I guess that sometimes such brilliance shines from a young age and such 'stars' shine early on with such a radiance that it blows our minds...l think now of the wonderful Nick Drake. Thankfully Joni Mitchell shines to this day...
I feel the same thing everytime. Our ability to know each other is down to three or five chords. "Everything comes and goes, marked by lovers and styles of clothes. Every two or three stanzas.
BEEN "2" SUNDAYS SINCE BURIAL OF MY BFF & ONLY BROTHER(OLDER< MUCH MORE INTELLIGENT: "3" DEGREES< PRESIDENT OF COMPANY< FINANCIAL PLANNER> LIFE LONG SPOUSE & DEAR FATHER & OLDER BROTHER. MY POINT: MS> JONI ALONG WITH SO MANY CLASSIC ROCK>FUSION<POP< DO WHOP< COUNTRY>JAZZ>& BROADWAY MUSICIANS >WRITERS>MUSICIANS & SONGS PROPEL MYSELF FOR A FEW MOMENTS BACK WHERE MY BROTHER< MOTHER & FATHER & DOGS WINDY & TIPPY WERE THERE> CARRYING ON DAILY LIFE<NOT WASTING A THOUGHT ON THE FAR DISTANT FUTURE> AND SO I IMMERSE MYSELF IN A PRECIOUS PAST FILLED WITH GOOD MEMORIES>WOODSTOCK, 1969, THOUGH I REMAINED BEHIND TO WORK MY DEDICATED JOB AT GIMBEL'S ROOSEVELT FIELD, MY HEART WAS AMONG THE 1/2 MILLION STRONG AT CARL YEAGER'S FIELD>THANKS TO MS. JONI & SO MANY OTHERS< LIVING & GONE, I FIND TEMPORARY REFUGE IN THEIR MUSIC< PLAYING ALONG SIDE.TO THIS DAY< " GOING TO CALIFORNIA"< ROXANNE"< "SO HARD TO SHARE" BY JOHN MAYALL & THE BLUES BREAKERS"< + "WHIPPIN POST"< ELIZABETH REED" & "STORMY MONDAY" BY THE "ALLMAN BROS> BAND(BOTH ALBUMS " LIVE AT THE FILLMORE EAST"<MAKE UP MY LIVE PLAYING MOMENTS>>
If it is all going to end in tears for Isael, after 70 irrational years in Palestine and a few hundred years preceeding their time there, will they implement the Samson protocol? I have been saying for months, that if you put them up against the wall, that being as irrational as they are they would take everyone down with them, so stupidly and mind numbingly and ideologically dumb are they
How did a 20 year old write this? During our own war here the South had 15 year olds at war, dying. Joni Mitchell's generation had young men dying in Vietnam every day
I can't say this is the best song of the 80's, I was there. But it is one of the songs that I love. Thanks guys for a great song, I hope Martha and all the muffins are living their best lives.