When Joni Mitchell Dunked on Neil Young

[@thelakeman5207]

I was told by an old man when I was in my teens, "Don't ever lose the kid inside of you because when you do, that is when you get old". I lived by those words and I'm 70 now. People keep asking me, "When are you gonna grow up?" Me - "Never!"

[@edmundooliver7584]

I'm 65 and young women still look at me

[@thelakeman5207]

@@edmundooliver7584 Lucky you. I became invisible to young women around 50.

[@artvallejos1460]

@@thelakeman5207 don't worry about it now, you're better off without them.

[@edmundooliver7584]

@@DaleRC75 no, but they hate me or love me I still have all my black hair.

[@josephboller4662]

Jonie did not write lyrics like other musicians she wrote poetry. Supremely talented artist of our generation who's beautiful voice froze time for me more than once

[@helenamaria710]

And for me, far more poetic and beautiful than Dylan. Where is her Nobel?????

[@karencahill4798]

I agree. I consider her the best poet and musician ever. I started listening to her 1972 at 16- never been the same. My 33 yr. old daughter loves her as well.

[@Chapps1941]

​@@helenamaria710Far more? Far more? I don't think so. Who is ahead would be debatable. Leonard Cohen, Neil Young, Kate Bush, Van Morrison, Gordon Lightfoot have work that is extremely good as wel

[@Chapps1941]

@@johncowper7982 Joni Mitchell is great but she hasn't got the width of styles that Dylan has conquered with elan. And she went jazz and l can't stand jazz in any of it's incarnations. Kate Bush's body of work is also superior. IMNSHO Tell me about Dylan's great work from the 90s, 00s and even just recently.

[@christopherhidalgo6696]

@@helenamaria710cause Dylan is better than

[@apocalypseplough8089]

I think Neil and Joni are not only the best Canadian singer/songwriters that have ever lived. I think they are the best singer/songwriters that have ever lived. Period. The fact that they grew up a few hundred miles from each other is stunning (I know Neil was born in Toronto. But he moved to Winnipeg when he was a teenager).

[@blindboygrunt7711]

Add Cohen to the list

[@dee1955]

@@LageKZbin Canadian singer/songwriters specifically

[@LageYouTube]

@@dee1955 Ok what don't know how I didn't notice that

[@barryward5096]

Gordon Lightfoot also

[@richardirvine1435]

And Burton Cummings

[@yeahrightbear8883]

I'm 21 now and I kills me to hear songs like these written by people in their earlier 20s who are now in their 70s. It reminds me that one day I'm going to be an old man.

[@jrobertsbrewer]

You will if you are fortunate. And you will look back with wonder at what was so important is now humorous. Youth is wasted on the young -- Like most things, you can't appreciate how special it is until it is no more.

[@ScienceHippie]

But when you look at your life, you'll be a lot like they were.

[@Crushenator500]

You should listen to Lost Highway by Hank Williams. I first heard it when I was 21 and now at almost 30 I still adore it. If you check it out let me know what you think!

[@yeahrightbear8883]

Crushenator500 hey thanks for the recommendation. Definitely a great song.

[@Crushenator500]

No problem, I'm glad you liked it!

[@gageiiiiitttt]

What I find fascinating about Joni Mitchell's optimism in Circle Game is the fact that she had gone through some experiences that would render most people bitter and broken. She had been street homeless while pregnant as a penniless teenage art student, rejected by her family, and had ended up having give her baby up for adoption to give her child the best chance in life. That's not even touching on the pain and betrayal she must have felt toward the man who abandoned both her and her child. Despite those experiences she chose to sing about innocence, wonder, and hope. That is truly a victory of the soul and perhaps the deepest form of wisdom. Thanks for a brilliant video.

