Joni Mitchell - Love Has Many Faces [Box Set] (2014) FLAC Beolab1700
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Joni Mitchell - Love Has Many Faces: A Quartet, A Ballet, Waiting To Be Danced
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Artist...............: Joni Mitchell
Album................: Love Has Many Faces: A Quartet, A Ballet, Waiting To Be Danced
Genre................: Folk
Source...............: CD
Year.................: 2014
Ripper...............: EAC (Secure mode) / LAME 3.92 & Asus CD-S520
Codec................: Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC)
Version..............: reference libFLAC 1.2.1 20070917
Quality..............: Lossless, (avg. compression: 57 %)
Channels.............: Stereo / 44100 HZ / 16 Bit
Tags.................: VorbisComment
Information..........:
Posted by............: Beolab1700 on 06/12/2014
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Tracklisting
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CD 1
In France They Kiss On Main Street
Ray’s Dad’s Cadillac
You Turn Me On I’m a Radio
Harlem in Havana
Car On a Hill
Dancin’ Clown
River
Chinese Cafe/Unchained Melody
Harry’s House/Centerpiece
Shades of Scarlett Conquering
Number One
The Windfall (Everything for Nothing)
Come in from the Cold
CD 2
Court and Spark
No Apologies
Trouble Child
Not to Blame
Nothing Can Be Done
Comes Love
Moon at the Window
Blue
Tax Free
The Wolf That Lives in Lindsey
Hana
Hejira
Stay in Touch
Night Ride Home
CD 3
You’re My Thrill
The Crazy Cries of Love
Love Puts On a New Face
Borderline
A Strange Boy
You Dream Flat Tires
Love
All I Want
Be Cool
Yvette In English
Just Like This Train
Carey
The Only Joy In Town
CD 4
Don Juan’s Reckless Daughter
Two Grey Rooms
God Must Be a Boogie Man
Down To You
A Case of You
The Last Time I Saw Richard
Raised on Robbery
Sweet Sucker Dance
Lakota
Cool Water
Amelia
Both Sides Now
My Best To You
NOTE: Joni Mitchell re-recorded “Both Sides Now” and “A Case of You” for her 2000 album of the same name and a number of her other songs on 2002’s Travelogue. The information below pertains only to the original versions of the songs, as we do not yet have confirmation as to which versions she has included on the forthcoming box set.
CD 1, Tracks 1, 9-10 from The Hissing of Summer Lawns, Asylum, 1975
CD 1, Tracks 2, 12-13, CD 2, Tracks 5, 14 & CD 3, Track 13 from Night Ride Home, Geffen, 1991
CD 1, Track 3 from For the Roses, Asylum, 1972
CD 1, Track 4, CD 2, Tracks 2, 13, CD 3, Tracks 2-3 & CD 4, Track 13 from Taming the Tiger, Reprise, 1998
CD 1, Track 5, CD 2, Tracks 1, 3, CD 3, Track 11 & CD 4, Tracks 4, 7 from Court and Spark, Asylum, 1974
CD 1, Tracks 6, 11 & CD 4, Tracks 9-10 from Chalk Mark in a Rain Storm, Geffen, 1988
CD 1, Track 7, CD 2, Track 8, CD 3, Tracks 8, 12, & CD 4, Tracks 5-6 from Blue, Reprise, 1971
CD 1, Track 8 from Travelogue, Nonesuch, 2002
CD 1, Track 9 from The Hissing of Summer Lawns, Asylum, 1975
CD 2, Track 4, CD 3, Tracks 4, 10 from Turbulent Indigo, Reprise, 1994
CD 2, Track 6, CD 3, Track 1 from Both Sides Now, Reprise, 2000
CD 2, Track 7, CD 3, Tracks 6-7, 9 & CD 4, Track 2 from Wild Things Run Fast, Geffen, 1982
CD 2, Track 9 from Dog Eat Dog, Geffen, 1985
CD 2, Track 10, CD 4, Tracks 3 & 8 from Mingus, Asylum, 1979
CD 2, Track 11 from Shine, Hear Music, 2007
CD 2, Track 12, CD 3, Track 5 & CD 4, Track 11 from Hejira, Asylum, 1976
CD 4, Track 1 from Don Juan’s Reckless Daughter, Asylum, 1977
CD 4, Track 12 from Clouds, Reprise, 1969
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In the ’60s and ’70s, Joni Mitchell was widely seen as the archetypal female singer/songwriter, the original Lady from the Canyon who sang passionate but laid-back songs full of organic wisdom about love and life. Of course, that image was never an accurate portrait of the sort of artist Mitchell was — emotionally she was never hesitant to cut deep, even on languid acoustic numbers, and her skills as a lyricist, vocalist, and guitarist were estimable. One might imagine that the ambitious, marvelously crafted jazz-pop of 1974’s Court and Spark was an effort by Mitchell to prove she was more than just a moody girl with a guitar, and much of her subsequent music of the ’70s and ’80s was not just an expression of her eclectic muse, but an ongoing project to show off the range and intelligence of her musical impulses.
Mitchell has long been overdue for a career-spanning box set, and she’s finally delivered one with Love Has Many Faces: A Quartet, a Ballet, Waiting to Be Danced, a four-disc 53-song collection compiled, annotated, and designed by Mitchell with the stated intent of dealing with love and human interaction in its many forms. At the same time, Love Has Many Faces is a writ-large summary of Mitchell’s recorded legacy that finds her offering an idiosyncratic view of her career. A number of Mitchell’s most popular songs from her early days, including “Big Yellow Taxi,” “The Circle Game,” “Chelsea Morning,” “Cactus Tree,” and “Woodstock,” are missing from the program, with Mitchell putting a greater emphasis on material from largely overlooked albums like Wild Things Run Fast, Chalk Mark in a Rain Storm, and Night Ride Home. (The fact Mitchell wants us to recall “Dancin’ Clown,” an embarrassing duet with Billy Idol, is little short of astonishing.) Mitchell also presents several major selections in the orchestral re-recordings she created for the album Travelogue, and as she did on themed compilations such as Dreamland and Songs of a Prairie Girl, Mitchell has remixed a few of the tracks on this set. As a consequence, while most box sets are intended to summarize the career of an artist, Love Has Many Faces instead presents Joni’s own preferred perspective on her music, where the jazzier and more stylistically ambitious creations take center stage and Joni the Folkie barely exists. Some fans might find this set’s point of view to be a bit curious, especially since it favors less popular (and often less acclaimed) material over Mitchell’s more celebrated compositions, but in this context, many of these songs play significantly better than they did on her uneven projects of the ’80s and ’90s, and the lyrical strength and bold musical vision that inform this music are genuinely remarkable on nearly every tune. For many fans, Love Has Many Faces may not be the Joni Mitchell box set they want, but as a summation of her own musical world-view, it’s a powerful and revealing accomplishment.
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