From the Top

The Carpenters - From the Top

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Artist: The Carpenters
Edition: Music CD
Format: Box set
CD Release Date: 1994-09-27
Music Label: A&M
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Caravan
  2. The Parting Of Our Ways
  3. Looking For Love
  4. I'll Be Yours
  5. Iced Tea
  6. You'll Love Me
  7. All I Can Do
  8. Don't Be Afraid
  9. Invocation
  10. Your Wonderful Parade
  11. Goodnight
  12. All Of My Life
  13. Eve
  14. Ticket To Ride
  15. Get Together
  16. Interview
  17. Maybe It's You
  18. (They Long To Be) Close To You
  19. We've Only Just Begun
  20. Merry Christmas, Darling
  21. For All We Know
Music CD 2
  1. Superstar
  2. Rainy Days And Mondays
  3. Let Me Be The One
  4. Bless The Beasts And Children
  5. Hurting Each Other
  6. Top Of The World
  7. Goodbye To Love
  8. Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town
  9. This Masquerade
  10. Canta/Sing (Spanish Lyric)
  11. Yesterday Once More
  12. Medley: A. Fun, Fun, Fun
  13. Medley: B. The End Of The World
  14. Medley: C. Da Doo Ron Ron
  15. Medley: D. Deadman's Curve
  16. Medley: E. Johnny Angel
  17. Medley: F. The Night Has A Thousand Eyes
  18. Medley: G. Our Day Will Come
  19. Medley: H. One Fine Day
  20. Yesterday Once More (Reprise)
  21. Radio Contest Outtakes
Music CD 3
  1. Please Mr. Postman
  2. Only Yesterday
  3. Solitaire
  4. Good Friends Are For Keeps
  5. Ordinary Fool
  6. I Need To Be In Love
  7. From This Moment On
  8. Suntory Pop Jingle #1
  9. Suntory Pop Jingle #2
  10. All You Get From Love Is A Love Song
  11. Calling Occupants Of Intrerplanetary Craft
  12. Christ Is Born
  13. White Christmas
  14. Little Altar Boy
  15. Ave Maria
Music CD 4
  1. Where do I go from here?
  2. Little Girl Blue
  3. If I had you?
  4. My body keeps changing my mind
  5. Still Crazy after all these years.
  6. Medley:...
  7. Touch me when we are dancing.
  8. When its gone.
  9. Because we are in love.
  10. Now

Free Music Notes for From the Top

Free Music Review: Must Have CD!!
Hit: 5 Stars

It is amazing to me how much the world has changed since 1991. That was the year I got married and graduated from college and ventured out into the real world. The AFFORDABLE method of listening to music at that time was still casette tapes. Phonograph records and LPs had gone the way of the Eight-Track, reel-to-reel, and Betamax. And that first my Christmas my wife got a job at Radio Shack. Because employees got an additional discount to the mark down, for about $115 (this is back when they ran $250 or more) she got me a CD player.

I had seen this four-CD set in "Camelot Music" (now FYE) and really wanted it - this is unusual because it is rare I really desire a gift for myself so strongly. So in conjunction with my new mother-in-law, I got this and a CD player for Christmas.

I had been a Carpenters fan since January 2, 1985, when I bought the "Close To You" casette and thoroughly enjoyed it. Over the course of the next six years, I obtained every single Carpenter recording (American) in existence - starting with "Ticket To Ride" and transversing through "Voice of the Heart." I learned and knew all of the songs - major and minor.

So this four-CD set was the apex of an enjoyable music style that is unique to this day and influences people all across the spectrum. But this one has goodies seen nowhere else.

It has a number of previously unreleased demos including two of Karen singing for Magic Lamp label when she was only 16 years old. And it's not the usual fodder, either, because it features two soft drink commericals in Japan for Suntory pop, a yellow pages commercial, and some features from their televison specials.

It is also arranged chronologically, enabling the person who still has only a one CD player in the car (that sounds so 1994-ish) to take his or her favorite era of Carpenter music. Surely the most monstrous is the second CD that covers the hugely successful years of 1971 to 1974, a period that saw nine top four singles and gold status for every album and nearly every single. The LOWEST - I repeat - the LOWEST chart position for any Carpenters single between 1970 and 1975 was 12 by "It's Going To Take Some Time This Time" in 1972. And even many of the songs not slated for release as singles were good tunes. The entire second side of the 1973 LP "Now And Then" (a mixture of oldies and new songs whose title was chosen by Carpenter mother, Agnes) is featured to close out the second CD, complete with speaker change roar of the engine of the car in Richard's solo "Fun, Fun, Fun."

But the growing pains that hit the Carpenters in 1975 are not quite as evident on the CD until the final one that picks up "Where Do I Go From Here," a song finally released posthumously in 1989 on "Lovelines."

If you are a Carpenters fan, NO COLLECTION is complete without this four-CD set. If you are not, this could be the anthology that changes you into one. The better set is the 1994 edition that includes a 20-page picture pamphlet with commentary by Richard on each song.

Enjoy the best of the Carpenters.

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