[@pendragonU]

She was 22 not a teen, but neither homeless and he stayed with her after but told her he would not marry her or be a father for their daughter, and THAT felt like all else was empty to ever done with him. Eventually he left so she was spared from being the ass kicker. She had a job but that would not last soon, and hospital, etc nor be able to pretend she was married in the long run (at that time an stigma that closed you many doors, even for job openings you really needed ever more, as if your credit were almost that a step closer to another one that worked the streets, even to get out into str8 jobs) and those jobs for single young ladies would not sustain both alone herself. Daycares didnt exist really, but other ladies paid for it as maids or nannies. Forget about telling her parents she became a "fallen woman" 1964 still didnt believe or even understood in the Summer of Love, for free, that was very proper and even more polite Canada still in the 50's as many in Bible belts of USA, for another decade or longer... And as Joni had confessed a few times, her artistry didnt come out because she even believed in it or was leaning that way in the Arts (she was into painting being very visual herself and musical ear too but only as audience not in the other side as maker), but forced by necessity to make some bucks in independent gigs freelancing once her first husband also went frog on her, all b herself and in a quick tempo she honed her skills on her own self taught ways, a blessing. But like some proverbial greatest chefs of all time, once on the apron and getting a spoon and pot (as she said "I discovered I could be good at this, but I had no idea I had the gift for it, that came slowly the realization") these moved from serving cold sandwiches or recipes from others into the "improving" from others' own and make things in new ways. Specially, after she was allowed a sight into the big leagues and observed what the big boys like Leonard Cohen or Bob Dylan and her boyfriend in CSN (who gave her a hand in the Indusrty to be signed into records) could do with their skills, and she absorbed like a vacuum or computer data processing, growing fast like a Natural, but not mimicking or playing along nor alike those tall sports players leagues, she turned it into something off this planet to places only a "Neo" kind can start to believe, and others cant go but just listen. The Lady was a born natural alike Mike Oldfield, who in my opinion Im convinced he is a Savant in music, like those children as Mozart, who like Joni are shown to play and soon are speaking in tongues in it, touched by the HG to since before their birth. As Joni reflected on how it all happened to her Art, all came to be like a set of chain reaction changes and yes truly setbacks and that led her to join Music making and performing and a whole new life form that made of her a new person

[@nobillclinton]

@@pendragonU wow. . .just wow

[@relaxingsounds1386]

She gave her child up to focus on her career.

[@lindahuff8976]

@@relaxingsounds1386 Not true at all. As she has said "there was no career at that time". Glad her daughter got a good home instead of going into foster care.

[@redpillcopinthephilippines9647]

In today's sick world she would just kill it.........Abortion is murder

[@throckmortensnivel2850]

Listening to the 70-year-old Joni Mitchell sing "The Circle Game" is an experience that draws the tears until they run freely. What an extraordinary examination of a life lived. Thank you, Joni, for bringing such beauty to the world.

[@davids.reynolds4883]

"Circle Game" is surely one of the best songs ever written, and Joni sings it so very beautifully. God bless you, Joni, you are unmatched! (Neil Young, you're great too!)

[@joedzekevich2407]

The story that Tom Rush tells is that Joni told him that she had a friend who was turning 20 and was depressed. That friend was a member of a Toronto teen club, and when one turned 20, they could no longer be a member, so she wrote it to cheer the friend up. My favorite Joni song is The Urge for Going, a great song about summer romances changing like the seasons. I was a member of The Club 47 and heard Joni sing it just after she wrote it in 1966. Joni is my favorite of all time folk music singer songwriter.

[@pedromansadevi]

wow i love joni so much, thank you for this video. She has actually invented different tunings and developed a whole method of categorizing each song according to each tuning it is, she is amazing, she deserved a video for herself (i love neil young too, but he is much more spoken of)

[@robsnow4818]

As someone who's turning 19 in August, I just wanted to thank you for the existential crisis you've presented me with.

[@Elle-mq8ij]

Existential crisis? CALL 1-800-

[@feedigli]

Welcome to the party! It gets better; it could always be worse. Whatcha bringing?

[@averat84]

You’re just a sentient being _suffering_ as a virtual slave to your will to life.

[@markgigiel2722]

True. But. That didn't help.

[@lindathefirst]

You are welcome, I'm sure. Get a grip.

[@WhatWeDigtoday]

Wow dude. That was brilliant. I am a sonically driven music lover and have heard these songs hundreds of times. I never took the time to follow the poetry. I have for other Joni and Neil songs but not this one. Wow.. thank you for dissecting it and both were great contrasting perspectives on life.

