Big Yellow Taxi

Big Yellow Taxi is a song from 1970, written by Joni Mitchell.

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 * 2 Counting Crows & Vanessa Carlton
 * 3 Other versions
 * 4 Trivia

==Joni Mitchell[ Edit] == Joni Mitchell was inspired to write this song during a visit to Hawaii. She looked from the window of her hotel to the mountain landscape to the South Pacific and then down to the parking lot. This seemed onafzienlijk and the sharp contrast with the ' paradise ' that they had seen a shock brought about. The song is among other things in on destroying a natural landscape and the use of DDT. With the sentence "Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you've got//Till it's gone" denounces the artist the shortsightedness of many who realise the value of something, only when it is too late. ===Chart Positions[ Edit] === ====Dutch Top 40[ Edit] ==== ====Dutch Single Top 100[ Edit] ==== ====Radio 2 Top 2000[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ====

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 * - len="120" style="vertical-align:top;"
 * align="center" colspan="3" len="33" style="vertical-align:top;"|Big Yellow Taxi
 * - len="443" style="vertical-align:top;"
 * align="center" colspan="3" len="405" style="vertical-align:top;"|Single from:
 * - len="279" style="vertical-align:top;"
 * align="center" colspan="3" len="241" style="vertical-align:top;"|From the album:
 * - len="247" style="vertical-align:top;"
 * len="166" style="vertical-align:top;font-weight:bold;"|B-side (s)
 * colspan="2" len="22" style="vertical-align:top;"|Big Yellow Taxi
 * - len="226" style="vertical-align:top;"
 * lang="en" len="11" style="vertical-align:top;font-weight:bold;"|Released
 * colspan="2" len="156" style="vertical-align:top;"|2003
 * - len="254" style="vertical-align:top;"
 * lang="en" len="12" style="vertical-align:top;font-weight:bold;"|Type of carrier
 * colspan="2" len="183" style="vertical-align:top;"|CD single
 * - len="221" style="vertical-align:top;"
 * lang="en" len="6" style="vertical-align:top;font-weight:bold;"|Recording
 * colspan="2" len="156" style="vertical-align:top;"|2002
 * - len="430" style="vertical-align:top;"
 * len="215" style="vertical-align:top;font-weight:bold;"|Genre
 * colspan="2" len="156" style="vertical-align:top;"|Rock
 * - len="67" style="vertical-align:top;"
 * lang="en" len="4" style="vertical-align:top;font-weight:bold;"|Duration
 * colspan="2" lang="en" len="4" style="vertical-align:top;"|3: 47
 * - len="416" style="vertical-align:top;"
 * len="171" style="vertical-align:top;font-weight:bold;"|Tag
 * colspan="2" len="186" style="vertical-align:top;"|Geffen Records
 * - len="418" style="vertical-align:top;"
 * len="176" style="vertical-align:top;font-weight:bold;"|Writer (s)
 * colspan="2" len="183" style="vertical-align:top;"|Joni Mitchell
 * - len="498" style="vertical-align:top;"
 * len="187" style="vertical-align:top;font-weight:bold;"|Producer (s)
 * colspan="2" len="252" style="vertical-align:top;"|Ron Fair
 * - len="121" style="vertical-align:top;"
 * align="center" colspan="3" len="34" style="vertical-align:top;"|Position (s) in the charts
 * - len="1545" style="vertical-align:top;"
 * colspan="3" len="1522" style="vertical-align:top;"|
 * 1) 3 (Australia)
 * 2) 4 (New Zealand)
 * 3) 13 (United Kingdom)
 * 4) 19 (Dutch Top 40)
 * 5) 23 (Dutch Single Top 100)
 * 6) 33 (Flanders)
 * 7) 40 (Austria)
 * 8) 42 (United States)
 * 9) 55 (Sweden)
 * 10) 63 (Switzerland)
 * - len="127" style="vertical-align:top;"
 * align="center" colspan="3" len="40" style="vertical-align:top;"|Counting Crows's singles chronology
 * - len="1183" style="vertical-align:top;"
 * colspan="3" len="1160" style="vertical-align:top;"|
 * - len="128" style="vertical-align:top;"
 * align="center" colspan="3" len="41" style="vertical-align:top;"|Vanessa Carlton's singles chronology
 * - len="1142" style="vertical-align:top;"
 * colspan="3" len="1119" style="vertical-align:top;"|
 * - len="1120" style="vertical-align:top;"
 * align="center" colspan="3" len="1048" style="vertical-align:top;"|

==Counting Crows & Vanessa Carlton<span class="mw-editsection" len="358" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The version of Counting Crows and Vanessa Carlton was used as a soundtrack for the film Two Weeks Notice. The song was a big hit and is still one of their best known songs. ===Chart Positions<span class="mw-editsection" len="335" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ====Dutch Top 40<span class="mw-editsection" len="340" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==== ====Dutch Single Top 100<span class="mw-editsection" len="348" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==== ====Flemish Ultratop 50<span class="mw-editsection" len="342" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==== ====Radio 2 Top 2000<span class="mw-editsection" len="339" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ====
 * }

==Other versions<span class="mw-editsection" len="338" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p lang="en" len="3321" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Many other artists have recorded covers of this song, including Amy Grant, Melanie Safka, Sandi Thom, Billie Joe Armstrong, Kaya, Pinhead Gunpowder, Paul Tillotson, Moya Brennan, Keb Mo, Chris Thomas King,Keren Ann, the a cappellaQuintet Toxic Audio -and Bob Dylan, which rewrote the text part. ==Trivia<span class="mw-editsection" len="329" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==
 * A line from Big Yellow Taxi has starred as sample to the hit Got 'til it's Gone by Janet Jackson.
 * Jo Dassin made a French-language version of: Le grand parking.