Carole King?!?! Tapestry?!?!? O come on peeps. Carole King was a great songwriter among the ranks of Paul anka, JT and Carly simon. She was an icon in her day and everyone knew and could sing along with her lyrics no matter if it was your parents playing it or you were a teen or adult listening to it voluntarily at the time. I cannot believe that any one of you; especially you Ned, who is so savvy and knowledgeable in musicology, claim you have no remembered knowledge of her, Tapestry or her other stuff. Like manilow and anka, she has a huge catalog of songs although she herself may not have recorded them commercially herself. She wrote scads of songs that either she herself recorded or were recorded by others of her contemporary musicians. In fact, Tapestry was on the top of the Billboard charts for over 6 years in the mid '70s and won at least 4 Grammy's and was again up for album of the year in '82 against MJ's "Thriller" to which it finally lost and fell from the charts AFTER SIX YEARS. King, along with others like Neil Sedaka, James Taylor, and so many others were legendary fellows of the '70s songwriter genre. How can anyone be ignorant of this fact whether or not you're a fan? The album "Tapestry" was re-recorded in the early '90s covered by artists like the Bee Gees, Amy Grant, Celene Dion, Rod Stewart and Faith Hill to mention a few. If there wasn't some significant value to it, then I question why anyone would bother to re-record and release the same album. But this is just me, and just sayin.
― Wiggy Woo, Sunday, 19 October 2008 05:54 (4 years ago) Permalink
I even did this one time:
― ☑ (Pleasant Plains), Sunday, 19 October 2008 06:02 (4 years ago) Permalink
watched tv with a cat?
― the valves of houston (gbx), Sunday, 19 October 2008 06:03 (4 years ago) Permalink
</slocki>
― jaymc, Sunday, 19 October 2008 06:12 (4 years ago) Permalink
carole is laughing at us all right to the bank. She has a steady income from music rights/royalties and doesn't have to do a thing she doesn't want to do. All this at only 66 years old. I don't know about the rest of you, but it sounds pretty effing awesome to me. My life should be so easy! <sigh> maybe in my next life. Ill be taller then too more than my current 5' 4".
― Wiggy Woo, Sunday, 19 October 2008 07:00 (4 years ago) Permalink
i remember reading this thread the day it went up, it was not long after i began reading ilx and a while before i posted, and saying to myself, "who are these jokers".
― estela, Sunday, 19 October 2008 09:25 (4 years ago) Permalink
yeah, ignorance is never a good starting point
― velko, Sunday, 19 October 2008 09:29 (4 years ago) Permalink
12 Carole King Songs Every Gay Man Should Know
1. I Feel The Earth Move2. So Far Away3. It's Too Late4. Home Again5. Beautiful6. Way Over Yonder7. You've Got A Friend8. Where You Lead9. Will You Love Me Tomorrow?10. Smackwater Jack11. Tapestry12. (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman
― crusty but benign (kenan), Sunday, 19 October 2008 22:07 (4 years ago) Permalink
this album is great.
― caek, Sunday, 19 October 2008 22:09 (4 years ago) Permalink
new deluxe version about to drop, with live voice/piano demos of eleven of the twelve songs...
love this album muchly.
― graft Veronica's limbless torso to the 'paalmino' pony called Juno (stevie), Sunday, 19 October 2008 22:20 (4 years ago) Permalink
Aw yeah. People be goin' crazy an' shit when that Carole King drops. Sheeeeit.
― crusty but benign (kenan), Sunday, 19 October 2008 22:43 (4 years ago) Permalink
the first post is perplexing, carole king is obv great.
― lex pretend, Sunday, 19 October 2008 22:44 (4 years ago) Permalink
Carole talked to Obama supporters in my town today. I reported on it. I asked her a question about the difference between campaigning in 2004 and in 2008. Then I had her sign my copy of Tapestry because i'm a music reporter, not a news reporter.
― Tape Store, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 01:48 (4 years ago) Permalink
you are the coolest
― Surmounter, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 03:33 (4 years ago) Permalink
Well Tape....share for pity's sake. Waddid you ask specifically and waddid she say specifically. She's a Dem, I used to rep her and her kid Louise Goffin who was involved and had kids with a Oscar winner, Steve Gaghan, but that's another story.
Do tell....
