Love the keys (Joe Sample) and guitar (Larry Carlton) on Help Me! My first Joni album--I was in highs chool. Followed by Hissing of Summer Lawns--another awesome album! Joni worked with some of the best musicians on her albums. Also check out her brilliant earlier albums. Joni's chord work and harmonies were fantastic.
wonderful choice,, and yet another Joni song told from multiple perspectives (Both Sides Now, Circle Game, etc). Would like your take on one of her later songs, "Chinese Cafe/Unchained melody" from one her later albums, Wild things Run Fast.
This song was nominated for Song of the Year at the Grammy Awards when it was released, but regretfully lost to Olivia Newton John's "I Honestly Love You". There's a delightful video of the actual award presentation on UA-cam, with the presenters Paul Simon and John Lennon (and Art Garfunkel accepting the award for Olivia Newton John, wearing a t-shirt printed like a tuxedo)! Enjoyed your reaction, and glad to see you explore Joni Mitchell. (By the way, she had affairs with James Taylor, David Crosby, Graham Nash, and others, so she wrote from experience, and was brutally honest about herself in her songs).
Joni Mitchell is a poet with a universal ambition, a fisher for denotative and connotative meaning, an emotional net that spans and yanks at all cultures. She reaches with spasmodic frequency....and then it hits us all somewhere, with needle point accuracy......it seems she is speaking to all of us at specific points in all of our lived and unconscious experiences and some how she crosses cultures and time. The times when we feel human and inhuman, loving and hateful. She is a bard the likes of which we haven't seen since Mirabai or Shakespeare.
Blue is her masterpiece, but IMO Herja is her most musically sophisticated album. She was collaborating with jazz greats at that point, and the musicians she selected combined with her poetry and voice made an amazing record. I recc Amelia off Herja next.
"But not like you love your freedom." The first side of the Court and Spark album is a masterpiece. As is the second track on side 2, "Down to You," which won a Grammy for vocal arrangement.
HELP ME!!!!!!!!!! Just the way she sings that line says all you need to know about falling in love! and with Divine Queen Joni! You can feel her knees getting weak!
Geddy Lee said once that Joni Mitchell was one of his influences. Her song writing ability is beautiful and she has a gorgeous vulnerability in her angelic voice. Speaking of Geddy Lee it's been a minute since you done some Rush. I have a couple of suggestions. Secret Touch from the Snakes and Arrows tour Stick it Out official music video Cheers
Joni Mitchell is the hippest of the hip in my opinion. She always has the best musicians playing with her too. Cause they all know too. I'm going to suggest again that you check out her full album called Hejira. Hejira sort of means journey. Every song on the album has to do with traveling or journey, in some way. Jaco plays on that album (only the best bass player to walk to earth). Yes she had many famous relationships over the years. She met Crosby Stills Nash and Young and got involved with David Crosby, until she broke up with him and got involved with Graham Nash. They wrote a bunch of songs about her. She dated Leonard Cohen at some point, etc. etc.
For any Joni fans who don't know, Rhino have just released (April 2024) a four Blu-ray set (each with hi-res Stereo, Quad, and Atmos mixes) of her "Asylum Albums" package (i.e. FOR THE ROSES (1972), COURT AND SPARK (1974), MILES OF AISLES (1974), and THE HISSING OF SUMMER LAWNS (1975)).
Joni is still with us having recovered from a stroke a few years ago. She recently performed "I'm Still Standing" at the Gershwin Award presentation for Elton John and Bernie Taupin.
Many thanks and many blessings to you Pope for sharing this podcast with us on UA-cam. Hopefully, this will turn on some more people to Joni! If you don't mind being asked, how do you do it Pope?.. somehow I feel like I am right there with you diggin' on the musical vibes! P.S. Thanks for playing the song all the way out : it has one of the most beautiful and haunting endings I've ever heard ...
Joni is the truth. Godlike genius. More top Joni listening recommended: "Edith & The Kingpin" ..from her masterpiece, 1975's _The Hissing Of Summer Lawns_
Joni Mitchell...Such an amazing songwriter, and musician. If you want to gain a little insight about Joni's love life, listen to her song "Cactus". To give yourself a real treat in lyricism, listen to Joni Mitchell's entire album entitled "Blue" a landmark album, a must-listen-to album for anyone that loves song craft and loves to here an artist share her soul with us all.
It was an era of exploration. The idea of a woman having her own a life after attaching herself to a man was unheard of. Remember they were very young and touring constantly in a brand new world
My favorite Joni song. Thanks Pope. Suggest you react to Joni's current big time fan and brilliant, Grammy winning artist Brandi Carlile. Check out her song The Joke. Joni has been her mentor forever. She's the real deal. ❤😊
Please check out her middle and late period as well, especially the stunning album Turbulent Indigo.from 1993 The Magdalene Laundries, Sex Kills, Last Chance Lost, Sire of Sorrows, all great songs. Other great Joni peak releases: Heijira from 1976 Hissing of Summer Lawns from 1974 For the Roses 1972 (Jusr before Court and Spark) and of course, Court and Spark, 1973
I appreciate that you take time to let the whole song play through without interruption to get the full feeling of the music you react to, and are moved into deeper meaning of the lyrics, the poetry. I've listened to reactions of other artists you react to and want to let you know this is one of a handful of channels I subscribe to. You get it! I was born in 1957 and lived the music in real time. I can see your first time reactions are similar to mine. I wish you all the best life has to offer brother!
