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Dog Eat Dog is the 12th studio album by the Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell, released in 1985. It was her second album for Geffen Records . As with its predecessor Wild Things Run Fast, Dog Eat Dog moves away from Mitchell's previous folk and jazz influences in favour of 1980s studio pop.
The song that eventually provided the title for Mitchell's 12th album, "Dog Eat Dog" laid it all out in apocalyptic terms: "In every culture in decline/The watchful ones among the slaves/ Know all that is genuine will be/Scorned and conned and cast away".
“Good Friends,” the Michael McDonald duet that opens the album, features a big, swiveling beat from bassist and coproducer (and husband) Larry Klein that Joni subverts with a clipped melody.
Oct 15, 2020 · Interestingly enough, Dog Eat Dog is Mitchell's most optimistic album since the release of her exuberant Blue. The bulk of this, her thirteenth album, is a solemn testimony to such issues as the ludicrous yet all too dangerous evil of "snakebite evangelists and racketeers."
Dog Eat Dog. by Rob Tannenbaum. Rolling Stone. January 16, 1986. In the title song of 1976's HEJIRA, Joni Mitchell sang about "the petty wars that shell shock love away." Her view of romance as war made her a great diarist, detailing each volley of each battle with a historian's insight and detail.
Dog Eat Dog is the 12th album by 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).
Joni Mitchell. Released October 28, 1985. Dog Eat Dog Tracklist. 1. Good Friends (Ft. Michael McDonald) Lyrics. 2. Fiction Lyrics. 3. The Three Great Stimulants Lyrics. 4. Tax Free...
