Old music: Joni Mitchell – Edith and the Kingpin

Even if you like the right music at the wrong time, there's never a wrong time to discover Joni MitchellI liked all the right music. Just not always at the right time. Bowie was already clean and dull by the time I discovered him; ditto Lou Reed, Bryan Ferry and Neil Young. I didn't get the Smiths first time around. I was too busy with prog rock. In the summer of 88, when my generation was off on one long acid trip, I was upstairs locked in my room with 10cc's third album.And then there was Joni...

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