[@TheNaturalust]

My sister has a voice almost exactly like Joni and our Grandma's favorite song was Circle Game. Therefore we've had to play it at almost every family gathering for decades. But when the priest at Grandma's funeral forbid us to play anything not on his "list", me and my sister agreed and then broke into Circle Game at the funeral. The priest was smoking from his ears mad but there wasn't a dry eye in the church when we were done. 🤗❤️☮️

[@ffggddss]

And after all these years of playing _Circle Game,_ I had no idea it was inspired by Neil's _Sugar Mountain_ !!! Thanks for explaining this connection! Fred

[@hatrack8134]

When I heard the story about those two songs, I heard that Neil Young's first band used to play in a club which didn't let anyone over 19 in. So when he turned 20 he lost his band, his friends, and his social scene all at once. How's that for a rite of passage?

[@makinoahcelloduo9008]

Neil and Joni are both Canadian. They would spell "colour" with a U.

[@denniscross5588]

both from the Canadian prairies. I can see the neighbourhood Neil grew up in from my condo window now

[@TheBatugan77]

That's why we correct Canadians. And it's soccer. Not football.

[@jadedpotato1574]

TheBatugan77 chill bro. our american football is played in like. 3 countries. let the rest of the world have this one; we’re already big enough laughingstocks

[@danniemoore97]

@@denniscross5588 neil is from ontario.

[@axlegrind4212]

is that your sum of knowledge aboot canada?

[@glennaembrett610]

Two amazing Canadian artists...voices of a generation that we still enjoy as much today as we did when they first hit the airwaves...timeless.

[@concernedcanadian8460]

I can remember listening to Sugar Mountain in my teens, loved the song and Neil Young in general. I've gotten more into Joni in the last decade or so and she's absolutely brilliant. I'm 51 now with an 8 and 10 year old. Listening to Sugar Mountain and The Circle Game helps me remember what being young is like and what a big deal the transition into teens and adulthood is, and how important it is to continue moving forward, not just grasping at the past.

[@DRpokeme]

This song came out in my last year of primary school (Australia). It made me think, I was leaving the real care free time of being a kid and stepping into teenage years and so growing up. These were days of reflection and when this song came out, it sort of laid out the future for me. It made me rather melancholy about passing one phase of my life and excited for the future. I have never forgotten that day. Love JM.

[@foggy4180]

There are a lot singer songwriters that give their own view on the world we're living in but almost no one dared to be so honest and vulnerable as Joni did. You have to be very strong to show that to the world. Let the feminsists in the world talk but she did the talk and the walk. A powerwoman in the real sense of the word, a true goddess.

[@brandymason1855]

Neil was saying being young is one's last pure essence of innocence and that can never be recaptured no matter how many times you go around Joni's carousel.

[@NigelFortune]

Awesome to see you do a video of two of the greatest songwriters of all time..

[@hannah-pw6qs]

OMG JONI MITCHELL IS MY FAVORITE OF ALL TIME THIS MAKES ME SOOO HAPPPPYYYYY

[@sebuteo]

Excellent video Polyphonic. Joni has always been my spiritual siren, and heroin(e). I spell that last word like that deliberately. Because she's been like a powerful drug, for me. I'm addicted to her, and she has brought me incredible highs and beautiful epiphanies. But there's also a darkness in there, and I can sometimes only take limited doses, because her music/lyrics, her whole art, is just so powerful. It's great to hear this song framed like this, as a reply to Neil Young's song. I didn't know of the latter before seeing your video. So thanks for educating me. It's also great to hear the positive side of her insights brought out like this. As, for me, it's her 'saudade', as the Brazilians might call it, the blue melancholic note, that is usually dominant. Great stuff!

[@kirbymarchbarcena]

These two songs may be simple but both with so much heart and life.

[@Mr05Chuck]

My other favorite song writer is also Canadian. Gordon Lightfoot.

[@captainkangaroo4301]

Ian Tyson

[@idx1941]

Thanks for doing this indepth comparison. I always loved Circle Game but with each passing season the depth of Joni's lyrics become more powerful. Just turned 64 and there is a lot to look back on and reflect upon.

