This song always makes me think of Gordon Lightfoot and Sesame Street.

 scraig wrote: 

Yeah, I know what you mean...  soooo special...

Her voice makes me melt

This one reminds me very much of CSN&Y.
Don't know what to think about the song yet.

 Mugro wrote: 

Because she wrote it from the perspective of her friend David Geffen, who was a record exec at the time and still is.
It's interesting to note the Joni turned her back on the music industry quite a while back since she found it to be a corrupted cesspool.
Geffen is still very much a a hard line lobbyist for the UK music industry pushing loads of (not very) nice laws through the House of Lords.
Wonder if they still are friends...

an idiosyncratic artist, often uneven... at her best so very good.

This album is the most consistent proof of her talent.  Not one bad track.

This song is only one of a number of strong tracks... probably the best is "Car On a Hill" - but I'd be happy to be wrong about that.

Is that The Dead backing her up? Sure sounds that way...

 mirland wrote: 

Please do us all a favor and throw that rock.

This song is soooo good for the ears...

 lemmoth wrote: 

If I had a rock I'd have thrown it into the speaker cone about now.

 superfido wrote: 

Please crawl back under your rock and leave the rest of us alone.

A Geffentastic song!!!! If you know what I mean.

more joni pleez

 birdland wrote: 
Much respect, birdland. But I have always loved this album, and always will. There were a lot of screwed up things about the 70s, but there was some damned good music. Case in point.

Dismissed!

Amazing album, amazing tune.

Poor production | reproduction.

I checked my cd of this - yeah, the mix is muddy and the reproduction is second rate at best. I wonder if there is a reissue with decent fidelity.

I'd drop a stylus on the vinyl to check its integrity, but I know it's been played to death and won't be a good measure.

As you were.

Though I tried my absolute best to fight off her influence and taste, my hat's off to Carla Siegel for having turned me on to this LP at the Mars Hotel when the recording was new.

Y'all, do yourselves a favour and check Eltons' cover of this at the JM tribute...............both versions are simply inspired!
Nothing but 10 could could possibly be correct! THANK YOU BILL!

I like how Joni could always sound insightful and introspective without sounding whiny. A lesson the current crop of singer-songwriters could learn. 

Someone has said that Blue is a work of Blues perfection, Hejira a work of Jazz perfection and Court & Spark a work of Pop perfection. Could not agree more. Joni, 30 years later you're still rocking my world. 10

 philbertr wrote: 

Oh, how clever. Right up there with "I know you are, but what am I???"

My original post wasn't meant to be "insightful criticism," and at least I wasn't calling anyone names like "whiner" for giving their opinion on, you know, a comment board, where people are supposed to post their opinions. Now maybe you'd like to run along and contemplate your depleted 401k along with the rest of the superannuated hippies.

 holborne wrote: 

I bet that response took longer to think of than it took for your original post.  Such insightful criticism.

 laozilover wrote: 
giggle 

 holborne wrote: 
Well, I have expensive coffee every day, and it's not nearly as good, so "YEAH!   HELL YEAH!"

Awright.  I already gave this a ten!  Wish I could give the whole album a ten!

 holborne wrote: 
Somebody said Joni defines the word "artist".  I agree.

 superfido wrote: 
Except for the fact that the Schoolhouse Rock songs were actually good.

 meloman wrote: 

Can't understand, and never could understand, why people actually like this artist. She sounds like a "schoolhouse rock" thing. you know, nouns, interjections, figure 8.  yes...that's what this is like.