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Woodstock: Joni Mitchell or CSN&Y? Which version do you prefer? Joni or Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young?
I came upon a child of god He was walking along the road And I asked him, where are you going And this he told me I’m going on down to yasgur’s farm I’m going to join in a rock ’n’ roll band I’m going to camp out on the land I’m going to try an’ get my soul free We are stardust We are golden And we’ve got to get ourselves Back to the garden Then can I walk beside you I have come here to lose the smog And I feel to be a cog in something turning Well maybe it is just the time of year Or maybe it’s the time of man I don’t know who l am But you know life is for learning We are stardust We are golden And we’ve got to get ourselves Back to the garden By the time we got to woodstock We were half a million strong And everywhere there was song and celebration And I dreamed I saw the bombers Riding shotgun in the sky And they were turning into butterflies Above our nation We are stardust Billion year old carbon We are golden Caught in the devil’s bargain And we’ve got to get ourselves Back to the garden I like Joni's better. It has sort of an ethereal feel to it. Obviously I wasn't there, but it all depends on who I talk to which version captured the mood of the event better. "A Watcher scoffs at gravity!" | |
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Joni.
No contest. | |
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Cloudbuster said: Joni.
No contest. Yeah, as if. | |
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GangstaFam said: Yeah, as if.
As if what?  | |
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Cloudbuster said: As if what?
As if it were a contest. | |
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GangstaFam said: Cloudbuster said: As if what?
As if it were a contest.  | |
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yeah Joni's. You gotta hear Joni's "Woodstock" vs Soundgarden's "Like Suicide". http://www.btinternet.com...dstock.mp3  looking for you in the woods tonight Switch FC SW-2874-2863-4789 (Rum&Coke) | |
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AnckSuNamun said: yeah Joni's. You gotta hear Joni's "Woodstock" vs Soundgarden's "Like Suicide". http://www.btinternet.com...dstock.mp3
I was gonna say that one! It's incredible. | |
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funny thing was she wasn't even at Woodstock. She did the song in a hotel room according to an interview with her on her DVD.
I like her version the best though. Did anyone catch the rendition of it on the Wigstock video? pretty cool. | |
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Joni
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When I first heard this on 'Six Feet Under' (yeah, I wasn't hip to this song for the loooongest time), I suddenly understood what Joni was all about and why she's been revered for so long. I bought 'Blue' the very next day.
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The Joni Mitchell version is the more heartfelt of the two.
However, as a more accurate aural representation of the Woodstock Experience, i'd have to go with CSN&Y tA  Tribal Disorder
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theAudience said: The Joni Mitchell version is the more heartfelt of the two.
However, as a more accurate aural representation of the Woodstock Experience, i'd have to go with CSN&Y My thoughts Xactly! I like Joni's better, but the CSNY version has that "Woodstock feel" to it, or at least what represents a "Woodstock Sound" to me,  ( I was 5 at the time...)
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CSN&Y | |
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