Come Upstairs

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AllMusic reviewer William Ruhlmann retrospectively called "Jesse" the album's highlight and declared it "Simon's best-written pop/rock song since 'You're So Vain' and a Top Ten hit to boot." He additionally singled out the title track as "frisky and seductive", referred to "Take Me as I Am" as "an upbeat raver", and compared the track "Them" to the band Devo. Ruhlmann stated "Simon's emotions were unusually close to the surface throughout, 'James' was a final plea to her soon-to-depart husband, and 'In Pain' was the brutal cry of someone who sounded like she was."

Reviewing the single "Jesse", Billboard wrote that "the melody is simple yet powerful, the words are complex and Simon's voice has never been better. She croons an enriching country-ish melody which perks up at the end with the addition of electric guitar, and complements it with a sensitive story."{{cite news |title=Top Single Picks |newspaper=Billboard |date=July 26, 1980 |page=70 |access-date=July 8, 2020 |url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Billboard/80s/1980/BB-1980-07-26.pdf}} Cash Box said that the song "embodies the push and pull of love, the ailment and the cure - the person we try to resist but cannot."{{cite news |title=CashBox Singles Reviews |date=July 26, 1980 |page=13 |newspaper=Cash Box |access-date=January 1, 2022 |url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Cash-Box/80s/1980/CB-1980-07-26.pdf}}

Reviewing the single "Take Me As I Am", Record World said that "Carly is distraught over a lover with a wandering heart" and praised the hook.{{cite magazine |magazine=Record World |date=November 29, 1980 |page=1 |access-date=February 22, 2023 |title=Hits of the Week |url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Record-World/80s/80/RW-1980-11-29.pdf}} The magazine also called the title track a "saucy invitation [that] is full of lyrical nocturnal delights."{{cite magazine |magazine=Record World |date=March 21, 1981 |page=12 |access-date=February 26, 2023 |title=Single Picks |url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Record-World/80s/81/RW-1981-03-21.pdf}}

Credits adapted from the album's liner notes.{{cite AV media notes|others = Carly Simon |title = Come Upstairs |year = 1980 |type = booklet |publisher = Warner Bros.}}

{{tracklisting

| headline = Side one

| title1 = Come Upstairs

| writer1 = Carly Simon

| length1 = 4:18

| title2 = Stardust

| writer2 = Simon

| length2 = 4:13

| title3 = Them

| writer3 = Simon

| length3 = 3:44

| title4 = Jesse

| writer4 = Simon

| length4 = 4:15

| title5 = James

| writer5 = Simon

| length5 = 2:28

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{{tracklisting

| headline = Side two

| title1 = In Pain

| writer1 = {{hlist|Simon|Mike Mainieri|Don Grolnick}}

| length1 = 6:10

| title2 = The Three Of Us in the Dark

| writer2 = Simon

| length2 = 4:14

| title3 = Take Me As I Am

| writer3 = {{hlist|Simon|Mainieri|Sid McGinnis}}

| length3 = 4:50

| title4 = The Desert

| writer4 = Simon

| length4 = 4:44

| total_length = 38:56

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• Carly Simon – lead vocals, backing vocals (1–4, 7, 8, 9), acoustic guitar (4)
• Billy Mernit – electric piano (1, 9)
• Mike Mainieri – acoustic piano (1, 5, 7, 8, 9), Oberheim synthesizer (1), Prophet-5 (2), Oberheim OB-X (2), Yamaha CS30 (3), backing vocals (3), synthesizers (8, 9), marimba (9)
• Ed Walsh – Oberheim OB-X (1), synthesizer programming (1, 8), Oberheim Eight Voice (2)
• Ken Landrum – Prophet-5 (1)
• Larry Fast – synthesizers (3)
• Don Grolnick – acoustic piano (4, 6)
• Pete Hewlett – electric guitar (1, 2, 3, 6), backing vocals (3, 4), acoustic guitar (4, 8)
• Sid McGinnis – lead guitar (1, 2, 3), guitar solo (2, 6), backing vocals (3, 4), electric slide guitar (4), electric guitar (7, 8, 9), acoustic guitar (9), 12-string guitar (9)
• Tony Levin – bass guitar (1–4, 6, 7, 8), fretless bass (5, 9)
• Steve Gadd – drums (1)
• Rick Marotta – drums (2–9)
• Jerry Grossman – cello (5)
• James Taylor – backing vocals (2, 3, 4)
• Mariah Aguiar – backing vocals (3)
• Christine Martin – backing vocals (3)
• Laraine Newman – backing vocals (3)
• Hugh Taylor – backing vocals (3, 4)
• Alex Taylor – backing vocals (3, 4)
• Sally Taylor – backing vocals (4)
• Gail Boggs – backing vocals (4) }}

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• Producer – Mike Mainieri
• Production Coordination – Christine Martin
• Engineered and Mixed by Scott Litt
• Assistant Engineers – James Farber, Jeff Hendrickson, Lucy Laurie and Raymond Willard.
• Mastered by Bob Ludwig at Masterdisk (New York, NY).
• Art Direction – Peter Whorf
• Design – Bill Gerber
• Photography – Mick Rock
• Hand Lettering – Susan Turner }}

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