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| Part No: | B000UR366S |
| Manufacturer: | HEAR MUSIC |
| MFG Part: | 30457 |
| Customer Rating: | 4.0 / 5.0 |
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Be one of the first to own the Joni Mitchell "Shine" CD with $5 Starbucks Gift Card. Standing as one of the most significant and influential female recording artists of the late 20th century, her uncompromising and iconoclastic music comprises a body of work spanning more than 40 years. Widely regarded as one of the brightest musical lights of recent generations, this singer, composer and lyricist of profound talent continues to create original and relevant music, to the delight of her fans. Joni Mitchell "Shine" CD with $5 Starbucks Gift Card Features: Joni Mitchell CD $5 Starbucks gift card 10 Tracks Tri-fold CD case with lyrics insert Made in USA SONG LIST 1. One Week Last Summer 2. This Place 3. If I Had A Heart 4. Hana 5. Bad Dreams 6. Big Yellow Taxi (2007) 7. Night of The Iguana 8. Strong and Wrong 9. Shine 10. If Note: Opened CDs cannot be returned
Shine may ultimately register as a "fans only" milestone, but it proves that Joni Mitchell retains many of the storied calling cards of her best albums. The searing lyricism of 1971's
Blue and the penchant for self-redefinition hailed by 1974's
Court and Spark make cameos here, but sadly, lesser efforts' drawbacks abound. True, "Big Yellow Taxi" reprises the environmental dystopia Mitchell first poeticized on 1970's
Ladies of the Canyon, but the occasion only prompts new pedantic effrontery ("This Place," "If I Had a Heart"). In this regard,
Shine's especially cloying title track marks the worst offender. Blissfully, though, "Hana" boasts a driving rhythm section and blurting squirts of electric guitar and saxophone in support of a compelling character sketch, and "If"--based on Rudyard Kipling's poem of the same name--paints a lyrical message of affirmation in bold strokes. Mitchell's songwriting shines brightest at such singularly poignant moments where specificity of images meets the vagaries of the instrumental arrangements, and, in the end, these and other highlights ("Bad Dreams," "Night of the Iguana") definitively carry the torch.
--Jason Kirk
| Brilliant Masterpiece | 2010-07-18 | 5 / 5 |
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| Absolutely brilliant instropective work. Very intellectual, rhythmically mature. Remake of Yellow Taxi brilliant with staccato beats. Joni's voice is rich, full, enjoyable and as soothing as great refined scotch. Lyrics are as politically left as possible, but it works. I understand the marketing wasn't mainstream, so no awards given to this masterpiece--which is truly unjust. Genius work from a Maestro! |
| Creatively Bankrupt | 2010-03-24 | 1 / 5 |
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With each new release Joni's stature in the music arts has been diminished to where
she has become irrelevant. Shine, like everything before it until we hit Hejira is
virtually devoid of melody and anything approaching lyrics her once vast audience
care about. Ms Mitchell is creatively bankrupt and unless she is willing to lock
herself away for 48 hours with Court & Spark on replay, I hope she never steps foot
in a recording studio again! |
| Time to retire | 2009-02-21 | 1 / 5 |
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I had heard that this album was Joni Mitchell playing all the instruments and singing... which I figured would be at least interesting--- after all, she used to be good. But, it's not interesting, and she's not good any more. Her song-writing skills have atrophied, and her voice is a husky shadow of what it once was. Most of the lyrics sound like they were written by a wealthy woman with way too much time to spend winding herself up watching Fox and CNN news. Irritating phony liberal whining of someone who can afford a nice house out on the California coast where she can fuss about the environment. Hey Joni, your nice house destroyed habitat where nice animals and plants once lived, why don't you do a song about that? I was glad I could check this out of my local library, and save my self the cost of purchasing it, since I wouldn't have kept it, or ever listened to it again.
Joni Mitchell would be well advised to release tapes of some of her early performances... there are good quality recordings of quite a few of her very good early songs (Urge For Going, Eastern Rain, etc...) There was a time when she wrote memorable songs and sang them in her unique penetrating voice... those days are long gone. When she lets those songs out, I'll buy then.
Even the opening track, a piano instrumental that I looked forward to hearing, was just kind of meandering. And that was the high point of the album.
Anyway, a big disappointment, and don't spend your hard earned dollars here... if you want to listen to a late 60s-early 70s singer song writer who still has it together and is better than ever, go check out Randy Newman's CD Harps and Angels... |
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Compared to the rest of Joni Mitchell's recordings,
this project is small-minded, out of touch, very
hard to listen to, unmusical. |
| Complex and rich | 2008-12-09 | 5 / 5 |
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| Joni Mitchell has made me fall in love with her again. Like all work of genius, this deepens and shines with each listening. With humor, honesty, love for we flawed humans, passion for the earth and her creatures, she taps into heretofore unknown rhythms which give such pleasure to know. It is beautiful. |
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