Regarding stocks, I remind you that you are young, so time is on your side. Start with a couple of safe index funds, so you are not risking anything with individual companies. Talk to someone who can guide you and instruct you on how to open an account. With investing, you will always start slow and build up as you understand how it all works. Little by little, you’ll also notice that money wasted here and there can be saved and put into low-risk stocks. The fact that we are thinking along these lines puts you ahead of most of your peers. Also, you are never too young to start thinking about Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs) and 401ks.
Joni Mitchell is very 'in tune' with most people's emotions. She has been married but also she is a wildly successful and rich musician so marriage has never been something she ever really needed to embrace. "Freeman In Paris" is a verbatim retelling of David Geffen's experiences cruising for gay sex in Paris. React to that one next please.
Stocks. Don't trade. Invest instead. When you buy and sell, you statistically reduce your gains because you pay. The other way you lose is paying fees. Time will cause all traders to revert to mean, so buy a few broad market funds that have super low fee structures and walk away. Joni rules! Look at VTI. If you want to time it, look at the 52 week low and buy when you get close to that. Might take a long time to get there. Don't buy high.
Love the keys (Joe Sample) and guitar (Larry Carlton) on Help Me! My first Joni album--I was in highs chool. Followed by Hissing of Summer Lawns--another awesome album! Joni worked with some of the best musicians on her albums. Also check out her brilliant earlier albums. Joni's chord work and harmonies were fantastic.
Someone smart enough to love Joni needs to see her live rendition of "both sides now" in 2000, some 30 years after she wrote it!!
wonderful choice,, and yet another Joni song told from multiple perspectives (Both Sides Now, Circle Game, etc). Would like your take on one of her later songs, "Chinese Cafe/Unchained melody" from one her later albums, Wild things Run Fast.
The album that this is from “ Court and Spark” is a masterpiece. Every song is great.
Go deep diving on the albums 'The Hissing of Summer Lawns' and 'Hejira'. Her compositions and lyrics, and the musicians she recruited are all amazing!
This song was nominated for Song of the Year at the Grammy Awards when it was released, but regretfully lost to Olivia Newton John's "I Honestly Love You". There's a delightful video of the actual award presentation on UA-cam, with the presenters Paul Simon and John Lennon (and Art Garfunkel accepting the award for Olivia Newton John, wearing a t-shirt printed like a tuxedo)! Enjoyed your reaction, and glad to see you explore Joni Mitchell. (By the way, she had affairs with James Taylor, David Crosby, Graham Nash, and others, so she wrote from experience, and was brutally honest about herself in her songs).
Pope is a great reactor, doesn't talk or pause all over and just absorbs the music. def a hip dude
Grew up with this lovely lady. She is truly gifted. Pope: That was Sinead O'Connor on SNL.
Joni Mitchell is a poet with a universal ambition, a fisher for denotative and connotative meaning, an emotional net that spans and yanks at all cultures. She reaches with spasmodic frequency....and then it hits us all somewhere, with needle point accuracy......it seems she is speaking to all of us at specific points in all of our lived and unconscious experiences and some how she crosses cultures and time. The times when we feel human and inhuman, loving and hateful. She is a bard the likes of which we haven't seen since Mirabai or Shakespeare.
Please write album liner notes!
@@TheDivayenta Sounds good.
Blue is her masterpiece, but IMO Herja is her most musically sophisticated album. She was collaborating with jazz greats at that point, and the musicians she selected combined with her poetry and voice made an amazing record. I recc Amelia off Herja next.
"But not like you love your freedom." The first side of the Court and Spark album is a masterpiece. As is the second track on side 2, "Down to You," which won a Grammy for vocal arrangement.
HELP ME!!!!!!!!!! Just the way she sings that line says all you need to know about falling in love! and with Divine Queen Joni! You can feel her knees getting weak!
The older you get the more you become aware of the triumph of Hope over experience when you get that feeling..
Geddy Lee said once that Joni Mitchell was one of his influences.
Her song writing ability is beautiful and she has a gorgeous vulnerability in her angelic voice.
Speaking of Geddy Lee it's been a minute since you done some Rush. I have a couple of suggestions.
