We Just Got Here (1990)īetter Not Tell Her, the hit from Have You Seen Me Lately, was Simon in full-on, post-divorce lock-up-your-husbands mode, but its closing track was something else: a beautifully observed, subtly orchestrated, gorgeously bittersweet song about a couple facing life together after their children leave home. Simon performs during An Evening with Carly Simon hosted by the Grammy Museum at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, 2009. But her first hit single is great: a surging, epic, wary depiction of marriage – “the couples cling and claw and drown in love’s debris” – from a woman declining to say “I do”. Simon’s eponymous 1971 debut is an artist finding her feet, tending towards country-ish arrangements which don’t suit her voice. That’s The Way I Always Heard It Should Be (1971) Or possibly even sharper, as evidenced by the chanson-like, savagely funny We Your Dearest Friends, on which a tableful of dinner-party guests relentlessly trash an absent acquaintance. Simon has released more Great American Songbook standards than original material in recent years, but her own writing is as sharp as ever. Some of it is bizarre – in the unlikely event you want to hear a Carly Simon track that sounds a bit like Devo, hasten to Them – but the vaguely Springsteen-esque Jesse is a triumph: killer chorus, economical storytelling.
The Come Upstairs album was a concerted effort by Simon to embrace new wave. Photograph: Globe Photos/mediapunch/Rex/Shutterstock 17.
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