[@herbsgotaZX]

Cortez the killer by Neil young is my favorite song when I'm alone driving long distance

[@ZugBug27]

Agreed … I also dig the album Relayer by YES when on a long roadtrip …

[@Michael-mm3fm]

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[@Brandon-sr8qd]

An analysis of Southern Man from Neil Young and Sweet Home Alabama from Lyrnyrd Skynyrd would be fantastic!

[@JeffreyRogg]

Brandon King don't forget Neil's rejoinder, "Alabama."

[@pathfinder1273]

No.... please no. People make such a big deal of Skynyrd's "response". But what do they really have to say to the profound moral accusations of Southern Man? "A southern man don't need him around anyhow." What boorish ignorance. The whole song just says how great things are for white people down there, and so what if they treat blacks like animals in order for it to be so. It's reflected all over the US with the "America: Love It or Leave It" mentality. No sense of justice, just a "Watcha gonna do about it?" hubris.

[@markgigiel2722]

Yeah, they were assholes but mighty fine musicians.

[@carlcushmanhybels8159]

I thought someone might mention that.

[@Hanzyscure]

@@pathfinder1273 What's your point?

[@peachy-tay]

watching this because Circle Game was featured on last nights This is Us episode, and just wanna say how much better your videos have gotten over the years! not that this one is bad, but you've shown so much improvement in every aspect!

[@KeystoneState]

I stumbled on your videos today, and now three hours later, I have a different perspective on some of the greatest artists and songs of all time. Your insight and delivery is spot on, it's so easy to fly through all your vids! Subscriber for life bud, I dig it. Keep them coming! (This one was by far my favorite)

[@tcl2302]

Great artists and songs - thank you for highlighting the two songs

[@bjarnesmith640]

This song is so deep, and stirs up myriad emotions.

[@switchmuso]

I hope Joni's seen this... We love you Joni.

[@HyacinthFl0wer]

I dare say “The Secret O’ Life” by James Taylor has the same type of lyrics. Been a fan of all 3 artists for over half a century!

[@PInk77W1]

Once I was lost up in the mountains far from no where. I felt panic kicking in as the sun faded and darkness grew. I started singing Sugar mountain over and over again. I finally found a place to lay my head and sleep for the nite.

[@kennethshort2016]

Glad you found your way in the light

[@davideverdell9145]

what a beautiful coverage ..well done

[@kathymack3791]

Interesting. I love both of these songs but I never knew the back story. I have to say that “Circle Game” has come to mean so much more these days than when I first heard it (I’m now in my 60s). These lines especially: 🎶...And they tell him/take your time/it won’t be long now/till you drag your feet to slow the circles down...🎶

[@carolbozek1625]

I love Joni ❤️ great writer of songs and wonderful voice. She is still teaching us to hope and persevere and live each moment! 🎼🎹🎸

[@DanielinLaTuna]

A very interesting analysis; could you do “End of the Line” also, as a metaphor for perseverance and endurance. Some lyrics weather well and take on deeper meaning as they age.

[@estrellacasias]

At 10 I was browsing the library when I got to the section where they sell stuff that people haven't borrowed in a while and I saw her album HITS and liked the cover so I bought it. It became my favorite album ever. Woodstock was my favorite but her version of the Circle Game made me cry in a way i haven't in a while and in a way that happens more and more frequently

[@samsdrive-in]

I love Neil. You should do a video about his album, Tonight's the Night. He's so raw on that album, it's incredible

[@toddvanfleet8576]

I n the category of Briiliant Musical Artist, I agree with Prince, Jimi Page, Robert Plant, Morrissey, Janet Jackson, Elvis Costello'd, countless others, Joans work is on par with anyone of the last 55 years. And not because she bought me spaghetti dinner in LA 1996. She's just as marvelous at a dinner table.

