Hey Nick, after the introduction about your emotional response to Joni's singing, here's some lyrics from her song 'People's parties' '...one minute she's so happy, then she's crying on someone's knee, saying, "Laughing and crying, you know, it's the same release"
Joni and I grew up together, and went through most of the same cultural evolutionary processes together between 1967 and 1990 (at least!)... I saw her in concert thrice over the course of her career, and I actually met her at an art gallery opening featuring her work! Joni is the preeminent singer/songwriter in the folk, pop, rock, and jazz genres, and even painted the covers for virtually all of her albums! IMO, there's just no one better, and that includes that guy Bob. Thank you for highlighted her huge and diverse oeuvre!
Joni Joni Joni. Her talent is otherworldly. I hope she is healthy again after enduring some challenges. Haven’t heard anything in the press recently so I hope all is well. She and her incredible music has been such a gift to the universe. She embodies the term “artist”.
I heard Joni’s first album when it was released. I was 13 and now I’m 66. I became a life-long fan. One early song I’ve always loved, which doesn’t get a lot of notice, is Cold Blue Steel and Sweet Fire. Early use of bass to great effect (before Jaco Pastorius) and haunting harmonies.
Usually here for Rush but as an old bass player I was turned on to Joni through Jaco Pastorius as a kid and immediately fell in love with her music and poetry.This album "Turbulant Indigo" was released in the early 90s and is one of her very best imo. The bass you heard was supplied by her then husband of 12 years producer/bassist Larry Klein who is prominent on that album. Interestingly,They were divorced shortly after its release.The Marry Magdalen asylums or "laundrys" were Roman Catholic sweat shops based mostly in England amd Ireland but worldwide as well during the 18th through the 20th centuries. They were basically slave labor for prostitutes and young homeless women...many thousands died under brutal conditions. Its a little known, interesting, and very sad story. There were mass graves of women found in europe. Thanks for the reaction guys. You two do a great job. A couple of suggestions for Joni (on the "with Jaco albums") would love to hear their duet from the album Don Juans Reckless Daughter called "Talk To Me" - From Mingus , big band era inspired, "The Dry Cleaner From Desmoines" or , a personal favorite of mine, "Refuge Of The Roads" from Hejera. I think you might really like that one in particular. Thanks guys. Keep up the good work!
Thank you for this comment. This particular lyric tells a rather sad story in history. I’m not convinced the guys were fully engaged with the words and the story they tell but it is easy with Joni to initially get wrapped up in the musical arrangement and musicianship. I love Joni Mitchell.
@@andrewjacob4185 thanks Andrew....A great youtuber named Rick Beato recently had dinner with Joni in L.A...thought Id share...if this link doesnt work you could just go to Rick Beato.Its titled - my dinner with Joni Mitchell...he just recounts the story with a couple of photos but its pretty cool. I was glad to see she seems to be doing well!
Joni is such a talented singer and storyteller. This song had the perfect balance of accompanying music to allow Joni's voice to be the main instrument.
This is one of my favorite songs from one of my favorite artists. And don't even get me started about Hejira! I don't know if I would have survived 2020 without Hejira & Joni Mitchell.
Before you soft pedal Joni's guitar playing, I think you owe it to yourself to check out Rick Beato's video - What Makes This Song Great, Episode 91 - Joni Mitchell - Amelia. He posted it back on May 27, 2020.
