Catalog number: PCCY-10023 (Japan)
Track listing:
Disc One:
1. A Song For You (1985 remix)
2. Top Of The World (1973 version)
3. Because We Are In Love (The Wedding Song)
4. We’ve Only Just Begun (1985 remix)
5. Those Good Old Dreams
6. Sing
7. Jambalaya (On The Bayou) (reversed stereo)
8. (They Long To Be) Close To You (middle-length edit with segue)
9. Ave Maria (1984 remix with choir)
10. Bless The Beasts And Children (1985 remix)
11. All You Get From Love Is A Love Song
12. Calling Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft
Disc Two:
1. Desperado
2. Superstar (1985 remix)
3. Rainy Days And Mondays (1985 remix)
4. This Masquerade
5. (Want You) Back In My Life Again
6. Ticket To Ride (1973 version – stereo reversed, segued)
7. Yesterday Once More (single mix)/Oldies Medley (album mix)
– Fun Fun Fun
– The End Of The World
– Da Doo Ron Ron
– Deadman’s Curve
– Johnny Angel
– The Night Has A Thousand Eyes
– Our Day Will Come
– One Fine Day
8. Yesterday Once More (Reprise)
Disc Three:
1. I Just Fall In Love Again
2. Honolulu City Lights
3. Goodbye To Love (1985 remix with count-in)
4. Help!
5. BEechwood 4-5789
6. Hurting Each Other (1973 tweak)
7. There’s A Kind Of Hush (All Over The World)
8. Sweet, Sweet Smile
9. I Won’t Last A Day Without You (1974 Single mix, slow)
10. Now
11. For All We Know
12. Touch Me When We’re Dancing
Disc Four:
1. (I’m Caught Between) Goodbye And I Love You
2. Please Mr. Postman
3. I Need To Be In Love (1985 single length remix)
4. Don’t Cry For Me Argentina (slow)
5. Mr. Guder
6. I Kept On Loving You
7. Two Lives
8. Only Yesterday (middle length)
9. Bacharach/David Medley (Live)
10. Sometimes
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The first massive four-disc set of Carpenters’ best came in the form of ANTHOLOGY in Japan in 1985 as a limited edition, numbered, vinyl LP set. It was more popularly released on CD four years later, and has come to be known as the ANTHOLOGY (89) set. The set provided not only a comprehensive selection of hits and favored album tracks, but added two, at-the-time unreleased gems. This marked the first release of “Honolulu City Lights” and the live “Bacharach/David Medley”. Those two would later show up on LOVELINES in the US in ’89 and the Reader’s Digest set in ’97 repectively.
Many songs here are lightly segued with each other, giving the listener a seamless listening experience. Because of this several tracks were sped-up or slowed down slightly to make their musical keys match up better. Most notably, “Don’t Cry For Me Argentina” was slowed to make it segue from the prior track, “I Need To Be In Love”, but the slow-down ends up making Karen’s vocal sound whiny.
ANTHOLOGY included a lengthy bio written by Richard Carpenter along with his own notes for every track in the set, giving brief histories and sometimes notes on the recording process and remixes.
Due to popular demand, ANTHOLOGY was re-released in 1997 in a very different form. The track list was nearly identical, but the versions of songs used were changed, many times updating to the latest remixes.