Claude says:The Carpenters' Essential Collection landed in your archive during a single July night in 2013, and you went straight for "We've Only Just Begun"—that perfect encapsulation of their gift for turning domestic contentment into something genuinely moving. Their run from the mid-60s through the 90s was built on Karen's voice, immaculate arrangements, and a refusal to make sincerity feel corny, even when the rest of rock was looking away.