It's a question you must have asked yourself at least once. It doesn't get answered here, but you can draw your own conclusions at home.
Carpenters – Passage (A&M Records – SP-4703, 1977 🇺🇸)
When the drones were in full force (hey, where did all those drones all go?) I pulled out this Carpenters album (their 8th) to give a good listen to “Calling Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft (The Recognized Anthem Of World Contact Day)” just to get that late 70s UFO vibe and see how it felt in ‘25 (or, actually ‘24).
This original Monarch pressing leaves a bit to be desired, but it’s probably not the vinyl’s fault: there’s a lot of sound and information on this album and the grooves can only do so much. That being said…what a weirdly adventurous record for the (say: thee) bro and sis duo of the 70s. The album had a lot of “firsts” too…take it away, Wikipedia:
This is the only Carpenters album (aside from their Christmas albums) not to contain a Richard Carpenter or John Bettis song and also the second album to not have Karen playing drums at all. It was the first studio album since “Close to You” not to use the familiar Carpenters logo on the front cover, although a small version of the logo appears on the back cover.
Karen’s voice is always the best (and by the best, what I really mean is THE BEST) and can we talk about Tony Peluso’s buzzfuzz, paint-melting guitar tone on some of those solos? So, out of left field.
When is World Contact Day, anyway? I don’t want to miss it.
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