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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.
“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.
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".
1985 Joni Mitchell – Dog Eat Dog. Gary Grant, Jerry Hey, Joni Mitchell, Larry Williams, Michael McDonald, Mike Landau, Steve Lukather, Vinnie Colaiuta. Dog Eat Dog is the 12th album by Joni Mitchell, released in 1985. It was her second album for Geffen Records.
Apr 28, 2014 · The song succeeds precisely because of its contradictions— gangsta lyrics combined with Nate Dogg’s lover-man crooning and McDonald’s smoother-than-smooth yacht-rock sound — and that’s down to...
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Dog Eat Dog, an Album by Joni Mitchell. Released 28 October 1985 on Geffen (catalog no. GHS 24074; Vinyl LP). Genres: Sophisti-Pop, Pop Rock. Rated #920 in the best albums of 1985.
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Picks and Pans Review: Dog Eat Dog. People. December 16, 1985. The landscape of most Joni Mitchell songs through the years has been introspective and interpersonal. But in her first album since Wild Things Run Fast in 1982, the brainy and romantic confessional poet turns her eye outward and is outraged by much of what she sees.
