Blue |  | Artist: Joni Mitchell
Label: Reprise
Category: Music
List Price: CDN$ 11.99
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Rating:  176 reviews
Sales Rank: 1,223
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.8 x 0.4
UPC: 075992719926
EAN: 0075992719926
ASIN: B000002KBU
Release Date: April 24, 1990
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| Tracks:
| • | All I Want | | • | My Old Man | | • | Little Green | | • | Carey | | • | Blue | | • | California | | • | This Flight Tonight | | • | River | | • | A Case Of You | | • | The Last Time I Saw Richard |
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Amazon.ca Canadian Essential
Joni Mitchell would go on from this `71 recording to make more popular, more ambitious, and more challenging albums, but she's never made a better one. Working with minimal accompaniment (Stephen Stills and James Taylor are two of the four sidemen), the Canadian thrush summoned an involving song cycle of romance found and lost. Though Blue is an uncommonly intimate representation, it's also astonishingly open and gracious. Songs such as "All I Want," "Carey," "California," and "A Case of You" work equally well as poetry and pop music. --Steve Stolder
Un Essentiel amazon.fr
Blueest l'album de la maturité, certainement l'un des sommets de la carrière de Joni Mitchell avec Hejira. Autant ce dernier, réalisé à quelque six ans d'écart, sera fouillé, autant celui-ci est recueilli et dépouillé. L'accompagnement (une guitare, un piano) est réduit au strict minimum même si quelques amis dont Stephen Stills et James Taylor, son amant du moment, sont venus prêter main forte ; plus tard, la dame s'entourera des grands noms du jazz, étoffant ses arrangements de façon considérable, tournant sensible à partir de Court And Spark réalisé en 1974. Pour l'heure, chaque thème est chanté sur le ton de la confidence, mêlant dans un même élan préoccupations intimes et sociales d'un point de vue féminin qui marquera jusqu'aux plus engagées des riot grrrls dont Kim Gordon de Sonic Youth. Les retombées se feront d'ailleurs ressentir jusque chez le pianiste de jazz Keith Jarrett qui reconnaît en Blue un album marquant. --Philippe Robert
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Unbelievably sweet October 21, 2008
S. Macdonald
Although it's almost forty years old, this album sounds so fresh. Mitchell's guitar and piano is wonderfully fluid. And then there's her voice. An instrument so fine, the notes send shivers down the spine. Part of the mystique of this album is the honesty, even fragility of emotions. But there's just as much artistry in Joni Mitchell's Blue. A melancholy beauty. A well-worked gem of an album. The kind of music I remember hearing in kitchens with granola in the cupboard. Or at dawn just as the first birds start to sing. Frost on the grass.
Probably the Greatest Album.. Ever. July 5, 2008
momo_adachi (Alberta, Canada)
Joni Mitchell sings a lot of jazz and her songs are so often layered with whimsy and flutes and seem quite thick. While I am overall, a fan of Mitchell's repetoire, none of her albums have managed to penetrate my soul like her masterpiece, the omnipresent, beautiful, spectacularly sad, rich, and of course, appropriately titled, 'Blue'.
'Blue' is a staple for so many reasons. It captures a kind of nostalgia that someone who, like myself, is too young to experience the cultural movements in the 1960s such as the move to California and the emotional turmoil that goes along with that type of migration, could not fully understand. It captures the mentality of someone who is in a sense, lost from themselves and metaphoricaland literal homelessness. There are so many classic one-liners on this album alone ("Will you take me as I am, strung out on another man?"; "songs are like tattoos"; "starbright, starbright, you got the lovin' that I like alright"; "when I think of your kisses my mind see-saws", and so on). Mitchell is not only a wonderful guitarist and one of the best vocalists of all time, but she is a true poet, someone who writes heart-felt, emotional, raw lyrics and sings them in such a way that they cut deeply. It's not often anymore that such a special, renaissance performer comes along.
'Blue' is real folk at its very best. There isn't anything more to say as this album speaks for itself. It's infamous for a reason and no one who can appreciate such desolate, lonely but somehow beautiful and at times celebratory music should be without it. This album means more to me than basically any album I've ever heard in my entire life. If you've never heard this before, get on it.
 Blue ....The most overrated album of all time! May 1, 2008
Bertmeister (Toronto Canada)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
It may very well be one of the most overrated albums of all time.
Yes, Joni is a legend, yes she is a great lyricist and a great musician but after all the accolades, I have to ask myself "does her music talk to me? Does her grating vocal style make me want to listen to 3 consecutive songs without being annoyed. I love Joni and I own all her albums so please don't hang me to dry on this. If you want poetic, sparse, personal folk music with the "Joni style" vocal meanderings, this is the baby you are looking for. She has MORE ENJOYABLE work elsewhere in her large and impressive body of work. Be careful when you listen to this.
Most people who embrace this classic are baby boomers. The influences are there but I'm not convinced many younger music lovers can sit through an entire helping of this finely crafted snorefest. Check out her discography. There are many more enjoyable albums than this. Only the lonely and the introverts will get off on this.
Desert island record October 20, 2007
natseeker (Vancouver, Canada)
On CBC radio there once a program on which people chose the 5 records or books they would take with them if the were lost on a desert island for the rest of their lives. This album is number 1 on my list of 5 I would take with me. I could listen to this album every day, no problem. Joni Mitchell is a genius, plain and simple.
the most addicting album ever July 15, 2004
J. Dyer (philly, PA)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
"Just before our love got lost you said, I am as constant as a northern star, and I said, constant in the darkness,
where is that at? If you want me I'll be in the bar..." -Case of You, BlueIt takes alot for me to listen to an album over and over and over and over... and still not get sick of it.
i've had "Blue" for about 3 years and Joni still makes it into my cd player more than once every few days.
There are at least 2 songs that most passerbyers would recognize: "California" and "River", but many more to be appreciated.
This album has a beautiful balance of alternating very rich, almost sorrowful songs and whimsical upbeat songs... "My Old Man" exhibits such simplisticly passionate poetry-
'...but when he's gone me and them lonesome blues collide; the bed's too big the frying pan's too wide...'
"All I Want" gives us an all-around bold, declarative statement that shows her desire to be a part of the grand 'adventure'/excitement that life offers through loving.
'..alive alive! I wanna get up and jive, i wanna wreck my stockings in some jukebox dive. do you want, do you want, do you want to dance with me baby? do you wanna take a chance in maybe finding some sweet romance with me...?' With the occasional accompaniment from James Taylor and Stephen Stills, this album is worth much more than it's priced.
And as always, the mixture of Joni's voice, her beautiful piano playing, and her amazing lyrics are pure proof
that she is a true uninhibited musician... and she's still going strong.
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