- Audio CD (Nov 4 1994)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Format: Import
- Label: Arista
- ASIN: B000002VO4
- Other Editions: Audio CD | Audio Cassette
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
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Track Listings
| 1. Intro |
| 2. Letters Never Sent |
| 3. Lost In Your Love |
| 4. Like A River |
| 5. Time Works On All The Wild Young Men |
| 6. Touched By The Sun |
| 7. Davy |
| 8. Halfway 'Round The World |
| 9. What About A Holiday |
| 10. The Reason |
| 11. Private |
| 12. Catch It Like A Fever |
| 13. Born To Break My Heart |
| 14. I'd Rather It Was You |
Product Description
From Amazon.com
In the liner notes of Letters Never Sent, Carly Simon reveals that during her '93 spring cleaning she discovered a box of old, unmailed letters in her closet. "I set a handful of them to music," she explains, "adding a rhyme here, deleting a noun or verb there, and allowing the emotions to find comfortable rhythms." Simon hasn't completely abandoned parallel meter, rhyme schemes, or verse-chorus structure, but she has loosened their grip sufficiently to create a new kind of pop song which has the prose feel and specific focus of a personal letter. Not all these experiments work, but the best of them have the fresh air of something genuinely new. Simon is always quite lucid about who she is addressing--whether it's her mother, a new lover, or an ex-lover--and what she is saying. --Geoffrey Himes
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Dear Carly: Wonderful CD,
By Kyle Dunraven (Salt Lake City) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Letters Never Sent (Audio CD)
This CD is one of the most cohesive CDs Carly has done for quite some time. Like a River flows with sound and lyric, the addition of music from her opera is very fitting. This CD stands out from her other resent releases. Coming Around Again, may have had the hits on it, but overall wasn't consistent. I recommend this CD highly.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Enjoyable listening,
By moondancer (Cocoa, FL United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Letters Never Sent (Audio CD)
I mostly bought this for the song Touched by the Sun, which is awesome and worth the price of the CD along. There are a few other very good tunes on here, and the whole thing is enjoyable to listen to.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Dreamers & artists & lovers for a moment touched by the sun,
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This review is from: Letters Never Sent (Audio CD)
I purchased this cd based soley on the concept. We all have our "letters never sent" our "phone calls never made" our "I love you's never said". So I thought I'd gamble on this cd. A very good gamble it turned out to be. Musically this is one of Carly's finest collections of songs. Track two "Letters Never Sent" has some interesting lyrics that break the ice nicely. Track three "Lost In Your Love" is an uncomplicated moment of reflective rapture recalled by Carly. Her voice soars! Track four "Like A River" is the centerpiece of this cd. The loss of a mother, the harsh realities sprinkled with fond memories. Carly takes both lyrics and melody on a rollercoaster ride, high and low, of the aftermath and myth of death and moving forward. Track six "Touched By The Sun," written for Jacqueline Onassis, is the stuff of legends and myths and dreamers and artists and lovers all of whom have been touched by the sun, sprayed by its warmth and light, caught in its madness and majesty. Carly's tribute to Mrs. Onassis is fitting. Track thirteen "Born To Break My Heart" are some of Carly's best lyrics. The music and the voice are forceful, this one seems driven from some past and painful experience still lingering too close. This one could have been on "No Secrets". It's that good. Same honesty and lyrical imagery. Track fourteen "I'd Rather It Was You" leaves us with Carly calling out for someone, for something not quite realized. A song easy to relate to.
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