I dig me some carly, but i don't she was/is as talented as Judee or Joni.
― QuantumNoise, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 20:39 (sixteen years ago) link
I like-not-love "Why" -- her voice sounds like an off-key synthesizer (no, not a good thing, kids).
"You Belong To Me," however, is genius.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 21:00 (sixteen years ago) link
The late-80s stuff, not so good.
Life is eternal and love is immortal, and death is only a horizon... And a horizon is nothing, save the limit of our sight.
― Eazy, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 21:06 (sixteen years ago) link
Me need the 7 minute version of 'Why' bad. I only found out it was produced by Chic the other week.
pretty much available on every Balearic comp...EVER!...love the slowed-down drum machine, never knew Nile Rodgers was involved..."la-dee-dah" vocals predate Crystal Waters by almost a decade...
"You're So Vain" still her pinnacle..."you walked into the party like you were walking onto a yacht", what an opening line...
― henry s, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 21:14 (sixteen years ago) link
I can send "Why" to whomever wants it.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 21:23 (sixteen years ago) link
why
does this post hurt so much?
tell me why
― henry s, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 21:24 (sixteen years ago) link
Jack Nitzsche's "Carly" in which the producer slavers over her and writes a song about the experience. "That's the Way I Always Heard It Should Be" sounded like the kind of suburban angst I always wanted enough money to enjoy. she is pregnant and m-tee cute on cover of No Secrets which has some good stuff on it.
― whisperineddhurt, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 22:35 (sixteen years ago) link
not No Secrets but Hotcakes--aka Pigs in a Blanket.
― whisperineddhurt, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 22:36 (sixteen years ago) link
sometimes i think my dad only bought carly records for the covers. i don't remember him playing them that much.
man, last summer jimmy webb was recording with carly on the island and i totally wanted to sneak into the studio and have him sign my copy of wichita lineman.
i see carly all the time here. and her little dog too. her son is dreamy. so is her daughter. dreamy family all around.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 22:46 (sixteen years ago) link
sally taylor will knit you a poncho, you know. if you ask her.
http://www.sallytaylor.com/photos/poncho5.jpg
http://www.sallytaylor.com/Poncho.shtml
― scott seward, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 22:52 (sixteen years ago) link
and I only found out that she was the lead singer on "Kissing with Confidence" about ooh.....-- Mark G, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 16:59 (Yesterday) Bookmark Link--------------------------------------------------------------------------------no REALLY? what did they do to her voice to make it sound like that? i thought that was just a story and not true!i'm amazed the long version of WHY isn't on the SOUP FOR ONE soundtrack from whence it came. it'll be all over $0u!$££k mind.-- pisces, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 17:19 (Yesterday) Bookmark Link
-- Mark G, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 16:59 (Yesterday) Bookmark Link
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no REALLY? what did they do to her voice to make it sound like that? i thought that was just a story and not true!
i'm amazed the long version of WHY isn't on the SOUP FOR ONE soundtrack from whence it came. it'll be all over $0u!$££k mind.
-- pisces, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 17:19 (Yesterday) Bookmark Link
No, not the deep voice talky bit, the singing bit. Hear it again, and you will go "Oh, of course it's her! It sounds exactly like her!"
― Mark G, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 01:00 (sixteen years ago) link
during the evening in which I played Kay Huntington's LP (see thread on late-'60s female singers who haven't gotten hipster kisses) to friends who became very disturbed that I had the record, let alone giggled and laughed as I played it for them, I also played some Carly Simon. I find Carly Simon soothing yet sexual in any circumstance and told them so, but no, they wanted to hear Matmos or some singer like that, not Carly, and it hurt my feelings.
― whisperineddhurt, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 01:49 (sixteen years ago) link
I do love this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rW0vzGNTir4 - the cafe scenes are priceless.
― Daniel Giraffe, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 08:46 (sixteen years ago) link
She ain't sexy in that video.
― QuantumNoise, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 13:11 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 13:30 (sixteen years ago) link
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
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
― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 13:53 (sixteen years ago) link
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...
― henry s, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 13:54 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 13:58 (sixteen years ago) link
She really did have a great voice:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqxN_7B4Gao
― _Rockist__Scientist_, Sunday, 20 April 2008 14:17 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― _Rockist__Scientist_, Sunday, 20 April 2008 14:21 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm surprised nobody mentioned this song on this thread already.
I think do too. All three of them.
― Geir Hongro, Monday, 21 April 2008 22:32 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 21 April 2008 23:16 (fifteen years ago) link
Seven minute WHY 12" = Best song ever?
― piscesx, Thursday, 1 January 2009 20:55 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― carlysimonfan89, Friday, 22 January 2010 20:22 (fourteen years ago) link
Neffeg?
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 26 February 2010 15:30 (fourteen years ago) link
Nice Clare Huxtable sweater she's sportin'.
― Inculcate a spirit of serfdom in children (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 26 February 2010 15:43 (fourteen years ago) link
Let the mystery be department:
My God, can no one keep their traps shut any more?
― mottdeterre, Friday, 26 February 2010 16:17 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh I see, it was about you after all.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 26 February 2010 16:33 (fourteen years ago) link
It's ALL about me, goddammit.
