led zeppelin III is a joni mitchell inspired album…

heard some of the tracks …

sufjan’s track is the tits

Really, very good. A new perspective on Joni’s tunes. I will buying the cd.

pretty dull covers. But like RS said its Joni Fucking Mitchell to begin with. It’d be a tough job to improve on her work.

Gosh, I hated this album.
I love the artist who covered the songs (Björk, Elvis Costello, Annie Lennox, Prince, Caetano Veloso, kd lang)… but this album is way too boring.
A pity, really.

BJERK SUX!UGLY CVNT!

She will massacre the song.

Well, seeing as how the only one I’m familiar with is “Free Man in Paris” I thought the Sufjan version was very good. I think it’s harder for a female vocalist to cover Joni — cuz they’ll always compare her voice to the original….

What ARE some good tribute Albums (since this is not one)

Yeah, Sufjan does a fine job. (as usual)

Good tribute album? There’s a CD called “Twisted Willie” that has bands like L7, Presidents of the United States, Jello Biafra…all doing Willie Nelson songs. There’s some very cool versions on it

Haven’t heard the new Joni tribute. And I’m sure others have asked this question, but it should be asked again: when the fuck has a good tribute album that was solid all the way through ever been made by anyone?

i’d like to hear a cover of ‘the jungle line’ from ‘the hissing of summer lawns’-that was such a weird song.

A Joni Mitchell tribute album without Tori Amos????? how is that possible???

Whats next: The Whos tribute to Mozart? Think about it..

Prince can do anything he wants to do. Including this tribute to Joni. Its not an easy task. Joni songs are perfected by her and her musicians, they are complex composition written often on guitars in strange tunings. Prince is never the copycat, he is authentic and brilliant imho. He could probably cover anyone including Wolfgang A, Pete T. you name ém – it would still be a great, respectfull and very authentic version of a good tune. He can play guitar like Jimmy Hendrix and Dance at the same time. How about Prince and Joni dancing into the same studio together one fine day? They could probably make magic music like a modern Mozart with Miles Davis connotations. They are far apart Joni and Prince but they make highly original music. Both have been a huge inspiration for other musicians.

Emmylou Harris version of Magdalene Laundary is fantastic songwise – the standard tuned guitar is a wee bit boring.

Cassandra Wilson have done better JM covers on her own CD´s. KD Lang copies JM but shes good at it so wtf, she never was very original anyway. Good vocals, Miss Lang why dont you try something original now and then?

I hope Joni and Prince will make more music in the years to come. They probably will.

I Joni tribute to Prince is probably unlikely? She´d probably do Mozart covers first. played on guitars in weird tunings.

Joni’s voice and phrasing is SO distinctive that hearing her covered is rather disconcerting. And some of the covers just seem plain WRONG. The least painful tracks are those where the vocal register myst closely approximates Mitchell’s own: Sarah McLachlan, Emmylou Harris, and K. D. Lang.

A good tribute album is Badland’s, a tribute to Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska.

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WOWE, I think Björk’s version of “Boho Dance” is really good! ( It could have nestled right onto her “Vespertine” album! ) Very heartfelt, very Björk. It, of course, doesn’t beat the original. The original is beyond amazing!

It’s always nice to hear Annie Lennox singing, but this time around her cover is, umm, tacky. ( Check out “No More I love You’s” instead. ) Same thing with Elvis Costello: an amazing voice, but his vocal style and note carrying/emphasizing technique is just akwardly matched with these wonderful lyrics, that somehow seem desperately out of place away from the lush, San Franciscan-like jazzy smoothness of the original music… Sade would have done a better job with “Edith and the Kingpin”, I think.

But Sarah McLachlan???? Pleeeeeease. What the hell is she doing on here? I have 3 words for Sarah: DEPRESSED WHITE BITCH!

