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This Kind Of Love |  | Artist: Carly Simon
Label: Hear Music / UCJ
Category: Music
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Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 33133
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 888072308008
EAN: 0888072308008
ASIN: B0015XEH4Q
Release Date: June 2, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | This Kind of Love | | • | Hold Out Your Heart | | • | People Say a Lot | | • | Island | | • | How Can You Ever Forget | | • | Hola Soleil | | • | In My Dreams | | • | When We're Together | | • | So Many People to Love | | • | They Just Want You to Be There | | • | The Last Samba | | • | Sangre Dolce | | • | Too Soon to Say Goodbye |
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 7
 Great collection from a great singer/songwriter May 2, 2008
Bodhi Heeren (Copenhagen)
20 out of 21 found this review helpful
Carly Simon might be a really underrated artist, at least on this side of the Atlantic. Where in fact she's right there with Carole King and Joni Mitchell in the holy trinity of female singer/songwriters. Having written so many strong melodies, always with intelligent and often very personal lyrics.
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br /This fine album - her first in 8 years with self-penned material - is no exception. In fact it is downright brilliant. As we're used to the musicianship and arangements are top-class. Carly having produced the album with the help of old friends Frank Filipetti and Jimmy Webb. The tunes are very fine, often more than hinting at a beautiful latin-groove. A couple of them written with the help of her talented kids Ben and Sally (Taylor).
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br /Her voice is still husky and expressive and some of the lyrics - like on the highly personal "The Bedroom Tapes" about her bout with cancer - just touching your heart.
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br /This is a classic singer/songwriter album from a highly classy woman.
This Kind Of Work May 22, 2008
Mr. C. E. Andersson
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
I totally agree with the other reviewer. I didn't think we'd ever have another self penned album from Carly and here she is at age 62 with another masterly album. Quite why she doesn't ring that many bells here in the UK I do not know. I have been into her work for 35 years now and have never tired. Yes, I am also into Mitchell and King but Ms Simon is my all time great. Much to my surprise, the mainly rapped 'People Say A Lot' is one of my favourite tracks and one that I find strangely moving. Yes, there is a Latin flavour to this album yet it is still quintessentially Carly Simon. I certainly hope it is not another 8 years before we get another self penned album. Oh and her voice just gets richer and richer and still makes my spine tingle.
In a league of her own! Superb. September 12, 2008
John K. Gateley (Bracknell, UK)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I agree with most of the reviews here on Amazon. Carly Simon has been delighting us with her music for a staggering 40 years. She can be acidic (You're So Vain) and powerful ('How Can You Ever Forget' on this album) and a whole range of emotions in between. She's never been as big here in the UK as she deserved but at 62 she has produced a superb album. This Kind of Love will make you smile, think and cry - all in 50 minutes. She is up there with Joni Mitchell and others as one of the most exciting female songwriters and singers of her generation. Compared with today's young crop of female singers (e.g. KT Tunstall) she is leagues ahead.
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br /This album tries to sell itself on its Latin theme but to be honest this is largely irrelevant. These 13 new songs flit between ballad, happy, aggressive and a whole lot of other feelings. The last song 'Too soon to say Goodbye' hits hard when you have just lost someone very dear.
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br /So, if you like this lady's music, you will love this album and if you want something to really stir your heart try it out. Wonderful music from an iconic and very dear lady.
 The Vineyard is not Ipanema June 12, 2008
Jacques BENOIT (Paris FRANCE)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
Seven years or so after "The Bedroom tapes" were released, here is the long-awaited come back of the immense songwriter, overgifted singer ans glamorous lady that Carly Simon is, with a new album of new material.
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br /Simon has been charming our hearts and ears during more than three decades as one (if not the most) moving, brillant and talented singer-songwriter of her generation. Impeccable road, unforgettable hits (yes and again "You're So Vain" or "Let the River run"!) and records ("Anticipation", "No Secrets", "Hot Cakes", the extraordinary "Another Passenger"). Even in the 80's, where most or her colleagues sank, she came up with gems as "Hello Big Man", "Spy" or "Come Upstairs" (and regrettably with the disposable "Spoiled Girl", certainly her carrier's weakest opus). The 90's, as for some of her challengers in the domain of music, saw a renewal of Simon's creativity -at a slower pace though-, with a set of three outstanding albums : "Have You Seen Me Lately", "Letters Never Sent" and "The Bedroom Tapes". The three of them delivering superb oeuvres with songs as "Waiting At The Gate", "Don't Wrap It Up", 'Life is Eternal", "Like A River"", "Touched By The Sun", "Private", "Davy", "Scar", "Cross The River", "Whatever Became Of Her", "In Honor of You (George)", to quote only a few.
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br /Therefore highly anticipated, "Some Kind of Love" is alas as much disappointing -at first listening anyway. Which "The Bedroom Tapes" were not, immediately strong, intoxicating and intriguing an album as it was.
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br /BUT... in all fairness, one must also say that "This Kind of Love" does grow on you after a while -talented Carly will always remain talented Carly!-, and ends up being a lush, very pleasing and melodic album, which one indulges into playing more and more, finding new merits at each listening (yes, I swear that does happen, as unbelievable it might seem for the disappointed fans on Amazon who claimed they abandonned the record after giving it a few tries...) -Lush and charming, nothing more, nothing less. And I admit, this of course is not exactly the level of what one could expect from someone who wrote "Memorial Day", "We're So Close", "Libby" or "Darkness Til' Dawn"...
