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The greatest Joni Mitchell<\/a> songs don\u2019t even sound like they come from the same musical hemisphere half the time.\u00a0<\/p>\n Whereas most artists would be content to make the best music that they can whenever they walk into the studio, Mitchell always saw her records as a new opportunity to take the craft further than it had ever been before. No one could have imagined what she did with a guitar in her hand, but she would be the first to say when one of her projects was flawed. <\/p>\n Then again, looking through Mitchell\u2019s discography, there aren\u2019t too many blemishes that are all that noticeable. She doesn\u2019t have a Cut the Crap or Chinese Democracy that we can all point and laugh at and wonder how the hell it even got made, so that should be a good sign, right? I mean, if someone doesn\u2019t have anything egregious in their catalogue, that should be a plus, but that doesn\u2019t save fans from the boring albums, either. <\/p>\n While anyone can at least be mystified by a bad album, the albums that get forgotten along the way are the ones that are technically worse by a wide margin. Music is supposed to have a strong effect on the listener no matter what it\u2019s trying to say, and while you can feel something when listening to albums like Hejira and Court and Spark, the same can\u2019t be said for the albums that had problems right out of the gate.<\/p>\n But the biggest detractor from any artist\u2019s album isn\u2019t due to anything they did. The songs might be fantastic for what they are, but there\u2019s one thing that none of them can escape: time. Each of them has a limit on how far they can take their music, and when they don\u2019t know which way to go next, that\u2019s when people start talking about working with people that are interested in whatever new sound is out there.<\/p>\n And while Dog Eat Dog is far from an 1980s-soaked fever dream or anything, you can definitely tell that something isn\u2019t working. There are pieces of the album where the synthesisers sound very good, and Mitchell has great food for thought on every one of the tracks, but it took her less than a decade to realise that some of the production could have used more work by the time she walked out of the studio.<\/p>\n She had the potential to make a great album, but she readily admitted that Dog Eat Dog was never going to stand the test of time like it should have, saying<\/a>, \u201cI don\u2019t think this stuff dates that much, you know. Probably the one that will date the most ultimately is Dog Eat Dog. That was me looking out at what was going on in the world because nobody else was.\u201d<\/p>\n