufflehund 1 year ago 2
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FAWNMAIDEN 1 year ago
beautiful song....have loved this since I was at school!
ariellevonglitz 1 year ago
This song answers the question "what is missing from today's music"?....
..and the answer would be "substance".........
wildcats2012 1 year ago 3
My name is Mike from LA Although there busizz4me.info
pdisanyaka 1 year ago
my favorite joni thanks
zenobiaelissa 1 year ago
This should be mandatory listening in songwriting 101. Atmospheric and poignant.
trufflehund 1 year ago 2
@britishcitizen777 Very well stated. She is one of a kind.
rubicon1983 1 year ago
Thank you Joni...this brought me back to those icy cold grey skies of Canada.....beautiful
fayinwesternmass 1 year ago
Listening to this on a cold, clear winter's afternoon and it sounds just as good as when I first heard it many years ago........
parabolicpete 1 year ago
@parabolicpete good song for an afternoon of any season, but that does sound like a lovely image
owenbb505 1 year ago
One Of her best stories.
spoildn8410 1 year ago
thanks joni....... you make me wanna dance
grwatanabe 1 year ago
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grwatanabe 1 year ago
I can't find the words for how phenomenally good this song is, lyrically and musically, or how incredibly moving Joni's performance of it. Her music, her genius, is a lot of what keeps some of us going on this planet.
tome57a 1 year ago 2
haunting, perfect - everything in its own time, unrushed and I love the counterpoint of her existence compared to Sharon's. The drummer does not get his dues from the critics - great work
trufflehund 1 year ago
Sheer poetry by a musical genius, the extended note Joni holds at the end of the line "crave that day like crazy " at the start of the song sends a shiver of emotion up my spine. J.M. will always be the zenith of the femal singer song writer for me, I simply LOVE all her work, the first 7 or 8 albums being the best, "Hissing" my favourite
nostalgax 1 year ago
This song made me rethink everything back in the day. Cheaper than therapy, more effective, and certainly a lot more enjoyable.
TheSocratease 1 year ago 3
One of the best songs Joni ever produced!
Cris1949 1 year ago
goddess alert GODDESS ALERT !!!!!!
TheEmmaDarling 1 year ago
Dylan pales. There is no one who develops subtext and imagery like she does. Not in any literary sense, not in any musical sense; this woman is the lost Beethoven, the lost Rimbaud. In a thousand years time critics and will laud her. But I have been listening to her since Song To A seagul. The sense and lovely bitterness in her music and lyrics still send me to bright speculations.
Tphilpott1 1 year ago 22
@Tphilpott1 In a hundred years, people will be raving about her genius and she'll be in the same conversation of the greatest poets/musicians in history.
rubicon1983 1 year ago
@Tphilpott1
Don't be dumb. She's great, but to compare her to Beethoven? Please. And Dylan certainly does not pale.
Rossonero072213 6 months ago
@Tphilpott1
Oh, and by the way---ever heard of Shakespeare? His use of imagery and subtext is pretty good. Heck, try Paul Simon, Leonard Cohen, or the Beatles.
Rossonero072213 6 months ago
@Tphilpott1 I attended a Dylan concert 10 years ago, and left disappointed at his weak effort. It didn't help Annie Defranco being his start-show either. Get off the stage Bob, and move over for Joni - heh heh.
Longtack55 6 months ago
@Longtack55 You don't understand sarcasm. I just bought Shadows and Light, and I wish
you would.
...I'm back on the internet now. I'm back on the internet now. I'm back on the internet now..
I'm back...
spoildn8410 6 months ago
@Tphilpott1 Man, did you ever hit the nail on the head with Joni's music. So well stated, and SO correct. I've been listening to her music from day one, as have you, and it has been a beautiful, rewarding trip along the way. I come back to her songs all the time and hear or perceive something new every time. That is what great artistry is all about!
butfulmuzik 5 months ago
Boy I'd love to isolate that max bennet bass line-that's something on it's own-joni's best-next to Edith...
buschnic61 1 year ago
Yeah,well,does it ever get better than this?
crushedz 1 year ago
oh how I love this song, nothing compares
songforsharon 1 year ago
There is nothing like this music anywhere. It's quite nearly transcendental.
saturdayloo 1 year ago
everything about this album gives me goose bumps. Not unlinke most of Joni's other albums!
internettruckstop 1 year ago
one of, if not The best writers, of our time...