― Wiggy Woo, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 03:40 (4 years ago) Permalink
You lucked out, TS. The only celebrity I saw campaign there in '92 was Fonzie standing on a tree stump in Peace Park.
(And Al Gore too, on the quad.)
― ☑ (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 04:21 (4 years ago) Permalink
she sang You've Got a Friend with the crowd
― Surmounter, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 04:35 (4 years ago) Permalink
mccain was here yesterday
― jordan s (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 04:37 (4 years ago) Permalink
he ate ribs or some shit and then left
She came to my hometown four years ago, campaigning for John Kerry in the Iowa Caucus. At a meet-n-greet prior to her talk & brief performance, people were getting records autographed, invariably "Tapestry". I was standing in line with a copy of "Writer", my personal favorite, and when she saw me like five people away, she stopped in mid-sentence, looked at the record and said, "Duuude!" Then she was very cool about taking a break to talk songs with me & my daughter for a couple of minutes.
Anyway, Tapestry classic, Carole King classy.
― groundunderweather (briania), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 06:43 (4 years ago) Permalink
Fuck the (mostly British) haters, I had a cassette version of Tapestry and played it in my car all through late high school. She sings in the perfect register for me to squack along since I have one of those dusty alto voices, and "Smackwater Jack" is my karaoke stand-by.
― Vampire romances depend on me (Laurel), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 13:32 (4 years ago) Permalink
"Home Again" makes me cry every time, like clockwork, and "Where You Lead" firmed my resolve to someday throw my lot in with the man of my heart and fit my dreams to his. Which hasn't quite worked out and chances are I'd stab him with a grapefruit spoon in that scenario but hey, I was 17.
― Vampire romances depend on me (Laurel), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 13:35 (4 years ago) Permalink
i apologise on behalf of the british haterz, they know not how wrong they are
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 13:39 (4 years ago) Permalink
Like Tom I prefer Martika's version
ffs
― DavidM, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:06 (4 years ago) Permalink
I was standing in line with a copy of "Writer", my personal favorite
i love writer! "spaceship races"... sigh.
― lauren, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:25 (4 years ago) Permalink
it's too late just came on the radio. wows
― Surmounter, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:34 (4 years ago) Permalink
YOU'VE GOT TO GET UP EVERY MORNING WITH A SMILE ON YOUR FACE AND SHOW THE WORLD ALL THE LOVE IN YOUR HEART.
― ☑ (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 18:59 (4 years ago) Permalink
i can roll with tapestry.
― M@tt He1ges0n, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 19:16 (4 years ago) Permalink
otm
― Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse (kenan), Thursday, 23 October 2008 06:27 (4 years ago) Permalink
I didn't know how much I liked this album until I was in Japan, far far away from my parents' record collection, and was seized by the desire to listen to it so so strong that I could almost not bear it. And then I went to a record store and discovered there was some fancy new edition so it didn't feel too redundant to be buying it again. But it was weird to hear it again - the way it's arranged, in my head, is a hell of a lot better. Plus the version in my head doesn't have the title track or 'smackwater jack' on it because they're laaaaaaame.
I guess it's a comfort album for me? 'so far away' and 'it's too late' make me ridiculously sentimental, they're so simple and her voice is at its best, and they seem... rooted in an adult world? I get that sense of reality that I get from, uh, Luomo's 'the present lover' or something (...i don't know, i can't really explain it, there's this feeling of: this is, genuinely, what people do with their emotions in order to understand them. which isn't a feeling I get from a lot of records).
― king lame (c sharp major), Thursday, 23 October 2008 08:41 (4 years ago) Permalink
"So Far Away" gets me misty
― Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse (kenan), Thursday, 23 October 2008 08:42 (4 years ago) Permalink
Another reminder of the mythical i.e. non-existent golden age of ILx.
― Eric in the East Neuk of Anglia (Marcello Carlin), Thursday, 23 October 2008 08:44 (4 years ago) Permalink
There was a golden age.
It was in 2005.
― Mark G, Thursday, 23 October 2008 09:07 (4 years ago) Permalink
― iago g., Sunday, 11 April 2010 23:32 (3 years ago) Permalink
RIP photographer Jim McCrary - the photographer who took the cover picture.
― Vini Reilly Invasion (Elvis Telecom), Monday, 7 May 2012 03:01 (1 year ago) Permalink