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Dog Eat Dog (Joni Mitchell album)

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Released
  
October 1985

Length
  
43:30

Release date
  
October 1985

Recorded
  
1984-85

Artist
  
Joni Mitchell

Label
  
Geffen Records

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Dog Eat Dog (1985)
  
Chalk Mark in a Rain Storm (1988)

Genres
  
Pop rock, New wave, Experimental music

Producers
  
Joni Mitchell, Larry Klein, Thomas Dolby, Mike Shipley

Similar
  
Joni Mitchell albums, New wave albums

Dog Eat Dog is the 12th album by Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell, released in 1985. It was her second album for Geffen Records. The album was a departure for Mitchell due to its synthetic sound (featuring production work by British synthesiser musician Thomas Dolby). Lyrically, the album dealt with prominent issues in mid 1980s society, such as Reaganism, televangelists, consumerism and famine in Ethiopia. One of Mitchell's more unusual songs, "Smokin' (Empty, Try Another)" was recorded by sampling the sound of the cigarette machine in the hall of the studio where Wild Things Run Fast was recorded. "Good Friends" was recorded as a duet with Michael McDonald; a video was produced for the song using film animation by Jim Blashfield. "Shiny Toys" and "Good Friends" were released as singles; "Shiny Toys" was also released in a 12" Extended Dance Single format, remix by François Kevorkian, and had a more complete lyric than the album version, featuring spoken voice by Thomas Dolby ( "I LOVE being out on the golf course!").

Contents

Joni mitchell good friends


Track listing

All tracks written by Joni Mitchell, except where noted.

Personnel

  • Joni Mitchell – vocals, piano, keyboards, synthesizers, sound effects, cover painting
  • Michael McDonald – vocals on "Good Friends", background vocals on "Tax Free"
  • Larry Klein – keyboards, synthesizers, bass, programming; spoken vocals on "Fiction"
  • Thomas Dolby – keyboards, synthesizers, programming; spoken vocals on "Fiction", "Shiny Toys"
  • Joe Smith – spoken vocals on "Fiction"
  • Rod Steiger – spoken vocals (evangelist speech) on "Tax Free"
  • Bob "Zyg" Winard – spoken vocals on "Shiny Toys"
  • Michael Landau – guitar
  • Steve Lukather – guitar on "Smokin' (Empty, Try Another)"
  • Larry Williams – flute, tenor saxophone on "Shiny Toys"
  • Kazu Matsui – shakahachi [sic] on "Ethiopia"
  • Wayne Shorter – soprano saxophone on "Impossible Dreamer", tenor saxophone on "Lucky Girl"
  • Jerry Hey – trumpet, flugelhorn, horn arrangement on "Shiny Toys"
  • Gary Grant – trumpet, flugelhorn on "Shiny Toys"
  • Vinnie Colaiuta – drums, samples
  • Alex Acuña – bata drum on "Impossible Dreamer"
  • Michael Fisher – percussion samples
  • Don Henley – background vocals on "Tax Free", "Dog Eat Dog" and "Shiny Toys"
  • James Taylor – background vocals on "Tax Free", "Dog Eat Dog" and "Shiny Toys"
  • Amy Holland – background vocals on "Tax Free"
    • Technical
  • Mike Shipley - engineer, mixing
  • Bob "Zyg" Winard, Dan Marien - assistant engineers
  • Glen Christensen - art direction

    • Songs

    1Good Friends4:30
    2Fiction4:10
    3The Three Great Stimulants6:15

    References

    Dog Eat Dog (Joni Mitchell album) Wikipedia
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