Joni Mitchell - Shine
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Artist: Joni MitchellEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2007-09-25
Music Label: HEAR MUSIC
Soundtracks:
- One Week Last Summer
- This Place
- If I Had a Heart
- Hana
- Bad Dreams
- Big Yellow Taxi (2007)
- Night of the Iguana
- Strong and Wrong
- Shine
- If
Music reviews of Shine
Music Review: Time to retire
Rating: 1 Stars
I had heard that this album was Joni Mitchell playing all the instruments and singing... which I figured would be at least interesting--- after all, she used to be good. But, it's not interesting, and she's not good any more. Her song-writing skills have atrophied, and her voice is a husky shadow of what it once was. Most of the lyrics sound like they were written by a wealthy woman with way too much time to spend winding herself up watching Fox and CNN news. Irritating phony liberal whining of someone who can afford a nice house out on the California coast where she can fuss about the environment. Hey Joni, your nice house destroyed habitat where nice animals and plants once lived, why don't you do a song about that? I was glad I could check this out of my local library, and save my self the cost of purchasing it, since I wouldn't have kept it, or ever listened to it again.
Joni Mitchell would be well advised to release tapes of some of her early performances... there are good quality recordings of quite a few of her very good early songs (Urge For Going, Eastern Rain, etc...) There was a time when she wrote memorable songs and sang them in her unique penetrating voice... those days are long gone. When she lets those songs out, I'll buy then.
Even the opening track, a piano instrumental that I looked forward to hearing, was just kind of meandering. And that was the high point of the album.
Anyway, a big disappointment, and don't spend your hard earned dollars here... if you want to listen to a late 60s-early 70s singer song writer who still has it together and is better than ever, go check out Randy Newman's CD Harps and Angels...
Description of Shine
Joni Mitchell is generally considered to be the single most important female singer-songwriter of the 20th Century. Her new CD features 10 great new songs that resonate on the level of some of her all-time classic work, with much of the material inspired by Joni's passion to save the environment. Her lyrics on the subject are truly inspiring.Joni Mitchell Photos (by James O'Mara)
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More from Joni Mitchell
 Blue |  Court and Spark |  Hits |
 Ladies of the Canyon |  Hejira |  Clouds |
Shine may ultimately register as a "fans only" milestone, but it proves that Joni Mitchell retains many of the storied calling cards of her best albums. The searing lyricism of 1971's Blue and the penchant for self-redefinition hailed by 1974's Court and Spark make cameos here, but sadly, lesser efforts' drawbacks abound. True, "Big Yellow Taxi" reprises the environmental dystopia Mitchell first poeticized on 1970's Ladies of the Canyon, but the occasion only prompts new pedantic effrontery ("This Place," "If I Had a Heart"). In this regard, Shine's especially cloying title track marks the worst offender. Blissfully, though, "Hana" boasts a driving rhythm section and blurting squirts of electric guitar and saxophone in support of a compelling character sketch, and "If"--based on Rudyard Kipling's poem of the same name--paints a lyrical message of affirmation in bold strokes. Mitchell's songwriting shines brightest at such singularly poignant moments where specificity of images meets the vagaries of the instrumental arrangements, and, in the end, these and other highlights ("Bad Dreams," "Night of the Iguana") definitively carry the torch. --Jason Kirk
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