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The Show That Would Never Be

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by: Big Al Downing

Release Date August 02, 2005

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As Long as They're Happy/An Alligator Named Daisy (Original Soundtrack)

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from: Sepia

Release Date May 21, 2007

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Refuge of the Roads

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by: Joni Mitchell

Release Date September 28, 2002

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The Complete Geffen Recordings

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by: Joni Mitchell

Release Date October 01, 2007

Hoping to clear up any confusion (I certainly was), this box set has certainly been remastered, and pretty well too. Even the most recent of the four albums, Night Ride Home, sounds significantly better than it's 1991 release. Our reviewer from Finland needs to spend more money on his hi-fi. Sadly we all do, thanks to the arrival of the digital age. The production credits for the box set are there in the liner notes, for the reading. Nothing here is "remixed" however.

Altogether this is a tidy and expensive package of the wonderful Joni MItchell's releases for Geffen, however I have to admit that I still don't hear much that I enjoy on Dog Eat Dog or Chalk Mark In A Rainstorm. The first and last albums make it up for me, ... Read More:

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Songs of a Prairie Girl

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by: Joni Mitchell

Release Date April 26, 2005
joni mitchell is by far the lyrics queen of my generation the female bob dylan

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Hits

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by: Joni Mitchell

Release Date October 29, 1996
The 1960s had their share of sad and wistful hits, and Joni Mitchell was behind more than a few. "Both Sides Now" and "The Circle Game" were coffehouse favorites well into the 70s, when folk rock was fading and mindless disco was taking over the AM and FM airwaves. But even in the post-modern world of the early 21st century, Joni's sweet, sad sounds still satisfy. "Hits," a compendium of Joni's most popular music, gives us the exquisitly-produced and syncopated big hits like "Help Me" and "Free Man in Paris" but a few lesser-known work as well. "Hits" covers the peak of Joni's career and stays firmly on the pavement, but even the casual listener will appreciate the strength of her melodies, the complexity of her arrangements and the bittersweet soulfulness ... Read More:

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Wild Things Run Fast

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by: Joni Mitchell

Release Date December 08, 1992
The 1960s had their share of sad and wistful hits, and Joni Mitchell was behind more than a few. "Both Sides Now" and "The Circle Game" were coffehouse favorites well into the 70s, when folk rock was fading and mindless disco was taking over the AM and FM airwaves. But even in the post-modern world of the early 21st century, Joni's sweet, sad sounds still satisfy. "Hits," a compendium of Joni's most popular music, gives us the exquisitly-produced and syncopated big hits like "Help Me" and "Free Man in Paris" but a few lesser-known work as well. "Hits" covers the peak of Joni's career and stays firmly on the pavement, but even the casual listener will appreciate the strength of her melodies, the complexity of her arrangements and the bittersweet soulfulness ... Read More:

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The Complete Geffen Recordings

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by: Joni Mitchell

Release Date September 23, 2003

Hoping to clear up any confusion (I certainly was), this box set has certainly been remastered, and pretty well too. Even the most recent of the four albums, Night Ride Home, sounds significantly better than it's 1991 release. Our reviewer from Finland needs to spend more money on his hi-fi. Sadly we all do, thanks to the arrival of the digital age. The production credits for the box set are there in the liner notes, for the reading. Nothing here is "remixed" however.

Altogether this is a tidy and expensive package of the wonderful Joni MItchell's releases for Geffen, however I have to admit that I still don't hear much that I enjoy on Dog Eat Dog or Chalk Mark In A Rainstorm. The first and last albums make it up for me, packed with a fair ... Read More:

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Wild Things Run Fast

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by: Joni Mitchell

Release Date July 01, 1991
It's really tough for me to come to terms with hearing '80s distorted guitar on this album's title track, the cover of "(You're So Square) Baby I Don't Care", where she honestly sounds like Sting on vocals, and "You Dream Flat Tires". Did Joni think she was some sort of '80s hair metal star? Similarly, it's tough for me to hear all that '80s production stuff on "Ladies' Man" (ooh! That's my theme song!), "Man to Man", "Under the Streetlight" (which has '80s guitar and '80s synthesizers) and "Solid Love". Now, when she does the Hejira-era jazz thing, as on "Moon in the Window" and "Love", it can be nice, but when she does it again on "Be Cool", it turns out awful. The album's lone classic is "Chinese Café/Unchained Melody", which is a killer folk-jazz song with great lyrics ... Read More:

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Hits

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by: Joni Mitchell

Release Date January 09, 2001
~~~... then this album is without a doubt five stars. I give it five stars because it contains 15 brilliant songs (even though the CD-ization of several, even here, robs them of the right depths and highs, compared to how they sound on my turntable). But the thing is, each Joni Mitchell album is laid out like a total experience; the order of the songs, the progression of themes and music, all of these things are very consciously determined and are intended to create an effect like a story. A~~ collection of~~ hits, which this is, takes pieces from each of those stories and anthologizes them more-or-less based on their popularity ("Misses", the companion CD, actually contains the songs she feels have worn well over the years and yet did not attract the same popularity). ... Read More: