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Carly Simon - Clouds in My Coffee 1966-1996 (1996)

Track listing:
CD1
  1. Let The River Run 3:41
  2. You Belong To Me 3:47
  3. Nobody Does It Better 3:43
  4. Coming Around Again 3:41
  5. Jesse 4:21
  6. The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of 4:58
  7. You're So Vain 4:18
  8. Touched By The Sun 5:27
  9. Haven't Got Time For The Pain 3:52
  10. Better Not Tell Her 5:13
  11. Legend In Your Own Time 3:42
  12. Mockingbird 4:08
  13. That's The Way I've Always Heard It Should Be 4:13
  14. All I Want Is You 3:59
  15. The Right Thong To Do 2:57
  16. Like A River 4:47
  17. Anticipation 3:21
  18. Give Me All Night 4:24
CD2
  1. Angel From Montgomery 4:30
  2. Raining 3:12
  3. I'm All It Takes To Make You Happy 3:36
  4. Easy On The Eyes 4:44
  5. Turn Of The Tide 4:06
  6. Libby 4:57
  7. Have You Seen Me Lately 4:16
  8. My New Boyfriend 4:21
  9. Voulez-vous Danser 3:13
  10. The Night Before Christmas 3:40
  11. Halfway 'Round The World 4:35
  12. Life Is Eternal 5:25
  13. We Have No Secrets 3:56
  14. Why 4:08
  15. Take Me Out To The Ballgame 2:04
  16. Back The Way 4:53
  17. Itsy Bitsy Spider 3:42
  18. Play With Me 2:29
  19. My Luv Is Like A Red, Red Rose 2:58
CD3
  1. It Happens Everyday 2:47
  2. Boys In The Trees 3:14
  3. Julie Through The Glass 3:25
  4. Orpheus 3:54
  5. Never Been Gone 3:36
  6. Happy Birthday 4:53
  7. Devoted To You 2:30
  8. Davy 3:43
  9. Do The Walls Come Down 3:49
  10. Danny Boy 3:23
  11. Dink's Blues 3:50
  12. We're So Close 5:11
  13. Someone Waits For You 3:00
  14. Born To Break My Heart 4:46
  15. Time After Time 2:06
  16. What Shall We Do With The Child 2:47
  17. I've Got A Crush On You 3:37
  18. Something Wonderful 2:15
  19. You're The Love Of My Life 3:37
  20. I Get Along Without You Very Well 3:26
  21. I See Your Face Before Me 3:13

Notes

Rather than focusing on hits and other material most beloved by fans, retrospectives compiled by the artists themselves tend to reflect personal favorites, overbalanced with more recent material. By organizing this three-disc set into three different, non-chronological collections, Carly Simon partially defeats those tendencies. The first disc, "The Hits," performs the valuable function of bringing together most of her biggest singles, previously spread across many records on many labels. The second disc, "Miscellaneous & Unreleased," seems aimed at the collector. And the third, "Cry Yourself to Sleep," is the best-intentioned one of all — though perceived as a singles artist, Simon has written some of her best and most personal music on isolated album tracks. However, her choices frequently are not the best songs in her catalog; what is included is good stuff — it's just that a box set can offer the opportunity to provide an alternate view of an artist who may have been misjudged, as Carly Simon has, and that opportunity has been missed.