Secret Touch from the Snakes and Arrows tour
Stick it Out official music video
Cheers
Joni Mitchell is the hippest of the hip in my opinion. She always has the best musicians playing with her too. Cause they all know too. I'm going to suggest again that you check out her full album called Hejira. Hejira sort of means journey. Every song on the album has to do with traveling or journey, in some way. Jaco plays on that album (only the best bass player to walk to earth). Yes she had many famous relationships over the years. She met Crosby Stills Nash and Young and got involved with David Crosby, until she broke up with him and got involved with Graham Nash. They wrote a bunch of songs about her. She dated Leonard Cohen at some point, etc. etc.
I think she loves love at the same time she fears it..there’s their dilemma…I can relate
For any Joni fans who don't know, Rhino have just released (April 2024) a four Blu-ray set (each with hi-res Stereo, Quad, and Atmos mixes) of her "Asylum Albums" package (i.e. FOR THE ROSES (1972), COURT AND SPARK (1974), MILES OF AISLES (1974), and THE HISSING OF SUMMER LAWNS (1975)).
Joni is still with us having recovered from a stroke a few years ago. She recently performed "I'm Still Standing" at the Gershwin Award presentation for Elton John and Bernie Taupin.
Man..I'd forgotten how good she was..and hearing it with no pops and clicks from the wornout vinyl like 50 years ago was awesome ...
Her voice is a gift to all
Brings back great memories of 1974..
Great song, arrangement, and recording
Not to mention “Tom Scott and the LA Express” as her band on this album! 😊
Many thanks and many blessings to you Pope for sharing this podcast with us on UA-cam.
Hopefully, this will turn on some more people to Joni!
If you don't mind being asked, how do you do it Pope?.. somehow I feel like I am right there with you diggin' on the musical vibes!
P.S.
Thanks for playing the song all the way out : it has one of the most beautiful and haunting endings I've ever heard ...
Joni is the truth. Godlike genius. More top Joni listening recommended:
"Edith & The Kingpin"
..from her masterpiece, 1975's _The Hissing Of Summer Lawns_
Joni Mitchell...Such an amazing songwriter, and musician. If you want to gain a little insight about Joni's love life, listen to her song "Cactus". To give yourself a real treat in lyricism, listen to Joni Mitchell's entire album entitled "Blue" a landmark album, a must-listen-to album for anyone that loves song craft and loves to here an artist share her soul with us all.
It was an era of exploration. The idea of a woman having her own a life after attaching herself to a man was unheard of. Remember they were very young and touring constantly in a brand new world
My favorite Joni song. Thanks Pope. Suggest you react to Joni's current big time fan and brilliant, Grammy winning artist Brandi Carlile. Check out her song The Joke. Joni has been her mentor forever. She's the real deal. ❤😊
It's one of my favorite songs....it's so different. Thanks for a great reaction. ❤
Please react to her song Blue!
Please check out her middle and late period as well, especially the stunning album Turbulent Indigo.from 1993 The Magdalene Laundries, Sex Kills, Last Chance Lost, Sire of Sorrows, all great songs. Other great Joni peak releases:
Heijira from 1976
Hissing of Summer Lawns from 1974
For the Roses 1972
(Jusr before Court and Spark)
and of course,
Court and Spark, 1973
Hissing of Summer Lawns is a great album too, check out Don't Interrupt the Sorrow
I appreciate that you take time to let the whole song play through without interruption to get the full feeling of the music you react to, and are moved into deeper meaning of the lyrics, the poetry. I've listened to reactions of other artists you react to and want to let you know this is one of a handful of channels I subscribe to. You get it! I was born in 1957 and lived the music in real time. I can see your first time reactions are similar to mine. I wish you all the best life has to offer brother!
When I get that crazy feeling... classic!
"A Free Man In Paris"
The Weight, The Band and The Staples
Regarding stocks, I remind you that you are young, so time is on your side. Start with a couple of safe index funds, so you are not risking anything with individual companies. Talk to someone who can guide you and instruct you on how to open an account. With investing, you will always start slow and build up as you understand how it all works. Little by little, you’ll also notice that money wasted here and there can be saved and put into low-risk stocks. The fact that we are thinking along these lines puts you ahead of most of your peers. Also, you are never too young to start thinking about Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs) and 401ks.
thank you giantly 🙏🏿
✨️Pope-alicous✨️
🎶🍁🎶
Lemon Pie by Strawbs
"Pope-alicious"!.. Good One!!
Joni Mitchell is very 'in tune' with most people's emotions. She has been married but also she is a wildly successful and rich musician so marriage has never been something she ever really needed to embrace. "Freeman In Paris" is a verbatim retelling of David Geffen's experiences cruising for gay sex in Paris. React to that one next please.
Stocks. Don't trade. Invest instead. When you buy and sell, you statistically reduce your gains because you pay. The other way you lose is paying fees. Time will cause all traders to revert to mean, so buy a few broad market funds that have super low fee structures and walk away. Joni rules!
Look at VTI. If you want to time it, look at the 52 week low and buy when you get close to that. Might take a long time to get there. Don't buy high.