Talk:Blue (Joni Mitchell album)

Too short
Does anyone else think that for an album as significant as this that the summary is way too short? &mdash;The preceding unsigned comment was added by Hautbois (talk • contribs) 18:11, 24 April 2005 (UTC)


 * I agree, this article is too short. Would David Yaffe's 2017 biography "Reckless Daughter" be a useful source for this? SillimanJ (talk) 01:52, 28 April 2019 (UTC)

Who is Richard
In 'The Last Time I Saw Richard'? Or his he just a metaphor for lost dreams? 81.145.240.139 23:07, 24 December 2006 (UTC)
 * "The Last Time I Saw Richard" suggests that it was, in fact, her first husband Chuck. Martinevans123 (talk) 15:13, 2 December 2015 (UTC)

History section hardly contains any references
Large parts (actually I should the vast majority) of the History section prose is un-cited. How do we know any of it is true if no secondary sources were cited for the information?

-- J. Wong (talk) 05:41, 27 September 2011 (UTC)

Continuity problem
The History section says that the album was partly inspired by her breakup from James Taylor. It also says that they began their relationship by the summer of 1971. However the album was released in June, 1971 and had been largely completed by March. Either her relationship with Taylor was earlier or none of the songs are about him. We need a source. Bob Caldwell CSL (talk) 15:05, 2 December 2015 (UTC)

Assessment comment
Substituted at 09:50, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

Lede - what is mentioned in the first para.
That the album is rated as one of the greatest of all time is beyond dispute and is highly-noteworthy. It is in the lede, but not in para. 1. I feel that it should be. Agreed? Boscaswell  talk  10:21, 19 December 2019 (UTC)

Critical reception and legacy: text repetition
There is virtually precisely the same wording in the first para of this section as is already in para.2 of the lede. Boscaswell  talk  18:33, 14 October 2022 (UTC)

Do we want something on the relevance of Tangled Up In Blue?
https://www.clashmusic.com/news/the-bob-dylan-classic-that-might-contain-a-nod-to-joni-mitchell/

>A song about love, loss, and the passing of time, Bob Dylan has long refuted suggestions that it was prompted by travails in his own marriage to Sara Lowndes. “It didn’t pertain to me. It was just a concept of putting in images that defy time – yesterday, today and tomorrow. I wanted to make them all connect in some kind of a strange way.” … a nod to Joni Mitchell’s ‘Blue’. Similarly, it’s a record of love gained and lost, and according to novelist Ron Rosenbaum Bob Dylan once told him ‘Tangled Up In Blue’ emerged following a weekend of listening to Joni Mitchell’s classic album. Back in 2018, Joni Mitchell revealed that she was one of the first to hear the album, but prefers those earlier recordings in comparisons to the later takes. Htrowsle (talk) 19:33, 22 August 2023 (UTC)


 * Nothing major. It is quite tangential to the article. Perhaps a single sentence that mentions that Dylan's "Tangled Up in Blue" was written after listening to Blue. And then a reference taking the reader to more information. Bob Caldwell CSL (talk) 12:58, 23 August 2023 (UTC)