Don Juan's Reckless Daughter (studio album) by Joni Mitchell

Don Juan's Reckless Daughter by Joni Mitchell
Year: 1977
Overall rank: 3,085th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
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75/100 (from 131 votes)
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Award Top albums of 1977 (54th)
Award Top albums of the 1970s (555th)
Award Best albums of all time (3,085th)
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Joni Mitchell bestography

Don Juan's Reckless Daughter is ranked 9th best out of 34 albums by Joni Mitchell on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Joni Mitchell is Blue which is ranked number 72 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 17,241.

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  Track ratingsTrack ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 83 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Average Rating: 
75/100 (from 131 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 7% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.5/100, a mean average of 74.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.4.

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85/100
From 04/07/2022 17:04
An easy listening for jazz and songstress oriented music fans.
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From 03/05/2022 20:23
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...
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90/100
From 08/25/2021 19:54
I love how free the songs sound, it's crazy to compare this album with Blue.
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80/100
From 01/24/2021 22:31
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.
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55/100
From 06/18/2020 14:39
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.
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90/100
From 11/18/2016 05:04
This album conforms to nothing Joni's done up to this point in her career. It's free.
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95/100
From 02/20/2016 14:10
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.
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70/100
From 07/02/2012 05:04
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.
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85/100
From 03/22/2011 12:17
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.
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From 03/20/2011 15:49
i agree with you.I completely love this album...
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1. Rumours by Fleetwood Mac
2. Animals by Pink Floyd
3. Marquee Moon by Television
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