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Now and Then has long been criticized for the car pillar covering Karen's face -- but I do like the tri-fold design of it, and the portraits on the inside were nice. It's probably my favorite cover from a design standpoint, if you're considering the whole cover and not just the front.
My votes: Horizon, Passage and As Time Goes By. One of my all-time favorites is the Japanese release of Anthology with their picture on the front. My favorite picture of Karen.
My favorites are the three that feature only logos. I love logos and Carpenters logo is a great one. So I'd pick the tan CARPENTERS album, and two that were not on this list, SINGLES 1969-1973, and SINGLES 1974-1978. In the CD era, I'm partial to all of the various "GOLD" covers for the same reason.
It's funny because I purposely steered away from the covers that didn't feature their picture on the front. If I'm going to buy an album I like to see some image of the artist on the front, some hint or idea of what the style of the album will be from the way they've been marketed. Granted, I wouldn't have bought Close To You on the strength of that cover though
I think it would present the Carps more as a corporate entity versus two very talented and very warm human people.
I did not like the cover for SINGLES 1974-1978. I accidentally discovered it in a discount album bin and had flipped through the bin 3 times before I realized that this shiny gold cover belonged to a Carpenters album. When I got home, I decided to change it with a black ink pen and colored in the letters of the logo to make it stand out.My favorites are the three that feature only logos. I love logos and Carpenters logo is a great one. So I'd pick the tan CARPENTERS album, and two that were not on this list, SINGLES 1969-1973, and SINGLES 1974-1978. In the CD era, I'm partial to all of the various "GOLD" covers for the same reason.