While Spike TV and the Spoon Fed Media hypes ‘man’ and equates the violent and unethical with man, Joni reads “If” by Rudyard Kipling, leading the world with the wisdom the Masters of Spin can never escape, truly defining man. Thank you Joni!

I”ve loved your poetry, your songs for a long time, Joni. My grey hair is showing and the wrinkles are there, but when I listened to your new songs, well, it lifted my heart and made me smile. Thanks, lady.

This Joni album is truly brilliant— and the cover song,”Shine”, is incredibly heart-opening, with it’s fascinating structure, inflection, and metaphysicality.

She is a very gifted woman. Please don’t EVER put her music on broadway. What an awful thought. Her music needs to be listened to and thought about…not trivialized by non-singing singer/dancers actors/actresses. She is an artist NOT an entertainer.

I came of age in the sixties, a pissed, passionate, pacifist
bleeding heart liberal. Thank you Joni for continuing to speak for me as I enter the golden years, so long as we have a planet.

Oh Joni! Get unstuck!!! It’s easy to criticize a system that permits you to speak from your ivory tower in paradise. If you were in the bowels of the middleast where all children are taught to hate Jews and Christians from infancy, perhaps you would reconsider your priorities. Instead of obsessing over some remote, inaccurate misrepresentation of Christianity perhaps you should think about protecting the freedoms you have today and learn to love the country that has rewarded your gifts instead of killing you. I love you and the songs that ignited my vision as an artist but you might look to Leonard Cohen to inform your political awareness as the powers gather to rob us all of our freedoms for decades to come.

I heard “IF” tonight will driving through the high desert outside Los Angeles on the radio. Brilliant and beautiful. It’s wonderful to hear someone continue to make tasteful and relevant adult music in spite of the fact that some yokels still seem to carping away at some imagined offense. Glad the gal doesn’t take it to heart. I’ll definitely be adding the new one to my collection when it’s released.

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In response to john eric/s comments.

You are a victim of, not only the liberal vs conservative paradigm but the propaganda that brain washes you.

The evil that you see does not reside in the people that Israel and the US Government point thier fingers at. It is the other way around. The victims have always been the Arabs. The evil has always been found in the Zionist’s actions throughout history and America is but a Zionist tool.
You might do well to heed the words of Bob Dylan.

I have been a Joni Mitchell fan since the sixties. Great voice, great lyrics, great guitar and great skill at choosing collabortors.

However, to balance all the greatness there is more than enough grime. She has been described as an industrial-strength whiner. I agree, she is after all, an only child. And her personal morals leave a lot to be desired, i.e, Miss Lay.

I hope her criticism of the planet is not more of the liberal fluff that is passed off as intellect. There is evil in the world, and equating Bush with the terrorists shows a real want of understanding.

In the words of Bob Dylan, “don’t criticize what you can’t understand.”

Still, I am looking forward to her CD if it is truly art, not more liberal, anti-war rhetoric.

OK. Stephen Jordan. Modern Times shows Dylan to have recovered his lyrical shine. It’s just fabulous, but remember Joni has stuff like song/poem Don Juan’s Reckless Daughter to keep her high in the running, and her musical intelligence and originality is an aspect which few can match in today’s music scene. It isn’t a competition. Two great people who have had their ups and downs but keep on expressing what keeps us humans in our petty shit. We need Joni, too. I’m overjoyed to hear she’s recording again.

Joni,

Thank you for being in this world!

I was spiritually bereft when joni announced her retirement from the music bizz casserole and if it takes a crisis for her to return to the studio then so be it…Hopefully her claws will be the retractable kind, Joni we need beauty with our vitriole.. please deliver, the tigers wont be tamed so let your brush strokes drip with turbulent indigo not bile…I am overwhelmed your back, please let me love you again…

Joni Mitchell transcends all. I Love her lyrics, “The spirit talks in spectrums, he talks mother earth to father sky, self-indulgence to self-denial, man to woman, scales to feathers, you and I” from “Don Juan Reckless Daughter” the title track.

I’m still travelling - and smoking - same age - and still listen to Joni. Thank god we’re still here…

Is it only me who can apreciate her music?

