I have had the LP of this since I was 17. I am now 71. With all due respect to Mssrs Dylan, Cohen, and Springsteen, and to Mlles Nyro and Ian, it is Joni Mitchell and Joni Mitchell alone who was the greatest singer-songwriter of my lifetime. Mitchell's gift for melody, and her lyrics, which approach pure poetry, are simply incomparable.
Yes, I agree of Joni's pleasing past. I must say, however, that music is not stationary. My friend, please attempt to find a new path through this tedious existence. Personally, I have found new and endearing friends in Ray Lamontagne and in Robin Motheron. P.S. I just turned 70.
My grandpa and step grandma took my sister and me to Catalina Island last year. I’ll never forget the boat ride to get there. It was early in the morning, 7 or 8am. The sky was full of clouds, it was quite windy, and slightly raining. We got to sit next to a window and watch the playful ocean, and I spotted dolphins a little distance away. It gave me a feeling I don’t think I could describe with words if I tried. It simply felt like this album-Song to a Seagull.
Listening this morning, this grey bleak morning, to Joni Mitchell’s premiere album entitled “Songs from a Seagull” which marked the first time many of us heard her mesmerizing voice which gave rise to countless dreams as we stretched out on sofas, sat comfortably in chairs, and let her words carry us to places our younger selves could only imagine. With eyes closed, a cigarette in hand, its smoke swirling up into the air, her lyrics emerged as the center of our musical compass. Her voice invited us to dream. And all these years later, never tiring of hearing the powerful sweetness of her voice and the lyrical stories of love, loss, hope and transformation.
Saw Joni before this album came out it was January or Feb. 1968 at Club 47 Cambridge Mass. After her first set before about 60 people i knocked on her dressing room door when it opened i asked if i could see her and i was let in talked to her for about 15 minutes she signed the program for me will never forget that night.
agreed. she just played the Newport Folks Festival in July 2022, guitar in hand, but surrounded by friends and caretakers.she played a few song with great emotion. And though the other younger singers made sure to add in what can no longer do, they provide that youthful spark she needs to sing better.....at least that's the way I saw. 7 years ago they said she'd never talk agin, let alone sing! Sure, she's old, but she's goof, you think?
She is immensely first-handed. That's the core of it. Mostly people are very second-handed, they find their path in the ruts left by others. In her mature music it's as if she never even knew there are ruts.
Born in November 1943, Joni Mitchell was 24 - 25 years old when she performed/recorded these songs. With songs and music composed by her, what a genius musician sharing the world with us still - fortunate us.
And I love that when she re-recorded Both Sides Now later in life, that the words mean everything. I’ve looked at life from both sides now. And she sings it so reflectively and lovely
@@annmariemcintire999 did you see her at Newport last summer? I wept all the way through it....and then watched it again......At first, all there was were phone videos... but now a filmed, well recorded version of the 35 minute set is on UA-cam. It's even better than I thought! What a treasure.
Joni is like George Harrison in that she made so much music that most of her fans have never heard it all, but will keep discovering her gifts to us long after she passes into the other realms. I hope to hear it all before I pass myself 💛🌈🙌
1968. I bought this album and began the start of my Joni Mitchell journey. Her music has been a part of my life since. Grateful I walked this earth the same time as this magical soulful person.
@@jgwire It was breathtaking to see her up on a stage once again. Of my 5 children my youngest daughter is 32 and she is a big fan of Joni so that is a fun thing to see....someone from her generation that "gets it". The rest have grown up here in our house listening to her and they tell me her music is very comforting for them when they hear it. We will not see the likes of Joni Mitchell again in our lifetime for sure.
Joni....what can I say? You have been by my side since the beginning of it all. My best friend, my sister, and so much more. My heartfelt thanks, for then, for now and for always
I was 14 years old, baby sitting for some cool neighbors that let me use their turntable the first time I heard this album. I'm in my late 60's and it still makes me smile. :)
I was 17 when I heard Cold Blue Steel and Sweet Fire on the radio. I waited desperately for the DJ to announce the song and singer. I went directly to the record store and began to collect all the albums. Joni Mitchell’s music transformed my life, helped me to understand and define my deep emotions. Now at 68, I still sing the music and find comfort in the melodies and lyrics. What an incredible effect this music has had on my life. How lost I would have been without it. Thank you Joni❤️
@@harrietb8903 I'm ashamed to admit I loved Joni, but for whatever reason, I never listened to her first record. She always said it was so poorly recorded...Gosh her range is amazing. did u see her at Newport last summer -- whoa!!
