Revisiting Kim Carnes 80s music

I absolutely adore View From The House, OP. Probably the strongest release she ever did but it’s very different from her earlier 80s synthpop sound. A shame it didn’t do much but she’s said management at the label changed when the album was released and they lost interest in promoting it. The country-tinged tracks must have been a tough sell for top 40 radio at the time although Bonnie Raitt was able to make it work a few years later.

She barely released anything after View From The House. One Japan-only release and a best of compilation in the early 90s then nothing until Chasin’ Wild Trains in 2004 and nothing since. A few one-off soundtrack and compilation tracks here and there but she’s mostly focused on songwriting for others. …Trains is similarly country-tinged and overall not among my favorites but the lead single One Beat At A Time is one of the best things she’s ever done.

Thanks for the link. It's a nice song, but just doesn't compare to what she did in the early - mid 80s.

I only enjoy her early 80s music.

Her "Voyeur" LP is one of my favorites from the 80s -- title song, the track "Looker" which was the theme song to some trash 80s movie and my favorite "Does It Make You Remember?", among others. The album had a very Giorgio Moroder vibe and then she went on to work with Moroder on "I'll Be Here Where The Heart Is" from Flashdance. She is the last surviving member of the throuple that gave us the lovely "What About Me?" (w/ Kenny Rogers and James Ingram).

Love her.

Crazy in the Night was a fun song

I just watched the video for Voyeur. Really great stuff, uniquely early 80's. I wonder if the "witness to a crime plot" inspired Madonna's Like a Prayer video.

My all time favorite singer. I have all of her albums on vinyl or streaming.

Chasin Wild Trains is brilliant. Brilliant. Goodnight Angel is gorgeous.

Don’t Call it Love from Mistaken Identity should’ve been the next release after BDE. She made some mistakes with the singles she released. Bon Voyage, from Barking at Airplanes, would have been a masterpiece.

I had a 30 minute conversation with her about 17 years ago. And she told me she wanted desperately to release I’ll Be Here Where the Heart is from the Cafe Racers album but the EMI folks wouldn’t allow it. She said that album was her worst experience since she lost some control. I love it. Young Love was excellent.

She is probably worth 7-10 million. She’s not hurting. She lives in Jimmy Buffett’s old home in swanky Franklin, TN.

I heard her real estate agent son is gay.

"Don't Call It Love" is a great song, and very durable. I think Dolly Parton had a hit with it. It's a shame Carnes didn't get to release "I'll Be Here..." It definitely would have been a hit.

Her stuff with me is either very hit or very miss with me. But she was never boring or same old. Mistake Identity is perfection.

Miss You Tonight. I challenge anyone to listen to this and not feel sad. It’s a haunting piece of perfect music.

I’ll Be Here Where The Heart Is first appeared on the soundtrack for the movie Flashdance. She won a Grammy Award for best original movie score.

Her 2015 cover of The Rolling Stones - Under My Thumb was given an 80s sheen.

I have always loved One Kiss from Barking At Airplanes.

When I was in middle school my friend's sister took us to see Neil Sedaka. Kim was his opening act.

I'm a big fan as well, OP.

That voice! ❤️

The Mistaken Identity album is filled with melancholia and darkness.

I love it.

I love the song Mistaken Identity. It's so unique I can't even give it a genre name. Someone beat me to posting Crazy in Love. That is my favorite that she does. I also love Don't Fall in Love With a Dreamer. Could be my favorite duet. Imagine being at this concert and Kim Carnes surprises everyone.

I love Crazy in Love! It turned into a top ten hit for Kenny.

R14 I dislike that song and wouldn’t have traveled 2 yards to see Neil Sedaka

R4, I’m also a huge fan of Does It Make You Remember. I’m a little surprised it didn’t do better as a single but I believe the radio version edited out the instrumental bridge before the final verse/chorus which kills a lot of the song’s momentum. I love the way it flows into Breaking Away From Sanity on the album.

Well r19, my friend and I were 6th graders who were excited to be taken to ANY concert. I actually like the song I posted.

R21 It must have been in the 70s before Kim had her Bette Davis Eyes success.

It was, r22. It was when Sedaka came out with "Laughter in the Rain" and when Toni Tenille sand "Sedaka is back" at the end of "Love Will Keep us Together. "

Kim "Cunt" Carnes threw my grandmother on the live rail at a subway stop as the train approached.

