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Joni Mitchell is a treasure. I have a thought exercise I sometimes use for popular musicians: "Will they still be popular 100 or 200 years from now, like Mozart

Joni Mitchell is a treasure. I have a thought exercise I sometimes use for popular musicians: "Will they still be popular 100 or 200 years from now, like Mozart or Bach are today?" Pink Floyd: yes, Joni Mitchell: yes. My love of Joni's music goes back to high school in America, but as a working class young man the 70's it was best to keep it a quiet if you didn't want people to think you were gay. Tough guys listened to Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, then the Sex Pistols.

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wyclif 4y ago
I love her best albums, like Blue and Hejira. Sadly, I don't listen to her much anymore since I listen to all my music on Spotify and she pulled all her albums from the platform, because Joe Rogan (or something). Disappointing.
- labrador 4y ago
  I don't use Spotify. I use YouTube on the desktop with ad blockers. YouTube is doing something amazing which is auto uploading music from all over the world in partnership with aggregators. For example: Самолёт - Джуна https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgeZtWT2gz8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgeZtWT2gz8 Provided to YouTube by National Digital Aggregator LLC Самолёт · Джуна 2,220 views ℗ 2020 Released on: 2017-04-14 Auto-generated by YouTube. It's fair to say I've discovered more new music this year than all previous years of my life. It's strange to think I live in a world where I could listen to music for the rest of my life and never listen to the same song twice
TheOtherHobbes 4y ago
I hope she's still popular. She's a genuine genius, the music is astounding, and as a personality she's a force of nature. But I have a theory that you're not destined for immortality until at least three generations love your work. Pink Floyd and maybe Kate Bush seem to be there, but I'm not sure Joni is yet.
- labrador 4y ago
  I'm afraid you are right. Sadly, that means many brilliant musicians like Tom Waits are destined to fade into obscurity. I'm sure Tom Waits will live on, but fewer people will know his brilliance.
- bsder 4y ago
  I doubt it. When was the last time you even heard Elvis anywhere? What male singer can you name from the 1940s other than Sinatra? When was the last time you heard anything from Bing Crosby other than Christmas songs? And they were gigantic relative to anybody in the last 40 years short of maybe Michael Jackson.
Cupertino95014 4y ago
I watched the Kennedy Center Honors show for her. Even though I've known about her forever, I was blown away by how great those songs are, even when performed by someone else. Maybe even "especially performed by someone else." Now I have the super-high-fidelity digital version of Blue. Along with an outboard D/A converter to take advantage of it.

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wyclif 4y ago

I love her best albums, like Blue and Hejira. Sadly, I don't listen to her much anymore since I listen to all my music on Spotify and she pulled all her albums from the platform, because Joe Rogan (or something). Disappointing.

labrador 4y ago
I don't use Spotify. I use YouTube on the desktop with ad blockers. YouTube is doing something amazing which is auto uploading music from all over the world in partnership with aggregators. For example: Самолёт - Джуна https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgeZtWT2gz8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgeZtWT2gz8 Provided to YouTube by National Digital Aggregator LLC Самолёт · Джуна 2,220 views ℗ 2020 Released on: 2017-04-14 Auto-generated by YouTube. It's fair to say I've discovered more new music this year than all previous years of my life. It's strange to think I live in a world where I could listen to music for the rest of my life and never listen to the same song twice

TheOtherHobbes 4y ago

I hope she's still popular. She's a genuine genius, the music is astounding, and as a personality she's a force of nature. But I have a theory that you're not destined for immortality until at least three generations love your work. Pink Floyd and maybe Kate Bush seem to be there, but I'm not sure Joni is yet.

labrador 4y ago
I'm afraid you are right. Sadly, that means many brilliant musicians like Tom Waits are destined to fade into obscurity. I'm sure Tom Waits will live on, but fewer people will know his brilliance.
bsder 4y ago
I doubt it. When was the last time you even heard Elvis anywhere? What male singer can you name from the 1940s other than Sinatra? When was the last time you heard anything from Bing Crosby other than Christmas songs? And they were gigantic relative to anybody in the last 40 years short of maybe Michael Jackson.

Cupertino95014 4y ago

I watched the Kennedy Center Honors show for her. Even though I've known about her forever, I was blown away by how great those songs are, even when performed by someone else. Maybe even "especially performed by someone else." Now I have the super-high-fidelity digital version of Blue. Along with an outboard D/A converter to take advantage of it.