or
Sign in to turn on 1-Click ordering.
Sell Us Your Item
For up to a $1.30 Gift Card
Trade in
More Buying Choices
Have one to sell? Sell yours here
Sorry, this item is not available in
Image not available for
Color:
Image not available

To view this video download Flash Player

 

Dog Eat Dog [Import]

Joni MitchellAudio CD
4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (43 customer reviews)

Price: $8.99 & FREE Shipping on orders over $25. Details
  Special Offers Available
o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o
Only 2 left in stock.
Ships from and sold by Amazon.com. Gift-wrap available.
Want it tomorrow, June 19? Choose One-Day Shipping at checkout. Details

Formats

Amazon Price New from Used from
Audio CD, Import, 1996 $8.99  
Vinyl --  
Audio Cassette, 1991 --  

Amazon's Joni Mitchell Store

Music

Image of album by Joni Mitchell

Photos

Image of Joni Mitchell

Biography

When the dust settles, Joni Mitchell may stand as the most important and influential female recording artist of the late 20th century. Uncompromising and iconoclastic, Mitchell confounded expectations at every turn; restlessly innovative, her music evolved from deeply personal folk stylings into pop, jazz, avant-garde, and even world music, presaging the multicultural experimentation of the ... Read more in Amazon's Joni Mitchell Store

Visit Amazon's Joni Mitchell Store
for 66 albums, 4 photos, discussions, and more.

Special Offers and Product Promotions

  • Buy a CD or a vinyl record, get a $1 Amazon MP3 Credit. Limit one promotional credit per customer. Here's how (restrictions apply)

Frequently Bought Together

Dog Eat Dog + Wild Things Run Fast + Night Ride Home
Price for all three: $31.46

Buy the selected items together


Product Details

  • Audio CD (March 19, 1996)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Import
  • Label: Universal I.S.
  • ASIN: B000000OXY
  • Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (43 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #70,590 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

1. Good Friends
2. Fiction
3. The Three Great Stimulants
4. Tax Free
5. Smokin (Empty, Try Another)
6. Dog Eat Dog
7. Shiny Toys
8. Ethiopia
9. Impossible Dreamer
10. Lucky Girl

Editorial Reviews

1985's Dog Eat Dog is a powerful record consisting of mainly all protest songs with the exception of it's riff driven opener 'Good Friends' & it's wonderfully jazz tinged closer 'Lucky Girl'. Spectrum. 2006.

Customer Reviews

This is Joni Mitchell angry and prolific! Dr. Dave  |  8 reviewers made a similar statement
Both, the lyrics and the music are wonderful! Juan D. Anzola  |  5 reviewers made a similar statement
I like the cover, though. Randy Remote  |  2 reviewers made a similar statement
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
28 of 31 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Dog Eat Dog August 11, 2005
By B
Format:Audio CD
(4.5 Stars)

Instead of continuing to review her albums in order, I'm arbitrarily jumping 23 years to "Dog Eat Dog", typically her most hated (least loved?) album.

This was recorded smack dab in the middle of the 80's, and production wise, you can tell. Thomas Dolby (along with Joni's then husband, Larry Klein) were responsible for much of the sound; lots of synthesizers, those tinny sounding 80's drums, etc. Frankly, it sounds awfully dated..especially at first, if you're used to Joni's delicate, stark works like "Blue".

As for the lyrics, this is Joni's angriest album for sure. She's pissed off about a lot of things here - corruption, lies, greed, materialism, etc. Nope, Joni was not a big fan of the Reagan era. Thus, although the musical portion sounds dated, the lyrical sentiments are still very relevant today.

Although she's angry at society, the music isn't harsh or anything. The tunes are pretty accessible, actually. "Good Friends" (in which Michael McDonald lends his soulful voice at times), for example, is a highly catchy slice of pop music.

"Fiction" also works the 80's pop/rock formula well. Driving beat, lots of keyboards, powerful hook. "Tax Free" is a brutal attack on televangelists (specifically, Jimmy Swaggart seems to be the target). The melody (tense, creeping verses lead into a powerful chorus) is compelling, the message is spot on; one of her best songs for me.

