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 (sixteen 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 (sixteen 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 (sixteen 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 (sixteen 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 (fourteen 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 (twelve years ago) link
(Worthy of more acclaim as a publisher though.)
― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 13 April 2012 22:58 (twelve years ago) link
Naturally the Carly Simon thread is hilarious and awesome.
― Cunga, Friday, 13 April 2012 23:47 (twelve 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
Just breaking- second verse is about Warren Beatty.
― (Don't Go Blecch To) Reddville (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 22 November 2015 14:40 (eight years ago) link
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?
― clemenza, Tuesday, 24 November 2015 05:15 (eight years ago) link
Think so but perhaps there is a rhetorical term that more closely captures what is going on.
― (Don't Go Blecch To) Reddville (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 24 November 2015 05:18 (eight years ago) link
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.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 24 November 2015 05:25 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKaaF757mIw
― The Squirrel Who Punched His Dad In The Neck (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 24 November 2015 13:58 (eight years ago) link
i like her song with chic
― wizzz! (amateurist), Tuesday, 24 November 2015 15:50 (eight years ago) link
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
― wizzz! (amateurist), Tuesday, 24 November 2015 22:29 (eight years ago) link
also, she seems such an unlikely sex symbol to me, but that was the 1970s i guess (or in this case, the early 1980s)
― wizzz! (amateurist), Tuesday, 24 November 2015 22:30 (eight years ago) link
"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.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 25 November 2015 02:13 (eight years ago) link
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
― Josefa, Wednesday, 25 November 2015 06:20 (eight years ago) link
My favourite Carly Simon revelation is the one about her liking to be spanked before she goes onstage.
― schlep and back trio (anagram), Wednesday, 25 November 2015 07:10 (eight years ago) link
Wow, had never seen the video for Why before. I guess my main question with that is... why?!
― she used alt+3 like an ascii heart (NickB), Wednesday, 25 November 2015 07:39 (eight years ago) link
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
― niels, Wednesday, 25 November 2015 08:59 (eight years ago) link