Dog Eat Dog (studio album)
by Joni Mitchell

Dog Eat Dog by Joni Mitchell
Year: 1985
Overall rank: 19,300th   
Average Rating: 
64/100 (from 50 votes)
     
Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1985 (216th)
Award Top albums of the 1980s (2,559th)
Award Best albums of all time (19,300th)

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Joni Mitchell bestography

Dog Eat Dog is ranked 20th best out of 37 albums by Joni Mitchell on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Joni Mitchell is Blue which is ranked number 69 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 16,197.

Joni Mitchell album bestography « Higher ranked (17,993rd)
Shine
This album (19,300th)
Dog Eat Dog
Lower ranked (33,433rd) »
Taming The Tiger

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Dog Eat Dog track list

   The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Dog Eat Dog rankings

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Overall rank: 19,300th | 1980s rank: 2,559th | 1985 rank: 216th

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64/100 (from 50 votes)
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From 04/08/2017 16:23 | #188900
Joni Mitchell's post seventies output always seems to get overlooked and, Dog eat dog, is no exception. Granted it's not a, Blue, a, Court and spark, or a, Hissing of summer lawns, but it's a decent album with a surprisingly good contemporary sound, in fact a lot of it sounds like it could have been on, Hejira. DED is a good album full of good songs.
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