I started searching for elementary school friends. When I reached one, I said I can't believe we haven't spoken for 60 years. We were kids back then. I was looking for sanity and like-mindedness. That's why I'm listening to Joni.
I really can't decide if I prefer this original version or the one she did in 2000, which slowed it down a lot. Her voice is purer, so to speak, here, but the depth of emotion and introspection comes out more in the later version
@@harveymanfredsenjenson5417 I fully agree. I can't decide either. Joni's mature voice packs an palpable emotional punch. I remember noticing the change when Turbulent Indigo came out. The verses played for the movie "Love Actually" would not have been so moving had they been from her youthful recordings -- beautiful as they are.
When Mama Cass says "This is my friend Joni Mitchell, and this is my friend Mary Travers", it goes really deep. In the Laurel Canyon scene, Mama Cass was a true friend to so many people, and made so many introductions. If I recall correctly, she introduced Graham Nash to David Crosby and Stephen Stills. Without her, the world of music would have been a lot poorer. If only she were with us now.
Well...she will always be with us.. right...the fine arts ...music..poetry...art..film...if they are fine...they will never leave us ..they are etched into our hearts forever... just saying... Eric Underwood class of 81 Downey High School California 👍
@Joe Devola whose the Marxist Pedophiles ....how do you come up with that ...you are assuming that Geographic areas are all nothing but evil? So therefore everything including the fine arts is Evil... Brother you are lost! I was born not far from Laurel Canyon...in a Los Angeles suburb... A lot of great talent came from that area... don't you dare stereotype us all...You know what your saying...
@@tornadojoegee I guess we're supposed to imagine what it would be like to have friends this talented sitting around in our living rooms playing music. If only...
+Thomas Gill She is stunning. Every word to describe a beautiful woman fits her; stunning, striking, breathtaking, sexy, foxy, babe, cute, pretty, heart breaking, voluptuous, the list goes on. She takes a backseat to my X girlfriend Claudia Schiffer even.
She wrote this song when she was still so young... even she herself later said that she felt a bit out of place whenever sang it. She was wise beyond her years... Joni Mitchell, one of a kind.
Reminds me of how Jackson Browne wrote These Days as a teenager. How does someone so young write a line like "Don't confront me with my failures, I have not forgotten them"? Brilliant.
@@richardread8281 - Correct. The song was inspired by a passage in a book Joni was reading while on an airplane. The 1959 novel is called Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow. Per Wikipedia Joni had this to say about writing Both Sides Now: "I was reading on a plane and early in the book the protagonist Henderson is also up in a plane. He's on his way to Africa and he looks down and sees these clouds. I put down the book, looked out the window and saw clouds too and I immediately started writing the song. I had no idea that the song would become as popular as it did."
My mother watched this. She loved Joni and always watched Mama Cass. No wonder I was a huge fan of hers and the storytellers of the 70s, Carole King, Jim Croche, Harry Chapin, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, and Carly Simon to name a few.
During times of chaos and insanity, I needed this. I looked for it after watching her sing on the 2024 Grammys twice. Meryl Streep and her daughter were in the audience. I think you may want to ask a tearful Streep daughter, why she was in tears (as we were). Transports us back to better times.
I was lucky enough to see Joni sing this song at the Anaheim Convention center in 1973 with someone I love. As we were leaving someone said "this is where she'll go to catch her limo".No one believed them but we stood and waited anyway and sure enough in a few minutes Joni appeared and stopped to greet her faithful fans. A moment I'll never forget.
When one gets to be my age (almost 70), he begins to recognize the truth of these lyrics. There's a sadness for opportunities missed, but also gratefulness for having survived and persevered in this thing called life.
Scott McGillivray I'm with you. Every time. That's because you are listening to one of the true genius musicians of our lifetime. The emotional connection is real because her use of her poetry blends perfectly with her music and of course with her incredible voice. If you lose yourself in her words you find the joy, confusion, pain and mystery of life. Her writing and music are so soulfully raw and transparent. Raw, yet so beautifully refined. And this is just one song. Nobody in popular music in years has come close to writing one song at this level of inspired musicianship. And she's written MANY songs of this greatness. I don't think most people realize just how incredible Joni Mitchell is.
Scott McGillivray me too; you aren't alone Joni was my hero right from the first time I heard that incredibly beautiful voice. Okay, so I was a little envious that she could hit notes I couldn't reach with a ladder.... but Joni just had such a wonderful vocal range & in all these years I've yet to hear a voice I loved as much as hers.
I've never seen this clip before so I watched Mama Cass introduce her friend. The goosebumps started instantly the lump in the throat after 30 seconds the tears after a minute. I'm a 57 year old man and not much moves me these days but this did.
Amazing to think that in these early days, Joni had only just begun her voyage of genius. Hard to believe that Hejira, Court and Spark and the rest of her wonderful catalogue were still inside this beautiful woman's mind. Or perhaps we knew, right from the start, that we would be embarking on a life long journey with one of the truly great poets of our time.
Listening in 2023! Always have been, always will be! Joni has the voice of an angel and her songs are incredible! This one and Case of You have to be my favorites!!
Her face is beautiful. Her voice is a beautiful Her songs are beautiful She is one of the most talented songwriters and singers that ever lived but she is so underrated .
There is a transcendence and a purity of her form of art. Her voice was angelic and could span registers, she wrote sublime poetry. Music like this elevates the soul and that is what makes it art.
This gives me chills. Incredible. The 60's were a magic vortex opening up, in time, just for a moment. There will never be a period of creativity like it, again.
@@zyxw2024 Of course! I've been the recipient of many solids! I try to pay it forward too ... the universe gives you back, exactly what you put in to it. Give solids, get solids. Karma is real ☮️
The 70s too, if you were living in the right place. Anyone living in Denton, a small college town in Texas, will know exactly what I mean. All the gays from Dallas, all the shit kickers from Fort Worth, one of the top jazz schools in the country with music everywhere, the most amazing and creative conceptual artists, students streaking through campus day and night, and it was the center for drugs in the entire country. What a crazy menagerie! Definitely a glitch in the matrix.
I don't know how I managed in my almost 53 years on this earth to miss such a truthful, wise beyond measure and utterly beautiful song....I am now just grateful I finally found it....I too really don't know life, at all
Better later than never, it's tricky to keep up with current music when you're still in utero. ;-) I'm grateful to be able to easily watch recordings of performances such as this that I didn't have access to half a century ago!
Met Anne Murray's parents in Nova Scotia where I lived. Very friendly and wanting to hear other's stories. Canadians are great people. I'm from Mississippi.
I remember the hit Judy Collins had with this and always thought she sang it beautifully. Then, I heard Joni sing it on the Johnny Cash Show and was totally blown away. I can't describe how this song makes me feel.
Me, too. Judy did a beautiful job of it, too. I understand Joni wrote it as a reply to Sugar Mountain. I'm not sure its true or not, but it seems as if it could be.
Beautiful, poetic lyrics and a crystal clear, pleasant voice. Joni is considered a legend for a reason, she is one. Beautiful poetic songwriting and an amazingly nice voice 💛
My wife says, you couldn't get better than this. So wonderfully talented women on the stage. This was when we could hear the words of songs, and artists could write, and play a musical instrument !
My childhood summarized in a beautiful song..............ice cream castles in the air takes me back to that magical time in life. After loosing lost loved ones I can still go back to this song and think of all the wonderful a simple time.........
