Carnes, KIm

Vinyl Records and Rare LPs:

	Barking At Airplanes New - LP - SO7159 Sealed 1985 Original With Gold Promo Stamp And Custom Song Hype Sticker on The Shrink Wrap. more
	Barking At Airplanes Used - LP - SO 17159 1985 Original With Custom Inner Sleeve. Gold Promo Stamp And Custom Song Hype Sticker On Front Cover. “No Matter How Hard She Tried -- And She Tried Very, Very Hard -- Kim Carnes Couldn't Get Either Voyeur Or Café Racers, Her Two Follow-Ups To Mistaken Identity, Into The Consciousness Of The Audience That Flipped For "Bette Davis Eyes." There Were Some Hits Along The Way, But They Were Minor Ones. Clearly, It Was Time For A Change, And For 1985's Barking At Airplanes, She Broke From Convention, Stepping Up To The Boards To Co-Produce The Record. This Was The Change That Was Needed, As It Resulted In A Cohesive, Consistent Album -- The Best She Made Since Mistaken Identity. Although There Are Elements Of Post-New Wave Pop, Arena Rock, Adult Contemporary, And Dance Evident Throughout The Album, They're Fused Together Into A Sleek, Insistent Sound. This Isn't Entirely Different From What Other Artists Of Her Style And Era Were Doing At The Time -- This, Indeed, Sounds Like What Adult-Oriented Pop Of The Mid-'80s Sounded Like -- But It Fits Carnes Very Well, Not Just Because Her Great Voice Sounds Ideal In This Setting, But Because She Does This Music Very Well. A Welcome Comeback, And It's Stood The Test Of Time As One Of Carnes' Best Records.” Stephen Thomas Erlewine, AMG. more
	Barking At Airplanes New - LP - SO 17159 Sealed 1985 Original With Custom Inner Sleeve. Gold Promo Stamp & Score Mark Across Top Right Corner. Hype Sticker On The Shrink Wrap. “No Matter How Hard She Tried -- And She Tried Very, Very Hard -- Kim Carnes Couldn't Get Either Voyeur Or Café Racers, Her Two Follow-Ups To Mistaken Identity, Into The Consciousness Of The Audience That Flipped For "Bette Davis Eyes." There Were Some Hits Along The Way, But They Were Minor Ones. Clearly, It Was Time For A Change, And For 1985's Barking At Airplanes, She Broke From Convention, Stepping Up To The Boards To Co-Produce The Record. This Was The Change That Was Needed, As It Resulted In A Cohesive, Consistent Album -- The Best She Made Since Mistaken Identity. Although There Are Elements Of Post-New Wave Pop, Arena Rock, Adult Contemporary, And Dance Evident Throughout The Album, They're Fused Together Into A Sleek, Insistent Sound. This Isn't Entirely Different From What Other Artists Of Her Style And Era Were Doing At The Time -- This, Indeed, Sounds Like What Adult-Oriented Pop Of The Mid-'80s Sounded Like -- But It Fits Carnes Very Well, Not Just Because Her Great Voice Sounds Ideal In This Setting, But Because She Does This Music Very Well. A Welcome Comeback, And It's Stood The Test Of Time As One Of Carnes' Best Records.” Stephen Thomas Erlewine, AMG. more
	Cafe Racers New - LP - SO 17106 Sealed 1983 Original With Gold Promo Stamp On Jacket And Custom Song Sticker Over Shrink Wrap. Clean Cut Out Hole. more
	Kim Carnes New - LP - SP 4548 Sealed, Rare 1975 Original. more
	Kim Carnes Used - LP - SP 4548 1975 US White Label Promo. Clean Cut Out Hole And Promo Sticker On Cover. more
	Light House New - LP - ST 17198 Sealed 1986 Original With Custom Hype Sticker On Shrink And Gold Promo Stamp On Front Jacket. more
	Light House New - LP - ST 17198 Sealed 1986 Original With Thin Saw Cut. more
	Mistaken Identity Audiophile - LP - MFSL 1-073 1981 Half-Speed Master With Insert Pressed In Japan By JVC. Very Difficult To Find Without A Saw Cut. NM/NM. more
	Mistaken Identity New - LP - SO-17052 Sealed 1981 Original Featuring "Bette Davis Eyes". Cut Out Hole. more
	Mistaken Identity Audiophile - LP - MFSL 1-073 Factory Sealed Half-Speed Master. more
	Mistaken Identity Used - LP - SO-17052 1981 Original, Still In Shrink. Slight Corner Rubs & Wear To The Mouth Of The Cover. Featuring "Bette Davis Eyes". more
	Mistaken Identity Used - LP - SO-17052 1981 US Original With Custom Inner Sleeve. Small Corner Bump & Few Tiny Edge Creases. more
	Mistaken Identity Audiophile - Used - MFSL 1-073 1981 Half-Speed Master from Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab. Vibrant jacket close to NM, two tiny corner dings.Pressed in Japan by JVC. "Mistaken Identity should have established Kim Carnes as a huge international star. Her Rod Stewart rasp, affiliation with Kenny Rogers, management by Ken Kragen when he was arguably at his peak, makes one wonder why the across-the-board success of "Bette Davis Eyes" couldn't be duplicated. Three years after the success of this album, Tina Turner actually did conquer the world, the various producers on Private Dancer weaving enough different textures to make for a multi-dimensional masterpiece. Too many cooks made for wonderful stew. Val Garay certainly did a good job on Mistaken Identity, more defined than his work with Marty Balin on the Lucky album a year after this, an album which, for that great artist, wasn't very...lucky. It's not that