It must be like Marmite.

she speaks sense to me, and i understand everything she is saying.

coupled with amazing music arangements

cant wait

I am grateful for anything Joni puts out. She is the greatest songwriter and poet in popular music, including Dylan. Her inventiveness, her refusal to compromise artistically and her astonishing depth only grow deeper over time.

I think there’s plenty of room for more than one musical genius out there.. go Joni and go Dylan.

I love Joni Mitchell. I just wish that she would stop chain smoking. It was really depressing seeing her light up her next cigarette with her last one.

The appropriately named Strange Boy wrote:”Joni Mitchell is the most talented composer and lyricist in music over the past 35 -40 years” Utter garbage! She is a mere handmaiden to the genius of Bob Dylan. Buy Modern Times and then stop.

Joni Mitchell should be put into a large blender and recycled.

Go look up “IF” by Rudyard Kipling - says it all, really!

Hope…like”…youth. It’s too good to waste.” (Yes, I said, ‘I want a revolution!!!’) Spin on Joan Of Art! Peace in our time “in a box of paints.” We’re not alone anymore and the devil is on the run. Who Art In Heaven? We Art!

A prophet is never recognized in her own land!

Bring it on Joni! I can’t wait!

Joni Mitchell new album = awesome
Chinese Democracy = lamer than lame

I don’t care how it gets to me…but this is a record I would walk on hot coals for. If people are interested in Joni’s previous work when similarly motivated (then by Reagan-era politics), check out 1985’s “Dog Eat Dog.” Put the dated (but appropriately documentary) Thomas Dolby sound samples aside and concentrate on the messages. Joni Mitchell does not lie.

“ARTIFACE, BRUTALITY AND INNOCENCE.” — from “The Three Great Stimulants”

Joni Mitchell is the most talented composer and lyricist in music over the past 35 -40 years. Period. So many singers and songwriters today cited her as an major influence. I am delighted that her muse has returned. Someone ought to write a Broadway play that features her music and life story that could also become a film. Her life story is a huge inspiration to visual artists, singers, songwriters, and musicians. Meryl Streep or someone of her stature should play Joni. The great opera singer Renee Flemning is a huge Joni fan: perhaps she could play Joni on Broadway. Joni is the personification of the word artist. Siquomb! I hope Rolling Store pays more attention to Joni’s great legacy in music and art.

WHAT? CHINESE DEMOCRACY STARTS NOW

Joni should record on Judy’s label, Wildflowers. That’d work.

RAISED ON ROBBERY - One of the best songs ever. The performance, production, lyrics, spirit of the thing… This is a little masterpiece. Do your self a favour and listen to it over and over,loud, it’s freakin brilliant. So ya, I like it.

Attention female “artists” of today - pay attention to how it’s done.

keep on rockin in a free world, Joni!

With the recent releases by Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young, and Bob Dylan, it truly seems appropriate for Joni to come back, and it sounds, triumphantly. Her muse is back and I, for one, can hardly wait.

God I love this woman.

After hearing Dylan’s amazing “Modern Times” I can’t wait for Joni’s new record. They’re the two best lyrists I’ve ever heard!

Joni must have spent the cash she made touring with Van and Bob a few years ago…nothing sounds better to the creditors than I have a new Cd coming out

If only painted wings could let us fly,
Movements for social change create artists (Joni included), not the other way around.

It’s about time Joni. Give the world the hell that it deserves. You are and always will be the number 1 earth mom.

Big Whoop!

Thank God! Joni, we miss you and we love you. Record companies be damned. Sing out, Joni, and sing on…

that’s cool she’s putting out some new music-i have grown to love her stuff over the years. i hope she stops smoking one day so she doesn’t get lung cancer!!! she’s a true original.

DD you are so stoned. Nice trip your wearing.

Isn’t it strange how the ones who at times don’t even know where they are are the only ones who can actually see the world clearly. i think joni is right with everything going on in the world artists are the only ones saying what needs to be said. because they arn’t the ones making money off wars or prisons or exploitation. Real artists are one of our last balances in life. at the same time there are lots or fonny musiciens exploiting music.
we all need to step back now and then and look at the big picture.