![]() Glad I got over my 20 year ban on this one.Īmerican Music Club – “Goodbye to Love” (R. I suggest If I Were A Carpenter should be done again by a new crop of who’s who in the indie music scenes today to keep the legacy going or just see how others read the same book. Perhaps this album is more of an exploration or unique translations than a tribute to what The Carpenters had done. Redd Kross kill on ‘Yesterday Once More’, Sonic Youth get twisty and dive darker deeper on ‘Superstar’ and Cracker re-perfects ‘Rainy Days and Mondays’. Not my generation really but my mother’s for sure.Īfter rediscovering this true gem of music history, I found that the standout tracks are the tracks written by Richard Carpenter in whole or in partnership. ![]() Nothing morbid, just an interest in getting to know what was really going on in those years when this sibling hit machine was killing it on the charts and softly rocked a whole generation on radio and TV. It wasn’t until Karen Carpenter passed away and I learned for the first time about eating disorders and her extremely turbulent struggles did the songs find a deeper haunting intrigue in me. I have never hated The Carpenters in fact, I’ve always thought their almost weird stage presence and underlying conflicting emotional and sonic styles made for good stuff. An album that was thought up by two believers (Producer Matt Wallace (Faith No More, Deftones, REM) & David Konjoyan) who loved their their form of ‘whitebread’ music and probably realized a golden opportunity to showcase The Carpenters in new thrilling of the moment sounds in its release and they did have the know how to gather some of the best of the best alternative, pop, post punk and college radio mainstays to explore what are ultimately darker than intended soft classics. It turns out, 20 years later, I’ve rediscovered If I Were A Carpenter is a fantastic achievement. I listened to it a handful of times and before I could form my own opinion on it others were cramming their overly hyped praises down my thought processes. When this deeper in most spots tributes of sort to the 70’s AM and lite FM radio brother and sister duo, I didn’t have proper time to become interested. When it came out I was burned or burning out on the now every band and label wants to have their irritating toes in the grunge genre. If I Were A Carpenter (A&M ’94) has a place in my history. It was a heavy slice of Americana, like the Walton family.” – Thurston Moore They were whitebread middle-class people and Karen was somebody who was supposed to be so perfect. It gave it a super-lush feel – not unlike what My Bloody Valentine are trying to do now. Her voice was so angelic it was like butterscotch and Richard used to layer it, which was a fairly radical studio technique. This Year’s Humana Festival at Actors Theatre of L.“Oh, it was crap music but was also extremely interesting.John Denver and The Carpenters Remembered.The Glendalia Boutique Hotel & Culinary Studio.Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel.Evan Dando’s cover of “looking for space” sounds like 1993 calling and wanting its also-ran single returned. Matthews completely erases commercial musical genre boundaries. ![]() Have a ‘so what?’ attitude about Dave Matthews, but he’s electrifying on “take me to tomorrow” because his version sounds like himself, doesn’t lose Denver, and somehow pushes the song into something completely contemporary. ![]() Josh Ritter and Barnstar! present what Denver might sound like now in “darcy farrow,” while the usually incandescent My Morning Jacket sounds wan on “leaving on a jet plane” and Lucinda Williams sounds crotchety and eccentric on “this old guitar.” I usually Two of the more intriguing performances are by Blind Pilot with “the eagle and the hawk” and Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros with “wooden indian.” Part of the surprise for me lies in the fact that I don’t know those songs. It’s a mixed bag or intriguing group, depending on your viewpoint, and the results are sort of all over the place.
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