Carpenters - Now & Then (Virtual Surround - FLAC) [ADHDerby]



Virtual Surround is a technology which allows you to listen to music, watch movies, or play video games with surround effects using any set of two channel stereo headphones. I'm a big surround music fan and made this album so I can listen it in surround through headphones on a portable player. The sources of this release are quadraphonic tracks ripped from a DVD-A that was created from the 8-Track (Q8) tape. I've converted them to virtual surround with Creative's BlasterX Acoustic Engine Pro. Using state-of-the-art technology, it gives an enhanced virtual 7.1 channel surround sound experience with regular stereo headphones.

Genre: Rock, Pop
Style: Soft Rock
Release Date: May 1, 1973
Label: A&M Records - 8Q-53519
Source: DVD-A 96/24 4.0 MLP
Original Source: 8-Track Cartridge 4.0
Resampler: Adobe Audition
Sample rate: 44100 Hz
Bits per sample: 16
Codec: FLAC

Now & Then is the fifth studio album by American music duo Carpenters, released on May 1, 1973. The title for the album was suggested by Karen and Richard's mother, Agnes Carpenter. The LP album featured a three-panel cover that folded out, showing a panoramic view of Karen and Richard Carpenter driving past the Carpenter family home on Newville Avenue in Downey, California. The five-bedroom house had been bought by Karen and Richard for their parents in 1970. Karen collapsed in the upstairs bedroom of the house while suffering the heart attack that ultimately claimed her life in 1983. The property also contained an annex, now destroyed, that served as Richard and Karen's home studio and housed their awards and certification plaques. The car pictured on the cover was a 1973 Ferrari 365 GTB/4 ("Daytona") owned by Richard.

As an outgrowth of the Rick Nelson Garden Party incident, an oldies revival occurred in pop music around 1973, so Side "B" of the album featured an oldies medley. The medley starts with the Carpenters' original song "Yesterday Once More". Tony Peluso, the Carpenters' guitarist who made his debut on their 1972 album A Song For You, is heard as a radio DJ throughout the medley, which includes such songs as "The End of the World", "Dead Man's Curve", "Johnny Angel", and "One Fine Day". Peluso would also be heard as a DJ on the Carpenters' "Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft" recording in 1977. The medley also featured Mark Rudolph, a cousin of the Carpenters, on the "Guess the Golden Goodies Group Contest", as the listener who calls in.

This is also one of only two albums where Karen did most or all of the drumming - the other being Offering (later rereleased as Ticket to Ride). She plays all of the drum tracks with the exception of "Jambalaya (On the Bayou)", which had Los Angeles session drummer Hal Blaine on the drums.

Tracklist:

01. Sing (3:20)
02. This Masquerade (4:54)
03. Heather (2:52)
04. Jambalaya (On The Bayou) (3:40)
05. I Can't Make Music (3:20)
06. Yesterday Once More (3:55)
07. Fun, Fun, Fun (1:35)
08. The End Of The World (2:25)
09. Da Doo Ron Ron (When He Walked Me Home) (1:38)
10. Deadman's Curve (1:52)
11. Johnny Angel (1:32)
12. The Night Has A Thousand Eyes (2:20)
13. Our Day Will Come (2:02)
14. One Fine Day (1:40)
15. Yesterday Once More (Reprise) (1:00)

Cover restorated by me.


Cheers,

ADHDerby