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The Carpenters - The Singles 1969-1973 (1973) 24-Bit/96-kHz Vinyl Rip

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The Carpenters - The Singles 1969-1973 (1973) 24-Bit/96-kHz Vinyl Rip

The Carpenters - The Singles 1969-1973 (1973) 24-Bit/96-kHz Vinyl Rip

The Carpenters - The Singles 1969-1973 (1973) 24-Bit/96-kHz Vinyl Rip
Vinyl Rip in 24-Bit/96-kHz | FLAC tracks | no cue | no log | Covers | Rapidshare + FileFactory | 883 MB
1973 | Genre: Pop | Label: A&M | SP-3601 | US pressing | Vinyl: NM-

The Carpenters - The Singles 1969-1973 (1973) 24-Bit/96-kHz Vinyl Rip

"The Singles 1969-1973" is an album by the brother/sister pop duo The Carpenters. A greatest hits collection, it topped the charts in the U.S. and the United Kingdom and became one of the best-selling albums of the 1970s. It has been certified 8x platinum in the U.S. alone.
( wikipedia )

There's a certain inherent sadness listening to this concise 12-song collection of the Carpenters' early hits, especially as it opens with "We've Only Just Begun," with its hopeful, dreamy lyrics – for it was never supposed to be definitive, just the first of at least two such collections. But changes in the public's taste and a slackening (though never a disappearance) of hits for the duo, and Karen Carpenter's death in 1983, made this the first and only real mass choice for a Carpenters collection. Ten of the duo's dozen Top Ten hits are present, from "Close to You" to "Top of the World," with their gorgeous and original slow ballad interpretation of "Ticket to Ride" and their cover of Carole King's "It's Going to Take Some Time" thrown in to offer a slightly wider perspective. Listening to this material, it's easy to accuse the Carpenters of being hopelessly retro even in their own time – bear in mind that "We've Only Just Begun" and "Superstar" being contemporaneous with the Allman Brothers' At Fillmore East and Eat a Peach and you get the idea. But the lush melodies brought out in Richard Carpenter's arrangements and Karen's singing are justification in themselves.
( Bruce Eder - allmusic.com )

Track Listing:

A1. "We've Only Just Begun"
A2. "Top of the World"
A3. "Ticket to Ride"
A4. Medley: "Superstar" – "Rainy Days and Mondays" - "Goodbye to Love"
B1. "Yesterday Once More"
B2. "It's Going to Take Some Time"
B3. "Sing"
B4. "For All We Know"
B5. "Hurting Each Other"
B6. "(They Long to Be) Close to You"


Turntable: Roksan Radius III
Tonearm: Audioquest PT-9
Cartridge: Ortofon X5-MC (Moving Coil)
Phono Cable: Van den Hul D-502 Hybrid
Pre-amplifier: Counterpoint SA 5.1 (vacuum tube Sovtek 6922)
Interconnect: balanced, Belden 1813A cable with Neutrik XLR connectors
Analog to Digital Converter: EMU 1212M (configured for balanced input +4dBu, 0 dB Gain)
Capture software: Goldwave 5.22
Post processing: none.
Ripping policy: I always rip good condition vinyl so that the amount of click/pop will be almost none



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