[@johndef5075]

I saw Neil Young solo at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. The whole crowd singing Sugar Mountain together is one of my greatest concert memories. Many crying too😅❤

[@kikovazquez7277]

@johndel5075, what year was that? I attended OU from 1970-73. Neil was already at the top of the pyramid of diverse musical greatness. Amazingly and tragically for me, I never did get to see him play live in any of his musical iterations, though I was a huge fan of all of them. I must have been camping in Old Man's Cave for a couple of weeks to have missed this concert in Athens if it happened during my years there. The best thought I can have is Neil is still with us and from seeing his recent long interview with Conan which has been played in segments on KZbin, he still seems completely capable of going on tour and giving me one last opportunity to redeem myself and see him perform live.

[@JimGroome]

We just had a baby and this video got me right in the heart

[@carlcushmanhybels8159]

Thanks for the sharing and comparison. I hadn't known "Sugar Mountain" and "Circle Game" were so linked. You found "Circle Game" to be more hopeful and positive than "Sugar Mtn." I've usually thought of "Circle Game" though as more brutal --only able to go round and round and losing time, able to look back but not get back. Neil's song though doesn't say much about what you can do after leaving Sugar Mountain. There's a sadness and longing and poignancy in both about having to leave youth; but Neil's leaves it open that some other adventures and mountains one could explore and be happy about. Not just as Joni's, go round and round. Having gotten older, for a long time it's seemed both songs could only be written by young people: for older people it so goes without needing -or wanting- to say.

[@bitebetsy]

Nice touch, ending in a newer image of Joni - well into her years. I listened to many of her later interviews, and many sadden me. I believe Joni has given her world, our world, so many gifts of insights, inspirations, and truths - so needed to follow in the footsteps that will carry us towards our personal destinies. I just saddens me, listening so closely to Joni... Mitchell is still shoveling out tons of knowledge in her poetically streaming way, and yet she has never found her own peace. Joni has never come across her, "Intellectual Match." Joni has never met her equal! Sure, I believe, people exist today who have reached their own heights - matching in quality & strength, and, perhaps Joni has meet with some of them - to revel in their standards achieved, and acknowledging those they believe will always remain a single reach out of their grasp... I just mean - Joni has never met the one soul who would allow her to spread her wings to their fullest, where she could launch herself towards the heavens, and allow her own shackles of life - to fall to the ground below her. Joni deserves this. I believe she needs it - the same as we all need such a release - to top off a lifetime of breathing our own journey.

[@bitebetsy]

Of course, perhaps most important - Joni found her child, and her family, and I expect that fulfills her soul. I surely hope so!

[@dereathjohnna]

Joni met her perfect soul mate when she was with Graham Nash. She’s happy to be free.

[@alexportiiii6414]

Wow, thank you so much. Two of my favorite songs from when I was very young. I had no idea there was a direct connection between the two

[@mfr58]

Brilliant, life embracing response by Mitchel, although it's more like a spiral than a circle....as time flows and life turns we never arrive back at the same spot, but build experience and hopefully wisdom, on our trajectory....

[@Mrkillermarshmellow1]

Yung Neil ❤️

[@russ6541]

Babby Jones lol

[@sspaceboyy8717]

nice minutemen picture dude x

[@Mrkillermarshmellow1]

sspaceboyy thanks man

[@HopeGardner3amed]

Scott Pilgrim

[@jillweiser-murat7017]

That was great. Nice Joni❤️ Amazing how long we’ve sang Sugar Mountain and never knew this. 🙌💫

[@elizabeths4371]

Joni Mitchel's poetry and melodies are totally unique; she's a Superior Musical Artist with interesting stories to tell.

[@PersonS6]

To the metafor of 'the carousel of time' just makes me anxious. I get this vision of being stuck on some happy unicorn on a carousel with happy music playing all around you and you desperately want to get off but you will never be able to. Kind of like a horror movie. Joni's intention behind it is a lot more beautiful

[@davidcufc]

In contrast to the argument made here I find The Circle Game more melancholic than Sugar Mountain. I think that's because there is an implied finality in the Joni Michell song.

[@jeaniechowdhury6739]

This was fascinating & beautiful I this made me enjoy these songs even more than I already did. Thank you.

