Called "An Essential Joni Mitchell Collection" includes 17 'classic tracks'.



Track List

1. Free Man In Paris
2. In France They Kiss On Main Street
3. Dreamland
4. The Jungle Line
5. Furry Sings The Blues
6. You Turn Me On I'm A Radio
7. Carey
8. Big Yellow Taxi
9. California
10. Help Me
11. Nothing Can Be Done
12. Dancin' Clown
13. Come In From The Cold
14. Amelia (Orchestral Version, 2002)
15. For The Roses (Orchestral Version, 2002)
16. Both Sides Now (Orchestral Version, 2002)
17. The Circle Game

Original Recordings Produced by Joni Mitchell & Larry Klein
Compilation Produced by Joni Mitchell


Your thoughts?

I love Joni. This looks cool. I'm a bit useless with song titles tho' so would have to check up to know if all my favs are there.

She is the lyric queen - her songs are poems. There's a fabulous book of them I would love to own one day...

I'm personally more interested in this:

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1. The Reocurring Dream
2. The Windfall (Everything for Nothing)
3. Slouching Towards Bethlehem
4. Dog Eat Dog
5. Fiction
6. Beat of Black Wings
7. No Apologies
8. Sex Kills
9. The Three Great Stimulants
10. Lakota
11. Ethiopia
12. Cool Water
13. Tax Free
14. Magdalene Laundries
15. Passion Play (The Story of Jesus and Zachius...the Little Tax Collector)
16. Impossible Dreamer

This is the reoccuring dream...
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MrSquiggle said:

That's the 'Beginning of Survival' collection, if I'm not mistaken. I saw that, and I liked the idea of having a themed collection (more like something a friend who was into her work might give you, rather than a plain old Greatest Hits). Plus, I was into the idea of a collection of songs addressing political/social themes, as I'm not really familiar with that aspect of her work.

Do you (or anyone else reading this) have it? Is it any good?

deebee said:

I don't have it, but I have all those songs on their original albums, and they're all great. The Reoccuring Dream is one of her most powerful, underrated tracks. It's good to see Joni likes it too.

No 'River' i love this song so much.

I love Joni, but how many compilations of her old songs is she going to put out? Granted the re-recordings are kinda interesting in a "then and now" way, but is she stuck in a rut?

Tom said:

Yup. That's our Joni!

Gave this cd a listen to today... I'm likin' it!