Some way better songs on this album, IMO, but Jaco's bass is always awesome.

Yeah....I just don't get her.  I find it more likely that people may enjoy nails on a chalkboard than that there can be so many 10's.

7 for Joni, bumped to an 8 for Jaco.

I met Joni at Red Rocks in the early 70's......she was wise and sweet...Tom Scott and the L.A. Express were there too.....

I'm very familiar w/ this woman and her work.  She's a genuine talent, if tediously narcissistic.  I am also familiar with the work of the schizophrenic genius Vincent Van Gogh.  As are my now-adult children.  They also know who Joni Mitchell is, kinda, sorta.  My grandchildren will look at Van Gogh and be stunned by that hopeless man's talent.  They'll never hear of Joni.

ZZZZzzzzzzz........boring.

  RedGuitar wrote: 

Came here to say that after just a few sweet Bass notes.  Instantly recognizable.

 somnium wrote: 
I agree.  R.I.P. Jaco.

Worth at least a 7 for that fretless bass playing. I do sometimes wonder whether some RP listeners actually have ears.

This is a great song for watching the snowflakes fall…

This music is not for the simple-minded.

 idiot_wind wrote: 
Except he didn't live long, just 35 when he died in 1987 (wow...that long ago...crap)

In no way is this a 1.  Far from it.

This is horrible, make it stop, please

 neuticle wrote: 
Be that as it may, the trip is fantastic regardless of the destination. Although, I pretty sure I'd be happy to listen to Joni sing the phone book.

wonderful...a person l would love to meet ...total class
 

Wow.

Play more JM from those first five albums.

Beautiful, trippy stuff.

And one hell of a bass player on this song. Long live JP.  

 PFM wrote: 
yeah...that name alone makes this a 9

 djblitz wrote: 

As someone who is rather older than 15, but not a Joni Mitchell fan, I can suggest that she certainly not to everybody's taste, irrespective of age. I'll admit that 1 is perhaps a little harsh.

I'm traveling in some vehicle
I'm sitting in some cafe
A defector from the petty wars
That shell shock love away
There's comfort in melancholy
When there's no need to explain
It's just as natural as the weather
In this moody sky today
In our possessive coupling
So much could not be expressed
So now I'm returning to myself
These things that you and I suppressed
I see something of myself in everyone
Just at this moment of the world
As snow gathers like bolts of lace
Waltzing on a ballroom girl

You know it never has been easy
Whether you do or you do not resign
Whether you travel the breadth of extremities
Or stick to some straighter line
Now here's a man and a woman sitting on a rock
They're either going to thaw out or freeze
Listen...
Strains of Benny Goodman
Coming thru' the snow and the pinewood trees
I'm porous with travel fever
But you know I'm so glad to be on my own
Still somehow the slightest touch of a stranger
Can set up trembling in my bones
I know - no one's going to show me everything
We all come and go unknown
Each so deep and superficial
Between the forceps and the stone

Well I looked at the granite markers
Those tribute to finality - to eternity
And then I looked at myself here
Chicken scratching for my immortality
In the church they light the candles
And the wax rolls down like tears
There's the hope and the hopelessness
I've witnessed thirty years
We're only particles of change I know, I know
Orbiting around the sun
But how can I have that point of view
When I'm always bound and tied to someone
White flags of winter chimneys
Waving truce against the moon
In the mirrors of a modern bank
>From the window of a hotel room

I'm traveling in some vehicle
I'm sitting in some cafe
A defector from the petty wars
Until love sucks me back that way

Jaco

 djblitz wrote: 
Who's Carly Rae?

LOL, 69 "1" votes........did we have an influx of 15 year olds just join RP?  "Who's Joni Mitchell?  She sucks!  She's no Carly Rae!"

 kremfresch wrote: 
What kremfresch said.

Regardless of how you feel about Joni, her later stuff was so well recorded.  When I was selling high end audio, this was one of the lp's I used to demo systems.  Jaco just rocks on this.

 johnjconn wrote: 

or lesbian seagulls suicidal...