Carole King - Tapestry (Tapestry - Carole King)

Member Name: violentviolet

Product:	Tapestry - Carole King
Date:	29/06/00 (106 review reads)
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Advantages: Packed with a variety of great songs

Disadvantages: One or two tracks are a bit weak but the vast majority of the album is GREAT

You probably haven't heard the name before but I bet you already know quite a few of her tunes. That classic get up and shake your stuff tune 'I feel the earth move'? 'You've got a friend'? The perfect song for playing when you've split up with a scumbag 'It's too late'? (they used it for a car ad not all that long ago...) Don't remember that one? Okay, how about the slightly corny but still amazing 'You make me feel like a natural woman'?

Perhaps the more discerning music fans among you think there are too many love songs here to make this album of any interest to you. Not so. Carole manages to fill her songs with an emotional intensity which is only equalled in modern times by singers like Beth Orton. 'Tapestry' is not just made up of commercial ballad after commercial ballad - Carole is certainly NOT a prototype Mariah Carey or Celine Dion. 'Way over yonder' is one of the most powerful and uplifting songs I have ever heard: it is the perfect atheists hymn. The raw beauty of Carole's voice accompanied only by a piano is breathtaking. By contrast, a lively tune like 'Snapwater Jack' manages to be funny and ever so slightly country and western in the best possible way. If I sound like I'm waxing lyrical that's because this piece of music truly deserves praise of the highest kind.

All girls who sing, play the guitar and write their own music but are in search of suitable role models (and let's face it, there aren't that many to choose from these days) NEED to own this album.

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