All and all, yes, it’s true, the cover album does not radiate, not even remotely, the spirit, the depth, and least of all the natural spontenuity of the original songs…. Joni Mitchell just can’t be topped! She’ll always be horizons ahead of everyone. ( But to be fair to her admirers, today’s recording equipment and recording contitions just aren’t what they used to be in “the olden days”, and one of the most obvious flaws on this record that is instantly felt, is that the production kills the songs. )

One critiquer made a very wise observation: Tori Amos! Where is she? She’s missed here. But, on the other hand, I’m glad Skeletora ( alias: Janet Jackson ) is not on the record, although I do have to admit I really dig “Got’ ‘Til It’s Gone”. ( I know, I know, embarassing. )

Anyhow, I’m sticking to the originals… peace.

Abdula 686, someone stole my CD collection while I was out of town. I haven’t listened to her music in quite a few years. Are those songs you mention from her “Blue” album? Or, are they from “Court and Spark”? Oh, now I remember: “The Hissing of Summer Lawns!” Yeah, that’s the ticket!

What a disappointment, considering all of the arists who were supposed to be on the earlier incarnation – A Case Of Joni – as well as this final product. Annie Lennox’s take is great, though.

as much as i love prince, and I do, there is something lucklaster from his cover of a case of you. frankly, joni mitchell wrote a beautiful song that was improved by diana krall’s cover. i had high hopes that prince would make this cover as soulful and beautiful as nothing compares 2 u, but it fell short. i think i would have liked it better if prince covered one of the covers of case of you. it’s just such a beautiful song, that tori amos allegedly once said she’d give her right arm to have written, that i wish more had been done with it.

Chesterton said “a critic is someone who knows the way but can’t drive the car…”

It appears there are a lot of people who wish they could drive like Joni.

Dreamers all.

sarah mclachlan sounds alot like joni on her cover of blue.

A Joni Tribute without Tori…without Tori…without Tori…jesus. What about a Joni tribute without Jackson Browne, without Shawn Colvin, without Patty Griffin, without David Crosby and Grahm Nash, without Linda Rondstat, without Bonnie Raitt, without Carole King…without every artist that mattered because she mattered. I am so tired of people whose musical identity starts in 1992. Tori is an amazing talent…and an unfortunate poser.

Krall was able to “improve” (gasp) Mitchell because Mitchell set the tone, the emotion, the reality of that song. Krall never would have been able to interprit it otherwise. as truly fine as she is. Hear that tune on Blue for the first time and you are immediately struck by how vulnerable she is, yet how strong she is. Krall sings it beautifully and I adore the version, but she sings it as a smoky “I know better than you” brash bar chick.

Finally, if Prince is such a wonderkind, then he would be secure enough to honor the song and not himself. How amazing Prince would be if he stopped looking in the mirror long enough to let that amazing talent talk more loudly than his persona.

No Joni and there would have been no Rondstat, Chrissy Hynde, Bonnie Raitt, Pat Benatar, Madonna, Amos, Osborne, Colvin, Griffin, Griffith,Stefani etc, etc….it is just a fact. She broke it down, built it up and when everyone saw her, she bolted into the jazz world and re-legitamized a near dead musical medium with the kind and meaningful assitance of Charles Mingus.

It is time tributes got back to being tributes. This is closer than most (at least Shania Twain isn’t on it)

I’m a big JT fan, but his recent work fits more neatly in elevators than on radio airwaves (sadly)- For this set, Sarah’s version of “River” from her xmas CD is spot on and beautiful. It would have been more interesting to hear that gem on this set and have James pull out a more stark “Blue”.

Oh, one last note: How does the likes of Sufjan Stevens even get a deal,never mind included in a tribute to Joni Mitchell. Maybe if record companies returned to signing talent instead of trendy nobodies with neat names they might start making money again. He should call himslef Justin Timberfolk.

Hits and misses here, but in the main, most Joni fans will love to hear her songs reworked by others. The contributors are a bizarre mix and while Elvis Costello’s droning Edith cover bombs, Sufjan’s breezy and crazy Free Man grows on you – at least he tried to rework the song. Favs are Prince, Cassandra Wilson and Annie Lennox. kd and Sarah McL sing beautifully, but add little to the original – surely in covering a song, you want to add your own ‘voice’ or interpretation to it.