**IF YOU THINK NICK IS LAUGHING, PLEASE READ** We've mentioned in other videos, and should have mentioned here as well, that he has like a natural "defense mechanism" that happens when he's about to cry where he starts giggling/laughing right before he starts bawling. We've looked it up and it seems other people have this same reflex. I know many people stopped watching after the giggling and then leave a comment saying how insensitive it was. So please, watch the rest of the video and you'll see what a raw, emotional reaction he had with her voice. Don't miss out! HE LOVES JONI AND ADORES HER MUSICIANSHIP AND HER VOICE!! We did Coyote after this in case you want to go there afterwards. :) Thank you all for watching! - Lex
Many of "us" have the laughter reflex.... Don't worry, the guys will understand.... Tears happen to me when I listen to her and her stories. Want to almost send him into the fetal position.... Mike and Machanics In The Living Years... And I live with a full case, who I will never get tired of.
Yeah it is like a nervous laugh during a lot of tension. I grinned like the Cheshire Cat through my grandmother’s funeral. Didn’t even know it. I was just habitually trained to smile in public. But I was very upset inside. When I did clue in, I thought people must have thought terrible things. But it was an autopilot reaction to an uncomfortable situation.
I’m 18, my dad used to tell me about Joni when I was a little kid and I always brushed him off. About a year and a half ago I started diving deep into her music... it changed my life. Her lyrics, the melodies, her guitar playing, HER VOICE! I could talk about her for hours. I’m only 18 and I wish I had listened to my dad back then because now I know that I missed out on years of her music!
I discovered her around when I was around your age actually and I’m 29 now. She comes at the perfect time, don’t worry. She helped me through SO much and always made me feel like someone understood me. I’m so happy your dad knew to tell you about her and super glad you found her now. ❤️ - Lex
Best lyricist ever. What pictures she paints with words. She's amazing. I've loved her since I first heard her in 1969. One of her lyrics is "laughing and crying, it's the same release"
She should win the Nobel prize for literature, she is beyond genius. ‘Songs are like tattoos, you know I’ve been to sea before, crown and anchor me or let me sail away’, ‘We don’t need no piece of paper from the city hall keeping us tied and true’, ‘she patrols that fence of his to a Latin drum and the hissing of summer lawns’, ‘a prisoner of the white lines on the freeway’, ‘I cleared myself, I sacrificed my blues, and you could complete me, I’d complete you’ literally the greatest ever lyricist.
Joni Mitchell was popular in my day, but I never gave her music a chance. Now I'm 72, with a little maturity, a lot of time on my hands, RU-vid, and a pair of headphones, and I understand why she has received so many honors. Her music is simply beautiful. Your reaction to it is entirely appropriate.
Our situations are completely reversed. I listened to her obsessively in my youth. Now I find all of her self-mythologizing narcissistic , totally self indulgent. Her voice has been shot to hell for at least forty years. I jumped off the bandwagon long ago. Enjoy the caterwauling, kids.
I can relate. I was a mechanic doing pipeline maintenance, lugging jackhammers and running a backhoe back then. A "manly man". Ha! But, I melted when I listened to this album. Real men cry when they damn well feel like it.
You know, I saw her in a 1969 concert in Vancouver with this new guy I'd never heard of before named James Taylor. The concert was a benefit to stop nuclear testing on the Amchitka peninsula in Alaska. The ticket price was $3.
Joni, the singer, composer, the lyricist, the poet, the psychologist, the musician, the producer, the painter, the artist - the GREATEST of the greats bar none.
Joni was a painter before she was a musician - started when she had polio as a kid. Joni uses lyrics to paint a picture in the listeners mind. She truly is a Renaissance women. IMHO, No male musician can compare.
I remember listening to Joni's Clouds album over and over again in 1970 while in Vietnam. I can't think of anyone else who sings quite the way she does. Her voice and musical phrasing are simply mesmerizing. It's hard to get too much of her.
I’m a grown man and a pretty tough guy. Joni hit me emotionally like a freight train. For me, as a solo singer songwriter she and Stevie Wonder are in an incomparable class by themselves. As a guy I have a problem listening to Joni in public. Certain artist do that to me. Lyrics, musical composition, performance quality. No one better.
I had all of Joni’s albums, including Blue. When I was 14 I bought Court and Spark. I went from liking her very very much, to head over heels falling in love with her. I’m 63 now and the feeling has never diminished.
