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Universal acclaim- based on 25 Ratings
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Positive: 22 out of 25
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Mixed: 2 out of 25
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AllisonFernleyOct 5, 2007Ever-evolving, Joni never disappoints. Zydeco Big Yellow Taxi. Shades of Paprika Plains to start, a rethining of Kipling to end. Wherever she wants to go, I'm there with her.
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DarrelL.Oct 4, 2007A stunning album! Some of her most engaging tracks in years. The newest addition to the Joni Mitchell stew of excellence is social commentary, and it is most welcome!
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JoeH.Oct 6, 2007This album is brilliant. Joni is amazing.
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DaveLDec 23, 2007Absolutely fantastic.
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jeffb.Oct 8, 2007
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roccocNov 7, 2007Amazing...and n° 9 is one of her most beautiful songs. I love you Joni!
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JasonM.Oct 9, 2007
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JustinF.Oct 5, 2007Solid
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DavidF.Oct 8, 2007A most welcome return, and her best album in 25 years.
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ChuckM.Oct 30, 2007
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Jan 6, 2023Mitchell has never made an entirely happy album throughout her entire career, so to hear that 2007's Shine was another record about saving and standing by the world you have widely criticised far too often, it feels a bit hypocritical now than it did with past works.
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ToddW.Oct 5, 2007Joni Mitchell is my all-time favorite female artist. So literate and her melodies are always spot-on. But when she starts to rant about society's ills while at the same time cozying up to corporate America, can anyone say 'double standard?' It's time someone told her the queen has no clothes.
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Musically it's imaginative, fresh, full of a more studied elegance and a leaner kind of pomp that we heard during her Geffen years.
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Mitchell's songwriting shines brightest at such singularly poignant moments where specificity of images meets the vagaries of the instrumental arrangements, and, in the end, these and other highlights ('Bad Dreams,' 'Night of the Iguana') definitively carry the torch.
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Joni Mitchell's first album of new material in nearly 10 years is a return to the form that made her a star.