I lost my Mom, my Dad, my 3 brothers, 2 sisters, 4 help including the cook, 2 visiting neighbors and 5 different pets - all in a devastating grade fire. They all loved Joni Mitchell. My god, I love them all...
Such beautiful tone & vibrato, head voice & transition into chest, with such beauty in lower register. Some of her songs, like this one, pull my heart out & give me chills.
My grade 12 English teacher taught me this song and the underlining meaning of the song. Time flies and I will turn 65 in September....still love this song and certainly hope my English teacher Miss Hung still alive a well.
I'm 65 now and still remember Miss Booth in Freshman English listening to the poetry of Simon and Garfunkel. She was young and so were we........I can feel myself in the classroom with her heartfelt enthusiasm for the words. We were fortunate to have these teachers King Sole.
2022 crying because it was a dream song many yrs ago and I had to ask my cousin. I said the cloud song and sang it. And she said oh. Joni Mitchell. Ohhhh yeah. I don't see any family anymore. My angels guide me instead
I saw her live in 1974 in South Bend Indiana. She had made a bet with one of her tour men that Notre Dame would beat UCLA and Bill Walton, to support the underdog. ND did beat UCLA ending their 88 game winning streak, which made her even more of a favorite with the crowd, although she had my heart for many years beforehand. She was beautiful, musically perfect, winning, and wonderful and after over 40 years I remember her coming on stage like it was yesterday. Here's to you, Joni, the best of the best.
I absolutely love this human being, she is amazing. A great artist this has true depth, a great voice and something to say to the world. It’s a pleasure to live in the same world has Joni.
Beautiful lyrics and melody..a voice with such a range..The days of singer songwriters like Joni Mitchell John Denver Gordon Lightfoot are gone..But I still get goosebumps listening to them.
Indeed, goosebumps. Still. However, I don't believe the days of singer/songwriters/performers are over, only that they're less likely to break through to a wider audience and at my age I just don't seem to have the motivation to search out unique new talent from obscure sources (kind of like the law of diminishing returns, with all the amazing innovation over prior decades getting harder to equal, and a limit on how much you can keep previous innovations fresh).
Nearly a thousand have recorded negative comments.........what planet are these people on !!??.... Joni is an amazing artist and this song is hers.......
I must really go back to an earlier time, 1969 or so, in the backyard of home, hanging clothes on the line to dry, I remember singing this song as I did my chore. It was one of my favorite songs. I would imagine having my own guitar one day to play and sing it with. Part 1-Both Sides Now, Cindy Lynn ❤️
I hope you do....she really changed my life....really thoughtful ,wonderful and sad songs that are so true. I started listening her in 1969......so that makes me a younger than Joni.......er i was 14.
Samara Shelp This song was a hit for another singer named Judy Collins. You might enjoy her recording of it, especially the "hit version" on TH-cam. If you watch Mad Men, this song was the closing for "In Care of" - season 6, episode 13. As noted by another commenter below, it's got a "happier" sound, though even as a little kid it made me sad, so I think the melancholy come through in both versions. Love them both.
It would struggle now, but that was why some of us adored the 1970s. I lived in California in the mid 70s and it was a magical time to have a childhood there.
I used to listen to this song when I was a kid and it would resonate with me.. even as a child. 40+ years later? its lifes illusions I recall. I really dont know life... at all.
+lambchopxoxo "but life... is for learning." I don't think we get the totality of the answer until we reach for the golden ring at the end of the ride. And even then, the answers are for we alone. Only the chosen few become enlightened and then get the opportunity to return and share that light with those still in the dark.
Back in the early 1960's my parents where returning from a weekend in Wasaga Beach when they stopped for gas near Orillia. The attendant asked if they could give his friend a lift to Toronto. Shy, polite kid with curly hair and a guitar case, A few years ĺatet they where watching the CBC when they saw the very same fellow singing on a variety show. Gordon Lightfoot.
@@jimzeleny7213 I was at his concert many years, and it started to rain. I was in the open area and he invited us to fill in the covered area. He was very polite. I imagine he could raise hell too though.
@@ronnieboucherthecrystalcraftsm The lack of culture ruined it, so don't blame the substances, blame us people. We just watched it happen and did nothing to stop it. I remember my mother's music collection, Nat King Cole, Johnny Mathis, Sammy Davis Jr., etc. Today's music just isn't very good, especially when compared to my mother's era I remember my parents going to the Latin Casino (South Jersey) to see the Jackson's when Michael was about 6 years old, my mother loved him.
@@ronnieboucherthecrystalcraftsm - and The Twin Curses of 'Digital Enhancement' and 'Digital Remastering' ... just as video killed the radio star so computer enginners are killing REAL MUSIC ! I for one am so very glad and grateful to have known 'The Real Thing'
When Joni is introduced, and gives us that beautiful big smile, i can't help but smile myself every time, and feel happy. What an amazing piece of music.x
The first time when I heard this song, I was 10 years old , I was watching " the wonder years show" with my dad, I loved it , even I couldn't understand cause I didn't know English, now , every time when I listen it make me back to this day, sitting watching this show with my loved dad who passed some years ago 🥺❤️ thanks for sharing 🙏🏻
And where on Earth will we ever again see such a concentration of musical talent in one place? Mama Cass, Joni Mitchell, and Mary Travers? Seriously? Top that, 2020!!!!!!!!!!
You won't see it on TV channels, that's for sure. There are nuggets on TH-cam... people like Carson McKee, Josh Turner, Billy Strings and others who are genuinely talented and worth supporting.
C Cr yeah but that was back when liberals were open minded and tolerant and estrogen producers didn’t blame men for everything. I still love Joni’s music and have utmost respect for her talent and originality. Also still love PP&Ms music.
Thats the shocking truth and i don't believe in too much crazy stuff but I believe people were here before and they're traveling through again. She's one.
What was so special about these times were the people who were still alive then: my wonderful grandparents, other relatives and friends gone, my amazing teachers, the neighborhood kids, the endless summer days, riding in the back of pick-ups, going to the movies every Saturday, the list goes on...this song helps capture some of that
I love this so much because I'm just learning to play guitar in my high school. And I feel like this is a whole different group of folk singers from the current ones I listen to. There is something so special and beautiful and raw about this era.. And I think it's so cute to see such influential women (especially Joni) chilling on a stage. :) so glad I'm performing this song this week.
+Oval Teen Good for you for recognizing the beauty of that era, because you're absolutely right: there was nothing like it. It was a time of experimentation and creativity, along with some incredible talent, the likes of which we've seen little of since. I hope your performance was moving, and satisfying. And the very best of luck with your growth on the guitar!
+Oval Teen You should search youtube for Heather Maloney. She is a wonderful singer and songwriter out of Western Mass, and Joni was a huge influence on her. Heather also did a cover of 'Woodstock' along with a band called Darlingside, also worth checking out. Good luck with your guitar playing!
+Oval Teen Joni Mitchell is one of a kind. Sadly, there won't be another Joni Mitchell. Good ol' songwriting and singer all in one. She did it on her terms. Good luck with your playing. Hope you can be like Joni Mitchell, on your terms and your style.
