Repoll this sometime!
― Tower Feist (Eazy), Sunday, 13 November 2011 16:26 (twelve years ago) link
this album is just fucking interesting. particular the interaction between the vocal melody of the obvious child and the drumming on the bridge.
cf. joni mitchell's jungle line.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, 10 February 2012 03:31 (twelve years ago) link
i've been listening to this a lot recently and am good w/these poll results. the coast is a great song no question but the obvious child is just on another level.
― call all destroyer, Friday, 10 February 2012 03:36 (twelve years ago) link
i only got into obvious child recently and this is probably my favourite simon album. def abt the second half
― judith, Friday, 10 February 2012 08:54 (twelve years ago) link
SUMMER SKIES STARS ARE FALLINGALL ALONG THE INJURED COAST
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 10 February 2012 11:58 (twelve years ago) link
lamp can you like email me when this paul simon poll comes up, i took ilm off sna
― judith, Friday, 10 February 2012 23:46 (twelve years ago) link
i bookmarked the chillwave thread
did i start this? i dont think i voted
― judith, Saturday, 11 February 2012 02:27 (twelve years ago) link
j0rdan started it, i think, which is not the most in character. i didn't vote either!!
i'm sure Lamp will email you when the paul simon poll happens, and i will too, obsessively, until you show up.
― horseshoe, Saturday, 11 February 2012 02:29 (twelve years ago) link
oh wait i didnt
― judith, Saturday, 11 February 2012 02:29 (twelve years ago) link
this is my fav paul simon album fwiw
― judith, Saturday, 11 February 2012 02:30 (twelve years ago) link
horseshoe i wish u knew how much i enjoy seeing yr name on sna
i was about to post about "born at the right time" and saw you already had! this is an album where my favorite song changes a lot. like all the paul simons, really.
xp awwww no i wish U knew
― horseshoe, Saturday, 11 February 2012 02:31 (twelve years ago) link
so pissed nobody IMed me abt thiss poll in09
― judith, Saturday, 11 February 2012 02:37 (twelve years ago) link
what up yall its the real me
here's the story of how i decided to make a poll about paul simon's the rhythm of the saints
last night i was drinking beer in my bedroom and deej im'd me and said "the rhythm of the saints" is dope. i said i'd never heard it so he linked me to a few songs. i downloaded the whole thing and played it through like 3 straight times. i continued to drink beer. eventually i listened to "the coast" a few more times before "falling asleep"
then i made this poll
― swag serf (J0rdan S.), Saturday, June 20, 2009 5:13 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
^cuet, imo
― horseshoe, Saturday, 11 February 2012 02:39 (twelve years ago) link
i need to chill the fuck out i'm going to put this album on
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 11 February 2012 02:39 (twelve years ago) link
but explains why none of the paul simon regulators showed up, except deej
respectfully can we do this again?
― judith, Saturday, 11 February 2012 02:42 (twelve years ago) link
i feel like i started another paul simon poll recently tho. how did that pan out?
― judith, Saturday, 11 February 2012 02:43 (twelve years ago) link
I still own this on cassette, and since I can still play tapes in my car this is a regular. I've worn out "Cool Cool River."
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 11 February 2012 02:43 (twelve years ago) link
i always make ppl wait for the horns on that
― judith, Saturday, 11 February 2012 02:44 (twelve years ago) link
"cool cool river" is probably what i would vote at this particular moment in my relationship with the music of paul simon. but who knows.
plax, that bridge over troubled water thread was great; i never knew what i was missing!
― horseshoe, Saturday, 11 February 2012 02:45 (twelve years ago) link
either did i!
― judith, Saturday, 11 February 2012 02:46 (twelve years ago) link
man when I saw him in '90 the horn stabs were accompanied by stabbing colored spotlights from behind the stage. It was so damn cool watching him sing while this happened, wearing a sports coat.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 11 February 2012 02:47 (twelve years ago) link
can ppl continue to call me plax btw
― judith, Saturday, 11 February 2012 02:47 (twelve years ago) link
this album is fucking magic
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 11 February 2012 03:28 (twelve years ago) link
fucking "the cool, cool river"
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 11 February 2012 03:29 (twelve years ago) link
i know, right???
― horseshoe, Saturday, 11 February 2012 03:30 (twelve years ago) link
the melody of the vocal line in that song is so urgent it's almost painful.
― horseshoe, Saturday, 11 February 2012 03:31 (twelve years ago) link
The sequencing is so unexpected -- the record ends so quietly.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 11 February 2012 03:31 (twelve years ago) link
lol
― judith, Saturday, 11 February 2012 03:31 (twelve years ago) link
btw the guitar line on "Spirit Voices" is magic. It's uncanny how well Milton Nascimiento harmonizes with it.
