Ladies Of The Canyon (studio album)
by Joni Mitchell

Ladies Of The Canyon by Joni Mitchell
Year: 1970
Overall rank: 1,355th   
Average Rating: 
80/100 (from 309 votes)
     
Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1970 (36th)
Award Top albums of the 1970s (268th)
Award Best albums of all time (1,355th)

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Joni Mitchell bestography

Ladies Of The Canyon is ranked 5th 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 16,201.

Joni Mitchell album bestography « Higher ranked (702nd)
The Hissing Of Summer Lawns
This album (1,355th)
Ladies Of The Canyon
Lower ranked (1,699th) »
Clouds

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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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Ladies Of The Canyon rankings

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Overall rank: 1,355th | 1970s rank: 268th | 1970 rank: 36th

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Ladies Of The Canyon ratings

Average Rating: 
80/100 (from 309 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 1% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 80.0/100, a mean average of 79.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 80.2/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.0.

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90/100
From 10/17/2023 03:43 | #299512
A nice step up after Clouds. Great second half, in particular.
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85/100
From 12/22/2021 14:24 | #277795
A very airy and beautiful album, with many songwriting and song presentation facets.
This album is yet another essential listen in Mitchell's recorded works.
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90/100
From 04/07/2021 21:53 | #268303
This is the first of here great albums, every song i like on it. The first four songs and the last three are my favourites.
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75/100
From 04/11/2020 06:17 | #249784
Woodstock is one of the best songs ever, and makes up for what is an kinda average album.
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75/100
From 10/09/2019 07:55 | #243569
...and we've got to get ourselves back to the gaaaardeeen...
...they hold no quarter...they ask no quarter...
dun dun DUUUN
BAD company...til the day I die...

I think Joni had fans.
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Rating:  
80/100
From 10/02/2016 12:13 | #176196
A solid acoustic album with Joni playing guitar or piano on each track. I don't know what it is about this album but I find it a hard listen I prefer Side 2 (Rainy Night.....Circle Game)the running order of the album might be influencing my decision (the last 3 tracks are the best) so I tended to just play Side 2. The title track and For Free are great songs as is Morning Morgantown but I can live without the rest of Side 1
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85/100
From 06/03/2016 19:08 | #167748
Another lovely Joni Mitchell album. Ladies of the canyon, sees Mitchell maturing with each record, and this LP features some of her best ever songs. Woodstock, conversation, the circle game, and the title track are all superb. It's all acoustic based, like all her early records, and is consistently excellent all the way through. Amazingly, her next four or five records would be even better.
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100/100
From 01/23/2015 22:33 | #132346
My favourite Joni Mitchell's Album, "Morning Morgantown", the sad "For Free", the happier "Conversation", "Big Yellow Taxi", "Woodstock".
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Rating:  
80/100
From 09/22/2013 22:29 | #86575
For those who liked "Blue" and want more, this might be an album you would enjoy. There are many dark and melancholy songs here with gripping lyrics, but none of them have the same high level of personal songwriting.
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90/100
From 08/30/2013 20:18 | #84831
As close to "Blue"'s perfection as anything but the real thing. This rivals "Court and Spark" as a potential silver-medal Joni album.
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