1 Banquet
2 Cold Blue Steel and Sweet Fire
3 Barangrill
4 Lesson in Survival
5 Let the Wind Carry Me
6 For the Roses
7 See You Sometime
8 Electricity
9 You Turn Me on I'm a Radio
10 Blonde in the Bleachers
11 Woman of Heart and Mind
12 Judgement of the Moon and Stars (Ludwig's Tune)

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A masterpiece in between two masterpieces

 Album Rating: (5 of 5 stars)

Review Comments: Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R6LPXTCXXVDYV My name is Jeremy Gloff. I am a musician (check me out on Amazon!) and retro music enthusiast. If you enjoyed this review make sure to check out my Amazon user profile to check out my other reviews. I am always up for making new friends and discussing the music I love!!!

best LP, Cassette, or CD ever!

 Album Rating: (5 of 5 stars)

Review Comments: I heard this as a cassette in the summer of 1976 while on a 2 1/2 month canoe trip thru Northern Minnesota--fell in love with the music first, then the lyrics...went out & found the LP..played it to pieces and just recently replaced my CD as a b-day gift for myself. Joni Mitchell has soul and wisdom and passion in every strum and plunk of the guitar....ever song tells a story!

(3.5 stars) A bit overrated, but it's hard to really go wrong with vintage Joni

 Album Rating: (4 of 5 stars)

Review Comments: Caught between Blue and Court & Spark chronologically, it's quite natural that For the Roses is somewhere between them sonically. It's a tentative step into Spark's folk-jazz sound ("Cold Blue Steel and Sweet Fire", "Blonde in the Bleachers" and "Judgment of the Moon and Stars" both use horns), but there are also a few piano ballads ("Banquet"; "See You Sometime") and acoustic-based ballads (title song; "Woman of Heart and Mind"; "Electricity") that would soon leave her repertoire completely. (for the record, there's also a solid country-folk number, "You Turn Me On I'm a Radio", that has no real equal in Mitchell's catalogue). As a transitional album, Roses is actually pretty good, even if it does have a very, well... transitional feel. My big problem with it is that some of it is too heavy-handed, musically speaking - take "Judgment of the Moon and Stars" and its pompous pseudo-classical arrangement. Other times, it's too lightweight, again musically speaking: "Barangrill" (just "Bar and Grill" said ten times fast), "Lesson in Survival", "Let the Wind Carry Me" and "Electricity" are all the kind of acoustic songs that had become Joni's stock in trade, and frankly she seems stuck in the past on all of those. But there are enough tremendous songs ("Banquet"; "See You Sometime"; "Blonde in the Bleachers"; "You Turn Me On"; title track), enough strong melodies (everywhere) and enough great lyrics (again, everywhere) to make this a noteworthy album. Just not as noteworthy as what came before and what came after, you know?

Joni at Her Peak

 Album Rating: (5 of 5 stars)

Review Comments: Just emerging from the depression that marked Blue (not too obvious a title there), this record shows our favorite all-time singer/songwriter at her peak of her form, both lyrically and vocally. She may have had her commercial apex later with Court and Spark, but For the Roses, with its assortment of love tales, record-industry indictments, and drug reportage, is unforgettable. "Electricity" might be her best song ever.

For The Roses - my favorite Joni Mitchell album

 Album Rating: (5 of 5 stars)

Review Comments: I LOVE this great album, one of my personal all-time Top 10 if I were marooned on a deserted island ... it carries me along like a story of a sometimes gentle, sometimes anguished tour of past love, heartbreak and disappointment, along with insights into the world around us ... for my tastes, this album and "Blue" are her definitive works ...