Carole King - Tapestry


I was a good boy and i worked real hard 50+ feet up in the air cutting trees this weekend, so i think i deserve some albums. We'll space 'em out though. Tonight i just want to hear a classic album that's on everybody's "don't die before you hear this one" list. Tapestry by Carole King ought to do the trick. 

M(ilton): i thought you hated Soft Rock. 

You shut your stupid mouth, Milton. No imaginary (not my) friends allowed. I wasn't gonna bring it up, but you lost. I start making completely reasonable payments on my unrepayble student loan debt next month, and alls i gots to do is stay insolvent enough to counteract the capital gains tax upon throwing it in the dumpster when the time limit expires. Maybe i'll feel the earth move under my feet by winning the lottery, maybe you'll feel the sky tumbling down because you can't collect free interest on the interest anymore. Soft Rock or no, Carole King kicks ass. 

Everybody and his/her brother knows/loves/covers pretty much every song on this album, and James Taylor was like "you're the bestest, like Laura Nyro meets Janis Joplin phenomenal, why the hell are you not already singing your own songs?" Even Robert Christgau backhanded his way into a compliment by pointing out that this album should be liberating for women because it proves that you don't need to be technically virtuosic to make an awesome album. Not to brag, but i don't need to qualify my compliments. It's not hard or soft, it's just Rock, and holy moly is it phenomenal. 

You get what i'm saying, right? Like, these are some of the best word-music things humans could ever create, regardless of the shape of their genetalia. No, she's not playing piano sonatas or ushering Norse warriors to Valhalla, but you can bet me and my Viking pals are clapping and whistling after every song, 'cause they're freakin' good and the concept is that all these random songs add up to a coherent human she herself spent a lot of time and energy creating in her Laurel Canyon bay window while the cat glared at her. 

What else is there to say, really? Tapestry is amazing.

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