For The Roses Music Cd

Joni Mitchell - For The Roses

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For the Roses      Artist : Joni Mitchell      List Price : $11.98 USD        Your Price : $10.99 USD      ProductGroup: Music      Release Date : 1990-10-25      Studio : Elektra / Wea      Label : Elektra / Wea      Avg. Customer Rating : (53 reviews)

Reviews Customer Reviews for For The Roses      best LP, Cassette, or CD ever!      Rating:      I heard this as a cassette in the summer of 1976 while on a 2 1/2 month canoe trip thru Northern Minnesota--fell in love with the music first, then the lyrics...went out & found the LP..played it to pieces and just recently replaced my CD as a b-day gift for myself. Joni Mitchell has soul and wisdom and passion in every strum and plunk of the guitar....ever song tells a story!     Customer Reviews for For The Roses Cd      (3.5 stars) A bit overrated, but it's hard to really go wrong with vintage Joni      Rating:      Caught between Blue and Court & Spark chronologically, it's quite natural that For the Roses is somewhere between them sonically. It's a tentative step into Spark's folk-jazz sound ("Cold Blue Steel and Sweet Fire", "Blonde in the Bleachers" and "Judgment of the Moon and Stars" both use horns), but there are also a few piano ballads ("Banquet"; "See You Sometime") and acoustic-based ballads (title song; "Woman of Heart and Mind"; "Electricity") that would soon leave her repertoire completely. (for the record, there's also a solid country-folk number, "You Turn Me On I'm a Radio", that has no real equal in Mitchell's catalogue). As a transitional album, Roses is actually pretty good, even if it does have a very, well... transitional feel. My big problem with it is that some of it is too heavy-handed, musically speaking - take "Judgment of the Moon and Stars" and its pompous pseudo-classical arrangement. Other times, it's too lightweight, again musically speaking: "Barangrill" (just "Bar and Grill" said ten times fast), "Lesson in Survival", "Let the Wind Carry Me" and "Electricity" are all the kind of acoustic songs that had become Joni's stock in trade, and frankly she seems stuck in the past on all of those. But there are enough tremendous songs ("Banquet"; "See You Sometime"; "Blonde in the Bleachers"; "You Turn Me On"; title track), enough strong melodies (everywhere) and enough great lyrics (again, everywhere) to make this a noteworthy album. Just not as noteworthy as what came before and what came after, you know? Editorial Reviews for For The Roses Audio Cd      Amazon.com essential recording      Sandwiched between the solitary, heart-on-her-sleeve confessions of Blue and the ravishing pop of Court and Spark, 1972's For the Roses captures Joni Mitchell in a deceptively subdued period of transition. Still hewing to a spare sound, Mitchell ventures beyond the elegant folk sources of earlier records to explore her love of blues and jazz-based harmony, writing as much on piano as guitar; thematically, the earnest reveries and heartbroken dirges of before give way to a more detached, even journalistic perspective and darker, grittier settings, most strikingly on "Cold Blue Steel and Sweet Fire." "You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio" was the set's nominal hit, yet in hindsight the keepers here are found in evolutionary pieces like the jazz-tinged "Barangrill," the rock-infused "Blonde in the Bleachers," and in more sober meditations like "Woman of Heart and Mind"--testaments to her restless growth and signposts to the more mature music ahead. --Sam Sutherland