TMKchld 1 year ago
una delle più belle canzoni di Joni, un quadro, una pioggia, un diario, lampi, una chitarra, lazy e crazy a fare rima...brava, per sempre
Archidaria1 1 year ago
I first heard this some months ago. It was so haunting, beautiful, and contemplative all at the same time. The way the guitar sounds on this i think is the most haunting part, like its playing through rain clouds. Terrific sound. Great atmosphere, too. I tend to be a classic rock kind of guy, but this song's quickly becoming one of my all-time favorites.
owenbb505 1 year ago
so close to that line, but so far from satisfaction...love that.
imajeepster 1 year ago 2
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FAWNMAIDEN 1 year ago
My favourite song from my favourite album of Joni's!
cinebeatl 1 year ago
Does anyone else find themselves crying when they hear this song? This album feels so nostalgic, though it has no business doing so with me, I'm just 19.
akrotirifry9 1 year ago 5
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FAWNMAIDEN 1 year ago
Donald Fagan reportedly underwent therapy after releasing The Nightfly because he felt he gave too much of his inner thoughts a public airing and it freaked him out. All this makes you wonder how the likes of Joni copes when she releases material such as this. Heartfelt emotions put into beautiful poetry and set free into the public domain.
Kudos to you Joni Mitchell....!
me1onhead 1 year ago 2
This one takes me back to a time and place within myself - but also to Staten Island and Union Square... to the Seagram bldg. and to Central Park.
ThisIsPeteJamison 1 year ago
This is a great music to listen to while traveling.
ncbeach22 1 year ago
There's only one Joni, and she's incomparable. How does one person get all that talent? Probably the best female lyricist in the last 40 years, at least, command of her best instrument, her voice, and more. Jimi Hendrix said she was a genius on guitar. I can listen to "For The Roses" over and over. Like I can listen to the Stones' "Beggar's Banquet" or Elvis Costello's "This Year's Model" the same way. Timeless artists at their absolute creative peakI never tire of either.
christoJihad2 1 year ago
Unbelievable that the hesitant, awkward voice of her early records should blossom into this supremely expressive instrument, which is in total command of the lyrics & has so much wit and light & shade and is almost jamming with Jaco Pastorius on bass.
gwranda 1 year ago
This song is so beautiful, I never realized how LONG it is!!!
schuyler10 1 year ago 7
@schuyler10 I know right? first time I heard it I was mesmerized that I didn't even think of the time. it just seemed to pass by beautifully.
JsRf13 5 months ago
just eternal...
andrewzeegers 1 year ago
There's a whole series of circumstances from a different era that shaped her as an artist. I doubt there will ever be anyone else like her.
larrygentry 1 year ago
can you make this... ahem... "post" play in a forever loop, by any chance?
seganor 1 year ago
What's she doing getting mixed up with Starbucks?
sptfgpn 1 year ago
It's one of her best. Edith and the Kingpin is prbably my all time favorite.
wisecrab 1 year ago
She's not only a good singer, but also a good poet. Thanks Joni for your music, your lyrics.
cavas77 1 year ago
@mhowardONE Goddamn! You got it right, man. So personal, so honest, and so identifiable by any of us who share "the power of reason, and the powers of deep feelings..." You hit the nail on the head. I truly enjoyed your comment because it really captured the spirit of the Joni Mitchell I have loved these many years. And "Song For Sharon" seemed to capsule all of it.
butfulmuzik 1 year ago
I am continually amazed at the way we go through life fooling ouselves into believing we like things we really loathe. For the sixth time in ten minutes the telephone rang. Among other important calls had been a lady trying to sell me lingeie and someone who asked if I were the Kosher market and who seemed annoyed I wasnt. This time I pretended not to hear and made a dive for the tub. My maid, however, cut off my retreat, announcing "Telephone for you Madame," as if it were orchids.
czech698 1 year ago
I do love her
carebear0834 1 year ago
Hejira is my favorite Joni album. Song for Sharon sneaked up on me after repeated listenings over the years. Now is it one of my favorite JM songs, though impossible to pick a favorite. Thank goodness her music was in my life through so many difficult passages, she helped to keep me sane. She gets it.
