Yes, Led Zeppelin's Going to California was a passion project for both Jimmy Page and Robert Plant about Joni Mitchell. When asked about the song Plant said: "When you're in love with Joni Mitchell you've really got to write about it now and again." When performing the song live in concert and singing the line, "to find a Queen without a King, they say she plays guitar and cries and sings" Plant would then half mumur, half whisper the name "Joni". Furthermore that line, "to find a Queen without a King" is a direct reference to Mitchell's song I Had a King, off her 1968 debut album Song to a Seagull.
joni's understanding of loneliness, love, relationships, anxiety, selfishness, trying to be better but always failing, "blue" really is the warmest and most human album ive heard !
@@Koshirozationit’s so funny to see you in the comments once again I’ve seen you for years we always seem to be listening to the same music. From lekman to mitchell… really nice to see
Sitting in a park in Paris, France Reading the news and it sure looks bad They won't give peace a chance That was just a dream some of us had Still a lot of lands to see But I wouldn't wanna stay here It's too old and cold and settled in its ways here Oh, but California California, I'm coming home I'm gonna see the folks I dig I'll even kiss a sunset pig California, I'm coming home I met a redneck on a Grecian isle Who did the goat dance very well He gave me back my smile But he kept my camera to sell Oh, the rogue, the red, red rogue He cooked good omelets and stews And I might have stayed on with him there But my heart cried out for you, California Oh, California, I'm coming home Oh, make me feel good rock 'n roll band I'm your biggest fan California, I'm coming home Oh, it gets so lonely When you're walking And the streets are full of strangers All the news of home you read Just give you the blues Just give you the blues So I bought me a ticket I got on a plane to Spain Went to a party down a red dirt road There were lots of pretty people there Reading Rolling Stone, reading Vogue They said, "How long can you hang around?" I said a week, maybe two Just until my skin turns brown Then I'm going home to California California, I'm coming home Oh, will you take me as I am? Strung out on another man California, I'm coming home Oh, it gets so lonely When you're walking And the streets are full of strangers All the news of home you read More about the war And the bloody changes Oh, will you take me as I am? Will you take me as I am? Will you? Will you take me as I am? Mmm, mmm Take me as I am, mmm
Me too. E.g. that "take me as I am" whealing, so so so beautiful. She is an ABSOLUTE genius. Said to be the greatest singer-songwriter of the last 50 years. Leonard Cohen should have been so lucky.
@@reefnreefer all my lady friend's have passed geez I'm the last one standing strong at 69yrs young, I'm sorry and sad for everyone's lose but I'm tried of all the boo hoo stories. Hope you take this positive.💋
no words...she weren't born in Canada.....she weren't born at all.....she simply came from heaven to do more for the arts than 1000 before her....end of story ❤
Joni still hits every time. What lovely days and long nights we all shared together in the canyons. ( communes!!) It’s a LA hippie chick thing. Joni live in those days was a spiritual experience
I can only imagine! I have loved her music since first hearing it on my radio in the late 1960s...I'm now the vp of the JJJClub which is dedicated to Joni!
This whole album runs deep for me. The soundtrack to a 4- year relationship starting in '71...I couldn't even listen to it for years after the break-up. To this day I can still only take it in small doses. And don't get me started on "River" 😿 ❤ 💙 ✌
Took a 2 month long trip to Europe this year. That line about it being old and cold and settled in it's ways is so true. Randomly started listening to her again and forgot about that lyric 😊
Really great line, amazing how soon the jadedness and disillusionment kicked in, this was recorded in 71 when Vietnam was still raging on, the idealistic 'flower power' 60s really had a hard crash into the new decade.
I play this when I'm missing it.... Even though I live just next door, I'll probably never make it back again, by choice, but I got the song that reminds me of it.
Joni and David Crosby are both our 5th cousins. Amazing what we can discover about our past. Moved from Wisconsin/Minnesota to California in 1975. Wished that we could transplant the Wisconsin spirit here though the sun and mountains are fine. 🌾🐡
@@Spiderboyish That is a great question. Do you have proof that you are Remy Swash? DNA tests can be misleading. That isn't even proof. The world does not want trurh--- for the most part. Many people came to America with names changed and altered. I could make a great case in court--- but other than that, truth is difficult to prove to skeptics, anyway. A closed mind does not usually open up after evidence is presented. 🐡
@@carefulcarpenter I asked you this question because there are a lot of people on TH-cam comments claiming that they were at a certain historical event or are friends/family of a certain artist but without proof and therefore information like that may seem skeptical. For example, there are a lot of people on TH-cam comments who claim to have been to Woodstock in 1969 but share no proof or personal story to make their statement believable, you know? Don't take this the wrong way, as it is not my intent :)
@@Spiderboyish I posted an extensive genealogy report at Ancestry. Our family and Joni's family were trading in Detroit and Chicago in the 1700's. Connections were also through marriage between military families and native tribes. McKee is a good line to study. I am related to Kinzie--- the Father of Chicago.
