Big Yellow Taxi [CD-single] [Import]

Editorial Reviews
Album Description
Taken from the 2002 album, 'Hard Candy'. Three non-LP tracks, 'Big Yellow Taxi' feat. Vanessa Carlton, 'Amie', & 'Miami' (Live Acoustic Holland). Geffen. 2003.

Tracks:

Big Yellow Taxi
Big Yellow Taxi
If I Could Give All My Love -Or- Richard Manuel Is Dead
Hard Candy

Album Description

The first Aussie single off the 2002 album, 'Hard Candy'. The title track is a non-LP cover of the Joni Mitchell classic featuring Vanessa Carlton, it's backed with Counting Crows own version & three non-LP tracks, 'If I Could Give All My Love -or- Richard Manuel Is Dead' (Live & Acoustic), 'Hard Candy' (Live & Acoustic), & 'Big Yellow Taxi' (Enhanced Video). Geffen. 2003.

Album Details

The Second Single from their 2002 Album "Hard Candy", Remixed with Vanessa Carlton on Vocals. Features Two Bonus Live Recordings as Well as the Enhanced Video and a Mix of "Big Yellow Taxi".

Customer Reviews:

FAVE COUNTING CROWS SONG!.......2004-09-12

Big Yellow Taxi is a great Counting Crows song! It's my favorite!
Vanessa Carlton lends her lungs to the song too! It's very catchy! :-D

awesome song!.......2004-08-02

Big Yellow Taxi is one of the best songs ever! one day when I heard it on the radio, I instantly fell in love with the song. this is a great song so I reccomend it to anyone who likes music!

Dump Vanessa, keep the rest.......2004-03-08

Ok, first, I am a big Crow's fan. It seems to be a requirement to state your allegiance up front. Second, I am not a Vanessa Carlton fan, I am more ambivalent. Thirdly, it took many years for Joni Mitchell to realize she was an alto and not a soprano (she admitted this herself in an interview) so her version of BYT was only so-so. I really dug the Crow's version when I discovered it on the CD I bought. The first time I heard the over-dubbed version I immediately recognized Vanessa Carton as the offending vocalist. I would have liked this track much better if she actually sang, but all she did was mmmm bop-bop her way through it and annoy me royally (is she secretly one of the Hansens?) All the rest of this cd is good stuff, classic Crows. Buy it, rip it, and delete the Carlton track.

Adam Duritz.......2003-10-10

If you like the Crows, check out Duritz on the I-10 Chronicles album. You can find it right here at amazon or go to backporchrecords.com.

Okay okay okay. Its both fun AND bad........2003-10-02

Counting Crows is one of the only decent things to have happened in music, in my opinion, in the last decade.

Increasingly, the music scene has been dominated by no-talent pretty faces singing heavily produced, sugar coated bubble pop, while Counting Crows is a sorrowful, soalful folk rock act that Ive always loved. Thats what makes this so painful and unexpected.

'Hard Candy' the album from which this single comes is produced by the inimitable Steve Lillywhite, but his concept here seems to have been to turn the Crows into a shiny-happy-poppyseed band, with this remake being the most agrevious sin on the disc. Admittedly, Mitchell's version wasnt very good, much as I like her, and from a career angle this was about the best thing the struggling Crows could have done. But it makes me miss the days when Duritz and Co. got big radio hits ala Mr Jones and Long December, all by themselves like big boys. The remake is alot of fun, but in the same sort of way that a naked cheerleader is fun: a great, quick time to be had, but dont expect a discussion of Nietzche when you two finish up. Likewise, its painful for fans of the Crows' real sound and lyrical depth to see them resort to this sort of thing. Everything else on the single is worth having.

Big Yellow Taxi
Average customer rating:

Really fun for the Joni fan

Great song-buy her "hits" album not just this single!

Big Yellow Taxi
Joni Mitchell
Manufacturer: Reprise / Wea
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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