Dog Eat Dog (album)

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Dog Eat Dog
Studio album by Joni Mitchell
Released	1985
Recorded	?
Genre	Pop/Rock, Experimental, Jazz
Length	43:25
Label	Geffen Records
Producer(s)	Joni Mitchell
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Robert Christgau (B+) link Rolling Stone (mixed) link
Joni Mitchell chronology
Wild Things Run Fast (1982)	Dog Eat Dog (1985)	Chalk Mark in a Rainstorm (1988)

For the album by Warrant, see Dog Eat Dog (Warrant album).

Dog Eat Dog is Joni Mitchell's album of 1985, her second album for Geffen Records. Whereas most of Mitchell's work has a timeless quality and sound to it, Dog Eat Dog goes out of its way to sound like 1985. The lyrics deal with issues facing society at the time, such as televangelists and famine in Ethiopia, and the sound is very pop/techno. It was produced by Thomas Dolby, Mike Shipley and Larry Klein, Joni's husband at the time.

[edit] Track listing

1. "Good Friends" (featuring Michael McDonald)– 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
6. "Dog Eat Dog"– 4:41
7. "Shiny Toys"– 3:27
8. "Ethiopia"– 5:53
9. "Impossible Dreamer"– 4:30
10. "Lucky Girl"– 4:02

Written by Joni Mitchell except tracks 2 and 4 written by Joni Mitchell and Larry Klein