Misses (album)

Misses is a 1996 compilation album by Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell. The selections, chosen by Mitchell herself, concentrate on her lesser known, more experimental work, including jazz influenced recordings from the late 1970s and electronic music from the 1980s. Mitchell also designed the album cover.[2] The album is a companion to Hits, issued on the same day. Mitchell agreed to a request from her record company to release a greatest hits album on the condition that she also be allowed to release Misses.[3]

Misses
Compilation album by
Joni Mitchell
ReleasedOctober 29, 1996
Recorded1969–1994
GenreFolk, folk jazz, electronica
LabelReprise
ProducerJoni Mitchell, Larry Klein,
Mike Shipley
Joni Mitchell chronology
Hits
(1996)		 Misses
(1996)		 Taming the Tiger
(1998)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]

Cyndi Lauper nominated Misses as one of her all-time favourite albums, singling out 'A Case of You'.[4]

Track listing

All songs were written by Joni Mitchell, except where indicated.

  1. "Passion Play (When All the Slaves Are Free)" – 5:25
  2. "Nothing Can Be Done" – 4:53
  3. "A Case of You" – 4:20
  4. "The Beat of Black Wings" – 5:19
  5. "Dog Eat Dog" – 4:41
  6. "The Wolf That Lives in Lindsey" – 6:35
  7. "The Magdalene Laundries" – 4:02
  8. "The Impossible Dreamer" – 4:30
    • From Dog Eat Dog.
  9. "Sex Kills" – 3:56
    • From Turbulent Indigo.
  10. "The Reoccurring Dream" – 3:02
    • From Chalk Mark in A Rain Storm. Co-written by Larry Klein.
  11. "Harry's House/Centerpiece" – 6:48
  12. "The Arrangement" – 3:32
  13. "For the Roses" – 3:48
  14. "Hejira" – 6:42
gollark: If you require everyone/a majority to say "yes, let us make the thing" publicly, then you probably won't get any of the thing - if you say "yes, let us make the thing" then someone will probably go "wow, you are a bad/shameful person for supporting the thing".
gollark: Say most/many people like a thing, but the unfathomable mechanisms of culture™ have decided that it's bad/shameful/whatever. In our society, as long as it isn't something which a plurality of people *really* dislike, you can probably get it anyway since you don't need everyone's buy-in. And over time the thing might become more widely accepted by unfathomable mechanisms of culture™.
gollark: I also think that if you decide what to produce via social things instead of the current financial mechanisms, you would probably have less innovation (if you have a cool new thing™, you have to convince a lot of people it's a good idea, rather than just convincing a few specialized people that it's good enough to get some investment) and could get stuck in weird signalling loops.
gollark: So it's possible to be somewhat insulated from whatever bizarre trends are sweeping things.
gollark: In a capitalistic system, people don't have to like me as long as I can throw money at them, see.

References
  1. Allmusic review
  2. "Joni Mitchell albums: Misses". Joni Mitchell.com. Retrieved February 25, 2010.
  3. Vladimir Bogdanov; Chris Woodstra; Stephen Thomas Erlewine, eds. (2002). All music guide to rock: the definitive guide to rock, pop, and soul (3rd rev. ed.). Hal Leonard Corporation. p. 746. ISBN 0-87930-653-X.
  4. Mojo, March 1997
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