@Pron Independent recording artist Never---- I live in the mountains above Santa Cruz. We moved here in 1997. I am against paved parking lots, fences, and security cameras. Our newest neighbors came up from San Jose. First week they iformed me that they were building a security fence around their entire property. They did not want their dog to roam. This is actually what we have liked about the neighborhood--- we called it "dog heaven" where dogs are free to roam (and cats ,too). We have a natural habitat up here with deer, bobcats, mountain lions, skunks, racoons, squirrels, rabbits, and once a loose boa constrictor. The new neighbors would like more pavement. Do you know the way to San Jose?
My Father asked me what do people do in California. I replied "Start with designer coffee, enjoy the weather, and the rest is up to you. Works out if you can roll with the punches."
We walked slowly through the mist, the remains of the darkness slowly fading in blue, the smell of sour dough in a time without the meanings of today . We bought a loaf of bread and ripped our ways through it she felt warm between my legs we had found the grass and she sat between my legs shy like a girl and threw bread up to the shadows that flew by and I loved her for it but knew my heart deserved the pain of her leaving.
@@adambrehm2432 Hey Man, listened to some of your videos do you wanna partner up and make some music ? I can provide the lyrics and you already have the music.
They are so different. Mitchell was a great singer, musician and one of the best songwriters ever. Swift is a great businesswoman but a lousy singer songwriter and she looks like a manufactured pop star
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The girl with love in her eyes and flowers in her hair. The queen without a king who plays guitar and cry’s and sings.
Yes Sir.
Was that about her?! How sweet!
For a #goat like Joni, that was very pretty.
whoa it’s about her
Yes, Led Zeppelin's Going to California was a passion project for both Jimmy Page and Robert Plant about Joni Mitchell. When asked about the song Plant said: "When you're in love with Joni Mitchell you've really got to write about it now and again." When performing the song live in concert and singing the line, "to find a Queen without a King, they say she plays guitar and cries and sings" Plant would then half mumur, half whisper the name "Joni". Furthermore that line, "to find a Queen without a King" is a direct reference to Mitchell's song I Had a King, off her 1968 debut album Song to a Seagull.
joni's understanding of loneliness, love, relationships, anxiety, selfishness, trying to be better but always failing, "blue" really is the warmest and most human album ive heard !
hello (:
@@willbaska ❤❤❤hey!
BOOM!
@@Koshirozationit’s so funny to see you in the comments once again I’ve seen you for years we always seem to be listening to the same music. From lekman to mitchell… really nice to see
you are a poseur !
Sitting in a park in Paris, France
Reading the news and it sure looks bad
They won't give peace a chance
That was just a dream some of us had
Still a lot of lands to see
But I wouldn't wanna stay here
It's too old and cold and settled in its ways here
Oh, but California
California, I'm coming home
I'm gonna see the folks I dig
I'll even kiss a sunset pig
California, I'm coming home
I met a redneck on a Grecian isle
Who did the goat dance very well
He gave me back my smile
But he kept my camera to sell
Oh, the rogue, the red, red rogue
He cooked good omelets and stews
And I might have stayed on with him there
But my heart cried out for you, California
Oh, California, I'm coming home
Oh, make me feel good rock 'n roll band
I'm your biggest fan
California, I'm coming home
Oh, it gets so lonely
When you're walking
And the streets are full of strangers
All the news of home you read
Just give you the blues
Just give you the blues
So I bought me a ticket
I got on a plane to Spain
Went to a party down a red dirt road
There were lots of pretty people there
Reading Rolling Stone, reading Vogue
They said, "How long can you hang around?"
I said a week, maybe two
Just until my skin turns brown
Then I'm going home to California
California, I'm coming home
Oh, will you take me as I am?
Strung out on another man
California, I'm coming home
Oh, it gets so lonely
When you're walking
And the streets are full of strangers
All the news of home you read
More about the war
And the bloody changes
Oh, will you take me as I am?
Will you take me as I am?
Will you?
Will you take me as I am?
Mmm, mmm
Take me as I am, mmm
Anyone else moved to tears by her voice? I can barely get through her songs.
Absolutely! She just sang at the Grammies this year and I cried.
Me too. E.g. that "take me as I am" whealing, so so so beautiful. She is an ABSOLUTE genius. Said to be the greatest singer-songwriter of the last 50 years. Leonard Cohen should have been so lucky.
