@greatrecordings: I respectfully disagree- completely. Jaco is literally behaving like a violin, a backup singer, et cetera. This electric bass style has precedent in other beautiful songs by great composers, for example in the incredible musical theater ballads of Andrew Lloyd Webber.
you see aim 62 I foot in the grave ; VET in the war we lost but it 's okay aim doing well and J if you come across this your inner feelings speck to me
Bass player is famous and talented, but not playing FOR the song. He is playing ON the song. And too much, stepping on the vocals. He is overplaying. If you disagree, you are probably not a musician.
@GreatRecordings the thing is, Joni WANTED Jaco to play like this to converse with her voice. this was all intentional. his bass acts like a voice also. yes, this style of playing wouldn't work in all songs but for Joni, it worked perfectly. his Bass wasn't just a back up, it was a voice. listen closer.
The best song she ever wrote and performed. Just like A Case of You, Blue, Amelia, Shades of Scarlett Conquering...and a hundred, literally a hundred, others.......
The perfect lyricist....the perfect voice.....the perfect ensemble of musicians....Joni Mitchell, Jaco Pastorius, Don Alias, Wayne Shorter, Pat Metheny, Alex Acuna. This is not just the artist and her musicians in perfect synchronicity.....this is music executed to perfection.
This album sets off a tsunami of emotion in me. I discovered it when I was 15, and it has remained my favorite album of all times. The lyrics are so brilliant and nourish my soul. The dance between her and Jaco's bass playing is so intimate. It's so nice to hear the comments of others who've had similar experiences with this beautiful music.
her guitar and his bass make the sound of falling snow which I did not even know has a sound.......magical magical the best poem in the english language if you ask me.......
Joni has to be one of the most highly refined, expressive and profound exponent of the popular song as art. Stoking the star-maker machinery. As ever, salut, Joni.
Hejira is where Joni really nails it. Abandoning verse-chorus slavery, the combo of her voice, her meandering washes of stunning poetry, her guitar + Jaco.P's bass coil round one another like serpents. The result's a unique musical language. Like nothing before or since.
@jimdivax - Beautifully said and I agree completely. Her "serpent cannot be denied." I borrowed that from Don Juan's Reckless Daughter, a seamless continuum with Jaco.
Hejira is the first album that really got me into Joni. Ever since then I've been patiently peeling away at the rest of her catalogue. This still remains my favorite.
@madsketcher Merely a testimony to your high standards--You'll find yourself open to her spectrum as you begin to collect them. This album, one of my two favorites, and "Song to a Seagull", my other favorite. Incredibly different are they, and I can live with that!!
i cannot count how many times I have cried to this record, she has changed my life in so many ways!! I finally saw her live on her Both Sides Now Tour - By the Ocean - Pavillion Boston Ma - when she came out - we were in the Front row, I held up my favorite album OF COURSE Hejira - - SHE SAW ME & WINKED... gave me the thumbs up - & GUESS WHAT Joni Mitchell serenaded me THE WHOLE NITE... sad to say that the rest of the 1800 people felt left out!.. BEST NITE OF MY LIFE... i cried and cried!
"in our possessive coupling, so much could not be expressed, so now i am returning to myself, these things that you and i suppressed..." best song about modern love. total melancholy. (+ the ungodly lovely Jaco Pastorius bass.)
One of the greatest songs ever. Amazing singing by Joni, with great lyrics (so is the whole record). Her voice is better than ever here, and of course Jacos spectacular and beautiful basslines helps out.
If you just want one Joni Mitchell record in your collection - please dont buy the "Best Of", buy Hejira instead! I promise you will be pleased. It's been one of my absolute favouríte records for very long now..
@3rdstone1 Dead on are you! This is my all time favorite album, and this song is my favorite. My lit class has just finished poetry where I insist their examples come from Donne, Shakespeare, Marvell, Stevens, Frost, blah, blah.... I tell them they cannot use pop culture examples on exams--unless it's Joni Mitchell. "White flags of winter chimneys, wave truce against the moon." I was pleased a few years ago when I heard that this was the Joni album to have as I thought the same thing.
