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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!
Gear: Focalman Cleardara Artwork: 🐍🏙️💚 Production: 😐🤔🤷 Music: 🤔💭😩💨🚫 Rating: 🐍/5
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.
1. france - 1 2. jungle - 1 3. edith - 2 4. zorrouu - 1 .5 zhadez - 1 .6 zummer - 2 .7. boho - 1 8. harry - 1 9. bird - 2 10. ligth - 2
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
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Didn’t connect with these songs
Didn't quite like it
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