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<blockquote data-quote="James from London" data-source="post: 287360" data-attributes="member: 22">Great stuff, Mel!I had the same experience, but with me it was my brother who was the big Carps fan. He loved/loves his easy listening.I had a similar experience after reading this recent list of the Carpenters&#039; best in the Guardian. [URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2021/may/13/the-carpenters-20-greatest-songs-ranked[/URL]It dispenses with some of the well-known treacly stuff (all of which is fine) in favour of some lesser-known album tracks which I&#039;ve heard all my life - for so long, in fact, that it never previously occurred to me how unusual they are. In particular, &#039;Another Song&#039;&nbsp; ...[MEDIA=youtube]j1W8mFCYVoI[/MEDIA]&quot;Plenty of early-70s albums ended with a free-form jam, but of all the exponents of said form, the Carpenters were the most improbable: Another Song unexpectedly and rather thrillingly unravels into psychedelic guitar and occasionally atonal electric piano improv, underpinned by frantic drums. They never recorded anything like it again.&quot;... and &#039;All I Can Do&#039;:[MEDIA=youtube]THFstU24ySc[/MEDIA]&quot;You can hear the Carpenters’ jazz roots on All I Can Do, a song unlike anything else they recorded: layers of Swingle Singers-ish harmonies and an electric piano solo over a 5/4 rhythm, powered by Karen’s hyperactive drumming. Incredibly, it sounds remarkably like late-90s Stereolab.&quot;Speaking of contradictory stuff, I discovered only recently that the man behind that heartrending fuzzy guitar solo on &#039;Goodbye to Love&#039;, Tony Peluso, also provided the wacky DJ voice on Side 2 of Now and Then and &#039;Calling Occupants&#039;. (&quot;I&#039;m sorry babe, that&#039;s not on our playlist!&quot;)Oh, and my trawl through Stereogum&#039;s great &#039;America&#039;s Number Ones&#039; blog has only just passed the Carpenters final US chart topper:[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://www.stereogum.com/2048561/the-number-ones-the-carpenters-please-mr-postman/columns/the-number-ones/[/URL]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="James from London, post: 287360, member: 22"] Great stuff, Mel! I had the same experience, but with me it was my brother who was the big Carps fan. He loved/loves his easy listening. I had a similar experience after reading this recent list of the Carpenters' best in the Guardian. [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2021/may/13/the-carpenters-20-greatest-songs-ranked[/URL] It dispenses with some of the well-known treacly stuff (all of which is fine) in favour of some lesser-known album tracks which I've heard all my life - for so long, in fact, that it never previously occurred to me how unusual they are. In particular, 'Another Song' ... [I][MEDIA=youtube]j1W8mFCYVoI[/MEDIA] "Plenty of early-70s albums ended with a free-form jam, but of all the exponents of said form, the Carpenters were the most improbable: Another Song unexpectedly and rather thrillingly unravels into psychedelic guitar and occasionally atonal electric piano improv, underpinned by frantic drums. They never recorded anything like it again."[/I] ... and 'All I Can Do': [MEDIA=youtube]THFstU24ySc[/MEDIA] [I]"You can hear the Carpenters’ jazz roots on All I Can Do, a song unlike anything else they recorded: layers of Swingle Singers-ish harmonies and an electric piano solo over a 5/4 rhythm, powered by Karen’s hyperactive drumming. Incredibly, it sounds remarkably like late-90s Stereolab."[/I] Speaking of contradictory stuff, I discovered only recently that the man behind that heartrending fuzzy guitar solo on 'Goodbye to Love', Tony Peluso, also provided the wacky DJ voice on Side 2 of [I]Now and Then [/I]and 'Calling Occupants'. ("I'm sorry babe, that's [I]not[/I] on our playlist!") Oh, and my trawl through Stereogum's great 'America's Number Ones' blog has only just passed the Carpenters final US chart topper: [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.stereogum.com/2048561/the-number-ones-the-carpenters-please-mr-postman/columns/the-number-ones/[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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