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The Beginning of Survival is the first in a series of compilation albums by Joni Mitchell

Joni Mitchell

Joni Mitchell, CC is a Canadian musician, singer songwriter, and painter. Mitchell began singing in small nightclubs in her native Saskatchewan and Western Canada and then busking in the streets and dives of Toronto...

, released in 2004 by Geffen

Geffen Records

Geffen Records is an American record label, owned by Universal Music Group, and operated as one third of UMG's Interscope-Geffen-A&M label group.-Beginnings:...

. The songs on the album were taken from her albums Dog Eat Dog, Chalk Mark in a Rainstorm
Chalk Mark in a Rainstorm
Chalk Mark in a Rain Storm is the thirteenth album by Joni Mitchell, released in 1988. It was her third for Geffen Records. The album features various duets with guest artists such as Peter Gabriel on "My Secret Place", Willie Nelson on "Cool Water", Don Henley on "Snakes and Ladders", Billy Idol...

, Night Ride Home
Night Ride Home
Night Ride Home is the fourteenth album by Joni Mitchell, released in 1991. It was the last of four albums she recorded for Geffen Records....

, Turbulent Indigo
Turbulent Indigo
Turbulent Indigo is the fifteenth album by Joni Mitchell. It was released in 1994, and became one of her most critically acclaimed releases, winning a Grammy Award for Pop Album of the Year....

, and Taming the Tiger
Taming the Tiger
Taming the Tiger is the sixteenth studio album by Joni Mitchell. It was released in 1998 and was widely believed to be the last album of new material Mitchell would ever release . The title refers to the unexpected commercial and critical success of her previous album Turbulent Indigo...

. , the album had sold 24,000 copies in the US.

Track listing

All songs by Joni Mitchell unless otherwise noted

"The Reocurring Dream" – 3:03
"The Windfall (Everything for Nothing)" – 5:09
"Slouching Towards Bethlehem" – 6:49
"Dog Eat Dog" – 4:27
"Fiction" (Mitchell, Larry Klein
Larry Klein
Larry Klein is a music producer, songwriter and bass guitar player, commonly known for being the frequent musical collaborator, and ex-husband, of Joni Mitchell....

) – 4:10
"The Beat of Black Wings" – 5:22
"No Apologies" – 4:17
"Sex Kills" – 3:56
"The Three Great Stimulants" – 6:06
"Lakota" (Mitchell, Klein) – 6:25
"Ethiopia" – 5:38
"Cool Water"Bob Nolan
Bob Nolan
Bob Nolan was a Canadian-born American singer, songwriter, and actor. He was a founding member of the Sons of the Pioneers, and composer of numerous Country music and Western music songs, including the standards "Cool Water" and "Tumbling Tumbleweeds." He is generally regarded as one of the...

) – 5:25
"Tax Free" (Mitchell, Klein) – 4:17
"The Magdalene Laundries" – 4:01
"Passion Play" – 5:19
"Impossible Dreamer" – 4:30

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