It is my favorite Joni Mitchell song and has colored my world in so many ways... I have a signed lithographic print of this painting you posted here. It hangs prominently in my living room..she signed it in pencil...which I love. beautiful job on the post...
@greatrecordings: I respectfully disagree- completely. Jaco is literally behaving like a violin, a backup singer, et cetera. This electric bass style has precedent in other beautiful songs by great composers, for example in the incredible musical theater ballads of Andrew Lloyd Webber.
mikemicucci 1 week ago
you see aim 62 I foot in the grave ; VET in the war we lost but it 's okay aim doing well and J if you come across this your inner feelings speck to me
rwm6060jn 2 weeks ago
back in 70 I name my custome van Hejira passager and diver side window were ecthes with
a nude woman
rwm6060jn 2 weeks ago
I love this and joni as I have been there
rwm6060jn 2 weeks ago
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Love the prominent bass line. Unique and it works.
swamiommy 2 months ago
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swamiommy 2 months ago
Bass player is famous and talented, but not playing FOR the song. He is playing ON the song. And too much, stepping on the vocals. He is overplaying. If you disagree, you are probably not a musician.
GreatRecordings 2 months ago
@GreatRecordings the thing is, Joni WANTED Jaco to play like this to converse with her voice. this was all intentional. his bass acts like a voice also. yes, this style of playing wouldn't work in all songs but for Joni, it worked perfectly. his Bass wasn't just a back up, it was a voice. listen closer.
jryuwah 2 months ago 3
@GreatRecordings I am a musician & I totally disagree!
Gregivy364 4 days ago
la perfection. la voix, la basse de Jaco...
gammaGTgammajereste 2 months ago
there's comfort in melancholy...
27dedrummer 2 months ago
amazing...
gammaGTgammajereste 3 months ago
....white flags of winter chimneys...wave truce against the moon.....
OlymPigs2010 3 months ago
Jaco was amazing. Joni seemed even more complete with him playing behind her.
Marsbar17 3 months ago
Joni & Jaco = sublime
23sugarcane 4 months ago 2
wow Joni....
jimiguitar100 4 months ago
The best song she ever wrote and performed. Just like A Case of You, Blue, Amelia, Shades of Scarlett Conquering...and a hundred, literally a hundred, others.......
fripouille69 4 months ago
- I love that painting.
mistersaussy 4 months ago
So good to find these comments from like minded souls. You said it perfectly for me lebartonne.
Peace to you all.
artinmey 6 months ago
this is my song for funeral, i want jaco's playing with joni's voice there for me
Yamah12a 6 months ago
@Yamah12a
what a strange and final decision !.....anyway the song is so amazing!
ppaccara 5 months ago
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Yamah12a 6 months ago
these words in this song are deep, gotta listen
pitsteelers713 6 months ago
The perfect lyricist....the perfect voice.....the perfect ensemble of musicians....Joni Mitchell, Jaco Pastorius, Don Alias, Wayne Shorter, Pat Metheny, Alex Acuna. This is not just the artist and her musicians in perfect synchronicity.....this is music executed to perfection.
TheChaNar 7 months ago
This album sets off a tsunami of emotion in me. I discovered it when I was 15, and it has remained my favorite album of all times. The lyrics are so brilliant and nourish my soul. The dance between her and Jaco's bass playing is so intimate. It's so nice to hear the comments of others who've had similar experiences with this beautiful music.
kellzbops 7 months ago
her guitar and his bass make the sound of falling snow which I did not even know has a sound.......magical magical the best poem in the english language if you ask me.......
fardarig 8 months ago 2
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Joni has to be one of the most highly refined, expressive and profound exponent of the popular song as art. Stoking the star-maker machinery. As ever, salut, Joni.
pixleyfats2010 8 months ago
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pixleyfats2010 8 months ago
i can't believe the depth of her understanding and her vision. i cry when i hear this song...and i heal...
lebartonne 8 months ago
Jacos bass playing creates this extremely intimate man/woman duet. Simply beautiful!
