She sang my life as a freshly minted college grad in 1969. And as I step -into the first days of my 79th birthday, she sings it again - unapologetic cracks and all. Thank you, Joni
Wow friend, on the same boat! I should have grad spring 69 but had to do one extra term to collect the... 183 credits? So got out Jan 1970 had just got married & 1st kid June ,1970 Whoops & off we GO!!🙃
Amazing. Just had my 79th birthday too. In 1969 I was living in Spain, having gone to college there. Her music reached that fascist country, with Franco still in power. Music from the US and the UK was a powerful influence with young people in Spain
We age but this song never gets old. Joni is 80 now and I'm 64. I was 9 years old when Joni first sang it. Beautifully written and Joni's voice is pitch perfect. I thought it was so appropriate she started with the 2nd verse at "tears and fears" and then recovered beautifully because that's life - we make mistakes but its how we deal with them that defines us.
Did that young woman of 26 know what she was singing about? "Old friends say I am acting strange" ---- what does she mean by "old friend" ?---- it is as if the young 26 year old was trying too hard to be older. And yet, somehow, as incredible as it seems, I believe that even then, she knew that you can look at both sides, from "up and down" and still, only see life's illusions..........
I was a teen in 1969. Those years of the 60's early 70's were amazing the closeness we all felt to each other of our generation..the peace and love we really truly felt. And the main thing we worried about was how awful it was going to be to turn 30 ...lol... like we would turn into a copy of our parents.. well friends we that made it through those years , what a time we were blessed to live in . Love you Joni.
Right! Even our commercials were loving and kind. "I'd like to buy the world a coke and keep it company..." Miss those years too. So glad to see Joni alive and well, she is truly a treasure.
Sadly you all got to have a fabulous time in your twenties and then had it made economically all the way through and voted more and more selfishly. Now young people have the same dreams, ideals and aspirations you had but they cannot persue them because they are hamstrung by an economy and government policies that only benefit your boomer generation. Instead of helping them, you just demand higher yields on your real estate investments and portfolio and tell the young to stop eating avocado toast. The hippie generation, the boomers, that I used to believe in, has turned rotten in old age.
Just came over here after watching her peform it at the Grammys in her now-contralto whisky voice and jazz-tinged phrasing. I fell in love with her music -- starting with this very song -- in 1969 as a sixth-grader, and she was my musical idol and role model for many years. This woman is timeless! Love you, Joni!
My eighth grade teacher played songs from her albums to our class to encourage creative writing. Blue, Court and Spark and The Hissing of Summer Lawns. I was already in love with words, she made me fall in love with music too. Imagine being 12 and listening to Don't Interrupt the Sorrow. "I've got a head full of quandary and a mighty, mighty thirst." Brilliant.
Wow- just wow. I also was born in 1960, so had the blessing to grow up with some of the best music in our history, starting with the Beatles. I did not realize until my teens what a great story teller Joni was in her songs, my loss. Her songs never get old, and it was a blessing that she could make it to the Grammys.
Revisiting after Grammys 2024. What an icon. Could she ever had imagine the impact that this song would have on us all still decades later. Sobbed during 2024 Newport Folk festival performance.
Yes, one of her best songs -- but you know, I've been tired of hearing it for a half-century now. This song was like an anthem, but anthems don't make great music. I much preferred her more emotional work.
Love how she smiles when she realises she's repeating the same verse and then flawlessly movies to the next one completely unperturbed . Her words are so true when she says "I truly don't know life at all", she speaks for 99% of the population we are so lost in our thoughts we are missing the big picture of what is really going on here.
This song brings back childhood memories, I was 5 when it was released and I imagine that my mom_who passed away in 2019_ used to listen to the song, since it brings me to tears every time I hear it,,,,,thank you Joni...beautiful
Remember seeing her at the Greek. I was probably 16 or 17. It was nightfall and she opened with her first song. Just then a Russian space vehicle re-entered the atmosphere. It fragmented and those fragments refragmented. They left very thick arcing persistent con-trails over half the Los Angeles sky. I have never seen anything like that again. Joni made an appropriate comment implying it was somehow a celebration of her evening of performance. It was an unusual happening on a warm summer night. Joni was magnificent.
Joni is true, rare talent, something we have little of today, which is why no matter how old you are (or she is), you have to respect this woman. She is a poet who can write music.
