Admit it, you secretly LOVE the Carpenters!

[UdoKier]

Poll question: Admit it, you secretly LOVE the Carpenters!

Admit it, you secretly LOVE the Carpenters!

[meegbear]

1. Karen died on this day in 1983

[UdoKier]

4. Really? I didn't know that. Weird coincidence.

RIP Karen Carpenter.

[meegbear]

7. Saw it on the news crawl this morning

Liberace died today too in 1987. Can we have a poll about him?

[mr_hat]

2. That Captain dude is a bastard. Marrying his sister, then

starving her to death...

[NewYorkerfromMass]

8. WTF are u talking about?

She was bulimic.

[mr_hat]

13. So would you be if your brother forced you to marry him.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

17. again, WTF are you talking about?

???

[mr_hat]

18. The Captain. Bad dude. Married, starved Karen.

Got away with it. Has lounge act now with some other chick. Tony Chenile(?)

[UdoKier]

20. Oh, stop toying with the New Yorker.

He/she is probably under 30 or over 70 and doesn't know...

[mr_hat]

22. OK. I was hoping to at least get corrected for Chenile.

[progressoid]

32. Chenile - that one made me laugh out loud - Thanks

[NewYorkerfromMass]

23. where's the link?

or are you peddling rumor?

[UdoKier]

24. Dude, it's a joke post...

Move on...

[loudestchick]

3. I have no love for them. Sorry.

[IrateCitizen]

5. I have no problem admitting I've always liked Karen's voice.

It's just a shame that they had such overbearing parents, and that she ended up the way she did.

[msgadget]

16. Great voice.

Sad life.

[Liberal Veteran]

6. It's not a secret that I love the Carpenters!

Karen had a great voice!

[txaslftist]

9. nothing secret about it.

[Beaverhausen]

10. Why do birds suddenly appear everytime you are near?

Just like me they long to be
close to you

Loved her voice!

[Bertha Venation]

11. secret nothing... have always loved them, always will. AND,

I was a member of the group that opened the Richard and Karen Carpenter Performing Arts Center in Long Beach, CA. (Okay, irrelevant, but I'm inordinately proud of that little fact.)

[jswordy]

12. Nothing secret about it. I like all their hits. n/t

[redqueen]

14. I do!

I have their greatest hits, actually.

Love her voice!

[OnionPatch]

15. They were so much a part

of my growing up that I can't help but like them still. My dad played them on the stereo, my sisters and I did ice-skating routines at the pond to their cassettes. :silly: They just bring back good memories and you have to admit, she had a good voice even if the songs were kinda cheesy.

[Bonhomme Richard]

19. Only when I'm feeling romantic. n/t

[BlackVelvetElvis]

21. Not so much a Carpenters fan but

Karen's voice was beautiful - it had a perfect touch of melancholy.

[tigereye]

25. no, no I don't

but I think it's cool that she was a drummer.

[Wat_Tyler]

26. No. Their music was simplistic, cloying and bland.

[asthmaticeog]

28. "Goodbye to Love" was amazing.

It's an unbeleivably fucked-up arrangement for its time. I fully understand if you don't want to give it a spin, but cloying though they were, "simplistic" and "bland" don't always apply to their work.

OTOH, "Top of the World?" That tripe makes me killin'-mad.

[Wat_Tyler]

29. I'll check it out.

[Wat_Tyler]

27. dreaming, dreaming of a girl like me

hey what are you waiting for - feeding, feeding me
I feel like I'm disappearing - getting smaller every day
but I look in the mirror - I'm bigger in every way

[arwalden]

30. I Adore Karen Carpenter... But Whenever I Sing Along To ...

"Won't Last A Day Without You"... I can't help myself from substituting the word "You" with "Food".

Bad Allen! Bad boy!

[donheld]

31. It's no secret

I did love the carpenters. Karen had an amazing voice.

[Bunny]

33. No shame at all. Karen Carpenter had a wonderful voice.

I cannot think of too many others who had such a smooth voice. Although their songs were sappy and schmaltzy, she could sing! (Unlike so many of our current would-be "divas", who excel at vocal gymnastics and little else) Her story is so sad...

[Blue Gardener]

34. Classic Christmas Album

A "Must Have" for every Christmas music collection.