Tracklist
1 Ticket To Ride
2 They Long To Be Close To You
3 We ve Only Just Begun
4 For All We Know
5 Rainy Days And Mondays
6 Superstar
7 Bless The Beasts And Children
8 Hurting Each Other
9 Top Of The World
10 Sing
11 Yesterday Once More
12 Jambalaya On The Bayou
13 Please Mr. Postman
14 Only Yesterday
15 There s A Kind Of Hush
16 All You Get From Love Is A Love Song
17 Calling Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft
18 Those Good Old Dreams
19 Make Believe It s Your First Time
20 Honolulu City Lights
Carpenters occupy a very special place on the landscape of popular music. Paul McCartney, for one, said that she has the best female voice in the world: melodic, tuneful and distinctive .
Other performers know the score: Elton John called her one of the greatest voices of our lifetime, and Madonna has said she is completely influenced by her harmonic sensibility. Impossibly lush and almost shockingly intimate. Karen Carpenter hit notes with such surety. Its evocative lower register had a richness that no female pop singer ever has matched. But most important of all, it was such a guileless instrument. She sang without attitude -- but also without excessive sentiment. In other words, her voice was at once incredibly beautiful and strikingly neutral.
