Hits Tracks
1. Urge For Going
2. Chelsea Morning
3. Big Yellow Taxi
4. Woodstock
5. The Circle Game
6. Carey
7. California
8. You Turn Me On I'm A Radio
9. Raised On Robbery
10. Help Me
11. Free Man In Paris
12. River
13. Chinese Cafè/Unchained Melody
14. Come In From The Cold
15. Both Sides, Now
Hits Review
She's only had four bona fide Top-40 American hits, and one was a Miles of Aisles live version of "Big Yellow Taxi" that's not included here. But after almost 30 years, she's finally delivered a 15-song compilation of her signature songs that will be a CD point-of-departure for casual fans and newcomers well into the new millennium. The companion Misses volume is an intriguing curio that might rather more generously have been marketed as a bonus disc. --Jeff Bateman
Joni Mitchell is doubtless one of the top 5 singer-songwriters ever and arguably the best white vocalist of the last decades. Her mature, highly controlled and far-reaching voice is absolutelly beautiful in which it displays both technics and an impressive emotional range. Her songwriting skills are impeccable: her lyrics are concise, poetic, self-conscious, universal. This collection includes all of her few commercial hits (like ''Help Me'' and ''Big Yellow Taxi'') plus many other remarkable and signature tunes. It even reaches her 80's work, featuring her already damaged voice by the abuse of cigarettes, but even there (the exuberant ''Come In from The Cold'', the intertextual ''Chinese Cafe/Unchained Melody'') she's expressive, strong, very ideiossincratic and makes the best use of that restrained, lower voice.
If you can't afford yourself the acquisition of her entire catalog (or at lest of her 10 equally brilliant more essencial records), please write it down: it is one of the best greatest hits albums ever released. It's only problem is that it could be a double or a triple album, so you need to promise yourself to at least get the companion album ''Misses'' too.