How much I love you Joni Mitchell.. I am 65... you have always been with me...love ladies of the canyons... like me in my hippy days..went to see you many times in concert...💟💟💟💟💟
Amazing to think of the "musical couples" in the canyon at that time. Stephen Stills and Judy Collins, Joni Mitchell and Graham Nash. Joni even hooked up with David Crosby for a time, in south Florida.
When a musician paints pictures in you mind and they open themselves up to you, the listener, it's truly moving! IDK why, but when I hear her music and voice as she tells her stories, brings tears to my eyes.
My step father just died of pancreatic cancer this evening and it was my wish that this was the last song he was able to listen to, I was too late and my heart is broken wide open. Joni is so wonderful
Joni makes it real. If you want the power of a song, go back to the source. People who cover somebody else's words are often unable to capture the power of a songwriter's words....unless the name of the one covering a song are "Jimi Hendrix" or "Elvis Presley"
i remember being in the back seat with my parent's in the front seats hearing Brown Sugar for the 1st time Jersey Shore in August 1969. And later (1973) hearing "really love your peaches wanna shake your tree" from "the joker" for the first time while driving home from my dad's childhood friend's house on River Road in Pennsauken, NJ. And I remember both events like it was yesterday.
It is beyond what I can comprehend how Joni wrote such a intrinsically meaningful song that most people would not understand until their elder years at such a young age...A gift from heaven she is.
James Dolan Amen! (JK!) But seriously, I honestly don't understand why any comment, anywhere, about almost anything, is usually followed almost immediately by JESUS or LIBERALS or CONSERVATIVES, all shouted out as if no one will otherwise notice. It seems to me that unless it is a video about religion or politics, then religion or politics should remain out of the conversation completely. I can understand someone, in their natural exuberance over something good, might type "God bless (so and so)," but other than that, we should be spared from others' religious or political rantings. I think that it is only fair, unless the perpetrators of such nonsense want contrary-minded people to their views doing the same to them, that all such comments should be avoided. Otherwise, those said "contrary-minded people" might go on those opinionated people's videos or postings, just to overwhelm them on their own posted materials with comments that are utterly contrary to what the opinionated people confess to believe. What is that about "turnabout is fair play"? I feel that it is petty and unethical, but there might not be any other way to punish the opinionated people for their unwanted and unwarranted opinions. It's called "fighting fire with fire."
What a time we live, click of a button, and all the greats of my teenage years at my fingertips: Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs, Simon and Garfunkel, Joan Baez, Procul Harum, Cat Stevens, James Taylor, Johnny Denver, Kate Bush, The Beatles, Cream, Jethro Tull, Pink Floyd, Frank Zappa. The list goes on and on and on.
Really like your taste, especially Tull and Cream. Add to that Buffalo Springfield, Aretha Franklin, Donovan, and the Stones. There was so much good music coming out then, in all genres, that you couldn't even keep up with it. Music was incredibly important to our generation. Now it seems like wallpaper. People have it on, like a TV they never turn off, but don't really listen to. On the other hand a year ago I taught high school, and a lot of the kids listened to oldies stations. They were especially into Pink Floyd. I was amazed when the whole class sang the song Hit the Road Jack. They knew the words. I think my favorite Joni Mitchell song is Woodstock.
I thought some other greats of that time were Jimi Hendrix, The Dramatics, Otis Redding, Aretha Franklin, Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, Al Green, Freda Payne, Brenda Holloway, the Chi Lites, Fontella Bass, The Temptations, Sly and the Family Stone, Dusty Springfield, Kim Weston, Bonnie Owens, Brenda Lee, Loretta Lynn, Buck Owens, Merle Haggard, Mary Wells, Irma Thomas, The Allman Brothers, James Brown, George Jones, Conway Twitty, Charlie Pride. The list goes on and on and on.
Why do I have to cry every time I hear this song? There has never been anything recorded more beautiful, sad, and thoughtful as this. The most underrated singer/songwriter of them all.
She is not underrated in my book … she is without peer as a female songwriter, singer, and musician … I love her music, especially the albums "Song To A Seagull", "Blue", and my all-time favorite, "For The Roses" … thank you for your love and sharing and talent Joni Mitchell!!!
I'm 22 and the last few years been discovering more of 60s-80s music - my mom used to play an 80s radio station when I was a kid so it's nostalgic to me. Recently discovered Joni's music and her music truly is so beautiful! Wish more people my generation listened to such wonderful music!
This is of historical interest and one of the most beautiful songs of that genre ever written. I saw it superbly performed in Canada by another Canadian - Judy Collins. Long may it be around for future generations to enjoy.
I think no song better sums up Joni's incredible body of work than this one, written all the way at the beginning when she was still in her early twenties and wise beyond on her years. What a profound and beautiful song, and perfect performance. It almost brings me to tears.
@@ldbenj so true, plus there was raunchy sexual and “non wholesome” music from this time as well. I really am irked by the attitude that things of the past were SO much better than they are now. Especially in regards to music.
@@damaracarpenter8316 People fixate on the music that was big when they were teenagers. Like people my age only listening to classic rock from the 70s.
Wow! Seeing these 3 legends on one stage at the same time! All 3 of these women had incredible voices and charisma for days. These kinds of performers will never be seen again, they were a product of the age. It's a pity so few young people even know who they are.
I've always wished I had the range to sing this properly. The contemplative words spilling out my throat feel so delicious and sweet. Something deep in my soul seems to be reaching out to heaven when I sing the verses. Such peace. Such beauty.
She was stunningly beautiful in every way. That said --> Voice range: from cigarette smoking. Poetic range: from a very hard, and via her own choices, kind of life. So there's that, too.
Never forgotten...this was my time. Beautiful memories from a bygone time that was perfect in every way. Looking back from August 2020 and sad we can't have this time back again. Pandemic..Covid 19 how sad our lives are forever changed. God gave us the best era ever xx
I've looked at many of the comments below, and most are touched by Joni Mitchell's beauty, lyrics and voice -- all of which are astonishing in a single package. However, almost no comments mention her guitar playing. Although her guitar playing is not flashy in this song, she took guitar tunings to a different universe and in the process became one of the all-time great guitar players. You get some of the droning quality of her unusual guitar tunings in this song -- and I mean that in a good way. My point is: Not only was she beautiful, had an amazing voice and wrote poetry and accessible melodies, she was also a goddess on guitar -- one of the all-time greats. If you find a list of the 100 all-time best guitarists, there's a good chance she's on that list.
she has unusual tunings because she contracted polio when she was young and it affected mobility in her fingers, so she had to create new tunings that her fingers could hold. You're right tho, she's absolutely sublime and this made her really innovative with harmonies and progressions because she wasn't using the standard tuning. Also, she's fantastic on piano and zither too.
Mama Cass!! Loved you since 1966! The best singer in the mamas and papas!! And probably all of pop music!! The girls of the 60s were awesome and beautiful ❤️👍
Oh how chilling. Joni Mitchell is such a unique artist. Just as unique as her friend James Taylor. What on Earth was in the water in the '60s and '70s? I think I'll be listening to her album Blue tonight. Thank you dear Joni. 🌱👏🌿
Watched her sing on the Grammys last night and was moved. I'm 70. To see an 80-year-old win Best Folk Album was wonderful!
Not to mention an 80-year old woman with a voice still so strong and solid. She seems as timeless as her music. ❤
@@nancyharrell8697 wanted to say the same - what a beautiful strong voice. I love this song and it makes me cry.
