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Post by Rick Henry on Dec 2, 2005 0:50:17 GMT -5
 PLEASE READ FIRST
Please write a review or make comments on the song "Goodbye To Love". Any off-topic posts will be deleted.
Along with your reviews and comments please give this song a rating of one star to five stars. One star being the lowest and five the best.
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Post by John Helliwell on Dec 3, 2005 10:11:16 GMT -5
An Englishman living in France, but still with a certain song buzzing in my head all these years after the song became a hit - Goodbye to love.
I still get a real thrill hearing that guitar solo - but whose hands were on the guitar? Did Richard C compose the solo too?
Probably the best guitar solo I've ever listened to - forget the rest. Hendrix was in a different world, great, but not always as easy on the ears as the Goodbye to love solo.
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Post by Ming on Dec 6, 2005 10:56:24 GMT -5
5 stars. This song makes me sad everytime when I listen to it.
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Post by heartwaves on Dec 6, 2005 12:05:24 GMT -5
There are very few songs of Karen's that I don't like. This song is another one that I DO like....because it feeds a lonelier side of me.
So, I agree with Ming in that this song can make one feel very sad.... it has that negative melancholy sad side to it, but that's what makes the song so well loved! Every human can relate, in one way or another, to its sadness.
I also agree with you, John....the guitar solo's in this song are absolutely awesome! It makes the song, in many ways.....aside from Karen's beautiful voice!
It's not a number one favorite song, but I will give it a 4, because it comes very close.
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Post by Carps1000 on Dec 6, 2005 12:26:54 GMT -5
Hated it at 1st but its one of those Cs songs that grew on me. I love it now & it got 2 NO 9 in the UK charts.YEAHHHHHHHHH A ver powerful ballard/come rock song. Dont try & catogrise the Cs as with this song it proves any one doin so wrong. FAB
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Post by Rick Henry on Dec 7, 2005 10:47:53 GMT -5
Five Stars
This is one of the Carpenters' ultimate classics.
The lyric is dark and somewhat bleak. I'm generally not dark and bleak but when Karen sings these lyrics she really puts her all into it. Once again she's living the words of the song.
I describe this song as being "grand". It builds and builds to that wonderful (and famous) Tony Peluso guitar solo. Many musician and music lovers from all genres of music consider Tony's guitar solo to be one of the very best ever in the history of music. go Tony, go Carpenters.
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Post by Rob813 on Dec 7, 2005 20:45:16 GMT -5
I gave it 5 stars. I agree it's a very sad song and considering what happened to Karen, it probably was not good for her to sing it repeatedly as she had to throughout the years. Aside from that, no one but Karen could infuse such a bleak song with the indescribeable magic that she did. Karen and Richard hit "paydirt" with this song both commercially and artistically.
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Post by smoothie2 on Dec 7, 2005 23:32:53 GMT -5
  4 stars for this one ....The Peluso solo I think was very controversial thing when the song came out because it was unlike any of the other songs they were known for...and like Ken, I really didn't care for it when it came out either because it was so different and too "rocky" at that time for what i admired from the C's then... but Love it now...especially the solo.. ........I do also agree that actually it is a sad song as far as lyrics go and Karen truly seemed to lean into those kind of dark messages a little much though her performance of course is just perfect...  ................................ hey Welcome John Helliwell...feel free to register and be part of the forum..it's great.... smoothie/kathy 
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Post by beaner on Dec 8, 2005 13:55:52 GMT -5
Glad to see you ended up liking this song, Ken. I played this one over and over and still never got sick of it.
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Post by MadeInEngland on Dec 31, 2005 12:38:35 GMT -5
4 Stars
A very haunting song with lyrics I am sure have been close to anyones heart at any one time in their life. An equally haunting melody
the line....."and all I know of love is how to live without it".....is quite a comparison to the later "I Need To be In Love..........."I'm hangin' on a hope but I'm alright"...........
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Post by Moe on Jan 16, 2006 5:03:56 GMT -5
4 stars
This song is awesome! The only reason I give it 4 vs 5 is that I feel the ending goes on too long. It works great in the live shows, but a bit much on a record, for me.
