Court And Spark

Chilled

It's fine, I guess. Too much hippy, too much bad jazz. But I didn't have to skip anything, so that's a bonus. Honestly, I'm kind of surprised at how SUPERLATIVE this album is considered to be. It's fine, just fine. I think I'm 30 years too young for this, and I'm not young.

Very boring, her voice reminds me of a terrible dutch artist. Some of the instrumentals are nice though.

Boh, piatto piatto.

I get the attraction, but something about j. M's voice rubs me the Wrong way

Not my thing, still belongs to the 70s

Das gibt mir einfach nichts und ich schaff auch nicht mich nicht drauf einzulassen, kann am Tag liegen, glaube aber eher insgesamt am sehr poppigen Folkansatz :|

Okay, nothing really stands out, but enjoy her observational songwriting and wordplay. Music is all over the place and sometimes seems to have been an after thought thrown together at the last minute by the studio musicians. Raised and Robbery is a good jam, rest wouldn't come back to.

don't remember liking very much

It's fine. Not my style and a bit boring but I didn't hate it. I have nothing against Ms. Mitchell and she seems a fine musician.

Licht vermakelijk maar weinig smakelijk.

Doesn't really do much for me. 70s singer-songwriter pop just is never going to be my thing I think sadly.

Is it fucked up to give this a two? It's fine. I like Joni. I do. This just didn't do it.

A bit slow for my taste.

It's decent. Not a fan of Joni Mitchell. 2/5

I think I’m missing something

zzz snoozefest. original warbling acoustic guitar girl.

October 8, 2021 What I would imagine a Joni Mitchell album is like. I want to like her but I feel ambivalent.

Oke rustig album, prachtige stem en lekker piano getokkel maar ze laat me wat op mijn honger zitten

2.5 stars

Uhg. I've never gotten Joni Mitchell. I get she's a great song writer and has a fantastic voice, I can hear that in the music. But, the vocal melodies and dissonant harmonies. I can't get past them. I think they're horrible. It's like if someone gave me a poem and I randomly started singing it. That and it's like listening to an hour long tampon commercial. All with the exception of Raised on Robbery. It's the antithesis to the rest of the album. It reminds me a lot of Mama Kin by Aerosmith. Twisted really shows her talent. She sounds like she's doing skat but she's still singing. It's a legit shoopy doo kinda thing.

Joni Mitchell is like a bad Billy Joel. The lyrics of “The Same Situation” made me angry. Having been an influential album 50 years ago is not enough for me. And I’m usually partial to singer/songwriters.

I've heard this album a lot growing up, one of my dad's favorites, so there's some nostalgia here. That said, I don't like it.

Joni Mitchell has a real flowery, pleasant voice, but the flowery language that accompanies it kind of grates at times. It's almost like she's challenging herself to say the simplest shit with as much effort as possible, shoehorning in syllables wherever she can. This would probably be a 3 if the music Mitchell was singing over was a bit more interesting, but then again, the final track's detour—featuring a bizarre cameo by Cheech & Chong of all people—left a pretty sour taste in my mouth. Key Tracks: Down to You, Just Like This Train

I appreciate Joni but I do not love Joni.

Little too mellow for me

Overall not bad, just not really my groove

Reminds me of the Schoolhouse Rock videos. Don’t get me wrong, I’ll never listen to this again - But, I didn’t completely hate it.

I fell asleep at the wheel, I don't get it. The last song was very different, that caught my ear, but I don't even remember what it was. Won't be going back to check it. I'll bump it to 2 stars, for me almost caring what that last song was.

Another Joni Mitchell's album and I'm more certain that I don't like it. Next

"in the morning there are lovers in the street"? what? Started very strong, but tapered quickly.

I'm not sexist. You guys are sexist. Where are the women in this group anyway? Thematically and musically repetitive. Feels like an album that launched a thousand shitty poets. I almost like Free Man in Paris. Not for me.

I just get Joni Mitchell - it just bores me... maybe needs more concentration that I possess

It's OK. Hard to get into for me.

not my cup of tea

It’s ok but I am not crazy about it

Not really my style. Instead of music a lit of talking.

Not for me. A cohesive album

Not my most favorite. A bit too much hippy.

