Mitchell’s “Cold Blue Steel and Sweet Fire” is a heartbreaking tale about addiction, with references throughout.
Joni Mitchell – Cold Blue Steel and Sweet Fire
The band’s lead guitarist, Kirk Hammett, revealed in a 2020 interview that he first heard the start of the song’s eventual acoustic intro riff on tour. The opening track on Metallica’s 1984 album Ride the Lightning, “Fight Fire With Fire” details flames as a reference to nuclear warfare and apocalyptic chaos. However, what many might not know is that the song was first released by his wife’s sister, Anita Carter, with the title, “(Love’s) Ring of Fire.” Cash eventually re-recorded the song, and it hit No.1 on the country charts. “Ring of Fire” is known to many fans as one of Johnny Cash’s biggest hits, as he uses the motif to chronicle his passionate feelings of love. In the music video, Joel appears with flames burning behind him. Using fire as an allusion to the fact that bad times happen across most generations, he had written it after meeting a dismayed, 21-year-old friend of Sean Lennon. Joel’s fast-paced song of various historical events is immediately recognizable. The song, off his critically-acclaimed album Born in the U.S.A., was also one of the earliest examples of him using synthesizers for an instrumental. Springsteen’s 1985 single “I’m on Fire” included lyrical references to fire, as well as the singer posing in front of flames for the cover artwork.
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