Barking at Airplanes is the ninth studio album by American singer-songwriter Kim Carnes, released on May 29, 1985, by EMI America Records.
[1] The album spawned two Billboard Hot 100 hit singles; "Crazy in the Night (Barking at Airplanes)" (No.
The 2001 reissue includes the Trevor Horn and Geoff Downes written track "I Am a Camera", which was previously recorded by Yes on their 1980 Drama studio album (as "Into the Lens") and by Downes and Horn themselves on the final Buggles studio album, Adventures in Modern Recording (1981).
[2] Carnes wrote "Don't Pick Up the Phone" and "Crazy in the Night" on an ARP String Ensemble.
[3] "Bon Voyage" features a sample of tannoy announcements recorded at Charles de Gaulle Airport by a staff member at the French branch of EMI.
[11] In a retrospective review for AllMusic, Stephen Thomas Erlewine described Barking at Airplanes as a "cohesive and consistent album" and her best outing since Mistaken Identity.