Joni Mitchell - Both Sides Now (REACTION
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- @AirplayBeats reacts to Joni Mitchell - Both Sides Now
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this is one of the great songs of all time. listen to the first version then go to the performance with joni as the mature artist. her performance is stunning.
100%. This song hits me in the gut every time I hear it -- both versions. But when you hear it from an older woman. one who has really lived life --- it's especially powerful.
This is exactly what I was going to write. The younger version is great- but the perspective of her an an older woman who has experienced life with all it's ups and downs is just so much more poignant and meaningful.
“Love in her eyes,flowers in her hair”
Going to California
Robert Plant.
*_To find a queen without a king_*
*_They say she plays guitar and cries and sings....La la la lah_*
Gents, you made mention of the crowd not "reacting". They weren't bored nor disenchanted. Believe it or not, it was a sign of respect for concert goers not to interrupt a performance but to pay attention. They were mesmerized, hanging on every word, every note Joni was playing. Just like when you go to a classical concert, or an opera, the audience waits till the song is complete the you give your applause and adoration. It was called concert etiquette... ❤
Yea Che was talking about the crowd not responding but I was upset that the lady wasn’t paying attention to Joni. 😂
@@AirplayBeats Jackie Evancho does a beautiful cover of this masterpiece.
There's always someone in the audience that doesn't want to be there. They're just there to make someone happy. It always upsets me when I you can't hear the first lines of a song because the audience is clapping or yelling
They’ve obviously never been to a folk club, nobody can enter or leave the room while a song is playing.
It's not a song you jump around to or clap and whistle. You sit and listen and get into the music. Times were different then.
Now you have to hear Joni singing this 40 years later in her deep alto with jazz musicians. It’s waaaaay more meaningful and hits HARD.
Are you talking about the Grammys performance? That version of this song destroys me every time
@@idiggraves94She recorded a version with an orchestra backing her up in the early 2000's that's the intermediate stop between this performance and her Grammy performance, which was achingly powerful.
She is amazing
Pure Artistry on display/
Nice reaction. Joni was a genius songwriter.
Prince named The Time's 1984 album "Ice Cream Castles" which is in the 2nd line of this song: "And ice cream castles in the air." He was infatuated with Joni. 💜🤙🏻
❤Joni❤
Pure genius.
One of the greats!
An old soul, for sure.
You really should watch her doing this song in her 60s. It's awesome
Beautiful.
....running thru the field......freedom
What a poet..what a musician..what a performer..thanks, men.
Hi La and Che… a beautiful girl with just a guitar and an amazing voice… no skimping clothes no back up dancers … simple and beautiful… this song will be played at my funeral when I die…
I couldn’t agree more; I was listening to her words as well and it made me feel that another kind of life is possible.
Amazingly, she wrote this song when she was about 19. She re-recorded it when she was in her 60s, and it’s phenomenal. You should react to it at some point. The weight of years and experience reflect in her voice, raising it to a whole new level.
What a voice.
This year's Grammy version of this song is astonishing. She also did an orchestral version as an older woman about 10 years ago. She truly understands how wise these words are, and how different the lyrics hit when sung by a wise old 80 year old stroke survivor at the Grammy's...just amazing.
Nice Hendrix shirt!!
"Woodstock" live on piano and "For Free" are a must .
Joni is/was just absolutely amazing
Her live recording of her song California is a must-see. It's her playing the dulcimer.
Pure beautiful love you Guys
Joni is always a great listen. Thanks guys!
Joni is who Robert Plant was alluding to in Zeppelin's song Going To California - Someone told me there's a girl out there with love in her eyes & flowers in her hair. Joni produced so many great hits, this one being the top one for me. Thanks for another great reaction guys!
If I remember right, it was the well-known Judy Collins who first introduced us all to the song and the incredible Canadian artist who wrote it. Joni followed along a year later with her first lp produced by David Crosby. She already had a good reputation as a songwriter among the folkie crowd, but her ability as a singer was soon apparent to all. Her self-taught guitar tuning technique is legendary among guitarists.
