No Secrets

Artist: Carly Simon
Label: Elektra / Wea
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 075596068420
EAN: 0075596068420
ASIN: B000002I2V

Release Date: 1990-10-25

No Secrets

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Tracks:

The Right Thing To Do
The Carter Family
You're So Vain
His Friends Are More Than Fond Of Robin
We Have No Secrets
Embrace Me, You Child
Waited So Long
It Was So Easy
Night Owl
When You Close Your Eyes

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Customer Reviews:

The Best of the best .......2007-03-08

Probably Carly Simon's best album. Some hidden gems on here are "The Carter Family," "Embrace Me," "More than fond of Robin," and "We had no secrets," besides the obviously great "You're So Vain," and "The Right Thing to Do."

It's No Secret These Are Hits.......2007-01-12

When Carly sings, it captivates my attention. Her voice, musical arrangement and lyrics hold me, not to mention the cover. Every song on this CD is a hit as far I am concerned. She is singing direct from her heart and I can tell she is revealing some personal information about her private life. Leave up to Carly to write a song and leave people in mystery as she did for "You're So Vain".

Carly's crowning achievement........2006-12-22

Outdoing her previous pop-perfect albums "Carly Simon" and "Anticipation", Carly Simon's "No Secrets" blends the best of her pop/jazz/bluesy style. Like Carole King's "Tapestry" and Joni Mitchell's "Court and Spark", "No Secrets" marked the pinnacle of her illustrious singer/songwriting career. A classic album in every sense.

"NO SECRETS": CARLY SIMON'S ROCK CLASSIC.......2006-12-09

This album, Carly Simon's third, with its iconic cover image, is the one that really put her at the top of the heap of lady singer-songwriters. For "No Secrets" is an excellent album showcasing her strong songwriting, musicianship and vocal abilities.

Perhaps at the time, people were wondering what could she do to top "That's The Way I've Always Heard It Should Be" and "Anticipation", both great not only in their singles appeal, but also in their crafting. Then along comes "You're So Vain", her powerhouse diatribe to a smug, conceited ex.

However, "You're So Vain", being as great as it is, is not the only example of greatness on this album, which is another one of Carly's classic, timeless releases. There are several other masterpieces here: "Embrace Me, You Child", her song-memory of her father's illness and death is infused with religious imagery which evokes the god-like power she must have imagined, as a child, her father (Richard Simon, the founder of Simon & Schuster Publishing) to possess; "Waited So Long", a bluesy-rock number (featuring an excellent turn on slide guitar by Lowell George of Little Feat) follows and is another fascinating glimpse into her relationship with her father and its sassiness is interestingly juxtaposed with "Embrace Me, You Child"; "It Was So Easy" is a wonderful sing-along ode to the lost innocence of childhood; "His Friends Are More Than Fond Of Robin" is such a gorgeous ballad in which is expressed a pure, simple, unrequited love; "The Carter Family" is a moral tale of a person who never realizes, until it's too late, how much certain people really mean. Then toss into the mix the bouncy hit "The Right Thing To Do", her rocking take on James Taylor's "Night Owl" and the intoxicating title track and you have an album that flows seamlessly.

Carly Simon's lyrics have always been top-notch musical poetry and on "No Secrets" we have some very special sly nods I particularly enjoy. In "Waited So Long", she references her first big hit, letting us know she's changed her mind about marriage ("I met a boy with eyes of green/The warmest eyes I'd ever seen/He gave his lovin' love to me/The way I've always heard it would be") and the closing track, "When You Close Your Eyes", obviously harkens to James' "You Can Close Your Eyes".

Carly's vocals run the gamut of sweet ("The Right Thing" and "Robin") to ferocious ("You're So Vain" and "Night Owl"). It seems she knows, intuitively, how to properly emote the feelings of each song to the listener.

"No Secrets" is truly a rock classic worthy of space on anyone's shelf.

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