I like every single Carly Simon song I've ever heard

She popped up right at the end of some kids film, singing the title song whilst being in a field, sitting on a fence, etc.

Darned if I remember anything about the film tho.

Coming Around Again is amazing.

Baby sneezes
Mummy pleases
Daddy breezes in
So good on paper
So romantic
But so bewildering

I know nothing stays the same
But if you're willing to play the game
It's coming around again
So don't mind if I fall apart
There's more room in a broken heart

You pay the grocer
Fix the toaster
Kiss the host Good-bye
Then you break a window
Burn the Souffle
Scream the lullaby

I know nothing stays the same
But if you're willing to play the game
It's coming around again
So don't mind if I fall apart
There's more room in a broken heart

And I believe in love
But what else can I do
I'm so in love with you

I know nothing stays the same
But if you're willing to play the game
It's coming around again

is that a real poncho, or is that a Sears poncho?

Insides recorded a wonderful song called "Carly Simon" for their Euphoria LP, but it doesn't seem to be about her...

In my mind, Carly Simon is inexocrably linked with Rosie Vela, as Coming Around Again debuted on the chart the same week as Vela's Magic Smile in early 1987.

She really did have a great voice:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqxN_7B4Gao

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-q1x55jbbc

It's really hard to listen to this stuff, but not because I don't like it.

I'm surprised nobody mentioned this song on this thread already.

I think do too. All three of them.

I'm disappointed that her songs aren't as incisive as her voice can be; her ballads are awfully flat. But I still love "Jesse" and "You Belong To Me," the latter being the peak of seventies studio/yacht rock.

Seven minute WHY 12" = Best song ever?

hello

does anyone know where i can find the mp3 for the carly song if it wasn't love from the movie nothing in common

thanks

michael

Neffeg?

Nice Clare Huxtable sweater she's sportin'.

Let the mystery be department:

My God, can no one keep their traps shut any more?

Oh I see, it was about you after all.

It's ALL about me, goddammit.

YEAH FIGURES

http://cdn2.libsyn.com/dsco/YSV2.jpg?nvb=20100226164035&nva=20100227165035&t=093437fe118038f7338e4

lol

sexy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDJ_Mz8ftqI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoOpXvuqsr8&NR=1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XInYifT-H_0&NR=1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otdWeW-EO8s&feature=related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsVAq9GlfO4&NR=1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ht2IY6bUwPA&feature=related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XpuHRhF66A&feature=related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHx8Q2HNpKQ&NR=1

this is a good one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sD5K5XqaJME&feature=related

Seven minute WHY 12" = Best song ever?

― piscesx, Thursday, January 1, 2009 8:55 PM (2 years ago)

Seven minute WHY 12" = Best song ever?

― piscesx, Thursday, January 1, 2009 8:55 PM (2 years ago)

― The Brainwasher, Wednesday, June 22, 2011 7:40 AM (2 months ago)

I heard "You're So Vain" in K-Mart today and it reminded me of the fairly pointless critique the poet Jonathan Williams did of the lyrics (I think it was some sort of 70s "people tell me that pop lyrics are today's poetry, so I will now make a travesty of some pop lyrics"), and I have to admit I was amused at vaguely remembering something like: how many eyes does this person have?

But who wants to read Jonathan Williams's boring, often quasi-concretist poetry anyway? I'd much rather listen to at least a handful of Carly Simon songs.

(Worthy of more acclaim as a publisher though.)

Naturally the Carly Simon thread is hilarious and awesome.

Just hearing "why" for the first time via this Daft punk spotify playlist, really nice. Is this song about James Taylor?

I got to work with her in my studio-rat days and she was a sweet lady. Didn't know until then she was of the Simon & Schuster (sp?) Simons.

"Why" is nice but I don't think Simon's voice and Rodgers-Edwards were a snug fit.

Mick Jagger is great on 'You're So Vain'

Just breaking- second verse is about Warren Beatty.

Anti-climactic, but a good story nonetheless (that I plan to walk my class through sometime this week). "You're so vain, you probably think this song is about you"--that's a tautology, right?

Think so but perhaps there is a rhetorical term that more closely captures what is going on.

That's what I was thinking, that there might be some other name for that. It's not at all a paradox, but tautology doesn't quite seem right either.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKaaF757mIw

i like her song with chic

song is catchy, but this video (or more to the point, carly's moves within it) is embarrassing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aW8UnXzP3ms

also, she seems such an unlikely sex symbol to me, but that was the 1970s i guess (or in this case, the early 1980s)

"You Belong to Me" and "Jesse" are better songs, but I'm resigned to muttering these opinions to my fellow supermarket shoppers as we hum along in the cereal aisle.

How do we feel about when Carly tackles the standards?

I have a love/hate thing with her version of "Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye" (Cole Porter), which a certain NYC radio host uses as his sign-off song every week. On first listen it sounded awkward to me, both the singing and the cheesy production, but with constant repetition it's become somewhat endearing

My favourite Carly Simon revelation is the one about her liking to be spanked before she goes onstage.

Wow, had never seen the video for Why before. I guess my main question with that is... why?!

I don't think the question about rhetorical device in "Vain" should go unanswered, hivemind to thread plz

I don't think it's a tautology, that would be more like "You're so vain because you're so vain" or "according to this song you're vain ergo you're vain"

Phrased as a paradox would be more like "You're so vain you can't imagine this song is about you"

So I dunno, I guess "absurd" or "nonsensical" would be a better term, the key weird phrase is "you probably think this song is about you", where usually the "you probably think..." construction would point to something false, here, surprisingly, it points to a truth, implied by the initial "you" and following "don't you?", adding up to a nice caricature of a person so vain that he sees himself even in such a negative description

So anyway, I think it's a play on apostrophe as a figure of speech - the vanity of the addressed person gives it a nice absurd twist

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostrophe_%28figure_of_speech%29

but sorry if these thoughts are jumbled

Thanks for trying to think through that...If the target of the song is correct, he's a) perceptive, and b) either more or less or exactly as vain as she thinks--I think that could go either way. If he's wrong, if the song's not about him, he's a) not very perceptive because b) he's even vainer than she thinks.

It's such a great line--I think it almost confounds categories.