I was 14 when this album was released , Night In The City just did it for me and I was hooked ! Joni is the blessed one ! We are so lucky to have been around for this time ! ✌️ ♥️ 🎶 ☮️ 🇬🇧
me too. I'm 63. I was never obsessive about her stuff, but I like it. Then Hejira came out and I fell in love with that record. Then I stopped listening to her for nearly 25 years or so....I moved on, got into a band -- the 90s came and went. And now, as I get older, I find myself returning to what I first loved: Dylan, Joni, Neil -- though I was so heavy into him that I had to kinda "get away." But I don't listen to him anymore, even though he was my favorite of them all. Anyway, peace out.
I am 30 years old and am only just now experiencing the music of Joni Mitchell. My mother was a fan growing up. I love this album, Blue is also very good. Thank you, Joni. ❤️
Omg listen to For the Roses, Court and Spark and Song to a Seagull. They are her best but everyone has favorites- Blue and Hejira always come up among her best
@@hansemannluchter643 so right! I wish I could find an interview where Pat talks about how that tour came about. I've never heard him discuss that period of his career which is a shame.
There's something about her voice that simply transports me to another, better place. Thank you, Joni, for putting this album on here, in full. I really appreciate it. And thank you for all the many other songs that have lifted us all.
I feel she has poetically audibly expressed all the top secret stuff that makes a woman a woman. Nobody else has ever done this. She is like a maya angelou (if she could sing). Very addicting, the Joni ride…….. ❤
When I first decided to listen to Joni Mitchell in an attentive way, I started with this, her debut album, so that I could get a notion of her evolution as an artist. And what an evolution it was! This album in particular will always thus have a special place in my aural memories, so much so that it sparked even more my own interest in poetry, painting and music. Thank you, Joni. Seminal is but a word, but one that suits you like silk.
First song is "I had a King".... And on Graham Nash's album, Songs for Beginners, his song "I Used to be a King" is the hand in glove fit of the relationship that somehow went in different directions, despite the magnificence while it was alive. The regrets that will torture us til our last breath! Nobody escapes. And the lucky are very few. Michael From Mountains was the birthplace for Song For Sharon! Good Night Joni! But you're probably still up til dawn! LOL It's 4 am here in NY. I should talk!
Wow, I am age 64, and I have never heard this album. I always remember "Blue" the most, and her beige album, we listenend to her all high school years, and beyond. So nice to hear her again, and all the feelings and memories of another time which reminds me of who i am.
Madam, you created a big and important Part of Music History. It is always a great Pleasure to hear and feel your songs. It is always a outburst of Surprises for me.....I love the Pictures behind the Pictures.
Come into a garden with twisty vines, owls above asking for your ticket, slivers of sun crack the leaves on stems of flowers with colors you've never seen... and never will again. Take this trip and you will see me dancing on feathers burning from dragons fire. Joni is charm, song, a treasure of wonders.
Her debut album what a masterpiece which heralded much bigger things to come. Each song is incredible which to me crescendos to CACTUS TREE in my opinion one of the greatest songs ever written her lyrics guitar and voice are mindblowing much love joni from down under.
The totality of her art , her talent , her soul , her voice , her lyrics transport the listener ( devoted fan ) to a very high place , way beyond the ordinary . Thank you , Queen , your art endures and continues to inspire .
I was 16 when I fell in love for the first time with this music and this album. It has been many many years since I have revisited the vibrations these songs opened deep inside the inner spaces of deep places of awareness. Even though it was just an album, my feelings for this first love has never diminished. Thank You🤍
Thank you @Joni Mitchell, love this album, it's one I never acquired. Your music is a gift, and has helps calm me when my depression & PTSD are a challenge. Thank you beautiful Joni for sharing your beautiful music w/ the world! A true diamond in the rough❤
My dear sister Honora introduced me to Joni's music at 22 when we were sharing a flat/apartment, and now at 70 I'm still discovering and enjoying them both.
