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Relaxing back round music for me, but that's about it. Nice female vocals and chill 2.2
Well it’s Joni Mitchell. Was not a fan, still not a fan. Stories are interesting but I can’t get past the tone and rythme of her singing.
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I always feel guilty that I'm not into these legendary singer-songwriters. Before undertaking this challenge, I would have assumed I'd love this type of thing. My feelings can be summed up the same way as usual: it's not bad, I just don't like it.
Not bad but boring.
Nunca he podido entrar con Joni Mitchell. Me apena, porque me cae bien y se nota que es talentosa y muy inteligente. Hay talento en su música y en sus letras, pero no me llega.
There are better Mitchell records out there.
I've never really got on with Joni's warblings. She tries to say too much, rather than keep the message simple. I struggle to keep up, tbh. The star of the show is Max Bennett with his effortless bass playing. Lose the vocals and you've got a half decent album. Harsh, but true.
The authors of this book do not understand how to select records for Canada. Like, yeah, Joni is a big deal. But you already have Blue in the mix. This is nowhere near as noteworthy. Sorry, but this shouldn’t be an inclusion, the spot should have gone to another worthy act from The Great White North. I’ll say it again and again until this list gets some goddamn Tragically Hip!!
It was ok. Joni Mitchell is a national treasure. My favourites are very earliest stuff.
I think this is the 4th Joni Mitchell album and frankly I do not understand why she has this much material on this list. Is any of it truly groundbreaking or deserving? It’s weird post hippie folk
She can sing but my God the boredom...
Didn't click with me.
Never quite got the Joni hype even if blue is a classic, only thought the boho dance was any good rest was pretty shit.
Spell "expired"
2 in a row is a bit much
I'm struggling with this. I don't remember hating Joni Mitchell, but this entire album felt like the soundtrack to the most boring scenes in 70s cinemas (and I love 70s cinema, but I also remember the boring scenes). I'm rarely surprised by this project, but it's normally a delightful surprise with a great funk album I hadn't heard for some reason. This surprised me because I thought it would be good, and it just wasn't.
Another album by Joni Mitchell and surprisingly the same reception on my end - Joni is a great singer and writer, but the style in which she creates music is not my favourite. It's hard for me to enjoy those small, cheerful melodies, which in result makes it harder to focus on the storytelling part of music. But still, I'm sure there is going to be more albums by Mitchell on this list in the future.
Joni is such a great writer. But she's kind of trash as a performer. Not that she has a bad voice, mind you. She just... doesn't understand the concept of a melody. She just warbles her poems into a mic and calls it done. I want these lyrics separated from the music. Just get rid of the music. Don't try to sing it, Joni. Just READ me your beautiful words. Trying to mate the poetry to... whatever experimental nonsense this is... well, it's a bad experience. Really unenjoyable to listen to. Which, again, is a bloody shame because the words themselves are truly excellent.
I'm just coming to accept that singer-songwriters aren't really my thing. This is decent enough. I dig her voice and there are some solid lyrics but it doesn't really evoke much strong feeling in me unfortunately.
Background music that never makes it to the foreground
Not horrible per se but not my kind of music. 2.5
I liked "Jungle Line" because it sounded like Bjork (I only sometimes like Bjork). All else was fairly unenjoyable and not repeatable.
Again I struggle with a Joni Mitchell album I think it’s the way she runs away from melody in her singing that does it
We've had two of Joni's albums already, and I disliked them both. I don't see that changing with album #3, so this is officially the first album I'm skipping altogether. I'll give her two stars because apparently there are people out there who know what they're talking about who think she's great. Different strokes, I guess...
Slightly better than the last Joni Mitchell album but boring overall. Sounds like generic elevator music played while you wait at the dentist office...and your dentist should've retired 30 years ago & the paint is chipping off the walls. Joni Mitchell is not for me.
I found this incredibly boring
I struggle with Joni Mitchell. I know she's widely regarded as a great song writer, but to me she sounds like someone who is singing ad libitium a letter to ex boyfriends. It doesn't work for me. I feel like I need to have a cup of hot tea and depression to listen to her.
Unique don’t love her voice
Although I appreciate Joni Mitchell as a singer and composer, this album wasn't of my liking. It was not bad, it was just extremely boring and forgettable. I don't remember any song title or even a single note, and despite being only a bit shorter than 40 minutes, I was wishing for it to end since at least the third song. Not for me, sorry
Never been much of a fan of Joni Mitchell. She's kind of meh. Pretty voice, some good lyrics but her singing style is yawnsome at best and irritating at worst.
