Barking at Airplanes

Barking at Airplanes is the ninth studio album by American singer Kim Carnes, released on May 5, 1985 by EMI.

Barking at Airplanes
Studio album by
Kim Carnes
ReleasedMay 5, 1985
Recorded1985
StudioOcean Way Recording, Galaxy Studios and Larrabee Sound Studios (Hollywood, CA); Record One (Sherman Oaks, CA)
GenrePop rock
Length42:46 (original)
56:08 (reissue)
LabelEMI
ProducerKim Carnes and Bill Cuomo ("Abadabadango" produced by Kim Carnes and Duane Hitchings)
Kim Carnes chronology
Café Racers
(1983)		 Barking at Airplanes
(1985)		 Light House
(1986)
Singles from Barking at Airplanes
  1. "Crazy in the Night (Barking at Airplanes)"
    Released: 1985
  2. "Abadabadango"
    Released: 1985
  3. "Rough Edges"
    Released: 1985
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]

The album received some positive reviews, including from People magazine, which wrote that “Carnes has had plenty of moments before but she’s never recorded an album as pleasing as this.”[2] Yet on the U.S. Billboard 200, it stopped short of the Top 50 and sold less than 200,000 copies. The track "Begging for Favors (Learning How Things Work)" features Lindsey Buckingham of Fleetwood Mac playing guitar and singing backing vocals.

The album spawned two hit singles, "Crazy in the Night (Barking at Airplanes)" and "Abadabadango", which peaked at Nos. 15 and 67 on the Billboard Hot 100, respectively. The 2001 reissue includes the Horn/Downes-penned track "I Am a Camera", which was previously recorded by Yes on their 1980 Drama album (as "Into the Lens") and by Downes and Horn themselves on the final Buggles album, Adventures in Modern Recording.

Critical reception

Barking at Airplanes received a fairly positive retrospective review from Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic. He described the album as a "cohesive and consistent album" and the "best she made since "Mistaken Identity", but states that it is more akin to the standard of Carnes' 1982 album, Voyeur. Although he said the album meets a mainstream 1980s adult audience, he justified the quality of the album by arguing that "it fits Carnes very well, not just because her great voice sounds ideal in this setting, but because she does this music very well."[3]

Track listing
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Crazy in the Night (Barking at Airplanes)"Kim Carnes3:35
2."One Kiss"Kim Carnes, Bill Cuomo, M. Paul3:32
3."Begging for Favors (Learning How Things Work)"Kim Carnes, Dave Ellingson4:52
4."He Makes the Sun Rise (Orpheus)"Kim Carnes, Bill Cuomo, Chas Sandford4:28
5."Bon Voyage"Kim Carnes, Craig Krampf4:44
6."Don't Pick Up the Phone (Pick Up the Phone)"Kim Carnes, Bill Cuomo4:19
7."Rough Edges"Kim Carnes, Dave Ellingson4:44
8."Abadabadango"Kim Carnes, Dave Ellingson, Duane Hitchings3:58
9."Touch and Go"Clive Gregson4:48
10."Oliver (Voice on the Radio)"Kim Carnes3:46
Total length:42:46
2001 re-issue
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
11."I Am a Camera"Trevor Horn, Geoff Downes5:11
12."Make No Mistake, He's Mine" (solo version)Kim Carnes4:13
13."Forever"Steven Van Zandt3:58
Total length:55:39

Personnel
  • Kim Carnes – lead vocals, backing vocals (1-5, 7-10)
  • Bill Cuomo – synthesizers (1, 3, 4, 9), drum programming (1, 2, 6), Kurzweil synthesizer (5, 10), Yamaha DX7 (5, 10), keyboards (6, 7), additional synthesizer (8), Roland JX-3P (10)
  • Duane Hitchings – synthesizers (8), Oberheim DMX programming (8)
  • Waddy Wachtel – electric guitar (1), backing vocals (1, 6), guitars (2, 6, 8)
  • Lindsey Buckingham – guitar (3), lead and backing vocals (3)
  • Craig Hull – guitar (3, 9)
  • Chas Sanford – guitar (4)
  • Ry Cooder – guitar (7)
  • Erik Scott – bass (3, 6, 7, 9)
  • David Jackson – bass (4)
  • Leland Sklar – bass (5, 10)
  • Craig Krampf – drum programming (1, 2, 6), backing vocals (1, 6), drums (3, 9, 10), Oberheim DMX (3, 9)
  • Gary Mallaber – drums (4)
  • Paulinho da Costa – percussion (2, 4, 5, 9)
  • Jerry Peterson – saxophone (3, 4, 8, 9)
  • Dave Ellingson – backing vocals (1-4, 6, 7, 8, 10)
  • Daniel Moore – backing vocals (1, 4, 6, 7, 8), lead vocals (8)
  • Julia Tillman Waters – backing vocals (4, 7-10)
  • Maxine Waters Willard – backing vocals (4, 7-10)
  • Niko Bolas – backing vocals (6)
  • Martha Davis – backing vocals (7)
  • James Ingram – backing vocals (7)

Production
  • Kim Carnes – producer
  • Bill Cuomo – producer (1-7, 9, 10)
  • Duane Hitchings – producer (8)
  • Mark Ettel – recording engineer
  • Sabrina Bucharek – second engineer
  • Tony Chiappa – second engineer
  • Judy Clapp – second engineer
  • Denny Densmore – second engineer
  • David Egerton – second engineer
  • Steve MacMillan – second engineer
  • Niko Bolas – additional engineer
  • Richard Bosworth – additional engineer
  • Duane Seykora – additional engineer
  • Mike Shipley – mixing (1-5, 8, 9, 10)
  • Ian Taylor – mixing (6, 7)
  • George Marino – mastering
  • Sue McGonigle – project coordinator
  • Henry Marquez – art direction
  • Jay Vigon – design
  • Richard Seireeni – design
  • Eric Blum – back cover photo
  • Greg Corman – front cover photo
  • Matthew Rolston – inner sleeve photos
  • Michael Brokaw – direction
Studios

Notes
  1. https://www.allmusic.com/album/r187711
  2. "Picks and Pans Review: Barking at Airplanes". PEOPLE.com. Retrieved 2019-10-10.
  3. Album review, AllMusic, Stephen Thomas Erlewine. Retrieved 10 April 2013
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