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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 |
Product Description
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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
Chronique amazon.fr
On connaissait Joni Mitchell interprète émouvante de ses propres chansons, la voilà qui s'attelle au répertoire du music-hall américain. Avec l'aide du Philharmonique de Londres, dirigé par Vince Mendoza, et le soutien de quelques distingués amis comme Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock et Mark Isham, elle revisite des standards en évitant les plus rebattus. L'élégance grave et somptueuse des arrangements, la voix de Joni abîmée par quelques décennies de tabagie évoquent les collaborations entre Billie Holiday et l'arrangeur Ray Ellis. Les relectures les plus émouvantes sont peut-être celles de ses deux morceaux : "A Case Of You" et "Both Sides Now", qu'elle hisse à la hauteur des compositions signées Rodgers & Hart ou Carl Fisher. Le pari était culotté mais il est gagné haut la main. --Hubert Deshouse
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Atmospheric music for the adult fan,
By A Customer
This review is from: Both Sides Now (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
5.0 out of 5 stars
Looking Back on Life and Love,
By A Customer
This review is from: Both Sides Now (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
5.0 out of 5 stars
Joni enters a mature, new era,
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This review is from: Both Sides Now (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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