Reddit reviews If I Were a Carpenter

Check out "If I Were a Carpenter". It's an album of recent bands covering songs of The Carpenters.

Cracker's cover of Rainy Days and Mondays is pretty nice.

http://www.amazon.com/If-Were-Carpenter-Various-Artists/dp/B000005IL6#featureBulletsAndDetailBullets_secondary_view_div_1417619150193

Frank Black's First Solo Album. Super fun album. Also, two really cool compilation album's from the 90's: No Alternative (the uncle tupelo track is so good) and If I were a Carpenter Cover record:
http://www.amazon.com/If-Were-Carpenter-Various-Artists/dp/B000005IL6

http://www.amazon.com/No-Alternative-Various-Artists/dp/B000002VNM/ref=sr_1_sc_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1463509644&sr=1-1-spell&keywords=no+alternnative+cd

http://www.amazon.com/Frank-Black/dp/B005FQNJLQ/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1463509669&sr=1-1&keywords=frank+black