Thank you for your remark.
Does not say much for the future of folk music
She had a stroke months before she performed that I use to view Joni's concerts from the 80's and 90's She was the best 👍
I just saw a magical performance on the 2024 Grammy's. Joni Michell was amazing to listen to after all these decades gone by...
I started searching for elementary school friends. When I reached one, I said I can't believe we haven't spoken for 60 years. We were kids back then. I was looking for sanity and like-mindedness. That's why I'm listening to Joni.
I have loved this song from childhood and at 61 years old it's still perfect...
It just speaks volumes. Should everyone feel their heart touched. Just vocals and a plain stock 1969 wooden acoustic guitar.
So true
I'm a fellow Albertan, from just down the road, Coaldale.
Her lyrics ring true
She is fron Saskatchewan
@@jiwoonlee6636 she went to high school in Saskatoon
She does album covers also
Same
"The dizzy dancing way you feel." They weren't just illusions. This is one of the best songs ever written.
I really can't decide if I prefer this original version or the one she did in 2000, which slowed it down a lot. Her voice is purer, so to speak, here, but the depth of emotion and introspection comes out more in the later version
@@harveymanfredsenjenson5417 I fully agree. I can't decide either. Joni's mature voice packs an palpable emotional punch. I remember noticing the change when Turbulent Indigo came out. The verses played for the movie "Love Actually" would not have been so moving had they been from her youthful recordings -- beautiful as they are.
@@harveymanfredsenjenson5417 yes and the lower key where her voice sits in the later version so poignant and moving
Agree.
The lyrics are amazing aren’t they….
I was 15 when watching the original broadcast. Joni Mitchell kept me on my toes.
I am 70 now and there song has a new layer of life and meaning.
MeToo!!!
So sweet. I just turned 70 myself.
One of those songs where the lyrics grow more powerful the older you get. Beautiful…
Take me back..I was 10..Mom and Dad were alive..i was surrounded by friends..I was safe , loved. and wrapped in the magic of the time.
Oh my gosh. You described what I have been thinking recently. I wonder if many other people feel the same.
I was 12. Same.
So perfectly put
Lovely comment ,same memories I was 9
WoW, you have moved me I have nothing more to say. Spain.
When Mama Cass says "This is my friend Joni Mitchell, and this is my friend Mary Travers", it goes really deep. In the Laurel Canyon scene, Mama Cass was a true friend to so many people, and made so many introductions. If I recall correctly, she introduced Graham Nash to David Crosby and Stephen Stills. Without her, the world of music would have been a lot poorer. If only she were with us now.
Well...she will always be with us.. right...the fine arts ...music..poetry...art..film...if they are fine...they will never leave us ..they are etched into our hearts forever... just saying...
Eric Underwood class of 81 Downey High School California 👍
@Joe Devola whose the Marxist Pedophiles ....how do you come up with that ...you are assuming that Geographic areas are all nothing but evil? So therefore everything including the fine arts is Evil...
Brother you are lost!
I was born not far from Laurel Canyon...in a Los Angeles suburb...
A lot of great talent came from that area... don't you dare stereotype us all...You know what your saying...
Awesomness! Thanks
Apparently, visits at Mama Cass's home were legendary. All of Laurel Canyon came and went. Joni wrote, "Ladies of the Canyon," about her.
So does anyone know who is the 600-pound whale rolling around on the floor in the video? Who is this person?
Such an extraordinary song - 50 years later it and still incredibly moving.
100%
I am in tears listening to this.
Dave van Ronk did a cover, which Joni loved, that gets me every time: th-cam.com/video/KMhBdIu8gaI/w-d-xo.html
My favorite Joni song and god knows she has a lot of good ones...
@@joefriedman9843 Universal masterpieces by universal masters.
It's what our soul is longing for.
I’m 75 and this music is still the magic of the song. Peace and love still goes on. ✌️❤️
Me too - 75! And still loving Joni Mitchel!
Yup. We're still out here. We just went underground when Reagan and Gingrich took over.
@@joelstein4657 Oh FFS shut up...
@@ronfrey6639 I'd offer the same advice to you.
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Both Sides Now is one of the most perfect songs ever written.
Wow-just Wow, watching this after just watching her at 2024 Grammys. A special woman!!!
"This is my friend Joni Mitchell ,This is my friend Mary Travers ............and this is singing".................Says it all really.
NVery nce but wasit not and odd choice to have Mary Travers and Cass just sitting there? Director's choice, I suppose.
@@tornadojoegee I guess we're supposed to imagine what it would be like to have friends this talented sitting around in our living rooms playing music. If only...
Amen!!!!😀
I know, I know, I was like "HOLY FUCKBALLS, BATMAN!". Joni Mitchell, Cass Elliot, and Mary Travers on one stage. That's a shitload of talent.
Mama Cass was a special gal, in her own simple way.
She looks like an angel singing this beautiful song.
+Thomas Gill i was just thinking exactly the same thing
+Thomas Gill EXACTLY! joni mitchell was thee"angel queen" of california genius
+james knight
lol...Joni was Canadian, born and raised.
+james knight words and music
+Thomas Gill She is stunning. Every word to describe a beautiful woman fits her; stunning, striking, breathtaking, sexy, foxy, babe, cute, pretty, heart breaking, voluptuous, the list goes on. She takes a backseat to my X girlfriend Claudia Schiffer even.
She wrote this song when she was still so young... even she herself later said that she felt a bit out of place whenever sang it. She was wise beyond her years... Joni Mitchell, one of a kind.
Yes, she did. I agree, kinda awesome.
I think Joni wrote this song while she was reading a book at the time ( can't remember the book ) and took her inspiration from it.
Reminds me of how Jackson Browne wrote These Days as a teenager. How does someone so young write a line like "Don't confront me with my failures, I have not forgotten them"? Brilliant.
@@richardread8281 - Correct. The song was inspired by a passage in a book Joni was reading while on an airplane. The 1959 novel is called Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow. Per Wikipedia Joni had this to say about writing Both Sides Now: "I was reading on a plane and early in the book the protagonist Henderson is also up in a plane. He's on his way to Africa and he looks down and sees these clouds. I put down the book, looked out the window and saw clouds too and I immediately started writing the song. I had no idea that the song would become as popular as it did."
th-cam.com/video/aCnf46boC3I/w-d-xo.html
I was 21 in 69.. and still listening.. . Flower Power
It's a very powerful song.. two sides to every story
I was 13 in 1969, and this song is still one of my favourites after all of these years.
One of the most beautiful songs I’ve ever heard. What a talented artist.
Look up Sally Barker's performance of this song. It's also really beautiful. :)
@@cirrus8791 Or Randy Scruggs version circle be unbroken.. Quite something..
Starman 2112 I listened to this at different age by Joni, all so different, she grew with this song xx
@@cirrus8791 Judy Collins is too.
Who’s listening in 2024
I listened to this right after Joni’s performance on the Grammys.
2024 and still showing how it is done.
I'm listening and I was born this Mama Cass show was broadcast 🎩
My mother watched this. She loved Joni and always watched Mama Cass. No wonder I was a huge fan of hers and the storytellers of the 70s, Carole King, Jim Croche, Harry Chapin, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, and Carly Simon to name a few.