Although not much of a song, "Smokin' (Empty, Try Another)" is probably the only song to feature a cigarette machine at the main instrument. If nothing else, it's a haunting little piece.
... Read more ›
Was this review helpful to you?
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Re-discovery... February 19, 2003
Format:Audio CD
Bought this on vinyl the year that it came out and hated it. Made the big mistake other Joni fans of yesteryear had so sorrily made of holding this offering up in juxtaposition to her earlier albums of the late 60's/early 70's.
Then whilst cleaning out the storage shed the other day, I came upon a box full of old records I had forgotten about. Interestingly, DOG EAT DOG was on top, so I proceeded to brush it off, bring it in the house, and jack up the ol' grammaphone. I can only say that from that point on, I became transfixed and transported. Had I really changed so much in these last 18 years, or was Joni just that much more ahead of her time...or both? The answer to that is academic and unimportant when held up against this important and vital music. Colors, textures, layer upon layer of synthy/guitar impressions---AND THOSE LYRICS!! And then there is all that space and silence in-between; the kind that only Thomas Dolby could have unimagined.
The only thing left now is to get this on CD and then hold on to the record for not only posterity's sake, but for a time when perhaps we live in a world that can hear and feel and touch and love and envision on a level somewhere close to the genius of this woman.
Was this review helpful to you?
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Techo-funky-jazzy Joni ! October 21, 1999
By A Customer
Format:Audio CD
OK, some people just can't dig Joni in this mode. When this album was released it was panned, probably because it was so...different. But different is what makes Joni tick, musically, and is why this fan digs her so much. I dig the techno-funk social criticism of Fiction and the edgy, middle-of-night rock of The Three Great Stimulants. Best of all, there's the disarming, dreamy Impossible Dreamer, one of her best tunes. Dog deserves a higher place in the annals of pop criticism. If it had been released with a newer artist's name and face on the cover, it would have been hailed as innovative, literate, meticulously produced mid-80's pop. That's how I still hear it, even if the artist who created it wasn't "supposed" to do techno-funky-jazzy. Right on, Joni.
Comment | 
Was this review helpful to you?
14 of 17 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Joni makes the jump to Techno-Rock with style April 5, 2002
Format:Audio CD
Dog Eat Dog is a spectacular sonic production unlike any of Joni Mitchel's other Albums. The sound is clean, bright, and multi-layered. Over a decade later, it still SOUNDS good. Although lovers of Joni's earlier folk-based songs complained about it, Joni's legion of fans did music a great diservice by staying away in droves from this very accomplished album. Joni's political and social commentary has always been one of the key reasons her fans love her, and those elements were in the fore here. It's shameful that the SOUND she and producer Thomas Dolby crafted wasn't embraced by Joni's fans. Maybe Joni, Dolby and a host of top talents doing cameos were having TOO MUCH fun for these "fans." To make matters worse, Radio had created many casual Joni-fans with "Big Yellow Taxi," and then failed to capitalize on that programming success with any of four tracks on Dog Eat Dog that have the same endearing feel of "Big Yellow Taxi," but with the added edge only a more mature Joni Mitchel could contribute. No other Joni Mitchel album has as much sonic scope as Dog Eat Dog, from Actor Rod Steiger's faux-christian exortations to Joni accompanying herself with an empty cigarette machine. Maybe fans found Dog Eat Dog too "theatrical." But that "theatricallity" allowed Joni to deliver a full helping of some of her best social and personal observations, bouyed-up with some of the most tuneful and catchy melodies of her career. Dog Eat Dog opened the door to a Pop-Rock landscape that hardcore fans should have supported, so that Joni would have an ongoing "commercial" outlet for her deservedly loved talents. True fans admire her Jazz-influenced later work, and hold her early "folk" work in a very special place in their hearts.... Read more ›
Comment | 
Was this review helpful to you?
Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars Joni
Come on-this is Joni Mitchell with Larry Kline what's not to like! I don't use the word genius often, I do when I listen to Joni and whomever else is in her band.
Published 3 months ago by Ray D. Davis
5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best
Joni Mitchell is an acquired taste. But if your of that ilk, then this CD is a must have for your collection . The 1980's. Read more
Published 4 months ago by scott bryan
5.0 out of 5 stars Respect the work of a great woman!
I would to say that i bought this album on a lp format , now with the cd , i still hear it with enthusiasm and deeply emotion. Read more
Published on April 18, 2011 by Paulo F. Da Costa
1.0 out of 5 stars De-Klein
Far from her best...so far it is hard to recall that she ever produced her best while listening to this mess. Klein is short for DeKlein in my book. Read more
Published on June 13, 2010 by Xagan
5.0 out of 5 stars DOG EAT DOG
I love this cd....I had the vinyl long ago. Yet another side of Joni Mitchell. She had help from others on the cd like, Michael McDonald, Don Henley, even the actor Ron Steiger... Read more
Published on June 26, 2009 by Cathy L. Eaton
5.0 out of 5 stars Joni's angry protest!!!
The majority of cuts on this album are Joni's 'inspirational anger'
over the state of union and the planet. Read more
Published on December 2, 2008 by Kerry L. Wanish
4.0 out of 5 stars Dated but still somehow relevant.
To fully appreciate this album, one must keep in mind the era in which it was recorded, the mid-1980s: Joni Mitchell, along with most of her contemporaries -- Dylan, Baez, Neil... Read more
Published on August 9, 2008 by Mark R. Thivierge
2.0 out of 5 stars Beware of Dog
I'm a huge Joni fan. I have every one of her albums. I would put this one near the bottom of the list. The production is plastic, gimmicky. Read more
Published on January 15, 2008 by Randy Remote
4.0 out of 5 stars Some beautiful songs, hard to listen to
4.5 stars. If you can separate the "sound" from the songs, then this can hardly be recommended more highly. Read more
Published on October 24, 2007 by Arthur Maisel
5.0 out of 5 stars different for joni, but overlooked and brilliant
This was a different direction for JM and personally I found it innovative and brilliantly produced. Read more
Published on September 26, 2007 by Sean F. Moran
Search Customer Reviews
Only search this product's reviews

Forums

There are no discussions about this product yet.
Be the first to discuss this product with the community.
Start a new discussion
Topic:
First post:
Prompts for sign-in
 




What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?



Look for Similar Items by Category