[@Mamajugs13]

This song always makes me tear up! It’s so beautiful. While the child wants to quickly move forward in the Circle Game the parents don’t want their children to grow up quickly. My son will be 10 times round the seasons in September. Thinking of girls and driving in another 6. I’m dragging my feet, to no avail. 💙

[@gregoryamadeus2235]

Hello from Laguna Beach, California. Love your programs

[@glenshort5123]

Nice documentary of Joni, whom is at the top of my list. I wished you had chosen some other subtle music for the background of your narration. Still,, though appreciate the time spent to present this format and comparison of these two great songs.

[@__Qt]

I'm turning 21 in a week. Your video really made me cry

[@pghend]

Brilliant analysis. I had never connected the two songs before and for that I thank you.

[@42awww]

Oh the Circle Game has always been my absolute fave of Joni.

[@dalefox2082]

So grateful for all these wonderful young people who made my life bearable

[@karlbe8414]

Learned some new things from both the video and the comments. Kinda like Neil's song better, but kudos for the more positive outlook of Joni. Didn't even know she was Canadian.

[@lbboardingb3356]

Graham Bond please, one of the coolest stories in music history.

[@SithWether]

In the last month I turned 18 and I finished school. This is so beautiful, thank you so much.

[@canaguy]

Both are Canadian artists and great talent for all time.

[@ConwayT91]

truly a great video, but damn i feel sad now :(

[@jamminwithjambo7729]

Great analysis...Touching hearts with this one.🎶♥️🎶

[@TheShadowofDormin]

My family is from Winnipeg and my mom knew Neil Young when he was a kid because he would play with her brother who was a drummer and she would yell at him when he played and told him he was a shitty guitar player and couldn't sing, shows what she knew but the best part is she knew the Guess Who right before they got famous and met Joni Mitchell when she played at the University of Manitoba. It's so weird because they didn't act like big musicians but normal people because they knew as Canadians their odds were stacked.

[@squirlmy]

Right, like you are in any sort of position to judge how much they act like "normal people". A "Humble Brag" like that is more Canadian than real humility. 😉

[@Spinosaurus44]

What do u mean? They acted humble because they were Canadian? Dude! There are a lot of celebs around the world that are very famous but also very humble. Why do people always automatically assume famous people would act like they are better than everyone else? Where I come from, our famous actors and singers walk around on the street like any average Joe and interact with people the same way.

[@torbjrnlund903]

I bet your mother was a hell of a bitch .... 😬

[@snidelywhiplash8399]

Technically Neil IS a shitty guitar player who can't sing. Fortunately for the world he figured out how to make it work and was able to gift us some of the best songs of the last 50 years.

[@daviddelarosa7420]

The inspiration for Sugar Mountain was based on a under 20 club that Neil Young would play at with all of his peers, then he turned 20 and wasn’t allowed in the venue anymore. So , yes adulthood, however, the springboard that started his reflex ion was based on that event.

[@XxXPerseus]

This channel is everything I ever wanted in musical analysis!!

[@richiemoore7053]

We all will get older and hopefully wiser. My Back Pages by Dylan is one of the best songs on this topic. Pray, hope and don't worry (st padre pio)

[@lupcokotevski2907]

Suggestion: St Vincent's cynical post modern feminist response 'Marry Me, John' (2008) to Laura Nyro's 'Wedding Bell Blues' (1966), written by Nyro aged 16 where love's voice is like a 'choir of carousels'. Nyro's song was a USA No.1 in 1969. Joni acknowledged Nyro as an important musical influence, one of her favourite tracks being Nyro's 'Captain for Dark Mornings' (1969).

[@Boddissatva]

I hear this and I shed a tear. Every time

[@marmap100]

No one writes and sings like Joni -,she is a wonder.

[@smb9921]

Please, a video on Alanis? Maybe how expression of anger is so spot-on in Jagged Little Pill?

[@thisawesomeness]

Beautifully put! Great stuff!

[@blueberrypanquakes]

What's more, since each year is just a circle around the carousel, childhood isn't as much this special magic time, it's just a thing that is. One of many moments, all of them equal.

[@drj602]

I say this girl is the best there ever was. "Circle Game" is one of those very exceptional songs.

