Simon and Garfunkel
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Topic: Simon and Garfunkel
Posted By: Vegetable_Man
Subject: Simon and Garfunkel
Date Posted: August 14 2005 at 18:14
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Who listens to them? Paul Simon is an amazing songwriter and a
great guitarist and vocalist, and Artie's got one of the best voices
I've ever heard. One of my favorite bands(or duos, more
accurately). Yes' cover of "America" is awesome, too. |
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Posted By: el_Sethro
Date Posted: August 14 2005 at 20:22
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I listen to them a bit. I prefer Paul Simon's solo work, though (Graceland is such an awesome album!)
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Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: August 15 2005 at 01:12
Good stuff!!!  ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: Cygnus X-2
Date Posted: August 15 2005 at 02:04
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I grew up on the stuff! Paul Simon also is a superb solo artist... ------------- 
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Posted By: Dragon Phoenix
Date Posted: August 15 2005 at 02:46
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Excellent duo, prefer them over any other sixties' act. Paul Simon also
made great albums solo. Graceland is a clear five star pop/rock album.
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Posted By: Eetu Pellonpaa
Date Posted: August 15 2005 at 03:54
| Good music. I just think that many of the younger listeners have only some of their hit collections, which come in five years cycles. Their studio albums are more better! I like "Parsey, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme". |
Posted By: Matti
Date Posted: August 15 2005 at 04:16
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The whole quintet of albums is good. Let's see if I still remember them... some mistakes possible. Wednesday Morning 3 AM (or something...), 1965: the folkiest and most acoustic. Sounds of Silence 1967. Essential, many classic songs and touching lyrics, e.g. I Am a Rock, Most Peculiar Man, Somewhere They Can't Find Me. Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme 1968. Yeah, maybe the most enjoyable. Bookends 1969. Essential with many classics, but not even 30 minutes long. Old Friends, America. Bridge Over Troubled Water 1970. A strong album all over. El Condor Pasa, So Long Frank Lloyd Wright, The Boxer. |
Posted By: Eetu Pellonpaa
Date Posted: August 15 2005 at 11:04
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Wasn't this a somekind of concept album about getting old? How hip! |
Matti wrote:
Very good but somehow even depressing album.Posted By: Matti
Date Posted: August 16 2005 at 00:48
I never thought of a concept, but at least it has 'Voices of Old People' which Art recorded in a home for old people - they're just talking - followed by 'Old Friends'. And 'Punky's Dilemma' also fits to the theme. Yeah, I guess the whole album is conceptual. (Was Paul Simon's Graceland also a concept album, anybody?) |
Posted By: anotherbrick
Date Posted: August 16 2005 at 01:44
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I listened to Paul Simon yesterday, for the first time in a while. I think he is very good! My favorite album is probably the "Tribe" one, I can't remember what it's called. Graceland is also dang good! I need to put Simon and Garfunkle on my IPOD! |
Posted By: Trotsky
Date Posted: August 16 2005 at 08:53
Interesting info, Matti & Eetu, I'll admit I'm one of those who knows Simon & Garfunkel compilations better than any album. The day I was born, my father bought a S&G compilation album (it was in Helsinki funnily enough) and the group's music has been with me forever ... yet it is two compilations (Greatest Hits and Definitive) and the live album that I know best ... what a combination, what a songwriter Paul Simon is. As for Graceland, as far as I know it was not a concept album, although all the songs were recorded with South African musicians giving it a strong stylistic cohesion (I think a couple of them actually involved Simon writing English lyrics over an original composition by South African musicians ... I think Gumboots and Homeless fall under this category). Unfortunately even though Simon's wanted to spread the gospel of South African music, his actions were in defiance of anti-apartheid laws and this promised to give some trouble at one point. Thankfully it all worked out in the end and one of my favourite albums ever was recorded ... ------------- "Death to Utopia! Death to faith! Death to love! Death to hope?" thunders the 20th century. "Surrender, you pathetic dreamer.” "No" replies the unhumbled optimist "You are only the present." |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: August 16 2005 at 11:44
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Recently re-discovered Graceland. I also reckon "Bridge Over Troubled Water" is possibly the greatest vocal performance in the history of pop. Very hard song to sing. |
Posted By: Eetu Pellonpaa
Date Posted: August 16 2005 at 14:55
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That was a nice coincidence, Trotsky!
I think it was my mistake. I read what Jake Nyman wrote in "Happy Days 2" (about old records), and it was not intented as a concept album. But the themes of the songs and the music follow up each other very nicely, so it's easy to get such impression. |
Posted By: Don_Frog
Date Posted: August 16 2005 at 23:18
| I play them now and then. |