Lots of great songs on this oneAugust 16, 2008 Jeremy Gloff(Tampa, Fl United States) Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R35IYHQR8HIH9D My name is Jeremy Gloff. I am a musician (check me out on Amazon!) and retro music enthusiast. If you enjoyed this review make sure to check out my Amazon user profile to check out my other reviews. I am always up for making new friends and discussing the music I love!!!
Tough Songs...May 26, 2008 Jim Robinson(St. Paul, Minnesota) 1 out of 1 found this review helpful
"Spy" is one of my favorite Carly Simon albums. "We're So Close" and "Vengeance" are among her best songs; the sentiments on the first are brutally honest and the singing on the second is tough as nails. Again, the songs provide intelligent and passionate insights into adult relationships. "Spy" would have been stronger without "Coming to Get You" and "Memorial Day," but the rest of the record is a complex delight. Few pop singers can convey contradictory emotions as well as Carly Simon can, and "Spy" is, at once, angry, passionate, loving, and despairing.
It's The Law...May 21, 2007 Bradley Jacobson 1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I've been on a Carly Simon kick for the past few months and there aren't any plans of slowing down yet. One of my favorite songs as a kid was Carly's 1979's single "Vengeance" - a song I remember loving but couldn't for the life of me remember how it went. Well, the minute I got the parent album Spy, I put on the song and not only remembered why I loved it but remembered singing it when I was a very little tyke - running around to neighbors "It's Vengeance he saaaaid, that's the law..." how frickin' cute I must've been. In the here and now, I was excited to hear the album not only because of the single (with backing vocals by Tim Curry!) but because the whole Spy album was a concept of sorts based on the novel A Spy In The House Of Love, I knew there'd be mystique and sex and that Simon wit, and I was not disappointed - in "Pure Sin" set to a Rolling Stones-esque back drop and once again featuring Curry, she sings to her lover - a painter painting her portrait that he is getting paint all over the floor and she wonders why he doesn't just get to the point and "splatter it all over my face." Oooh goodness, there's a strange ending cut that lasts for over 8 minutes called "Memorial Day" that is a tad on the pretentious side and a strange ditty called "I'm Coming To Get You" which is filled with strange lyrics about her man being caught in Arkansas with her in-laws, but somehow the woman makes it work. The hightlight to me besides the sheer brilliance of "Vengeance" is a very sad little cut called "We're So Close" where her man passes off the distance, lack of words of love etc. as the result of them being so close, "we're so close, we don't need love at all," it brings a tear to the eye as does a superb ballad (and I'm not one on ballads) called "Never Been Gone" complete with a beginning chorus as she heads home to the island beach. Excellent, once again and now I'm off to collect the rest of Simon's (I'm sure) interesting back catalog.
Doesn't This Lady Ever Get Tired Of Singing About How Great She Thinks She Is In Bed?January 5, 2006 John Baranyai 1 out of 12 found this review helpful
This album was a flop and deservedly so. It contains lyrics such as "I can smell the passion of another man on your breath".I had to wait until I was about 20 before I discovered just what the heck that meant. Then Ms. Simon sings "Why don't you get right to the point and splash it on my face?" in the song "Pure Sin" which eludes to the fact that Promiscuous Sexual Behaviour (on the street no less) is perfectly acceptable to this lady.I have grown rather weary of just how good Ms. Simon thinks she is "in the sack" but I do give this album 5 stars because no doubt it will provide a "Cheap Thrill " to all of her fans.
Good muisc, not one of her bestJuly 7, 2005 R. Verhaegh The music is good but Carly Simon has done better albums but is fits in the moment when she wrote the songs. Even with this said there are a few stand outs on this record. "Love You By Heart" and "We're So Close" are moving and as good as anything she's ever done.
