American Music Club - Goodbye to Love (Carpenters Cover)
Bear with me...
There are some singers whose voices I implicitly trust. Mark Eitzel, lead singer of AMC, is one such person. No matter the content of the song, he sells it to me - I couldn't doubt his sincerity if I wanted to. Here, it helps that he's covering this beautiful song of the Carpenters. It's a respectful, relatively understated cover. The arrangement suits the song perhaps better than the original, since it lacks the Carpenters' MOR sheen. And while Eitzel's voice can't match the beautiful proficiency of Karen Carpenter's, it more than makes up for its technical deficiency in beautiful honesty.
Bear with me...
There are some singers whose voices I implicitly trust. Mark Eitzel, lead singer of AMC, is one such person. No matter the content of the song, he sells it to me - I couldn't doubt his sincerity if I wanted to. Here, it helps that he's covering this beautiful song of the Carpenters. It's a respectful, relatively understated cover. The arrangement suits the song perhaps better than the original, since it lacks the Carpenters' MOR sheen. And while Eitzel's voice can't match the beautiful proficiency of Karen Carpenter's, it more than makes up for its technical deficiency in beautiful honesty.
posted by Odorless Boatman at 6:25 PM
1 Comments:
for my money, the best carpenters cover is sonic youth's cover of superstar. This one was good, kind of went in the opposite direction that sonic youth took their cover and that i would expect a band to take with a carpenters cover. given the MOR quality, i would expect the band to turn it up to 11 and really give the song everything. American Music Club kind of take it down a few notches. and that's alright with me.
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