Carly Simon - Anticipation (2LP, 45 tours)
Carly Simon – Vocals, pianos, acoustic guitar [click here to see more vinyl featuring Carly Simon]
Acoustic Bass – John Ryan
Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Electric Bass – Jim Ryan
Percussion – Andy Newmark
Piano – Paul Glanz
Written by Carly Simon (A1 to D2), Jacob Brackman (B2, C1-2), Jimmy Ryan (B3), Paul Glanz (B3), Kris Kristofferson (D3)
2 LPs, Gatefold jacket
Limited to 3,000 numbered copies
Original analog Master tape : YES
Ultra Analog
Heavy Press : 180g
Record color : black
Speed : 45 RPM
Size : 12”
Stereo
Studio
Record Press : Fidelity Record Pressing
Label : MOFI
Original Label : Elektra
Recorded Late Summer 1971 at Morgan Studios, London, England
Engineered by Michael Bobak
Produced by Paul Samwell-Smith
Originally released in November 1971
Reissued in 2026
Tracks:
Side A:
- Anticipation
- Legend in Your Own Time
Side B:
- Our First Day Together
- The Girl You Think You See
- Summer’s Coming Around Again
Side C:
- Share the End
- The Garden
Side D:
- Three Days
- Julie Through the Glass
- I’ve Got to Have You
Reviews :
« In 1975, Elektra UK reissued Carly Simon's first two albums as a double-LP twofer. "That's The Way I've Always Heard It Should Be," the lead-off track of the first album, in which the singer expresses reservations about getting married, benefitted from a sense of role reversal--it's such a guy sentiment, but sung by a woman, came across as a feminist statement. Nothing on the rest of the first album was quite as pointed, though the other songs maintained the same ambivalence toward romance. The one other standout track, "Dan, My Fling," in which the singer tries to rekindle a relationship with a man she has discarded, was, like the single, co-written by Jacob Brackman (in this case, with Fred Gardner, not Simon), suggesting that the real creative talent here was him and not her (especially since the writing credits also featured another four names). And since Simon, with her plaintive, proper, and relatively inexpressive voice, was such an unremarkable performer, her debut seemed inauspicious. But her second album found her extending the gutsy persona she had established on her first, notably on "Anticipation," "Legend In Your Own Time," and "I've Got To Have You." The last especially suggested a frankly passionate person whose vulnerability was a source of strength, not weakness, a valuable feminist trait Simon pursued in her later work. » AllMusic Review by William Ruhlmann
Ratings :
AllMusic : 3 / 5 ; Discogs : 3.94 / 5