Love Has Many Faces: A Quartet A Ballet Waiting To Be Danced (Vinyl) – Joni Mitchell

Limited eight vinyl LP pressing. Joni Mitchell curates this collection featuring 53 newly remastered songs recorded throughout her landmark career that evoke her vision of love. Mitchell selected the material from 40 years of recording. She designed the package. The package is a book containing 53 lyrical poems, six new paintings, and an autobiographical text illuminating her recording process. It is funny, mystical, and informative. The collection was first conceived as the music to a ballet about love, but after spending 18 months trying to distill everything she’d written about love-and the lack of it-down to a single disc, Mitchell opted to abandon the ballet. “I wanted the music to feel like a total work-a new work,” she explains in the liner notes to the set. “No matter what I did, though, at that length, it remained merely a collection of songs.” Rather than give up, she kept on sequencing and re-sequencing the material, eventually hitting creative paydirt. Putting Love Has Many Faces together felt decidedly cinematic to Mitchell, which is only fair when one considers the epic life she’s lived. “I had forty years of footage to review,” she writes. “Then, suddenly, scenes began to hook up. Then series began to form. Instead of it being an emotional roller coaster ride as it was before-crammed into one disc-themes began to develop. Moods sustained. I was getting there… When this long editorial process (two years) finally came to rest, I had four ballets or a four-act ballet-a quartet. I also had a box set.” And now you have one, too.

Track List

1. In France They Kiss On Main Street (2014 Remastered Version) 3.19
2. Ray’s Dad’s Cadillac (2014 Remastered Version) 4.33
3. You Turn Me On I’m A Radio (2014 Remastered Version) 2.39
4. Harlem In Havana (2014 Remastered Version) 3.19
5. Car On A Hill (2014 Remastered Version) 3.02
6. Dancin’ Clown (2014 Remastered Version) 3.02
7. River (2014 Remastered Version)
8. Chinese Cafe / Unchained Melody (2014 Remastered Version) 5.17
9. Harry’s House / Centerpiece (2014 Remastered Version) 6.49
10. Shades Of Scarlett Conquering (2014 Remastered Version) 4.58
11. Number One (2014 Remastered Version) 3.46
12. The Windfall (Everything For Nothing) [2014 Remastered Version] 5.15
13. Come In From The Cold (2014 Remastered Version) 3.4
14. Court And Spark (2014 Remastered Version) 2.46
15. Not To Blame (2014 Remastered Version) 4.18
16. Nothing Can Be Done (2014 Remastered Version) 4.53
17. Comes Love (2014 Remastered Version) 4.28
18. Trouble Child (2014 Remastered Version) 3.59
19. No Apologies (2014 Remastered Version) 4.17
20. Moon At The Window (2014 Remastered Version) 3.42
21. Blue (2014 Remastered Version) 3
22. Tax Free (2014 Remastered Version) 4.19
23. The Wolf That Lives In Lindsey (2014 Remastered Version) 6.34
24. Hana (2014 Remastered Version) 3.42
25. Hejira (2014 Remastered Version) 6.47
26. Stay In Touch (2014 Remastered Version) 2.59
27. Night Ride Home (2014 Remastered Version) 3.26
28. You’re My Thrill (2014 Remastered Version) 3.51
29. The Crazy Cries Of Love (2014 Remastered Version) 3.54
30. Love Puts On A New Face (2014 Remastered Version) 3.46
31. Borderline (2014 Remastered Version) 4.48
32. A Strange Boy (2014 Remastered Version) 4.17
33. You Dream Flat Tires (2014 Remastered Version) 3.46
34. Love (2014 Remastered Version) 5.38
35. All I Want (2014 Remastered Version) 3.32
36. Be Cool (2014 Remastered Version) 5.09
37. Yvette In English (2014 Remastered Version) 5.16
38. Just Like This Train (2014 Remastered Version) 4.24
39. Carey (2014 Remastered Version) 3
40. The Only Joy In Town (2014 Remastered Version) 5.11
41. Don Juan’s Reckless Daughter (2014 Remastered Version) 6.37
42. Two Grey Rooms (2014 Remastered Version) 3.57
43. God Must Be A Boogie Man (2014 Remastered Version) 3.56
44. Down To You (2014 Remastered Version) 5.39
45. A Case Of You (2014 Remastered Version) 4.2
46. The Last Time I Saw Richard (2014 Remastered Version) 4.58
47. Raised On Robbery (2014 Remastered Version) 3.05
48. Sweet Sucker Dance (2014 Remastered Version) 8.05
49. Lakota (2014 Remastered Version) 6.25
50. Cool Water (2014 Remastered Version) 5.25
51. Amelia (2014 Remastered Version) 6.46
52. Both Sides Now (2014 Remastered Version) 5.46
53. My Best To You (2014 Remastered Version) 2.52