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The Studio Albums 1968-1979 [Boxset] Image
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  • Summary: The 10 disc box set collects the Canadian singer-songwriter's studio albums released between 1968 and 1979.
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  1. Q Magazine
    Jan 3, 2013
    100
    Throughout, quality doesn't waver; always sensually and intellectually rigorous, her songs touch on degrees of romantic disaffection and beyond with a sometimes uncomfortable gaze, and still sound freshly minted. [Jan 2013, p.119]
  2. Dec 31, 2012
    100
    This anthology provides a marvellous opportunity to revisit Mitchell in her glorious prime. Indispensable.
  3. 80
    The 10 albums that comprise this box set depict one of the most extraordinary career arcs in all of pop music, testament to the questing intelligence with which Joni Mitchell approached music.
  4. Dec 31, 2012
    80
    There is no better evocation of the dawn of a new, more questing consciousness than Joni's early albums.... Unfortunately, Joni's Jazz Odyssey leads her into less agreeable territory on the double-album Don Juan's Reckless Daughter and Mingus, the tribute album of songs co-written with the late Charles Mingus.
  5. Dec 31, 2012
    80
    There are no extras, outtakes or re-anythinged. But taking these 10 records in a row, chronologically, it is a striking reminder no single artist has had a run like Joni,
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