Blue

Albums Heard in 2022 (200 music items)

"June 6th"

The 100 Best Albums of the 1970s (100 music items)

"Joni Mitchell - Blue, 1971 "

Best Albums of the 1970s (201 music items)

" Joni Mitchell "

Women Who Rock: The 50 Greatest Albums of All Time (50 music items)

"An acoustic tour de force with a swinging cast of beautiful losers, cafe romantics, sugar daddies, drunkards, liars and Rolling Stone-reading jet-setters in Spain. The one-liners cut sharp enough for a Preston Sturges film. Essential moment: "Carey," a jaded love ditty."

100 Greatest American Albums of All Time (100 music items)

"Tales of love and loss. But mostly loss “Write about what you know” is advice few have followed as thoroughly as Mitchell did on this set of laments, in which she ruminated on affairs with James Taylor and Graham Nash. Kris Kristofferson, hearing these songs, pleaded, “Joni, save something for yourself.” It was advice she chose to ignore. Standout tracks: “Carey,” “The Last Time I Saw Richard”"

album of the year (1957-2018) (61 music items)

"1971 Favourite song: "River""

Favorite Songs of All Time: 1970-1971 (110 music items)

""Carey" Runner up: "A Case of You""

The 150 Greatest Albums Made By Women (150 music items)

"After nearly fifty years, Blue remains the clearest and most animated musical map to the new world that women traced, sometimes invisibly, within their daily lives in the aftermath of the utopian, dream-crushing 1960s. It is a record full of love songs, of sad songs; but more than that, it is a compendium of reasonable demands that too many men in too many women's lives heard, in 1971, as pipe dreams or outrageous follies. "All I really, really want our love to do, is to bring out the best in me"

500 CDs You Must Own Before You Die! (500 music items)

"“The bed’s too big/The frying pan’s too wide.” You know the feeling. Mitchell’s acoustic confessionals of freewheeling love and fuckups among the L.A. hipperati touch everyone. Blue’s open-hearted beauty inspired Annie Lennox, Alanis Morissette . . . and Led Zeppelin. Standout track: “Carey” "

2,020 Albums You Must Hear Before the World Ends (1748 music items)

"BLUE (1971) JONI MITCHELL Review coming soon... "