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