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.
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 RU-vid. 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 💛🌈🙌
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.
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.
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!!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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❤
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 .
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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 ❤❤
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 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...
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 bought this magical album as soon as it was released Joni is a genius singer songwriter and painter. I love everything joni has released I have all of her albums soundtrack to my life joni Mitchell forever ❤❤❤
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.
Why speak of other singers who are so incredibly awesome and say none compare to her, like so many commentators do.... Such a rich time of incredible songs and music from so many and love love love to Joni and her words and music.... Rich time.
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🙏💚
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.
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.
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.
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🤍
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 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.
That is a really good way to describe my own intake of this music. The grit and intensity, someone to cry with and relate to and at times laugh with. Live and muse at the contradictions. Hits the soul for sure. I love detail.
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