I wore out the Blue album, LoL everyone was sick of hearing but not me still listening today at 68 yrs.
I've many memorirs tied to this amazin album & people who are no longer here. I'm in bits. 😂
@@reefnreefer all my lady friend's have passed geez I'm the last one standing strong at 69yrs young, I'm sorry and sad for everyone's lose but I'm tried of all the boo hoo stories. Hope you take this positive.💋
What a voice, it blows me away.
Her voice will forever put me in a trance ❤
no words...she weren't born in Canada.....she weren't born at all.....she simply came from heaven to do more for the arts than 1000 before her....end of story ❤
A beautiful woman we were lucky to have her.
The best song about California.
Yes and Mayalls is good too.
Now you know why there isn't any covers of that song. No one else can sing it !
you are sooo right kurt well said.
👍👍💖💖
Sara Bareilles has covered this song. th-cam.com/video/H9H0nK339Rs/w-d-xo.htmlfeature=shared
Sara Bareilles has covered this song. th-cam.com/video/H9H0nK339Rs/w-d-xo.htmlfeature=shared
For real. Absolute musical mastery, deceptively difficult to execute!
I like to hear songs of our Beautiful state ❤ California .
One of my favorite songs. One of the best I ever heard.
and mine 🍆
Joni still hits every time. What lovely days and long nights we all shared together in the canyons. ( communes!!)
It’s a LA hippie chick thing. Joni live in those days was a spiritual experience
I can only imagine! I have loved her music since first hearing it on my radio in the late 1960s...I'm now the vp of the JJJClub which is dedicated to Joni!
This whole album runs deep for me. The soundtrack to a 4- year relationship starting in '71...I couldn't even listen to it for years after the break-up. To this day I can still only take it in small doses. And don't get me started on "River" 😿 ❤ 💙 ✌
eh…. a bit shit in my opinion
@@elliottcookproductions2871
unnecessary comment
Took a 2 month long trip to Europe this year. That line about it being old and cold and settled in it's ways is so true. Randomly started listening to her again and forgot about that lyric 😊
I love Joni Mitchell. We were kids so high when she came to us. Sobriety is blissful now.
Top 5 best songs ever. I can look back & remember where I was when I first heard this song & the memories it evokes are gold.
Joni at her most creative musically... my favorite album...
Blue is my favorite Joni album. California, coming home!
"They won't give peace a chance
That was just a dream some of us had"
I was one of that generation, the system beat us, it still pains me.
Let's beat it back.
Really great line, amazing how soon the jadedness and disillusionment kicked in, this was recorded in 71 when Vietnam was still raging on, the idealistic 'flower power' 60s really had a hard crash into the new decade.
"Joni Mitchell never lies..." 😊
The pedal steel playing on that was amazingly beautiful.
The genius of Sneaky Pete Kleinow.
How much sweeter can a voice sound? I sorta doubt it can.
....you make me love music...like Hemingway singing...
I was in California recently and I understood this song in a new level. It feels like home. Maybe it's because I'm from Spain!
Wow , what a voice.
Sobbing to this at 6 am
Loved Cali back then
Beautiful ❤
Up! Art at its finest by one of the few living artistic geniuses. She manages to make musical complexity sound stunningly beautiful.
Joni, GOAT!
not only California but Southern California
I’m gonna cry.... is that enough to say???
I dont know whybthis makes me cry so hard hearing for the very first time
I remember listening to this song @ 20 years old when I was working up in Alaska. Say no more...
My first Joni Mitchell song , i have been a fan ever since , finding her earlier stuff was a joy
A shout out for California and for love.
The song that inspired me to see the world. 68 and still traveling.
this album was gifted to me..first edition from 71'. along with alot of her other albums. love her
🇨🇦SHE 🇨🇦CANADIAN THRU & THRU 🇨🇦‼️
😮😅😊my old school cassette hahaha 🤣 sis California
A wonderful.memory of a California when.it was still.Paradise on Earth
Rolling Stone voted album blue number 3 of the greatest album of all time let me go listen to see what this is all about.
One of the most prolific albums ever.
❤
i started crying immediately
O
I just can't
T
Help it
Thank you so much Joni. This song holds memories, and the album really is like a tattoo for me. ❣️
um…
@@elliottcookproductions2871 um...?
💕💕💕
Simply a lovely song by a beautiful woman
Great subtle pedal steel guitar.
One incredible woman 👠 and a guitar. Wow.
& a dulcimer!
