Songs for a Dying Planet is the tenth studio album

Album

An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...

 by Joe Walsh

Joe Walsh

Joseph Fidler "Joe" Walsh is an American musician, songwriter, record producer, and actor. He has been a member of three commercially successful bands, the James Gang, Barnstorm, and the Eagles, and has experienced notable success as a solo artist and prolific session musician, especially with B.B...

, released in 1992 (see 1992 in music

1992 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1992.-January–February:*January 11**Nirvana's Nevermind album goes to #1 in the US Billboard 200 chart, establishing the widespread popularity of the Grunge movement of the 1990s....

).

Reception

Writing for Allmusic, critic Vincent Jeffries wrote the album "fulfills [those] expectations to a degree, but the songwriter's weakened comedic instincts and extreme sincerity make Songs for a Dying Planet a difficult recommendation."

Track listing

All songs by Joe Walsh

Joe Walsh

Joseph Fidler "Joe" Walsh is an American musician, songwriter, record producer, and actor. He has been a member of three commercially successful bands, the James Gang, Barnstorm, and the Eagles, and has experienced notable success as a solo artist and prolific session musician, especially with B.B...

 except where otherwise indicated.

1. "Shut Up" – 3:19
2. "Fairbanks Alaska" – 3:27
3. "Coyote Love" (Joe Vitale
   Joe Vitale (musician)
   Joe Vitale is an American musician primarily known as a drummer but also a flautist, keyboardist and singer. He has played with many of the top names in music during a career dating back to the 1970s.-Biography:...
   
   , Walsh) – 4:43
4. "I Know" – 1:45
5. "Certain Situations" – 4:34
6. "Vote for Me" (Vitale, Walsh) – 4:21
7. "Theme from Baroque Weirdos" (Bill Szymczyk
   Bill Szymczyk
   Bill Szymczyk is an American music producer and technical engineer best known for working with rock and blues musicians, most notably the Eagles in the 1970s. He produced many top albums and singles of the 1970s, though he retired from the music business by 1990...
   
   , Vitale) – 1:33
8. "The Friend Song" – 3:33
9. "It's All Right" – 3:25
10. "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow" (Gerry Goffin
    Gerry Goffin
    Gerry Goffin is an American lyricist. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990 with former songwriting partner and first wife, Carole King. he has co-written six Billboard Hot 100 chart-toppers.-Career:Goffin enlisted with the Marine Corps Reserve after graduating from...
    
    , Carole King
    Carole King
    Carole King is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. King and her former husband Gerry Goffin wrote more than two dozen chart hits for numerous artists during the 1960s, many of which have become standards. As a singer, King had an album, Tapestry, top the U.S...
    
    ) – 3:59
11. "Decades" – 12:02
12. "Song for a Dying Planet" – 2:00

Personnel

• Joe Walsh
  Joe Walsh
  Joseph Fidler "Joe" Walsh is an American musician, songwriter, record producer, and actor. He has been a member of three commercially successful bands, the James Gang, Barnstorm, and the Eagles, and has experienced notable success as a solo artist and prolific session musician, especially with B.B...
  
   – guitars, bass guitars, vocals
• Jim Brock – guitars, keyboards
• Jimi Jamison
  Jimi Jamison
  Jimmy Wayne "Jimi" Jamison is a rock vocalist and songwriter, best known as the lead singer for the band Survivor from 1984–1989 and 2000-2006.- Further biography :...
  
   – keyboards
• Dale Peters – piano, keyboards
• Rick Rosas – bass guitar
• Joe Vitale
  Joe Vitale (musician)
  Joe Vitale is an American musician primarily known as a drummer but also a flautist, keyboardist and singer. He has played with many of the top names in music during a career dating back to the 1970s.-Biography:...
  
   – keyboards, percussion, flute, vocals

Production

• Producers: Bill Szymczyk
  Bill Szymczyk
  Bill Szymczyk is an American music producer and technical engineer best known for working with rock and blues musicians, most notably the Eagles in the 1970s. He produced many top albums and singles of the 1970s, though he retired from the music business by 1990...
  
  , Joe Vitale
  Joe Vitale (musician)
  Joe Vitale is an American musician primarily known as a drummer but also a flautist, keyboardist and singer. He has played with many of the top names in music during a career dating back to the 1970s.-Biography:...
  
  
• Executive producer: Joe Walsh
  Joe Walsh
  Joseph Fidler "Joe" Walsh is an American musician, songwriter, record producer, and actor. He has been a member of three commercially successful bands, the James Gang, Barnstorm, and the Eagles, and has experienced notable success as a solo artist and prolific session musician, especially with B.B...
  
  
• Assistant producer: Joe Walsh
• Engineers: Joe Walsh
• Second engineer: Joe Walsh
• Assistant engineers: Joe Walsh
• Mixing: Joe Walsh
• Mixing: Joe Walsh
• Mastering: Joe Walsh
• Art direction: Joe Walsh
• Design: Joe Walsh
• Artwork: Joe Walsh

Charts

Singles - Billboard (North America)

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1992	"Vote for Me"	Mainstream Rock Tracks	10