Not great - too hippy
not mine :( 2\5
I hate joe Rogan as much as the next guy but Joni’s music not being on Spotify is a pain in the ass. Plus it wasn’t even that great of an album
Listened Before? N This was a very sleepy album. Slow and mellow. I doubt I'll listen to it again, just because nothing really stood out to me. Added to Library? N
As usual her voice is a massive barrier for me. Avoids a 1 as the 2nd track with the synth was unexpectedly good
Wat een saai wijf, die Joni!
Prachtige stem, maar verder vond ik het niet zo spectaculair
Niet wéér Joni. Die vorige plaat was ook echt stukken beter. Het is echt allemaal meer van hetzelfde en niet zo boeiend.
Meh, en innostunut.
Ei ihan tää levy uponnu mun makuun
Nope. Joni wrote some great songs, but her albums drag. This one manages to combine dull with pretentious. What is it with this vocal delivery? Is she trying to demonstrate how clever and poetic her vocals are? The Jungle Line doesn't deserve to be on this album, it's much too good. Saves the album from a one star.
I feel like my high school English teachers would love this album. However, I, a dum-dum, had to listen to tracks multiple times and read along with the lyrics to figure out what the heck Joni was talking about. Good Panera Bread type beats tho
Boring not necessarily bad
If y'ain't on Spotify, y'ain't real. Exist to get a rating lmao
I did not care for it. The songs were not that good. The lyrics were not that good. I made it through it.
some good instrumentals in several tracks, not bad vocal, even kinda interesting and unusual, but damn, it lacks something or there is too much of this avant-garde, I was waiting til the end at some point. Didn't enjoy it but it wasn't bad music, so I think 2 is far enough
As a Canadian, I'm contractually obligated to like Joni Mitchell and Neil Young. Honestly though this is some 70s junk. She can write a good song like nobody's business but it just doesn't come across in these arrangements and production. Prefer the stripped back vocals and guitars, but can't please everyone.
dear god, do i hate joni mitchell. the synth on shadows and light was cool, i guess.
Nothing standout here, an entire album of 'this is absolutely fine' but not a single track that I'd call actively interesting or engaging.
I wish i could go half stars cuz this is a 2.5 which is right in the middle. Not good or bad, white lady folksy shit just not my jam.
I'm bored!! I'm so bored!!! Yawnnnnnnnnnnnnn!!!
As always Mitchell's vox soar and swoop all over this LP, evoking a range of emotions and reeling the listener in with its tones. However, the orchestration and arrangement here are a bit too meandering to gel together as an artistic whole - this album nearly sells the essence of floating across Central Park on a lazy day, but gets caught up in one too many refrains and jazz licks to really land the concept.
Didn't click with this one. Weak melodies. 5/10
Not for me.
Great voice. Interesting lyrics. Music didn’t do it for me.
Not my favorite. Hard to explain but it doesn't really sound like she's singing songs. It's more like she's just talking to you but melodically.
Didi not enjoy skipped most songs - Boho dance was favorite
cada vez que escucho a joni mitchell me pasa lo mismo, y es que no puedo conectar con su música sin importar que tan buena sea la canción
Folk rock: the genre I don't like that is just so influential and essential that it comprises half this book, almost as if just to annoy me personally. 2/5.
I’ll admit that I’ve never heard a Joni Mitchell album before, and I came into this album with absolutely 0 background. After giving this and her top hits a listen, I can see where she was essential in bringing modern folk/Americana to the forefront of popularity. However, I’m not sure if this was the best album to introduce me. For all the fantastic lyrics and singing on Joni’s part, the accompanying folk-jazz blend was just a little too avant-garde. The album is truly unique and by no means bad, and I can tell it’s an album with layers that will take a couple of listens to soak in.
not a lot going on here. Jungle Line was only standout song for me.
Beetje een saai album, weinig variatie
57. Ninguém toca no menino, o menino é protegido, o menino é especial. Já há poucos pontos no mapa para eu pôr. Temos de criar novas memórias com o menino, daqui a uns anos ele não se lembra de nada. Mais vale remediar. MotA: The Hissing of Summer Lawns "Downtown / My darling dime store thief"
Again, just not my thing.
I’ve heard of Joni before, other than the first song which I found good the album wasn’t to my liking just not something I would listen to 2/5
Pesado y aburrido de escuchar. Tiene discos mucho mejores.
não curti muito
meh
First time hear this music creator. Interesting.
Some interesting songs, too rambling and whimsical for me.
