TopTenREVIEWS presents the music career and reviews of Carole King
Carole King
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
2.1328
Carole King Album Rankings
1
Whoa, where the hell did this come from?The other day I was skimming through a book at Barnes & Noble which contained a list of the top 100 selling albums of the 70s.
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2
In the sterling years of FM radio, when it was no crime to sandwich King Crimson, Stevie Wonder, the Velvet Underground and Bessie Smith in the same set, songwriter Carole King shattered sales records
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3
After years as one of the most prolific and successful songwriters in pop music, Carole King emerged in the '70s withTapestry, an album that catapulted her to the forefront of the singer/songwriter mo
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4
Track listing: 1) Spaceship Races; 2) No Easy Way Down; 3) Child Of Mine ; 4) Goin' Back To Love; 5) What Have You Got To Lose; 6) Eventually; 7) Raspberry Jam; 8) Can't You Be Real; 9) I Can't Hear Y
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5
With her first husband, Gerry Goffin, Carole King wrote many distinguished songs for other artists during the early '60s.
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6
More upbeat and rockin' than her last couple of efforts,Wrap Around Joycontains much of the jazz-tinged rock King was becoming known for.
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7
In Concert was the first of Carole King's live albums to appear, actually preceding the release of the 1971 Carnegie Hall concert. The two couldn't be more different.
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8
As with any record, how it is received often depends on the listener's expectations.
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12
King's first album since Tapestry to fail to enter the album charts at all upon its release. For good reason, unfortunately.
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13
Howard Jones composes catchy melodies, synthesizes sound with a refreshingly deft touch and sings in a pleasant, if unremarkable, tenor.
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18
Due to its availability on videotape, this soundtrack to an animated TV special is probably receiving more home airplay than Tapestry in the late '90s.
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23
"It's a gray, gray gloomy day/A strange and moody blues day/Gotta get through, gotta get through another day.
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26
Well put-together and very smoothly flowing, this is one of King's unsung classics--one which got a surprising amount of crossover radio interest at the time, oddly enough.
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27
Pearls: Songs of Goffin and King and Time Gone By are an ideal pair of Carole King albums to put on the same CD -- the former looks like a compilation but was actually comprised of new recordings, co
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28
As straightforward a singer as she is a lyricist and composer, Carole King projects one of the most integrated personalities in pop.
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36
Carole King: Super Hits delivers 10 of her best-known songs in a budget-priced collection.
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