Joni Mitchell – Wild Things Run Fast (CD)

Wild Things Run Fast marked Joni Mitchell's return to a more straightforward pop-rock sound after the jazz-leaning experiments of the late '70s, arriving in 1982 with a newly married energy and a band anchored by Larry Klein, who would become her husband. The album finds her writing with a directness and romantic openness that surprised longtime followers, covering Elvis Presley's "(You're So Square) Baby I Don't Care" alongside original material that balanced personal contentment with her ever-restless artistic sensibility.