One guitar + the voice of an angel, my cup runneth over. Gentlemen, you've just gotta do Amelia ( with Pat Metheny ) or Hejira. You guys are like a pair of carriage horses, you work so well together. Led Zep - The Dan - Joni. Love them all. Thanks !
Great remarks about her lyrics. They do give you a way out.
Say Hey AB, Joni was tops. As for the crowd reaction, you have only to look at yourselves. You were just as mesmerized as the people in that audience. And rightly so. She just sounds amazing.
The tradition of folksingers started around campfires and in coffeehouses. The music explosion of the 60's brought this 'quiet' music to a much larger audience. I saw JM play to 15,000 people. People tried to keep quiet because a single performer can get swallowed up pretty easily by a noisy crowd. Meanwhile, I loved your thoughtful reaction to one of the greatest singer-songwriters.
She came up with songs like this at such a young age - and you can listen to her sing it as she got older, including at this year's Grammy's, and her delivery hits you in a different way.
yes, this! ^ amazing she wrote this so young, like she was so much wiser and insightful beyond her years. And the poignancy of her doing that song NOW. wow
Perfect song/poem by the Great Joni
Thanks for doing this. One of the great pop songs of all-time. So many great versions of it, although Joni's is special. Glen Campbell did another brilliant rendition of it.
The older I get, the more I understand this song....I'm 61, now.
Oh, and it's pronounce "Joe-nee"
Here are some of my favorites by Joni Mitchell: "A Case of You," "In France They Kiss on Main Street," "Chelsea Morning," "Night in the City," "Don't Interrupt the Sorrow," "Turbulent Indigo," "Real Good for Free," "Big Yellow Taxi," "Free Man in Paris," "You Turn Me on, I'm a Radio," "Two Gray Rooms," "Shades of Scarlet Conquering," "Cold Blue Steel and Sweet Fire," "All I Want," "Blue," and "Carey." That'll keep you busy for a while.
Herbie Hancock has an album called River: The Joni Letters. Hancock and Brittany Howard at the Kennedy Center Honors honoring Joni Mitchell, perform this song. It’s fantastic!
My wife talks about Joni Mitchell the way my buddies and me talk about Michael Jordan. One of the best song writers of all time 🐐 love you guys!
Yep, she sang that same song for the 2024 Grammys, as an amazing survivor of a brain aneurysm most Dr's never thought she'd survive.. has had to re-learn absolutely EVERYTHING OVER after that 2015 event, and now, she's finally able to get back on the stage (with a little help from her friends) and share that amazing song with the wisdom and grace that 80 years of overcoming obstacles and living and laughing and seeing things from both sides! 🥰
I saw her great performances in Washington DC Mayday Vietnam Protests, I think in ‘72. The night was magical at the night concerts, Baez, Havens, Joni, Jefferson Airplane…more!
I once saw a vid about Laurel Canyon/Mama Cass Elliot's house. All the mid/late 60's musicians hung out and playing their newest songs to each other. Few names : Neil Young, Roger McQuinn, Steve Stills, Graham Nash plus many more. One quote was ."there was that blonde girl sitting and listening. The other day she came and played all our songs, but she sang and played better than the whole bunch" !
She has the voice of an angel soft but yet so powerful! Great start to the week guys thanks!
Joni is an old soul in the wheel of time.
Goosebumps every time
I want this song played at my funeral. Judy Collins did a cover of this song and it was a mega hit. She also wrote “Woodstock” for Crosby stills and Nash. Led Zeppelin praised her in their song “Going to California”.
Do a listen to “Come in from the cold”. Her chord changes are magnificent.
She learned to play classical music on the piano as a child, then learned Pete Seegers folk activist songs on the ukulele (as her parents disapproved of the guitar at the time), and then started idolizing Edith Piaf and Miles Davis. I think all those early influences are still very present in her vocals, her style of writing, composing and her improvisation.
