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intereact!Carole King
Retail Price (not our price): $11.98
Release Date: 1999-05-25
Manufacturer: Sony
Format: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Track List
Now here, for your listening pleasure, the tracks...
| Disc 1 |
Editorial Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):
1) Amazon.com essential recording
Carole King was famous as a writer of girl-group hits in the '60s. In 1971, she became more famous. That's the year Tapestry became one of the biggest-selling LPs of all time. It's easy to hear why--the music is loose, earthy, L.A. session-pop. King is casual, intimate, and tough; she covers all the emotional ground of the post-liberated woman with ease. She brings adult nuance to "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?" and comes up with hits ("It's Too Late," "I Feel the Earth Move") whose white-soul realism and maturity put pop hits to shame. --Steve Tignor --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Customer Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5
1) Woven by Love, torn by the fear of death [Rating: 5 out of 5]
Do you fear anything?We all fear death. It fills all we do. I'm stating I fear it.Drives our arts, is the root of the hatreds and jealousies...it is the undeniable. We live on a blood thirsty planet that kills to survive, and that's just the nature. I look. It's hard to imagine a design like this. I ask...around...and love seems to be the light we have. Someone told me yesterday that it would not "work" another way. Why? Why is this?Now I ask you if you are facing your mortality and the messages aren't too good do you put someone you love, were meant to love through the pain of loving your sinking ship? Would you want that suffering for them? When you realized they built a world for you would you collapse at the realization of this? And so listen to Carole King the natural woman explain things to you from me. Peace of mind. Keys to life. Listen. And then be me a minute, sitting with fever, illness and hard days. Go back a little to a time you felt invincible in youth and then we'll come back to the movement of my earth and the realization that another cares enough to bleed too.And I'm hurting them....hurting people I love with things I can't seem to get stopped, that cause me to roll into high fever and pneumonia in a day, bring pain, cancer and fear. Honey the guilt I carry....Carole King I listened to from times of 8 years old on. Can kids today relate? Yeah, they can. I used to play this to the class that held my young friend killed here in school violence recently. We sang at recess. This was a favorite cause anyone can belt it out. We sang the songs of King, Denver, the Carpenters, Beatles, James Taylor, Crosby, Stills, Nash Young...we sang this with the freedom to sound ourselves, just like I did as a girl...King constructs songs to sing to the heart of a girl becoming a woman in a world with the hope of living as a loving being. Believing in the power of love sung out by a master pop song writer. I heard these strummed on guitar by my first crush as a 14 year old. First loves are different. They are the days we look on red faced, remembering our vulnerability. He played guitar. I walked by his house for ten years never forgetting to look to see if he was there on the porch strumming. I'd look today if I lived in the same town, he played King tunes. It was enough. So years later I took my best friend to see Carole King at the Greek Theater. We sang every song with everyone else on a lovely LA night. Took each other's hand and belted our sad way through our youth. Loving the love we both look to the heart for....my favorites, So Far Away, Will You Love Me Tomorrow, Way over Yonder...Natural Woman, Beautiful...actually I like them all so it's pointless to list. You've Got A Friend....No one would come here to decide to get this. It's known universally as the beautiful gift woven by the goddess it was. A meditation on love, on positive life force, on things working out.I just realized that a similar meditation was woven for me. Trapped here in this web of love I myself decided to write to this one. Thanks...it's a work that holds me up through the times I can't quite get there.Music did hold my days.And now using the work..." but you're so far away" I'm afraid of being ill again, of the things I have to deal with, I'm afraid of surgeries, pains, of bringing anyone the burdens of my weaknesses. I'm afraid of the fever, the people that need my income,me going on, the way things seem to spin so far, far, far away.....yeah...I loved like this, without the strength to do what i need to do. I'm afraid. I am struggling with the bad. I'm fearful and I'm disgusted with myself over that. I see the unfairness and it seems to be such a slugfest. I listen to "Tapestry" I know this beauty...the love of life. It's hard now.We sang these songs in my class, I had it in my mind that the words would teach reading....I'd do it again today. I'd argue it would help everything.Like a watercolor helps. The songs as I listen are short, sweet, Carole, crafted, sung with her inimitable cheer. Strong, these songs are strong songs...to a weary heart.Illness is hard, hard, but harder still is what it does to the ones we love and what we ask them to bear, the vanity of this. yeah it is vanity. i know this. The titled planet, the yonder way, the friend you have, the love of wanting to be with the one you love....where I go, please may no one pass this way. I always wanted a real home she sings....lead and follow. I'm afraid on this beautiful night. Can Carole King bundle me in the hope of better days? Listening to Will You Love Me Tomorrow asks the question that I can't ask.....and can I ask this of another? Can I now, knowing what I know, see clearly?If you get this you will have a way to reflect, on the love in your life and what you want for them...something free of the pain of the what you fear ...your vulnerable and imperfect, dying self.2) Inheritance [Rating: 5 out of 5]
This was the first album I ever owned; a gift on my 8th birthday, back in 1971. Now I've bought the cd as a gift for my music-loving 8 year old, and I expect to see her with earpods and the liner notes, singing along just as I did with the album unfolded in my lap as a child. (well, maybe the "earpods" were just a LITTLE bigger in 1971:-)). Real music, heartfelt lyrics, when it's this good it holds up over time.3) Tapestry [Rating: 5 out of 5]
Quick shipment. Received in a timely manner for my child to receive for a school project.4) Tapestry [Rating: 3 out of 5]
This is an excellent CD with the best well known songs from Carol King. An Excellent purchase.5) Tapestry CD - Carole King [Rating: 5 out of 5]
Wonderful CD - Carole King is a great artist - she has a beautiful voice and is very talented! My favorite is the "You've Got a Friend" (I like it by James Taylor also)!Received CD in timely manner in good condition! Highly recommend seller!