Talk:Big Yellow Taxi

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Contents 1 Amy Grant 2 year 3 tree museum 4 song title 5 Garden of Allah? 6 Keb' Mo' version 7 "Chocked"? 8 "paradise and" vs. "paradise to" 9 Counting Crows section 10 Friends 11 Silent Spring Connection?

[edit] Amy Grant

I don't believe that Amy Grant deserves her own box at the bottom, I'm taking it out.

I have added a Infobox to the article. I have filled it with as much info as I know, but there is still quite a lot missing and it needs finishing. JP Godfrey 17:58, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] year

Anyone know the year that the original single was released? It bothers me when people reference a timeless song like this as "an old joni mitchell song." If anyone can find the original release date, that would be great.--Cwiddofer 04:54, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

The first version I can recall was released in 1970 by a group called the Neighborhood on Big Tree records. I believe Joni released her version in late 1969. GMoney21 16:29, 12 December 2006 (UTC)GMoney21

[edit] tree museum

Foster Botanical Garden is in Honolulu, but not in the Waikiki neighborhood. I don't know the source of that tree museum information, though, so I don't know which is wrong: the name of the garden or of the neighborhood. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 128.171.45.81 (talk) 01:21, 3 February 2007 (UTC).

[edit] song title

There's nothing here about the title. It comes from the final verse, where we learn that Joni is not really singing primarily about the over-commercialisation of Hawaii, but using it as a metaphor for a relationship which has possibly just ended: "Late last night/ I heard the screen door slam/ And a big yellow taxi/ Took away my old man"

Is this important enough to add? And how much is encyclopedic (factual) or just my interpretation? Mattmm 12:45, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Garden of Allah?

The claim that the "paradise" of the chorus is not a natural one really needs to be verified by somebody in the know. It certainly seems to fly in the face of the themes of the rest of the song.

[edit] Keb' Mo' version

I noticed that Keb' Mo' also made his own version of that same song. Shouldn't there be a reference to that?--Megamanfan3 17:03, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "Chocked"?

Does this mean to say "smog chocked"? Not "smog choked"? - Jmabel | Talk 23:25, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "paradise and" vs. "paradise to"

Which version of the chorus is correct? Thanos6 02:54, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Counting Crows section

the little block for the counting crows' single information lists Adam Duritz and David Bryson as the writers for "Big Yellow Taxi," but the writer should still be Joni Mitchell —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.252.254.29 (talk) 09:33, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Friends

Why is there a "Friends" box underneath the article?? Mango101 (talk) 18:18, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Silent Spring Connection?

It seems to me to be a connection between the verse beginning with "Hey Farmer, Farmer, put away your DDT..." and the book "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson. The book postulated that soon springtime wouldn't have the singing of birds or the buzzing of bee populations ("leave me the birds and the bees"?) due to the poisoning of the ecosystem by pesticides, namely DDT. The book was published in 1962, and the song was written in the late '60s, so there is the possibility of a correlation. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.123.253.48 (talk) 04:03, 12 January 2008 (UTC)