Joni was my mom’s favorite artist. I grew up listening to her. My mom passed away 7 years ago February. A Case of You was the song we played at her funeral. A Case of You is one of my favorites as well as Help Me.
So jealous of Nick, getting to discover Joni's catalogue of pure genius. Hejira is one of my favorite songs of all time, but really I love most of her stuff, particularly her late 70s albums. People always talk about Dylan and Coen as being geniuses, but I think Joni combines that poetry and storytelling with way more sonically and compositionally interesting stuff yet she never gets labelled a genius. Maybe it's because she's a woman.
Maybe it's cuz you haven't heard/read enough people speaking about her music and its significance. I've heard of Mitchell described as a genius a great many times. Seriously, you must've just gotten into her recently. Watch any doc about her or that covers her music at any length. Besides, what's it matter what others think? Music and how interesting it is 'sonically and compositionally' is all subjective as hell anyway.
Your in my blood like Holy wine... Does it to me Deborah. Infact the whole song moved me from being a boy. I should listen to metal as I sound a bit unmanly! 🍁🏴
You have yourself a good man, there young lady. The bare honesty and naked, unadorned, and soulful artistry often sets men on edge. That Nick can immediately recognize and understand her genius says a lot about his ear and his heart. Don't miss out on Joni's reworking of "A Case of You" from the 'Both Sides Now' (2000) album -- almost 30 years after the 1971 release, and 21 years old itself. Thanks for sharing your vid.
Joni is a poet, a painter, an iconoclast, a singer and stylist of the highest order, and plays guitar, dulcimer and piano equally beautifully. Can you imagine being able to listen to her amazing talent from the age of 13, my age in the early 1970’s... to absorb that kind of beauty into one’s soul at such a young age... to know that’s what timeless music is? Now you may understand better why a lot of us old-heads are sick over much of today’s music - especially the popular chart stuff, which is so banal. Thanks for your reax’s!
I agree with you 1999 percent. I Love 💕 Joni Mitchell's music since I first heard her in the early'70s. Thank you Joni Mitchell ❤️💜 for putting all those beautiful songs out there that came from your heart and soul 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹❤️💜❤️💜💕❤️❤️❤️💕💕
So very well said. I have been a Joni fan since I was 16. I never tire of her music. This is my favorite of all her songs from my favorite album. We were so lucky to have grown up during a time that had such wonderful, magical music!
Joni Mitchell's Blue was the musical backdrop to the year I spent in Europe 1971/72. Everytime I hear these songs I'm swept back to my wanderlust-filled youth traveling Spain, Ibiza, Holland, Italy, and Greece. Thank you so much for the memories. And, btw, Nick's a keeper. You two are absolutely adorable. 😏
She also wrote 'Woodstock' for Crosby, Stills, and Nash. She was on tour with them. They went to Woodstock but she did not go but they told her about it. She was a classically trained pianist.
Joni wrote this song to Leonard Cohen while breaking up with him, what an amazing break-up gift. I was 23 when 'Blue' came out, this song was one of my favorites from the first, the idea of first hearing it in 2021 is astounding. I"m thrilled that it has stood the test of time. Also on 'Blue' is the song, Little Green, that has Joni singing to the baby she had to give up for adoption several years previously. Capturing those intimate, emotional moments is the essence of Joni Mitchell.
@@smithmann5616 it's a compliment is all. I saw her in '74 in front of 80'000 people. Either there, or in a nightclub performance, she always delivers. Amazing lady.
So nice to see a young man, especially a heavy music lover, listening to Joni. I am a soon to be septuagenarian and have been a heavy and prog music lover since it's inception. I've also loved Joni from the first time I heard her music. Even as a folk artist in the 60s, she was different than her contemporaries. She never settled, she pushed the boundaries and found herself in jazz fusion, where we found out just how amazing she was/is. Enjoy!... Don't be concerned about crying when you hear beautiful music, I do it all the time and I also laugh with tears. Us metal dudes are a sensitive lot 😁
Yeah - I love Joni. Rick Beato did a "What Makes this Song Great" video for "Amelia", and I was so bummed because he felt he had to explain who she was. He was right about it, though. Too many people don't know about her.
@@moeball740 I wasn't finding anything wrong with what Rick did. I was just sad because I think he was right to believe not many people know who she is.
