Both Sides Now by lazarus57

lazarus57 - Both Sides Now

lazarus57

Jul 07, 2025 04:43pm

MEN VS WOMAN SHOWDOWN - ROUND 4 FINAL<img src="https://singsnap-cdn.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/message-board/threads/BHTN/04a4938c46_M7WO_media.jpg">Round 4. Ladies gender bender vs Guys gender benderLadies sing a male song & Guys sing a female song "Both Sides, Now" is a song by Canadian singer-songwriter <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joni_Mitchell" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Joni Mitchell</a>. One of the first recordings is by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy_Collins" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Judy Collins</a>, whose version appeared on the US singles chart during the fall of 1968. (The earliest commercial release was by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Van_Ronk" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Dave Van Ronk</a> and the Hudson Dusters, under the title "Clouds", released in June 1967.) The next year it was included on Mitchell's album <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clouds_(Joni_Mitchell_album)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Clouds</a>, and became one of her best-known songs. It has since been recorded by dozens of artists, including <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dion_DiMucci" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Dion</a> in 1968, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clannad" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Clannad</a> with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Young" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Paul Young</a> in 1991, and Mitchell herself, who re-recorded the song with an orchestral arrangement on her 2000 album <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Both_Sides_Now_(Joni_Mitchell_album)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Both Sides Now</a>.In 2004, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_Stone" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Rolling Stone</a> ranked "Both Sides, Now" at number 170 on its list of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_500_Greatest_Songs_of_All_Time" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">the 500 Greatest Songs</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Both_Sides,_Now#cite_note-1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">[1]</a>Background[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Both_Sides,_Now&action=edit&section=1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">edit</a>]Mitchell has said that "Both Sides, Now" was inspired by a passage in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henderson_the_Rain_King" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Henderson the Rain King</a>, a 1959 novel by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_Bellow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Saul Bellow</a>.<blockquote>I was reading ... Henderson the Rain King on a plane and early in the book Henderson ... is also up in a plane. He's on his way to Africa and he looks down and sees these clouds. I put down the book, looked out the window and saw clouds too, and I immediately started writing the song. I had no idea that the song would become as popular as it did.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Both_Sides,_Now#cite_note-2" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">[2]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Both_Sides,_Now#cite_note-3" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">[3]</a></blockquote>"Both Sides, Now" appears in the album Joni Mitchell: Live at the Second Fret 1966 (2014, All Access Records, AACD0120), a live performance on November 17, 1966, from The Second Fret in Philadelphia, PA, which was broadcast live by WRTI, Temple University's radio station. This suggests that Mitchell wrote the song before 1967 (the year of composition cited in the Los Angeles Times article above) and precedes the first Judy Collins release in 1967."Both Sides, Now" is written in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-sharp_major" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">F-sharp major</a>. Mitchell used a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guitar_tuning" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">guitar tuning</a> of D-A-D-F#-A-D with a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capo_(musical_device)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">capo</a> at the fourth fret. The song uses a modified I–IV–V chord progression.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Both_Sides,_Now#cite_note-4" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">[4]</a> <img src="https://i.pinimg.com/736x/31/0c/ed/310ceda1dd889fc955f35221d69ec13c.jpg" alt="Joni Mitchell onstage at the Isle Of Wight Festival, August 29, 1970 ...">