Dog Eat Dog Music Cd

Joni Mitchell - Dog Eat Dog

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Dog Eat Dog      Artist : Joni Mitchell      List Price : $12.98 USD        Your Price : $12.98 USD      ProductGroup: Music      Release Date : 1996-03-19      Studio : Geffen UK      Label : Geffen UK      Avg. Customer Rating : (39 reviews)

Reviews Customer Reviews for Dog Eat Dog      Elusive Dreams and Vague Desires...      Rating:      Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R3HL3WKV4L8VYU My name is Jeremy Gloff. I am a musician (check me out on Amazon!) and retro music enthusiast. If you enjoyed this review make sure to check out my Amazon user profile to check out my other reviews. I am always up for making new friends and discussing the music I love!!!     Customer Reviews for Dog Eat Dog Cd      Dated but still somehow relevant.      Rating:      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 Young, etc. -- all giants during the previous two decades, were all over 40, and were being eclipsed by a new generation of musicians and listeners. Each of them needed to reinvent their music if they wanted to remain vital and timely, and not be marginalized (by radio or by audiences and record buyers), and each found their own ways to do so. For her part, Joni, in 1985, was 42, and at a different point in her life than when she had released her "landmark" albums. At this stage, it would have been disingenuous of her to have recorded "BLUE REVISITED" or "COURT & SPARK-2". The times were different, the issues were different, and most importantly, she, herself was different. She seemed to have surveyed the landscape and worked with what she had available to her at the time: synthesizers, programmed drum machines and the like. But in typical Joni Mitchell fashion, rather than herself bending to any current trend, she instead took the current "sound", and reworked it to fit her own music (rather than vice-versa). The songs she was writing were, as others here have mentioned, "angry", but there was plenty to be angry about in the mid-1980s: poverty, materialism, homelessness, discrimination, greed, the unabated spread of HIV, and the unfair policies put forth by the Reagan Administration were certainly all things worth getting angry about. Sadly, things have only gotten worse, which, in a sense, makes DOG EAT DOG still oddly relevant twenty-three years later.