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Post by cam83 on Sept 1, 2004 19:00:02 GMT -5
Hi Guys,
I am listening to the song SOLITAIRE and I know, I have posted this before but I like to add more thoughts or feelings I may not have expressed before. So here goes.
I just love the quiet opening of this song leading to Karen's mournful vocal reading There was a man...a LONELY man!! I love how she goes up on the word a LONELY man! A heart that cared, that WENT unshared...until it died, within his SILENCE, (and deepening on the word SILENCE.)
AND SOLITAIRE'S THE ONLY GAME IN TOWN and Karen's reading is riveting. She just sings the heck out of this song. Classic! Her vocals are just amazing and forceful. I can see her singing this song in a saloon setting dressed like a bar maid, back in the old west days.
The way she sends DOWN is so spine chilling. A little hope goes UP in smoke...another amazing note. She really adds life to this song. I am so surprised she never liked this song, even after it was a big hit...Top 20! It's one of her most passionate vocal readings! This song is full of vocal highs and lows as it's an extremely rangey.
He's playing SOLITAIRE...and I love that ending SOLITAIRE. Her voice just sounds lovely...and she sustains that low note. Amazing! Technically 100% amazing!
Aside from AVE MARIA, this would be my fave Karen recording of all time!!! But AVE MARIA is in a class all by itself...Sacred...and Christmas.
My thoughts,
Cameron
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Post by Rick Henry on Sept 1, 2004 20:26:10 GMT -5
 "Solitaire" is a true gem. Karen's voice, the musical arrangement. This is another amazing song. The musicianship is outstanding. I also consider this to be one of Karen's finest performances. 
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Post by BethMosior on Sept 1, 2004 21:41:58 GMT -5
I love this song tooo  When Karen ends the song with that low note  WOW really the whole song is just WOW and I give it a 5 smiles |
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Post by enigma on Sept 2, 2004 8:44:49 GMT -5
This is another example of how well Karen uses her lower register Once again Karen really shines on this song. Solitaire is another of those songs where Karen has managed to touch me on a deeper level. Another gem just when you think Karen has done it all another song comes and hits you where you live. Karen is like a gold mine that never runs out of gold I do not think I will ever get my fill of Karen she is the best.
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Post by karen69roland on Sept 2, 2004 9:45:47 GMT -5
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Post by Mariah Andrews on Sept 2, 2004 11:26:36 GMT -5
Yes, I like this song, and I think Karen sang it well. But I do kind of wonder, what was "Solitaire" really written about? Keeping to himself he plays the game? What game? Don't you kind of wonder?  I don't mean to put the song down. It's a good song, but a friend of mine and I were listening to it in the car and we both wondered what 'playing solitaire' really interprets as. |
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Post by karen69roland on Sept 2, 2004 12:48:13 GMT -5
I think it's the game of relationship..., intimate relations...
For example, I am a solitaire and I've been implicated in a lot of those stupid games.
I'm tired of women who plays those games..., I never played them and never will.[glow=red,2,300][/glow][shadow=red,left,300]  [/shadow][shadow=red,left,300]Roland C.[/shadow][shadow=red,left,300] [/shadow]
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Post by BethMosior on Sept 2, 2004 13:12:05 GMT -5
I thought the game points to being alone, you play the game by yourself, like not allowing anyone else in your life, you play the game of life alone ;D
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Post by karen69roland on Sept 2, 2004 14:17:16 GMT -5
Yeah, Beth..., that's right... I think I wasn't on the right track in my last post..., sorry.Le jeu de la vie..., as some say in french.[glow=red,2,300][/glow][shadow=red,left,300] [/shadow][shadow=red,left,300]Roland C.[/shadow][shadow=red,left,300] [/shadow]
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Post by smoothie2 on Sept 11, 2004 23:29:18 GMT -5
???I agree that it is about a lost love or one he never had.....my first thought was that this guy is playing the card game of solitaire...but it does also mean that cuz he didn't find that love, he has to go through life alone.
My favorite part of that song is when she sings " A little hope, goes up in smoke" and when she sings that verse, she really carries her voice up with the music...that is a real "chilly moment" ...
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Post by Mariah Andrews on Sept 12, 2004 0:18:35 GMT -5
This friend of mine wondered if playing solitaire meant...you know...I'm afraid to say the word around here...imagine a lonely guy who can't get a date. He watches the adult channel all night and...
Sorry, but that is what a friend of mine thought. Then again, there are a million different meanings to the term "Solitaire" I suppose.
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Post by karen69roland on Sept 12, 2004 1:34:53 GMT -5
I don't think the mood of the song goes with that kind of thought..., but, if it does, well..., I sure know how to play that *Solitaire Game*...  [glow=red,2,300][/glow][shadow=red,left,300] [/shadow][shadow=red,left,300]Roland C.[/shadow][shadow=red,left,300] [/shadow]
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Post by Mariah Andrews on Sept 12, 2004 18:05:14 GMT -5
I don't think the mood of the song goes with that kind of thought..., but, if it does, well..., I sure know how to play that *Solitaire Game*... [glow=red,2,300][/glow][shadow=red,left,300] [/shadow][shadow=red,left,300]Roland C.[/shadow][shadow=red,left,300] [/shadow] Roland, there isn't a soul alive who hasn't cuddled their kitten at some point or another... |
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Post by Peteruk on Sept 14, 2004 12:20:28 GMT -5
Think Beth has come closest to the overall meaning of Solitaire as a song ..... Solitaire to me with the lines ...played the game of love ....now Solitaire's the only game in town ... .is a classic lyric of solitary lack of love in one's life ....now only lonliness beckons after playing too many games with individuals ...this is all there is in your local town / area ....really bleak outcome .....  Mariah's thoughts are another possibilty ....would have to ask / or read on internet ? Neil Sedaka re : original song intentions ? Believe Richard went more with Beth & above thoughts when he decided to record Solitaire on Horizon album ..... Would be interesting to know more as to why Karen did not care for this song ....definitely one of Carpenters masterpieces of emotion , vocals, arrangement & performance .....  Peter |
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Post by beaner on Sept 14, 2004 19:55:22 GMT -5
I have a friend who is now divorced and although she and her husband parted friends and do keep in touch, it was a marriage that was very sad because he kept pretty much to himself and did not know how to love.
He's a nice guy and all, just didn't know the first thing about how to love a woman. Anyway, she thinks of him whenever she hears this song and after listening to it, it does fit with a man who is lonely inside and has no love in his life or no real life, for that matter.
Just something I thought I'd pass on to chip in.
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