sábado, 29 de octubre de 2016

Joni Mitchell - Both sides now (1969) - 2000


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  1. "Both Sides, Now" is a song by Joni Mitchell, and one of her best-known songs. First recorded by Judy Collins in 1967, it subsequently appeared on Mitchell's 1969 album Clouds. She re-recorded the song in a lusher, orchestrated version for her 2000 album Both Sides Now; this version was subsequently featured on the soundtrack to the 2003 film Love Actually.

    Mitchell wrote "Both Sides, Now" in March 1967, inspired by a passage in Henderson the Rain King, a 1959 novel by Saul Bellow.

    I was reading Saul Bellow's "Henderson the Rain King" on a plane and early in the book Henderson the Rain King is also up in a plane. He's on his way to Africa and he looks down and sees these clouds. I put down the book, looked out the window and saw clouds too, and I immediately started writing the song. I had no idea that the song would become as popular as it did.

    Judy Collins recorded the first commercially released version of the song, shortly after Mitchell wrote it, for her 1967 Wildflowers album. In October 1968 it was released as a single, reaching #8 on the U.S. pop singles charts by December. It reached #6 in Canada] In early 1969 it won a Grammy Award for Best Folk Performance. The record peaked at #3 on Billboard's Easy Listening survey and "Both Sides, Now" has become one of Collins' signature songs.

    Rolling Stone ranked "Both Sides, Now" #171 on its list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.




    Rows and flows of angel hair

    And ice cream castles in the air

    And feather canyons everywhere

    I've looked at clouds that way

    But now they only block the sun

    They rain and snow on everyone

    So many things I would have done

    But clouds got in my way

    I've looked at clouds from both sides now

    From up and down and still somehow

    It's cloud's illusions I recall

    I really don't know clouds at all

    Moons and Junes and ferries wheels

    The dizzy dancing way you feel

    As every fairy tale comes real

    I've looked at love that way

    But now it's just another show

    You leave 'em laughing when you go

    And if you care, don't let them know

    Don't give yourself away

    I've looked at love from both sides now

    From give and take and still somehow

    It's love's illusions I recall

    I really…

    I've looked at love from both sides now

    From give and take and still somehow

    It's love's illusions I recall

    I really don't know love at all

    Tears and fears and feeling proud,

    To say "I love you" right out loud

    Dreams and schemes and circus crowds

    I've looked at life that way

    But now old friends they're acting strange

    They shake their heads, they say I've changed

    Well something's lost, but something's gained

    In living every day.

    I've looked at life from both sides now

    From win and lose and still somehow

    It's life's illusions I recall

    I really don't know life at all

    I've looked at life from both sides now

    From up and down, and still somehow

    It's life's illusions I recall

    I really don't know life at all

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