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Joni Mitchell — Hejira
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CalOF
(Central CA)
Posted: May 19, 2013 - 17:51
 
Some way better songs on this album, IMO, but Jaco's bass is always awesome.

Sawyer
(Calgary, Canada)
Posted: Apr 18, 2013 - 10:28
 
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.

BikeCoachDave
(Columbia, Ky.)
Posted: Apr 18, 2013 - 10:27
 
7 for Joni, bumped to an 8 for Jaco.

Jazbo
(Beautiful Valparaiso IN.)
Posted: Apr 18, 2013 - 10:23
 
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.....

joelbb
Posted: Mar 17, 2013 - 23:22
 
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.

Tizmself
(Santa Barbara, Ca.)
Posted: Feb 14, 2013 - 14:22
 
ZZZZzzzzzzz........boring.

quesarah
(Minneapolis, MN)
Posted: Feb 14, 2013 - 14:20
 
  RedGuitar wrote:

I agree.  R.I.P. Jaco.
 

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

RedGuitar
(Iowa, USA)
Posted: Jan 14, 2013 - 06:43
 
 somnium wrote:
Worth at least a 7 for that fretless bass playing. I do sometimes wonder whether some RP listeners actually have ears.
 
I agree.  R.I.P. Jaco.

somnium
Posted: Jan 14, 2013 - 06:42
 
Worth at least a 7 for that fretless bass playing. I do sometimes wonder whether some RP listeners actually have ears.

Difool
(near Hamburg, Germany)
Posted: Jan 14, 2013 - 06:41
 
This is a great song for watching the snowflakes fall…

Saire
(Perth, Australia)
Posted: Jan 14, 2013 - 06:40
 
 iTuner wrote:






Too bad there is no 0 rating.
 



Agreed!! Please give me back the last few minutes of my life! :(

iTuner
Posted: Dec 13, 2012 - 21:39
 
 BKardon wrote:
In no way is this a 1.  Far from it.
 



Too bad there is no 0 rating.

On_The_Beach
(The Blue Planet)
Posted: Nov 12, 2012 - 14:26
 
This music is not for the simple-minded.

oldsaxon
(Wales via Vancouver, BC.)
Posted: Nov 12, 2012 - 12:42
 
 idiot_wind wrote:
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.  
 
Except he didn't live long, just 35 when he died in 1987 (wow...that long ago...crap)

BKardon
(Louisville, CO)
Posted: Nov 12, 2012 - 12:39
 
In no way is this a 1.  Far from it.

johnjconn
(chicago land)
Posted: Nov 12, 2012 - 12:39
 
This is horrible, make it stop, please

handyrae
(Zero Point Field)
Posted: Nov 12, 2012 - 12:39
 
 neuticle wrote:
Self indulgent..not going anywhere....ZZZZZZZZ...

 
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.

peter_thurlow
Posted: Nov 12, 2012 - 12:38
 
wonderful...a person l would love to meet ...total class
 

idiot_wind
Posted: Nov 12, 2012 - 12:37
 
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.  

oldsaxon
(Wales via Vancouver, BC.)
Posted: Nov 12, 2012 - 12:36
 
 PFM wrote:
Jaco
 
yeah...that name alone makes this a 9

jt1
Posted: Oct 12, 2012 - 04:16
 
 djblitz wrote:
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!"
 

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.

bluecshells
Posted: Sep 10, 2012 - 14:40
 
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

PFM
(wherever I am)
Posted: Sep 10, 2012 - 14:35
 
Jaco

Byronape
("post-capitalist wreckageville")
Posted: Aug 10, 2012 - 03:05
 
 djblitz wrote:
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!"
 
Who's Carly Rae?

djblitz
(Boston, MA)
Posted: Jul 09, 2012 - 16:44
 
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!"

Easyrider
(Portugal)
Posted: Jun 07, 2012 - 23:05
 
 neuticle wrote:
Self indulgent..not going anywhere....ZZZZZZZZ...

 



I suggest you switch off and go elsewhere!


Easyrider
Posted: May 07, 2012 - 04:42
 
Such cool bass work!