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br /Most certainly the feeling of flatness that "This Kind of Love" leaves behind, is due to a misconception at its very early writing stage, if not in the idea itself of making it.
br /It seems that the problem comes with the proclaiming throughout the sleeve of how inspiring Brazilian music was to Simon, and how synchronicity beautifully worked when Jim Webb proposed to her to make a "Brazilian" album just at the time when she -funilly enough- was willing to make one. Well, sorry to say that it is way deceptive on the Brazilian angle, as a few exotic, soft and gentle guitar chords will never be enough to transform a Lady of Martha's Vineyard into a Girl from Ipanema.
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br /Because even if trying one's best, one does fail to finding what could make this album more "Brazilian" than its predecessors.
br /When it does attempt being so, it unmistakably misses its target, particularly with "Hola Soleil" -not necessarily a bad tune, but its naive exoticism, repetitive refrain and predictable rhythmics make you wonder whether Carly Simon, Jacob Brackman, son Ben Taylor, Jimmy Webb and the rest of the people involved into the making of that album, ever listened to Jorge Ben or Gilberto Gil, notably because of an unwelcome as heavy use of strings, which prevents -between other things- this piece to sound Brazilian.
br /It also simply misses the point when it pretends to color up other tracks with Brazilian musicality, as for instance with "When We're Together", written by daughter Sally Taylor or "Island" written by Sally's brother Ben -both excellent gentle songs enlightened by grace, soul and charming melodies, but which definitely have nothing to do with Antonio Carlos Jobim, to whom Carly unwisely pays homage in the credits of her album.
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br /And one wonders what the semi hip-hop/rap piece entitled "People Say a Lot" could either bear in terms of ressemblances with anything pretending to evoke Brazilian music. In the first place it has of course nothing to do with either Samba or Bossa Nova genres, by definition.
br /But worse, being the "hot" title that it is, it could be allusive to the most radical and electrical grooves of the Brazilian "hip" scene of today. Problem being that even to this category, it remains a perfect stranger (ever heard of Lenine? Just check).
br /So, like the vast majority of the other tracks on "This Kind of Love" (with the only exception of "The Last Samba", a gentle Bossa Nova-styled tune with soft guitar and arrangements worthy of some of the best of the genre), "People Say a Lot" is no Brazil but just plain Carly.
br /And a very interesting and energizing piece, plus ! Firstly because of its poisonous jagged-edged lyrics and its strong catchy harsh groove that show that Carly Simon is still very much of a tiger lady whenever she decides to forget about these Samba vapors that unfortunately she obviously failed to capture in this record; secondly, because it sacarstically pins down the dark side of the character which Melanie Griffith impersonated in Mike Nichols' "Working Girl" (for which Simon composed a fantastic score including the extraordinary "Let the River Run"), by making clear that Tess McGill's adorable stubborness for getting the right job can easily turn in real life into barracuda Eve Harrington's ugly delinquent manoeuverings.
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br /So the main problem with "This Kind of Love" appears to raise through a wrong positioning, which creates immediate frustration to listeners who worship both Simon's music and Brazilian moods. On a Brazilian point of view it sounds tasteless, approximate, over-promising, and therefore quite deceptive. Sorry folks, pack up your swimsuit back in their drawers, there's nothing about Copacabana here -as elsewhere in this album, anyway.
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br /This being said, according to a Carly-Simon-standard-album point of view, the album is a decent and polished collection of songs, sometimes unexpectedly shadowed by Carly's slightly laid-back vocals and more annoyingly by its lavish production (for which Frank Filipetti, Jimmy Web, Jimmy Parr, Frank Calo are credited) because sometimes too slick and silky, to the point of making the whole piece sound like some by Elaine Elias or Diana Krall (which in both latest's case would be a compliment if they were compared to Simon, but in Carly Simon's case is not because her original compositions deserve way more nerve and innovation than mainstream semi-jazz n' bossa nova classy ambiance).
br /Eventually "This Kind of Love" happens to be an album which is not Simon's best for sure (apart from two gems, "They Want You To Be There" and "Sangre Dolce", which range into some of her best work, and which, incidentally, she wrote alone -but for the rest of the record, it will probably not leave an indelible imprint as some of her previous records did).
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br /May be she should have released a cover album of Brazilian standards -where I'm sure she would have excelled, as this is a category where she has proven to reach the top ("Torch", "Film Noir", "Into White")-, and on the other hand, she should perhaps have chosen to concentrate on -and to chisel more- her own compositions, as she demonstrates she still can with the two above quoted songs out of this album.
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br /Conclusion: beyond sheer disappointment, there are still two good reasons to get "This Kind of Love". First, seven years seem to get by now before Carly Simon releases anything new, so let's not turn our nose up. This one is always good to take.
br /Secondly, if not exceptional, "This Kind Of Love" is a very charming album. And way above anything else by other older or younger fellow female musicians of today or yesterday. Indeed the worst by Carly Simon will always top the best of others. And admittedly "This Kind of Love" is very far from being the worst...
Maybe this is not her best but... May 7, 2009
Kitchenfairy (Hungary)
the "This kind of love" and the "Island" or the "They just want you to be there" are good songs. On my opinion she will never surpass her number ones (You're so vain, Jesse, Coming around again, etc.) but this album is very pleasant and not for big fan only.
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