Of her recorded performances of this song, I think this one is the best. She sings it in a more natural way than she did even on the studio album. I love the way she begins to repeat the "moons and Junes" stanza and the audience cues her to her mistake, and she immediately switches to the correct stanza. When she sang this song in the 1990's, she sang it in a stylized and jazzy manner without the nuanced emotions. This period of time, when Joni was still very young, still very beautiful, and -- most importantly -- still singing with emotional nuance, is when she was the most perfect. At this point -- 1969 -- she still had her full upper register intact. She also had her best work ahead of her -- Blue (1971), For the Roses (1972), Court & Spark (1974), and Hejira (1976). I miss the early Joni. Such a beautiful voice.
Joni was so ahead of her time with Both Sides Now, and really everything she did. Women weren't writing their vulnerabilities then or yet. Try and find one before her. You won't. The execs didn't like it, but the world welcomed it in their hearts where it remains today. Many great artists today, even though it's few bc music isn't all that great these days, like Brandi Carlile, you can so hear Joni's influence in everything they do.
This is true, but it's a superficial take on her impact. She stands out not only because she "wrote her vulnerabilities", but because her music was immensely original and emotionally evocative. A woman could have "written her vulnerabilities" as much as you like, but without Joni's first handedness and musical/emotional expressiveness it wouldn't have amounted to anything.
I'm from Saskatoon and I remember we would sing this song during Friday assembly. Love it! Takes me back to the easy sunny days of 4th grade. What an amazing performer, and now I get to listen to my son Colton and his band The Dead South. Another fantastic Saskatchewan artist.
Some lyrics and some songs are ageless..they endure as with this incredible woman.A great Canadian.A masterful poet such a sweet voice and an incredible command of putting it down.I watched the audience at the Grammys and they were mesmerized❤
Her music over the years has inspired and amazed. Her use of alternative tuning and insightful lyrics have brought tears and joy. Joni has been a light. In the life of those from the 60’s on and those who are younger but have found her music can only count themselves as blessed.
It’s an astonishingly beautiful composition that will endure for many generations. How can such perspective come from such youthful inexperience. Out of the mouth of babes!
This is an incredible performance and song. These lyrics are timeless. She is no doubt one of the best songwriter-singers ever. If someone says she is not, she/he knows nothing about music.
Her voice was like expensive white wine, clear, flowing and a bit sweet. I was lucky enough to hear her live in 1970 at the concert in Vancouver that helped get Greenpeace going- and this is probably the best Canadian song, both music and lyrics, ever - definitely my favourite.
Clouds, Blue, Ladies of the Canyon - if you're what the French call "Of a certain age" you had them in your record collection when you were skinny and had all your (long) hair and thought life was forever. Now a song like this comes on Sirius and you pull the car over as there's something in your eyes thinking of friends and loves long ago.
She was one of the most significant musicians to emerge in that wonderfully creative decade of the 60's. Her lyrics are pure poetry and she went on to create arguably two of the greatest albums ever in the 1970s...Court and Spark and Don Juan's Reckless Daughter. There was so much depth and intelligence to all her work though.
Classic timeless live masterpiece a special moment in time for many of us. I think she repeated the first line of the second chorus mistakenly but just went right into the third chorus seamlessly live, I don't think most of the crowd even knew it.
It amazes me how she can pour everything she's got into every song. Also amazes me how indifferent and rude the audience was. I've never seen her walk off the stage mid-song before. Good video.
I listened to this when winching my girlfriend in 1966 ..she is lying here now by my side ..asleep tonight 15 June 2024 .snoring ..love her.. still don't know where the time went. But luvyou nelly
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I bet she didn't think she'd be singing this song 55 years later at the Grammys! And winning!! She is priceless!❤
Sweet!
She didn't even know Blue was coming in 1971 !
How would she????
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If you can call it singing.
She sang my life as a freshly minted college grad in 1969. And as I step -into the first days of my 79th birthday, she sings it again - unapologetic cracks and all. Thank you, Joni
Wow friend, on the same boat! I should have grad spring 69 but had to do one extra term to collect the... 183 credits? So got out Jan 1970 had just got married & 1st kid June ,1970 Whoops & off we GO!!🙃
Same here!
Amazing. Just had my 79th birthday too. In 1969 I was living in Spain, having gone to college there. Her music reached that fascist country, with Franco still in power. Music from the US and the UK was a powerful influence with young people in Spain
I was sixteen in 1969. Her songs and others made me. We still have to be the force we were, again today. Peace.
What a great song and performance I’m 71 remember this well
Something's lost but something's gained in living every day.. might be 1 of the 10 best lines of any song... EVER!!
Yeah. I guess you could say that everyday, you're one day nearer to your grave !
