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| 1. You're So Vain |
| 2. Nobody Does It Better |
| 3. Why |
| 4. Coming Aroung Again |
| 5. Right Thing to Do |
| 6. We Have No Secrets |
| 7. You Belong to Me |
| 8. That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should Be |
| 9. Mockingbird |
| 10. Haven't Got Time for the Pain |
| 11. Anticipation |
| 12. Legend in Your Own Time |
| 13. Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of |
| 14. All I Want Is You |
| 15. Give Me All Night |
| 16. Like a River |
| 17. Better Not Tell Her |
| 18. Angel from Montgomery |
| 19. Let the River Run |
サイモンのキャリアには輝かしいハイライトが2度あった。最初は1973年の「You're So Vain」。ディランの「Like A Rolling Stone」以来、人をこきおろしたものとしては最高の歌が録音されたのだ。別れた恋人の二重生活ぶりを容赦なく攻撃した内容で、歌詞の最初の行では“ヨット”、“アプリコット”、“ガヴォット”と韻を踏んでいく。2番目は――耳当たりはいいがパッとしなかった007映画の主題歌は除くとして――その9年後の「Why」。ナイル・ロジャースとバーナード・エドワーズというシックのチームがプロデュースした、すさまじくキャッチーなディスコ/レゲエで、後にア・トリビュート・コールド・クエストがサンプルした。
これ以上のことは誰にもできない(Nobody does it better)という言い方は正確とはいえない――何よりまずキャロル・キングが、次にジョニ・ミッチェルがいるのだから。しかし、こういう自画自賛的なコレクションも悪くないなと思わせてくれる歌が、ここには少なくとも2曲ある。(Simon Price, Amazon.co.uk)
Her career had two shining highlights, the first coming in 1973. "You're So Vain", the finest put-down committed to tape since Dylan's own "Like A Rolling Stone", mercilessly attacked the duplicitous lifestyle of a former lover, finding time in the first verse to rhyme "yacht" with "apricot" with "gavotte". The second--discounting her pleasant but unspectacular Bond theme--came nine years later. "Why", a maddeningly catchy piece of disco/reggae produced by the Chic team of Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards, was later sampled by A Tribe Called Quest.
Nobody does it better isn't strictly accurate--Carole King does for one, Joni Mitchell for two--but there are at least two songs here that should grace every self-respecting record collection. --Simon Price
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