Joni is the G.O.A.T. of lyricists. An absolute master, people respond immediately to her voice, which is stunning, but for me, her words are so beautifully conceived and delivered with such emotional honesty, it's startling. And don't worry buddy, this album could reduce the most hardened badass down to a quivering bowl of goo. BLUE was a stroke of genius from 1970 that sent shockwaves across the music world, and opened the gates for women artists to take creative control and bare their soul.
If what you say is true, then you must be right! And since what you say is certainly true, anyone who disagrees with you is wrong; so they should just zip it, and go listen to some mumble rap or other such nonsense.
@@kurtjohnson4816 "Blue....songs are like tattoos, you know I've been to sea before, crown and anchor me or let me sail away, Hey Blue, there is a song for you, ink on a pin, underneath the skin or an empty space to fill in, there's so many sinking now, you gotta keep thinking you can make it through these waves, acid booze and ass needles guns and grass...lots of laughs. everybody's sayin that hell is the hippest way to go, I don't think so but I'm gonna take a look around it though Blue hoo hoo hoo I love you, Hey Blue, here is a shell for you, inside you'll hear a sigh a foggy lullaby.. there is your song from me.... --Joni Mitchell
Joni is still alive. She's dealing with some health problems due to having polio as a child, She hasn't recorded in sometime. She is also a gifted painter, take a look at her album covers done by her
@@steve55sogood16 It appears many people born in mid to late 40's had polio as children in the US. Didn't realize it was prevalent in Canada. I received polio vaccine along with classmates about 1959. Born in 1952
Actually earlier. We were checked to confirm vaccination by scars on upper arm around 1959, so must have had vaccine a number of years earlier. So people had to deal with a pandemic that caused paralysis at that time.
In the fall of 1974, as a 17-year-old college freshman, I fell in love for the first time. We listened to Court and Spark over and over, and the charm of Joni's beautiful voice and lyrics mesmerized us then, and now, these many years later the feeling remains. Thank you for sharing your sharing.
It takes a lot of courage as a man to be so open and vulnerable... It's your advantage as a European man, not to be so hung up on being a billboard cowboy. Try Joni's collaboration with jazzman Kyle Eastwood on Marvin Gay's"Trouble Man". She sings incorporating these subtle blue notes... You'll love it. Yes, Joni's still alive. She's given up on popular music and has become a painter.
Great reaction! Also, you mentioned her "guitar, work". Yes, you would typically be right b/c Joni is a master guitar player and very influential with her use of alternate and open tunings, but in this case she's playing an (Appalachian) dulcimer, which is typically a 3 or 4 stringed folk instrument. She's a monster talent and a credit to my country.
Nick, you were very brave how you got through that and now think about how brave Alexia is when she has to listen to your insane, weird prog jazz fusion metal. That must be true love! :D
This young couple are adorable ! Speaking as someone that was born the year this came album came out( yes! I am that old) it reminds me of my reaction when I first listened to this song when I was their age ( in the 90's) Peace Out !!!!
THIS IS PROBABLYYYY THE BEST RELATIONSHIP CONCEPT ALBUM OF ALL TIME GUYS! :) LOVE IT, NOT TOOOOOO MANY PEOPLE KNOW MUCH ABOUT JONI, I'M AMAZED THAT YOU DO LEX! :)
Oh, yes, Joni will make you cry...its 45 years of listening to her. And girl you got it right she's magical. So wonderful to see young people appreciating her. She's timeless ♡
I know for a fact his reaction is legitimate - the unspeakable beauty simply overwhelms me, and I just dissolve into it. It’s accentuated by the fact that I think I’ve fallen in love. I could drink a case of her, too. 💜
You need to discover Sarah Jarosz, if you haven't yet. She's a Grammy winning singer/songwriter/ multi-instrumentalist. Her first album, Song Up In Her Head was released when she was just 18. The song Broussard's Lament, about Hurricane Katrina, was written when she was 14.
How wonderful. Your husband has an open heart, a heart that can be touched and moved. I first started listening to Joni when I was 16. I’ve been a Joni fan for 5 decades. I love her more with each passing year. Yes, Joni is still alive although she has been quite ill. Thank you for sharing her music with a whole new generation.
You should let him hear Prince's version of this song. And not tell him to see his surprise and if he might recognize it. Not even Joni herself could recognize her own song. She said, wow what a beautiful song, and he said, it's yours. Lmao 🤣
I just listened to two great and beautiful covers of A Case of You but as good as they are they don't beat the original. Came back to your reaction to share in that beautiful sadness.
