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Carly Simon - Spy (1979) [1997, Digitally Remastered] {HDCD}
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Carly Simon - Spy (1979) [1997, Digitally Remastered] {HDCD}
Pop/Rock, Soft Rock, Adult Contemporary | EAC Rip | FLAC, Img+CUE+LOG+Scans (PNG) | 40:44 | 503,59 Mb
Label: Elektra Records (USA) | Cat.# 506-2 | Released: 1997-05-27 (1979-06-30)
Pop/Rock, Soft Rock, Adult Contemporary | EAC Rip | FLAC, Img+CUE+LOG+Scans (PNG) | 40:44 | 503,59 Mb
Label: Elektra Records (USA) | Cat.# 506-2 | Released: 1997-05-27 (1979-06-30)
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"Spy" is singer-songwriter Carly Simon's 9th album, and 8th studio album, released in 1979. It is also her last album for Elektra Records. The title of the album is a tribute to Anaïs Nin, whose quote “I am an international spy in the house of love”, is written across the top on the inside jacket. Simon dedicated the album to producer Arif Mardin, in which she wrote in the liner notes, "Dedicated to Arif who is himself fantastic." Although "Spy" did not yield any major hit singles, "Vengeance" (which features actor Tim Curry on backing vocals) earned Simon a Grammy Award nomination for Best Rock Vocal Performance, Female in early 1980, the first year to feature this new category. The song peaked at #48 on the Billboard Pop singles chart, and Simon later included it on her Anthology album in 2002. Simon made a music video for the song, and MTV later used a clip from it in a commercial that enticed viewers to get stereo sound on their TV sets. The promotional clip was also chosen by Pioneer Electronics to be part of their first demo disc for its then-new Laserdisc player. The album also features a track entitled "Never Been Gone", which has gone on to become a fan favorite, as well as one of Simon's personal favorite songs of her own. In 2009, she would release an album entitled after the track.
~Wikipedia
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Carly Simon was onto something, naming her album after Anais Nin's book of erotic fiction A Spy in the House of Love, and she used the concept to come up with songs about maintaining the passion in a long-term relationship. But she didn't follow through completely, devoting two songs (including the singles chart entry "Vengeance") to attempts to remake "You're So Vain" and returning to producer Arif Mardin and his New York jazz-pop session men for an inappropriately slick and overdone sound. (Whoever expected a Carly Simon album with a drum solo on it?) Commercial considerations, in other words, marred what could have been an interesting concept album which still, despite the compromises, contained several good songs. And, of course, the commercial considerations were misplaced the album became Simon's worst seller and prefaced her departure from Elektra Records.
~Review by William Ruhlmann
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Carly Simon - Spy (1979) [1997, Digitally Remastered] {HDCD}
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Release of the album: 1979, June, 30 [LP Elektra, Cat.# 5E-506, USA]
Release of the CD: 1997, May, 27 [CD Elektra Records (USA), Cat.# 506-2 / UPC: 075596055826]
℗&© 1979 Elektra/Asylum Records, a Division Of Warner Communications Inc.
Printed/Made in U.S.A.
Notes: Mastered by Joe Gastwirt at OceanView Digital Mastering, Los Angeles, California, using the Pacific Microsonics HDCD system. Mastering supervised by Andy Paley.
Credits:
Producer, Arranged By [Horns, Strings] – Arif Mardin
Acoustic Guitar – David Spinozza (tracks: A2, A3, B2)
Alto Saxophone – David Sanborn (tracks: A1 to A3, B4)
Art Direction, Design – Bob Heimall
Backing Vocals – Carly Simon, James Taylor (tracks: 2, 5, 7, 8), Tim Curry (tracks: 1, 6)
Bass – Tony Levin (tracks: 1, 6, 7), Will Lee (tracks: 2 to 4, 8, 9)
Drums – Rick Marotta (tracks: 1, 2, 8), Steve Gadd (tracks: 1 to 4, 6, 8, 9)
Electric Guitar – David Spinozza (tracks: 1, 2, 4, 7, 8), Joe Caro (tracks: 1, 8), John Hall (tracks: 1)
Electric Piano – Richard Tee (tracks: 2, 5), Warren Bernhardt (tracks: 3, 6 to 9)
Engineer [Assistant] – Mike O'Reilly
Guitar – David Spinozza (tracks: 6, 9), Joe Caro (tracks: 6, 9)
Tracklist:
01. Vengeance (04:14)
(Carly Simon)
02. Just Like You Do (04:15)
(Carly Simon)
03. We're So Close (05:11)
(Carly Simon)
04. Coming To Get You (02:49)
(Carly Simon)
05. Never Been Gone (03:37)
(Jacob Brackman / Carly Simon)
06. Pure Sin (03:56)
(Frank Carillo / Carly Simon)
07. Love You By Heart (03:59)
(Jacob Brackman / Carly Simon / Libby Titus)
08. Spy (04:14)
(Arif Mardin / Carly Simon / James Taylor)
09. Memorial Day (08:29)
(Carly Simon)
Recorded and mixed at Atlantic Studios, N.Y.C. from December, 1978 to April, 1979
Exact Audio Copy V1.3 from 2. September 2016
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Carly Simon / Spy
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Channels: 2
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Bitrate: 881 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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Analyzed: Carly Simon / Spy
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