I’ve always loved Mitchell, but sometimes life just drags you right past things like wonderful artists and their music, leaving furrowed fingernail grooves behind. Years later you might have a dream….. recently I dreamed I was bicycling along a dirt road lined with tall trees with my little sister and singing a Jonny Mitchell song I hadn’t heard in decades, and we knew every word, singing the song through to the end. It was wonderful. My beloved sister has been dead for quite a while. I awoke with tears of joy at seeing her again only to find that she was still gone, and that I’d just been dreaming… Apparently, in my old age, a lot of music has some wonderful associations that connect when I hear certain songs. It’s like someone spitting in the holy water when an album like this is constantly interrupted by crass commercials and ads for people too lazy to pick up a new dog toy when they go to the store, and might want some delivered to their house by some poor, overworked a**hole who would normally work at a steel mill if there were any left. But there aren’t. Yes, I’m a bitter old man, I’m ready to go home now, and see my sister and my other loved ones. Now there’s an ad on here from Amazon, wrecking what should have been a beautiful album of music. Music is crap today, and music is life.
I listened to joni Mitchell with my mum who I sadly lost 4 years ago. Joni's music takes me back to happy memories, especially the blue album. Her music is my sanctuary when I am lost. Thank you Joni ❤❤
My dream, be it not likely from becoming reality, is to have Joni, herself read this comment and reply to me. My favorite album of them all. Angelic tones with gentle garden lyrics. I am lost in the clouds moving in the breeze... Thank you, our perpetual songstress....
I had an album on tape (Court and Spark) given to me by a friend about 30 years ago and was mesmerised. I picked up different things (of Joni) over the next 10 years from charity shops and kept playing that album also. The day came, I went to an old record shop, all cool but I bought 7 albums that day on CD including this album. I do now have some vinyl as well. Where would you say the healing is in the music? For me fundamentally it is to be understood. My analyst told me...
This album is a masterpiece. My favorite LP from Joni. Her voice can take you to places you've never imagined. We are so lucky to get to experience Joni's music and art
I can't express enough gratitude for anything Joni Mitchell has done to my soul from the very day I discovered her music. It's transcendal, a world within the universe.
I have been a fan since I was 17 and I am 72 now and I still think there is only 1 Joni Mitchell I cherish her music and style. It is good thearpy for me when feeling low or melancholy.
I’ve gone through many phases of musical artists in my life but after discovering Joni on her first album (‘LP’ back then) in 1967 I have remained steadfastly loyal and mesmerised by her genius. No-one like her before or since, unique and magical. As in her lyrics, she ‘took my breath away’ and still does ❤
I am almost 73 years old. I bought this album when it first came out and listen to it endlessly. I had not heard it in years (though Cactus Tree is a song I love to play and sing in open D tuning) and amazingly, when I turned this thing on I suddenly remembered all the words to the songs. Yeah, this brings it all back.
She brought a new depth of meaning and seriousness to pop culture. And she raised the bar on aesthetics all across the board. A prodigy for sure and I am very grateful to her. I can't I'm imagine the world without her.
Joni, your music is like therapy and magic at the same time. You've made a huge difference in my life. Your music has held me when no one else could. Thank you for existing and sharing your gift with this world, you've made it a better place to be🙏💚
This is not just a collection of exquisitely crafted songs, but a spellbinding universe which commands one's whole attention while the world as he knew it comes to a breathless standstill.
I am a "court and spark" kind of guy, I've been listening to it - and not a lot else by Joni - since it was released. One day, however, I saw this Album and for reasons I have yet to discover, I said to myself "I'm going to listen to this until I hit a track I don't care for". I got all the way through, started over - just to make sure I hadn't miss-heard something - and have completely fallen in love with this album. So beautiful and melodic and genuinely heart-felt...amazing.
I am 72 and this album eluded me for all those years. Blue, Only for the roses, Ladies of the Canyon.... listened to them hundreds of time. The BBC Radio 4 podcast Legend took me to her earlier work and her back story and this album just blew me away.
Neil Young and Joni both had Polio. My father, as a young doctor, was in charge of large wards of polio stricken children before the vaccines. Before that my newborn brother died due to my mom had rubella during her first trimester causing him to have a malformed heart. Again, before there was a vaccine for rubella. So while, people have a right to their opinion, spreading misinformation is another matter. I cancelled my subscription to Spotify and switched. Van Morrison & Eric Clapton both are against covid vaccines and have been very vocal about it. I'm not saying they weren't adversely effected by them (I think I had an adverse reaction as well ) but compared to how many were protected by the vaccine IMHO find it selfish of them to say vaccines shouldn't be taken. I love their music but I am saddened now by this glimpse into their egos. Oh, and on top of them both having polio as kids. Circle Game was written for Neil Young.
