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Come Upstairs | 
 enlarge | Artist: Carly Simon
Label: Warner Bros
Category: Music
List Price: $9.98
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Rating:  20 reviews
Sales Rank: 153423
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 075992635523
EAN: 0075992635523
ASIN: B000002KLF
Release Date: January 1, 1980
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| Tracks:
| • | Come Upstairs - Carly Simon, Mainieri, Mike | | • | Stardust - Carly Simon, Carmichael, Hoagy | | • | Them | | • | Jesse | | • | James | | • | In Pain | | • | The Three of Us in the Dark | | • | Take Me as I Am (Or Let Me Go) - Carly Simon, Bryant, Boudleaux | | • | The Desert |
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| Customer Reviews:
 Carly takes the 80s by storm!!!! August 16, 2008
Jeremy Gloff (Tampa, Fl United States)
Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R3AM0H5FOI2WGC 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!!!
 Loving THEM all June 26, 2008
Bradley Jacobson
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I've had this CD for awhile but have been waiting to comment on it for a few reasons, mainly I was hoping I would end up liking it the more I hear it. Luckily, for me, it has grown on me quite a bit, so here we are to talk about Carly's toe dip into the new wave circa 1980.
Everyone who was everyone was making a pseudo new wave album in the early 80s; Billy Joel had Glass Houses, Linda Ronstadt had Mad Love and Carly had Come Upstairs. They all scored top ten hits with both the singles and the albums released; Carly found her way back to the charts after a lenghty absence with "Jesse" pulled from this album which was always one of my favorite songs from when I was a wee tyke.
The album opens with the title cut, a guitar riffing keyboard laden song which has Carly at her usual sexual shenanigans not really wanting to be with the guy but figuring what the hell, she'll give him some fire and she'll give him some wood; that is probably my favorite part of the song.
There's a strange little foray into the new wave with "Them" - I get the impression she is singing about men but you can't be sure, we just know she doesn't know what to about them and hopes to get help from the people she's singing to. I thought it was totally ridiculous but as is usually the case, it's now one of my favorite tracks on the album. I
n fact, that seems to be my whole Carly thing, I'll get an album full of high expectations only to be intially let down and then have it turn around and bite me on the tuchus a few weeks later.
Perhaps she's not everyone's cup of tea, but the more I hear Carly's idosyncracies the more I fall in love with her. Perhaps she'll read this and invite me to Martha's Vineyard for the summer. Or get me a job working with her family at Simon & Shuster... or maybe she'll just sick "Them" on me.
One of the best Carly Simon CDs February 20, 2008
Andrew Whaley (Piedmont, SC USA)
This is a great album from a great artist. I was blown away. This one is a clear five, Jesse is a masterpiece. Stardust, In Pain, Take Me As I Am are rock classic's are are way underrated. This is a must for any Carly fan. I can't belive it's out of print, the praces start low, so get this wale you can, before it's up there with Hello Big Man ("witch is a other great Carly album") in the $100's. Highly Recommend!
She wouldn't have to tell me twice..... August 13, 2007
Robert C. Hufford (Hopewell, VA USA)
...to "Come Upstairs"....we've had several incrnations of Carly over the past 35 years...the folk singer...the rocker...the Great American songstress...various mixtures. This album is squarely in the middle of her "Rock" period, and it's probably the best of the lot. Carly has always shared her pain with us; that really turns some people off, but others of us don't mind a bit. She made this in the midst of some really big problems, and her fans got to be part of her catharsis.
A couple of the numbers here may push some people's envelopes: the messages of "Come Upstairs" and "Three Of Us In The Dark" are rather apparent. Before you get too upset about that...this isn't rap, and it's FAR from obscenity. Hey Opera fans...[that's me, too]...have you ever checked out English translations of some of the gold standards like "La Boheme" or "La Traviata"? No stone casting, please. Of course, "Jesse" is the big hit here, and it flat-out rocks.
As I said, this is possibly Carly's best pure Rock album. It's rather tough to find at a good price, so grab it when you can....
Carly Should Be Singing "Come Upstairs I Got Some Percodan!!!" December 9, 2005
John Baranyai
1 out of 10 found this review helpful
As with ALL of Ms. Simon's albums her songs consist of her usual egocentric self absobed musings. The track "The Three Of us In The Dark' refers to a threesome which may have included Mr. James Taylor, herself and a bottle of Percodan but I have yet to figure out how you are supossed to open the bottle in the dark(!!!) and from what I have read most people like threesomes with the lights on. Most of the tracks on this album are banal and unforgettable and as always Ms. Simon sings about just how great she thinks she is in bed which has become RATHER TIRING after 30 years. I give this album 5 stars because for once her male fans won't buy this album for the cover alone.
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