Barking at Airplanes is the ninth studio album by American singer Kim Carnes, released on May 5, 1985 by EMI.
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.
Barking at Airplanes received a favorable 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."[2]
People wrote that "Carnes has had plenty of moments before but she's never recorded an album as pleasing as this."[3] Yet on the U.S. Billboard 200, it peaked at #48 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.