the other Donna Weiss/Jackie DeShannon tune, "Hit and Run," which follows "Bette Davis Eyes," doesn't have a good performance; it does. The problem with the Mistaken Identity album is that everything on it stands in the shadows of a masterpiece. The country risqué of the Jackie DeShannon original from New Arrangement has as extraordinary a re-working as Lou Reed's "Rock & Roll" got from Bob Ezrin when Mitch Ryder got to make it his underground anthem. Carnes is just brilliant on her solo composition, "Mistaken Identity, and it is subtle and smart enough to have crossed over to adult contemporary and jazz formats. Frankie Miller's "When I'm Away From You" sounds like Rod Stewart doing "True Blue" -- those upfront snare drums and a hook as strong as an undertow. Perhaps this should have been the follow-up to "Bette Davis Eyes" rather than "Draw of the Cards," which followed and lingered around the Top 30. Not a place to be for the follow-up to a monster smash. This is an evolution from her work on A&M, and certainly far removed from the New Christy Minstrels. The album comes with photographs galore on the innersleeve, all the lyrics, and tons of credits. Her first hit on EMI about ten months earlier was the fantastic reworking of "More Love," and that elegant pop gem was the type of thing needed to propel this to the status Private Dancer attained for Turner, that Physical garnered for Olivia Newton-John. "Draw of the Cards" plays like a mellow dance number, aimed at a new wave audience when -- well, face it, her biggest smash before "Bette Davis Eyes" was the mellow "Don't Fall in Love With a Dreamer." There is absolutely no pun intended to say this album is more of an identity crisis than a mistaken identity. Wendy Waldman, Carnes, and her husband, Dave Ellingson, craft "Break the Rules Tonite (Out of School)," but it is just too much of a diversion on an album that tests the waters of different rock genres. Flirting with Leslie West-style hard rock is not as appealing to her audience as the beautifully crafted Tom Snow/Dean Pitchford tune "Don't Call It Love." Her other solo composition, "Miss You Tonite," is more the style we expect, and Carnes' beautiful piano work on Richard Stekol's "My Old Pals" brings the album to a proper conclusion. If only this big and talented team could have come up with another couple of brilliant new arrangements as they did with "Bette Davis Eyes." The name Kim should be up there with Olivia, Tina, and Grace, and it wasn't for lack of talent that superstardom didn't occur." All Music Guide - Joe Viglione. more
	Mistaken Identity Used - LP - SO-17052 1981 US Original Jacksonville Pressing With Original EMI America Company Poly Inner Sleeve. Clean Vinyl. Vibrant VG++ Jacket. more
	Rest On Me New - LP - AAS 7016 First Sealed Copy We Have Ever Seen Of This 1970 Original. Her Very Rare Debut LP. Features James Burton. more
	Romance Dance New - LP - SW 17030 Sealed 1980 Original. Cut Out Hole. more
	Romance Dance New - LP - SW 17030 Sealed 1980 Original With Custom Song Hype Sticker On Shrink. Clean Cut Out Hole. more
	Romance Dance Used - LP - SW-17030 1980 Original With Custom Inner Sleeve. Clean Cut Out Hole. "Two Months After Kim Carnes Notched A Number Four Hit By Teaming Up With Kenny Rogers For "Don't Fall In Love With A Dreamer," She Managed To Take A Rendition Of Smokey Robinson's "More Love" To The Number Ten Spot. Unfortunately, The Song's Parent Album, Romance Dance, Turned Out To Be A Rather Bland Effort As A Whole. While Her Temperate But Marbly Voice Gives Robinson's Tune Some Added Attraction, The Other Tracks Seem To Fall Off Into The Listlessness Of Plain, Adult Contemporary Fare. Her Version Of The Boxtops' "Cry Like A Baby" Is Almost As Good, But Wispy Cuts Like "Tear Me Apart" And "Will You Remember Me" Are Too Typical To Be Memorable. Carnes' Favorable Radio Ease Is Indeed Present, But Her Material Just Doesn't Lift It High Enough To Make A Difference. "More Love" Was Her First Top 40 Hit Without A Partner Singing Beside Her, But Was Immensely Overshadowed And Soon Forgotten, As Was Romance Dance, After The Release Of 1981's Mistaken Identity, Which Harbored The Grammy-winning "Bette Davis Eyes," Reaching Number One In April Of That Same Year. Carnes Put Another Six Songs Into The Top 40 After The Success Of "Bette Davis Eyes," Including 1984's "What About Me," Hooking Up Once Again With Kenny Rogers And Joined By James Ingram." AMG Review by Mike De Gagne. more
	Sailin' Used - LP - SP-4606 1976 US Original Monarch Pressing. Light Bag Imprint On Glossy Vinyl, Strong VG++ Jacket. Produced By Jerry Wexler And Barry Beckett.Her Foray Into The Muscle Shoals Sound, Backed By Your Usual Suspects. Also Features David Grisman On Mandolin. more
	St. Vincent's Court New - LP - SW 17004 Sealed 1979 Original. more
	The Best Of Kim Carnes Used Import - EYS-91053 1982 Japanese Original. With Obi & Insert. Beautiful Condition. more
	Voyeur New - LP - SO 517078 Sealed 1982 Columbia House Club Edition, Not RCA. more