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Joni Mitchell - Dog Eat Dog (1985)

Track listing:
  1. Good Friends 4:29
  2. Fiction 4:10
  3. The Three Great Stimulants 6:14
  4. Tax Free 4:17
  5. Smokin' (Empty, Try Another) 1:45
  6. Dog Eat Dog 4:41
  7. Shiny Toys 3:28
  8. Ethiopia 5:51
  9. Impossible Dreamer 4:31
  10. Lucky Girl 4:01

Notes

Joni Mitchell here turned to guests like Michael McDonald, Thomas Dolby, Don Henley, James Taylor, and Wayne Shorter, continuing to straddle the worlds of California folk/pop and fusion jazz. Musically, it worked, although as a lyricist, Mitchell again took off after abstractions (one song railed against "the three great stimulants of the exhausted ones/Artifice, brutality and innocence"), such that, even when you could figure out what she was talking about, you didn't care.