Song to a Seagull
- 艺人
- Joni Mitchell
- 语种
- 英语
- 厂牌
- Reprise Records
- 发行时间
- 1968年03月01日
- 专辑类别
- 录音室专辑
专辑介绍
by David Cleary
Joni Mitchell's debut release is a concept album. Side one, subtitled &I Came to the City,& generally exhibits songs about urban subjects that are often dour or repressed in some way. &Out of the City and Down to the Seaside,& by contrast, is a celebration of nature and countryside, mostly containing selections of a charming, positive, or more outgoing nature. What sets this release apart from those of other confession-style singer/songwriters of the time is the craft, subtlety, and evocative power of Mitchell's lyrics and harmonic style. Numbers such as &Marcie,& &Michael From Mountains,& &The Dawntreader,& and &The Pirate of Penance& effectively utilize sophisticated chord progressions rarely found in this genre. Verses are substantive and highly charged, exhibiting careful workmanship. &Song to a Seagull& has graceful and vivid lyrics about the joys of freedom set to a haunting, wide-ranging vocal line. Conversely, &Cactus Tree& explores the downside of a no-strings-attached approach to life, the fear of committing to a relationship (ironically wedding these words to a hopeful melody and pulsating guitar texture). &Marcie& utilizes poignant, twisting music set to desolately lonely lyrics about a jilted woman; the recurrent use of red and green imagery in the verses is especially clever. Character studies such as &I Had a King& and &Nathan la Franeer& are painfully bleak in contrast to the lithe domestic scene of &Sisotowbell Lane& and the winsomely reserved love song &Michael From Mountains.& Unusual in her oeuvre are the overlapping dialogue prose manner of &The Pirate of Penance& and the jaunty honky tonk stylings of &Night in the City.& Mitchell sings in a light, gossamer, at times diffident manner; vocal harmony is sparingly employed here. David Crosby's production is simple and effective. This excellent debut is well worth hearing.
最新简评（共15条）
- @阿Ken(阿Ken)：精品
- @无( )：简单的吉他编曲和爵士味儿的唱法，无比清澈温柔的声音，没什么复杂的东西，就是让人感觉无尽的美好。
- @非人類兔子(网易云：非人類兔子Agy...)：太赞
- @田螺壮汉(如果我认真倾听 我也能听...)：确实 很开心
- @allentsai(永遠愛你)：聽她的音樂就認定她絕對是美麗的女人, 陪我入棺材的專輯第005號
- @ann_edge：Save
- @雨中的灰烬(还记得年少时的梦吗)：非常入耳的专辑 旋律动听 很喜欢
- @listerine(我还没想好要写什么...)：Joni在创作上有种无形的魔力，技术上也是。弹奏时可能她自己都并不明确是在弹些什么，但是传递给我们的东西就是很深入人心。她那些和弦和小riff正常人都不见得能想得到。非常一流。
- @listerine(我还没想好要写什么...)：我疯狂的爱着Joni Mitchell的早期作品，没有过多修饰，只有一台老式Martin和一些保真录音mic，再加上一个超凡的吉他手。没有比这更好的了
- @ophelia✿(drowned.)：好似融化在清淡的阳光里…… tlmgt (松任谷由实的迷弟) 2017-02-25 16:33 啊她的专辑回来了大部分，感恩 来自android客户端