Where And When?

[Will]

Where and when do you most often listen to the Carpenters?

These days I've restricted my listening to my working hours during the day.

Some days I focus on one album and some days I hop around to different types of songs. I've really been listening to 'Beechwood ...' alot these days -- I like the upbeatness and fun of it.

[Rick Henry]

These days I listen to the Carpenters primarily in my car, their music makes the drive much more enjoyable. Sometimes at home I put the headphones on and really get into every detail of the music and Karen's voice.

Lately I've been listening to "Now & Then" and "Horizon". I've also been listening to "Voice Of The Heart", due to the Cam's posts about how much he loves the album.

[enigma]

For me I listen to the Carpenters on my computer or on my stereo with my ear phones or on my suround sound system just to hear Karen and the music all around me. Right now I am listening to the Made In America album it is my least listened to Carpenters record and I am trying to give it a chance to grow on me. I deliberately picked one of the Carpenters weaker efforts to test my loyalty to them Can I love the Carpenters at their weakest like I do at their strongest? I am also listening to Karens later work with the C's to get more out of her "later voice". Rick I hear you on the Cam influence when I want to get a double dose of the C's (about once a week) I play MIA and VOTH. VOTH will be my next continual full listen for the same reason MIA is now.

[Rob813]

I listen to Carpenters alot in the car. Like, Rick, it helps to make a stressful drive much more pleasant. Lately I also have been playing Carpenters Gold at home in the bedroom. That CD has such a fabulous range of songs on it. I particularly like to hear one song with the young Karen on it followed by another with the more mature Karen. I always come away with a new appreciation of Karen's astounding voice. Only Karen can calm me, console me, thrill me, and fill me hope!!! Thanks Karen. What would I do without you?

[Mariah Andrews]

Being such a genuine fan of the Carps, I save the original of the Gold album and burned myself a copy of it to play over and over again in the car. However, you should see the mix CDs I combine. On the same disc, I threw in a whole mess of Carp songs, then threw in some other stuff, of a whole different genre than that of the Carps! I like to scramble my varieties of music when I burn CDs. Combine big band with metal, country with grunge, R&B with jazz, etc. All on the same disc. For instance, one disc would have John Denver, Melissa Etheridge, Paul Simon, Godsmack, Disturbed, Sabbath, etc all combined. So imagine my Carpenters mixes. I'm sorry, I love variety. With at least 80 minutes of space on a disc, to save money and stretch out the value of the discs, I would do that.

[Will]

A bit more on my listening habits:

I've loaded up my Carpenter CDs on my work computer and listen through head phones (the only way to go!)

I often have the computer select the next song to play randomly from my 120 Carpenter song choices.

I go from Christmas to the early days to the solo album and beyond in one sitting!

I listen so much that I'm always left with a song in my head even when the head phones come off. That's when I need to listen to a bit of classical music to clear my mind.

[smoothie2]

:(welcome Mariah! I don't have all the stuff I'd need in order to fix up my own selected music or the know how..but I'm sure that as much as I love music, that I'll somehow get it together with the help of maybe even one of my nephews.
As far, as where I listen to our favorite duo...mostly in my room where I spend most of my days doing this and that. I listen to my two tapes of the C's with my little cassette player...usually after everyone else has gone to bed and I'm trying to "chill out" to relax to go to bed and I watch some tv as I do that.
The 3 tapes I have is Love Songs, A Song For You , and I have a Christmas one.
I also have dug out my record albums of Horizon and a Kind of Hush.
As far as the one I have listened to the most as far as cd's go,
is the 25th Anniv. one which I adore...especially Calling Occupants...that is such a fun one! I like that change in tempo in about the middle of that song...where there's a clapping sound and Richard in the background says..."don't call me thank you!"
It's a classic song. It reminds me a lot of one of the Star Wars songs (the first one from 1977) where there's a very similar change of tempo and has a kind of dance quality to it.

[Mariah Andrews]

I guess I'm not alone in my rainbow of diversity when it comes to music. I love everything of the Carpenters so far. Although I am not a member of the Christian faith, I do enjoy the Carpenters holiday music albums and song. (I'm a Unitarian Universalist and into neo-Pagan spirituality) But I respect Karen and Richard, no matter how they believe. Thank you all for being so kind and supportive of me, being one of the younger Gen-X fans of the Carpenters.

I do want to buy the whole catalogue of the Carpenters music on CD. Is it possible to find it?

[Moe]

I am in my car so much that it has become the main place to listen to music. Sometimes I will listen on the computer or on a walkman, but the car is the main place.