Joni Mitchell – The Hissing Of Summer Lawns

I've heard this described as "easy listening". Track two is tribal drums, synth, and video game sounds for Christ's sake!

Just heard this vinyl version for the first time (thanks Discogs seller Vinyl_Fever), sounds wonderful to my ears and superior to the CD. An extraordinary album.

Referencing https://discogs.sitiodesbloquea.com/release/1455268-Joni-Mitchell-The-Hissing-Of-Summer-Lawns

I have all of Joni's music digital/CDs and "Blue" on vinyl. Just picked up a minty OG locally. Wow very dynamic, nobody like Joni and her productions always top notch. Sweet music virtuosity.

Fairly surprised how good this sounds. Nice separation of instruments, good sounding bass clear hi hats. Very surprised.

There is some surface noise but it’s not distracting

Personally not my favorite Mitchell album but also not as familiar with it. Seeing as how it sounds quite good, I’ll probably give it more play time than I’d thought.

what a fantastic record this is. Everything of this pressing is terrific: the sound quality, the embossed cover, the artists and the songs themselves. i bought this cheap but it's one of my all time favorites. I cannot imagine there is a better sounding version of this album out there.
Edit: I seem to be right: the album in the new asylum years boxset has the same quality (not better, but surely a little more quiet). So if you are just looking for this record this seems the one to go for.

One of THE great unappreciated albums of the 70's (or dare I say, of all time?). Some say you need to know her early work but you can come to this album from anywhere. When I first heard this Punk was emerging & as much as I loved punk it could never push this music out of my mind. I had never heard any of her early LP's & although everyone knew her pop songs from the radio, this was something new & strange. Very smooth, lush, "state of the art" U.S. recording, not to the average rock fan's taste for sure but it repays repeated listening. The brilliant lyrics are beautifully descriptive & underneath the glare of California sun they draw dark pictures of women from youth to middle age. Women as objects of men's desires, as objecting to & complicit in their own domestic & male society's imprisonment; sensual, frustrated, desperate, angry, scornful, dissenting. Apart from the opening track - very much typical slightly OTT "FM" radio fare of the time but perhaps representing "youth", the music conjures huge vistas. Drums pound through the jungle. Melodies are long & meandering, Mitchell's voice clear & fluid, jazz inflected, the guitars & horns swoop & shimmer, Hollywood-esque orchestrations flower & fade, piano's punctuate the spaces & Mitchell's subtle guitar underpins everything, until the final strange synthetic "Darkness & Light". Soul Music. Not the hollerin' chest-beating sort but soul music nonetheless. Everyone should have a copy. And listen to it. A lot.