Title: Intriguing
Review: Richard has played around with the Carpenters catalog so much almost nothing today sounds like it originally sounded. Listen to the original LP of this album and you'll be surprised at the many differences in several tracks. Karen was forever redoing vocals, too ("Ticket to Ride," "Merry Christmas Darling," "Top of the World") so as the years passed the Carpenters were forever reinventing their recordings. That aside, this remains one extremely enchanting album with some memorable songs, vocals, and arrangements and a venturesome attitude. I've never understood Karen and Richard being saddled with sugary-sweet, square judgments. Every album they did took a step into new territory. Imagine where they'd be today. I suspect they would have gone through a slump, then been discovered all over again. They had the goods to go on forever.
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