As Time Goes By
With at least four albums of unheard Carpenters material already released, you'd have
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thought the well would surely be dry by now. Yet with As Time Goes By, Richard Carpenter digs up another batch of outtakes, demos and TV performances to delight the duo's legions of fans. A legendary perfectionist, he's eschewed the "warts and all" approach, and instead rearranged, remixed and often rerecorded the original backing tracks to lend that famous Carpenters smoothness to even the ropier TV efforts. Most interesting are the endearingly innocent garage versions of "Nowhere Man" and "California Dreamin'", recorded in 1967 when Karen was just 16, a sweet 1971 cover of Wildweeds' "And When He Smiles" and a pretty take on Kermit the Frog's classic "The Rainbow Connection". Elsewhere, there's a warm and loungey medley where Karen and Perry Como sing each other's songs, and a glorious duet with Ella Fitzgerald where "My Funny Valentine" and "Someone to Watch Over Me" are made to shine once more. Richard displays his keyboard virtuosity with "Dizzy Fingers" and a grand medley of sci-fi themes, and the only disappointment is a cover of "Dancing in the Street" where Karen fails to really capture the song's joyous mood. Despite this, it's a must for all fans of easy listening. --Dominic Wills
...This is an absolute peach of an album, especially now the new rerelease contains a couple of previously unreleased tracks. Carole King has a gorgeous voice, sometimes folky cometimes bluesy which is really shown off well with this album. Virtually every song on this album is a classic including tracks such as (you make me feel like a) Natural Woman, You've got a Friend and It's too Late and King really sings them as though they come from the heart. This was an absolutely groundbreaking record when it was released in the &)'s and has stood the test of time well, it shows off her writing skill as much as her singing one....
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Advantages: Excellent singing, songs and music Disadvantages: none
...each song being recorded in one take. This doesn't mean the album isn't professional though!! Its just doesn't have the slick production that we grown used to in the last few years - which is probably a good thing!
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Track by Track
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1. I Feel The Earth Move
This is a great start to the album. Its one of the more fast tempo songs on the album. I just love the emotions of Carole's voice on this track
2. So Far Away
Carole's piano playing on this track is beautiful. Its very much a ballad and you can almost feel the sadness in her voice.
3. It's Too Late
This is a very well known song, as its been covered many times. I love the lyrics of this track and the chorus is very catchy.
4. Home Again
I love this song for its simplicity - there are only a few lines of lyrics in it and the musically accompaniment...
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Advantages: Great christmas music Disadvantages: Some tracks arent as good as others - ruin CD in some ways
...and Silent Night - more popular carols that are not found on the CD but i suppose one CD cant hold every christmas carol so some have to be left out.
Briefly the CD is good - good to have and bring out for a few weeks coming up to Christmas time and not that expensive to buy (only about £5-7 from amazon - i cant exactly remember how much i paid for it - though i did notice recently that it had been reduced to £3.97 but that may only be because of a special offer or because it is after Christmas and not many people may want to buy it) - so id say its worthwhile buying the CD....
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