“Rainy Days and Mondays” by The Carpenters

This song is tastefully produced and the backing vocals are stellar. Looking at it from a technical standpoint, I do believe that the percussive element may actually be the most beautiful aspect of the song, because honestly, they just don’t produce gems like this any longer and how percussion is often recorded in Pop today leaves quite a lot to be desired, but I now digress like all get out, baby tears. The Carpenters were perfection in Pop, or if you will, AM Gold, or again, if you will, Soft Rock. If you have ever been to the dentist, you’ll understand exactly what I mean. This track is a smooth marshmallow given to a poodle queen upon her accession to the thrown, a regular mock-stillborn in ecstasy, but I once again digress like yesterday’s news, my curly little baby bird. Chocolate tampons abound in this town!

…More to the point, this song is quite probably better than the majority of Carpenters output, although this is very much an ongoing argument amongst the Carpenters faithful. I enjoy “Close To You” and various other favorites, but I find this particular cut to be most idyllic. It’s the Carpenters tune that I often play repeatedly. Such a great number to rock out with while working on serious math problems and just a delicious piece of ear candy in general; absolutely no question about it, honestly, what more can one say?



Perfect Pop structure, my friends, the bar has been set.