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1970 single by Joni Mitchell

"Big Xanthous Taxi"
Big Yellow Taxi by Joni Mitchell 1970 Canadian vinyl.png

Side A of 1970 Canadian single
Single by Joni Mitchell
from the album Ladies of the Coulee
B-side "Woodstock"
Released April 1970
Recorded 1970
Genre
  • Folk rock[one]
  • pop
  • folk[2]
Length 2:16
Characterization Reprise
Songwriter(south) Joni Mitchell
Producer(s) Joni Mitchell
Joni Mitchell singles chronology
"Chelsea Morning time"
(1969) 		"Big Yellow Taxi"
(1970) 		"Carey"
(1971)

"Big Yellow Taxi" is a song written, composed, and originally recorded by Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell in 1970, and originally released on her album Ladies of the Canyon. Information technology was a striking in her native Canada (No. fourteen) too as Australia (No. 6) and the UK (No. 11). It only reached No. 67 in the US in 1970, but was later a bigger hitting there for her in a live version released in 1974,[3] [4] which peaked at No. 24. Charting versions have also been recorded past the Neighborhood (who had the original acme US 40 hit with the rails in 1970, peaking at No. 29), and almost notably covered by Amy Grant in 1994 and Counting Crows & Vanessa Carlton in 2003. The song was also sampled in Janet Jackson's "Got 'til It's Gone" (1997).

Mitchell's composition and recording [edit]

Joni Mitchell (pictured in 1974) wrote and recorded the song "Big Yellow Taxi".

In 1996, speaking to journalist Robert Hilburn, Mitchell said this about writing the vocal:

I wrote 'Big Yellowish Taxi' on my kickoff trip to Hawaii. I took a taxi to the hotel and when I woke up the side by side morning, I threw back the defunction and saw these beautiful green mountains in the altitude. Then, I looked down and there was a parking lot equally far equally the heart could encounter, and information technology broke my heart... this bane on paradise. That's when I sat downwardly and wrote the song.[v]

The song is known for its environmental concern – "They paved paradise to put up a parking lot" and "Hey farmer, farmer, put away that DDT at present" – and sentimental audio. The line "They took all the copse, and put 'em in a tree museum / And charged the people a dollar and a half just to see 'em" refers to Foster Botanical Garden in downtown Honolulu, which is a living museum of tropical plants, some rare and endangered.[6]

In the song's last verse, the political gives manner to the personal. Mitchell recounts the departure of her "quondam man" in the eponymous "big yellow taxi", which may refer to the quondam Metro Toronto Law patrol cars, which until 1986 were painted yellow.[7] In many covers the departed one may be interpreted as variously a boyfriend, a hubby or a father. The literal interpretation is that he is walking out on the singer by taking a taxi; otherwise it is assumed he is being taken abroad by the regime.

Mitchell'due south original recording was first released every bit a single and then, as stated higher up, included on her 1970 album Ladies of the Canyon. A afterward live version was released in 1974 (1975 in France and Spain) on Miles of Aisles and reached No. 24 on the U.S. charts. Billboard regarded the live version as "more full of life" than any of the singles Mitchell released in a long fourth dimension.[8] Greenbacks Box called the alive version "a groovy rendition of this excellent lyrical song."[ix]

The song still receives meaning airplay in Canada; in 2005, it was voted No. 9 on CBC'south list of the top 50 essential Canadian tracks.

In 2007, Joni Mitchell released the album Shine, which includes a newly recorded, rearranged version of the song.

Music video [edit]

An animated music video of Joni Mitchell'south "Large Yellow Taxi" was produced by John Wilson of Fine Arts Films as an animated short for the Sonny and Cher television show in the mid-1970s. The but commercial release of this total-length music video was in the Video Gems home video release on VHS titled John Wilson's Mini Musicals, too released as The Fantastic All-Electric Music Pic. The home video also contains an animated music video of Mitchell's song "Both Sides, Now".

Rail listing [edit]

  1. "Large Xanthous Taxi" (Radio Mix)
  2. "Big Yellowish Taxi" ("Friends" Album Version)
  3. "Big Yellowish Taxi" (Belatedly Night Club Mix)
  4. "Large Yellowish Taxi" (N.Y. Cab To Club Mix)
  5. "Large Yellow Taxi" (Double Espresso NRG Mix)
  6. "Big Yellow Taxi" (Tribal Dub)
  7. "Big Yellow Taxi" (Original A Cappella with Guitar)

Charts [edit]

Certifications [edit]

Amy Grant version [edit]

"Big Yellow Taxi"
Amy Grant Big Yellow Taxi UK Single Cover.jpg

United kingdom unmarried cover
Single by Amy Grant
from the anthology House of Dearest
Released May 1994
Genre
  • Adult contemporary
  • Pop
Length iii:01
Label A&G
Songwriter(s) Joni Mitchell
Producer(s) Keith Thomas
Amy Grant singles chronology
"Say You'll Be Mine"
(1994) 		"Big Yellowish Taxi"
(1994) 		"Oh How the Years Go By"
(1995)

In 1994, American vocaliser Amy Grant released a cover of "Big Xanthous Taxi" to popular and adult contemporary radio in the The states and United Kingdom. The song was the fourth (3rd in the The states) pop radio single from her 1994 album, House of Love. Grant's version featured slightly contradistinct lyrics, which she changed at Joni Mitchell'south request.[17]

The cover peaked at No. 67 on the U.s. Billboard Hot 100, No. 25 in Canada, No. 20 on the UK Singles Nautical chart, and No. 4 in Republic of iceland. Grant also released a music video for the single, which was aired in the Us and Great britain and released to home video on Grant's Greatest Videos 1986-2004 DVD. Grant as well performed the song for her 2006 concert album, Time Once again... Amy Grant Alive.

