Tuesday, September 27, 2016

#130 Big Yellow Taxi — Joni Mitchell (1970)


 
“They paved paradise, put up a parking lot.”
 
Joni Mitchell is one of her generation’s finest songwriters, and I doubt that she (or anyone else) has ever packed more of a lyrical punch into such an amazingly short (2:16) song. Still timeless over 40 years later, I’m sure people will continue singing this one for a long, long time.
 
“You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone.”

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