I could listen to singers like Joni Mitchell and Emmylou Harris 365 24/7. They have, as you described, the voices of angels. "The Circle Game", "Free Man in Paris", "River" and of course "A Case of You" are the epitome of musical magic. Thank you for this. New subscriber here for sure.
The vision of beauty... Joni is wonderful, of course, with her angelic voice and exceptional intelligence, and candor, the way she takes us through her heartaches, joys, and unexpected humor and wit. But, my reaction of sheer delight (also with tears) is the beauty I’ve briefing touched on in my own life: this young marriage and their intimacy. May they grow old together. May their love broaden and deepen over a very long life filled with laughter, discovery, tears, reconciliation over and over... coming together only closer each time as they laugh at their silly selfish ways... as two very different entities accepting the necessity of invisible flesh to embrace the soul that endures forever next to you... with ALL... unfettered richness... May we all face the person we trust with all our heart and mind, crying both tears of joy and pain without turning away. It takes practice, but you eventually get there over time.
That was the sweetest thing I've seen in a while. Nick should get his new headphones and a box of tissues and listen to the whole Blue album. He will need rehydrating after.
This song will tear up anyone who has lived thru a failed relationship, or unanswered love in a relationship. She is sitting in a bar, doodling on a napkin, wondering how she can continue a failing love affair. Brandi Carlisle does an awesome cover of it. You could hear a pin drop as Brandi sang this live in concert....heavy stuff.
Joni is still alive. She did suffer an aneurysm 4 years ago which she has recovered from somewhat. She still struggles to walk. I've listened to Joni since forever. I feel like my life was profoundly different because of it. A Case of You has been my favorite song for 50 years. I can't believe I'm 68 and Joni is 77. Time flew under the radar.
You've just made me cry, again! She, just ahead of Leonard Ceon, is my favourite poet of all time. The song you played is not one I really like. I prefer what she did from Hejira onwards. But I really enjoyed you both appreciating her work. The poetry, vocal skills and the amazing performances she got out of herself and all the musicians she worked with will always amaze me. That's something that most people won't appreciate. She wrote, arranged and produced every piece of music on her albums.
I haven't thought much about the evolution of her catalog, but I do recall thinking back then that she had really turned a corner with Hissing of Summer Lawns, and then realizing why I was so wrapped up in Court and Spark. At the time it just seemed she was all over the place, but now I think of Court and Spark as a transitional masterpiece.
I'm a 66 year old Scot. Loved Joni since I was 15. Followed her through her extraordinary musical odyssey, loving every milestone. There's always a new female troubadour being spouted as the new Joni, but no one has ever come close to her in 60 years.
Joni Mitchell: The woman who is as talented as Steely Dan, Very rare air indeed. LIsten to Hejira title track, Amelia and also Refuge of the Roads from Hejira. Hejira will be one of the most haunting things you will ever hear. When wife left 8 yrs ago, I started living and working on the road alone for 7 years in hotels. Listening to Hejira was like she had been living in my suitcases. Hejira is several levels above this piece musically. Can't wait to see your jaws drop when you listen to these Joni Mitchell pieces. And the lyrics....she tosses off 500 pound metaphors like they were balsa party favors....
I just liked about 50 comments... we all are stunned by Joni's voice... the lyrics and the everything about this song is mesmerizing on a heart level. She wrote the song about people in her life ... and it rings true on an emotional level for me. Her delivery is so pure... her descriptions are enchanting with her voice and dulcimer. Blue might be my favorite Joni Mitchell album... It's deep ... amazing beauty and uniquely Joni Mitchell. No single female artist comes close. There's no second place in sight.
Such a beautiful song and a wonderful and playful reaction. This is just one of so many beautifully composed and performed songs by Joni. Thank you for choosing this song in particular.
You two are very sweet. I love how you react with each other. Nick, beautiful music affects me the same as it does you. Sometimes the tears just start flowing, but that’s ok!
I remember where I was when I heard Joni’s first album when I was 13 years old. I’m 69 now and it’s SO gratifying to witness young people discovering her for the first time. Back then she had rabid fans but detractors, too. It wasn’t always cool to like her, especially for boys. My older brother called her Joni Moany. So it’s great to see her getting a new audience, of young women as well as young men.