Really loved your reaction to one of my favorite artists. We're blessed to have Joni in our lives!
Holy crap this song has been rattling around in my head for the last 10 years and I never knew the title. TY fellas
The crowd was actually be respectful by listening to every note she played and sang. Her voice was something to treasure, especially if you were in her presence. I never got to see her but I loved her through her writing and singing. There’s no other voice that compare to hers. Her album BLUE is an incredible experience to have.
Joni is an amazing composer and artist. She is also a great guitar player, ranked number 9 of Rolling Stone's top 250 guitarists. I really love her later compositions where she used a lot of jazz greats on the recordings.
I love you guys.
Her live video doing California is a must too. Of you loved Help Me, Freeman in Paris is a must listen.
Prince was a huge Joni fan, he really idolized her songwriting & her voice. He went to some of her concerts when he was younger, I think before his first album or around that time. Years later, after he was a star, an interviewer was saying how much Prince loved her and she said yeah, I remember seeing him right up in the front row at some of my concerts. She remembered his unknown face all those years later. This song has been in a ton of movies/tv shows, it's very good for emotional scenese. 'Help Me' is also in a bunch of media, I know you both liked that one, too.
Joni is a treasure. Thanks for this one. Check a live of her doing "California" and explore the later jazzy stuff. "Miles of Aisles" Live Lp is great too with Tom Scott and Robben Ford ... As always fellas, love the energy!
For the live jazzy stuff, I'd say Shadows and Light is the absolute must - there was no topping Jaco Pastorius and Pat Metheny with Joni.
Miles of Aisles is one of my favorite of Joni’s albums. I love the way she re-interprets some of her earlier songs with a jazzier influence.
Love the live version of California
Back then, the crowd watched and listened...they didn't scream or applaud until the performance was over.
I'd love to see you guys react to more of Joni's jazz period--- she really blossomed musically at that point.
"The Dry Cleaner From Des Moines" from her Tribute to Mingus album is amazing.
Jaco Pastorius on bass...
Love Joni!! Anyone else notice that she accidentally started verse 2 a second time … then made a smooth correction.
Awesome reaction.
Guys, check out the album The Hissing of Summer Lawns... amazing music you aren't gonna believe!
I'd love to see your reactions to A Free Man in Paris from Joni's 1974 album Court and Spark album someday soon✌
I've always loved A Free Man in Paris. Reportedly about her friend, record exec David Geffen.
The crowd is actually showing respect to Ms. Joni.
Absolute masterpiece, IMO
Might be the best lyrics of any song
A. song that Joni wrote and was a big hit for Judy Collins. In 1969 Judy's version won a Grammy Award for Best Folk Performance.
How do you react as a crowd to something simple, touching & beautiful. Let it float over you & soak in. Take it home. JM brilliant.
Joni Mitchell said in an interview once that she was too young when she wrote this song. The meaning of the lyrics was not as powerful until after she had lived longer and had experienced more things. I know that is definitely true in my case.
Great reaction guys!! Good catch on her lyrics! She wrote this when she was 22 - first released when she was 23. How many at that age have this kind of perspective on life?! A profound understanding. Beautiful track, legendary songwriter. Thanks for this. Cheers!
I've listened to it for 5 decades and I still get goosebumps every time and a longing nostalgic sadness that is beyond words.
JONI is a great guitarist, which is showcased on Cold Blue Steel and Sweet Fire, one of my favorites of hers, about James Taylor's heroin addiction.
Bros THIS is the type of reaction that makes me a loyal viewer: *you go where the music is,* filling in your historical and musical education WELL beyond other reactors, and not guided solely by likely views, etc. Thereby, you gain knowledge and context. Kudos! 👏🏼
I second suggestions to check her version in later years. I like the one from the ‘24 Grammys for the drama (slowly revealing to audience it’s her on stage), and the gorgeous musical support. Tears from many in audience, including Jay-Z (at the end).
