Wild Things Run Fast

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Wild Things Run Fast
Wild Things Run Fast cover
Studio album by Joni Mitchell
Released October 1982
Recorded 1981-1982
Genre Folk jazz, Pop/Rock
Length 36:05
Label Geffen Records
Producer Joni Mitchell
Professional reviews
Joni Mitchell chronology
Shadows and Light
(1980)
Wild Things Run Fast
(1982)
Dog Eat Dog
(1985)

Wild Things Run Fast is Joni Mitchell's 1982 album and her first for Geffen Records. It represents her departure from jazz to a more 80s pop sound, without compromising her integrity as a songwriter. It is a retrospective, hopeful and love-oriented look at life from middle age.

The resulting world tour took Joni through the U.S., Europe, Asia and Australia. A video of the tour was released in 1983, entitled Refuge of the Roads. It has recently been released on DVD.

Mitchell claimed that her inspiration for the album came from hearing the music of popular bands such as Steely Dan, Talking Heads and The Police at a discotheque during a trip to the Caribbean in 1981. She said that hearing The Police, especially, affected her sound, saying, "their rhythmic hybrids, and the positioning of the drums, and the sound of the drums, was one of the main calls out to me to make a more rhythmic album".[1]

The track "(You're So Square) Baby I Don't Care" is on George W. Bush's iPod, though Mitchell commented in an interview that she would much rather he listen to Dog Eat Dog instead.

[edit] Track listing

All tracks composed by Joni Mitchell; except where indicated

  1. "Chinese Cafe/Unchained Melody" – 5:17 (Mitchell, Alex North, Hy Zaret)
  2. "Wild Things Run Fast" – 2:12
  3. "Ladies' Man" – 2:37
  4. "Moon at the Window" – 3:42
  5. "Solid Love" – 2:57
  6. "Be Cool" – 4:12
  7. "(You're So Square) Baby I Don't Care" – 2:36 (Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller)
  8. "You Dream Flat Tires" – 2:50
  9. "Man to Man" – 3:42
  10. "Underneath the Streetlight" – 2:14
  11. "Love" – 3:46

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