What’s All That Hammering??? Oh, There Are Carpenters InMyEars™.
OK, yes, there’s admittedly some nostalgia involved in this for me—my older sisters listened a lot to The Carpenters back in the proverbial day. But it’s also lovely, enduring, chart-topping, memorable, beautiful, achy, haunting, yearning music. Richard Carpenter is a musical wizard, regardless of whether he’s barking up your preferred genre tree. And Karen Carpenter left a permanent hole in audiosphere when she left us far too young. I won’t dishonor her voice by any further attempt suitably to laud it.
Younglings, don’t be scared off by the era. I realize it may make you feel like you’re kickin it ElevatorMusicStyle™, but may I invite you to an extended listen? Go ahead, risk creating a rift in the space-time continuum. It’s music everyone should know. Really. And stay with it for a while—like the first minutes of a movie in black and white, you’ll get past the hurdle and it’s well worth it. I offer you a pretty nice cross-section of The Carpenters’ catalog, conveniently pre-chewed for you InMyEars™ at my Grooveshark.
Here’s my Carpenters playlist on Grooveshark:
http://listen.grooveshark.com/#/user/bobpadgett/
If that link doesn’t work, then jump it here instead.
http://listen.grooveshark.com/user/bobpadgett/