Karen's breath control is beyond belief in this song. Try to sing along without passing out. The lyrics are so haunting to Karen's life that it is almost spooky. Richards arrangement is awesome and the fuzz guitar is a great touch. As stated earlier, it just goes on a little to long for my taste.
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Post by Prisoner_Walking on Feb 20, 2006 18:20:38 GMT -5
When I first heard this track long after Karen had died, I was blown away with the irony of her singing such overtly dark lyrics so utterly beautifully. I don't think it's one of her clearest studio recordings though...it is just me, or does Karen step back from the microphone a few times, for example during "loneliness and empty days will be my only friend...."?
As always, the delicate drum-fills were a fascination to me (particularly that now-famous tom-tom flourish before the chorus finale); and then of course that yearning oboe counter-melody.
And then BAM....in the middle of this gorgeous song, a heavy fuzz guitar solo which seemingly comes from NO-WHERE - like a bulldozer in a rose garden! BUT that guitar solo is SO widely hailed as one of the best in recorded history...I can't help but respect it's impact.
Recently a book containing "the most depressing songs ever written" featured "Goodbye To Love".
Has anyone ever seen the complete video of "Goodbye To Love"?
4 Stars. L
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Post by Dave on Feb 20, 2006 21:05:59 GMT -5
Being alive, and 17 when this first charted here, was a special time. The eve of my senior year of high school, and all of the emotions, and along comes this song. I'm posting a copy of the KQV weekly survey from August 1, 1972 (God, it was an eternity and over a million miles ago...) so that you can see how well this song's styles fit in with the other Top 40 songs from this time.
What I wouldn't give to know then what I know now...
August 1 - August 7, 1972 TW
1 ALONE AGAIN (NATURALLY) Gilbert O'Sullivan
2 LEAN ON ME Bill Withers
3 WHERE IS THE LOVE ? Flack / Hathaway
4 SCHOOL'S OUT ** Alice Cooper
5 DADDY DON'T YOU WALK SO FAST Wayne Newton
6 BRANDY Looking Glass
7 TOO LATE TO TURN BACK Cornelius Bros.
8 HOW DO YOU DO Mouth & MacNeal
9 ROCKET MAN Elton John
10 PEOPLE MAKE THE WORLD GO 'ROUND Stylistics
11 IF LOVING YOU IS WRONG Luther Ingram
12 DAY BY DAY Godspell
13 LONG COOL WOMAN Hollies
14 TAKE IT EASY Eagles
15 CONQUISTADOR Procol Harum
16 TOO YOUNG Donny Osmond
17 COCONUT Nilsson
18 SONG SUNG BLUE Neil Diamond
19 HOLD YOUR HEAD UP Argent
20 I DIDN'T GET TO SLEEP Fifth Dimension
21 HOLD HER TIGHT Osmonds
22 GOODBYE TO LOVE ** Carpenters
23 I'M STILL IN LOVE WITH YOU Al Green
24 I WANNA BE WHERE YOU ARE Michael Jackson
25 OUTA-SPACE Billy Preston
26 LAYLA Derek & Dominos
27 I NEED YOU America
28 NICE TO BE WITH YOU Gallery
29 DON'T MESS AROUND WITH JIM Jim Croce
30 MOTORCYCLE MAMA Sailcat
KQV HIT PARADE BOUND
HB THERE SHE IS Tim Stevens
HB BABY, DON'T GET HOOKED ON ME Mac Davis
HB BLACK & WHITE Three Dog Night
HB BABY, LET ME TAKE YOU IN MY ARMS Detroit Emeralds
The two asterisks stand for "Former KQV World Exclusive".
How many of these songs do you have? On 45? Bonus points for 8-track!
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Post by panthers09 on May 17, 2009 0:55:20 GMT -5
I'll have to say in listening to "Goodbye to Love", I just want to keep hearing Karen and Richard sing, AH, AH, AH.......AH's along with Tony Peluso's rocking guitar solo, hoping that the song will never end..
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