During times of chaos and insanity, I needed this. I looked for it after watching her sing on the 2024 Grammys twice. Meryl Streep and her daughter were in the audience. I think you may want to ask a tearful Streep daughter, why she was in tears (as we were). Transports us back to better times.
I was lucky enough to see Joni sing this song at the Anaheim Convention center in 1973 with someone I love. As we were leaving someone said "this is where she'll go to catch her limo".No one believed them but we stood and waited anyway and sure enough in a few minutes Joni appeared and stopped to greet her faithful fans. A moment I'll never forget.
Oh, how wonderful. 😊
When one gets to be my age (almost 70), he begins to recognize the truth of these lyrics. There's a sadness for opportunities missed, but also gratefulness for having survived and persevered in this thing called life.
I’m 44 and already starting to feel that...
Same here at 52. We have to learn to accept the good and bad decisions we make in life. This song has touched me most of my life.
This song was really meant to be sung by an older woman with lots of life and years under her belt!
Well said!
Sir, you explained my feeling towards this song so well and I'm only 27. wish you a great life.
Just saw her beautiful performance of this song tonite on The Grammy's ~ 2024❣️
Me too. Brought me to tears.
He was so dignified and poised and sounded amazing 👏 👏👏👏❤⭐
Joni, You had us at "...moons and June's and Ferris wheels..." Such a voice. Such a great poet. Thank you.
Minor correction Junes, not June's. Means several years.
Not only is the melody incredible but her RHYTHM is literally perfect. What a pleasure to watch X
She perfected phrasing
Magical voice, it’s still mesmerizing to hear again years later. Yes! As a guitar player I love her rhythm. Unique and spot on. Wonderful!
This song always makes me cry. Every time.
Scott McGillivray I'm with you. Every time. That's because you are listening to one of the true genius musicians of our lifetime. The emotional connection is real because her use of her poetry blends perfectly with her music and of course with her incredible voice. If you lose yourself in her words you find the joy, confusion, pain and mystery of life. Her writing and music are so soulfully raw and transparent. Raw, yet so beautifully refined. And this is just one song. Nobody in popular music in years has come close to writing one song at this level of inspired musicianship. And she's written MANY songs of this greatness. I don't think most people realize just how incredible Joni Mitchell is.
Robert Mayer You said everything about Joni that needs to be said.
Robert Mayer wasn't she special!
Scott McGillivray me too!!! every time
Scott McGillivray me too; you aren't alone Joni was my hero right from the first time I heard that incredibly beautiful voice. Okay, so I was a little envious that she could hit notes I couldn't reach with a ladder.... but Joni just had such a wonderful vocal range & in all these years I've yet to hear a voice I loved as much as hers.
I've never seen this clip before so I watched Mama Cass introduce her friend. The goosebumps started instantly the lump in the throat after 30 seconds the tears after a minute. I'm a 57 year old man and not much moves me these days but this did.
Echo. Same here.
I understand, me too. 💕
Ditto buddy....57 too
Ditto again n I’m 60.
Me too, man. Me too.
Amazing to think that in these early days, Joni had only just begun her voyage of genius. Hard to believe that Hejira, Court and Spark and the rest of her wonderful catalogue were still inside this beautiful woman's mind. Or perhaps we knew, right from the start, that we would be embarking on a life long journey with one of the truly great poets of our time.
What a lovely and poetic comment.
Wonderful poet
We knew ...
Listening in 2023! Always have been, always will be! Joni has the voice of an angel and her songs are incredible! This one and Case of You have to be my favorites!!
Her face is beautiful.
Her voice is a beautiful
Her songs are beautiful
She is one of the most talented songwriters and singers that ever lived but she is so underrated .
She's underrated? Or just not a pop princess?
She’s not underrated. We all acknowledge her brilliance. We’re all in awe of her brilliance. There’s Joni, then there’s everyone else.
As all these years race by, Joni's songwriting is indelible. Just relevant to the heart as ever.
only underrated by [ep[;e who gauges in the temperament of ignorance and lack of knowledge of music.
@@howbalt I would absolutely place Kate Bush right alongside Joni. They are the two pillars.
There is a transcendence and a purity of her form of art. Her voice was angelic and could span registers, she wrote sublime poetry. Music like this elevates the soul and that is what makes it art.
Nicely worded, thank you. I like the word transcendent...
Yep, also, she was in "D" Tuning,, the timing for anybody else would have been a nightmare.
She was also stunningly beautiful...
75350v8 Yes she was! I wonder how tall she is. Google is my friend, right?
I wish I could write like you.
This gives me chills. Incredible. The 60's were a magic vortex opening up, in time, just for a moment. There will never be a period of creativity like it, again.
"Hey man! Do me a solid."
We, meaning us hippies, said this in the 1960's/1970's. Do you know what that means?
@@zyxw2024 Of course! I've been the recipient of many solids! I try to pay it forward too ... the universe gives you back, exactly what you put in to it. Give solids, get solids. Karma is real ☮️
You nailed it!
Yes. We won’t live throughout this again The music
The 70s too, if you were living in the right place. Anyone living in Denton, a small college town in Texas, will know exactly what I mean. All the gays from Dallas, all the shit kickers from Fort Worth, one of the top jazz schools in the country with music everywhere, the most amazing and creative conceptual artists, students streaking through campus day and night, and it was the center for drugs in the entire country. What a crazy menagerie! Definitely a glitch in the matrix.
All 3 ladies are American icons ! Thank you for sharing your musical genius with us !
Joni is Canadian
I don't know how I managed in my almost 53 years on this earth to miss such a truthful, wise beyond measure and utterly beautiful song....I am now just grateful I finally found it....I too really don't know life, at all
Better later than never, it's tricky to keep up with current music when you're still in utero. ;-)
I'm grateful to be able to easily watch recordings of performances such as this that I didn't have access to half a century ago!
Me neither!
Joni's got the voice of an angel. Makes me proud to be Canadian. Timeless song.
@Greg Jacques The world needs more Canada.
And the Tim Horton's coffee is great too... I can watch Joni and put in my TH K-cup and have a mellow time.
Me 2
Beyond words to express my felling for her.❤
Met Anne Murray's parents in Nova Scotia where I lived. Very friendly and wanting to hear other's stories. Canadians are great people. I'm from Mississippi.
I remember the hit Judy Collins had with this and always thought she sang it beautifully. Then, I heard Joni sing it on the Johnny Cash Show and was totally blown away. I can't describe how this song makes me feel.
Me, too. Judy did a beautiful job of it, too. I understand Joni wrote it as a reply to Sugar Mountain. I'm not sure its true or not, but it seems as if it could be.
That would make perfect sense.
apparently it is she was friends with fellow Canadian Neil Young who was depressed for turning 20
Tara Greene she wrote "Circle Game for Neil---after he wrote "Sugar Mountain "
james geiger I love both Joni and Judy’s renditions.
Beautiful, poetic lyrics and a crystal clear, pleasant voice. Joni is considered a legend for a reason, she is one. Beautiful poetic songwriting and an amazingly nice voice 💛
Those were the greatest days ever, you would had to be there to understand how golden those days were.
for us gen xers the 80s were our golden days
It's a very powerful song
Three giants of folk/pop on one stage. Music's version of heaven.
Child troll. Go to sleep now and stay off mummy's computer. Nighty night...zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
true talent only appears with true talent . jeff i agree with you, none of these artists needed to appear with lesser talents.
childhood memories looking back in time and hearing great songs like this keeps your mind forever Young.
