Joni Mitchell - Clouds (CD)

Clouds
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Album Details: Clouds

Release Date:08/25/1987
Label:Wea Japan
UPC:4943674065585

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User Reviews: Clouds

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    mitchell/magic

    By fairworn  Jul 8, 2003

    Artists? Joni puts every talent to the limit. Lyrics, instrument, art, voice - My lord what a voice - she's everything.

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    Very beautiful music

    By tlords_99  May 9, 2000

    In her first album you can feel something is happening or is about to happen with her music, but it is on this album that the pictures start to become something wonderful and great. First this album is just Joni and her acoustic guitar no other inst...ruments with Joni as ussual doing all her own unique backround vocals. There are 4 ("I Don't Know Where I Stand", "That Song About The Midway", "The Gallery", and "I Think I Understand")thAt are very well written and beautiful songs that really show her full musical talent. She has two well known songs (Chelsea Morning and Both Sides Now) which captured many peoples attention in the pop realm and got much radio play until the early 80's. I offer a challenge to any females who can sing "Songs To Aging Children Come" and play the acoustic guitar part at the same time, good luck. Maybe the Wilson sisters might have a chance. This album is unlike any of the albums that followed and is very inspiring because of the great poetry, compositional structure of the songs, guitar work, and vocal beauty. This is a must have if you love Joni Mitchell's music. Read more Less

Pro Reviews: Clouds

  • All Music Guide

    Clouds is a stark stunner, a great leap forward for Joni Mitchell. Vocals here are more forthright and assured than on her debut and exhibit a remarkable level of subtle expressiveness. Guitar alone is used in accompaniment, and the variety of playing approaches and sounds gotten here is most impressive. "The Fiddle and the Drum," a protest song that imaginatively compares the Vietnam-era warmongering U.S. government to a bitter friend, dispenses with instrumental accompaniment altogether. The sketches presented of lovers by turns depressive ("Tin Angel"), roguish ("That Song About the Midway"), and faithless ("The Gallery") are vividly memorable. Forthright lyrics about the unsureness of new love ("I Don't Know Where I Stand"), misuse of the occult ("Roses Blue"), and mental illness ("I Think I Understand") are very striking. Mitchell's classic singer/songwriter standards "Chelsea Morning" and "Both Sides Now" respectively receive energetically vibrant and warmly thoughtful performanc...es. Imaginatively unusual and subtle harmonies abound here, never more so in her body of work than on the remarkable "Songs to Aging Children Come," which sets floridly impressionistic lyrics to a lovely tune that is supported by perhaps the most remarkably sophisticated chord sequence in all of pop music. Mitchell's riveting self-portrait on the album's cover is a further asset. This essential release is a must-listen. - David Cleary, All Music Guide Read more Less

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Biography

Joni Mitchell

When the dust settles, Joni Mitchell may stand as the most important and influential female recording artist of the late 20th century. Uncompromising and iconoclastic, Mitchell confounded expectations at every turn; restlessly innovative, her music evolved from deeply personal folk stylings into pop, jazz, avant-garde, and even world music, presaging the multicultural e... Read more