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I have had the LP of this since I was 17. I am now 71. With all due respect to Mssrs Dylan, Cohen, and Springsteen, and to Mlles Nyro and Ian, it is Joni Mitchell and Joni Mitchell alone who was the greatest singer-songwriter of my lifetime. Mitchell's gift for melody, and her lyrics, which approach pure poetry, are simply incomparable.
Yes ! At the TOP ...!
You said it !
me too.
She got Gordon lightfoot to finally listen to the Beatles. She used to stop by his house in Toronto , stay up all night picking until dawn.
Yes, I agree of Joni's pleasing past. I must say, however, that music is not stationary. My friend, please attempt to find a new path through this tedious existence. Personally, I have found new and endearing friends in Ray Lamontagne and in Robin Motheron. P.S. I just turned 70.
My grandpa and step grandma took my sister and me to Catalina Island last year. I’ll never forget the boat ride to get there. It was early in the morning, 7 or 8am. The sky was full of clouds, it was quite windy, and slightly raining. We got to sit next to a window and watch the playful ocean, and I spotted dolphins a little distance away. It gave me a feeling I don’t think I could describe with words if I tried. It simply felt like this album-Song to a Seagull.
You should write a book, perfect
❤️
A poet, you are….❤
@@annalisa14 thank you, Anna 🧡🧡
Ahhhhh, we lived in a time of poets who wrote storys and put them to music. Will we ever see their like again? ❤️
Sadly I seriously doubt it 😢
Nah we’re stuck with crap like rap and hip hop, music has regressed since the seventies
Listening this morning, this grey bleak morning, to Joni Mitchell’s premiere album entitled “Songs from a Seagull” which marked the first time many of us heard her mesmerizing voice which gave rise to countless dreams as we stretched out on sofas, sat comfortably in chairs, and let her words carry us to places our younger selves could only imagine. With eyes closed, a cigarette in hand, its smoke swirling up into the air, her lyrics emerged as the center of our musical compass. Her voice invited us to dream. And all these years later, never tiring of hearing the powerful sweetness of her voice and the lyrical stories of love, loss, hope and transformation.
Friends played me this album in January '94 and since then Joni albums have been my go to in the winter. Couldn't ask for better winter music.
Joni Mitchell are S two génois,so créative,Always bringing thé unexpected!
Beautifully said.
EVERYONE here wishes they could thank her.
I guess all we can do is wave from far far away.
Saw Joni before this album came out it was January or Feb. 1968 at Club 47 Cambridge Mass. After her first set before about 60 people i knocked on her dressing room door when it opened i asked if i could see her and i was let in talked to her for about 15 minutes she signed the program for me will never forget that night.
I would not forget that night either. Thanks for sharing. Wow!
Thanks for Reminding me
about Club 47.... I'm 77 now and
Luckily I can go back to then.
Still in Cambridge.....
Wow! What a memory!
This woman exists outside the typical conceptions of modern music. Always exhilarating to hear her soul speak through everything she's ever done.
Exhiliration is a great word to describe this album. The music lifts you immediately without effort.
perfect words to describe this amazing creature , no one like her
💚
Truly one of the most creative people to ever live
agreed. she just played the Newport Folks Festival in July 2022, guitar in hand, but surrounded by friends and caretakers.she played a few song with great emotion. And though the other younger singers made sure to add in what can no longer do, they provide that youthful spark she needs to sing better.....at least that's the way I saw. 7 years ago they said she'd never talk agin, let alone sing! Sure, she's old, but she's goof, you think?
@@jgwire Anyway to get a Video of that July 22 ?
Her chord changes send me out to the sky with the birds and the high winds blowing to the far reaches of the universe….
@@annalisa14 no kidding! her guitar and mandolin playing are ethereal...a grace from another world...such a gifted artist!!
She is immensely first-handed. That's the core of it. Mostly people are very second-handed, they find their path in the ruts left by others. In her mature music it's as if she never even knew there are ruts.
Born in November 1943, Joni Mitchell was 24 - 25 years old when she performed/recorded these songs. With songs and music composed by her, what a genius musician sharing the world with us still - fortunate us.
I believe she wrote Both Sides Now when she was 20!! Can you believe that! She is a talent not of this world.