Hey you beautiful people, I love you both -- I love how you love sharing all this great music with each other; with us, sure, but I am so charmed with how you keep checking on each other. Nick, I love your sensitivity; Lex, I love your smile. Now, this is a fantastic song, but I first heard it on another album with a different arrangement, Tears of Stone, by The Chieftains, an Irish band that has been recording since 1962. I will let the leader and chief arranger of the band explain the project: “Over the years it has been The Chieftains great fortune to share the wonderful gift of our musical heritage with many of the world’s finest musicians. But of all these sessions perhaps none stands out more sweetly or more poignant than those of 'Tears of Stone'. For more than three years, balanced between the continents, the cultures and the impossible schedules of intersecting careers, we laboured in love. Our goal was to marry the many-faceted voices of contemporary women artists from around the world with the simple beauty of traditional Irish music. Our dream was that through the interpretive power of these many voices a new voice might be created to accompany that tradition into the future. Here, etched in the laughter, the love and the loss, are the stories they have told.” - Paddy Moloney I think you'd love the whole album. There are so many great singers on it: Bonnie Raitt, Natalie Merchant, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Loreena McKennitt, Sissel, Diana Krall, and more. Also, if you love jazz music, you're going to love Herbie Hancock's 2007 album, "River: The Joni Letters". Mostly, it is comprised of Joni covers, with some Joni-inspired as well. There are a few guest artists as well; Nora Jones, Leonard Cohen, Tina Turner, Joni herself, and others. One last thing, if you'd like help with the Renaissance rabbit hole, I can help you with that. I saw them in concert at a tiny club in San Diego back in prehistoric times: what a fantastic night that was! Next up for them, I'm thinking, should be the studio recording of Ashes Are Burning. Yes, the live version is great, but, hear its first version first... Thanks for making this sensitive old dude get misty-eyed from time to time...
Watching the two of you listen is pure warmth so we love it here in our house. My favorite song I think of this Joni album is Sunny Sunday and it's only two and a half minutes long. Also it's time to listen to Amelia as well. Breathtaking.
This album was back in 1994 and she was 51. You can hear the difference in her voice, that raspiness which is different for her but still beautiful. The title track Turbulent Indigo is great as well ...give it a listen.
This album Turbulent Indigo is a masterpiece, her last really dark album. Check out 'Sex Kills' 'Last Chance Lost' and 'Sire of Sorrow' from this astounding release.
These things really happened in Ireland....a really sad song....she uses over 40 open tunings on guitar plus a great book to buy is 'Joni Mitchell COMPLETE so far'..... it has most of her work with correct tunings and costs about £40 in UK.
@@Lightmane That’s fine. As an alpha male, I can only take her music in moderation. But she is clearly a great musician, artist, whatever other silly liberal adjectives apply. Wish you well.
You should hear Joni do this live on an interview-acoustic performance from Toronto. She explains the meaning of the piece, but you can hear so many other songs that Joni sings with just guitar. It’s incredible!
Based on a TRUE story.. her descriptions showing the bleakness and torture those women endured, isn't a FRACTION of the horrors those women endured. They JUST closed the last of those laundries in 1970, and it was in the 1990's that after some of that land was sold, over 130 bodies were found "dumped in a hole in the dirt", there's a documentary or two that features some of the survivors.. BEAUTY of Joni's song to remind us of the need for human kindness and decency..
I've been enjoying your reaction videos. Much better-than-average banter between you, I feel like I've been your friend forever, that's how disarmingly charming the two of you are in your discourse. I like your range choices, from Joni to Rush and everything inbetween. I'm a Yes-Genesis era listener and I've learned a lot hearing your other tracks. I had no idea Rush payed homage to Powerhouse in their song La Villa Strangiato because when I heard it 30 years ago, I didn't have a very large mental data base of music. But now as an old guy, I immediately thought "Powerhouse!" The riff was also used in the soundtrack to "Honey I Shrunk the Kids" But I digress, your first reaction I saw was The Carpet Crawlers which is rarely done, so I had to check you out. So glad that I did. Now if I were the type of person who was likely to request a reaction [but I'm not] I'd ask for deep cuts like Genesis' "The Lamia" from The lamb lies down on Broadway. Or "Wonderous Stories" by Yes. Or "Skating Away" by Jethro Tull. Or "Dancing Barefoot" by Patti Smith. Or "Jig of Life" by Kate Bush. Or "To the Runner" by Jon Anderson. Or "Liquid Diamonds" Tori Amos but as I said, I'm not the kind of person that requests. ;)
Thank you so much for your kind words and support! It's wonderful that you feel like our long-time friend, because that's exactly what we'd like to portray in our videos, so it makes us super happy to hear that! We promise to keep those requests in mind once we're back to our regular life-schedule, study-free for me! Sending peace and see you around, Lex :)
I highly recommend her album "For the Roses" which came out after "Blue". There are more piano-based songs but it's just as personal. Not a bad song on it.