Two giants of folk/pop on one stage, and one giant imposter.
My wife says, you couldn't get better than this. So wonderfully talented women on the stage. This was when we could hear the words of songs, and artists could write, and play a musical instrument !
My childhood summarized in a beautiful song..............ice cream castles in the air takes me back to that magical time in life. After loosing lost loved ones I can still go back to this song and think of all the wonderful a simple time.........
I love my Mom. She was 39 when this song came out. It was her favorite song. God, i miss you Mom. 🙏🙄
I lost my Mom, my Dad, my 3 brothers, 2 sisters, 4 help including the cook, 2 visiting neighbors and 5 different pets - all in a devastating grade fire. They all loved Joni Mitchell.
My god, I love them all...
Such beautiful tone & vibrato, head voice & transition into chest, with such beauty in lower register. Some of her songs, like this one, pull my heart out & give me chills.
She plays good acoustic guitar as well.
My grade 12 English teacher taught me this song and the underlining meaning of the song. Time flies and I will turn 65 in September....still love this song and certainly hope my English teacher Miss Hung still alive a well.
I'm 65 now and still remember Miss Booth in Freshman English listening to the poetry of Simon and Garfunkel. She was young and so were we........I can feel myself in the classroom with her heartfelt enthusiasm for the words. We were fortunate to have these teachers King Sole.
2022 crying because it was a dream song many yrs ago and I had to ask my cousin. I said the cloud song and sang it. And she said oh. Joni Mitchell. Ohhhh yeah. I don't see any family anymore. My angels guide me instead
Doesn't get much better than this. What a heart song. She had the magic.
+Scott Carlson You're so right. I would loved to have seen her live. I doubt she'll tour again. A flawless artist. XXX
I saw her live in 1974 in South Bend Indiana. She had made a bet with one of her tour men that Notre Dame would beat UCLA and Bill Walton, to support the underdog. ND did beat UCLA ending their 88 game winning streak, which made her even more of a favorite with the crowd, although she had my heart for many years beforehand. She was beautiful, musically perfect, winning, and wonderful and after over 40 years I remember her coming on stage like it was yesterday. Here's to you, Joni, the best of the best.
try hard to not be a dumb moron Tom Dilbert, try hard
He's just an 11 year old troll who grabbed a hold of mummy's iPad. Pay him no heed.
At 76, I grew up listening to the incredible music of Joni. A music track to my life.
The 2024 Grammys brought me here ...... listening from Oak Cliff, TX ❤
I saw this in 1969 and now again in 2024. Love these ladies forever. 👏🏽💙✌🏽
I absolutely love this human being, she is amazing. A great artist this has true depth, a great voice and something to say to the world. It’s a pleasure to live in the same world has Joni.
Beautiful lyrics and melody..a voice with such a range..The days of singer songwriters like Joni Mitchell John Denver Gordon Lightfoot are gone..But I still get goosebumps listening to them.
Gordon's still alive. He played Massey Hall last month.
Indeed, goosebumps. Still. However, I don't believe the days of singer/songwriters/performers are over, only that they're less likely to break through to a wider audience and at my age I just don't seem to have the motivation to search out unique new talent from obscure sources (kind of like the law of diminishing returns, with all the amazing innovation over prior decades getting harder to equal, and a limit on how much you can keep previous innovations fresh).
We old geezers, as we are now, weren't wrong about these beautiful ladies. Joni was adorable and so gifted.
We use to be children of the 60s.What great music we were brought up on
Who's the 600-pound whale rolling around on the floor?
Nearly a thousand have recorded negative comments.........what planet are these people on !!??.... Joni is an amazing artist and this song is hers.......
Apparently u read them all...what planet r u from
Joni Mitchell. Such a gem. This version of Both Sides Now goes straight to the heart.
I must really go back to an earlier time, 1969 or so, in the backyard of home, hanging clothes on the line to dry, I remember singing this song as I did my chore. It was one of my favorite songs. I would imagine having my own guitar one day to play and sing it with. Part 1-Both Sides Now, Cindy Lynn ❤️
Hello dear,how are you doing,how is the weather today?
First time I've ever heard this song. It is so beautiful. Her voice is also beautiful. I need to start listening to her music.
Samara Shelp Be prepared for a lifetime love. Like 3 years constantly listening- approximaately ----
I hope you do....she really changed my life....really thoughtful ,wonderful and sad songs that are so true. I started listening her in 1969......so that makes me a younger than Joni.......er i was 14.
Yeah. I'm only 20. But she is great. Defiantly a legend and truly talented. Wish I could write songs like her.
Samara Shelp This song was a hit for another singer named Judy Collins. You might enjoy her recording of it, especially the "hit version" on TH-cam. If you watch Mad Men, this song was the closing for "In Care of" - season 6, episode 13. As noted by another commenter below, it's got a "happier" sound, though even as a little kid it made me sad, so I think the melancholy come through in both versions. Love them both.
Tracymmo Nah. The one who wrote it sounds the best. There is a reason for it working that way.
How does anything that beautiful ever manage to exist in this old dirt world?
It would struggle now, but that was why some of us adored the 1970s. I lived in California in the mid 70s and it was a magical time to have a childhood there.
This song was on the air in the 1960's. The pilot show was recorded in 1969 but her song came out prior to this recording.
the world is, and always has been beautiful. joni mitchell's music is just that much more beautiful than the rest of it all
Well I guess not all the world is dirt and concrete.
There is love in the world, but it's hard to find.
Amazing, no effects, no computerized garbage, pure music. thanks Joni..... : )
Simply talent..no need to strip off and act like a porn star.
I loved the record but she seems to sound even better here
Yep so true
The way that Joni smiled when she was introduced melted my heart.
Is it just me or does music like this make you long for days gone by...
Yes it certainly does ❤️
no it doesn't there's still beautiful music being made today. But it does remind me of my youth
You aren't alone in that longing …
Yes indeed Brian, powerfully so...
I'm 45 and cry every time I hear it.
I used to listen to this song when I was a kid and it would resonate with me.. even as a child. 40+ years later? its lifes illusions I recall. I really dont know life... at all.
+lambchopxoxo "but life... is for learning." I don't think we get the totality of the answer until we reach for the golden ring at the end of the ride. And even then, the answers are for we alone. Only the chosen few become enlightened and then get the opportunity to return and share that light with those still in the dark.
Back in the early 1960's my parents where returning from a weekend in Wasaga Beach when they stopped for gas near Orillia. The attendant asked if they could give his friend a lift to Toronto. Shy, polite kid with curly hair and a guitar case, A few years ĺatet they where watching the CBC when they saw the very same fellow singing on a variety show. Gordon Lightfoot.
...the GREAT Gordon Lightfoot
Shy and polite?
@@jimzeleny7213 I was at his concert many years, and it started to rain. I was in the open area and he invited us to fill in the covered area. He was very polite. I imagine he could raise hell too though.
Wasaga Beach ... on Georgian Bay. Great place in the summer.
And Gordon too is great.
Came here from the Grammys. This is THE song.
So did I😊
Me too. Just magical.
It is hard to imagine that there was a time when music was this beautiful.
kenmtb -- = well said the drug culture has taken the heart of music to a dark place = can we bring it back to a brighter place = i am trying.