And I love that when she re-recorded Both Sides Now later in life, that the words mean everything. I’ve looked at life from both sides now. And she sings it so reflectively and lovely
@@annmariemcintire999 did you see her at Newport last summer? I wept all the way through it....and then watched it again......At first, all there was were phone videos... but now a filmed, well recorded version of the 35 minute set is on UA-cam. It's even better than I thought! What a treasure.
Joni is like George Harrison in that she made so much music that most of her fans have never heard it all, but will keep discovering her gifts to us long after she passes into the other realms. I hope to hear it all before I pass myself 💛🌈🙌
yes but she's not a misogynist, unlike george. joni is a real person.
@@bluebellbeatnik4945 huh?
❤
Nope. She's way more of an artist than Harrison.
Agree, music for the soul. x
She sings to the soul. And, my soul has heard her all of my life. Smiles and tears, sometimes at the same time. This old woman can only thank you.
1968. I bought this album and began the start of my Joni Mitchell journey. Her music has been a part of my life since. Grateful I walked this earth the same time as this magical soulful person.
how did you react to her at Newport last summer? I cried all the way through it. What a gift.
@@jgwire It was breathtaking to see her up on a stage once again. Of my 5 children my youngest daughter is 32 and she is a big fan of Joni so that is a fun thing to see....someone from her generation that "gets it". The rest have grown up here in our house listening to her and they tell me her music is very comforting for them when they hear it. We will not see the likes of Joni Mitchell again in our lifetime for sure.
Joni....what can I say? You have been by my side since the beginning of it all. My best friend, my sister, and so much more. My heartfelt thanks, for then, for now and for always
💛
Sweet. ❤
RIP David Crosby 😢😭 Long live Joni.
Grey mornings in Newfoundland facing the sea - this is the soundtrack of our lives. Thank you Joni ...
I was 14 years old, baby sitting for some cool neighbors that let me use their turntable the first time I heard this album. I'm in my late 60's and it still makes me smile. :)
I was 17 when I heard Cold Blue Steel and Sweet Fire on the radio. I waited desperately for the DJ to announce the song and singer. I went directly to the record store and began to collect all the albums. Joni Mitchell’s music transformed my life, helped me to understand and define my deep emotions. Now at 68, I still sing the music and find comfort in the melodies and lyrics. What an incredible effect this music has had on my life. How lost I would have been without it. Thank you Joni❤️
This is my all time favourite album, now at 65 it still transports me back over the years……the words are beyond beautiful….perfection ❤️
I’m 71 now and feel the same!
@@harrietb8903 72 Same :)
@@harrietb8903 I'm ashamed to admit I loved Joni, but for whatever reason, I never listened to her first record. She always said it was so poorly recorded...Gosh her range is amazing. did u see her at Newport last summer -- whoa!!
Her incredible range, uncanny control, haunting tone, use of falsetto make her one of the great female singers ever.
Joni saved my life...
I’m so glad
Joni's voice is so clear and melodic. Back in the days before autotune. I can hear the emotion and feeling in her voice, its beautiful.
I was 14 when this album was released , Night In The City just did it for me and I was hooked ! Joni is the blessed one ! We are so lucky to have been around for this time ! ✌️ ♥️ 🎶 ☮️ 🇬🇧
We are the same age, Ladies of the canyon hooked me. Top singer/songwriter of our time.
❤❤
Make it hot
Missy
Same here.
Same song..
And
Conversation too...
I started learning to sing and play guitar to this album
Her legacy's in the very heart for the whole world
Once again I’m lost in a beautiful world of colour , sound and words. Joni Mitchell’s music is woven into my late teenage and adult life. I’m 55 now.
me too. I'm 63. I was never obsessive about her stuff, but I like it. Then Hejira came out and I fell in love with that record. Then I stopped listening to her for nearly 25 years or so....I moved on, got into a band -- the 90s came and went. And now, as I get older, I find myself returning to what I first loved: Dylan, Joni, Neil -- though I was so heavy into him that I had to kinda "get away." But I don't listen to him anymore, even though he was my favorite of them all. Anyway, peace out.
I adore every song on this album, I've listened to it (and sung along) for more than half my life, since discovering Joni in my teens ❤ thank you
Me too.. 🤍
Ditto, aren’t we so lucky to have this in our souls x
Me three❤
Love Song to a Seagull… my anthem!
