Joni Mitchell - Hits

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Album Details

Title: Hits
Artist: Joni Mitchell
Release Date: 10/29/1996
Re-Released On: 1/9/2001
Label: WEA International, Reprise
Duration: 60:30
Album Type(s): Greatest Hits, lyrics/libretto
UPCs: 093624632627, 494367402100, 936246326270
Genre: Rock
Styles: Singer/Songwriter, Psychedelic, Folk-Rock
Moods: Intimate, Knotty, Plaintive, Bittersweet, Literate, Passionate, Reflective, Stately, Autumnal, Brooding, Earnest, Earthy, Melancholy, Poignant, Sophisticated, Complex, Enigmatic, Gentle, Wistful, Elegant, Laid-Back/Mellow, Sensual, Sweet, Refined/Mannered
Total Copies: 0
Members Wishing: 0
Number of Discs/SwapaCD Credits: 1

Track Listings

Urge for Going
Chelsea Morning
Big Yellow Taxi
Woodstock
The Circle Game
Carey
California
You Turn Me on I'm a Radio
Raised on Robbery
Help Me
Free Man in Paris
River
Chinese Cafe/Unchained Melody
Come in from the Cold
Both Sides, Now

Additional Releases

Year	Type	Label	Catalog #
2001	CD	WEA International	10836
1996	CD	Reprise	46326

Other Editions

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Album Review

The album is a long overdue anthology of one of Canada's most celebrated ex-pats, Joni Mitchell. She sanctioned the release only on the condition that she be allowed to compile companion album Misses. While the 15-strong Hits focuses on the her earlier folk-pop crossover successes, many made famous initially by others ("Both Sides Now," "Woodstock," "The Circle Game"), Misses is a personal cross section of her more challenging early material and more recent recordings -- the riveting "The Wolf That Lives in Lindsey" from Mingus is especially enlightening. One should not pick up one disc without the other. With the flood of box sets released in recent years for far less deserving artists, it's odd that Reprise didn't go all out and make this a more elaborate tribute. ~ Roch Parisien, All Music Guide

Credits

Name	Credits
Alex Acu�a	Percussion
Alex Acu�a & the Unknowns	Percussion
Baron Wolman	Photography
Bobbye Hall	Percussion
David Crosby	Vocals (Background)
Graham Nash	Vocals (Background), Harmonica
James Taylor	Guitar (Acoustic)
Jim Hughart	Bass, Drums
Joe Gastwirt	Mastering
Joe Sample	Piano (Electric)
John Guerin	Drums, Percussion
Joni Mitchell	Guitar (Acoustic), Billatron, Piano, Keyboards, Design, Guitar, Art Direction, Piano (Electric), Vocals, Dulcimer, Producer, ?, Arranger
Jos� Feliciano	Guitar (Electric)
Larry Carlton	Guitar (Electric)
Larry Klein	Bass, Percussion, Guitar, Producer
Larry Williams	Prophet Synthesizer, Synthesizer
Lookout Mountain United Downstairs Choir	Vocals, Choir, Chorus
Max Bennett	Bass
Milt Holland	Percussion
Norman Seeff	Photography
Robbie Cavolina	Art Direction
Robbie Robertson	Guitar (Electric)
Russ Kunkel	Drums
Saskatunes	Vocals
Sneaky Pete Kleinow	Pedal Steel, ?
Stephen Stills	Guitar, Bass
Steve Lukather	Guitar (Electric)
Tom Scott	Horn, Woodwind
Tony Phillips	Mixing
Vinnie Colaiuta	Drums
Wilton Felder	Bass

Member Reviews

Judith B. (butchpoodle) wrote on 2/10/2007...

Classic Joni Mitchell, some of her later work. She's an American folk classic!

Sonoko F. wrote on 1/21/2007...

Great introduction to this supremely talented singer- songwriter. "Big Yellow Taxi" was sampled by Janet Jackson for the song "Got Till It's Gone" and covered by Counting Crows. From CDNow review:

"As single discs Best Of albums go, Joni Mitchell's "Hits" is very well done, collecting 15 of the best and most well known songs of Mitchell's long career. Mitchell is primarily known as a folk singer, but she's always had a rock and roll heart as she shows most particularly on "Big Yellow Taxi" (recently remade to excellent effect by The Counting Crows), the tropical paradise evoking "Carey" and the sweet love song "Help Me" that was one of her biggest hits.
On the folkier side of things, there is the standard "Both Sides Now," which for my money is more tuneful and superior to Judy Collins's hit version of the song. "Woodstock" is a postcard from another era, while the childhood memory-evoking "The Circle Game" is as poigniant as it is sweet. The collection gets a bonus star for including Mitchell's 1991 "comeback" tune "Come in from the Cold," which evokes the strain of being a flower child at heart growing up in the McCarthy-ite 1950s. The CD booklet is also excellent, containing a full lyrics sheet.

Overall, an outstanding single disc anthology album from an important American popular music artist. - Brian D. Rubendall"