21-12-2012, 02:53
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CARLEY SIMON "hotcakes" cd,1974.
the cd sets contain 5 original albums by artists and cost around the price it would normally cost to buy two standard cds...thus, very good value, have several of these from Bread to Bobby Darin to Warren Zevon and of course Carly....makes way more sense to buy them like this IMO and at least with the artists i choose i know im going to get my moneys worth...
anyway, back to Hotcakes...
Carly's fourth album, a conceptual album about the bliss of being married and pregnant(the cover picture is of a pregnant Carly)....she was married to James Taylor around this time and he does crop up on "mockingbird" with additional vocals...
Carly has one of the most beautifully pitch perfect voices in popular music in my opinion..up there with Karen Carpenter, and even with not so good songs i find their vocals carry the song through.
worst track on here for me, which isnt really that bad is the title track...gets the 'worst track' status purely becuase of its lack of length(approx 1:10), which could loosely be described as "early rap"...sort of like Blondie's "rapture" only several years prior to that.
other than that, a great album, will put up another one over the next few days, probably "anticipation" next time round.
sorry about the lack of available links here, and surprised i couldnt find any live links for the tracks
I LOVE THIS ALBUM
worst track: hotcakes
best track: misfit
tracks:
1. safe and sound ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPpZ0Z-TbTs audio
2. mind on my man **
3. think im gonna have a baby **
4. older sister **
5. just not true **
6. hotcakes **
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1QL_Oi56jY audio
7. misfit ***
8. forever my love ***
9. mockingbird **
10.grownup **
11.havent got time for the pain ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3_l5Ss203I audio
3s=4
2s=7
1s=0
rating: 2.4 or 8/10