Teenbeat XXV - The Carpenters

As most people know I do actually like the Carpenters but usually you have to go whistle for any really high quality compact discs by them so I tend to make do with my cd versions of Greatest Hits 69-73 and 74-78 plus "Collected" that I think I wrote something about several years back on here.
Anyway A&M only ever in North America and Europe issued one super audio cd of theirs and that was a twist on a compilation issued in 2000 that covered recordings made when Karen was with us.
The twist was there are a few different tracks and amazingly were at that point able to find the multi-tracks to remix them all into 5.1 surround sound on a separate portion for multichannel players to critical acclaim.
The stereo portions use the regular stereo mixes apart from two songs that are folded from those multichannel remixes to stereo which the regular cd version doesn't use because they were not around at the time. Those two remixes are better than the originals.
Sadly no more remixes will be possible as those multitrack tapes got burned in a big fire at the Universal Studios tape store around 2008 so this is all we have.

Although compilations are arbitrary and this one misses of Jambalaya from the Horizon album that was a British hit, even in stereo super audio cd, this disc just breathes making it desirable to own.
For me this was the greatest soft rock there ever with intelligent songs, great arrangements and Karen's amazing voice.