Such a tragic and heartbreaking song. I know and appreciate you are primarily listening for the music, but I’d love a dive into the lyrics, especially on this one, as it’s based on a historical story. As always, love and peace to the both of you.
🇨🇦Thank you for circling back to Joni for that memorable (if heart wrenching) gem. Blessed to have seen her perform at our folk festival around that time. So relaxed and personable with the crowd...your reactions are like that too! Be well and safe and...keep them coming🎶😻
Joni! Wow! I first heard when I was sixteen (43 years ago). A friend of my elder brother was into her art (music, poetry, painting). I was totally capture by her that night and she is in my heart since then. I love her so much! My only regrets...I was never able to see her live! The Montreal Jazz festival tried to have her but never succeeded. A good way to explore Joni's work is to go from her early work in the 60's & 70's chronologically because she evolves on every album. Lex, I know you like Blue...try the next one For The Roses. It's hard to pick up one song because those albums are so good!
Thank you for really delving into Joni. She saved my life. From Song to a Seagull to Both Sides Now (Clouds Album) to Blue, Court and Spark, Hejira, Hissing of Summer Lawns, Don Juan's wreckless daughter etc etc etc...always perfection from beginning to end. I guess I was 14 or 15 when I heard her for the first time and am now 67..You do the math..LOL...But what I wanted to say is that she does have a sense of humor and you can hear it in the Mingus album on the track Dry Cleaner from Demoines....Give it a listen you will chuckle.
Watch the movie from 2013 "Philomena" starring July Dench, it's about the Magdalene Sisters Laundries, where Catholics would place young girls who got pregnant out of wedlock, or maybe their families thought the girl was too forward, or whatever, the girls were imprisoned in these hell holes, made to work every day, like a sweat shop, treated horribly, then their babies were sold without the girls knowledge. Some babies died and were buried on the grounds, etc. Terrible atrocities at these places. The final one was shut down in the 1990's. This is what Joni is singing about.
How do I give you recommendations? We have very similar tastes although you guys were born 30 or 40 years too late. I drew a nice pencil drawing of Joni in college. Still have it. Some artists to consider: Bruce Cockburn Aimee Mann Nick Drake Laura Nyro Kate Bush Roxy Music Kacey Musgraves Fairport Convention The Roches Leo Kottke ........
The Magdalene Laundries in Ireland, also known as Magdalene asylums, were institutions usually run by Roman Catholic orders, which operated from the 18th to the late 20th centuries. They were run ostensibly to house "fallen women", an estimated 30,000 of whom were confined in these institutions in Ireland.
Hello. Just found you channel and I really enjoyed watching your reactions to the older songs in the late 60's, 70's 80's and 90's. (Deep Purple, Kansas, Black Sabbath, Van Halen, Uriah Heep, and Rush) Could you please include more bands from these decades in your reactions? Joni Mitchell is a tremendous performer. She has a live version of Big Yellow Taxi + Both Sides Now BBC-1969 on RU-vid. This video really shows her musical skills and abilities. As a couple you approach your reactions in a positive, happy manner that is very refreshing. Keep up the good work.
Omg Blue was my favorite you're right knew it front to back✌and yes I've hated myself for smiling in the face of tragedy couldn't stop it..so upset yet I'd smile snicker laugh??.so yeah you're not alone
Lovely reaction! You two are at one with us old timers. It’s heartwarming to see the next generation being turned on to a Joni’s sublime music. Please do more Joni, you’ll love the song Amelia from Hejira, or Edith And The Kingpin from The Hissing Of Summer Lawns.