Some decent songs but no where near as good as court and spark or blue
.
seems dated now
Nah
Aj karamba, zapomnialem ze weekendowo rowniez nowe albumiki maja sie dodawac i zaspalem chyba jednego, przechodzac do samego albumiku, to chyba dosc ciezko go przypisac do konkretnego gatunku, bo niektore kawalki sa trzymane w stricte popowego jazzu, jak otwierajacy in france they kiss on the main street czy boho dance, ale sa tez kawalki ciekawe ktore wedlug mnie zasluguja na uwage, mianowicie the jungle line, przez ciekawie zsamplowane drumy, podobno prawdziwie afrykanskie, bo takie creditsy mozna zobaczyc na liscie kontrybutorow do tego kawalka, kolejnym jest track zamykajacy plyte, czyli shadows and light jest to kompozycja stworzona wokol overduba voica Pani Joni, daje to dosc niezwykly efekt, bo o ile pierwszy raz slysze jej material, a zbyt wielu zenskich wokali nie mialem okazji oceniac, to ten stawiam naprawde wysoko, ale instrumentalnie album zazwyczaj jest nudny, z pewnoscia przeslucham wiecej albumow z takim wokalem
Nah
Some interesting moments and lyrics, but give me “Blue” over this any and every day of the week, please. Sad/weird fact: Joni Mitchell has Morgellon’s Disease which makes you feel like there are literal bugs crawling under your skin. Sounds like a Cronenberg movie.
There is no variety in this album, all the songs sound the same. It's not horrible but its not great. 2/5
Beautiful voice but not my kind of jams.
Her voice is just to odd for my taste. 🤷
The Hissing of Summer Lawns, Joni Mitchell. A very obscure poem based jazz rock fusion album. I can feel the connection between this album and artists like Bjork or even Portishead altho THoSL is absolutely reflective of the time it was recorded. With flowy orchestral sweeps under spacey synths this music is caught between pop and far out expressionism. The parts I enjoyed were over shadowed by the majority of music that possibly just went over my head. Maybe I wasn't high enough. 2/5
Como ya había comentado en sus otros 2 discos (que han salido hasta ahora, al menos), Joni Mitchel tiene un timbre y un estilo vocal muy agradables, y creo que su talento fue muy subestimado... ...pero es que de verdad, la música que escoge no le ayuda NADA. Es como una mezcla de folk con jazz rara. Este disco me pareció muy, muy aburrido.
Ei kovinkaan mieleenpainuvaa musiikkia. Kovin Tori Amos -tyyppistä menoa mutta huonommilla sävellyksillä. Liekö tämä toiminut esikuvana Amosille.
Was never really a fan.
rätt så fult för min smak.
This is boring. Nothing to revisit
Buddy the Elf’s insistence that singing is easy because “it's just like talking except louder and longer and you move your voice up and down” is such a perfect description of Joni’s approach to songwriting. She’s a poet. Het music is an afterthought and it sounds it at every turn. And it may be one thing if you like her poetry. I don’t.
Joni Mitchell's The Hissing of Summer Lawns trades her signature raw intimacy for over-produced, avant-garde pretension that alienates the listener. The jarring integration of jazz fusion rhythms and repetitive Moog synthesizers completely suffocates her melodies. Ultimately, the album replaces genuine human emotion with cold, spoken-word critiques of suburban life that feel more condescending than artistic. Boring and annoying.
I am familiar with Joni Mitchell and currently have 10 songs liked by her - with 6 of those from the Hejira album which I listened to because of this project and gave it 4 stars. After listening to this 3 times - not one song grabbed me as something I need to hear again. Not sure what happened - maybe I am not in a Joni mood today. Maybe this isn't different enough from Hejira that it's not compelling me to want to listen to it again. Don't know - but it just didn't grab me. Liked songs on Spotify: 0/10 Rating: 1/5
I liked Blue. This album is ass. Made it halfway through before I gave up
Pa la verdad le tenía fe pero me aburrió bastante je, un bajonazo
Don't Interrupt The Sorrow
Please stop giving me Joni Mitchell albums
no
Joni Mitchell is for white woman who used to do coke
She did blackface so I'm not listening to this.
Phew, what a load of crap. I tried listening to a Joni Mitchell album again. And once again, I gave up. I don't like her voice, I don't like the arrangements, and I especially don't like this shallow pop music. I still don't understand what's so great about Joni Mitchell. 1/5
I'm not sure I made it all the way through a single track.
Not a fan of this style of music. Total snooze fest.
So dull!
I think this is it for Joni Mitchell, and I’m glad to see her go. Not my cup of tea at all across all 4 albums on this list.
Couldn't finish it
Sounds like a typical Joni Mitchell album, which is to say boring.