TheAnneChristie 2 years ago
@TheAnneChristie Agreed. Hejira just rises above most of Joni's work and is really in a spiritual place for me. The title track is one of my top 5 all-time favorites.
rubicon1983 1 year ago
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git1958 2 years ago
this has long been one of my favorites of Ms. Mitchell.
this song is filled with gems, but "all i really want to do right now is find another lover" is such an excellent line and yet so simple.
she's one of the few who can write about life and love so honestly and without pretense.
bigbiscuit100 2 years ago 2
My favorite Joni song. It just blew my mind the first time I hear it, and it has been blowing my mind ever since. I would say that Hejira is my favorite album of hers as well. She trimmed away the expansive instrumentation of Court and Spark and The Hissing of Summer Lawns and gave her songs instrumentation that was so simple (usually not much more than guitar and bass), yet spoke such volumes. It's a testament to how so much can be done with so little.
crescentfreshbret 2 years ago 4
And don't get me wrong, I love Court... and Hissing..., but the powerful simplicity of this album just speaks to me in a way those albums can't.
crescentfreshbret 2 years ago 2
cet album est un chef d'oeuvre absolu
Gintodalbert 2 years ago
Just a piece of genius
TheNigelr 2 years ago 4
Farquin' Jesus, save us that value truth and love
TheNigelr 2 years ago
A great song off Joni's greatest album !
No one comes close to her genius to touch our body , mind & spirit with her music & poetry !
tonto4848 2 years ago 25
@tonto4848 agree ...
frankpaush 1 year ago
@tonto4848 Agree. No one comes close. But her best was Hissing of Summer Lawns. <3
drachirzim 7 months ago
@drachirzim
Whilst I too love Hissing of Summer Lawns,and most of her albums ( I have them all), I still think Hejira is in a class of its own. Every song is brilliant, the music is of such high quality and unique in tone ( Thanks to the chemistry with bass man Jaco Pastorious), and the album just oozes fantastic Mitchell imagery and storytelling. A true classic !
tonto4848 7 months ago 7
@tonto4848
I agree with you is a classic Joni Mitchell. I always followed joni on their websites, to know what she
how big is still a songwriter and artist that she is
378agra 1 month ago
@drachirzim That song was/is beautiful
calalilygirl 5 months ago
Definitely in her top ten best songs. She has so many great songs. I hope Joni knows how much she really is loved.
ghanick 2 years ago 6
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git1958 2 years ago
the ultimate joni....still so relevant & fresh after 33 years! Love u x
kpnuts50 2 years ago 2
one of the most brilliantly stunning things I've ever heard.
emmbee 2 years ago 5
she's the greatest!!!
shibori8 2 years ago
33 years ago and still as intelligent, incisive and cutting as ever. Imprinted on my tiny mind. No one comes close. There's Joni....then everyone else.
git1958 2 years ago 3
Amazing beautiful work from a great artist. For Joni, it's not just the words and music-- it is her heart, her life story.
MyHTSignIn 2 years ago 4
Listen to her guitarplaying -magical!!!
srudow 2 years ago 4
pure poetry
andrezular 2 years ago 6
never get tired of this 9 mins or so of joni...beautiful
stephengregory1 2 years ago 19
@stephengregory1 ...nor I, from the first time I heard it over 25 years ago, driving home in No. Calif. from my logging job...
...in a class totally by herself....
baldrad 1 year ago