Carpenters – The Singles 1969-1973 (1969-1973/2014)
Жанр: Pop/Rock, Vocal
Носитель: SACD
Год издания: 1969-1973/2014
Издатель: A&M
Номер по каталогу: UIGY-9542
Аудиокодек: DSD64 2.0
Тип рипа: image (iso)
Продолжительность: 00:41:46
Наличие сканов в содержимом раздачи: да
Образ снят с помощью: Sony PlayStation 3 и утилиты sacd-ripper version 0.21
Релизёр:
Треклист:
01.We’ve Only Just Begun 04:10
02.Top Of The World 02:58
03.Ticket To Ride 04:09
04.Superstar 03:46
05.Rainy Days And Mondays 03:26
06.Goodbye To Love 03:59
07.Yesterday Once More 03:58
08.It’s Going To Take Some Time 02:56
09.Sing 03:17
10.For All We Know 02:35
11.Hurting Each Other 02:48
12.(They Long To Be) Close To You 03:44
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The Singles: 1969–1973
The Singles: 1969–1973 is an album by the brother/sister pop duo The Carpenters. A greatest hits collection, it topped the charts in the U.S. and the United Kingdom and became one of the best-selling albums of the 1970s. Features of this compilation include a newly recorded version of “Top of the World”, “Ticket to Ride” and a number of musical introductions and segues between the songs “Superstar”, “Rainy Days and Mondays” and “Goodbye to Love”. It has been certified 7× platinum in the U.S. alone. In the UK, the album reached #1 for 17 (non-consecutive) weeks.
Richard gave the album this title because he doesn’t like the term “greatest hits” because he felt it was “an overused thing”. He continues:
Individuals and groups with two or three hits all of a sudden put them on an album, use filler for the rest and title it “greatest hits”. This album contains eleven true hits and it just wasn’t slapped together. We’ve remixed a few, re-cut one and joined a couple of others. It’s simply something I believe we owe our audience and ourselves.
All Music Review
There’s a certain inherent sadness listening to this concise 12-song collection of the Carpenters’ early hits, especially as it opens with “We’ve Only Just Begun,” with its hopeful, dreamy lyrics — for it was never supposed to be definitive, just the first of at least two such collections. But changes in the public’s taste and a slackening (though never a disappearance) of hits for the duo, and Karen Carpenter’s death in 1983, made this the first and only real mass choice for a Carpenters collection. Ten of the duo’s dozen Top Ten hits are present, from “Close to You” to “Top of the World,” with their gorgeous and original slow ballad interpretation of “Ticket to Ride” and their cover of Carole King’s “It’s Going to Take Some Time” thrown in to offer a slightly wider perspective. Listening to this material, it’s easy to accuse the Carpenters of being hopelessly retro even in their own time — bear in mind that “We’ve Only Just Begun” and “Superstar” being contemporaneous with the Allman Brothers’ At Fillmore East and Eat a Peach and you get the idea. But the lush melodies brought out in Richard Carpenter’s arrangements and Karen’s singing are justification in themselves.