SaudocoesDa licenca um momentoTe lembroQue amanhaSera tudo ou sera naoa Depende coracaoSera breve ou sera grandeDepende da paixao Sera sujo, sera sonhoCuidado, coracaoSera util, sera tardeSe esmera, coracaoE confiaNa forca do amanha
― judith, Saturday, 11 February 2012 03:43 (twelve years ago) link
christgau's review of this album is so condescending:
his life in the bush of a fully-formed middle-class music scene more sophisticated than he'll ever be
i like how he has to implicitly declare his allegiance to MPB and distance himself from P.S, like there's a natural need to oppose the do as opposed to show how they might intersect of complement one another.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Saturday, 11 February 2012 03:49 (twelve years ago) link
also kind of makes you wonder what he means by "sophisticated". more rhythmically sophisticated? i guess so. but the beauty of simon's record is precisely the often counterintuitive way he combines a very distinct way with melody with various elements of brazilian music. i don't think he's trying and failing to make a MPB album.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Saturday, 11 February 2012 03:50 (twelve years ago) link
I understand him not liking this; the rhythm patters along unvaryingly if you're not in the right mood. His long Graceland essay proves he was hip to Simon's jive.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 11 February 2012 03:50 (twelve years ago) link
on some songs that's true, yeah. not on all of them. and anyway christgau doesn't explain himself, so there's no way to know if that's the nature of his objection. he just couches it in terms of cultural opposition.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Saturday, 11 February 2012 03:52 (twelve years ago) link
― horseshoe, Friday, February 10, 2012 9:39 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yah this is a beautiful story
― lag∞n, Saturday, 11 February 2012 04:11 (twelve years ago) link
It's poignant, like when Sonny idly thumbs through the pages of his yearbook. Some have died, etc...
― kornrulez6969, Saturday, 11 February 2012 05:14 (twelve years ago) link
"It got me thinking when that first popped out," Paul Simon says, sitting in the living room of his Manhattan duplex, watching an early moon come up over Central Park. " 'The cross is in the ball park.' "The first thing I thought of was Billy Graham, or the Pope, or evangelical gatherings. But I came to feel what that's really about is the cross that we bear. The burdens that we carry are doable, they're in the ballpark." -Paul Simon
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,971667,00.html#ixzz1OLgp7kSo
― queequeg (peter grasswich), Saturday, 11 February 2012 19:08 (twelve years ago) link
barf
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Saturday, 11 February 2012 20:51 (twelve years ago) link
So this is happening...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2GN3wdfqbA
― Damnit Janet Weiss & The Riot Grrriel (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 16 April 2014 19:45 (ten years ago) link
I say why why why why I say why
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 16 April 2014 19:47 (ten years ago) link
was like a pencil pointa love bite
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 28 June 2014 18:20 (nine years ago) link
Then I fall to my kneesI grow weak, I go slackAs if she captured the breath of myvoice in a bottleAnd I can't catch it back
But I feel goodIt's a fine dayThe way the sun hits off the runwayA cloud shiftsThe plane liftsShe moves on
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 29 June 2014 15:52 (nine years ago) link
it doesnt even bother me that he says "the rose of jericho"
I always heard it as more literal than that, and one of my favorite couplets.
A family of musicians took shelter for the night in the little harbor church of St. CeciliaTwo guitars, bata, bass drum and tambourine, rows of Jericho and Bougainvillea
But I was wrong: http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/509803/rose-of-Jericho
― heavy on their trademark ballads (Eazy), Sunday, 29 June 2014 16:20 (nine years ago) link
i believe in the futurei may live in carmy radio tuned to the voice of a starsong dogs barking at the break of dawnlightning pushes the edge of a thunderstormthese old hopes and fears still at my side
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Sunday, 29 June 2014 18:23 (nine years ago) link
ba ba ba ba ba ba Ba Ba Ba BA BA BA PROUST!
― ...and the trees are all kept equal by hatchet, axe and SAW! (Turrican), Sunday, 29 June 2014 22:16 (nine years ago) link
armies of engineersto analyze the soil
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 12 August 2018 13:21 (five years ago) link
I was thinking about something during the absurd Cohen/Simon smackdown thread, but just got round to finishing my thought.
I dug out the disc with bonus tracks to relisten and marvel again at the quality of the lyrics he throws away.
"The Coast" work-in-progress
This is the echo of the echo of the first song that lullabied /The heartbeat of the host
"Spirit Voices" work-in-progress:
My horse and my saddle and my gracious companions /We tripped over a mountain and we fell into a vast canyon
I mean, really. Maybe the songs as eventually released were fine, but those throwaway lyrics are as good as most people will ever write.
― leica bridge over troubled cameras (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 12 August 2018 14:06 (five years ago) link
Memphis being the home of FedEx of course
― underwater as a compliment (Eazy), Thursday, 30 March 2023 20:37 (one year ago) link
Of course.
― It’s Only Her Factory, Girl! (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 30 March 2023 20:38 (one year ago) link
You know the nearer your destination, the more you're FedExing away
― she loves me like a rock lobster (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 30 March 2023 20:54 (one year ago) link
Dracula FedExed himself to Memphis iirc.
― It’s Only Her Factory, Girl! (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 31 March 2023 00:03 (one year ago) link
A reach in the dark. Reach in the darkness.
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 12 May 2024 22:31 (one month ago) link