Oh, that voice! Nobody else in the rock era has a voice quite like the late Karen Carpenter had (just listen to her performance on “Only Yesterday” as just one perfect example of the warmth of her voice and her emotive but never overwrought delivery), and it’s a fairly safe bet that we’ll never see another singer quite like her ever again. Why? First of all, I genuinely think they’re great, which may sound weird coming from a reviewer who also listens to music like King Crimson, Nine Inch Nails, Van Halen, Queens of the Stone Age, and Nirvana on a regular basis and has also written Discog Fever columns on the Clash, Led Zeppelin, and Roxy Music, but my music tastes are eclectic enough to include all kinds of genres from pop and punk and R&B to hard rock and country and jazz, even easy listening and soft-rock, and Richard and Karen Carpenter, at their best, were masters of the latter form in the ‘70s. “Really? A Discog Fever column on Carpenters?” Yes. Discog Fever is a regular feature on, rating and reviewing a band's entire catalogue of studio albums.
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