I'm here started to listening her music because of her BOTH SIDES NOW.
❤️❤️❤️
Joni, is my favorite artist, singer songwriter. Thank you, for all of your creations🙏
Ditto 🥰
Me too, always.
Song to a Seagull" and "For the Roses" have special places in my heart..🤍🥀
I am the same on both. Massive help to me in difficult times and ongoing on grounding myself.
I'm here from hearing the Lyrics -
"For Loving the Freedom of all flying things" in my head.
Brilliant Lady !
I am 30 years old and am only just now experiencing the music of Joni Mitchell. My mother was a fan growing up. I love this album, Blue is also very good. Thank you, Joni. ❤️
Omg listen to For the Roses, Court and Spark and Song to a Seagull. They are her best but everyone has favorites- Blue and Hejira always come up among her best
You've got a lot of amazing music to look forward to. My favourite period of Joni is her 'Jazz' period - Hejira, Shadows and Light, Mingus etc, etc.
Now try 'the arrangement' At the end reflect on the 21st century eh!
@@snowfiresunwind Pat Metheny, Jaco Pastorius (!!) and Joni on Guitar and Vocals!!
It doesn't get better, EVER!
@@hansemannluchter643 so right! I wish I could find an interview where Pat talks about how that tour came about. I've never heard him discuss that period of his career which is a shame.
There's something about her voice that simply transports me to another, better place. Thank you, Joni, for putting this album on here, in full. I really appreciate it. And thank you for all the many other songs that have lifted us all.
I feel she has poetically audibly expressed all the top secret stuff that makes a woman a woman. Nobody else has ever done this. She is like a maya angelou (if she could sing). Very addicting, the Joni ride…….. ❤
@@realheidibergmusic that's an interesting observation. thanks.
When I first decided to listen to Joni Mitchell in an attentive way, I started with this, her debut album, so that I could get a notion of her evolution as an artist. And what an evolution it was! This album in particular will always thus have a special place in my aural memories, so much so that it sparked even more my own interest in poetry, painting and music. Thank you, Joni. Seminal is but a word, but one that suits you like silk.
She is the most incomparable artist, imho...In so many ways.
One of the greatest albums ever.-- absolutely brilliant.
Intimate poems, set to original music !
⛵Produced by David Crosby
A work of Art on the level of Van Gogh’s Sunflowers…….absolutely sublime! Perfection! Thank you, Joni! ❤️
First song is "I had a King".... And on Graham Nash's album, Songs for Beginners, his song "I Used to be a King" is the hand in glove fit of the relationship that somehow went in different directions, despite the magnificence while it was alive. The regrets that will torture us til our last breath! Nobody escapes. And the lucky are very few. Michael From Mountains was the birthplace for Song For Sharon! Good Night Joni! But you're probably still up til dawn! LOL It's 4 am here in NY. I should talk!
I think it’s written about Chuck Mitchell - but Graham Nash’s song may well have been about Joni
I am so grateful for the talent, beauty and inspiration of Joni Mitchell, and to have grown up with this album.
I met her in 2000 at the Mendle...our encounter sent me on a better life trajectory.
Wow, I am age 64, and I have never heard this album. I always remember "Blue" the most, and her beige album, we listenend to her all high school years, and beyond. So nice to hear her again, and all the feelings and memories of another time which reminds me of who i am.
This album and Joni's voice are like a beautiful fairy tale of dreams, hope, imagination and Love. Love you Joni ❤
Cactus Tree is my favorite songwriting ever.
Joni's songs... With the depth and width of the Ocean, the warmth of a crackling fireplace in December... Girded in strength and timelessness.
We'll Said ....!
@@sharan4700am
the best album of hers, cactus tree kills me every time
I'm 66 and this is the first time I have ever heard it before. Mesmerizing music ❣️
Wonder-FULL-y filled with wonder. (That's how Joni's art always strikes me)
Madam, you created a big and important Part of Music History. It is always a great Pleasure to hear and feel your songs. It is always a outburst of Surprises for me.....I love the Pictures behind the Pictures.
FOREVER, Joni; THIS Planet, Yenus, and Beyond...
Come into a garden with twisty vines, owls above asking for your ticket, slivers of sun crack the leaves on stems of flowers with colors you've never seen... and never will again. Take this trip and you will see me dancing on feathers burning from dragons fire. Joni is charm, song, a treasure of wonders.
