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Playing Possum | 
 enlarge | Artist: Carly Simon
Label: Elektra / Wea
Category: Music
List Price: $9.98
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Rating:  20 reviews
Sales Rank: 40534
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 1033
UPC: 075596086523
EAN: 0075596086523
ASIN: B000002GXW
Release Date: October 25, 1990
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| Tracks:
| • | After the Storm | | • | Love out in the Street | | • | Look Me in the Eyes | | • | More and More - Carly Simon, Rebennack, Mac | | • | Slave | | • | Attitude Dancing | | • | Sons of Summer - Carly Simon, Mernit, Billy | | • | Waterfall | | • | Are You Ticklish | | • | Playing Possum |
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| Customer Reviews:
 A sexy and slinky Carly August 15, 2008
Jeremy Gloff (Tampa, Fl United States)
Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/RQ4ALJXICH3X7 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!!!
Best Carly Simon album August 11, 2008
Wendy (Woodland Hills, CA USA)
This is Carly Simon's best album. I love every single one of the songs on this album and can listen to them over and over again without getting tired of them. I bought it on vinyl in the 70s and now have the CD. It' great!
Play This Possum March 8, 2008
Educated Redneck
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This album changed my perceptions, at age seventeen, of the relationship between love and music. The much-vaunted cover is what it is--erotic but not nasty. Why controversial? One only has to take a look at the ubiquitous and redundant booty on albums and DVDs since then to appreciate the winning combination of dark desire and elegance on this one. It's perfectly emblematic of the music inside, the gorgeous harmonies offsetting Carly's sometimes raw vocals. Returning to it many years later is like biting into Proust's damned tea biscuit--the vocal glissandos and the lyrics, by turns earthy and introspective, come back in a rush, and one realizes the album is just as fresh, overall, as when it first appeared. That can't be said of many albums. Some may call it soft rock, but I think of the album as a whole as one of the catchiest tone poems ever. This is the essential Carly Simon, her writing and interpreting tightly composed songs about being out of control. She may be a slave to her lover, but we're slaves to her voice and manner. If you were ever truly seduced and had that person cross your mind on a rainy Sunday years later, Playing Possum is for you.
Sexy sells, but............ June 20, 2007
Robert C. Hufford (Hopewell, VA USA)
......would I want my wife posing for this album cover? Look, we all practice a double standard, and if I enjoy looking at a picture of somebody else's wife in a skimpy outfit....The line between "sexy" and "provocative" is vague...if my wife posed for the cover of "Hotcakes", great..."Boys in the Trees" or "No Secrets", maybe...this album...??? And the back cover may be more ??? than the front. Of course, the cover of "Have You Seen Me Lately" is sexy, but I don't think I could even object to my daughter doing that one. Some things are truly in the mind of the beholder.....
As for the music, no controversy there. This is Carly at her absolute vocal best. Maybe the songs aren't as well known as some, but they should be. "Waterfall" and the title cut are particular delights, and "Slave" sure carries a message. "Attitude Dancing" captures Carly in her transformation to rocker. This one has sex on the jacket, and in the music, but Carly is no rapper...good taste, always. Carly remains a living treasure; get this album, and you'll hear, and see, what made her so.
 Hot All Around May 22, 2007
Bradley Jacobson
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Like so many others, I just love the cover of this little album and as for what's found within the music, well that's just as hot. Carly's huge placement on the charts was a little before my time but as a kid I knew her singles and though I had a few albums handed down from aunts, I never got into her; but now that I'm older and understand her whole lyrical sexual and sophisticated world I'm all in a tither. This album includes the hit "Attitude Dancing" and "More and More" but also some interesting ditties like "Look Me In The Eyes" (I beg you when you love me look me in the eyes), and a whole song about watching some sexual antics out of her dirty hotel bathroom window ("Love Out In The Street") and with guest stars like Carole King and then husband James Taylor, its a true 1975 gem and I was completely surprised at how experimental she is with the music chosen. I know it sounds strange but this girl was not the typical folksy singer I thought she was. Now I can't wait to hear the other albums I had to have as I venture into a complete Carly Simon rehash.
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