@@ronnieboucherthecrystalcraftsm The lack of culture ruined it, so don't blame the substances, blame us people. We just watched it happen and did nothing to stop it. I remember my mother's music collection, Nat King Cole, Johnny Mathis, Sammy Davis Jr., etc. Today's music just isn't very good, especially when compared to my mother's era I remember my parents going to the Latin Casino (South Jersey) to see the Jackson's when Michael was about 6 years old, my mother loved him.
The music was beautiful but times were crazy then, as crazy as now or more.
@@ronnieboucherthecrystalcraftsm - and The Twin Curses of 'Digital Enhancement' and 'Digital Remastering' ... just as video killed the radio star so computer enginners are killing REAL MUSIC !
I for one am so very glad and grateful to have known 'The Real Thing'
I am happy that i was a teenager in the 70ths. They even brought music like this in radio every day.
Has to be one of the finest songs ever written. Always makes me cry.
When Joni is introduced, and gives us that beautiful big smile, i can't help but smile myself every time, and feel happy. What an amazing piece of music.x
The first time when I heard this song, I was 10 years old , I was watching " the wonder years show" with my dad, I loved it , even I couldn't understand cause I didn't know English, now , every time when I listen it make me back to this day, sitting watching this show with my loved dad who passed some years ago 🥺❤️ thanks for sharing 🙏🏻
And where on Earth will we ever again see such a concentration of musical talent in one place? Mama Cass, Joni Mitchell, and Mary Travers? Seriously? Top that, 2020!!!!!!!!!!
exactly!
You won't see it on TV channels, that's for sure. There are nuggets on TH-cam... people like Carson McKee, Josh Turner, Billy Strings and others who are genuinely talented and worth supporting.
A little too much liberal estrogen on that stage for me.
But about niki minaj?!!
C Cr yeah but that was back when liberals were open minded and tolerant and estrogen producers didn’t blame men for everything. I still love Joni’s music and have utmost respect for her talent and originality. Also still love PP&Ms music.
Joni wrote it when she was only 25 years old. Such a depth of understanding about life and yet sophisticated maturity.
Great point. She wrote from a depth of understanding and feeling that most people twice her age could not grasp.
So very true. Same thing amazes me about Lennon and McCartney. Writing Eleanor Rigby, Yesterday, Help! at 24/25?? Amazing.
Thats the shocking truth and i don't believe in too much crazy stuff but I believe people were here before and they're traveling through again. She's one.
@@timothyslaughter476 You must be smoking some grade A ganja.
She makes it look so effortless, from her playing to her singing, yet she is brilliant beyond words. What a profound talent.
Just hearing the way Mama Cass said "this is my FRIEND" about Mitchell made me tear up
What was so special about these times were the people who were still alive then: my wonderful grandparents, other relatives and friends gone, my amazing teachers, the neighborhood kids, the endless summer days, riding in the back of pick-ups, going to the movies every Saturday, the list goes on...this song helps capture some of that
Beautiful words
I love this so much because I'm just learning to play guitar in my high school. And I feel like this is a whole different group of folk singers from the current ones I listen to. There is something so special and beautiful and raw about this era.. And I think it's so cute to see such influential women (especially Joni) chilling on a stage. :) so glad I'm performing this song this week.
+Oval Teen Good for you for recognizing the beauty of that era, because you're absolutely right: there was nothing like it. It was a time of experimentation and creativity, along with some incredible talent, the likes of which we've seen little of since. I hope your performance was moving, and satisfying. And the very best of luck with your growth on the guitar!
+Oval Teen You should search youtube for Heather Maloney. She is a wonderful singer and songwriter out of Western Mass, and Joni was a huge influence on her. Heather also did a cover of 'Woodstock' along with a band called Darlingside, also worth checking out. Good luck with your guitar playing!
+Oval Teen Joni Mitchell is one of a kind. Sadly, there won't be another Joni Mitchell. Good ol' songwriting and singer all in one. She did it on her terms. Good luck with your playing. Hope you can be like Joni Mitchell, on your terms and your style.
Steven Baker
Thanks, man. She's quite the inspiration.
Good for you & love your name! I used to drink Oviltine in the 60s or 70s.
How much I love you Joni Mitchell.. I am 65... you have always been with me...love ladies of the canyons... like me in my hippy days..went to see you many times in concert...💟💟💟💟💟
Amazing to think of the "musical couples" in the canyon at that time. Stephen Stills and Judy Collins, Joni Mitchell and Graham Nash. Joni even hooked up with David Crosby for a time, in south Florida.
When a musician paints pictures in you mind and they open themselves up to you, the listener, it's truly moving!
IDK why, but when I hear her music and voice as she tells her stories, brings tears to my eyes.
Me too! The song touches the soul and mind. So beautiful!!
The true mark of a singer is the live performance. No flashy add ons. Joni’s voice was a true gift - to us!
live my ass, you are deaf and blind
My step father just died of pancreatic cancer this evening and it was my wish that this was the last song he was able to listen to, I was too late and my heart is broken wide open. Joni is so wonderful
So sorry. I hope he is well where he is now.
@@cf7697 Thanks so much
TB, depending on your beliefs, you could still play it for him, and send his spirit some love....so sorry for your loss.
Same thing took my dad.
I wish I’d played music for him.
Broken though it may be, you have a good heart T B. Blessings on you.
This song makes me cry for some reasons that I dont know. It touches my heart for real!
Joni makes it real. If you want the power of a song, go back to the source. People who cover somebody else's words are often unable to capture the power of a songwriter's words....unless the name of the one covering a song are "Jimi Hendrix" or "Elvis Presley"
I love this song, I'm 59 now and it still touches my heart x
Take me back to these times in my moms station wagon, traveling down Main Street, listening to this amazing music.
i remember being in the back seat with my parent's in the front seats hearing Brown Sugar for the 1st time Jersey Shore in August 1969. And later (1973) hearing "really love your peaches wanna shake your tree" from "the joker" for the first time while driving home from my dad's childhood friend's house on River Road in Pennsauken, NJ. And I remember both events like it was yesterday.
It is beyond what I can comprehend how Joni wrote such a intrinsically meaningful song that most people would not understand until their elder years at such a young age...A gift from heaven she is.
And when she sang it at her own tribute it was a thousands times more intense and beautiful. Amazing.
So true, I cry thinking & hearing, feeling this song. So beautiful, so true..
True. It's only really meant anything to me in my 50s, and become so true. She was wise beyond her years .
At 80 I agree.
@@Tallinheels Me too (at 82).
Just lovely. God bless her. Her album Blue is a masterpiece.
Skill Builder peace c70s.johnny from Miami
Skill Builder women are to be loved and cherished as God Jesus Christ himself has made them exalted above all things .
Skill Builder beloved if the living lord God Almighty
Maximus Vetti Why is it always a taste of controversy like God. Why is not a beautiful song, by a beautiful poetic woman. Is that not enough.