Track list [edit]

  1. "Big Yellow Taxi" (Paradise Mix)
  2. "Large Yellow Taxi" (Culling Paradise Mix)
  3. "Large Yellow Taxi" (LP Version)

Charts [edit]

Weekly charts [edit]

Year-cease charts [edit]

Counting Crows and Vanessa Carlton version [edit]

"Big Yellow Taxi"
BYTCounting Crows.jpg
Unmarried by Counting Crows featuring Vanessa Carlton
from the album Difficult Candy
Released Jan 13, 2003 (2003-01-13)
Recorded 2002
Genre Pop rock
Length 3:47
Label Geffen
Songwriter(s) Joni Mitchell
Producer(due south) Steve Lilywhite
Counting Crows singles chronology
"Miami"
(2002) 		"Big Yellowish Taxi"
(2003) 		"If I Could Give All My Love (Richard Manuel Is Dead)"
(2003)
Vanessa Carlton singles chronology
"Pretty Baby"
(2002) 		"Big Yellow Taxi"
(2003) 		"White Houses"
(2004)

In 2002, Counting Crows covered the vocal with backing vocals past Vanessa Carlton. It was featured on the soundtrack to the motion-picture show Two Weeks Notice. Originally, the song was a hidden track on the band's 2002 album Hard Candy, and it did not include Carlton until information technology was to exist featured in the film. New releases of the anthology included information technology as a track with her added, as with her in the video (which was shot on Coney Isle, Brooklyn, and in nearby Bensonhurst), although Counting Crows and Carlton neither appeared in the video together nor recorded together. This version slightly changed Mitchell'southward original lyrics to depict when the eponymous taxi "took my girl away", instead of Mitchell's "took abroad my old man". The original version of the song without Vanessa was included on the album Nolee Mix, which was released to promote the My Scene dolls.

This cover reached No. 42 on the The states Billboard Hot 100 and entered the top 5 on 3 other Billboard listings. The song became the ring'south only top-20 single in the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland, peaking at No. 13, and it reached the top in Australia, Ireland, and New Zealand. The unmarried was certified Aureate by the Recording Manufacture Association of America and Platinum by the Australian Recording Industry Association.

Critical reception [edit]

The Village Voice named this cover the worst song of the 2000s,[30] and the Village Voice'due south scathing review of the encompass is archived on Joni Mitchell'south website.[31] The review derided the cover equally having paved paradise (Mitchell's original vocal) and put up a parking lot.

Adam, we don't know if you misunderstood the song'due south anti-globalization, anti-industrialization, anti-corporation message, or just chose to ignore information technology so you lot could become free Frappucinos for life. Simply we're gonna hip you to a harsh reality. Seriously, you know the line about how they "paved paradise and put upwards a parking lot?" Like how they replaced something beautiful with something cold and heartless and commercial? That's you. You're the parking lot, motherfucker. You drove your shitty steamroller over something anybody loved and so you could pander your sensitive pussyhound whine to people waiting in line at the Carl's Jr. They paved Nirvana and put up a Counting Crow. Argh!

Additionally, NME too included this encompass on its list of the worst songs of the 2000s,[32] and Ultimate Archetype Stone highlighted this song in its Terrible Classic Rock Covers series.[33]

Track listing [edit]

Australasian CD unmarried[34]
No. Title Writer(s) Length
1. "Big Yellow Taxi" (featuring Vanessa Carlton) Joni Mitchell iii:48
2. "Large Yellow Taxi" Mitchell 3:56
3. "If I Could Give All My Love (Richard Manuel Is Dead)" (live and acoustic) Adam Duritz iv:00
four. "Hard Candy" (live and acoustic) Duritz 3:41
5. "Big Xanthous Taxi" (enhanced video)

Charts [edit]

Certifications [edit]

Release history [edit]

Other notable comprehend versions [edit]

Many other artists have covered the song.

  • A single version past the singing group the Neighborhood reached the Billboard Top forty chart (No. 29) in the summertime of 1970.[70] It too peaked at number 19 in Australia.[71]
  • A cover of the song was featured on the 1973 album Dylan past Bob Dylan.[72] [73] It received unfavorable critical reception.[74]
  • The punk band Pinhead Gunpowder covered the song on their 1994 album Jump Salty.
  • In 1996, "Large Yellowish Taxi (Traffic Jam Mix)" peaked on the U.Southward. dance charts at No. 39 and was part of the soundtrack album to Friends: Music from the Tv set Series.
  • This song is sampled by Labrinth in the vocal "Sundown," from his debut 2012 album Electronic World.[75]

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External links [edit]

  • Lyrics for original version at jonimitchell.com
  • Lyrics for 2007 version at jonimitchell.com
  • Traffic Jam Mix / Friends Soundtrack at AllMusic
  • Traffic Jam Mix Chart Position at Billboard Hot Dance Order Play

Joni Mitchell Dont Know What You Got Till Its Gone

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