Carly Simon - This Kind of Love (Dig)
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Free Music Review: Good to have Carly back!
Hit: 4 Stars
I enjoyed this new venture! Carly did some great sounds with the bossa nova rhythms. It was great to have her wonderful voice back. This is a good series of tunes to listen to while working, helps to set a rhythm to mundane routines. It put a smile on my day!Free Music Review: Oldie and Goodie
Hit: 4 Stars
This Kind of Love
Some old, some newer. I haven't listened to Carly in a long time and it was very enjoyable to listen to.
Free Music Review: this kind of love Carly Simon
Hit: 4 Stars
She still has a strong voice. Very nice. I had to listen to it a couple times to really fall in love with it, but good stuff !Free Music Review: kimba1959
Hit: 4 Stars
As always, good music from Carly. A couple of cuts I could do without, but a very good mix.Free Music Review: So...what are you looking for?
Hit: 3 Stars
Although most of the music I purchase nowadays is via ITunes, there are three performers where the Compact Disk is still the only way to go when it comes to buying their music. Carly Simon is one of those. I have every album she has made ...including her childrens' opera, a number of soundtrack contributions and few extra tracks which appeared on other artists' albums.
With that in mind, I think it only fair to say that I am comparing this album to her entire catalogue (or at least all that I have or know of). I am also trying to keep in mind that not everyone who is deciding to purchase this album (or not) will have the knowledge (let alone, the love) of all she has done in the 35+ years she has been making music, that I feel that I do. I hope that if you are in that group, you will at least give this album a hear; it may be the best thing you hear in quite a while -for the song-writing if for nothing else.
So here goes. This Kind of Love is filled with wonderful, even catchy, songs that prove that Ms. Simon still has what it takes to be an A-1 songwriter. It is, however, with a bitter grip on reality, that I cannot say the same when it concerns her voice. Some would say that I should make allowances for what Time does to all of us, but since the CD industry makes no such allowance when I am asked to pay 15 bucks or more for a new album, I feel it not out of line to say what a number of us long-term fans noticed when we listen to this latest entry in the Carly Simon catalogue ...the lady cannot sing like she could 30, 20 (even 10) years ago.
I'm not implying that all of those involved in putting this album together are not aware of this: I give positive points for a number of tracks that work around the limitation with expert skill. It is in some of the slower ballads (i.e. the first half of Too Soon To Say Goodbye) however, where the voice I've listened to for three decades wavers a bit...making me wish for the smoothness of "That's the Way I've always Heard It Should Be" again.
Me?...oh well...I will probably always buy her albums (maybe always as CDs). But, if you haven't listen to anything of Carly Simon in the last 10 years, you may want to sample the tracks on this album first. A number of them are definite keepers (the "salsa-like" songs in particular)...but others may not be your cup of tea.
Like I said, it depends upon what you are looking for.