Misses is a 1996 compilation album by Joni Mitchell

Joni Mitchell

Joni Mitchell, CC is a Canadian musician, singer songwriter, and painter. Mitchell began singing in small nightclubs in her native Saskatchewan and Western Canada and then busking in the streets and dives of Toronto...

. The tracks were chosen by Mitchell herself, and her selections concentrate on her lesser known, more experimental work, including jazz

Jazz

Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

 influenced recordings from the late 1970s and electronic music

Electronic music

Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology. Examples of electromechanical sound...

 from the 1980s. Mitchell also designed the album cover. The album is a companion to Hits

Hits (Joni Mitchell album)

Hits is a 1996 greatest hits compilation by Joni Mitchell. , it has sold 488,000 copies in the United States. A counterpart album, Misses, was released on the same day as Hits...

, issued on the same day. Mitchell agreed to a request from her record company to release a greatest hits

Greatest hits

A greatest hits album is a music compilation album of successful, previously released songs by a particular artist or band...

 album on the condition that she would also be allowed to release Misses.

Track listing

All songs were written by Joni Mitchell, except where indicated.

1. "Passion Play (When All the Slaves Are Free)" – 5:25
   • From Night Ride Home
     Night Ride Home
     Night Ride Home is the fourteenth album by Joni Mitchell, released in 1991. It was the last of four albums she recorded for Geffen Records....
     
     , released in 1991.
2. "Nothing Can Be Done" – 4:53
   • From Night Ride Home. Music by Larry Klein
     Larry Klein
     Larry Klein is a music producer, songwriter and bass guitar player, commonly known for being the frequent musical collaborator, and ex-husband, of Joni Mitchell....
     
     .
3. "A Case of You
   A Case of You
   "A Case of You" is a song by Joni Mitchell, from her 1971 album Blue. It is one of her most well-known songs.-Writing and recording:Mitchell recorded A Case of You in 1971, during her early folk period. The song was first released on the 1971 album Blue with Mitchell playing Appalachian dulcimer,...
   
   " – 4:20
   • From Blue
     Blue (Joni Mitchell album)
     Blue is the fourth album of Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell. Exploring the various facets of relationships from infatuation on "A Case of You" to insecurity on "This Flight Tonight", the songs feature simple accompaniments on piano, guitar, and Appalachian dulcimer...
     
     , 1971.
   • The best known song on Misses, it has been covered by Tori Amos
     Tori Amos
     Tori Amos is an American pianist, singer-songwriter and composer. She was at the forefront of a number of female singer-songwriters in the early 1990s and was noteworthy early in her career as one of the few alternative rock performers to use a piano as her primary instrument...
     
     , k.d. lang
     K.D. Lang
     Kathryn Dawn Lang, OC , known by her stage name k.d. lang, is a Canadian pop and country singer-songwriter and occasional actress...
     
      and Prince
     Prince (musician)
     Prince Rogers Nelson , often known simply as Prince, is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and actor. Prince has produced ten platinum albums and thirty Top 40 singles during his career. Prince founded his own recording studio and label; writing, self-producing and playing most, or all, of...
     
      among others.
4. "The Beat of Black Wings" – 5:19
   • From Chalk Mark in a Rain Storm, 1988.
5. "Dog Eat Dog" – 4:41
   • From Dog Eat Dog, 1985.
   • Features background vocals from James Taylor
     James Taylor
     James Vernon Taylor is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. A five-time Grammy Award winner, Taylor was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2000....
     
     .
6. "The Wolf That Lives in Lindsey" – 6:35
   • From Mingus
     Mingus (album)
     Mingus is the tenth studio album by Joni Mitchell, and a collaboration with jazz musician Charles Mingus. Recorded in the months before his death, it would be Mingus's final musical project; the album is wholly dedicated to him....
     
     , 1979.
7. "The Magdalene Laundries" – 4:02
   • From Turbulent Indigo
     Turbulent Indigo
     Turbulent Indigo is the fifteenth album by Joni Mitchell. It was released in 1994, and became one of her most critically acclaimed releases, winning a Grammy Award for Pop Album of the Year....
     
     , 1994.
8. "The Impossible Dreamer" – 4:30
   • From Dog Eat Dog.
9. "Sex Kills" – 3:56
   • From Turbulent Indigo.
10. "The Reoccurring Dream" – 3:02
    • From Chalk Mark in A Rain Storm. Co-written by Larry Klein.
11. "Harry's House/Centerpiece" – 6:48
    • From The Hissing of Summer Lawns
      The Hissing of Summer Lawns
      The Hissing of Summer Lawns is a studio album by Canadian songwriter Joni Mitchell.-Reception:The album was not as radio-friendly as Mitchell's earlier work, and although the album achieved initial commercial success, reaching number four on the charts and quickly going gold, contemporary reviewers...
      
      , 1975.
    • "Centrepiece" was originally written by Johnny Mandel
      Johnny Mandel
      Johnny Mandel is an American composer and arranger of popular songs, film music and jazz. Among the musicians he has worked with are Count Basie, Frank Sinatra, Peggy Lee, Anita O'Day, Barbra Streisand, and Shirley Horn.-Life:...
      
       and Jon Hendricks
      Jon Hendricks
      Jon Hendricks is an American jazz lyricist and singer. He is considered one of the originators of vocalese, which adds lyrics to existing instrumental songs and replaces many instruments with vocalists...
      
       in 1958.
12. "The Arrangement" – 3:32
    • From Ladies of the Canyon
      Ladies of the Canyon
      Ladies of the Canyon is Joni Mitchell's third album, released in 1970. Its title refers to Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles, a center of popular music culture in Los Angeles during the sixties...
      
      , 1970.
13. "For the Roses" – 3:48
    • From For the Roses
      For the Roses
      For the Roses is a 1972 album by Joni Mitchell, between her two biggest commercial and critical successes - Blue and Court and Spark. Despite this, in 2007 it was one of 50 recordings chosen that year by the Library of Congress to be added to the National Recording Registry...
      
      , 1972.
14. "Hejira
    Hejira (song)
    Hejira is the title track from Joni Mitchell's 1976 album. It is the 5th track on the album , and the 2nd of 4 tracks on Hejira which fretless bassist Jaco Pastorius plays on....
    
    " – 6:42
    • From Hejira
      Hejira (album)
      Hejira is a 1976 folk/rock/jazz album by Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell. The album title is a transliteration of the Arabic word hijra, which means "journey", referring specifically to the prophet Muhammad's and his followers' escape from Mecca to Medina in 622...
      
      , 1976.