Treasures [Import]

Carpenters | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 15, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Import
• Label: Pid
• ASIN: B000006EHV
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #388,932 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Your Wonderful Parade

2. All Of My Life

3. Eve

4. Baby It's You

5. Reason To Believe

6. Love Is Surrender

7. Maybe It's You

8. Saturday

9. Let Me Be The One

10. A Song For You

11. Flat Baroque

12. Piano Picker

13. Crystal Lullaby

14. Bless The Beasts And Children

15. The Masquerade

16. I Can't Make Music

17. I Can Dream Can't I

18. Happy

19. Sandy

20. One More Time

See all 28 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

Japanese-only double disc set featuring hits & rarities. 28tracks total, including 'All Of My Life', 'Happy', 'One MoreTime' and 'Bless The Beasts And Children'. 1996 reissue onA&M of the original 1987 release for the label. Doublejewelcase.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best of the Non-Hits, August 23, 1998

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Greg (New York City) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Treasures (Audio CD)

This is the Japanese release called "Treasures", not the English disc put out by Pickwick. Here, this set contains 2 CDs with all of the best of the Carpenters non-hits (album tracks not released as singles). Sonically, this set is tremendous and Richard has remixed (as usual, but here to great advantage) many of the cuts. In particular, "I Can't Make Music" is remixed so that Karen truly sounds as if she's "sitting 'round in a vacant room," and the song builds to become perhaps the most dramatic cut ever recorded by Richard and Karen. Despite the high import price, I highly recommend this (and it also has some interesting/nonselfserving liner notes by Richard).

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars It Feels Like Karen's in the Room with Me, September 15, 1998

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[e-mail] (Chicago) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Treasures (Audio CD)

Hearing some of the Carpenters earliest recordings from 1969 and 1970 completely remixed and re-edited on CD is revelatory. Beats the heck out of my Radio Shack turntable and speakers that I used to first play well-worn and scratched Carpenters LPs in the early seventies.

Richard has electronically re-recorded piano, oboe and other instruments to achieve sonically superior remixes of album cuts from "Ticket to Ride," "Close to You," "Carpenters," "A Song for You," and "Now and Then." Songs in this collection taken from later albums-- 1975's "Horizon" through 1983's "Voice of the Heart"-- are the same as previously released.

"I Can't Make Music" is the most stunning cut on "Treasures"-- Karen's vocal is fresh, totally undateable, though it was recorded in 1973 for "Now and Then." The layers of production on the original version have been stripped away to lay bare Karen's expressive, melancholy vocal, which generates an ethereally-surreal feeling. Maybe she's still here, because it sounds like Karen's in the room with you.

I got the shivers when I first heard the remix of "I Can't Make Music," making the purchase of this CD certainly well worth it.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is an absolute Treasure that everyone must have, October 8, 1999

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Steven R. Oster (Ohio) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Treasures (Audio CD)

This is one of my favorite CD's ever. Anyone who likes good music must listen to Treasures. Some of the best non-popular songs are on this CD. Remember Anne Murray's "I Just Fall in Love" well you will be in for a big surprise to hear Karen sing this song with Richard's arrangements. Absolutely beautiful. The song "Now" would be a great wedding song along with "Because We Are in Love". For the child in us there is "Crystal Lullaby" and another of my favorites are "I Can't Make Music". This whole CD is fantastic! Would be a great gift for any music lover!