The Carpenters

As is your opinion, OP.

Love the Carpenters ‘ music!

You make me want to throw up, OP.

Love is surrender.

Every sha la la la, every whoa oa oa oa , still shines ! All the oldies but goodies !

Every shing a ling a ling that they're starting to sing, so fine !

When they get to the part when he's breaking her heart it can even make me cry.

Just like before, it's yesterday once more.

Thanks, OP! Listening to the Carpenters right now...

They were mostly awful, I agree.

Remember THIS travesty?

Answerr: No.

"I have no sympathy for someone thin enough to be buried in pleats"

They were a mess. The mother was a bathsit crazy control freak, Richard had a Quaalude addiction, and at one point, Karen was taking 80 or 90 laxative pills a day. None of it was supposed to be mentioned because it'd reflect badly on the act.

Aarrgghh!! It's been 50 years.

There are now Carpenter's Tribute Bands. And a celebration, although "THIS EVENT HAS NOT BEEN ENDORSED BY RICHARD CARPENTER OR UNIVERSAL MUSIC"

I like Close to You. It makes me sad though. Just the music is sad. I think of my mom.

Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft?

ABBA seems like punk rock compared to some of this dreck;

OP = Bette Midler

That's some nice trolling there, OP.

Their music made a lot of people happy. How many people has op made happy?

Heroin's made a lot of people happy, too.

All the same, I wouldn't recommend it.

OP, what's mostly shit is what will remain after your deserving encounter with a deadly grease fire. Now go back to the basement and your Motley Crue cds.

We've Only Just Begun, Rainy Days and Mondays and I Won't Last A Day Without You are not shit.

Oh please...to pretend that heroin addiction has something g to do with music by the Carpenters? Sounds like something Trump would say...that is really disgusting.

The Carpenters were in a class of their own - Karen's angelic voice and Richard's gorgeous music production. There's been nobody like them before or since. Timeless music.

Heard in elevators now, if only very occasionally.^^^

I love The Carpenters.

An early photo of The Carpenters. The greatest brother and sister musical duet ever.

The Carpenters had the greatest fans!

I've always imagined Richard to be hung like a horse. Always those mild-mannered ones who surprise us.

Incest

The big album that started it all for The Carpenters.

OP, when I run across music I don't like, I don't listen to it. You should try that.

Love the Carpenters. Superstar and Goodbye to Love were probably my favorites.

I hated the Carpenters when they were popular. Such puky schmaltzy crap. And their shit has definitely not gotten better with time.

R31 : so sad that you have no taste

I miss Karen's voice.

Loved Karen so much, but you have to admit she was fashion-challenged.

Richard Carpenter and Toni Tennille should go on tour together. Revive each other’s hits.

You are a Philistine, OP.

I watched a BBC documentary linked in another thread.

I was surprised how cunty they both seemed, as it is so contrary to their image.

Richards was creepy. And there were stories about how difficult they were on the Carol Burnett show. And how they fired Neil Sedaka because they were jealous of him (let that sink in), and a British interview where Karen is being a bitch and rolling her eyes.

They seemed like a mess.

I suspect the parents were sexually abusing them.

[quote]Loved Karen so much, but you have to admit she was fashion-challenged.

She could have afforded to lose a few.

They were big when I was in grade school.

Even then, we knew how uncool they were.

We called them "The Crapping Whores."

OP is mostly full of 💩💩💩.

Their music has a depressive quality.

I 💟 Karen Carpenter.

Whenever I heard that sweet voice sing "Superstar" I used to pretend that she was singing about me.

R37 they fired Neil Sedaka because he was the opening act and invited Tom Jones on stage from the audience when that’s the main acts job to do the inviting. They were furious at Neil.

Karen had a beautiful voice, but her brother ruined all their songs.

He was so cheesy, he should have worked on Lawrence Welk.

I'm sorry Karen didn't get to record with people other than Richard Carpenter, the Thomas Kincaid of Arrangements.

[quote]they fired Neil Sedaka because he was the opening act and invited Tom Jones on stage from the audience when that’s the main acts job to do the inviting. They were furious at Neil.

I heard that there was more to it than that.

Richard was fucked up on drugs (including coke) and Karen was not a great live performer. So they came across as amateurish and unprepared.

Sedaka was a pro and the audience responded to him much better.

The Carpenters got jealous (particularly Richard) and that is why he was let him go.

The Carpenters had a rep for being very difficult then.

R44, she did a solo record without Richard which the label decided not to release.

The solo album was finally released in the late 90s and it was pretty blah. There were only a couple of good songs.

I liked her singing but the arrangements were treacly.

R45 I saw it in a doc on YouTube.

They were totally uncool back in the day but still they flourished in a time of incredible musical diversity.

Karen's haunting voice was one for the ages.

[quote]The greatest brother and sister musical duet ever.

Who asked you?

I never bought one of their records. It was enough to have to hear it on the radio everywhere I went.

I still love The Carpenters - her voice was one in a billion and his music production and song writing skills were fantastic. Both true professionals.

Won't Last A Day Without You just came on Pandora. So good!!

I loved Karen's voice- a real contralto song stylist- they had a "sound" which they perfected. It seems to have withstood the test of time. Bless the Beasts and the Children is my favorite.

Of course Karen was a bitch. She was hangry all the time.