Posted on 01/21/2023 2:39:31 PM PST by DallasBiff
I didn’t know about that. She’s an independent thinker in many areas.
Did you know that Joni has something in common with Mitch McConnell?
Yes. That Mitch.
Both are polio survivors.
I think she was in an iron lung for a short time. This may explain her tendency to analyze everything and everybody around her to such great depths.
And despite that, she's smoked like a chimney for her entire life.
There’s a whole big world out there beyond the Top Forty.
Take a listen sometime.
True, the feud was strong for a while.
Mitchell’s side....
“Years later, while speaking to the LA Times in 2010, the interviewer compared the two singers as similar artists, a comment which Mitchell would fiercely refute, angrily responding: “We are like night and day, [Dylan] and I. Bob is not authentic at all. He’s a plagiarist, and his name and voice are fake. Everything about Bob is a deception.”
Furthermore, in 2013, Mitchell fired shots once more, this time while in discussion with CBC. She brutally commented, “Musically, Dylan’s not very gifted; he’s borrowed his voice from old hillbillies. He’s got a lot of borrowed things. He’s not a great guitar player. He’s invented a character to deliver his songs, it’s a mask of sorts”.”
https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/the-reason-joni-mitchell-hated-performing-with-bob-dylan/
Nice! She did so much great stuff with top-shelf musicians.
Check out her Miles of Aisles album with Tom Scott and the LA Express.
She also wrote the song Woodstock, popularized by Crosby Stills Nash.
Very much captured the most significant rock and roll concert of all time.
Can’t believe OP called her a “one-hit wonder”.
In a taxi returning from the Bishop Museum on Oahu, the taxi driver pointed out a multi-story parking garage near the freeway. He said, “do you remember Joni Mitchell’s song... They paved paradise and put up a parking lot...? Well, that’s the parking lot she was singing about.” (True or not, it was a fun story).
The OP made a factually inaccurate statement that Joni was a “one hit wonder”.
That is not a “taste” matter.
That is utter insane stupidity and an inability to grasp basic historic reality of the highest level.
True or not, it’s a great story.
“It’s not a lie if you believe it!”
This.
Exhibit A:
Hits is a 1996 greatest hits compilation by Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell. As of December 2007, it has sold 488,000 copies in the United States,[4] and was certified Gold in the United Kingdom in 2013 for 100,000 copies sold.[5] A counterpart album, Misses, was released on the same day as Hits. It consists of Mitchell’s lesser known songs that she considers personal favorites.
Track listing
All songs were written by Joni Mitchell, except “Unchained Melody” by Alex North and Hy Zaret.
“Urge for Going” – 5:05 (B-side to “You Turn Me On, I’m a Radio”, 1972)
“Chelsea Morning” – 2:31 (from Clouds, 1969)
“Big Yellow Taxi” – 2:14 (from Ladies of the Canyon, 1970)
“Woodstock” – 5:27 (from Ladies of the Canyon, 1970)
“The Circle Game” – 4:51 (from Ladies of the Canyon, 1970)
“Carey” – 3:02 (from Blue, 1971)
“California” – 3:50 (from Blue, 1971)
“You Turn Me On, I’m a Radio” – 2:39 (from For the Roses, 1972)
“Raised on Robbery” – 3:05 (from Court and Spark, 1974)
“Help Me” – 3:22 (from Court and Spark, 1974)
“Free Man in Paris” – 3:02 (from Court and Spark, 1974)
“River” – 4:04 (from Blue, 1971)
“Chinese Café/Unchained Melody” – 5:18 (from Wild Things Run Fast, 1982)
“Come in from the Cold” – 7:30 (from Night Ride Home, 1991)
“Both Sides, Now” – 4:34 (from Clouds, 1969)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hits_(Joni_Mitchell_album)
Tip of the iceberg
Joni Mitchell is one of the great songwriters of our time - not only many “hits” but classic, iconic albums.
A friend and business associate is a world class critically acclaimed mastering engineer who remastered “Blue” and gifted me a CDR of the “dry” album from the studio master that is commercially unavailable. Priceless...and far superior sound quality to the commercial CD.
Only an idiot would proclaim JM to be a “one hit wonder”.
And to call her a “groupie” as well.
She likely HAD groupies, but she certainly was NOT one.
One hit wonder? If I could claim credit foe a song like that, I’d be happy. That’s a brilliant, funny, upbeat song—maybe the best written that decade.
And that’s not all she wrote.
She is giant within her craft.
Laura Nyro was a contemporary song writer and I’m just beginning to appreciate the breadth and depth of her work.
The real one hit wonder of the song was this group
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNUxEQp1Qc0
#29 in 1970
Reading the posts, I may have hit a nerve.
Joni, IMO, was a groupie who infatuated Graham Nash(Our House).
I know, stone me to death for being a heretic to late 60's early 70's orthodoxy.
As I remember it, she criticized him for doing some songs he hadn’t written himself. That’s not exactly plagiarism. Maybe there was more to it but that’s how I recall it.
I see there apparently was quite a bit more vitriol to the criticism. Some of it seems wrong to me. Everyone has a singing style.
Good grief...
You (again) confirmed you’re an insane idiot with an IQ of a watermelon.
You so misrepresent factual history...not unlike leftwing communists.
You have absolutely no clue to historical reality and live in your own make-believe world of fake fantasy.
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