Agreed
@@reynaldoflores4522I'm guessing they meant it on a slightly deeper level!😅
Her appearance on the Grammys last night got me a little misty-eyed. I was not expecting to have that reaction.
same here, it was beautiful ❤
We age but this song never gets old. Joni is 80 now and I'm 64. I was 9 years old when Joni first sang it. Beautifully written and Joni's voice is pitch perfect. I thought it was so appropriate she started with the 2nd verse at "tears and fears" and then recovered beautifully because that's life - we make mistakes but its how we deal with them that defines us.
Well said!
Interesting darlinks
@2:48, well caught❣️
If u like this give Kate Wolf a listen.
She is a beautiful human, no doubt ♥️
She has no equal. Her impact and gift to the world is forever.
Maybe Joan Armatrading is her equal
Eat your heart out Taylor Swift. This is a real songwriter.
But I think Judy Collins is much prettier.
And sings this song better@@reynaldoflores4522
This is why we think music made now sucks...it was so good back then...unbelievable
moronic
No auto tune, no Botox, no cosmetic surgery, no dermal fillers, no hair dye … can we please go back?
Hey Nature G , Why would she have had any botox or fillers at that age anyway ? Daft comment ..
Nature G is right, I completely agree! Joni was (and is) a beauty but gave importance to her art, so was and is all the more beautiful for that.
No sexy, revealing costumes , neither
no tats don't forget that
If only, if only...
I doubt that any of us realized how lucky - or blessed - we’ve been to be around when Joni Mitchell was on this planet.
She still is on this planet..
She turned 26 that year, and now (2023) she's almost 80. How time flies. Nice upload.
Did that young woman of 26 know what she was singing about? "Old friends say I am acting strange" ---- what does she mean by "old friend" ?---- it is as if the young 26 year old was trying too hard to be older.
And yet, somehow, as incredible as it seems, I believe that even then, she knew that you can look at both sides, from "up and down" and still, only see life's illusions..........
There are videos of her singing this at 80 ish at Newport folk festival.
I was a teen in 1969. Those years of the 60's early 70's were amazing the closeness we all felt to each other of our generation..the peace and love we really truly felt. And the main thing we worried about was how awful it was going to be to turn 30 ...lol... like we would turn into a copy of our parents.. well friends we that made it through those years , what a time we were blessed to live in . Love you Joni.
Right! Even our commercials were loving and kind. "I'd like to buy the world a coke and keep it company..." Miss those years too. So glad to see Joni alive and well, she is truly a treasure.
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You are so right. I am so thankful I was young in that magical decade.
Sadly you all got to have a fabulous time in your twenties and then had it made economically all the way through and voted more and more selfishly. Now young people have the same dreams, ideals and aspirations you had but they cannot persue them because they are hamstrung by an economy and government policies that only benefit your boomer generation. Instead of helping them, you just demand higher yields on your real estate investments and portfolio and tell the young to stop eating avocado toast. The hippie generation, the boomers, that I used to believe in, has turned rotten in old age.
I was 13 at the time of this song. We had music back then that helped us through our adolescent years, music that follows you through life.
I love that she got the verse wrong and corrected herself with a little smile😊😊😊❤😂
That's a live performance , not lip synch.
Besides, she wrote that song. She had every right to make improvisations.
Sometimes you watch or see something in the world and it makes you realize that we aren’t just products of random mutations.
she changed a lot of the melody at the grammys but boy did she moved us with that performance.
Just came over here after watching her peform it at the Grammys in her now-contralto whisky voice and jazz-tinged phrasing. I fell in love with her music -- starting with this very song -- in 1969 as a sixth-grader, and she was my musical idol and role model for many years. This woman is timeless! Love you, Joni!
My eighth grade teacher played songs from her albums to our class to encourage creative writing. Blue, Court and Spark and The Hissing of Summer Lawns. I was already in love with words, she made me fall in love with music too. Imagine being 12 and listening to Don't Interrupt the Sorrow. "I've got a head full of quandary and a mighty, mighty thirst." Brilliant.
Wow- just wow. I also was born in 1960, so had the blessing to grow up with some of the best music in our history, starting with the Beatles. I did not realize until my teens what a great story teller Joni was in her songs, my loss. Her songs never get old, and it was a blessing that she could make it to the Grammys.
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Her Voice . Is - Surely Worth Remembering . . .
Revisiting after Grammys 2024. What an icon. Could she ever had imagine the impact that this song would have on us all still decades later. Sobbed during 2024 Newport Folk festival performance.
I sang it for a high school talent contest. She did it better but I at least had the nerve to get up and try. I still love it.
is hard song to sing darlinks
One of the greatest artists of my life- so grateful to be blessed with her artistry. Her voice is perfect, her lyrics even more so ❤️
A poet of the highest quality.