ConCarneBlues 8 months ago
i am a 53year old soldier and i could cry, listening to this song, i love her . . .
bandit123100 8 months ago 3
@bandit123100
Wonderful, man. Thank you.
yumunja 6 months ago
Hejira is where Joni really nails it. Abandoning verse-chorus slavery, the combo of her voice, her meandering washes of stunning poetry, her guitar + Jaco.P's bass coil round one another like serpents. The result's a unique musical language. Like nothing before or since.
jimdivax 9 months ago 19
@jimdivax - Beautifully said and I agree completely. Her "serpent cannot be denied." I borrowed that from Don Juan's Reckless Daughter, a seamless continuum with Jaco.
pt8648 6 months ago
Hejira is the first album that really got me into Joni. Ever since then I've been patiently peeling away at the rest of her catalogue. This still remains my favorite.
madsketcher 10 months ago
@madsketcher Merely a testimony to your high standards--You'll find yourself open to her spectrum as you begin to collect them. This album, one of my two favorites, and "Song to a Seagull", my other favorite. Incredibly different are they, and I can live with that!!
odovicor 9 months ago
oh yes
newayswealth 11 months ago
-big blank space words can't fill -
love2live2learn 1 year ago
i think court and spark is her best album ever ....
INCURABLEME 1 year ago
i cannot count how many times I have cried to this record, she has changed my life in so many ways!! I finally saw her live on her Both Sides Now Tour - By the Ocean - Pavillion Boston Ma - when she came out - we were in the Front row, I held up my favorite album OF COURSE Hejira - - SHE SAW ME & WINKED... gave me the thumbs up - & GUESS WHAT Joni Mitchell serenaded me THE WHOLE NITE... sad to say that the rest of the 1800 people felt left out!.. BEST NITE OF MY LIFE... i cried and cried!
blackmoneybrown 1 year ago 3
Pop music for adults - an extinct thing.
highburyhills 1 year ago 3
This is my lay back on Sunday afternoon with wine and friends music.
rockinspiritphoto 1 year ago 2
"in our possessive coupling, so much could not be expressed, so now i am returning to myself, these things that you and i suppressed..." best song about modern love. total melancholy. (+ the ungodly lovely Jaco Pastorius bass.)
moclark 1 year ago
One of the greatest songs ever. Amazing singing by Joni, with great lyrics (so is the whole record). Her voice is better than ever here, and of course Jacos spectacular and beautiful basslines helps out.
If you just want one Joni Mitchell record in your collection - please dont buy the "Best Of", buy Hejira instead! I promise you will be pleased. It's been one of my absolute favouríte records for very long now..
3rdstone1 1 year ago 27
@3rdstone1 Totally!
societyforrealmusic 1 year ago
@3rdstone1 Dead on are you! This is my all time favorite album, and this song is my favorite. My lit class has just finished poetry where I insist their examples come from Donne, Shakespeare, Marvell, Stevens, Frost, blah, blah.... I tell them they cannot use pop culture examples on exams--unless it's Joni Mitchell. "White flags of winter chimneys, wave truce against the moon." I was pleased a few years ago when I heard that this was the Joni album to have as I thought the same thing.
odovicor 9 months ago
thank you for posting this...
It is my favorite Joni Mitchell song and has colored my world in so many ways... I have a signed lithographic print of this painting you posted here. It hangs prominently in my living room..she signed it in pencil...which I love. beautiful job on the post...
beckjuly100 1 year ago 4
'There is comfort in melancholy when there's no need to explain'...this line coupled with jaco's playing. umm.
Porous with travel fever
each so deep and superficial between the forceps and the stone.
the images and evocation of feeling. one of her best.
TheSocratease 1 year ago