Joni Mitchell-Blue Motel Room

[phase866]

Gosh.. I just adore these songs by her. I feel like the songs from Hejira (two so far) have affected me more than all her others, not that they aren't as good. Thank you so much for posting these. I hope she doesn't mind, lol.

[TacomaPaul]

Ya know... I'm a "hrad rocker" I suppose.... Zeppelin and Black Sabbath and such... but I had a friend where the rule was we'd each get to play a side of a cassette whilst watching the sunset and "enhancing" ousrselves in the mid to late 70s at this really cool beach place to park.

Well... I turned him on to some "deep cuts" of Zeppelin...... he put on "Hejira" ... and God painted a picture during it.

Just amazing.

And Jaco ! ;-)

[mlc2005]

A talent unmatched, in my humble opinion. The lyrics to this album are pure genius. Just staggeringly beautiful.

[ColdOasisU2]

this album,fun house by stooges, the idiot by iggy pop , endtroducing by dj shadow and some others are my treasure albums

[justinwales1]

This is the best album

Lyrics are just the best on all songs

Hejira is outstanding those words still play on my mind decades later; We're only particles of change I know I know

Orbiting around the sun

But how can I have that point of view

When I'm always bound and tied to someone.

No one writes like that anymore.

[nubonyx]

The first time I heard this song I was stationed at NADC Warminster and a friend of mine from DC, my friend Dennis, had this joint playing in his room at the barracks. I knew it was Joni MitchelI, but I had never heard it before. The song is so beautiful it stopped me in my tracks and melted my heart. Wow. That was so long ago and the song still has that same effect of my heart. Beautiful.

[ZombieBabyDoll]

Blue Motel Room is one of my favorites of Joni, so beautiful!

[seventeenboi]

addicted to 'hejira'

[ButterflyNM14]

hangin on your boom boom... aha love that part

[parkyourcarcass]

For me it’s the cord changes, alternative tunings, and the imagery of her lyrics that make her the greatest songwriter of our time. Pure art! Joni was and always has been years ahead of her time. Hejira, Court and Spark, and Blue have been my favorites.

[JAETERRI]

Wow !! I have not heard this in about 35 years, what memories. Thanks

[tonto4848]

Joni is a genius !

Apart from her songwriting, singing and musicianship, she is a brilliant wordsmith. The imagery of her poetry on this Hejira album is the finest ! It's like you are in that Blue Hotel Room, or sitting with Furry, or meeting with Sharon, etc .

Genius !

[cicadagodking]

This entire album is a road trip. Joni wrote many of the songs on the road, while traveling alone from Maine to California. Very guitaristic and progressively jazzy, it is among her best work, and features "the greatest bass player in the world", Jaco Pastorius, on several key songs. Check out "Hejira"!

[stevie767]

Wow,,,excellent track,,,Fantastic sound quality,,,NICE!!!!!! :-)

[shelleybobelly1]

perfect music when you're wailing out your life....I'll be thinking of you!

[oafsse]

Joni Mitchell is an artist of the highest calibre! Excellent track-as always!

[tonto4848]

One of the great songs off her best album " Hejira".

This woman is simply a genius !

There is something of quality and significance in every song she produces.

[wastrel09]

She really is amazing: Listen to the background vocals starting at 2:08, it would not be easy at all to put something like that together. This song is my favorite on Hejira.

[mhowardONE]

Here's the "Deal" with Joni Mitchell

-Her Music and Lyrics are Intensely Personal--

Thus Intensely Personal People Can Gyrate To Her Beat and Weep Over Her Incredible Ourpourings that are -- intensely persional and autobiographical...

Extremely well crafted poetry and imagry hellp her depict, thus they serve her greatly---it flows...

A Great Talent with Words.

So Be IT!

[ghanick]

When I first heard this song those many years ago, I thought she was being tongue in cheek, kind of a funny, a light ditty among the other really profound songs to be found on "Hejira". It's great to hear it on its own. It reminds me of all the road trips I have taken over the past 35years. I have been in many a blue motel room, and this must have been how Joni was feeling when she wrote this. The road is isolating and liberating at the same time. No one says it better than Joni.

[kakilong]

My absolute favorite Joni album. Hejjira, A song For Sharon Blue Motel Room, most profound lyrics

[darksword187]

for this song, i think karrin allyson's version is much better than joni.

