My dirty secret: I like the Carpenters!

[NightTrain]

There, I said it. And the first step toward recovery is admitting you have a problem, right?

Now touch me when we're dancing, you know you've got the loving touch.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

1. And the campier the better. Top of the World ROCKS!!!

[Ellen Forradalom]

20. The Shonen Knife cover is awesome

Hell, the whole If I Were a Carpenter tribute record is great. Some of those tunes just needed a makover, that's all.

[1a2b3c]

2. Umm

Im a carpenter.

[NightTrain]

4. Re: Im a carpenter.

And I'm a lady! But I won't marry you anyway and I won't have your baby. Sorry!

[1a2b3c]

9. Is that like lyrics or something?

Im lost.

[NightTrain]

12. Forsooth....

IF I WERE A CARPENTER
Words and music by Tim Hardin
Recorded by Bobby Darin in 1966

If I were a carpenter
and you were a lady,
Would you marry me anyway?
Would you have my baby?

If a tinker were my trade
would you still find me,
carrin' the pots I made,
followin' behind me.

Save my love through loneliness,
Save my love for sorrow,
I'm given you my onliness,
Come give your tomorrow.

If I worked my hands in wood,
Would you still love me?
Answer me babe, "Yes I would,
I'll put you above me."

If I were a miller
at a mill wheel grinding,
would you miss your color box,
and your soft shoe shining?

If I were a carpenter
and you were a lady,
Would you marry me anyway?
Would you have my baby?
Would you marry anyway?
Would you have my baby?

[1a2b3c]

14. Just tell me your name didnt come from the song Night Train

Not a knife throw from here you can hear the night train passing
That's the sound somebody makes when they're getting away
Leaving next week's hanging jury far behind them
Prisoner only of the choices they have made

Night Train...
Night Train...

Ice cube in a dark drink shines like starlight
The moon is floating somewhere out at sea
On an island in the blur of noise and color
Alcatraz, St. Alina, Patmos and the Chateau D'if

Night Train...
Night Train...

And everyone's an island edged with sand
A temporary refuge where somebody else can stand
Till the sea that binds us like the forced tie of a blood oath
Will wear it down, dissolve it, recombine it

Anyone can die here they do it every day
It doesn't take much effort though it goes against the grain
And the ultimate forgetfulness of violence
Sweeps the landscape like a headlight of a train

Night Train...

Ice cube in a dark drink shines like starlight
Starlight shines like glass shards in dark hair
And the mind's eye tumbles out along the steel track
Fixing every shadow with its stare

Night Train...
Night Train...

And in the absence of a vision there are nightmares
And in the absence of compassion there is cancer
Whose banner waves over palaces and mean streets
And the rhythm of the night train is a mantra

[NightTrain]

17. My screen name comes from the R&B instrumental, "Night Train,"

first recorded by Jimmy Forrest in 1952 and then by James Brown a decade later.

[The Zanti Regent]

21. C'mon, you KNOW Leonard Nimoy sang that better than the Crapenters...

Especially when Bill "Golden Throat" Shatner joined in on the Golden Throat's albumn!

[absyntheNsugar]

3. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

We've only just be- NOOOOOO NOW I CANT GET THE
SONG
OUT
OF
MY
HEAD!!

<thumps head against hard wood floor>


AAAARRGHHHH

[michaelbmoore]

5. No, no, no!

Make the music stop!!!

[Catch22Dem]

7. Music????

What music? LOL. Sorry guys, NOT a fan!

[whathappened]

8. dam isnt that the way

take walk in morning and a song will pop in head , that has been buried for years , hem it all the way home and that evening will pick up my mandelin and that dam song is gone from my head , makes me so dam mad

[stanwyck]

6. Several years ago

there was a CD with covers of the Carpenters' songs...you really need to hear Shonen Knife's "Top of the World". Really.

[latebloomer]

10. Karen Carpenter had a beautiful voice!

Wasn't too crazy about their songs, though.

[Liberal Veteran]

11. She had a pure natural sounding voice....

....that just seemed to be so damned effortless.

[BlueJazz]

13. I'd put Karan up against 97% of the "Tone Deaf"

screechers that are popular now..

Mr. Bush Baud Man! He Vedy, Vedy Baud Man!!

[blondeatlast]

27. Amen to that. Antidote to Mariah, et al:

Karen Carpenter playing softly in the background.

[caledesi]

15. I think there are a lot of people who have this "dirty little secret," but

the truth is Karen Carpenter had a beautiful voice. There is no denying that.

[mykpart]

16. Some critics say that

Karen Carpenter had the purest voice since the young Judy Garland. I sang "Close to you" as a lullaby to my son when he was a baby.

[pfitz59]

18. Karen Carpenter and my father sleep together.......

in the same mausoleum!

[Ellen Forradalom]

19. Why do birds fall down from the sky

Every time you walk by?
Just like me, they got to be
Too close to you......

[NightTrain]

22. Rainy days and Mondays aaaaalways get me down

OK, time for bed. G'night, DU! :boring:

[OneBlueSky]

23. shoulda kept it to yourself, dude . . .

talk about inappropriate self-disclosure . . . although, in fairness, didn't the captain play with the Beach Boys for awhile? . . . or is that just some kind of sixties hallucination? . . .

[regnaD kciN]

24. I don't know about the Captain, but...

...Glen "Hit and Run" Campbell played guitar on most of the tracks of Pet Sounds!

[Piperay]

25. Me too...

I love :loveya: them. Was such a shame that Karen died so young from anorexia, damn the assh*le who told her she was too fat! :mad: :grr: :nuke:

[blondeatlast]

26. Me too--and I'm damn proud of it!

Great songs, incredible voice, such emotion (Rainy Days and Mondays should be part of the canon for musicians who care about quality).

I swear, NT, if I weren't happily married . . .