Joni Mitchell – For The Roses

Very good sounding vinyl !! Clear, clean and powerful !
And the aqua turquoise disc is beautiful, very fitting with the tones of the picture on th cover !
A great way to discover an often underlooked Joni's album !!

I’m surprised to see the low prices this promo sells for. This is a great album for sound and content.

such a pretty colour vinyl, and pretty music to boot, with many songs having a truckload of subtle complexities, culminating into a hugely rewarding album! just check out Cold blue steel and sweet fire, only Joni could pull that one off!

slight sibilance in Right channel on side one, otherwise it's a nice-sounding pressing.

Please explain. What's the difference between this release and Joni Mitchell - For The Roses?

Joni’s musical expansion continues here; her harmonic vocabulary expanding, her rhythm experiments startling on first hearing. Lyrics that flew above her contemporaries’ more pedestrian narrative - more personal and more literary. An underappreciated gem containing all these attributes: the sadly neglected “Electricity

Sounds pretty good! Great sound quality though some noticeable surface noise and crackling plus an unfortunate scratch at the end of Electricity & start of YTMOIAR. Would still recommend! The color is sooo beautiful!

absolutely love the packaging - the edge-to-edge photography is beautiful, joni's painting alongside her lyrics, and the surprising way the disc slides away - all such a pleasure. the LP itself is dead quiet and nice and heavy

For the Roses Review by David Cleary
On For the Roses, Joni Mitchell began to explore jazz and other influences in earnest. As one might expect from a transitional album, there is a lot of stylistic ground explored, including straight folk selections using guitar ("For the Roses") and piano ("Banquet," "See You Sometime," "Lesson in Survival") overtly jazzy numbers ("Barangrill," "Cold Blue Steel and Sweet Fire," and hybrids that cross the two "Let the Wind Carry Me," "Electricity," "Woman of Heart and Mind," "Judgment of the Moon and Stars"). "Blonde in the Bleachers" grafts a rock & roll band coda onto a piano-based singer/songwriter main body. The hit single "You Turn Me on I'm a Radio" is an unusual essay into country-tinged pop, sporting a Dylanesque harmonica solo played by Graham Nash and lush backing vocals. Arrangements here build solidly upon the tentative expansion of scoring first seen in Ladies of the Canyon. "Judgment of the Moon and Stars" and "Let the Wind Carry Me" present lengthy instrumental interludes. The lyrics here are among Mitchell's best, continuing in the vein of gripping honesty and heartfelt depth exhibited on Blue. As always, there are selections about relationship problems, such as "Lesson in Survival," "See You Sometime," and perhaps the best of all her songs in this genre, "Woman of Heart and Mind." "Cold Blue Steel and Sweet Fire" presents a gritty inner-city survival scene, while "Barangrill" winsomely extols the uncomplicated virtues of a roadside truck stop. More than a bridge between great albums, this excellent disc is a top-notch listen in its own right.

Great recording of a very underrated album. Also the original three part sleeve is a work of art - literally ! Highly recommended,

Beautiful pressing, clean and flat with great mastering and artwork production