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Product Details

Artist : Joni Mitchell
Format : Best of, Original recording remastered
Binding : Audio CD
EAN : 0093624632627
Label : Reprise
Number of Discs : 1
Product Group : Music
Release Date : 1996-10-29
UPC : 093624632627

ASIN : B000002N9Z

Track Listings for

Disc-1
1. Urge for Going
2. Chelsea Morning
3. Big Yellow Taxi
4. Woodstock
5. Circle Game
6. Carey
7. California
8. You Turn Me on I'm a Radio
9. Raised on Robbery
10. Help Me
11. Free Man in Paris
12. River
13. Chinese Cafe/Unchained Melody
14. Come in from the Cold
15. Both Sides, Now

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Editorial Reviews

From Amazon.co.uk

She has only had a few bona fide hits, but after almost 30 years, she's finally delivered a 15-song compilation of her signature songs that will be a CD point-of-departure for casual fans and newcomers well into the new millennium. The companion Misses volume is an intriguing curio that might rather more generously have been marketed as a bonus disc. --Jeff Bateman

Chronique amazon.fr

Joni Mitchell n'a eu que quatre titres classés dans le Top 40 américain, dont une version live de "Big Yellow Taxi" enregistrée à Miles of Aisles mais ne figurant pas sur cette collection. Après presque 30 ans, Joni nous livre enfin un florilège de 15 titres écrits de sa plume. C'est le CD idéal pour entrer dans le prochain millénaire. --Jeff Bateman

Customer Reviews

The Blonde In The Bleachers (2004-04-28)

joni is the blonde in the bleachers to graham nash..that interesting circle of talented artists that hung around laurel canyon....sharing and inspiring the great american music that followed the Byrds breakthrough...joni was one of the matriarchs, along with cass elliot, of that important movement...its repeated, crosby stills and nash sang their first official harmonies together at joni's house...and joni could easily hang with the boys...she could write and chord with the best of them...buy this "Hits" album to sample joni, understanding you omit so much when you deny yourself the opportunity to play her stand alone albums and grow your mitchell ear organically...joni said recently "once people awaited me like the rain,now the janitors of shadowland flick their brooms at me",...quite a journey,no,yes...?? however,to "get joni" you really ought to go back to the beginning and play the olde stuff....follow the incredible anthology of this chain smoking,smart,hip,golden girl...though joni wrote woodstock,her agent denied her the opportunity to actually be there because of time constraints of a concert committment that weekend...all in all "Hits" is just a shortcut to meaningful understanding of joni and her music...better than nothing....but you owe yourself the experience of getting back to the roots of this artists prolific body of work...buy this cd first if you must, and then graduate to Clouds,Blue,For the Roses,Court and Spark...like Hemingway,you cant appreciate The Old Man And The Sea...without first reading A Farewell To Arms...this cd though,is just a swatch of joni's body of work.. better perhaps than no beginning at all...listen to joni's rendition of chinese cafe/unchained melody,an old righteous brothers hit at your earlist convenience..."the blonde in the bleachers,she flips her hair for you...she tapes her regrets to the microphone stand..she says you cant hold the hand of a rock and roll man,very long"...i submit youll hold the hand of this rock and roll lady for a very long time...without regrets...

hippie flowerchild Joni Mitchell's Hits (2004-04-23)

I love this album. It has many of her early and best songs. I listened to it constantly when I first got it. Several of the songs gave me just the most incredible inner spiritual experience of delight, that almost otherworldly feeling you get when you're deeply moved or stimulated by a work of art, be it a painting, a book, or a piece of music. If you get this "Hits" album, don't lend it to a friend. I did, and never got it back :)

David Rehakauthor of "A Young Girl's Crimes"

New Joni Fan (2004-01-18)

Ok, so i wasn't around in the late-60's and early-70's when Joni Mitchell came onto the scene. So I obviously missed this music the first time around. I've always been a fan of the singer songwriters of this era such as Carole King, Carly Simon, and Elton John, but seemed to overlook Joni Mitchell *big mistake.* I got this for Christmas and enjoy it very much. I'm a teenager so I'm not very knowledgable about this type of music, but I love Joni Mitchell's voice and songwriting style. True, she only had four top 40 hits, her biggest being the top 10 hit "Help Me" yet she has managed to be one of the most influential women in music. My favorites are "The Circle Game", "Help Me", "Come In From the Cold", "Big Yellow Taxi" and "Both Sides Now."

This collection definitely made me a fan and has intrigued me to check out her muisic catolgue furthur. :)

Roadmap to Joni Mitchell (2003-11-28)

This, like many hits records, offers a decent sampling of what the artist, in this case, the amazing Joni Mitchell, has to offer. Notice I said a decent sampling. For all those out there who want to try Joni Mitchell's music, or just the genre in general- This is for you. Joni Mitchell is such an amazing artist, though- experimenting with severl entirely different sounds somehow without losing meaning or a musical identity- that one collection can never begin to cover her music. If you are already a fan, or own most of Joni Mitchell's music, I can't find very many compelling reasons to purchase this. For the beginners though- this disc is a good "101" course. listen, and then move on to other material ("Blue" and "The Hissing of Summer Lawns" are always good.).

Incomplete, but good for casual fans (2003-11-16)

This is a decent selection of Joni's best-known (not best) songs, but it's impossible to do her career justice on one CD. I own all of Joni's albums up until and including Mingus so there wasn't much reason to get this but I wanted to have 'Urge For Going' on CD so, if that's you're only reason for getting it, make sure you find it cheap! 'Urge For Going' is terrific though, classic Joni from her earlier period (my favourite). This song would have fitted nicely on Clouds and it is a nice addition to her catalogue. On another positive note, the inclusion of Chinese Cafe is welcomed because it is one of the few mildly decent songs from her Geffen days and I don't want to buy any of those dreadful albums! So, this is a good CD if you want just a few of Joni's songs in your collection, but be aware that you are missing out on countless treasures like: For Free, I Don't Know Where I Stand, Tin Angel, Conversation, The Last Time I Saw Richard, All I Want, Banquet....etc. etc....the list goes on. BTW, why is none of Hejira included on this CD??

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