https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbhcMe4oN1A
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Monday, 27 January 2014 18:29 (ten years ago) link
paul simon is god and jesus literally
― lag∞n, Monday, 27 January 2014 18:29 (ten years ago) link
listened to this album 8 times today already. i don't care how it was made and how many people he was an asshole to, it's great.
― president of the people's republic of antarctica (Arctic Mindbath), Monday, 27 January 2014 18:40 (ten years ago) link
its so magical
― lag∞n, Monday, 27 January 2014 18:41 (ten years ago) link
I don't want no part of this crazy love
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 27 January 2014 18:42 (ten years ago) link
would take any given 10 seconds of this album over all the holier-than-thou bullshit dave marsh has typed in his entire lifetime
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 27 January 2014 18:43 (ten years ago) link
paul and linda ronstadt sound nice on that one song, too bad they both owned beach front villas in sun city back in the 80s
― tylerw, Monday, 27 January 2014 18:44 (ten years ago) link
The controversy makes an average album bearable imo
― gelatinate mess (darraghmac), Monday, 27 January 2014 18:46 (ten years ago) link
"Under African Skies" is the only track that I'd accuse of colonialism but it's so damn pretty, especially Rondstadt's vocal.
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 27 January 2014 18:46 (ten years ago) link
im going to kill u xp
― lag∞n, Monday, 27 January 2014 18:47 (ten years ago) link
i think the music of the album is great, but i think the production and simon's behaviour re: the boycott of south africa, etc, is at least a little problematic. any of you see the documentary that was recently-ish released about it?
also, bastard stole annie hall from alvy singer. NEVA FORGET.
― the "Weird Al" Yankovic of country music (stevie), Monday, 27 January 2014 18:50 (ten years ago) link
and I can say wee-oooh-weee-oooh and for all practical purposes it would be legally bindingI mean for all practical and foreseeable purposes it'd be legally binding
― second set all dead boys covers (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 27 January 2014 18:52 (ten years ago) link
annie hall was my favourite film when I was 16 and I didn't even know simon was in it! shame on me for a thousand years.
xpost
― president of the people's republic of antarctica (Arctic Mindbath), Monday, 27 January 2014 18:52 (ten years ago) link
I saw the documentary p good and interesting, obvs portrays ps in a favorable light
― lag∞n, Monday, 27 January 2014 18:53 (ten years ago) link
More than the politics, I'm fascinated by Simon's ability to piss people off. He's not exactly Lou Reed or even Ray Davies but there's a prickly charmlessness which spoilt his live show for me and maybe explains why he made so enemies over Graceland. And yet he's the most extraordinarily humane and insightful lyricist - it doesn't add up.
― Deafening silence (DL), Monday, 27 January 2014 18:54 (ten years ago) link
unless someone else wrote them too
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 27 January 2014 18:57 (ten years ago) link
you're right, it doesn't add up.
my god. son of a bitch didn't even write the lyrics, did he?
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Monday, 27 January 2014 18:57 (ten years ago) link
Los Lobos wrote most of his best lyrics iirc
― second set all dead boys covers (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 27 January 2014 18:57 (ten years ago) link
extraordinary artist, ordinary person
― lag∞n, Monday, 27 January 2014 18:58 (ten years ago) link
were you at the hyde park show a few years back, DL? where PS kept disappearing from the stage, to be replaced by, say, Jimmy Cliff for a couple of songs? was bizarre.
― the "Weird Al" Yankovic of country music (stevie), Monday, 27 January 2014 18:58 (ten years ago) link
where are the bodies, simon!?
― tylerw, Monday, 27 January 2014 18:58 (ten years ago) link
he had to leave the stage periodically to steal more music xp
― second set all dead boys covers (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 27 January 2014 18:58 (ten years ago) link
paul simon monster
― Lamp, Monday, 27 January 2014 18:59 (ten years ago) link
i bet all that cocaine he did in the 70s wasnt even his
― Lamp, Monday, 27 January 2014 19:00 (ten years ago) link
Woody allen wrote the lyrics, simon killed paul
― gelatinate mess (darraghmac), Monday, 27 January 2014 19:00 (ten years ago) link
if indeed that is his real name
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 27 January 2014 19:01 (ten years ago) link
Thanks for clearing this up guys. Now can someone find me the demo of The Only Living Boy in New York with the real PS lyric? "Fuck off to Mexico and make your fucking movie/You talentless hack/But don't expect me to keep carrying your sorry ass/When you get back."