― mottdeterre, Friday, 26 February 2010 16:36 (fourteen years ago) link
YEAH FIGURES
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 26 February 2010 16:41 (fourteen years ago) link
http://cdn2.libsyn.com/dsco/YSV2.jpg?nvb=20100226164035&nva=20100227165035&t=093437fe118038f7338e4
― mottdeterre, Friday, 26 February 2010 16:51 (fourteen years ago) link
lol
― Astronaut Mike Dexter (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 26 February 2010 19:33 (fourteen years ago) link
sexyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDJ_Mz8ftqI
― velko, Thursday, 1 April 2010 10:35 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoOpXvuqsr8&NR=1
― scott seward, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 12:50 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XInYifT-H_0&NR=1
― scott seward, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 12:51 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otdWeW-EO8s&feature=related
― scott seward, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 12:52 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsVAq9GlfO4&NR=1
― scott seward, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 12:53 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ht2IY6bUwPA&feature=related
― scott seward, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 12:54 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XpuHRhF66A&feature=related
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHx8Q2HNpKQ&NR=1
― scott seward, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 12:55 (twelve years ago) link
this is a good one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sD5K5XqaJME&feature=related
― scott seward, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 13:06 (twelve years ago) link
― piscesx, Thursday, January 1, 2009 8:55 PM (2 years ago)
― The Brainwasher, Wednesday, 22 June 2011 07:40 (twelve years ago) link
― The Brainwasher, Wednesday, June 22, 2011 7:40 AM (2 months ago)
― Tracy "Assless" Chapman (The Brainwasher), Sunday, 28 August 2011 22:53 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 13 April 2012 22:57 (eleven years ago) link
(Worthy of more acclaim as a publisher though.)
― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 13 April 2012 22:58 (eleven years ago) link
Naturally the Carly Simon thread is hilarious and awesome.
― Cunga, Friday, 13 April 2012 23:47 (eleven years ago) link
Just hearing "why" for the first time via this Daft punk spotify playlist, really nice. Is this song about James Taylor?
― More Than a Century With the Polaris Emblem (calstars), Friday, 30 August 2013 20:12 (ten years ago) link
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.
― That elusive North American wood-ape (Capitaine Jay Vee), Saturday, 31 August 2013 12:32 (ten years ago) link
"Why" is nice but I don't think Simon's voice and Rodgers-Edwards were a snug fit.
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 31 August 2013 12:37 (ten years ago) link
Mick Jagger is great on 'You're So Vain'
― More Than a Century With the Polaris Emblem (calstars), Saturday, 31 August 2013 15:07 (ten years ago) link
When I played the song for my class today, with the lyrics and the backstory, they pretty quickly picked up on the fact that Justin Bieber, Selena Gomez, and Taylor Swift write songs like this all the time. I told them that they all took their cue from Carly Simon, but I'm sure there are many precedents before that (Dylan wrote a bunch of who's-he-writing-about? songs in the mid-'60s). What makes "You're So Vain" so significant is that it hit #1 and turned into a national guessing game.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 25 November 2015 20:32 (eight years ago) link
the line seems like a 'catch-22' to me, although i know that's not a classical figure of speech. the person to whom the song is addressed is damned if he does, damned if he doesn't.
and yeah that video for 'why' is... alternately horrifying and charming.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 26 November 2015 05:32 (eight years ago) link
I thought about this some more on the way home today--I feel like it's a very important issue in 2015--and came to a similar conclusion. It's a trap, where three out of the four possibilities reflect badly on the intended target.
1) You think it's about you and you're right.2) You think it's about you and you're wrong.3) You don't think it's about you and you're right.4) You don't think it's about you and you're wrong.
1 and 2 aren't good. Either way, you're definitely vain; the second possibility makes you really vain and also clueless. 4 means you're not vain but are clueless. Only 3 is a favorable outcome.
― clemenza, Thursday, 26 November 2015 07:25 (eight years ago) link
Actually, if you're the intended target, only 1 and 4 apply. Change that to three out of the four possibilities reflect badly on everyone who's ever heard the song. Most of us--me for sure--are safe with 3. For Warren Beatty and Mick Jagger and such, much trickier.
― clemenza, Thursday, 26 November 2015 07:28 (eight years ago) link
great stuff
you reckon there's more than one you in play? since it's the same word, I'd assume it refers to same subject throughout ("you walked..." "you're so vain" "don't you?") and the song can only be about you
leaving the question: who are you? two possible answers:
1) you're warren beatty or someone else intimately familiar with carly simon - this song may be about you, and you probably think it is
2) you don't know carly simon personally, so this song isn't specifically about you - but the meaning of the song might apply to you too; if you think it does, it does
― niels, Thursday, 26 November 2015 09:20 (eight years ago) link
I feel like it's a very important issue in 2015
carly simon and her publisher sure hope so!
― wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 26 November 2015 09:49 (eight years ago) link
I've always wondered if "You're So Vain" isn't about any man in particular—even if there are references to specific guys (i.e. Beatty)—but all men.
― Naive Teen Idol, Wednesday, 13 September 2017 02:04 (six years ago) link
Keeps you Running slays https://open.spotify.com/track/4kmIcVKU595QzqULEp1OzH?si=4UbyrPlaQ1yn_wt7pdv_lAI’m tapped in 1977 and I can’t get out
― calstars, Monday, 12 November 2018 04:13 (five years ago) link
it kinda does! is it a good album?
― niels, Monday, 12 November 2018 08:09 (five years ago) link
Personally I had diminishing returns from the rest of the album, ymmv
― calstars, Monday, 12 November 2018 13:10 (five years ago) link