Don Juan's Reckless Daughter (studio album)
by Joni Mitchell
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Don Juan's Reckless Daughter is ranked 9th best out of 37 albums by Joni Mitchell on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Joni Mitchell is Blue which is ranked number 69 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 16,159.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 83 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| ! | 12/07/2025 21:04 | Exist-en-ciel | 4,309 | 70/100 |
| ! | 09/30/2025 22:32 |  LedZep | 4,849 | 79/100 |
| ! | 09/14/2025 16:34 |  Tamthebam | 22,857 | 69/100 |
| ! | 07/01/2025 22:42 | traistboar | 1,460 | 79/100 |
| ! | 06/04/2025 06:43 | cicadelic | 11,425 | 73/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 6% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.6/100, a mean average of 75.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.0.
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Jboy56 04/07/2022 17:04 | #283899
An easy listening for jazz and songstress oriented music fans.
My Album of the Year for 1977; hardly listened to anything else, really. I knew "Rumors" from the car radio, not my home stereo. It wasn't the songs so much as the textures, the sounds...
teague 08/25/2021 19:54 | #272840
I love how free the songs sound, it's crazy to compare this album with Blue.
Definitely a good album, it takes five to six listens before you start to appreciate it. I like all the tracks apart from THE TENTH WORLD. The title track is up their with her best songs.
Dream on and Cotton Avenue are great. But the rest sounds like she's pretty much abandoned melody all together. Sorry but for me Paprika Plains is a huge bore as are all of Mitchell's forays into orchestration. Hejira was clearly her peak and now she starts her gradual descent. Happens even to the greats.
This album conforms to nothing Joni's done up to this point in her career. It's free.
Another great record by an often misunderstood and derided songstress. She was moving past pretty music into the realm of experimentation. You have to give her credit for that even is you don't understand what she is doing.
junodog4 07/02/2012 05:04 | #45778
Some love this, some don't. I'm ambivalent to Joni's mid to late 70s work. It can be an effort, but often, it's worth it.
ffudnebbuh 03/22/2011 12:17 | #19440
hairymarx1..you are so eloquent...Love all of her albums, i have been listening to "song for a seagull" lately, "Cactus Tree' is such a great song, this version especially, she is so young when she sang this and her voice is so light and supple. As she matured, it turned smokey and darker which worked well for the material but something about this album really moves me...many people think it is too sophomoric but I disagree.
ffudnebbuh 03/20/2011 15:49 | #19354
i agree with you.I completely love this album...
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