Snooze fest
I can't. 1/5.
Ugh
this is the 4th album of Joni Mitchell..... WHY!!!! Every song sounds the same nothing amazing, extremely mediocre. Even her most famous song is not even holding up to allot of other one hit wonders. The author of this list is insanely biased to Joni and Costello. Before this list I thought they were one hit wonders if barely that, but after this list I now feel they are extremely overrated artist that I now hate instead. There are soooo many more famous artist that only got 1 album. Wish I could edit all the other entries to 1 star. As an artist she is a 2 star because it is listenable as background music if there isn't anything other around but she will get a 1 star for being extremely overrated and don't deserve more than 1 album TOPS!
Somehow I dislike this more the Blue
something about the production here sets my nerves on edge and makes me grind my teeth. it's like someone lifted the vocals off another album and put it over a recording they made of a band playing in the next room over. it's also not really my bag.
Joni Mitchell’s entire career after “Blue” was a Sophomore Slump. There are way better albums to spend your time with.
I think I’m the wrong demographic for this crap.
This is the second Joni Mitchell album I get on this list. I really disliked the first one. This one is slightly better – mainly because it’s not just her and a guitar. The second song, Jungle Line, is an interesting experiment, and works quite well. There’s a few other nice moments throughout the album – as far as instruments are concerned. I’ll admit it’s creative, and if it was strictly an instrumental album, I may have rated it a 2* or even a 3*... Unfortunately, Joni’s singing completely ruins the experience for me. I can’t really explain why, but her voice just rubs me the wrong way... It doesn’t help that I have absolutely zero interest in the stuff she sings about ; I can’t relate and I don’t care. I know that many people like her, so I’m probably missing something... But listening till the end of the album was almost physically painful for me. I just can’t, sorry.
Ah, Joni Mitchell, this was on my todo list anyway. All I know from her is Big Yellow Taxi, the cover from Janet Jackson „Joni Mitchell never lies“ I cannot warm up to her voice. The vibrato feels staged, the more dynamic singing too quirky. It seems she never settles. Why did she get famous? The compositions sound academic, overthought, they don’t flow. Whenever she built up a melody or mood she immediately destroys it by taking a left turn. Why? To be unpredictable? Best track: hissing of summer lawns (but also here I‘d prefer if someone else sung it), Harrys House (2nd half)
Jesus Christ Almighty, do we need the entirety of Joni Mitchell's hellish discography on this list? I can't stand it anymore. That obnoxious voice, that obnoxious album title, the obnoxious songs and lyrics. Release me from pain! 1/5
boooooorrrrriiiinnnnggggggggggg
Not for me. 1/5
I don't get her, not even a little bit. Boring, folksy, poetickly wordy, and overall lame. I'll leave this one for the rest of you to enjoy. You're not alone, many of the songs had 1-3M listens (mind blown). Missed the mark for me from start to finish. Her voice is instantly disinteresting and I can almost tune the song out as I drift off to think about things that stimulate thought. "The Hissing Power Of Summer Lawns", the title says it all, was fucking awful. 1 star, wow was I bored suffering through that. I can't even imagine what justifies making the T1001 list, what's worth listening two twice on here? No hits, not influential that I'm aware of, no staying power, no one even mentions her name or this album, no longevity. If Spotify adds her to my algorithm now I am gonna be PISSED!
Sorry all fans of Joni out there, but this is sooooo terrible for me. I hate these moments of this list. I decided at the beginning to listen to all albums, but albums like this make me claw for ending that. But I kept through, I survived (although it may have done some permanent damage), I'll still continue my journey of the 1001 albums and I'll still listen to all albums.
Säestystä, joka polveilee kaikkialle tai ei minnekään (myös parhaimmillaan).
😳
yawwwwwwwwwwwn
NOPE. Did not hold attention, even with synths. Too smooth jazz 80s-ready
This is one of those albums I kind of feel bad about not liking, because I know it's beloved by a lot of people, but this is pretty much the antithesis of everything I like in music. Don't like the singing, don't like the melodies, and it's too soft and smooth. The only tune that I found mildly interesting was "The Jungle Line", but even that was kind of soured for me when I read Joni's explanation of it. "I thought I was black for about three years. I felt like there was a black poet trapped inside me, and that song was about Harlem—the primitive juxtaposed against the Frankenstein of modern industrialization; the wheels turning and the gears grinding and the beboppers with the junky spit running down their trumpets." 1.5 stars.
Kannte ich nicht, aber ist für mich sehr 70er und noch mehr zu jazzig.
