Are We Crazy Fans

[wisejester7]

Are we crazy? Like a fox! ; )

[enigma]

Its always interesting to see some of my and others posts from the past for me little has changed still love my Carps especially Karen and though would not say I am crazy or fanatical about the Carpenters I never seem to tire of them. After almost an entire lifetime of loving the Carpenters I still laugh to myself and ask why I love them so but I only need hear Karen sing one note and listen to the music that accompanies Karen to know that there really need not be an explanation there is just a connection between myself and Karen when I listen to the Carpenters I know its there but cannot explain it. Its like a whole other place I go when Karen sings...maybe I am a crazy fan after all.

[Rick Henry]

Some very interesting thoughts here... I always get a jolt out of some of our old comments and thoughts... kind of like strolling down memory lane... some of us have been hear for four years and so... isn't that amazing... my extended internet family.

I love Carpenters and especially Karen. Karen Carpenter is easily my favorite vocalist of all-time... but I also look at it all realistically... they are human beings who made some fantastic music. Like Enigma, I am not a fanatical fan, I don't idolize them but I do admire them and respect them for what they created. And, I feel that Karen's memory is one worth keeping alive as she truly had a magnificent voice and it's a shame she left us at such a young age. But even at that young age she was able to live through one full and complete segment of her career... enough to give us ten all original studio albums recorded with her brother (Offering to Made In America) and a solo album... plus three posthumous compilations of previously unreleased music (Voice Of The Heart, Lovelines, As Time Goes By)... that's a good amount of music for someone who left us early on in life.

[wisejester7]

enigma said:

Its always interesting to see some of my and others posts from the past for me little has changed still love my Carps especially Karen and though would not say I am crazy or fanatical about the Carpenters I never seem to tire of them. After almost an entire lifetime of loving the Carpenters I still laugh to myself and ask why I love them so but I only need hear Karen sing one note and listen to the music that accompanies Karen to know that there really need not be an explanation there is just a connection between myself and Karen when I listen to the Carpenters I know its there but cannot explain it. Its like a whole other place I go when Karen sings...maybe I am a crazy fan after all.

It's interesting you mentioned going to a whole other place when you listen to Karen sing, because Karen seemed to go to another place when she sang. I guess there is a connection there - some sort of universal place people can go to express/understand the human emotion that the lyrics and music offer. Karen was such a master in her ability to express emotion when words just weren't enough.

I, too, just never tire of hearing Carpenters ... even after all these years. I guess they had the 'magic' touch.