Joni Mitchel - Dog Eat Dog (1985)

Joni Mitchel - Dog Eat Dog (1985)

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Joni Mitchel - Dog Eat Dog

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Side one

1. "Good Friends"   4:25

2. "Fiction"   4:14

3. "The Three Great Stimulants"   6:11

4. "Tax Free"   4:19

5. "Smokin' (Empty, Try Another)"   1:43

Side two

1. "Dog Eat Dog"   4:41

2. "Shiny Toys"   3:27

3. "Ethiopia"   5:53

4. "The Impossible Dreamer"   4:30

5. "Lucky Girl"   4:02

Joni Mitchel Musicians

Joni Mitchell – vocals, piano, keyboards, synthesizers, sound effects, cover painting

Larry Klein – keyboards, synthesizers, bass, programming; spoken vocals on "Fiction"

Thomas Dolby – keyboards, synthesizers, programming; spoken vocals on "Fiction" and "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

Michael McDonald – vocals on "Good Friends", background vocals on "Tax Free"

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"

 

Mike Shipley – engineer, mixing

Bob "Zyg" Winard, Dan Marien – assistant engineers

Glen Christensen – art direction

Dog Eat Dog is the 12th studio album by 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 album was a particular departure for Mitchell due to its highly synthetic sound – it was the first (and one of the few albums) on which she plays no guitar and on which she focuses entirely on keyboards (mostly synthesizers and the Fairlight CMI sampler). Dog Eat Dog also featured an expanded role for Mitchell's bass-playing husband Larry Klein, who not only co-produced and played keyboards, but played a significant part in shaping the album's technological pop sound and also wrote the music for two of the songs. All guitars were played by session musician Michael Landau, using an electric/textural approach very different from Mitchell's own. Over the course of the next few albums, Mitchell would gradually return to a more organic approach similar to her mid-'70s sound.