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This is a reissue of social-commentary songs from five albums Joni Mitchell recorded between 1985 and 1998, when she was making music of luxurious, iconoclastic complexity. No intimate acoustic-guitar confessions here. Instead you get rhythms that expand and dart, melodies that drape tuneful bits from lofty heights, singing that is remote and in-your-face. The tracks, which cohere well as a group, move with poise and slipperiness. The New Wave keyboardist Thomas Dolby appears on "Fiction," Willie Nelson sings "Cool Water" and the jazz saxophonist Wayne Shorter plays on "Impossible Dreamer," as Mitchell, throughout the set,
deplores televangelists, materialism and crassness. These are
demanding, experimental songs, interested in reality yet expressed in almost unreal ways. In time, though, they yield their own sort of stark magic.
(Posted: Sep 2, 2004)
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Track List
- The Reoccurring Dream
- The Windfall (Everything For Nothing)
- Slouching Towards Bethlehem
- Dog Eat Dog
- Fiction
- The Beat Of Black Wings
- No Apologies
- Sex Kills
- The Three Great Stimulants
- Lakota
- Ethiopia
- Cool Water
- Tax Free
- The Magdalene Laundries
- Passion Play (The Story Of Jesus And Zachius...The Little Tax Collector)
- Impossible Dreamer
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