The Bedroom Tapes
The Bedroom Tapes is Carly Simon’s 18th studio album. It was released on May 16, 2000, by Arista. The music was made at Simon’s home on Martha’s Vineyard and at several studios in New York City. It runs 56 minutes and 39 seconds and was produced by Carly Simon along with Tesse Gohl, Frank Filipetti, David Fields and Eric Bazilian.
Critics praised the album, and Simon promoted it with TV appearances, including a Good Morning America concert in Bryant Park on May 19, 2000 that featured new songs and some of her old hits like You’re So Vain and Nobody Does It Better.
The album soon went out of print. In 2002, an autographed limited edition with two bonus tracks, Grandmother’s House and Sangre Dolce, was released in only 100 copies. Sangre Dolce later appeared on her 2008 album This Kind of Love. The opening track, Our Affair, was remixed by Richard Perry and used on the soundtrack for the 2000 film Bounce.
On April 6, 2015, a special edition CD with two more bonus tracks—When Manhattan Was a Maiden and Grandmother’s House—was released through the Carly Simon Vintage Line and sold exclusively on Simon’s official website. It was produced by C’est Music.
Critics and fans described the album in glowing terms. AllMusic praised Simon’s raw honesty and charm, People called it a one-woman show, Billboard called it a feast for intelligent pop, Rolling Stone celebrated its strong writing and pop feel, NY Daily News called it one of her best, the Miami Herald praised its emotional and intellectual depth, and Us Weekly called it cathartic and classy.
The song When Manhattan Was a Maiden inspired the album’s concept, but it was not released commercially. A 2002 demo of the song was later posted online, and it was included on the 2015 re-release.
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