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for a while now i`ve been obsessed by carly simon`s "why?", i think everything about it is absolutely perfect..but no-one else seems to rate it quite as much as i do; ok i`ve only asked 3 people, most of whom were only familiar with the glamma kid bastardization... i also think kylie`s last single owes a debt to this chic penned masterpiece.. so let me put it to you "why?" classic or dud?

― nelly, Saturday, 29 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

It's a good song alright.

― Robin Carmody, Saturday, 29 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

BRILLIANT!!!!!CLASSIC Heard it for the first time in many years at an old skool Balearic club night recently, and thought to myself, my what an ahead of its time record....its very hmmm housey i suppose, considering it was recorded in 1981. Other than this track though, i`m not at all keen on Carly Simon. Her record sleeves are particularly bad.

― eve, Monday, 31 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Love it for the air of vulnerability given by the wavering synth line which makes the record sound as though it's warped (see also Human League "Keep Feeling Fascination" and of course the collected works of MBV from "You Made Me Realise" onwards.

― Marcello Carlin, Saturday, 5 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Once again, MC gets to the core.

― Robin Carmody, Saturday, 5 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

eight months pass...

Anyone know where I can download this track, without signing up to a file-sharing site?

― Bunst Sonn, Saturday, 21 September 2002 13:32 (twenty-one years ago) link

three months pass...

This takes me right back to late 80s / early 90s when you would hear Carly Simon Why played on pirate radio played alongside house and hip hop

Heady days.....

― blueskies, Thursday, 9 January 2003 23:49 (twenty-one years ago) link

god, i'd never thought of it as a proto-vocal house track, but now you mention it...blimey! *really* want to hear it now.

Marcello, spot on about the League's "Fascination" - I always wondered if it was my tape fucking up.

― Charlie (Charlie), Friday, 10 January 2003 00:08 (twenty-one years ago) link

and sampled on Bonita Applebaum (Tribe clled Quest)

― gaz (gaz), Friday, 10 January 2003 00:13 (twenty-one years ago) link

its been bootlegged with Outkast's 'Miss Jackson' too and the result was predictably nice

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 10 January 2003 00:24 (twenty-one years ago) link

what album is this on?

― JasonD (JasonD), Friday, 10 January 2003 01:40 (twenty-one years ago) link

that "wavering synth line" is all over m.j's 'the way you make me feel', too. it's a great sound.

― michael wells (michael w.), Friday, 10 January 2003 09:38 (twenty-one years ago) link

Why commands high prices on the second hand market too. One dealer here in Belgium alwasy asks 50 Euros.

Jan

― Jan Geerinck, Friday, 10 January 2003 21:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

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