Joni Mitchell - Dreamland
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Artist: Joni MitchellEdition: Music CD
Published: 2004
CD Release Date: 2004-09-14
Music Label: Rhino / Wea
Soundtracks:
- Free Man In Paris
- In France They Kiss On Main Street
- Dreamland
- The Jungle Line
- Furry Sings The Blues
- You Turn Me On I?m A Radio
- Carey
- Big Yellow Taxi
- California
- Help Me
- Nothing Can Be Done
- Dancin? Clown
- Come In From The Cold
- Amelia
- For The Roses
- Both Sides Now
- The Circle Game
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Free Music Review: Sweet Dreams
Hit: 4 Stars
Joni Mitchell was an artist who, for years, resisted any attempts to anthologize her work. It is easy to see why, as her best albums (Mingus, Court and Spark) hold together like paintings on canvas. When listening to these and other Mitchell albums, it is easy to see why painting was her other expressive medium of choice; she looks at creation as a big picture, as creative wholes.
However, since Hits and Misses, she has been catching up with a vengeance. "Dreamland" is a single disc best of that strikes what most casual fans would regard as "hits." While she only ever had a tiny amount of Top 40 singles - all here except the live version of "Big Yellow Taxi", it's the studio version instead - then brings in songs Mitchell herself chose for inclusion. Her logic being that these imagistic songs are as close to a dream-scape as she could organize, and in many cases, they are. Such classics as "Furry Sings The Blues" fit next to selections from the maligned Geffen period like "Dancing Clown." As Mitchell was always about playing with conception (name any other artists to play with Jaco Pastorius, Charles Mingus, Tom Petty and Billy Idol?), then the satisfaction you'll receive from this collection will depend on your willingness to accept Mitchell's exploratory spirit.
The other nice thing about "Dreamland" is that it covers the entirety of Mitchell's career. The albums from Asylum, Reprise, Geffen and Nonesuch (the more recent Shine was released three years later) are all here. The cutoff was 2002's Travelogue, from which "For The Roses" and "Amelia" are taken, and it is revelatory to hear how husky and full Mitchell's voice has grown across the years. Good for newbies and maybe for those who let their interest in Joni Mitchell lapse in the 80's, "Dreamland," like Songs of a Prairie Girl and The Beginning of Survival, offers convincing evidence that her latter years were every bit as creative as those earlier.
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Compressing the diverse highlights of Joni Mitchell's four-decade career into the hour-and-change confines of a single CD seems like an unfair challenge. But with Mitchell herself tackling the anthologizing, Dreamland plays like a warm reintroduction to an old, if ever mercurial, musical friend. Taking nothing for granted, Mitchell shrewdly anchors the set with two of her early jazz-infused commercial breakthroughs, "Free Man in Paris" and "In France…," before charting an elliptical course through one of the most consistently inspired song canons in all of pop music. While familiar hits are well-represented, the collection also widens to include her forays with Afrocentric rhythms ("The Jungle Line," title track) and her tribute to a beloved blues legend ("Furry Sings the Blues"). Indeed, the choices here are often as playfully surprising as the tantalizing omissions: "Dancin' Clown," her unlikely '80s collaboration with Tom Petty and Billy Idol, is included yet there's nothing from the sublimely challenging Mingus. It all wends to an elegiac triptych from her latter-day symphonic reinventions (Travelogue and Both Sides Now), their postmodern elegance informed by the bittersweet knowledge that Mitchell undertook a self-imposed recording hiatus thereafter. Richly illustrated with the musician's own distinctive paintings, the 17-track collection also includes new liner notes by writer-director Cameron Crowe. --Jerry McCulleyWithout doubt one of the most important and influential artists in all of contemporary music, Joni Mitchell is much more than a legendary icon of the singer-songwriter art form. Since her 1968 debut LP, Mitchell has released a long string of stellar albums as emotionally powerful as they are stylistically diverse. The 5X Grammy? winner assisted in the compilation of this new Rhino release, an in-depth career overview more complex than a simple hits collection—DREAMLAND offers a glimpse of the timeless innovation she has continued to pursue at each stage of her career.
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