Carly Simon - Carly Simon (1971) [MSFL 2015] PS3 ISO + DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC

Posted By: HDAtall

Date: Dec. 15, 2024

Carly Simon is the debut studio album by American singer-songwriter Carly Simon, released in February 1971. The album was produced by Eddie Kramer, who had previously worked with Joe Cocker and Jimi Hendrix. The album included Simon's first Top 10 hit, "That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should Be", a somber ballad centered on a woman pondering marriage with a sense of both inevitability and entrapment; the song was written by Simon and collaborator Jacob Brackman. The album features material written by Simon, with additional writing by Brackman, Kramer, and Freddy Gardner. The album also features covers of songs by Mark Klingman and Buzzy Linhart.

"That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should Be," the leadoff track of Carly Simon's first album and a Top Ten hit, in which the singer expresses reservations about getting married, benefited from a sense of role reversal – it's such a guy sentiment, but sung by a woman in 1971, it came across as a feminist statement, consistent with the overall disillusionment so prevalent then. Nothing on the rest of the album was quite as pointed, though the other songs maintained the same ambivalence toward romance. The one other standout track, "Dan, My Fling," in which the singer tries to rekindle a relationship with a man she has discarded, was, like the single, co-written by Jacob Brackman (in this case, with Fred Gardner, not Simon), suggesting that the real creative talent here was him and not her (especially since the writing credits also featured another four names). And since Simon, with her plaintive, proper, and relatively inexpressive voice, was such an unremarkable performer, her debut seemed less auspicious than the attention it attracted might have implied.

Tracklist:

01. That's The Way I've Always Heard It Should Be
02. Alone
03. One More Time
04. The Best Thing
05. Just A Sinner
06. Dan, My Fling
07. Another Door
08. Reunions
09. Rolling Down The Hills
10. The Love's Still Growing

Mastered by Rob LoVerde at Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab, Sebastopol, CA.

Dynamic Range

foobar2000 2.24 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1

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Analyzed: CARLY SIMON / Carly Simon
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR13 -5.82 dB -24.04 dB 4:17 01-That's The Way I've Always Heard It Should Be
DR11 -7.07 dB -21.71 dB 3:35 02-Alone
DR12 -8.36 dB -22.82 dB 3:33 03-One More Time
DR11 -10.50 dB -26.21 dB 4:22 04-The Best Thing
DR12 -8.74 dB -24.03 dB 3:13 05-Just A Sinner
DR12 -6.46 dB -21.34 dB 5:26 06-Dan, My Fling
DR12 -6.63 dB -21.89 dB 3:20 07-Another Door
DR10 -12.90 dB -26.54 dB 3:09 08-Reunions
DR10 -10.17 dB -23.81 dB 3:37 09-Rolling Down The Hills
DR11 -8.55 dB -23.09 dB 4:12 10-The Love's Still Growing
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Number of tracks: 10
Official DR value: DR12

Samplerate: 2822400 Hz / PCM Samplerate: 176400 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 1
Bitrate: 5645 kbps
Codec: DSD64

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