Her debut album what a masterpiece which heralded much bigger things to come. Each song is incredible which to me crescendos to CACTUS TREE in my opinion one of the greatest songs ever written her lyrics guitar and voice are mindblowing much love joni from down under.
Joni is above them all...an ethereal voice..never to be matched.
Thanks for uploading the full album, I'm sure we all Joni fans appreciate it :)
The totality of her art , her talent , her soul , her voice , her lyrics transport the listener ( devoted fan ) to a very high place , way beyond the ordinary . Thank you , Queen , your art endures and continues to inspire .
I was 16 when I fell in love for the first time with this music and this album. It has been many many years since I have revisited the vibrations these songs opened deep inside the inner spaces of deep places of awareness. Even though it was just an album, my feelings for this first love has never diminished. Thank You🤍
Thank you @Joni Mitchell, love this album, it's one I never acquired. Your music is a gift, and has helps calm me when my depression & PTSD are a challenge. Thank you beautiful Joni for sharing your beautiful music w/ the world! A true diamond in the rough❤
My dear sister Honora introduced me to Joni's music at 22 when we were sharing a flat/apartment, and now at 70 I'm still discovering and enjoying them both.
she is the loving, gifted king
I’ve always loved Mitchell, but sometimes life just drags you right past things like wonderful artists and their music, leaving furrowed fingernail grooves behind. Years later you might have a dream…..
recently I dreamed I was bicycling along a dirt road lined with tall trees with my little sister and singing a Jonny Mitchell song I hadn’t heard in decades, and we knew every word, singing the song through to the end. It was wonderful.
My beloved sister has been dead for quite a while.
I awoke with tears of joy at seeing her again only to find that she was still gone, and that I’d just been dreaming…
Apparently, in my old age, a lot of music has some wonderful associations that connect when I hear certain songs.
It’s like someone spitting in the holy water when an album like this is constantly interrupted by crass commercials and ads for people too lazy to pick up a new dog toy when they go to the store, and might want some delivered to their house by some poor, overworked a**hole who would normally work at a steel mill if there were any left. But there aren’t.
Yes, I’m a bitter old man, I’m ready to go home now, and see my sister and my other loved ones.
Now there’s an ad on here from Amazon, wrecking what should have been a beautiful album of music.
Music is crap today, and music is life.
What a Legend ♥️♥️♥️♥️
I listened to joni Mitchell with my mum who I sadly lost 4 years ago. Joni's music takes me back to happy memories, especially the blue album. Her music is my sanctuary when I am lost. Thank you Joni ❤❤
My dream, be it not likely from becoming reality, is to have Joni, herself read this comment and reply to me. My favorite album of them all. Angelic tones with gentle garden lyrics. I am lost in the clouds moving in the breeze... Thank you, our perpetual songstress....
cactus tree is my favourite off this album, a brilliant album that you don't tire of.
Beautiful.
What a lovely experience, listening to this album for the first time 🕊 Thank You, Joni! Your music is a healing thing
I had an album on tape (Court and Spark) given to me by a friend about 30 years ago and was mesmerised. I picked up different things (of Joni) over the next 10 years from charity shops and kept playing that album also. The day came, I went to an old record shop, all cool but I bought 7 albums that day on CD including this album. I do now have some vinyl as well. Where would you say the healing is in the music? For me fundamentally it is to be understood. My analyst told me...
Thank you, Joni!
This album is so beautiful, and although I have enjoyed Joni's music for 50 years, this is the first time I heard this..filling my heart with joy❤️💕💫
This album is a masterpiece. My favorite LP from Joni. Her voice can take you to places you've never imagined. We are so lucky to get to experience Joni's music and art
Happy to see this album on my feed this morning. Joni's songs take me out of my head like a good book :)
Her music takes me back to a place and time that will stay with me forever. Our generation is leaving behind music that will never die.
I remember playing this record over and over again and following along with the lyrics. Joni was showing us how to write songs.
Une véritable boite à bijoux...
This is my favourite album ever. There is something so special about it. For dreamers.
Beautiful music. Beautiful memories. I love Joni...
I can't express enough gratitude for anything Joni Mitchell has done to my soul from the very day I discovered her music. It's transcendal, a world within the universe.
god i luv this album sm
Bless you Joni and thank you for enriching my life, enlightening my soul. Love to you, from my heart.