On_The_Beach
(The Blue Planet)
Posted: Mar 04, 2012 - 19:21
 
 kremfresch wrote:
If you can listen to those lyrics and bass work and want to give it a zero, I don't know what you are doing listening to Radio Paradise.  To each his/her own I suppose.  I would give it a hundred if possible.  Jaco Pastorius helped define the electric bass as an instrument with it's own unique voice, instead of just being an amplified bass.
 
What kremfresch said.

mgoldman
(Wherever you Go, There You Are)
Posted: Jan 01, 2012 - 08:28
 
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.

MiracleDrug
(Earth)
Posted: Nov 30, 2011 - 14:33
 
 johnjconn wrote:
Is this the same artist that made Lesbian Seagulls?

 

or lesbian seagulls suicidal...


neuticle
(fog fog fog)
Posted: Nov 30, 2011 - 14:32
 
Self indulgent..not going anywhere....ZZZZZZZZ...


old_shep
(Iowa)
Posted: Nov 30, 2011 - 14:32
 
It doesn't matter what song she sings, I just love that voice.

DaMoGan
(Body on the east coast, Mind on the west coast.)
Posted: Nov 30, 2011 - 14:31
 
 gatorade wrote:
There just is not a rating high enough for this song. One of my all time favorite by Joni, or any one else.
Hejira was it, is it and will always be it. 
 
Based on the song rating distribution of this song, it seems like it's a "love it or hate it" sort of song.  I'm actually kind of in the middle on this.  I think in the right mood/setting I'd really like it.  Conversely, I'd probably hate it some other setting.

How's that for being profoundly wishy-washy? {#Nyah}

johnjconn
(chicago land)
Posted: Nov 30, 2011 - 14:29
 
Is this the same artist that made Lesbian Seagulls?


gatorade
(Peninsuland)
Posted: Oct 29, 2011 - 23:37
 
There just is not a rating high enough for this song. One of my all time favorite by Joni, or any one else.
Hejira was it, is it and will always be it. 

Byronape
(Snorkeling in the River Styx)
Posted: Oct 29, 2011 - 23:30
 
 ce wrote:
I really like Joni's work, burt this doesn't really rise above the crowd for me. It just ambles along nicely.
 
It's like there isn't anything really objectionable about it, it's nice, Joni is a very good singer, and the music compliments the lyrics well.  But there isn't really anything stellar about it either.  It just is, but it does it pleasantly.


handyrae
(Zero Point Field)
Posted: Sep 28, 2011 - 06:39
 
For the first time I just read the lyrics and had to change my rating from a 9 to a 10. Sublime.

ce
(the Netherlands)
Posted: Sep 28, 2011 - 06:35
 
 roborob wrote:
Take a look at the score distribution on this one — ya either hate it or love it.  For my part, I'm one of those to the right of the graph — haunting song.
 
I'll take up the "challenge" then and settle myself in the middle.
I really like Joni's work, burt this doesn't really rise above the crowd for me. It just ambles along nicely.



dpvest
(northern cali)
Posted: Jul 27, 2011 - 11:54
 
love jaco's bass on this song...more subdued than his weather report stuff but provides a great emotional feel

roborob
Posted: Jul 27, 2011 - 11:49
 
Take a look at the score distribution on this one — ya either hate it or love it.  For my part, I'm one of those to the right of the graph — haunting song.

RedGuitar
(Iowa, USA)
Posted: May 25, 2011 - 08:56
 
 ruthless wrote:


So many do not understand the genius of Joni MItchell.  She has always surrounded herself with the best.  My nephew, while studying at Berklee, took a course on her influences.  She, I am told, created new guitar fingering patterns, among other things.     
 
From what I know, she used many "open" tunings, or tuning the guitar to a different setup than E A D G B E.


GirlFriday
(Keep Austin Dumb)
Posted: May 25, 2011 - 08:53
 
The first eight minutes of this song were tolerable. Move on already!

ruthless
(Midtown Memphis)
Posted: May 25, 2011 - 08:52
 
 kremfresch wrote:
If you can listen to those lyrics and bass work and want to give it a zero, I don't know what you are doing listening to Radio Paradise.  To each his/her own I suppose.  I would give it a hundred if possible.  Jaco Pastorius helped define the electric bass as an instrument with it's own unique voice, instead of just being an amplified bass.
 

