Blue

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Editorial reviews

Amazon.co.uk Review
Joni Mitchell would go on from this 1971 recording to make more popular, more ambitious and more challenging albums, but she's never made a better one. Working with minimal accompaniment (Stephen Stills and James Taylor are two of the four sidemen), the Canadian songbird summoned an involving song cycle of romance found and lost. Though Blue is an uncommonly intimate representation, it's also astonishingly open and gracious. Songs such as "All I Want", "Carey", "California" and "A Case of You" work equally well as poetry and pop music. --Steve Stolder

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Customer reviews

review by: date: 2008-07-21 rating:
My world changed
I first heard the song Case of You in the film Practical Magic and thought how wonderful it was. I bought the film soundtrack (the whole music selection for the film was pretty good) and then i bought the album Blue to see what the rest of Jonis work was like.

I fell in love with the album so completely, that now i've moved to MP3 and sold 99% of my CD's i can't bear to part with this one. One of the others is Court & Spark.

The music is so simple, the strings, drums, and her voice- the most wonderful voice i have ever heard, conveying such emotion that the music and words combined make the whole album an amazing rollercoaster of feelings and thoughts.

I'd recommend to anyone who has ever felt any kind of emotion.

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review by: Mel Pitts date: 2008-02-04 rating:
Why not say what you really feel?
I have read all the reviews of BLUE on this site and they all give 5 stars. This is only because there isn't a rating for "THE BEST ALBUM OF ALL TIME". In the years since I first heard Joni's heartstrings crying out I have heard many other albums - some great - but they are all pretenders. Blue just pushes all the buttons, ticks all the boxes and speaks direct to the core.

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review by: date: 2007-10-19 rating:
The most uplifting sad album of all time
This wonderful record is full of very sad songs about loss and the breakup of relationships. So the fact that it is one of the most uplifting and positive records I've heard puts it into my 'must haves'. A beautiful record which you should buy now.

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review by: date: 2007-07-10 rating:
Not a country or joni m fan
Simply this is one of the 5 best albums ever. Seriously. I cannot recommend this highly enough. Most great musicians have a great tune or 2 in them. Wonderwall and Oasis, foxy lady and hendrix, smells like teen spirite and nirvana. But this album is shockingy raw. Goose pimples and a heaving heart.


review by: date: 2007-06-03 rating:
Blue
This is my favourite Joni Mitchell album. There are no weak songs, its both lyrically and musically perfect and Joni's voice is simply amazing.

The musical arrangements are either guitar or piano (both frequently played by Joni) with little else to distract you from the quality of the songs. Stephen Stills and James Taylor also guest on the album but their contributions are subtle and restrained. Calling a favourite track is almost impossible since as you listen to each track the last song you heard replaces the previous to become your new favourite.

This is without doubt the finest example of any early 70's singer/songwriter album. This should be in everybodies collection, especially at the price you can buy it for now.

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