I wanted to like this, but it was really unmoving, flat, boring. Songs like The Jungle Line are just bad experiments that I wouldn't put in an album. 2/10
Nothing to offend my ears here but just not for me
Joni just doesn't do it for me. Its me, not Joni!
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1.5 Joni Mitchell has never clicked for me. At least this album was in a tolerable octave.
Ho boy, I am not a fan of Joni Mitchell. I just can't do the rambling run-on stream-ot-consciousness poetry.
This sounds like someone’s freshman English project at swarthmore.
Despite her lofty reputation, this one was not my cup of tea. Did not enjoy the flaccid music. Did not enjoy the overly busy lyrics. It felt like she was singing the same melody in every song. Standout: In France They Kiss On Main Street Worst song by a country mile: The Jungle Line (and its farty-sounding Moog)
I want to like Joni, I really do. But I don’t care for beat poetry, and this is just beat poetry with smooth jazz musicians noodling along. She’s got a pretty voice, and most of this would be totally inoffensive piped over the speakers in a grocery store.
1 Stern
I just don't get the hype surrounding her. She's just a wannabe hippie who, in my opinion, didn't do enough drugs. Have you ever eaten a plain, untoasted English muffin? That's Joni Mitchell's music. La de da de doo....
Not something that i would listen to again.
Not really my type. Sounds a bit dreary
zzzzzzz!
Ägde skivan en gång i tiden. Gillade den inte då. Gillar den inte nu.
I like joni Mitchell but I don't like this album
Boring
I was only aware of Joni Mitchell because of that story line with Alan Rickman in love actually, unlike that story this was very forgettable, it's soft folk shit, the same jangly chords over and over and over and over again.
Good voice, good production amd musicians but this type of music to me sucks. Passive aggressive artsy indie music. Id much rather listen to Grace Slick who has a simar pitch and tone of voice as well as the Wilson sisters from Heart. Joni has a better album or at least one I can listen to completely this is not her best although that second song Jungle Line is great.
Not a fan of this style of singing. This is more talking-style and some notes sounded off. Definitely times of the 70’s, but not rock-n-roll.
Not available on Spotify
Can't hear the album on Spotify
Unavailable
typical Joni Mitchell - not bad but boring. Sounds like Joan Armitrading
It bored me to the point I almost fell asleep
Simply awful
Not available on Spotify so I couldn't listen to this one.
joni mitchell removed her albums from spotify. i cannot be FUCKED to listen to it via youtube. consider this a fuck you to joni mitchell.
too old timey and slow
1.5
i hate joni Mitchell
Not on spotify, automatic 1
No more Joni Mitchell please.
No he podido escuchar el album en Spotify
Not on Spotify.
Thought I might be a Joni Mitchell fan. I am definitely not.
She does thing weird thing where she doesn't resolve the harmony on the note where you'd expect it to resolve. Sounds like a deceptive cadence, it's experimental and I don't like it. At it wasn't on Spotify so minus 1 star. Favorite song - The hissing of Summer Lawns
So dull.
I was well and truly bored. My lowest rating yet.
Man this is boring. Once again, this reminds me of the music I would hear on the after-school bus, an experience that I hated
Nah
Disappointing.
racist piece of shit
I've said before that those magic moments of synthesis between voice, music and word are probably the best explanation of my own personal music taste (examples from this project so far are Talk Talk's masterful colour of spring, Springsteen's extended numbers from Darkness on the Edge of Town and most surprisingly some of the shoegaze stuff from Ride) Well, this album is the antithesis of all that. The songs are so loose and disparate with Mitchell attempting to bridge the gap by singing a version of a melody. This style has unfortunately paved the way for a whole genre of jazz singers to follow suit. It's not like I even dislike Joni Mitchell, I'm fairly familiar with her more commercial compositions from the early 70's and very much enjoy the album 'Blue' , but she has in recent years come out with an anti Dylan agenda accusing him of misogyny and plagiarism despite performing regularly with him over the years. (search YouTube for her backstage duet of 'Coyote' with Dylan at a Rolling Thunder gig, sublime)
I’m not gonna talk shit but this wasn’t for me.
Este miserable disco lleno de los típicos manerismos de la artista y la melcocha de su voz tiene la única canción chida de su carrera: The Jungle Line. Escucho esto y me dan ganas de morir de sobredosis de fentanilo. Por cierto, ya se distribuye esa droga en Chihuahua. Chihuahua vive en el futuro.
This is not for me - it’s too nice. May work on some occasions but not in the depth of winter in the middle of lockdown!
Didn't like it
VALV
wacala
Didn’t connect with these songs
Didn't quite like it
Arte