So many do not understand the genius of Joni MItchell.  She has always surrounded herself with the best.  My nephew, while studying at Berklee, took a course on her influences.  She, I am told, created new guitar fingering patterns, among other things.     

kremfresch
Posted: Apr 23, 2011 - 19:46
 
If you can listen to those lyrics and bass work and want to give it a zero, I don't know what you are doing listening to Radio Paradise.  To each his/her own I suppose.  I would give it a hundred if possible.  Jaco Pastorius helped define the electric bass as an instrument with it's own unique voice, instead of just being an amplified bass.

SCJoniguy
(Greenville,SC)
Posted: Apr 23, 2011 - 19:43
 
This is an EASY 10 for me. But I can understand why it doesn't appeal to lots of folks. The chords are not conventional - like almost all of Joni's songs, they are played in an alt tuning, with chord progressions that don't fall easy on ears trained to expect conventional root-tonic-subtonic chord pregressions. The changes in this one mesmerize me, Jaco's bass is hypnotizing, her vocal transitioning from her jazz-pop stylings of Court and Spark and Hissing to this. Even if you can't take the music or her voice, check out the lyrics. They are some of the best written by anyone - ever. This one song elevates the possibilities of popular song in the same way that Dylan did with his finest 60's work.

Cynaera
(South of Neanderthal)
Posted: Apr 23, 2011 - 19:39
 
 unclehud wrote:
Well, I'm one of those that rated it 10.  Why?  Its haunting melody, coupled with haunting lyrics sung in Ms. Mitchell's haunting voice, create a powerful synergy.  And, like many people over the globe, this particular album marks a special time in my life.  Brings back wonderful memories.

Compare this with Smashing Pumpkins — they sang downer songs with downer lyrics, and I care not the least for their music.  Why?  The Punkins bring back BAD memories.
 
I rated it 10, too. Joni has been a mainstay in my life from seventh grade on - I love the way she uses her words like paints on canvas. It's often difficult for me to envision things - I'm more of a "hands-on" learner - but with Joni's music, I can not only envision the music, I can also understand it, relate to it, and make art of my own.

Yes, she's an acquired taste, like oysters or Offenbach, but I'm very grateful to have been able to embrace her body of music and appreciate it.  Someday, I hope to do the same for Kings of Leon. So far, not much progress, but I won't give up.


Foot
Posted: Apr 23, 2011 - 19:36
 
If there was a "0" rating, this would get it.  Awful...

Proclivities
(Carrboro, NC)
Posted: Mar 23, 2011 - 06:49
 
 ThePoose wrote:
The loss of the World's Greatest Bass Player (AKA Jaco Pastorius) still grieves me. He was a genius who invented the fretless electric bass (he called frets ''speed bumps'') and was a great composer and virtuoso musician who showed that the bass could be a lead instrument.
 
Actually, Bill Wyman "invented" or fabricated the "first" fretless electric bass when Jaco Pastorius was still a child.  Fender® was producing them by the early 1970's.



tphord
(Up 'ere)
Posted: Mar 23, 2011 - 06:24
 
As always, it seems people either abhor or adore Joni's music.
Personally I have a very hard time liking one album more than another... as each is unique in it's own way as a chronicle of her and life played out in her music. I love everything I have ever heard from Joni Mitchell since I first discovered Song to a Seagull in 69'
Absolutely one of my favorite artists.


unclehud
(300 feet above the planet)
Posted: Mar 23, 2011 - 06:21
 
Well, I'm one of those that rated it 10.  Why?  Its haunting melody, coupled with haunting lyrics sung in Ms. Mitchell's haunting voice, create a powerful synergy.  And, like many people over the globe, this particular album marks a special time in my life.  Brings back wonderful memories.

Compare this with Smashing Pumpkins — they sang downer songs with downer lyrics, and I care not the least for their music.  Why?  The Punkins bring back BAD memories.