Just Joni and her guitar. Her voice and her unique way of playing just mesmerizing 😊😎🥂😉
So loud and powerful from a voice and guitar, truly amazing
annoying song
Absolutely one of the best songs ever written!
Yes, one of her best songs -- but you know, I've been tired of hearing it for a half-century now. This song was like an anthem, but anthems don't make great music. I much preferred her more emotional work.
Everyone is free to prefer what they wish. @@calebmurdock2028
She's a true legend. Then and now
I love the way she recovered from the false start to verse 3. A true professional. Amazing talent!!
Love how she smiles when she realises she's repeating the same verse and then flawlessly movies to the next one completely unperturbed . Her words are so true when she says "I truly don't know life at all", she speaks for 99% of the population we are so lost in our thoughts we are missing the big picture of what is really going on here.
It's funny how a song can unbox a plethora of childhood memories. A beautiful song from a different time in my life. 1969. I was 7
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Youve looked at life from both sides now
This is just beautiful ❤
This is a joy to see. Brings me back to those days, a very happy time in my life. Indeed, nothing lasts for long.
This song lives in your soul. Happily.
A true artist. So beautiful.
This song brings back childhood memories, I was 5 when it was released and I imagine that my mom_who passed away in 2019_ used to listen to the song, since it brings me to tears every time I hear it,,,,,thank you Joni...beautiful
Remember seeing her at the Greek. I was probably 16 or 17. It was nightfall and she opened with her first song. Just then a Russian space vehicle re-entered the atmosphere. It fragmented and those fragments refragmented. They left very thick arcing persistent con-trails over half the Los Angeles sky. I have never seen anything like that again. Joni made an appropriate comment implying it was somehow a celebration of her evening of performance. It was an unusual happening on a warm summer night. Joni was magnificent.
How beautiful.She was amazing.Brings back so many memories.❤
Joni is true, rare talent, something we have little of today, which is why no matter how old you are (or she is), you have to respect this woman. She is a poet who can write music.
Lately I've been thinking how much I miss
She has a beautiful voice. I love Joni Mitchell.
Of her recorded performances of this song, I think this one is the best. She sings it in a more natural way than she did even on the studio album. I love the way she begins to repeat the "moons and Junes" stanza and the audience cues her to her mistake, and she immediately switches to the correct stanza.
When she sang this song in the 1990's, she sang it in a stylized and jazzy manner without the nuanced emotions.
This period of time, when Joni was still very young, still very beautiful, and -- most importantly -- still singing with emotional nuance, is when she was the most perfect. At this point -- 1969 -- she still had her full upper register intact. She also had her best work ahead of her -- Blue (1971), For the Roses (1972), Court & Spark (1974), and Hejira (1976).
I miss the early Joni. Such a beautiful voice.
A great childhood radio record that has lasted the test of time.
Joni was so ahead of her time with Both Sides Now, and really everything she did. Women weren't writing their vulnerabilities then or yet. Try and find one before her. You won't. The execs didn't like it, but the world welcomed it in their hearts where it remains today.
Many great artists today, even though it's few bc music isn't all that great these days, like Brandi Carlile, you can so hear Joni's influence in everything they do.
This is true, but it's a superficial take on her impact. She stands out not only because she "wrote her vulnerabilities", but because her music was immensely original and emotionally evocative. A woman could have "written her vulnerabilities" as much as you like, but without Joni's first handedness and musical/emotional expressiveness it wouldn't have amounted to anything.
I was there. Yes we did love it. Try and make yourself look nobel someplace far away..@@AndSendMe
I'm from Saskatoon and I remember we would sing this song during Friday assembly. Love it! Takes me back to the easy sunny days of 4th grade. What an amazing performer, and now I get to listen to my son Colton and his band The Dead South. Another fantastic Saskatchewan artist.
A joy to behold.
Some lyrics and some songs are ageless..they endure as with this incredible woman.A great Canadian.A masterful poet such a sweet voice and an incredible command of putting it down.I watched the audience at the Grammys and they were mesmerized❤
Her music over the years has inspired and amazed. Her use of alternative tuning and insightful lyrics have brought tears and joy. Joni has been a light. In the life of those from the 60’s on and those who are younger but have found her music can only count themselves as blessed.
joni...a very special woman, thanks joni
Just think she is from canada.just beautiful.🇨🇦🇨🇦
She is a pure "gem of genius"!!!
There are some awesome hooks in that song,and they still work.
One of my favourite songs, I'm very glad I heard it when it was first released in 1969.
I am 67, and I don't know love at all, my time is nearly up,,,
I was in Vietnam in 1969 and remember so clearly this song
God bless you, man.
Gifted. Extraordinary. She hasn't been matched over the last 50 years.