I have been a fan since I was 17 and I am 72 now and I still think there is only 1 Joni Mitchell I cherish her music and style. It is good thearpy for me when feeling low or melancholy.
Love your vocals. The pirate of penance was very 😎 🫶✨✨✨
I’ve gone through many phases of musical artists in my life but after discovering Joni on her first album (‘LP’ back then) in 1967 I have remained steadfastly loyal and mesmerised by her genius. No-one like her before or since, unique and magical. As in her lyrics, she ‘took my breath away’ and still does ❤
I have followed you Joni since the 60s! You are my favorite Guru!
And endless praise of gratitude
For expressing the soul of women!
Love you!
Beautiful!!
This album has been the soundtrack to my life, thank you Joni for adding such beautiful songs to the world…
A beautiful work of art! The album is a masterpiece
I am almost 73 years old. I bought this album when it first came out and listen to it endlessly. I had not heard it in years (though Cactus Tree is a song I love to play and sing in open D tuning) and amazingly, when I turned this thing on I suddenly remembered all the words to the songs. Yeah, this brings it all back.
If I ever make it through this album without crying, bury me.
"And all my thoughts don't fit the man...."
Beautiful !🇫🇷🙏🏻👍🏼🍒
Words can't begin to describe the beauty of this song
Which one?
Joni is just the best, she understands the human condition, and it's like a nightingale singing to you
My favourite album of Joni songs - every track is gorgeous.
She brought a new depth of meaning and seriousness to pop culture. And she raised the bar on aesthetics all across the board. A prodigy for sure and I am very grateful to her. I can't I'm imagine the world without her.
Joni, your music is like therapy and magic at the same time. You've made a huge difference in my life. Your music has held me when no one else could. Thank you for existing and sharing your gift with this world, you've made it a better place to be🙏💚
And it's the original mix, which I prefer. Lovely!
This is not just a collection of exquisitely crafted songs, but a spellbinding universe which commands one's whole attention while the world as he knew it comes to a breathless standstill.
I saw her live in 1971 at Boston Symphony Hall. she was alone on the stage and she played this whole album.
Like a clear mountain stream, carrying me along to the sea.
I am a "court and spark" kind of guy, I've been listening to it - and not a lot else by Joni - since it was released. One day, however, I saw this Album and for reasons I have yet to discover, I said to myself "I'm going to listen to this until I hit a track I don't care for". I got all the way through, started over - just to make sure I hadn't miss-heard something - and have completely fallen in love with this album. So beautiful and melodic and genuinely heart-felt...amazing.
Thank You
Perfect for a day , like today
🤘🏽❤️🔥
Fabulous debut album from Joni that even some of her ardent fans don't know about. Timeless!
Words cannot explain the absolute beauty, timbre and versatility in this voice... The best ever❤❤
Joni has put wondrous poetry into music. The first song on this album has such unusual chords. It sounds mythic to me.
Saw her in Philadelphia at the 2nd Fret when the album first came out. She was a little girl in a short skirt and big guitar. Been a fan ever since.
I am 72 and this album eluded me for all those years. Blue, Only for the roses, Ladies of the Canyon.... listened to them hundreds of time. The BBC Radio 4 podcast Legend took me to her earlier work and her back story and this album just blew me away.
Joni, queen, please I beg you to put your music back on Spotify! :(
Spotify needs to behave properly.
@@thinkerly1 I don't agree with Joe Rogan, but free speech is a thing I guess. Joni also has every right to not want to share a platform, of course.
Neil Young and Joni both had Polio. My father, as a young doctor, was in charge of large wards of polio stricken children before the vaccines. Before that my newborn brother died due to my mom had rubella during her first trimester causing him to have a malformed heart. Again, before there was a vaccine for rubella. So while, people have a right to their opinion, spreading misinformation is another matter. I cancelled my subscription to Spotify and switched.
Van Morrison & Eric Clapton both are against covid vaccines and have been very vocal about it. I'm not saying they weren't adversely effected by them (I think I had an adverse reaction as well ) but compared to how many were protected by the vaccine IMHO find it selfish of them to say vaccines shouldn't be taken. I love their music but I am saddened now by this glimpse into their egos.
Oh, and on top of them both having polio as kids. Circle Game was written for Neil Young.
Thank you for the info. I didn’t know. Prayers your brother that he is in heaven
Gibraltarian, stunningly powerful songs ! Thanks to Joni for these very personal stories, set to music.