Boring

I'm sure the lyrics were good but music/voice too boring to pay attention to

Not very tood

😵‍💫

not my fav of hers #sorry

Lento

not my cup of tea, but was browsing book store at the same time, was chill. loved the "Still, I sent up my prayer Wondering who was there to hear I said, "Send me somebody who's strong and somewhat sincere" With the millions of the lost and lonely ones I called out to be released Caught in my struggle for higher achievements And my search for love that don't seem to cease" in her song same situations.

zu eintönig und langsam

iskreno hard listen. mrzim ovaj stil pevusenja reci. PREVISE RECI. to me podseca na srednjovekovne trubadure i muzikante. i ne svidja mi se lady’s glas….previse tralalalala….mozda je bio gas tad sedamdesetih ali meni je samo malo jadan ovaj zvuk…nista ne osecam samo sam se malo iznervirala jer zvuci kao pripovetka

I love the lyrics - very relatable and poetic - but not the way she sings the song or the strange rhythms. Not for me.

Yawn

I'm starting to give up

that was not good

Trop de syllabes. Elle s’étouffe pour réussir à finir ses phrases. Trop calme et lent. Pas fan.

Too flat for me

Fuck off already with Joni Mitchell.

At least I only have one more Joni Mitchell album to go

1. court - 1 2. help - 1 3. pariz - 1 4. partiez - 1 5. zame - 1 6. car - 1 7. douun - 1 8. train - 1 9. robbery - 0 10. child - 1 11. tuuizted - 1

not really my vibe, wouldn't listen to again, dnf

chato :(

I went into this one absolutely loathing Joni Michell. I gave it a shot, trying to hear what might have put it on a "great album" list. I have to report that my opinion has not changed. The best part about Court and Spark is that it's short.

Hate easy listening.

I didn't get this at all. Folk with 'jazz inflections' is really not my 'thing'. And that sleeve design is dreadful, which didn't help.

Whinny.

Not for me. I prefer blue

The second Joni Mitchell album on this list. As with the first album, this one got on my nerves right away. I listened to the first track of the album in its entirety and part of the second. I didn't want to waste any more time on it. The music is boring. I don't like the voice or the arrangements. 1/5

I have a friend who owned a bar in Brooklyn called Court & Spark. I asked him about the name and he told me it was a Joni Mitchell album. I didn't know if that was cool or not because I was unfamiliar with this album. Now I know. The answer is a resounding no. But at least this album is 10x better than The Hissing Of Summer Lawns. But I gave that zero stars. And 10 x 0... (Raised on Robbery is aight though)

1/2

Female vocals

It might be from the seventies, but it’s still that crappy sixties sound.

I can't stand Joni Mitchell

I guess you had to be there. Also, knowing she had a blackface “alter ego” and continuously defended it kinda ruins the vibe for me

Didn’t do anything for me

BASTAAAAAAA

in germany we call this kind of music 0815 - boring, nothing special every song sounds kinda the same

Absolutely not for me: I did finish it, though. Big dislike (though the last song wasn't terrible).

Ikke noget for mig

This folk crappy pop is really no good. I can't believe Joan is so big. I mean at least they are original songs and decent storytelling but the music really sucks

Just not my bag. I find it boring as hell. Sorry

Idk why but this album agitated me. Did not enjoy.

Snore fest

Not for me. 1/5

another god damn bloody foid album. this list has gone completely woke.

I just do not like her voice and her music. For me, Joni Mitchell is a bit like the female Temu-version of Bob Dylan.

Not a fan. Too slow for my taste. Not a lot that made the album stand out.

I dislike this woman very much

Ça a la vibe d'une musique qui a des fans hardcores. J'en fait pas du tout partie

I don’t what it is but her cadence kinda pmo same way Faye Webster does. Very typical instrumentation in the 70s and felt like I’ve heard it before. Also Twisted being very swingy and Jazzy kinda threw me off since it was the only one that sounded like that, but it might have been the best song. Overall weak. 3/10

Joni Mitchell, from everything I’ve heard, is a wonderful person. Nothing against her. Her music, on the other hand. . . There’s a special ring of hell made just for me where they play her music on repeat. This album is well produced and varied, and I hope to never hear it again.

I understand some listeners really like this wordy, narrative style - for them it conjures up vivid imagery and evokes all kinds of emotional responses. I guess my brain just isn't wired up that way, I feel like I'm listening to someone reading passages from a novel out loud and the music is little more than an afterthought. Don't get me wrong - I have heard Joni Mitchell tracks that aren't like this, and some of the musical arrangements here was pretty interesting in places, but there were no songs that grabbed me on Court And Spark, despite listening right through a couple of times. Not great.

