Wild Things Run Fast is Joni Mitchell's eleventh studio album and her first for Geffen Records. Released in 1982, it represents her departure from jazz to a more 80s pop sound.
The resulting world tour took Mitchell through the U.S., Europe, Asia and Australia. A video of the tour was released in 1983, entitled Refuge of the Roads. The recorded performances were not live but recorded in a studio once the tour had been completed, with applause dubbed-in in post production. There was also some Super 8 footage taken by Mitchell on the road. It has since 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 discothèque 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".[4]
[edit] Track listing
All tracks composed by Joni Mitchell; except where indicated
- "Chinese Café/Unchained Melody" – 5:17 (Mitchell, Alex North, Hy Zaret)
- "Wild Things Run Fast" – 2:12
- "Ladies' Man" – 2:37
- "Moon at the Window" – 3:42
- "Solid Love" – 2:57
- "Be Cool" – 4:12
- "(You're So Square) Baby I Don't Care" – 2:36 (Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller)
- "You Dream Flat Tires" – 2:50
- "Man to Man" – 3:42
- "Underneath the Streetlight" – 2:14
- "Love" – 3:46
[edit] Personnel
- Joni Mitchell - vocals; acoustic guitar on 3,5,9,10,11; electric guitar on 4,6,8; piano on 1; electric piano on 10
- Larry Klein - bass
- Michael Landau - electric guitar on 5,7,8,10
- Steve Lukather - electric guitar on 1,2,9,11
- John Guerin - drums on 1,4,6,9
- Vinnie Colaiuta - drums on 2,3,5,7,8,10,11
- Larry Williams - Prophet synthesizer on 1,2; tenor saxophone on 3,7
- Russell Ferrante - Oberheim synthesizer on 4,6,9
- Wayne Shorter - soprano saxophone on 4,6,11
- Larry Carlton - guitar on 3
- Victor Feldman - percussion on 9
- Kim Hutchcroft - baritone saxophone on 7
- Lionel Richie - backing vocals on 3,8
- Charles Valentino, Howard Kinney - backing vocals on 3
- James Taylor, Joni Mitchell - backing vocals on 9
- John Guerin, Joni Mitchell, Kenny Rankin, Robert De La Garza, Skip Cottrell - whisper chorus on 6
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- Shadows and Light (1980)
- Refuge of the Roads (1983)
- Painting with Words and Music (1999)
- Woman of Heart and Mind (2003)
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