Carly Simon - Have You Seen Me Lately
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Free Music Review: 10 Years later as good as ever.
Hit: 5 Stars
I had forgotten about this CD. I stumbled upon it and popped it in. Oh, the memories it brought back. This is a GREAT CD, even now.Free Music Review: Have You Seen Me Lately
Hit: 5 Stars
This CD contains very romantic ballads. As usual, Carly has again put together a fantastic ensemble of music. A must to have.Free Music Review: Don't wrap it up I'll eat it here!!!
Hit: 5 Stars
Free Music Review: One of my favourites
Hit: 4 Stars
By 1990 Carly Simon was a person with lots of exposure. 1987's "Coming Around Again" album was a big hit, and she won an Oscar in 1989 for the song "Let the River Run," a song used in the film "Working Girl" starring Melanie Griffith. In 1990 she released a collection of standards, titled "My Romance," and followed that album up with a new pop collection in the latter part of the year, titled "Have You Seen Me Lately." The album spawned a couple of hit singles, and featured some of Carly's strongest and most memorable material.
The first track and hit single was "Better Not Tell Her," a melancholy tune in which Simon is giving advice to a former lover to not share everything about her romance with him, presumably in hopes of saving his new relationship. It's a very catchy song and is currently one of my favourites. Following that is "Didn't I?," a piano-driven ballad in which Simon muses and asks questions about a failed relationship. The title track follows, being a little bit too easygoing for the subject matter. The song is basically about a woman living in a delusional state, and then asking the listener to not "wake me unless you love me." The singer is sort of commenting on her own ill emotional and social state in a moderately sarcastic way, but the music makes it sound like a day on the beach. It still manages to be an impressive song. (A bit of trivia--the music was featured in the 1990 Meryl Streep film "Postcards From the Edge.") Fourth on the album is a song that I never seem to tire of, the spiritual "Life is Eternal." Simon says the song's chorus is based on a Christian prayer she heard, while the verses seem to ponder what happens when we die. It's very touching, and instrumentally effective with the heavy drums towards the end as well as the layers of synthesized (?) strings. Rounding out side one is the powerful "Waiting at the Gate." Simon is singing to someone dear to her with a drug problem who is entering a rehab clinic, and does so in a mature and effective way. Too bad this song didn't get that much exposure compared to some of the others.
Side two starts off with "Happy Birthday," a somewhat cynical look at middle age and life afterwards. "Holding Me Tonight" is an easygoing serenade to a lover and was moderately successful on the Adult Contemporary charts, while "It's Not Like Him" is a bit too cliche for me. I also think it sounds a little too much like "Two Hot Girls" from the "Coming Around Again" album. "Don't Wrap It Up" is an uptempo number about an older woman being unafraid and hungry for love. Not one of my favourites, but I like how the narrator's age is not seen as a bad thing. It seems that most pop songs are sung from a younger perspective. "Fisherman's Song" features Judy Collins, and is a gentle, lullaby-ish waltz. The album ends on a strong note with "We Just Got Here," a song using summer's end as a metaphor for growing older. The song really does sound like summer is ending, and once again addresses one of the most prominent themes of the album--age and moving on. It's sad but hopeful at the same time, and doesn't sound like it would fit any other place but at the end of the album.
This album is a good example of one of the things that made Carly Simon so famous in the first place--solid songwriting. Not every song is a winner, but each does contain some kind of strength. This definitely ranks as one of my favourite Carly albums in her long discography.
Free Music Review: Have you heard her lately?
Hit: 4 Stars
The album's title almost asks you to forget, temporarily, about the You're So Vain/Anticipation/Nobody Does it Better days of Carly Simon. Every artist has their classic songs that live forever, but Carly is full of relevant and important thoughts to share with us now. The touchy nature of love affairs and middle-age musings on mortality are common themes, and her listeners are all the richer for her insights, from the innocence-lost theme of "Happy Birthday" to the rude awakenings of broken promises on "Didn't I?" She makes a plea for mature tolerance and encouragement with loved ones on "Waiting at the Gate," and half mourns, half celebrates the passage of time on the thoughtful and musically gorgeous "We Just Got Here." Of course, "Better Not Tell Her" and "Holding Me Tonight" prove she's still a master at less complex but no less beautiful pop, and this album as a whole shows us that for whatever reason we loved Carly Simon in the past, we have the same reasons-and more-to love her now.