Joni Mitchell has nice cheek bones!

Having to listen to this felt like I was in trouble for something. It's bad enough when it's all folky and droning but then it gets kind of jazzy as it goes along? Blech.

No. I couldn't get through the whole thing.

Gepflegte Langeweile. Jedes Stück klingt irgendwie gleich. Unangenehm hohe Stimme, Melodien Mangelware. Nix!

like a penny whistle drowning

im sorry this is so boring

easy listening and inoffensive but tends to dull

Joni Mitchell is not my jam

Unfortunately I dislike Joni Michells voice. I got through 3 songs before I had to turn it off

Dreadful hippie shit

I don’t like Joni Mitchell’s music

Another Joni Mitchell album.....yay... NOT! Sorry but I find her music boring and unappealing.

Help Me is the big song from the album, meh. This sounds like an album of Sesame Street Songs with grown up lyrics. I think folk music is not for me, Bob Dylan and folk rock maybe. This is mildly annoying. Her voice has a Carly Simonesque quality. Or maybe Carly Simon's voice sounds like Joni Mitchell. Every time the album seems to be improving, the next song makes me reconsider. Raised On Robbery has a different sound and is the best track on the album. The addition of Cheech and Chong to the last song is just the cherry on top of this terrible album.

Folk songs are...nice (not) .2/5

70’s

Nous sommes au début des années 70. Joni Mitchell, la grande prêtresse du folk californien, la reine de Laurel Canyon, en a ras le bol. Le cirque médiatique, la pression, la vie de star... tout ça la saoule. Elle plaque tout et retourne se geler les miches dans son Canada natal. Une retraite stratégique qui va accoucher de trois disques majeurs, dont ce fameux "Court And Spark" en 1974. Et là, bingo. Le succès est total. La critique crie au génie, le public achète en masse, ça devient son plus grand succès commercial. Sur le papier, c'est l'histoire parfaite : l'artiste qui se retire du monde pour mieux le conquérir avec une oeuvre plus mature, plus sophistiquée. Oui, "sophistiquée", c'est le mot... Parce que cinquante ans plus tard, qu'est-ce qu'il en reste, de cette étincelle ? Pas grand-chose, si vous voulez mon avis. Oh, bien sûr, c'est impeccablement produit, joué par des requins de studio de Los Angeles, la crème de la crème du jazz-rock de l'époque. C'est lisse, c'est propre, ça glisse tout seul. Un peu trop, même. C'est le genre de disque qui a tellement peur de déranger qu'il finit par ne plus rien provoquer du tout. C'est le genre d'album qui baigne dans la naphtaline, un son qui sent le salon bourgeois, le tapis épais et le verre de Chardonnay. Chaque note est à sa place, chaque arrangement de cuivres est d'un goût exquis, chaque harmonie vocale est millimétrée. C'est d'un professionnalisme à faire pleurer d'ennui. On est loin, très loin, de la fragilité à fleur de peau de "Blue". Ici, tout a été poncé, verni, lustré jusqu'à ce que toute aspérité, toute trace de vie sauvage ait disparu. Et puis il y a ce fameux "spleen". Ce vague à l'âme typique des chanteuses folk de cette période, une sorte de mélancolie confortable qui sent bon la déprime de luxe. C'est une tristesse élégante, une douleur qui s'expose dans de jolis arrangements. Une complainte feutrée, susurrée à l'oreille d'un psychanalyste sur la Cinquième Avenue. Alors, oui, il faut l'écouter, cet album. Au moins une fois. Pour comprendre une époque, pour saisir ce moment où le folk a flirté avec le jazz pour devenir une sorte de pop adulte un peu trop sage. Pour admirer la technique, la production impeccable et la voix, toujours magnifique, de Joni Mitchell. Mais de là à y revenir, à le faire tourner en boucle, à sentir son coeur battre la chamade à son écoute... Faut pas déconner. Un chef-d'oeuvre ? Non. Un disque important ? Sans doute. Un classique indémodable ? Certainement pas. C'est une relique. Une très belle relique, certes, parfaitement conservée dans son formol musical, mais une relique quand même. Un témoignage sonore d'une époque où l'on pouvait être numéro un des ventes en étant simplement... de bon goût. Et parfois, le bon goût, c'est l'ennemi juré de l'art. 1/5. C'est sévère, mais c'est honnête.

