Speaking of cover songs, The Carpenters recorded their rendition of Klaatu’s “Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft” in 1977, so if you think they were just some creepy suburban pie-eyed schmaltzball of a band, you’re wrong.Incidentally, I know The Capenters didn’t write “Superstar”, but the Sonic Youth version is on a Carpenters tribute album, so take it up with Thurston Moore. They covered “Superstar” wayyy back in 1994… without irony in the decade of irony! Even though Richard Carpenter absolutely hated Sonic Youth’s version of the song, who cares? Richard Carpenter always seemed like a completely humorless person to me anyway. Do you like musicianship? Because if you do, The Wrecking Crew is all over the place on many of The Carpenters’ albums. Ok, so maybe Karen wasn’t the best drummer in the world.Are you trying to tell me that’s not worthy of consideration? WRONG. If you don’t agree with me on this, just listen to it when all the instrumentation is stripped away and then apologize for trying to troll me. Singer Karen Carpenter had an objectively beautiful voice.Why were you ever listening to those people in the first place? How on earth could they possibly know what kind of music you like? Let’s look at the facts: Tastemakers will tell you this is banal, Up With People-level grandparent music, but I’m here to tell you to quit paying attention to tastemakers.
I know they aren’t cool, but damn, I like The Carpenters.”įor the uninitiated, The Carpenters were a sister-brother duo that formed in the 1960’s and gained notoriety in the 1970’s for making inoffensive elevator-ready music. When I think of Guilty Pleasures, my first thought is, “Why should I let somebody tell me what music I’m allowed to enjoy?” Then I think, “Whatever.
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