6 21 21 Today, 209 downvotes. They must be blue. A big hug to them. Thanks for posting. v
How would anyone downvote this at all? I know California isn't heaven, but she was just home sick.
love
When she said I'll even kiss a Sunset Pig, is classic 😂
God,. I believe. Amen
Joni ⚘
Que belleza!!!!!
El amor se respira☺
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Que belleza
@@efemeridesymashd2438 SALUDOS👍👍
I play this when I'm missing it....
Even though I live just next door, I'll probably never make it back again, by choice, but I got the song that reminds me of it.
forty five years in Nor Cal , nothing can replace it, life changed looking for the new home, maybe the grave
🏄♂️ 🏄♀️ surfing look i found . 50 plus years been listening now I have utube. I purchased a few albums great performances
@Sergej Lovrekovic This is the first time I listened to this song, and everything you wrote, I felt.
much ~ Love and Prayers ❤❤❤ ~ out to you " Joni " ~
Joni and David Crosby are both our 5th cousins. Amazing what we can discover about our past.
Moved from Wisconsin/Minnesota to California in 1975. Wished that we could transplant the Wisconsin spirit here though the sun and mountains are fine. 🌾🐡
Have you any proof?
@@Spiderboyish That is a great question. Do you have proof that you are Remy Swash? DNA tests can be misleading. That isn't even proof.
The world does not want trurh--- for the most part. Many people came to America with names changed and altered. I could make a great case in court--- but other than that, truth is difficult to prove to skeptics, anyway.
A closed mind does not usually open up after evidence is presented. 🐡
@@carefulcarpenter I asked you this question because there are a lot of people on TH-cam comments claiming that they were at a certain historical event or are friends/family of a certain artist but without proof and therefore information like that may seem skeptical. For example, there are a lot of people on TH-cam comments who claim to have been to Woodstock in 1969 but share no proof or personal story to make their statement believable, you know?
Don't take this the wrong way, as it is not my intent :)
@@Spiderboyish I posted an extensive genealogy report at Ancestry. Our family and Joni's family were trading in Detroit and Chicago in the 1700's. Connections were also through marriage between military families and native tribes. McKee is a good line to study. I am related to Kinzie--- the Father of Chicago.
@Pron Independent recording artist Never---- I live in the mountains above Santa Cruz. We moved here in 1997. I am against paved parking lots, fences, and security cameras. Our newest neighbors came up from San Jose. First week they iformed me that they were building a security fence around their entire property. They did not want their dog to roam. This is actually what we have liked about the neighborhood--- we called it "dog heaven" where dogs are free to roam (and cats ,too). We have a natural habitat up here with deer, bobcats, mountain lions, skunks, racoons, squirrels, rabbits, and once a loose boa constrictor. The new neighbors would like more pavement.
Do you know the way to San Jose?
A Heart bigger than...
¡QUE HERMOSO BLUE, ME RELAJA Y EMOCIONA TANTA SUAVIDAD Y ESA BELLA VOZ...
My Father asked me what do people do in California. I replied "Start with designer coffee, enjoy the weather, and the rest is up to you. Works out if you can roll with the punches."
Thank you California 2020.
La ciudad más cantada.
caaalifORNIAAaaa
We walked slowly through the mist, the remains of the darkness slowly fading in blue, the smell of sour dough in a time without the meanings of today . We bought a loaf of bread and ripped our ways through it she felt warm between my legs we had found the grass and she sat between my legs shy like a girl and threw bread up to the shadows that flew by and I loved her for it but knew my heart deserved the pain of her leaving.
Fuck you
@@adambrehm2432 Hey Man, listened to some of your videos do you wanna partner up and make some music ? I can provide the lyrics and you already have the music.
🌬🌊🌊🌊🌊🕊🕊🌊
Looks like someone I met once
whos here after miley said on stern that its her goal to cover this song in joni's style
yo come back to spotify fuck alla dat
Не обработанный брильянт. Нужна любому брильянту хорошая оправа. У меня о ней нет информации к сожалению. Голос Супер!!!
😂😇😍”IT WAS JOANIE WHO ‘DID IT’ ❓🌹
Will America ever feel this way again? How did this America get lost????
California 🐻 CARE BEAR
Carey
I KNOW
After
CALIFFORDA BERRIES
Neither deny Nor admit....?
Whatcha gonna do???
🌴🦦
I'll even kiss a sunset pig
I'm still not done with this song. Ruff recording.
sings like a news anchor trying to read a broken autocue screen
listens like a politician.
She’s like the Taylor Swift of the 70s
No, Joni is a million times better than faker swift.
They are so different. Mitchell was a great singer, musician and one of the best songwriters ever.
Swift is a great businesswoman but a lousy singer songwriter and she looks like a manufactured pop star
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