Spoiled Girl [Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered]

Carly Simon | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 1, 1999)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
• Label: Sony Special Product
• ASIN: B00005CEPG
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #66,823 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. My New Boyfriend

2. Come Back Home

3. Tonight and Forever

4. Spoiled Girl

5. Tired of Being Blonde

6. The Wives Are in Connecticut

7. Anyone But Me

8. Interview

9. Make Me Feel Something

10. Can't Give It Up

11. Black Honeymoon

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Why the flak?, May 22, 2000

By 

James Nemeth (Chicago, IL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Spoiled Girl (Audio CD)

Count me in with those who don't understand why this album continues to get a bad rap. Spoiled Girl remains one of my favorite Carly albums. It represents what I've longed for from Carly for such a long time (and we got to a degree in COME UPSTAIRS)...that Carly would at least attempt more faster-paced songs than we'd gotten in the past. In SG, we have Carly doing DANCE songs! I was in heaven! Yes, SG does have some out-and-out flops, like "My New Boyfriend" and "The Wives...", and yes, the album probably would have benefitted from fewer producers, but there are also some gems here. "Can't Give It Up" is one of my all-time favorite Carly songs. A delightful, dance-number. The title song is fun, "Tired of Being Blonde" seems like a Carly-written song (even though it isn't) and "Come Back Home" is a wonderful, mid-tempo rocker. Even Carly herself can't come up with much good to say about Spoiled Girl, but I've always believed it's due in part to its poor sales. But Carly needn't fault herself with the album's failure. Epic dropped the ball, first with not getting 100% behind it and as others pointed out, the choice of "Tired..." as the first single. Not the best choice. "Come Back Home" would have been better, to help pave the way for the album's "different" sound (for Carly) to radio listeners. Keep an open mind and give this album a try! If you pigeon-hole Carly as a "soft rock" balladeer, as so many try to do, of course you won't like this album! But Carly has shown that she's capable of SO much more!

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A different Carly, May 23, 2002

By 

Travis - See all my reviews

This review is from: Spoiled Girl (Audio CD)

"Spoiled Girl" is one of Carly Simon's most disliked album of her career. Many people have complained that it sounds too much like Madonna. But Carly isn't trying to be Madonna...throughout the album, she maintains her maturity and acts her age. (Not that Madonna doesn't.)
Not all the songs on this album are great, but some are the best in her career, in my opinion. "Tired Of Being Blonde", a top 100 single in 1985, has a danceable beat with good lyrics about getting back to "roots" that were once covered with fakeness. "Interview" is one of the best dance tracks I've ever heard, with neat chord changes and great (synthesized) percussion, which makes up for the lackluster lyrics. "Black Honeymoon" is a dark and brooding song about love gone cold, and the arrangement is sparse, adding a good effect. "Anyone But Me" is a dark song about jealousy, and expresses everything that jealous people (my self included) feel. The playful "The Wives Are In Connecticut", Journey-ish "Come Back Home", addictive-sounding "Can't Give It Up", and bratty "Spoiled Girl" are good too. The real clunker of the album is "My New Boyfriend", an empty tune that clashes in its style. (A Gospel opening followed by an edgy dance mix just don't go together in my opinion.)
"Spoiled Girl" is not Carly's worst album. It's a record that probably only her die-hard fans would like. If you were raised on "You're So Vain", skip this one. If not, give this one a try.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Stinging social commentary - and great songs, June 5, 2004

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Andy Agree "jackrabbit79" (Omaha, NE) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Spoiled Girl (Audio CD)

This is Carly Simon's most underrated album, and if archeologists found it a thousand years from now, they might use it to examine the emotionally wrenching consequences among those of the American metropolitan baby boom generation in the 1980s who treated sex as a cheap, but addicting commodity. In other words, this is more than an album of good songs, it is an album with stingingly accurate social commentary. Carly's has a unifying vision, and she executes it brilliantly. "The Wives Are in Connecticut" presents a recently married man who confesses "the first year I was faithful" en route to a successful seduction after work in Manhattan. He is the classic "yuppie" of 80s lore, nagged by paranoia that his wife may be consorting with who-knows-who up in suburban Connecticut. In "Anyone But Me" and "Can't Give It Up", Carly plumbs the depths of female desire for men who "can't give". "Interview" describes the playfully escalating sexual innuendoes that dominate an encounter between Carly and a young male interviewer. In "Black Honeymoon", a newlywed woman watches humiliated as her husband plots his next sexual conquest with the "girl across the room". "Make Me Feel Something" is the cry of a woman who has had sought "feeling" through pleasure and has no feeling left. "Tonight and Forever", in total contrast, and in answer to "Make Me Feel Something", is a wedding song, anchored firmly in the female frame of mind ("Oh sisters, make my wedding bed"). The groom is nowhere seen, yet is promised, in soaring voices "I am yours!" It is so antithetical to the pleasure-driven addictions of the other songs that it serves to underscore their message of alienation, while proclaiming eternal, committed love as the answer to it. And that's just the lyrics! Musically, Carly's incomparable voice is in fine form, and she latches it successfully to up-tempo beats and Russ Kunkel drum tracks without compromising any of its beauty or her integrity. I especially like her seductive low notes in "Anyone But Me", the utterly gorgeous repeating phrase "Black Honeymoon - I'll be leaving you soon" closing the album, and the gorgeous conclusion of "Tonight and Forever" - a truly ecstatic song. It may or may not be coincidental that the songs with the most interesting lyrics are also the best musically. The four songs I haven't mentioned are second or third rate, and unfortunately those are mainly the ones Amazon allows you to sample. But there is enough substance here to make this one of my favorite pop albums of the 80s.