Not even good for going to sleep to

Not for me

Schon wieder Singer/Songwriter. Aber diesmal ein Name wie Donnerhall, kurz hinter Bob Dylan. Und zur Abwechslung eine Frau. Endlich dachte ich. Das muss jetzt gut werden. Wurde es aber nicht. Vielleicht bekommt sie auch einen Literaturnobelpreis. Aber keinen fürs Musik schreiben.

No...

Not a fan

ugh, boring

Not for me

just not my thing. 1

Meh

There's something about the style of her songwriting that reminds me of musical theater - both trigger an intense negative emotional reaction in me. My emotional response is always to music. Lyrics can make a good song great, but they can't improve mediocre music at all. Joni Mitchell, and musical theater sound as if the songs are written to fit the lyrics. The words are not only paramount, but primary. It sounds like Joni writes her po-EMS and then follows Buddy the Elf's advice - she just talks them, only louder and longer and she moves her voice up and down. The result is not melody but a lead line that meanders and drifts and sounds unfocused and even shambolic to my ears. And that's what irritates me. I feel like I'm listening to a poet tack on music as an after thought. And then there's her voice. Now if she wrote great music, I wouldn't care. But since I don't like the songs, I try to find something to listen to and then I'm annoyed by her faerie little voice all tarted up with inelegant displays of vibrato. Vibrato is an affectation that I generally find weird and off-putting. I say generally because in the hands of a Master vocalist - I'm talking Sarah Vaughan or Dinah Washington level mastery - it can add an interesting dimension. But Joni's abuse of it makes her sound like an 8 year old trying to sound old; which makes me cringe even harder.

It’s a singer songwriter album. Same guitar riffs, same voice modulation. It suck’s.

Not on Spotify. L

Joni Mitchell's voice and style irk me

Had to listen to it on Amazon music…with ads 💀

I have tried to listen to Joni Mitchell multiple times in my life and every time its the same result. "Not to day Joni!"

Protesting her

Oh jee, album nr zoveel van Joni. Eens in de zoveel tijd dien ik gepijnigd te worden voor alles wat ik de artiesten uit deze snoblijst aandoe klaarblijkelijk. Ik blijf me enorm irriteren aan de stem van Joni, die gaat door merg en been bij me. Nagels op een krijtbord. Maar vooruit, laten we het wederom een eerlijke kans geven, zoals ik ook Taylor Swift een eerlijke kans heb gegeven. De muziek kunnen we indelen in de singer songwriter folk (rock) hoek. Er wordt wel vrij veel geexperimenteerd met geluiden en ritmes, er zit voor mij niet echt een eenduidige lijn in. Het gemeander van haar stem vind ik natuurlijk het meest irritant, maar het is ook raar dat nummers ineens abrupt middenin een toon lijken te stoppen. Je hebt van die kampvuren waar ik graag bij wil zitten, Manassas bijvoorbeeld, maar bij Joni zit ik niet graag. Met haar soepjurk en bloemetjes in haar haar en haar stem door merg en been. Als Stephen Stills dit album had gemaakt, had ik ongetwijfeld heel anders geoordeeld. Maar het is Joni. Ik kan het niet, haar stem zit zo hard in mijn irritatiezone. Ik hou dit gewoon maar een paar schamele nummers vol, maar ik zal het uitzitten, het ruime half uur dat deze lijdensweg duurt. Ik hou me angstvallig vast aan een nummer als Car on a Hill, waar nog een aardig refrein in zit, en Raised on Robbery, dat lekkere rock n roll gitaren heeft. Maar de nagels lijken weinig houvast te krijgen aan het krijtbord. De krijsende kat wil zich teveel laten gelden. Wat een opluchting als het na Twisted eindelijk is afgelopen. Ik heb de lijdensweg doorstaan, het voelt als een soort Kamp van Koningsbrugge, met Joni als de kampcommandant die me afblaft dat ik een slapjanus ben als ik dat half uurtje van haar niet eens kan uitzitten. Dat ik door moet zetten, omdat ik anders een mislukkeling ben. Maar ben ik een mislukkeling? Nee, ik heb de finish gehaald. De vellen hangen aan mijn trommelvliezen, maar ik heb ook deze slag van de oorlog weer overleefd. Ik voel me herboren, een ander mens. Niet de Wim Hof methode, maar de Joni Mitchell methode. Luister een album van Joni en je komt er sterker uit. Trommelvliezen van staal kweek je ermee. Ik voel me onoverwinnelijk nu. Ik kijk uit naar de dag dat ik het volgende album van Joni krijg!