James Dolan Amen! (JK!) But seriously, I honestly don't understand why any comment, anywhere, about almost anything, is usually followed almost immediately by JESUS or LIBERALS or CONSERVATIVES, all shouted out as if no one will otherwise notice. It seems to me that unless it is a video about religion or politics, then religion or politics should remain out of the conversation completely. I can understand someone, in their natural exuberance over something good, might type "God bless (so and so)," but other than that, we should be spared from others' religious or political rantings. I think that it is only fair, unless the perpetrators of such nonsense want contrary-minded people to their views doing the same to them, that all such comments should be avoided. Otherwise, those said "contrary-minded people" might go on those opinionated people's videos or postings, just to overwhelm them on their own posted materials with comments that are utterly contrary to what the opinionated people confess to believe. What is that about "turnabout is fair play"? I feel that it is petty and unethical, but there might not be any other way to punish the opinionated people for their unwanted and unwarranted opinions. It's called "fighting fire with fire."
I was 10 yrs old in 69 and was already head over heels in love with Joni and her music!
What a time we live, click of a button, and all the greats of my teenage years at my fingertips: Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs, Simon and Garfunkel, Joan Baez, Procul Harum, Cat Stevens, James Taylor, Johnny Denver, Kate Bush, The Beatles, Cream, Jethro Tull, Pink Floyd, Frank Zappa. The list goes on and on and on.
Really like your taste, especially Tull and Cream. Add to that Buffalo Springfield, Aretha Franklin, Donovan, and the Stones. There was so much good music coming out then, in all genres, that you couldn't even keep up with it. Music was incredibly important to our generation. Now it seems like wallpaper. People have it on, like a TV they never turn off, but don't really listen to. On the other hand a year ago I taught high school, and a lot of the kids listened to oldies stations. They were especially into Pink Floyd. I was amazed when the whole class sang the song Hit the Road Jack. They knew the words. I think my favorite Joni Mitchell song is Woodstock.
I find myself on Spotify going straight to the lists of Vietnam War Music, Legendary, 60's Classics, 70's Rock. Love all your suggestions.
@@steveneardley7541 Of course. DONOVAN! 'Catch the wind'
I like all of them, I would add to the list Nick Drake, Gene Clark, Townes Van Zandt, John Martyn and Donovan
I thought some other greats of that time were Jimi Hendrix, The Dramatics, Otis Redding, Aretha Franklin, Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, Al Green, Freda Payne, Brenda Holloway, the Chi Lites, Fontella Bass, The Temptations, Sly and the Family Stone, Dusty Springfield, Kim Weston, Bonnie Owens, Brenda Lee, Loretta Lynn, Buck Owens, Merle Haggard, Mary Wells, Irma Thomas, The Allman Brothers, James Brown, George Jones, Conway Twitty, Charlie Pride. The list goes on and on and on.
Why do I have to cry every time I hear this song? There has never been anything recorded more beautiful, sad, and thoughtful as this. The most underrated singer/songwriter of them all.
Underrated... for a reason!
She is not underrated in my book … she is without peer as a female songwriter, singer, and musician … I love her music, especially the albums "Song To A Seagull", "Blue", and my all-time favorite, "For The Roses" … thank you for your love and sharing and talent Joni Mitchell!!!
It's so beautiful that it breaks your heart. That's why.
I'm 22 and the last few years been discovering more of 60s-80s music - my mom used to play an 80s radio station when I was a kid so it's nostalgic to me. Recently discovered Joni's music and her music truly is so beautiful! Wish more people my generation listened to such wonderful music!
This is of historical interest and one of the most beautiful songs of that genre ever written. I saw it superbly performed in Canada by another Canadian - Judy Collins. Long may it be around for future generations to enjoy.
i'm just 58 , from hong kong, and i like this song very much.
I think no song better sums up Joni's incredible body of work than this one, written all the way at the beginning when she was still in her early twenties and wise beyond on her years. What a profound and beautiful song, and perfect performance. It almost brings me to tears.
Nicely said.
@@stockvaluedotcom Joni's body really wasn't that incredible.Too skinny.
@@melaniecotterell9972 She had polio as a child, go easy Melanie.
@@melaniecotterell9972 So how many kilos are you, Melanie?
I whole-heartedly agree, Dapper Dave. I've always loved this song. Planning to learn to hopefully play it on Flute.
My teacher taught me the meaning of this song when I was 18....I am now 63; it still make sense; love the song!
So beautiful, what an incredible talent, her voice is angelic, such a great time to be musician.
Beautiful! From a time when music was wholesome. 💕
And awesome.....
And there was real talent! No processing or technical effects needed.
It still is, you just need to know where to find it.
@@ldbenj so true, plus there was raunchy sexual and “non wholesome” music from this time as well. I really am irked by the attitude that things of the past were SO much better than they are now. Especially in regards to music.
@@damaracarpenter8316 People fixate on the music that was big when they were teenagers. Like people my age only listening to classic rock from the 70s.
I love the way Joni's voice modulates - effortlessly and creatively. Never tire of her performances.
A voice like that, a guitar sound that magical, and one of the best lyricists in English.
Wow! Seeing these 3 legends on one stage at the same time!
All 3 of these women had incredible voices and charisma for days.
These kinds of performers will never be seen again, they were a product of the age. It's a pity so few young people even know who they are.
I've always wished I had the range to sing this properly. The contemplative words spilling out my throat feel so delicious and sweet. Something deep in my soul seems to be reaching out to heaven when I sing the verses. Such peace. Such beauty.
She was stunningly beautiful in every way. That said --> Voice range: from cigarette smoking. Poetic range: from a very hard, and via her own choices, kind of life. So there's that, too.
Never forgotten...this was my time. Beautiful memories from a bygone time that was perfect in every way. Looking back from August 2020 and sad we can't have this time back again. Pandemic..Covid 19 how sad our lives are forever changed. God gave us the best era ever xx
I've looked at many of the comments below, and most are touched by Joni Mitchell's beauty, lyrics and voice -- all of which are astonishing in a single package. However, almost no comments mention her guitar playing. Although her guitar playing is not flashy in this song, she took guitar tunings to a different universe and in the process became one of the all-time great guitar players. You get some of the droning quality of her unusual guitar tunings in this song -- and I mean that in a good way.
My point is: Not only was she beautiful, had an amazing voice and wrote poetry and accessible melodies, she was also a goddess on guitar -- one of the all-time greats. If you find a list of the 100 all-time best guitarists, there's a good chance she's on that list.
You are spot on Bob, Joni's guitar playing is on par with Neil Young here, and I'm a big Neil fan.
She's just an all around genius. Have you seen her paintings? Sure you have, they're her album covers...
I loved that guitar sound at the first note!!!
she has unusual tunings because she contracted polio when she was young and it affected mobility in her fingers, so she had to create new tunings that her fingers could hold. You're right tho, she's absolutely sublime and this made her really innovative with harmonies and progressions because she wasn't using the standard tuning.
Also, she's fantastic on piano and zither too.
Yes but do you know why she played that way?
Mama Cass!! Loved you since 1966! The best singer in the mamas and papas!! And probably all of pop music!! The girls of the 60s were awesome and beautiful ❤️👍
Music is at it's most sublime when it moves your heart and touches your soul. This song is one of those it is timeless and immortal
50 years on and still one of the greatest songs ever written.
It was recently named the best Canadian song ever!!! So proud she's my cousin!!🖤🖤
Oh how chilling. Joni Mitchell is such a unique artist. Just as unique as her friend James Taylor. What on Earth was in the water in the '60s and '70s?
I think I'll be listening to her album Blue tonight.
Thank you dear Joni.
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Beautiful voice. I'll be listening over and over. It makes me feel young again.