Joni Mitchell - Blue
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Artist: Joni MitchellBrand: MITCHELL,JONI
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Soundtracks:
- All I Want
- My Old Man
- Little Green
- Carey
- Blue
- California
- This Flight Tonight
- River
- Case of You
- Last Time I Saw Richard
Music reviews of Blue
Music Review: "There Is Your Song from Me"
Rating: 5 Stars
The first Joni Mitchell song I ever listened to was the poetic, voyeuristic "River", when I had just turned thirteen. Frankly, I was stunned. It was so icy and confessional lyrically, and so longing and wishful and raw vocally - I was blown away. Joni throws herself out in the open, pining: "I wish I had a river / to skate away on.../I wish I had a river so long / I would teach my feet to fly". The aching vulnerability of this song is both breathtaking and familiar. I knew at once that I had to purchase her entire album, "Blue", and I was in no way disappointed.
The album opens with the simulataneously lovesick and hopeful "All I Want". Joni's birdlike trill brings her poetry to life and is carried by the beautiful melody woven by her skillful fingers. In all of these songs, Joni's lyrics have a very distinct vulnerability - not only featured in "River", but throughout the album - that I can connect with. In 1979, Joni reflected on Blue, saying she had "no personal defenses in her life" at the time and felt like "a cellophane wrapper on a pack of cigarettes". These feelings she was experiencing during the composition and recording of Blue are very apparent throughout, and endeared me to her.
Following "All I Want" are some other brillant tracks: "My Old Man", a song describing the joys and sorrows of a live-in romantic relationship; "Little Green", the beautiful, sensitive ode to Joni's relinquished daughter, Kelly Green, tinged with regret, and filled with wishes for a good life to her child; the rollicking "Carey", describing Joni's time spent with a "mean old daddy" or "bright red devil" on a Grecian isle who is also referenced in "California"; the piercingly honest "Blue", a zeitgeist of the times; the wonderful "California", in which Joni beseeches the object of her affections: "Will you take me as I am? / Will you take me as I am? Will you?" and again speaks of the "red, red rogue" or "redneck", Carey, "who gave her back her smile" but "kept her camera to sell"; the pensive, anxious "This Flight Tonight"; the lovely, ethereal "River", opening with an interpolation from "Jingle Bells" setting the Christmas-y tone; "A Case of You" about a deterioriating romantic relationship, and in which Joni compares a lover to "holy wine" that tastes "so bitter" but "so sweet". The album closes with the personal "The Last Time I Saw Richard" in which Joni is told by Richard that "all romantics meet the same fate / someday cynical and drunk and boring someone in some dark cafe" and proceeds to say, "You laugh, he said / you think you're immune / go look at your eyes, they're full of moon / you like roses and kisses / and pretty men to tell you all those pretty lies..."
After having listened to "Blue" countless times through after purchasing, I soon discovered that Joni and I share the same birthday, which I find inordinately exciting. Soon after I had found out, I was telling one of my friends, "Oh my gosh! I almost forgot to tell you! I have the same birthday as Joni Mitchell!" To which she responded, "Who's Joni Mitchell?" and I think something inside of me might have actually died in that moment. It is so important for my generation to hear her music - it's not dated at all. Every word still rings as true as they did the day they were written. So, if you're a teenager like me, please don't be put off by the fact that this is "old" music. I assure you that her lyrics are just as applicable to your life as they were to someone our age when the album was originally released.
"Blue" came to me in a time when I needed it most. I'm almost fifteen now and I will keep "Blue" close to my heart as I cross over the threshold between childhood and adulthood. I know that Joni's words will comfort me in times of need. "Blue" is a treasure, plain and simple - a true gift from the heart of Joni Mitchell. I beg you to buy this. You will not regret it.
Description of Blue
No Description Available.Genre: Popular Music
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 20-JAN-1989
Joni Mitchell would go on from this '71 recording to make more popular, more ambitious, and more challenging albums, but she's never made a better one. Working with minimal accompaniment (Stephen Stills and James Taylor are two of the four sidemen), the Canadian thrush summoned an involving song cycle of romance found and lost. Though Blue is an uncommonly intimate representation, it's also astonishingly open and gracious. Songs such as "All I Want," "Carey," "California," and "A Case of You" work equally well as poetry and pop music. --Steve Stolder
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