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If I Were A Carpenter (CD)

By: Various Artists

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DISC 1 for If I Were A Carpenter (CD) Album By Various Artists
1   Goodbye To Love - American Music Club
2   Top Of The World - Shonen Knife
3   Superstar - Sonic Youth
4   Close To You, (They Long To Be) - The Cranberries
5   For All We Know - Bettie Serveert
6   It's Going To Take Some Time - Dishwalla
7   Solitaire - Sheryl Crow
8   Hurting Each Other - Johnette Napolitano/Marc Moreland
9   Yesterday Once More - Redd Kross
10   Calling Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft - Babes In Toyland
11   Rainy Days And Mondays - Cracker
12   Let Me Be The One - Matthew Sweet
13   Bless The Beasts And Children - 4 Non Blondes
14   We've Only Just Begun - Grant Lee Buffalo
 

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Review

Rolling Stone (10/20/94, p.142) - 4 Stars - Excellent - "...the fact that this tribute album mostly plays it straight will come as a surprise. But for the more open-minded, listening to IF I WERE A CARPENTER...movingly evokes an era we've only just come to terms with..."
Entertainment Weekly (9/16/94, pp.113-114) - "...IF I WERE A CARPENTER taps into the sorrow beneath the tuneful songs, and still treats both elements with respect..." - Rating: A-
Melody Maker (9/10/94, p.39) - Recommended - "...Let's get one thing as clear as Karen's voice. Carpenters songs are proper songs. Big, weepy melancholic ballads with no irony whatsoever....Despite the worst efforts of the dunces involved, there's no denying songs this grand..."

Title Note

Producers include: Joe Chiccarelli, American Music Club, Page Porrazzo, Sonic Youth, Stephen Street.

Engineers include: Tracy Chisolm, Noriya Maekawa, Wataru Sakamoto.

The luxury of being a pop act in the 1990s is in retreading the paths of history until all seems new again. A perfect example is the Carpenters' tribute, IF I WERE A CARPENTER, which gives bands more likely to succeed on the college charts a chance to revel in their pop leanings, but still seem alternative.

When Sonic Youth paid their respects to Karen Carpenter on GOO, the reverence side-stepped all urges to be tongue-in-cheek. Now a full Carpenters' tribute album shows that the Carpenters' success was not only on the Billboard charts, but in the hearts of closet pop fans everywhere.

An unlikely gathering of current rockers pay homage to these seventies heroes. Sonic Youth's acoustic yet warped rendition of "Superstar" and Shonen Knife's manic "Top Of The World" stray the furthest from the originals, but still bring fond memories to anyone who listened to pop radio during the 70s. Not all self-indulgent and redundant, IF I WERE A CARPENTER plays like this generations's Show And Tell, with today's alternative stars showing off their childhood record collections with youthful glee.

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