What are your unpopular opinions? (Vol. 2)

[DoubleD]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

DoubleD said:

Mafffew said:

TwigtheWonderkid said:

Karen Carpenter was the greatest female vocalist of all time. And by a considerable margin. There are and have been many other very good ones, but if KC was a 10, the best of the rest was a 7.5 at the most.

Never heard of her

According to rolling stone shes number 94 best ever

Never heard of it.

Google it like I had to do to find out who Karen was.

[paulguitar]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

DoubleD said:

Mafffew said:

TwigtheWonderkid said:

Karen Carpenter was the greatest female vocalist of all time. And by a considerable margin. There are and have been many other very good ones, but if KC was a 10, the best of the rest was a 7.5 at the most.

Never heard of her

According to rolling stone shes number 94 best ever

Never heard of it.

Firstly, Keren Carpenter being the best female singer ever is the correct answer.

Secondly, Rolling Stone...It's a great magazine with a history of superb writers on many subjects, but by god, they've been clueless a lot of the time on music. Laugh out loud wide of the mark on many occasions.

I'd take any 'ranking' of theirs on anything with a very large bunch of salt.

[DoubleD]

paulguitar said:

TwigtheWonderkid said:

DoubleD said:

Mafffew said:

TwigtheWonderkid said:

Karen Carpenter was the greatest female vocalist of all time. And by a considerable margin. There are and have been many other very good ones, but if KC was a 10, the best of the rest was a 7.5 at the most.

Never heard of her

According to rolling stone shes number 94 best ever

Never heard of it.

Firstly, Keren Carpenter being the best female singer ever is the correct answer.

Secondly, Rolling Stone...It's a great magazine with a history of superb writers on many subjects, but by god, they've been clueless a lot of the time on music. Laugh out loud wide of the mark on many occasions.

I'd take any 'ranking' of theirs on anything with a very large bunch of salt.

Its opinion not fact, so there is no right or wrong.

[paulguitar]

DoubleD said:

Its opinion not fact, so there is no right or wrong.

I know that.

[DoubleD]

paulguitar said:

DoubleD said:

Its opinion not fact, so there is no right or wrong.

I know that.

Good

[TwigtheWonderkid]

DoubleD said:

TwigtheWonderkid said:

DoubleD said:

Mafffew said:

TwigtheWonderkid said:

Karen Carpenter was the greatest female vocalist of all time. And by a considerable margin. There are and have been many other very good ones, but if KC was a 10, the best of the rest was a 7.5 at the most.

Never heard of her

According to rolling stone shes number 94 best ever

Never heard of it.

Google it like I had to do to find out who Karen was.

I am aware of Rolling Stone magazine, I was trying (and failing) to be humorous.

[singlecoil]

If anyone wants to know how important Richard's contribution as writer/chooser of songs and arranger/producer was, they only need to listen to the album Karen recorded without him

[TwigtheWonderkid]

On a thread for unpopular opinions, I'm quite disappointed with the love I'm seeing for Karen Carpenter. I always thought I was pretty much alone in my view, and that the general consensus was that "yeah, she was a good signer, but the best ever, utter rubbish..what about Ella, Aretha, Whitney etc."

In real life that's the response I get. This appears to be a rare occasion where responses on the internet are more sensible than those in the real world.

[DoubleD]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

In real life that's the response I get. This appears to be a rare occasion where responses on the internet are more sensible than those in the real world.

Its opinion, there opinion is just as sensible/odd as yours.

[jet_noise]

singlecoil said:

Sorry for being wrong, I think you mean.

And Richard was virtually her only arranger.

Richard Carpenter earlier

[anonymous-user]

singlecoil said:

People who are dead don't care if you go to their funeral or not. They don't care whether they are buried or cremated. They don't care about anything.

No st sherlock.

[mat205125]

Einion Yrth said:

LetsTryAgain said:

slopes said:

Once you get to three children, you should be forced to have the snip and your partner/wife/girlfriend be sterilised

That's a great idea.
Once you've explained it to Africans, and they agree, we should definitely do the same.

State breeding support stops at the second. Problem becomes self limiting...

Nothing unpopular about that idea from me

[singlecoil]

Argleton said:

singlecoil said:

People who are dead don't care if you go to their funeral or not. They don't care whether they are buried or cremated. They don't care about anything.

No st sherlock.

Thanks for that useful reply. Despite the obviousness of what I said it would seem that a great many people hold a different opinion.

[Cold]

jet_noise said:

singlecoil said:

Sorry for being wrong, I think you mean.

And Richard was virtually her only arranger.

Richard Carpenter earlier

This pun is allowable only because the world is a bit odd at the moment and it's hot outside.
Any other time and we might be witnessing a red card.

[Harry H]

singlecoil said:

Argleton said:

singlecoil said:

People who are dead don't care if you go to their funeral or not. They don't care whether they are buried or cremated. They don't care about anything.

No st sherlock.

Thanks for that useful reply. Despite the obviousness of what I said it would seem that a great many people hold a different opinion.

Funerals aren't for the dead, they're for the living. I think the Christians have it about right. Death, 2 weeks of grieving, bit of a party to celebrate the deceased life, get on with life. Other religions where they stick em in the ground straight away don't allow any definitive grieving time hence why you see them still in a state 2 years down the road. I appreciate that this way of doing it stems more from hot countries hence the need to get them in the ground quickly but in a modern age of refrigeration they should change it.


Barbara Streisand has a better voice than KC. Whitney Houston had potential but was so affected by warbling every note she was unlistenable too.

[singlecoil]

Harry H said:

...Barbara Streisand has a better voice than KC...

If that's the case I'm surprised she's never used it on any of her records.

[paulguitar]

singlecoil said:

Harry H said:

...Barbara Streisand has a better voice than KC...

If that's the case I'm surprised she's never used it on any of her records.

[jet_noise]

Cold said:

jet_noise said:

singlecoil said:

Sorry for being wrong, I think you mean.

And Richard was virtually her only arranger.

Richard Carpenter earlier

This pun is allowable only because the world is a bit odd at the moment and it's hot outside.
Any other time and we might be witnessing a red card.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

paulguitar said:

singlecoil said:

Harry H said:

...Barbara Streisand has a better voice than KC...

If that's the case I'm surprised she's never used it on any of her records.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

Harry H said:

Whitney Houston had potential

If robots could sing they'd sound like Whitney. Technically brilliant, but completely lacking in any warmth or emotion. If you want to learn how to sing, listen to Whitney, Ella, Barbara, Aretha et al. If you want to be moved by someone singing, listen to Karen Carpenter.