It's only a couple of months since I posted a video of Desperado from this same Carpenters album, but one of my YouTube subscribers asked to hear another Carpenters track, this time with the Ortofon Synergy GM SPU cartridge. So here is Love Me For What I Am with the SPU.
I'd never properly realised until I videoed this album how off-centre it was . . . the spindle hole is a tight fit on the turntable, so there's no "slack" to allow a bit of adjustment. This is a shame since wow is evident on sustained notes, but hopefully this won't spoil the enjoyment of Karen Carpenter's unique voice.
Cartridge: Ortofon Synergy GM SPU
Phono amp: Graham Slee Accession + Elevator EXP
Turntable: PTP Audio Solid12 + SME M2-12-r tonearm
We fell in love
On the first night that we met
Together
We've been happy
I have very few regrets
The ordinary problems
Have not been hard to face
But lately little changes
Have been slowly taking place
You're always finding something
Is wrong in what I do
But you can't rearrange my life
Because it pleases you
You've got to love me
For what I am
For simply being me
Don't love me
For what you intend
Or hope that I will be
And if you're only using me
To feed your fantasy
You're really not in love
So let me go
I must be free
If what you want
Isn't natural for me
I won't pretend to keep you
What I am I have to be
The picture of perfection
Is only in your mind
For all your expectations
Love can never be designed
We either take each other
For ev'rything we are
Or leave the life
We've made behind
And make another start
You've got to love me
For what I am
For simply being me
Don't love me
For what you intend
Or hope that I will be
And if you're only using me
To feed your fantasy
You're really not in love
So let me go
I must be free
And if you're only using me
To feed your fantasy
You're really not in love
So let me go
I must be free
You're really not in love
So let me go
I must be free
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