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Track Listings
| 1. You're My Thrill |
| 2. At Last |
| 3. Comes Love |
| 4. You've Changed |
| 5. Answer Me, My Love |
| 6. A Case Of You |
| 7. Don't Go To Strangers |
| 8. Sometimes I'm Happy |
| 9. Don't Worry 'Bout Me |
| 10. Stormy Weather |
| 11. I Wish I Were In Love Again |
| 12. Both Sides Now |
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Taking its title from one of Joni Mitchell's best-known songs, this atmospheric album traces the arc of a relationship: from first excited flush, through resigned closure, to the next real thing. Two of the tracks are re-recordings of early Mitchell songs--the title track and the lesser-known "A Case Of You", but otherwise the tales are told in the words of others. The self-painted cover gives a clue to the album's mood: lush and lavish, with a 70-piece orchestra accompanying songs popularised by Sinatra, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald. This is Joni Mitchell as torch singer, with well-chosen songs ("Stormy Weather", "Don't Go To Strangers", "Answer Me My Love") brightly arranged and beautifully sung. But from a singer whose reputation as one of rock's most respected songwriters was established by early, folk-influenced albums such as Clouds and Blue and the crowd-pleasing Court And Spark, the lack of new material on Both Sides Now is inevitably disappointing. --Patrick Humphries
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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Format:Audio CD
What a shock to hear the current voice of Joni Mitchell! I would not have known it was she. The high trembly girlish warble is now a smoky, emotion-evoking womanly sound that suits the songs on this album to perfection. "Both Sides Now" in this version touches me more than the old version because it conveys a life of experience. I can see why it was chosen for a key scene in the film "Love, Actually." It's a good album for daydreaming and relaxing, maybe with cocktail in hand.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
By A Customer
Format:Audio CD
I never much cared for Joni's original version of "Both Sides Now". Listening to it conjured-up remembrances of my days as a "hippie" in the Yorkville district of Toronto: paisley shirts, flowered dresses, sandals and strumming about love - or what I thought love was - on an 'out-of-tune' guitar on a street-step somewhere.
But this time around, her rendition is worth the price of the CD all by itself. The song has been recast through the eyes of someone who has likely lived the melody and, therefore, has brought to it a bitter-sweet reverie that reaches out to one's heart and tugs at it mercilessly. Intimate and exquisitely anguished, the song is now a sumptuous vehicle for Joni's wisened voice and painful reminesences.
For anyone who has lived....and loved, this is a reading that simply cannot be missed.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
By Adam A. Fine
Format:Audio CD
I have to admit, I'm one of those people who have listened to "Court And Spark," "Blue" and the like for years, never getting into some of those experimental albums some fans seem to adore. But this album is Joni in a very new place. Like Billie Holiday (whose "You've Changed" she covers), Joni has reworked the music to fit the changes in her voice over the course of decades. Don't excpect the old stuff here-- you won't even recognize her voice. But this is a sultry, smoke-filled, fragile, absolutely magnificent Joni. This album rightfully can not be considered among her others, although like Bowie, she has always been a chameleon. But this... this stuff is jazzy, raw, sensitive, so very much like the later Billie Holiday it's amazing. The fact that she covers two of her own songs ("A Case Of You" and the title track) shows how she, and her music, have matured. If this is Joni's new style, she could easily do an Ella Fitzgerald-style collection of songbooks; her work is that good. Congratulations, Joni. You've done it yet again.
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Her Best!
This is a mature confident Joni at her best. She takes a relationship from beginning to end singing the appropriate songs for each phase of the relationship. Read more
Published on Mar 9 2007 by Shepherdess Extraordinaire
1.0 out of 5 stars
Both Sides Now -She sings like the CD picture looks POOR
I can't believe this is Joni ... a poor attempt. Nothing like Joni ... I guess she needs the money. I was ripped-off on this one
Published on Jun 23 2004 by Andrew Fronckowiak
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Fabulous Collection
This is a wonderful retro album. I am only sorry it took me until 2003 to discover it. This is an album for lovers. Read more
Published on Jan 31 2004
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Calming & Mellow......
I just discovered Both Sides Now @ the library & what a find. I've been listening to this at work for about 2 weeks straight now. Read more
Published on Dec 5 2003 by T. Kenard
5.0 out of 5 stars
And now for something really different
You were expecting Rod Stewart? Joni Mitchell's set of mid-20th century standards comes with dense orchestration and a distinctly "I've been around the block a few times"... Read more
Published on Nov 8 2003
2.0 out of 5 stars
a bit of vanity
Following in the footsteps of Bryan Ferry and George Michael, folk harpy and part-time painter Mitchell steps way back to a pre-rock era shimmering with lush orchestras, smokey... Read more
Published on Sep 2 2003 by "perryink2"
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A Musical Miracle!
Joni Mitchell's "Both Sides Now" is in the purest sense a musical miracle: in a medium that has been subordinated to synthetics and irreverent gimmicking, Mitchell proves... Read more
Published on April 1 2003
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I Just Cried
I have been a Jazz drummer all my life, a male in his fourties, 250 pounds ... listening to the cut Both Sides Now (on CD of same title), I just cried. Read more
Published on Feb 23 2003 by Peter Gresch
4.0 out of 5 stars
Big sounds, classic songs
Both Sides Now is Joni Mitchell's take on "the great American songbook," a task taken on by many pop singers. Read more
Published on Jan 9 2003
1.0 out of 5 stars
what a dissapointment
I am a big fan of Joni Mitchell. I loved the opportunity on this CD to hear how her voice has matured over the years. Read more
Published on Jan 7 2003 by Andrew Feinman
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