 | Ticket to Ride by The Carpenters
Buy used from: $33.99 1969: The album that lays the framework for the rest of the Carpenters recordings. Highlights: Ticket to Ride / Eve / All of My Life
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 | Close to You by The Carpenters
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $5.25 1970: The album that made the group an overnight success. A must-have! Highlights: Close to You / We've Only Just Begun / Baby It's You / Help
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 | Carpenters by The Carpenters
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $7.68 1971: Short, but sweet. This is one of their classics. Highlights: All of them, aside from Druscilla Penny
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 | A Song for You by The Carpenters
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $5.50 1972: Probably the second best of all their albums. Peak of their singles career. Highlights: All the singles off this album, plus the title track and the haunting Road Ode
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 | Now & Then by The Carpenters
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $4.55 1973: A terrific treatment of some of the best American oldies. Highlights: the superb medley, I Can't Make Music, This Masquerade
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 | Horizon by The Carpenters
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $5.98 1975: The greatest Carpenters album. Karen's voice is perfect from beginning to end. Highlights: Every song
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 | A Kind of Hush by The Carpenters
Buy used from: $37.99 1976: The first inferior album, but one that still has its moments. Highlights: I Have You / You / I Need to Be in Love
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 | Passage by The Carpenters
Buy used from: $32.26 1977: A try at creativity doesn't quite revive their career. Several songs are just terrible. Highlights: Two Sides / I Just Fall in Love Again / Don't Cry for Me Argentina
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 | Christmas Collection by The Carpenters
Buy new: $19.99 / Used from: $10.36 1978/84: The must-have Christmas album of all time. All are classics. Karen's voice is perfect for the season.
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 | Karen Carpenter by Karen Carpenter
Buy used from: $10.65 1979: The solo album that shows why Karen was meant to sing for Richard. Several horrible takes, but highlights are: Make Believe / Still Crazy / If I Had You
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 | Made in America by The Carpenters
Buy used from: $35.99 1981: The comeback album and their best since 1975. Highlights: Touch Me when we're Dancing / I Believe You / Somebody's Been Lyin
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 | Voice of the Heart by The Carpenters
Buy used from: $38.49 1983: First post-humous album. Inferior in quality but sentimentally important. Highlights: Now / Look to Your Dreams / Prime Time Love
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 | Lovelines by The Carpenters
Buy used from: $20.00 1989: Mostly leftovers, but some highlights remain: Where Do I Go / Slow Dance / You're the One / Kiss Me the Way
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 | As Time Goes By by The Carpenters
Buy used from: $21.87 2001: collection of music mostly from their TV specials. Great for the collector. Highlights: Leave Yesterday Behind / California Dreaming / Medleys with Perry Como and Ella Fitzgerald
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 | Essential Collection: 1965-1997 by Carpenters
Buy new: $36.97 / Used from: $32.49 Just what it claims to be: the essential collection of their recordings. Beautiful
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