[@scottkasper6378]

This was your best one by far. Thanks

[@frankster47]

The Circle Game, so haunting but true.

[@TheLisab56]

Joni is our Goddess of music.

[@RockNRollHorrorshow]

As a 23 year old, thank you for making me cry for god knows what reason...

[@emilymortimer-webb8551]

I turned 20 literally the day before yesterday and for weeks before I've been listening to sugar mountain and just crying and crying, I really never wanted to get to this point. I hadn't heard of the Joni Mitchell one. I might try and focus on that kne now

[@debralarocco7110]

Happy Birthday and best wishes to you! Your life is what you make it no matter how old you are. That's the beauty of it. Decide who you want to be and how you want to live. You've got this!

[@emilymortimer-webb8551]

@@debralarocco7110 that's so lovely, thank you so much

[@Michael-tr7uq]

These songs have touched me deep in the same way. But joy does go on throughout life, even in remembering the love we were given in our youth. Keep sharing the love and the magic continues, especially in children. Happy Birthday ! This might cheer us up ... kzbin.info/www/bejne/l3mtZHmNaJWhmck

[@jamesdolan4042]

Two beautiful from two wonderful and unique singers, lyricists, and musicians. I miss Joni, Neill, and many of their contemporaries brand of singing and musicianship. It seemed to have greater meaning than music today. Ah but I am being unfair, so I reserve judgement and comparison.

[@giovanniacuto2688]

I wish I could write songs. I would love to follow Circle Game and what happens afterwards looking back from the perspective of a 70 year old. I bought the "Ladies of the Canyon"album when it first came out.

[@susantescione8007]

Joni Mitchell was sheer musical genius. In his own way, so was Neil Young. But he was a person who tore people apart. Joni Mitchell brought them together. Well done on the video.

[@artvallejos1460]

Naw, Neil brings people together. Check out HOW MANY PEOPLE have played music with Neil. Here just a few. Add some of your own if you want to. McCartney, Springsteen, Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash, Metallica ,Led Zeppelin, Nora Jones, Booker T and the MGs, Rick James, the list goes on and on and on and on. So for you say he tore people apart is wrong. Don't forget all the musicians who showed up for Farm Aid, too.

[@erikt454]

After The Circle Game, another popular Canadian singer took inspiration and wrote a monster hit, which tons of people covered. When he told Joni about it, he noted she didn't seem particularly interested.

[@vibefrequencyable]

Very informative. Thank you.

[@johnhulse4124]

I don't know. To me the idea that we're captive on a revolving table of time is no less bleak than the transition of age pictured in Sugar Mountain.

[@DETROIT1948]

Joni Mitchell Priceless!⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

[@cricketbat09]

Fascinating analysis. Very thought provoking. :)

[@sneakeypete45]

Joni came along at the perfect time. She never sexed her image like a floor show from the Folies. Searching music for a searching generation. Talent and Courage. Strength and Beauty. Real feeling.

[@feralLove]

i love joni's music soooo much i named my one of two daughters after one of her songs!! Neil Youngs "Cortez The Killer" is killer.

[@stevenattanasso2003]

YOU'RE NOT GOING TO TELL US WHICH SONG ? What a "bad rush" You can be at times ......

[@loganbarclay5075]

What a great video; I often find myself so encompassed within music theory and technique that I end up neglecting the meaning of the music sometimes. If I was to suggest a topic, I would say how Muse portray ideas about death and acceptance in their album 'Absolution'. I mean, anything on Muse would make me very happy anyways!

[@dapdne4916]

This is great. Thanks for the deep thoughts.

[@mrpzpdx]

Thank you for this 💕

[@seanwelch71]

Good essay!

[@robertchallen]

Circle Game is so much more musical than Sugar Mountain, which is like a drone. And lyrically Circle Game is much more profound.

[@ryanperron8309]

Frank Zappa?

[@ryanperron8309]

Great video btw I love them both

[@MauriiciioBriito]

my dream

[@ryanperron8309]

Mauricio Nada haha yeah it might be impossible to fit everything in one video

[@jayaybe1]

Where?

[@richardgietzen4591]

Thank you