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Oh GAWD this is perfection I do not care what generation you are from?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJmmaIGiGBg&feature=fvst

It is so unfair! I have witnessed many things that were unfair. It pisses me off that this can be taken from us!

We all forget. That is a really cool vid, and memory. The first lines of that song show total brilliance, the performance to make them work is even more brilliant. Want a good laugh,,, let me sing those lyrics.

Thank you for sharing,JH.

I love that band.

I dunno. I hear occasional stuff on the radio that's as good as that. What we don't seem to have is artists who are as consistently good as The Carpenters. I think some of it is that the record labels are too much into novelty.

I'm not convinced this is really new. One hit wonders have been around since the fifties (possibly longer). I think the occasional bands like The Carpenters might have been a fluke. I don't believe that such flukes are impossible nowadays.

But it's true, The Carpenters were great. Karen Carpenter's death was one of music's great tragedies.

Love her voice

I would never have guessed that that act was your vision of perfection, JH. You surprised me with that one.

I only got as far as the middle of the State Farm Insurance commercial, it was great, and Im sure the rest was good too, but there's only so many minutes in a life..............I wanna use them wisely.

Don't know when they first came out most everybody was into hard drive beat with power chords and 10 minutes guitar and drum solo the Carpenter never the less found a huge following in the mist of Cream, Zeppelin, Deep Purple etc.

Now some decades later their music gererates more nostalgia than most.
Funny what growing older does to musical taste.

Some other bands of the period having the same effect at least on me are Bread, The marmalades and don't remember some others.

You know, one thing that I do agree is missing in current music trends is quality down tempo music. The Carpenters predate the power ballad and that is a Good Thing.

The power ballad has really screwed up down tempo music. That whole idea of a well-crafted song that doesn't have a dance beat somewhere in it seems almost foreign. There are songs like that, but mostly they're insipid. And often a mediocre song is "rescued" by putting a double-time drum beat behind it.

But mostly what we get is power ballads.

I'm sick of power ballads. I never really liked them all that much. Continued exposure has not endeared them.

I loved her voice, I thought she sound better than Streisand. Just this very deep, earthy, vibratto. They were definitely a big representation of the sixties to me.

I know I was a kid, but I remember a lot. What's interesting about the 60s and the 70s too, you had all these different styles of music. You pretty much had an artist for every mood. Now, kids act like they can only like and get into one genre. But if you look at Woodstock and Monterey Pop Festival, you had a lot of different genres playing there, not just one particular one.

It wasn't just the Carpenters, you had Carole King, Roberta Flack, Dionne Warwick, The Fifth Dimension, you had a lot of really cool ballads coming out of that era.

Chaeya

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