Hi guys! I wanted to suggest a band and song I think you would enjoy. The band is Moon Safari and the song is “Crossed the Rubicon”. The vocals and harmony’s are what makes it special. Very neo-prog and honestly I think you’ll find it goose bump worthy. Thanks for your wonderful vids. I love watching you guys experience these wonderful artists and songs.
Suggestion: "Amelia" from Hejira - musings about her lover and Amelia Earhart during her famous cross-country road trip: "I checked into the Cactus Tree Motel to shower off the dust and I slept on the strange pillows of my wanderlust"
Thanks for playing this important song. I encourage you to read up on what this song is about. It's a heart breaking account. There's a movie about the same topic. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magdalene_Laundries_in_Ireland And the movie: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magdalene_Sisters Another Joni song I think you'll love is Amelia.
Off topic from the song (which was profound by the way), but I'd love to see you guys react to Steve Miller Band since it just occurred to me you guys haven't had a video on them yet. They're currently my favorite and it's from an era you guys would love. My top 3 songs from them: Serenade, Wild Mountain Honey, Swingtown Despite a few of their hits, they're pretty underrated in my opinion and there isn't a song from them that I don't like. If you want to listen to them on your own time, definitely suggest their greatest hits album from 1974-1978, good stuff. Awesome channel guys, love the vibes and your taste in art.
Great review/reaction. Such a poignant, moving song. The live version of this is wonderful too and she explains hwe she came to write it. Woud suggest Amelia by Joni for a reaction video. Trouble is there are so many many songs amzing songs by her I could suggest.
Want to hear Otis Redding trapped in a gawky white dudes body killing it in a blues band? Listen to Grass is Greener by St. Paul and the Broken Bones. You. Will. LOVE. It!
If you want the next thing explode your head challenge your concept of what music can do and put a smile on your face that won go away/ Dirty Loops try- next to you
OK. Love Joni. This song is so poignant, sad and based on horrendous & true practices. The Magdalene Asylums (or laundries) in Ireland, had 10,000 young girls enslaved under the pretense of helping “fallen women” from the 1920’s to 1990’s. Easy for a girl to get committed and hard to get out. They worked them in dire conditions in the laundries they operated and a mass grave was discovered for the many dead girls they basically worked to death. . Unfortunately, the Catholic Church and other religions have sordid pasts & practices. There are documentaries about the subject. Joni was, herself, a young, unwed mother just before she got successful and gave the baby girl up for adoption. Long story, but that’s probably her personal connection with the cruel branding of young women.
Ahhh just read this; thank you for the backstory! What a terrible history indeed. I did know about Joni and her daughter. Thank you for taking the time!
SHADOWS AND LIGHT people - Pat Metheney, Jaco Pastorius and much more …. Amelia in particular has transcendent work from Pat - you can thank me later - one of the BEST ever Pat Metheney solos ever ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-nxMwGTQ1bzU.html Here is the greatest Joni Mitchell experience ever the whole thing - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-cO8rrWM8Ov8.html
@@NicknLex I sent you an email with the names of 2 wonderful expert reactors who might help. 🤷🏻♀️ If they don’t have time, lmk & I’ll ask a couple more. Hopefully, they’ll both respond. 🥰 Good luck! 👍🤪
Please porfa me gustaria ver su reaccion a Crosby Still Nash ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-kyquqw6GeXk.html Ellos era bien cercanos con Joni Mitchel
Felt a bit off by your reaction. Did you listen to the lyrics? Really? Your smiling was ill-timed. This is a dismal part of history for women. Anyway, thanks for your insights and love for musical art. If you have a moment, #jessicamitchell ? That would be kind. /M.
