Misael Castillo Lopez
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Hello, this is my first post, the first thing is to be forgiven for my bad English, since I speak Spanish. Who collects the albums in different versions. Which ?
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Great to see all your CDs, Misael! There have been countless Carpenters compilations released in Japan. Over there, they have a second-hand CD and book chain called Book-off. In there, I saw a few variations on a couple of the compilations. For instance, I remember seeing a couple of variations of '22 Hits of the Carpenters'. Those stores usually have a lot of different Carpenters compilations. Btw, I love the karaoke CD shown in your photo, mainly because you can hear the instrumentation and background vocals so well on it. I used to listen to that CD all the time.I feel the same as the Japanese versions, they sound great, here are some of my favorites compilation or single. ahh and I also have the 13 mini lp + live in Japan but these sound like the original vinyls, Good or bad depends on taste for originals or remixes...
Great to see all your CDs, Misael! There have been countless Carpenters compilations released in Japan. Over there, they have a second-hand CD and book chain called Book-off. In there, I saw a few variations on a couple of the compilations. For instance, I remember seeing a couple of variations of '22 Hits of the Carpenters'. Those stores usually have a lot of different Carpenters compilations. Btw, I love the karaoke CD shown in your photo, mainly because you can hear the instrumentation and background vocals so well on it. I used to listen to that CD all the time.
Aside from the plastic and aluminum being different I have to wonder how they are superior. It's going to be the master that makes the difference, or being encoded in something like HDCD.This is because Japanese pressings are probably better quality. I also have a couple of gold editions - e.g. 'A Song for You', '22Hits' and 'The Singles'.
But in my collection I have this one that is called "the best of Carpenters"
I did some investigating into this compilation and it appears to be an updated re-release of the old REFLECTIONS compilation. Tracks and mixes are identical. As it is an official Universal release, I've added it to the Resource on the REFLECTIONS page.
The Japanese pressings that I collected are HMCD. 'The Singles' is the Platinum SHM version. The gold pressings do have better sound. The gold 'A song For You' is a special project Ultradisc, (Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab).Aside from the plastic and aluminum being different I have to wonder how they are superior. It's going to be the master that makes the difference, or being encoded in something like HDCD.
Since about 1999 when the Remastered CD's came out the North American CD's seem to be encoded in HDCD without being marked.The Japanese pressings that I collected are HMCD. 'The Singles' is the Platinum SHM version. The gold pressings do have better sound. The gold 'A song For You' is a special project Ultradisc, (Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab).
Harry, When I refer to The best of Carpenters is for this version released exclusively in Brazil in 1994 by am records .. is available in cd and in Lp. And Harry which is the best platform to put pictures ??, The images above post disappeared..
The songs in this compilation are:
1 (They Long To Be) Close To You
2 Please Mr. Postman
3 Rainy Days And Mondays
4 Sing
5 There's A Kind Of Hush
6 This Masquerade
7 Solitaire
8 Only Yesterday
9 We've Only Just Begun
10 Yesterday Once More
11 Hurting Each Other
12 Bless The Beasts And Children
13 For All We Know
14 Superstar
They were wrong in several parts of this compilation. The Lp shows the same errors. RegardsInteresting that the Brazilian CD, though official, says "There's a Kind of RUSH"
They were wrong in several parts of this compilation. The Lp shows the same errors. Regards