If I Were A Carpenter - Cranberries/Sonic Youth - CD - eBay (item 220504753368 end time Nov-09-09 15:48:45 PST)


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Item specifics - Music: CDs

Artist:	Various Artists	Release Date:	Sep 13, 1994
Format:	CD	Record Label:	A&M Records (USA)
UPC:	731454025829	Genre:	Pop
Duration:	Album or EP	Sub-Genre:	--
Condition:	Like New	Special Attributes:	--

Detailed item info

Track listing
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
Details
Playing time:	54 min.
Distributor:	Universal Distribution
Recording type:	Studio
Recording mode:	Stereo
SPAR Code:	n/a

Album notes
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.
Editorial reviews
...IF I WERE A CARPENTER taps into the sorrow beneath the tuneful songs, and still treats both elements with respect... - Rating: A- Entertainment Weekly (09/16/1994) 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... Melody Maker (09/10/1994) 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... Rolling Stone (10/20/1994)

CD is used in Excellent condition.

Condition applies to the disc itself as follows:

Mint           Just like new, no marks of any kind on disc
Excellent    No scratches, perhaps some light specs or blemishes
Very good A few light surface scratches
Good        Small scratches that are superficial and do not affect play quality

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