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Track Listings
1 | Court and Spark |
2 | Help Me |
3 | Free Man in Paris |
4 | People's Parties |
5 | The Same Situation |
6 | Car on a Hill |
7 | Down to You |
8 | Just Like This Train |
9 | Raised on Robbery |
10 | Trouble Child |
11 | Twisted |
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Product Description
Certified at 2 million units by the RIAA. (2/01)
Amazon.com
Painter-turned-folksinger Joni Mitchell had slipped stark saxophone solos into her prior album, For the Roses, and her singing had often hinted at a capacity for bluesier fare than her guitar- and piano-framed confessional ballads offered. None of those hints prepared fans for this sudden, expansive shift toward a much larger canvas--a sleeker, orchestrated pop style pulsing with jazz elements. Court & Spark found Mitchell casting aside her earth mother affectations and revealing herself as the thoroughly modern, thoroughly complicated woman she is; the songs sustained familiar preoccupations with relationships but replaced courtly settings and naturalistic imagery with recognizably modern locales. Deeply romantic, constantly questioning, classic tracks like the title song, "Help Me," "Free Man in Paris," "Same Situation," and "Raised on Robbery" display a more liberated Mitchell, ready to rumble with unbridled electric guitars (guest Robbie Robertson on "...Robbery"), even willing to poke fun at her own oh-so-sensitive rep with a hip cover of Annie Ross's hilarious "Twisted." --Sam Sutherland
Product details
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- Language : English
- Product Dimensions : 5.98 x 5.55 x 0.39 inches; 3.32 ounces
- Manufacturer : Elektra Off Roster
- Item model number : 2013411
- Original Release Date : 1990
- Date First Available : December 12, 2006
- Label : Elektra Off Roster
- ASIN : B000002GXL
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,252 in CDs & Vinyl (See Top 100 in CDs & Vinyl)
- #461 in Pop (CDs & Vinyl)
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And I've never forgotten the album or the girl since.
'Nuff said?
I'm not a Joni Mitchell fan in that I know at what point in her life she was when this music was performed. It sounds to me as if she was a young woman, with some success, trying to figure out her way in the world. I always took "Free Man in Paris" to describe her reaction to her growing popularity (I've been told I was wrong, but so what - I've been wrong before). Her version of "Twisted" is so great, I was amazed - it sounds eerily similiar to the Lambert/Hendricks/Ross version, which is also terrific.
And "Court and Spark" seems to be about the ambivalence of comitting yourself to a relationship, the cross between wanting it to work and being afraid it will consume you. At least that's my take on it and I think many would agree with me on this point.
I'd advise getting this cd - Joni Mitchell has a beautiful voice that she uses well in what may be her best album ever. I'm not sure I want to say it is her best ever as she has other good stuff out there - but if you're just wondering about who she is and how she fits in the singer/songwriter world, this cd is a great place to start.
So buy it and enjoy it - even while you're pondering what she is saying.
The lyrics on paper are a great group of poems. They are incredibly quotable. Adding the great, inventive, unique music makes a very, very powerful statement.
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album all'altezza, da non perdere.