Wild Things Run Fast is the 11th
studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter
Joni Mitchell. Her first of four releases for
Geffen Records, it was released in 1982 and represents her move to a more
1980s pop sound. This was her first album to work with bassist
Larry Klein, whom she married in 1982. Klein would play bass on and co-produce her next four albums.
Inspiration
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".[6]
Tour
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 performed in front of a live audience, but rather recorded live in a studio once the tour had been completed, with applause
dubbed-in during
post-production. There was also some
Super 8 footage taken by Mitchell on the road. It has since been released on DVD.
Track listing
All tracks are written by
Joni Mitchell, except where noted.
^Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992: 23 years of hit singles & albums from the top 100 charts. St Ives, N.S.W, Australia: Australian Chart Book.
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