[westpalmscott]

If I have to say I have a favorite Joni Mitchell album, I'd say it's a tie between this and The Hissing Of Summer Lawns

[childofiona]

When I worked at Borders 5 years ago, a man threw a gift card at me because he was pissed we didn't have his reserved copy of Harry Potter. I begged my manager to let me keep it, he did, and I bought every record Joni Mitchell ever made. Hejira is the Joni Mitchell album that took me the longest to warm up to. Then something clicked, and it quickly became one of my favorites. You can't beat "Coyote" or "Hejira" or "Song for Sharon". There is truly comfort in melancholy. Don't miss "Travelogue"

[kingchrisuk2009]

@childofiona what a wonderful little story, i think you invested his gift card wisely. :) x

[liffick]

This too is my favorite Mitchell album. An essential to any road trip. The writing is just superb and the music is hypnotic and beautiful.

[fpngan]

Man, Listening to this crusing down the lonesome highway at night here in Wyoming....so perfect

[amandaberesford]

Sublime. Perfect song to hear at any time, but the right antidote for a dreary fall day.

[RosaeCrucis52]

Yes...Joni is genius.

[MeangitarMingoMango]

My, what can I say? Just a genius with one of her masterpieces.

This is an incredible album.

[MrShunyata]

Hegira is Joni's masterpiece -- in 300 years and beyond, connoisseurs will study it as THE key to 20th century North American pop culture & psychology. I just hope they enjoy Joni's edge and groove then as much as we do now...

[TheTbear111]

Joni has always reflected our own rythms, real fealings including love and some unique kind of angst. I really don't know where she finds it, let alone the beauty in her expressions. Now that is audio art!!!

[eskimoposh]

Hands down, my favourite Joni album. Ever.

I grew up in Canada, and there's something special about travelling to the mountains as the snow is falling.....listening to this entire album on repeat. Beyond bliss.....

[45spindle]

Better than a fine smoke after the love making...mmmmmmmmmmmm.

[OneHeart75]

One of my all time favorites ...the jive shared between Jaco P. and Joni here is amazing!! "Boom-boom pachyderm"? Hmmmmm.....This entire album reflects the pure genius that is Joni Mitchell....

[090878tinus]

I've got 260 CD's.I will trow them all away...but I will keep this one.For more then 20 years my favorite!!

[abetterversion]

this song is so sexy

[ghanick]

This album is my favorite, too. She definitely scrambled time and seasons as she got through to millions of us. The sound and the words are stamped on my soul throughout this life and probably the next one. "Hejira" was Joni's tome to immortality.

[ToLoseItandwinIt]

I adore this song its AMAZING!!!!

[treg1980]

Joni's music has the word ART written all over it.

Joni, Carly, Carole...

Nobody does it better than these ladies!

[RosaeCrucae57]

Great vibes and a beautiful soul...thanks Joni.

[petermccabe41]

my favourite joni track without doubt....thankx for posting!! :D

[nubonyx]

Was this song great or what? It gives me goose bumps.

[musicenvoetbal]

Mr. Blackkendoll82,

Thansk you so much for posting this music.

I lost this album 35 years ago after breaking up with a girlfriend at that time. Having had this music in my mind always the impact of listening to it was the same as back than.

You have great taste and made a middle age man very lucky.

[russradicans]

Makes me melt into a Blue GOO!

[phloridababe]

thank you for sending this to me...

sipping on a glass of white merlot would be appropriate at this moment. =0)

[louiseduvee]

I love your channel, so I HAD to subscribe! Thanks for yet another pensive song...

[blackkendoll82]

ohh thank uuuuuuuuu im so glad u love joni as much as i do.......

[H3rman123]

But where is "A Strange Boy"? In my opinion the nicest tune of the album...

[blackkendoll82]

well i uploaded "a strange boy" for you...enjoy

[tall32guy]

I laughed the first time I heard the part " you tell those girls that you got German Measles/Honey tell em you got germs". LOL

[almadora]

all those nights in all those hotel rooms in the early ninties... i can confess: i wish i had been with someone else.

[blackkendoll82]

lmaooooooooooooo love that comment.......

[elnyxx79]

thanks for posting. I couldn't find this any where until i realized it was blue motel room instead of blue hotet room. reminds me of summers in new orleans with my big sister.

[blackkendoll82]

no prob....lol

[popebloodybrillant]

6 OUT OF 5.

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