I struggle to understand why Dylan is held in such accepted esteem, while Joni is relatively overlooked and always judged on "Blue" much more than her jazz-influenced masterpieces.
@irkthepurists It is now 2020 and time has only increased her stature while Dylan has back slid - Blue got airplay but her other later work?...gets accolades but never got much airplay except shortly after it came out. Isolated here during COVID-19 I'm re-listening to all her work and realizing why she was called "Beethoven".
@irkthepurists It is now 2020 and time has only increased her stature while Dylan has back slid - Blue got airplay but her other later work?...gets accolades but never got much airplay except shortly after it came out. Isolated here during COVID-19 I'm re-listening to all her work and realizing why she was called "Beethoven".
@irkthepurists Now it's 2023 and Dylan is almost forgotten while Joni's art becoming more popular and appreciated. And I also hate when the others judge her only on "Blue" and treat her only as a "love" songwriter. "Blue" is a good record but she has much better albums like "Don Juan's Reckless Daughter", "The Hissing of Summer Lawns", "Wild Things Turn Fast" or Turbulent Indigo" that are a kind of experimental art rock/ jazz fusion. Her love songs are great because as a woman she was bold that time writting about her real feelings but she has also many songs...
@irkthepurists Now it's 2023 and Dylan is almost forgotten while Joni's art becoming more popular and appreciated. And I also hate when the others judge her only on "Blue" and treat her only as a "love" songwriter. "Blue" is a good record but she has much better albums like "Don Juan's Reckless Daughter", "The Hissing of Summer Lawns", "Wild Things Turn Fast" or Turbulent Indigo" that are a kind of experimental art rock/ jazz fusion. Her love songs are great because as a woman she was bold that time writting about her real feelings but she has also many songs about different issues like politics, feminism, sociality, people's natures, difficulties in an artist world and many other topics. But people seem to forget about it or they even ignore it. Here I could agree with Björk who claims that music industry expect women only composing not so art songs and writing about romances/ boyfriends. The same's about for example Stevie Nicks. Once I heard that her albums like "Bella Donna" or "Wild Heart" are good only because of the other guys who worked on it (xddddd) while the fact is that she almost always composes and has her own vision about the tracks . And I always get pissed when I read how poeple interprete her songs only as a love songs about L. Buckingham while she clearly explains in interviews that many of them are not even about romance. And the same fate faced Kate Bush or Björk. But fortunately years after years female musicians are more apreciated and taken seriously and that's why now poeple care more for chicks like Joni Mitchell instead of Bob Dylan or the other men.
I struggle to understand why Dylan is held in such accepted esteem, while Joni is relatively overlooked and always judged on "Blue" much more than her jazz-influenced masterpieces.
Glad to get that off my chest!
@irkthepurists It is now 2020 and time has only increased her stature while Dylan has back slid - Blue got airplay but her other later work?...gets accolades but never got much airplay except shortly after it came out. Isolated here during COVID-19 I'm re-listening to all her work and realizing why she was called "Beethoven".
@irkthepurists It is now 2020 and time has only increased her stature while Dylan has back slid - Blue got airplay but her other later work?...gets accolades but never got much airplay except shortly after it came out. Isolated here during COVID-19 I'm re-listening to all her work and realizing why she was called "Beethoven".
@irkthepurists Now it's 2023 and Dylan is almost forgotten while Joni's art becoming more popular and appreciated. And I also hate when the others judge her only on "Blue" and treat her only as a "love" songwriter. "Blue" is a good record but she has much better albums like "Don Juan's Reckless Daughter", "The Hissing of Summer Lawns", "Wild Things Turn Fast" or Turbulent Indigo" that are a kind of experimental art rock/ jazz fusion. Her love songs are great because as a woman she was bold that time writting about her real feelings but she has also many songs...
@irkthepurists Now it's 2023 and Dylan is almost forgotten while Joni's art becoming more popular and appreciated. And I also hate when the others judge her only on "Blue" and treat her only as a "love" songwriter. "Blue" is a good record but she has much better albums like "Don Juan's Reckless Daughter", "The Hissing of Summer Lawns", "Wild Things Turn Fast" or Turbulent Indigo" that are a kind of experimental art rock/ jazz fusion. Her love songs are great because as a woman she was bold that time writting about her real feelings but she has also many songs about different issues like politics, feminism, sociality, people's natures, difficulties in an artist world and many other topics. But people seem to forget about it or they even ignore it. Here I could agree with Björk who claims that music industry expect women only composing not so art songs and writing about romances/ boyfriends. The same's about for example Stevie Nicks. Once I heard that her albums like "Bella Donna" or "Wild Heart" are good only because of the other guys who worked on it (xddddd) while the fact is that she almost always composes and has her own vision about the tracks . And I always get pissed when I read how poeple interprete her songs only as a love songs about L. Buckingham while she clearly explains in interviews that many of them are not even about romance. And the same fate faced Kate Bush or Björk. But fortunately years after years female musicians are more apreciated and taken seriously and that's why now poeple care more for chicks like Joni Mitchell instead of Bob Dylan or the other men.