What are your fave Carly Simon tracks?

That's The Way I've Always Heard it Should Be, I Haven't Got Time For the Pain, Nobody Does it Better

"Coming Around Again"

I'll try to limit myself to ten songs. I mainly like everything on her albums, but some songs stand out.

1. I can listen to "Itsy Bitsy Spider"/"Coming Around Again" being played together over and over and over. I once filled a CDR with 80 minutes worth. The entire COMING AROUND AGAIN album is good, too.

2. "You Belong to Me," and the rest of BOYS IN THE TREES.

3. "You're the Love of My Life"

4. "You Are My Sunshine" from INTO WHITE

5. "Hello Big Man"

6. everything on SPOILED GIRL. If I have to pick one, it's "The Wives Are in Connecticut."

7. "The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of"

8. "I Get Along without You Very Well"

9. everything on MOONLIGHT SERENADE, especially "Moonglow." But the entire album is great.

10. "I've Got to Have You" from ANTICIPATION (another great album)

Have you seen this lately, OP?

no, r4, i haven't! thanx for the link!

I forgot to add "Why" to my list! Love the Nile Rodgers/Chic production on that track!

Another I like from LITTLE BIG MAN, "Orpheus."

Orpheus (about James Taylor) is a great song.

I also like Mind on My Mad about him, too.

"That's The Way I've Always Heard it Should Be"

"The Wives Are in Connecticut"

"Let the River Run".

"Hello, Big Man," about her mother and father:

The Carter Family

His Friends Are More Than Fond of Robin

No Secrets

The Right Thing To Do

The cover of Ms. with her mother and two sisters. "Nobody does it better, Makes me feel sad for the rest, Carly Simon, are there any more at home like you? Yes, Yes, Yes!"

[quote]"Hello, Big Man," about her mother and father:

It pretended to be about her mother and father, but wasn't. Except for the part about how they met.

They did not have a happy marriage. The father was in love with another woman and the mother took a college-age lover, who lived in the house with the daughters.

This one......

Coming Around Again

Another vote for Coming Around Again.

"The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of" from COMING AROUND AGAIN:

I like "Coming to Get You" because it reminds me of when they come and take me off to the mental hospital.

Libby! That's one of her most musically beautiful and lyrically complex songs.

Slave and After the Storm are also really great, lesser-known songs about female subjugation and masochism ... no matter how I tell myself that I'm strong and free and brave,/ I'm just another woman raised to be a slave.

I love the whole spoiled girl album. it was a big commercial flop but i love every track on it.

I love "Such a Good Boy" --- it's funny.

"Haunting" from Boys in the Trees is a beautiful song with a wonderful vocal arrangement.

Love "Boys In The Trees", "Hello Big Man", "Why" and "Haunting." Glad to see I'm not the only one.

"Two Hot Girls On A Hot Summer Night" "It Keeps You Runnin'"

From her 1972 No Secrets album:

"We Have No Secrets"

"The Right Thing To Do"

Another Passenger and yeah, Libby.

I like the one that goes "We've already got three or four Carly Simon threads active right now and that's more than enough."

I would wish your cunt would fall off, R27, but it is obviously so dessicated, you haven't seen it in years.

"The Right Thing To Do"

"The Carter Family"

"You're So Vain"

"Just Not True"

"Mind On My Man"

"Slave"

"Waterfall"

"You Belong To Me"

"Boys In The Trees"

"Love You By Heart"

"We're So Close"

"Orpheus"

"Coming Around Again"

"We Just Got Here"

"Scar"

and the whole "Another Passenger" album

Honey, if you're all hung up on Carly Simon songs don't worry about my dick, worry about your cunt. It hasn't seen any action since the 80's.

And seriously, how many Carly Simon threads do you need? Are you a shill for her new book?

Working Girl. It does just what it needs to do and gets that movie off to a high powered start.

R30 [bold]IS[/bold] R27. And they are both on "ignore." Cunts.

Another vote for Scar

The one I'm listening to now, "Something Wonderful," from MY ROMANCE. Here's a live version.

The Carter Family.

I also really like No Secrets.

I liked them a lot as a teenager. I like them more as an adult since I've kinda lived through the general idea of both songs.

I like "I only have eyes for you" from moonlight serenade.

The Best Thing from her first album and Embrace Me You Child from No Secrets.

So do I, R36.

I LOVE "Embrace Me, You Child."

What Shall We Do With the Child from Torch.

This is my all-time favorite Carly song.

Lots of great ones listed already. I'll add:

Jesse

Take Me As I Am

Make Me Feel Something

Do The Walls Come Down

It Should Have Been Me

Better Not Tell Her

It's Not Like Him

Didn't I?

Holding Me Tonight

Life Is Eternal

If It Wasn't Love (from the "Nothing In Common" soundtrack)

You Are the Love of My Life

"Give Me All Night (Single version)"

"Like a River"

"Two Little Sisters" (with M singing background)

I first heard this song on the (top 40) radio in the spring of 1964, when I was 11.5 years old. I only heard it a few times, but it made enough of an impression on me that I never forgot the name The Simon Sisters, and a line from the song ("Sailed off in a wooden shoe"). Years later, in 1971, when Carly Simon had her first solo top 40 hit with "That's the Way I Always Heard It Should Be," I read that she had two sisters and one was an opera singer. I wondered if they had any connection to the Simon Sisters, but I never heard of or saw a single mention of the latter in any Carly Simon interview or article, so that seemed to be that. It wasn't until recently that a quick Google search disclosed that Carly and Lucy Simon had been the Simon Sisters.

Here's a video of young Carly.

Itsy Bitsy Spider from the "Coming Around Again" CD and the movie, Heartburn. I bought the CD just to listen to that song. It puts me in a good mood when I need a pick-me-up.

Count me as another fan of Itsy Bitsy Spider/Coming Around Again. I sang this in music class as a young gayling and made the student teacher laugh.

Great album of big band hits. My favorite is the title track.

The first non-animated feature my father took me to see in the movies was THE SPY WHO LOVED ME. By far, my favorite Carly Simon track is NOBODY DOES IT BETTER. Carly Simon will always be a BOND Girl to me.

Honorable mentions to JESSE, YOU BELONG TO ME, LEGEND IN YOUR OWN TIME, LET THE RIVER RUN, COMING AROUND AGAIN

Carly Simon? Overrated. Meh.

Never Been Gone I Get Along Without You Very Well Do The Walls Come Down Jesse Let The River Run So Many Stars Give Me All Night Film Noir The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of Davy It Happens Everyday

I was introduced to her music as a heartbroken 18 year old two decades ago and so many of her songs seemed like poetry and of course like she was singing my thoughts. I probably shouldn’t have wallowed in it so much but if you’re going to wallow in heartbreak you can’t do much better than Carly Simon.

^ clearly I’ve never posted a list on DL before - didn’t realise those song choices would read so terribly.

R54 Happens to all of us. A "Preview" button would do wonders.