She was the Muse to so many artists who went on to become the greats of the 60s!
It’s an astonishingly beautiful composition that will endure for many generations. How can such perspective come from such youthful inexperience. Out of the mouth of babes!
One of the greatest singer/songwriters to have ever graced us with her presence. Royalty!
Definitely one of the best musicians of this generation!
Thanks so much for sharing
This is an incredible performance and song. These lyrics are timeless. She is no doubt one of the best songwriter-singers ever. If someone says she is not, she/he knows nothing about music.
Brings so many memories. I was a young mother in the 60's. Now 82 and Joni is still around and wonderful
Her voice was like expensive white wine, clear, flowing and a bit sweet. I was lucky enough to hear her live in 1970 at the concert in Vancouver that helped get Greenpeace going- and this is probably the best Canadian song, both music and lyrics, ever - definitely my favourite.
1967, Joni playing in a small coffee house in Ann Arbor, before she was a "name," her dress brushed my hand as she walked up to the stage.
You said it ALL !❤
@@Elenihellas963 You understand. Everything.
Such a beautiful song.If there's heaven, it gave us a treasure in Joni Mitchell
She sang this to me when I was 5
I fell in love with this free spirit first time I seen joni perform this 🌹🌹🤠🦅⭐⭐
Arguably her BEST song, ever. The utterly clear and lovely lyrics, and Joni's signature sound... wow.
Mitchell, Dylan and Cohen... three of the best singer-songwriters of that era!
And Gordon Lightfoot for me
I've never seen this one before! Bravo!
Clouds, Blue, Ladies of the Canyon - if you're what the French call "Of a certain age" you had them in your record collection when you were skinny and had all your (long) hair and thought life was forever. Now a song like this comes on Sirius and you pull the car over as there's something in your eyes thinking of friends and loves long ago.
1969 Wow! Joni, The moon landing, Planet of the Apes, Glen Campbells Galveston……I was 14 and want to go back!!!
Film camera and audio deserves credit or we wouldn’t have this…..at all. …Now it’s surely in the cloud
No one quiet like joni, oh what time and grace she has❤
Such a beautiful song and performance ❤️
God has blessed us all with her and her music. ❤
Pure. Clear. Clean. As she did for so many of us, Joni wrote the songs for my life. Thank you, my dear.
I bought all her cd's... In my honest opinion "Blue" is and always will be the best...
Talent personified...
I put Court and Spark as a close tie to Blue.
The Best ever for her, years of enjoyment of her songs, amazing person.
This song is timeless in its breath and scope. I cried through her entire performance at the Grammys.
the voice of an angel
I saw her perform this and her first album in 1969 a week after Woodstock! I’ll never forget that! She’s amazing and iconic.
My son loves her, me and my wife too❤
A Global Treasure! Thanks for the music Joni……….lest we forget the beautiful Art as well…
She was one of the most significant musicians to emerge in that wonderfully creative decade of the 60's. Her lyrics are pure poetry and she went on to create arguably two of the greatest albums ever in the 1970s...Court and Spark and Don Juan's Reckless Daughter. There was so much depth and intelligence to all her work though.
She was and still is so so wonderful ❤❤❤
She has "staying power" as I would put it. Thank you Joni Mitchell for your contribution to my life.
I was 3 years old then. I literally grew up with this song. It’s still so beautiful.
Love this song 🎵
What a beautiful life she's had. She had it all and gave it back to everyone.
Pristine, light of lights, loves of love! Thank you Joni for every gift.
very moving listening to it once again
Tunesmiths share their soul with everyone. Not for recognition but to share.
very rare ability,, never replicated darlinks
Classic how each one of us can interpret it to fit our lives. It is appropos in all situations? Indeed it is!
I consider this song to be the greatest of the rock and roll era up until now - october 2024.
such an inspiring song
Always watch Joni for inspiration on how to play.
Classic timeless live masterpiece a special moment in time for many of us. I think she repeated the first line of the second chorus mistakenly but just went right into the third chorus seamlessly live, I don't think most of the crowd even knew it.
Dene Nation love you and your songs bless you and your family 🇧🇲🙏☦️🎸👍
Such a beautiful voice then and still today in 2024 Ive never heard a voice as unique her hers !
It amazes me how she can pour everything she's got into every song. Also amazes me how indifferent and rude the audience was. I've never seen her walk off the stage mid-song before. Good video.
I listened to this when winching my girlfriend in 1966 ..she is lying here now by my side ..asleep tonight 15 June 2024 .snoring ..love her.. still don't know where the time went. But luvyou nelly
Love her voice and especially this song
There is so much to be appreciated about this Canadian prairie musician.