Best Carpenters Single POLL POLL POLL

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Poll Results

Option	Votes
Superstar	18
Goodbye to Love	11
Rainy Days and Mondays	9
We've Only Just Begun	5
Yesterday Once More	3
(They Long to Be) Close to You/We've Only Just Begun	3
I Won't Last a Day Without You	2
Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft/"i don't like The Carpenters"	2
Top of the World	1
Solitaire	1
Sing	0
Sweet, Sweet Smile	0
There's A Kind Of Hush (All Over the World)	0
Only Yesterday	0
Please Mr. Postman	0
For All We Know	0
Hurting each other	0
Ticket to Ride	0

― jed_, Sunday, 29 April 2007 00:30 (nineteen years ago)

damn, there's a mistake. i'm pissed.

sorry.

― jed_, Sunday, 29 April 2007 00:34 (nineteen years ago)

pissed and listening to The Carpenters!

― jed_, Sunday, 29 April 2007 00:35 (nineteen years ago)

This is really difficult. I can hardly stand to listen to these songs because they are so painful, but most of them are so great too.

― Rockist Scientist, Sunday, 29 April 2007 00:38 (nineteen years ago)

Oh no, I don't think I could handle drinking and listening to the Carpenters. I guess if I were really really drunk it would work. But just a little would leave more vulnerable.

― Rockist Scientist, Sunday, 29 April 2007 00:39 (nineteen years ago)

I love her voice - but you're right - it never makes me feel happy

― roger whitaker, Sunday, 29 April 2007 01:00 (nineteen years ago)

What a choice that was between Rainy Days And Mondays and Superstar. Rainy Days gets the vote because it's about being a depressed housewife rather than a depressed singer. More realistic. Well, not for Karen I guess.

― Matt #2, Sunday, 29 April 2007 01:01 (nineteen years ago)

The sound outburst of "Don't you remember you told me you loved me baby" and so on tipped the scales toward "Superstar" for me.

― Rockist Scientist, Sunday, 29 April 2007 01:03 (nineteen years ago)

("Sound" should have been "sudden.")

― Rockist Scientist, Sunday, 29 April 2007 01:04 (nineteen years ago)

Gonna have to go for Superstar since you made the interplanetary one a don't like carpenters damn you.

My mum has all the Carpenters albums. She played them all a lot when I was a kid.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 29 April 2007 01:05 (nineteen years ago)

i just went for "goodbye to love" but there were four other heavyweight contenders.

xpost - the main one being "Superstar".

xxpost Ha!

― jed_, Sunday, 29 April 2007 01:06 (nineteen years ago)

time and time again the chance for love has passed me by

― grebtesthit, Sunday, 29 April 2007 01:09 (nineteen years ago)

;_;

― jed_, Sunday, 29 April 2007 01:10 (nineteen years ago)

Rainy Days gets the vote because it's about being a depressed housewife rather than a depressed singer. More realistic. Well, not for Karen I guess.

She's not depressed in that song. See Todd Haynes' Superstar for further elucidation.

But "Rainy Days" gets the vote.

― Kevin John Bozelka, Sunday, 29 April 2007 01:13 (nineteen years ago)

I had to vote for "Goodbye to Love", though I came near to picking "Close to You" for personal reasons.

― Arthur, Sunday, 29 April 2007 01:23 (nineteen years ago)

"calling occupants" and i LOVE the carpenters!

― get bent, Sunday, 29 April 2007 02:00 (nineteen years ago)

It's between "Rainy Days" and "Hurting Each Other" but "Goodbye to Love" would be next. Will anyone pick one of their happy songs?

― Sundar, Sunday, 29 April 2007 02:08 (nineteen years ago)

What happy songs? (I'm not sure any of the "happy" ones ever really feel happy to me, at least not in a way remotely unalloyed with melancholy.)

― Rockist Scientist, Sunday, 29 April 2007 02:12 (nineteen years ago)

Top of the World or Close to You???

― JN$OT, Monday, 30 April 2007 07:52 (nineteen years ago)

Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft/"i don't like The Carpenters"

That's one awesome b-side!

― Mark G, Monday, 30 April 2007 11:35 (nineteen years ago)

Superstar.

― xhuxk, Monday, 30 April 2007 12:12 (nineteen years ago)

Nobody opting for Solitaire? The way Karen delivers that "every road that takes him, takes him down" line is so beautiful.