She almost died!

Kimberly Lacretia Dianne Carnes has the voice of a raspy warily ANGLE!!!

A glorious, blonde ANGLE!!!!!!!

Everyone in my school was ROCKING OUT to Kimberly Carnes MEGA HIT "Crazy in da Night" in 1985. Madonna was barely talked about.

In fact, in between class other bitches would stop me in the hall and say "Have you heard Kimberly Carnes HIT song Crazy in Da Night!!?"

"Why NO!" I'd say. And I immediately cut class and RAN to Sam Goody to BUY THAT GODDAMNED CASSETTE!!!

I fingered myself to Crazy In Da Night from 1985-2017.

I was first man mounted (from behind) to Crazy In The Night in 1997. (The 1985 Kim Carnes megahit). The man told me that it was the best song ever for "fuckin" so that is what played on a loop while I was violated.

So now each time I am violated (from behind) I insist that Crazy In The Night (the hit 1985 song by Kim Carnes) plays until the man finishes. (Climaxes).

The hit song Crazy In The Night is the ONLY song for me.

I am violated to it! (From behind)

OMG! You weren't the only one!

I remember fingering myself to Crazy In Da Night for two solid months.

One time, my mother came in my room and asked, "What is that totally rockin' song, son?"

I told her, "It's Kim Carnes COLOSSAL HIT Crazy In Da Night that has the whole world fingering itself. It's it, like, totally tubular?"

Before I had gotten that last remark out, Mom was already on the floor fingering herself to Crazy In Da Night.

I am with you my fellow Carney.

Just last night, I was digging through my closet looking for my old poster of Kim so I could frame it and hang it over my bed.

Just the THOUGHT of Crazy In Da Night had me fingering myself so feverishly that I ended up getting dizzy and fell on my head.

As I came to, with Crazy In Da Night playing in my mind, I saw something under the bed.

I reached under the bed and pulled out, YOU GUESSED IT!!! My original cassette tape of the monster hit- Crazy In Da Night by our dearest and hottest, KIM!!!!!

I put in my old boom box, rocked the FUCK out for the rest of the evening and fingered myself into oblivion!!!

This is a HIT song, my friends!!

Hi r29 I admire your humor! I might have to flick my anal glands to Crazy In Da Night too.

I’ll Be Here Flicking My Bean…

I’m not waiting for you. I’m not waiting for you.

Streisand completely ignored the duet they did in her memoir. Never mentioned Carnes at all. Never mentioned that Jon Peters in the one who called Carnes and asked her to write a duet for her and Barbra. Never mentioned that Carnes was pissed because Streisand had the art director color Carnes' eyes brown on the photos included for the duet on 'Emotion' , cause Streisand didn't want two blond blue-eyed women on her album.

[quote]I’ll Be Here Where The Heart Is first appeared on the soundtrack for the movie Flashdance. She won a Grammy Award for best original movie score.

R11 Did everyone who contributed a song to the soundtrack win a Grammy for best original movie score ? That would include Donna Summer - making her have 6 Grammy wins. However, Summer is always credited with just 5.

[quote] Everyone in my school was ROCKING OUT to Kimberly Carnes MEGA HIT "Crazy in da Night" in 1985. Madonna was barely talked about.

Sounds like an awful place.

Crazy-ass Night (Fingering Myself on an Airplane)

No r33 it was awarded to Kim Carnes for her song I’ll Be Here Where The Heart Is

R36 Why just Carnes and her song ?

r26 You tried. Creative writing/sarcasm/wit isn't. your thing.

I agree. Not funny. These anecdotes. Not funny at all.

I think they all won a Grammy for Flashdance ???

R39 That's my question above, but was told only Carnes won. Not sure why.

They had so many good songs on the Flashdance soundtrack I wonder why they didn't release more? Aside from Kim's, Laura Branigan's best song was on Flashdance. Imagination. This song still sounds fresh out of the oven.

WHEN WE……

r42, that never gets old. Really.

They literally cut her entire line letting Cyndi (who I love) to butcher that part of the song with silliness.

R39 pig no

Kim Cunts

I’m reaching out with my invisible hands…..TO FINGER YOU!!!!!

I’m reaching out my invisible hands to fist you.