Gold: The Carpenters: Amazon.ca: Music

Disc: 1
1. Superstar
2. Rainy Days And Mondays
3. Top Of The World
4. Maybe It's You
5. Let Me Be The One
6. Reason To Believe
7. Jambalaya (On The Bayou)
8. Leave Yesterday Behind
9. Your Baby Doesn't Love You Anymore
10. Bless The Beasts And The Children
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Disc: 2
1. Yesterday Once More
2. Please Mr. Postman
3. Hurting Each Other
4. I Need To Be In Love
5. Merry Christmas, Darling
6. (They Long To Be) Close To You
7. All You Get From Love Is A Love Song
8. Sing
9. Make Believe It's Your First Time
10. Ticket To Ride
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1.0 out of 5 stars Here's What I Need To Know..., April 24 2004

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This review is from: Gold (Audio CD)

This isn't a review... it's really a critique of the packaging of Carpenters products.

When I get a disc, I don't want the songs blending into one another. I want each song to be its own stand alone work. That's how it should be. The problem with the last two compilations created for Carpenters "The Singles" and "Yesterday Once More" is that they purposely blend the songs together. NO!

The other issue seems to be original versions of songs v. remastered material. It's all wonderful to go back to the master tapes and rerecord the tracks to make them sound fresh. However, if you start futzing with the arrangements and "improving" them by adding instrumentation, or whatever audio tricks you have in mind, you're tampering with the stuff that people are buying the album to hear!

Just based on other reviews, some of this is going on again. What do I do to get Carpenters' songs the way I want them?! Thank you.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Clearer, Cleaner, & Fresher - Remixed is better, May 29 2004

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This review is from: Gold (Audio CD)

This is the greatest and largest Carpenters greatest hits album so far! As usual, Karen's voice is haunting and beautiful and very pleasing to the ear. She sounds so wonderful. The song selection is great too. All of the hits and 3 new Carpenters songs. "Rainbow Connection" & "Leave Yesterday Behind" are lovely ballads, that Karen sings perfectly. "California Dreamin" is a 17-year old Karen!

"Tryin' To Get the Feeling Again" is a beautiful Carpenter ballad, that is way better than Barry Manilow's version. "I Need To Be In Love" & "I Won't Last A Day Without You" are the only two songs that Karen sings with soul and sadness. She believes and really feels what she is singing, with these two songs. "Yesterday Once More" and "Make Believe It's Your First Time" are two of Richard's best songs that he arranged. His creativity and arrangements on those two songs, combined with Karen's voice is magic. The Carpenters making more adult and mature music like "Make Believe It's Your First Time" and "Touch Me When We're Dancing" was a good shift and change in their music. For future greatest hits CDs, I hope to see "One Love" and "Because We Are In Love (The Wedding Song)", on future greatest hits compilations.

People criticize Richard's remixing the Carpenters songs. But if you ever listen to the original version of the Carpenters songs (especially the early ones), you should hear how old and phonically bad, they sound. The remixed songs on this CD, sound updated and brand new, as if they were just recorded on brand new state-of-the-art recording equipment. When I compare the remixed and original versions of "Yesterday Once More", there is very minor, almost no instrument or orchestration difference between the two, but the remixed version sounds clearer and cleaner, and the original version sounds as if you are listening to a vinyl record on a turntable. And I compared "Yesterday Once More" with the "Now & Then" studio album on CD and not vinyl!

Richard tells us that doing these compilation CDs are "bittersweet", but he says he owes it to Karen. I thank and appreciate Richard for writing the liner notes and producing this CD and releasing more unreleased Carpenters songs.

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4.0 out of 5 stars I have a question for everyone who has this CD..., Jun 27 2009

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This review is from: Gold (Audio CD)

I am looking for a Carpenters compilation CD which, in addition to having all their most famous hits, should have two additional qualities:
1. not more than 67 minutes in total running time (my CD player does not play 80-minute CDs);
2. does not employ the standard music industry trick for compilation CDs: abbreviate the length of each track in order to squeeze more songs onto the CD (I prefer the full original playing time of each track).

Furthermore, the Amazon reviews I have read indicate this 2-CD set comes very close to having all their best hits and then some lesser ones, too. I'm glad that it has been brilliantly remastered by Richard Carpenter but bothered by the fact that it has also been remixed. I would have preferred to have the original and classic versions since those are the ones I know and like the best. If anyone has any information regarding these issues, please feel free to share on this website.

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5.0 out of 5 stars GOLD by The Carpenters
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5.0 out of 5 stars Yesteryear Once More
This cd's only flaw is that it's not done chronologically, as it would have helped new Carpenters fans find it easier to trace the group's legacy. Read more

Published on Jun 30 2004 by Anthony Nasti