― Dan Peterson, Monday, 30 April 2007 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

Wasn't a single in the UK. We got the Andy Williams version.

― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 30 April 2007 14:00 (nineteen years ago)

Goodbye to love, for Tony Peluso's guitar

― whatever, Monday, 30 April 2007 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

more votes please - closing tomorrow.

― jed_, Thursday, 3 May 2007 09:36 (nineteen years ago)

It's difficult!

― Tom D., Thursday, 3 May 2007 09:37 (nineteen years ago)

It's easy! Vote for Goodbye to Love; you know you want to.

or Superstar...or Rainy Days...or I Won't Last a Day...

It's difficult :-(

― Guilty_Boksen, Thursday, 3 May 2007 11:21 (nineteen years ago)

"We've Only Just Begun" was both an A and a B side?

either way, gets my vote...really heavy piano...(surely must have had some influence on Italo-house)...

― henry s, Thursday, 3 May 2007 13:38 (nineteen years ago)

I want to vote for ALL of these. Well, except 'Sing'.

― braveclub, Thursday, 3 May 2007 13:48 (nineteen years ago)

I plumped for Yesterday Once More. It reminds me of my grandpa's funeral. (perhaps not the most compelling argument here for its being the best, but that is the way it is)

― Billy Pilgrim, Thursday, 3 May 2007 16:32 (nineteen years ago)

Superstar, but this was hard.

― admrl, Thursday, 3 May 2007 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

I've been on a big Carpenters' kick lately - Yesterday Once More for me

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 3 May 2007 16:34 (nineteen years ago)

Superstar wins because of those ominous last 11 seconds.

― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, 3 May 2007 16:55 (nineteen years ago)

And it won.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 3 May 2007 23:46 (nineteen years ago)

good show!

― jed_, Thursday, 3 May 2007 23:51 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

wtf 'only yesterday' got zero votes? That is an astonishingly great song.

― Frogman Henry, Thursday, 17 July 2008 11:02 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQmbHGwMcCo

― Frogman Henry, Thursday, 17 July 2008 11:15 (seventeen years ago)

it amazes me how the same band can be responsible for that and the execrable 'ticket to ride'

― Frogman Henry, Thursday, 17 July 2008 11:17 (seventeen years ago)

They did worse stuff than "Ticket to Ride"

― Tom D., Thursday, 17 July 2008 11:18 (seventeen years ago)

they do a great version of ticket to ride!

― amateurist, Thursday, 17 July 2008 11:23 (seventeen years ago)

It's certainly better than the 5th Dimension's version, now that really is shit!

― Tom D., Thursday, 17 July 2008 11:26 (seventeen years ago)

The combination of Karen Carpenter's ductile, dispassionate contralto and Richard Carpenter's meticulous studio technique is admittedly more musical than the clatter of voices and silverware in a cafeteria, but it's just as impervious to criticism. That is, the duo's success is essentially statistical: I'll tell you that I very much like "We've Only Just Begun" and detest "Sing," but those aren't so much aesthetic judgments as points on a graph. C+

what does this mean? that he enjoys the melodies but doesn't find himself emotionally involved?

― amateurist, Thursday, 17 July 2008 11:32 (seventeen years ago)

also:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=fsgj4xcxXyA

why is everyone squinting?

― amateurist, Thursday, 17 July 2008 11:32 (seventeen years ago)

well i know. i just watched it gain and jesus, got to be nostalgia talking on your part. they suck the life out of that song. props for the video location tho.

― Frogman Henry, Thursday, 17 July 2008 11:42 (seventeen years ago)

nostalgia for what? i first heard that version three years ago.

― amateurist, Thursday, 17 July 2008 18:47 (seventeen years ago)

five years pass...

Went on a "Solitaire" jag today. Found out that the Neil Sedaka original from 1972 was recorded with 10cc as his backing band*, and that Karen Carpenter always hated this song, but recorded it anyway and Richard said/says it's one of her finest vocal takes.

*Listening to the whole 1972 Sedaka album right now and it's simultaneously CORNY and pretty great.

― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 7 November 2013 22:53 (twelve years ago)

welcome to my world.

you are officially old now.

advise : buy the 10cc boxset.

"corny but great" : rule of mid-life chaos.

― mark e, Thursday, 7 November 2013 23:06 (twelve years ago)

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