![]() It’s a quiet song, lovely and quite enigmatic, with a trace of the minor chord influence of Joni Mitchell and ending with a bizarre question: “Knowing me the way you do/Then why did you just say/That our first day together/Was today? Our First Day Together” is a re-creation of just that. That the most famous folks are often the loneliest is one of the tiredest truisms in show-biz, but Carly convinces the listener that her story is a personal one rather than a generalization. “Legend in Your Own Time” is about anyone who has achieved a measure of fame and has been working at it since their youth. The cut winds up with a surprising coda crescendo that pithily wraps up the premise of the message about anticipating things to come–”Stay right here, ’cause these are the good old days.” Carly’s fine, aggressive vocal is complemented by Paul Glanz’ lyrical piano comping, and drummer Andy Newmark’s rhythms are to the point. The song is as much a vehicle for Carly’s fine band, which she assembled after her first album (recorded entirely with studio musicians) was released and kept with her through these sessions in London, which were produced by Paul Samwell-Smith, ex-Yardbird and also Cat Stevens’ producer. “Anticipation” is a spirited examination of the tensions involved in a burgeoning romantic situation in which nobody has any idea of what’s going on or what’s going to happen. She sings sometimes as an acute observer of the life conditions of a fellow human, sometimes as an equal partner in a shattered affair, sometimes as a bemused annotator of losing battles and the highly-charged moment flying away. They are a strange set of love songs, more like a cycle of the wide range of the emotional pulls and tugs that love connotes. The music of Anticipation consists of starkly frank and carefully manicured songs about the vagaries of the male/female saga. Retrieved December 27, 2014.If there are traces of an emerging, strong female consciousness on this new album, they appear as much in Carly’s attitude to her role as a musician and singer as in the music itself. : CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) ( link) "REVIEW: Carly Simon revisits 'Grand Central' on reissued live album". "Carly Simon Performed at an Unpublicized Concert at Grand Central Station in 1995". "Review: Anticipation-Carly Simon's New Album Finds Her Coming Around Again".
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