Misses

Joni Mitchell | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 29, 1996)
• Original Release Date: October 29, 1996
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Warner Bros / Wea
• ASIN: B000002NAX
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #52,440 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Passion Play (When All The Slaves Are Free)

2. Nothing Can Be Done

3. A Case Of You

4. The Best Of Black Wings

5. Dog Eat Dog

6. The Wolf That Lives In Lindsey

7. The Magdalene Laundries

8. Impossible Dreamer

9. Sex Kills

10. The Reoccurring Dream

11. Harry's House/Centerpiece

12. The Arrangement

13. For The Roses

14. Hejira

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

38 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Wonderful Compilation Of Joni's Own Personal Favorites!, October 12, 2000

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Barron Laycock "Labradorman" (Temple, New Hampshire United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Misses (Audio CD)

No one made more impact on the sixties folk-rock scene with her deeply personal songs than Joni Mitchell. Certainly with songs like "Woodstock" and "The Circle Game" her albums galvanized our collective consciousness by quite deliberately turning toward both social consciousness and personal intimacy with a fresh, poetic, and unique approach.. Of course, no one as observant and perceptive as Mitchell can help but make shrewd side remarks at the inanity of social circumstance or political happenstance along the way, and we laugh along while accompanying her on this soulful journey through the risky, crater-filled landscape of cultural change and personal adventure in the sixties, seventies and beyond. Here we have her own favorites over the years, as opposed to those particular efforts which were more popular and commercially successful, which she has in another album labeled "Hits". Here then, are the songs she personally considers her best even though they were not commercially successful. Yet that is a terrific album as well.

From the opening "Passion Play", included a wonderful and very successful album made in the early 1990s, to "A Case Of You", from her immensely popular "Blue" album, we find many of her own favorites are much more complex and layered than the hits she is more famous for. Many of these songs take a little getting used to before one appreciates them., In general, they are not as immediately accessible or as apparently wonderful as are her more popular works. Yet, this is an artist who is capable of many moods, flavors of expressions, and abilities to communicate. Here is a sampling of an amazingly talented artist who is willing to share what she thinks is her most accomplished and meaningful work. This is almost a no-brainer, folks. Listen and enjoy! In her own creative way, Joni was the inspiration for a whole generation of iconoclastic feminists then and now, trying to find a sensible and meaningful way to live a meaningful life and still try to deal with all those "love `em and leave `em" men she so often seemed to collide with, sometimes giving them some of their own medicine. This is a great collection of terrific musical works by one of the most captivating, surprising, and articulate talents in modern music. You will find yourself listening to it and shaking your head knowingly as you recognize her wisdom as she sings her way through them all. Enjoy!

30 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Misses Hits the Mark, June 21, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Misses (Audio CD)

A companion to the more popular Hits collection, Misses more thoroughly demonstrates Mitchell's depth, versatility and, yes, genius. This collection surveys, mainly, Joni's post-1980 work (highlights: Sex Kills, Magdalene Laundries, Passion Play), which has been largely overlooked by radio and her early-career fans. Another stand-out is Impossible Dreamer, a dreamy and pretty (yet powerful) cut from Dog Eat Dog. Joni's body of work is deserving of a larger, deeper anthology, but Hits and Misses will do for now. If you're unfamiliar with Joni's work and you wonder why countless musicians and fiercely dedicated fans worship La Mitch, pick up this set and find out.

28 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A intriguing compliation than Hits, January 18, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Misses (Audio CD)

Hits was simply that: A collection of Joni's greatest hits. This compliation includes cuts from her Jazz experiments of the Seventies (including Wolf in Lindsey from her Mingus album, named after Jazz bassist Charles Mingus who she worked with before his death), her forays into electronic music in the '80s(e.g. Impossible Dreamer, and Chalk Mark In a Rainstorm), and her return to her folk roots in the '90s (e.g. Sex Kills). It's one of the most interesting compilations I've listened to in a long time.