Wouldn’t play

Jjrbr

Kan m niet afspelen op spotifru

I couldn't listen to it because she removed her music from Spotify.

Don’t really like Joni Mitchell. Some songs were ok. 2/10

not a fan

Staat ook niet op Spotify

Album isn’t on spotify

Not sure I'd go as far as Stevie Nicks' admission of listening to this album on LSD and praising it's experience. But who knows, it may have been better in an altered state. Joni Mitchell's brand of jazz-pop/soft-rock does not inspire me in any way, yet I can see how it will appeal to some people. Best: Free Man In Paris Worst: Twisted 1.5 stars Note: Album not available on Spotify, listened via YouTube

Not on spotify

I just don’t get her.

hiorrviel

Wasn't on Spotify, which saves me listening to warbling Joni.

Couldnt listen to it on spotify

Not on spotify cant rate

Not a fan. Two terrible albums in a row. I'm almost afraid to find out what today's album will be.

Rytmityksensä ja jazzia muistuttavan, vapaan melodisuutensa vuoksi lähes kuuntelukelvotonta.

There are two five star things about this album - the end, and the fact that it’s not on Spotify so there’s no chance I’ll ever have to put up with it again, utter drivel- seemed like the artist had to put out an album to have an elongated whinge

It's like she's talking to a friend she met at the grocery she haven't seen for years and has to tell all these stories really fast, and then just pretends like she's singing, while the music just tries to follow her words without ever stopping or thinking or doing anything other than just go up and down to match her stupid voice. I'm so tired of Joni Mitchell and I do not get the hype in the least.

Another album you can’t listen to on Spotify

Not on Spotify

Waant available on dpotify

Not on Spotify

Not on Spotify L

Look, writing a song is hard. You need to make a catchy or compelling melody to hook the listener in, or at least grab their attention. Compile some interesting lyrics that fit with the melody, and hopefully have something worthwhile to say. Consider rhyming schemes and syllable counts and all that to make the song flow in a pleasing or interesting way. Well Joni Mitchell does away with all that nonsense here. I sincerely hope that this entire album was one big improvised jamming session, because that's the only excuse for the complete lack of thought put into the "writing" part of any of these disjointed, lazy, messy songs. I mean, the band was solid enough, and most of the instrumental passages were fine, but Joni sounds as if she's making the songs up as she goes along. What's more, her voice has all the excitement and range of day old cold oatmeal.

terrible

Not on Spotify, couldn’t find a good YouTube compilation

Spotify casualty

Nope

Sorry Joni, I know you are an icon but I couldn't listen to this all the way through. Got about three songs in and ditched it. Dull. Soz.

I only halfway like that Joni 'taxi' song

boring

Enough already.

i bet this is really good to the people who like it

I don’t like folky 70’s hippy movement music and therefore I don’t like Joni Mitchell and/or this album. 1 Star

Qué fastidio. Yo sé que hay un consenso mundial, de género y de especie humana en torno al talento maravilloso de Joni Mitchell. No comparto ese consenso. No había escuchado este disco antes y la verdad es que no me había perdido de mucho. Es un hilo de canciones que se siente pesado como una loza, una canción eterna de esta mezcla de folk con jazz marca de la casa que a mí me parece soso, aburrido, cursi, sin ganchos melódicos memorables y arreglos entre brillantes y de pena ajena. Su voz es tan bella como irritante. Si todo lo que pasa musicalmente no fuera tan monótono y falto de gracia podría ponerle atención a las letras que veo que son maravillosas. Lo único que destaco de este disco y que veo que aquí en el album generator nadie notó son los arreglos super interesantes de Car on a hill. Muy locos arreglos, arriesgados. Y ni aún así me gustó la rola. Es como estar viendo una colcha de hilos egipcios secarse.

L'he agafat amb ganes perquè no coneixia gairebé res d'aquesta cantautora... però he acabat perdent l'interés. La intenció d'afegir elements de jazz al folk és interessant, però al final cap dels temes ha aconseguit cridar-me veritablement l'atenció.

Pónganse serios.

jajajaja... Lo que dijo Ayalas

BORING ASS ALBUM

Not my vibe tbh, none of the songs are going on playlists, meaning I can put 2 from an album if I choose

Very nice!