“Joni Mitchell doesn’t lie” - Q-tip/Janet Jackson
BTW the lady on acoustic guitar to Joni’s left is Brandi Carlyle, who is largely responsible for getting Joni out there again in her later post-stroke years. 🙏
She starts to sing the second verse over again but then corrects herself and starts over again without a hitch. She was a pro even in her youth.
Noticed that too. She gave a smile as if to laugh at herself 😃
Her 2022 performance of this at the Newport Folk Festival was timeless and powerful
I had never heard this live. Magnificent Joni! Back then audiences didn’t interrupt the performance, especially one this tender. They waited to clap until the end.
Miles of Aisles. Live. The band stuff on there will knock your socks off.
Judy Collins does a great job with this song. Can't remember which recorded it first. Sweet Judy Blue Eyes.
Old Souls is what we called our special songwriters.
Get somme jazzy Joni going: The Dry Cleaner From DesMoines (from her Mingus album) or Edith & The Kingpin (from The Hissing of Summer Lawns).
That’s a poet. That’s a writer. ❤❤❤
That's my girl... Thanks, men!
Judy Collins covered and charted with this song back in 67-68. It's great.
AMAZINGGGGG HUH, SIMPLY STUNNING!!!💯😊CLOUDS, LOVE AND LIFE! HEY LA & CHE YOU GUYS HAVE A GR888888 FUN 4TH OF JULY, MANY BLESSINGS GUYS! 👍
Happy 4th to you my friend!!
Her music was played in my home when I was younger. Still listen to her magical melodies & stories to this day. She is/was and incredible gift. Offering so much to those who listened & she is a bit legendary. A girl and her guitar, that is all it took to be her. Thank you for your review!
This is a song that ages with you. You should listen to her 2000 recording of it.
She goofed and started singing the second verse when starting the third.
LUVVVVVVVV IT, OF COURSE!!! 💯😊 HEY LAH AND CHE!👍 SO THIS COMES OFF OF HER ALBUM ( CLOUDS ) HER 2ND ALBUM GUYS
You gotta check out her song Help Me. L.A. Express was the backing band.
I always thought of Joni’s songwriting as the female version of Neil Young. Many style similarities as well as subject matter (to me) ….. powerful, beautiful a d impactful
You two are PRICELESS! Y'all have always impressed me but This was EPIC! Tryin to type thru tears while laughin my azz off! Thanks So Much!😄
The Hissing of Summer lawns Joni bad to the bone
0:02 / 7:16
You should watch her sing this as an older woman in her 50's. Totally different feeling than when she was in her 20's. Cut and paste "Joni Mitchell - Both Sides Now 2000 lives"
Fabulous, enjoy your reactions to a lot of the music Beatles especially. Try the Carpenters Karen singing live, I need to be in love, or one of her songs as she plays the drums, or maybe a drum solo and enjoy her talent as well as her brother Richard keyboards/piano and arrangements. I am sure you guys will apreciate the talent
Admiration for Joni is an understatement. It is as close to worship as humanly possible. She is a gift to humanity.
For Free is a reflective , truthful song.
Even in the turbulent 60s with all of its chaos and insanity Joni had a grasp on reality and living with love and respect for all living thigs
Crowds didn't start getting loud until about late 70s/early 80s. Plus teens in the 60s and 70s were much more introspective.
She also created something like over 50 open tunings for guitar. It was hell on her roadies in the early days before effects pedals allowed one instrument to have multiple tunings. They had to keep running new ones out to her for each song and keep track of them all.
You guys really do a good job in your analysis…
You'd like her 2000 version of this - an older woman who really understands the lyrics
She seemed to start over again on the third verse, having gotten mixed out. Her error registered on her face. Did anyone else catch that?
Yes I saw that too ❤ she’s so brilliant, people who don’t know the song probably had no idea
Dealt with the mistake without missing a beat! Incredible professional!
Very beautiful voice and song, thank you.