― Deafening silence (DL), Monday, 27 January 2014 19:04 (ten years ago) link
"so long frank lloyd wright (i'm about to kill you)"
― tylerw, Monday, 27 January 2014 19:06 (ten years ago) link
wait Paul Simon killed John Lennon?
re: Sun City album
EMI Thorne was busy selling riot-control cattle prods to the SA police at the same time they were making money off of the Sun City album. they spun the weapons division off later, but iirc at the time is was still under the same corporate roof. that might not make a difference to the "I just like the music" types, but I always saw that album as a perfect example of well meaning liberal hypocrisy that ends up supporting what it claims to be against.
― sleeve, Monday, 27 January 2014 19:06 (ten years ago) link
'go jump off a bridge into troubled waters'
'for emily (although they'll never find her)'
― gelatinate mess (darraghmac), Monday, 27 January 2014 19:07 (ten years ago) link
xp That's not hypocrisy unless you think the weapons division approved the record - that's different arms of a conglomerate behaving in different ways and doesn't reflect badly at all on Van Zandt.
― Deafening silence (DL), Monday, 27 January 2014 19:08 (ten years ago) link
who do you guys hate worse
paul simon
robbee roberston
― you are kind, I am (waterface), Monday, 27 January 2014 19:10 (ten years ago) link
and surely the record's intention was to spread word abt south africa anyway, which it succeeded in doing.
― the "Weird Al" Yankovic of country music (stevie), Monday, 27 January 2014 19:10 (ten years ago) link
he says paid them *triple* scale in an interview with UNCUT last year, so if Van Zandt can't even get that fact correct, i dunno..
― piscesx, Monday, 27 January 2014 19:11 (ten years ago) link
it was just a ploy tho to make himself seem like not an asshole... which he definitely is
― lag∞n, Monday, 27 January 2014 19:15 (ten years ago) link
btw
While taking the songwriting credits to himselfermSide oneNo. Title Writer(s) Length1. "The Boy in the Bubble" Forere Motloheloa, Paul Simon 3:592. "Graceland" Simon 4:483. "I Know What I Know" General MD Shirinda, Simon 3:134. "Gumboots" Lulu Masilela, Jonhjon Mkhalali, Simon 2:445. "Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes" Joseph Shabalala, Simon 5:45Side twoNo. Title Writer(s) Length6. "You Can Call Me Al" Simon 4:397. "Under African Skies" Simon 3:378. "Homeless" Shabalala, Simon 3:489. "Crazy Love, Vol. II" Simon 4:1810. "That Was Your Mother" Simon 2:5211. "All Around the World or the Myth of Fingerprints" Los Lobos, Simon 3:15― lag∞n, Monday, January 27, 2014 2:26 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
erm
Side oneNo. Title Writer(s) Length1. "The Boy in the Bubble" Forere Motloheloa, Paul Simon 3:592. "Graceland" Simon 4:483. "I Know What I Know" General MD Shirinda, Simon 3:134. "Gumboots" Lulu Masilela, Jonhjon Mkhalali, Simon 2:445. "Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes" Joseph Shabalala, Simon 5:45Side twoNo. Title Writer(s) Length6. "You Can Call Me Al" Simon 4:397. "Under African Skies" Simon 3:378. "Homeless" Shabalala, Simon 3:489. "Crazy Love, Vol. II" Simon 4:1810. "That Was Your Mother" Simon 2:5211. "All Around the World or the Myth of Fingerprints" Los Lobos, Simon 3:15
― lag∞n, Monday, January 27, 2014 2:26 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
perhaps worth noting that OG pressing of Graceland didn't credit Los Lobos for writing music to Myth of Fingerprints - did this happen later?
http://s.pixogs.com/image/R-373375-1289409207.jpeg
― the "Weird Al" Yankovic of country music (stevie), Monday, 27 January 2014 19:19 (ten years ago) link
has anybody confirmed these pay claims of Simon's or is it just well we asked him and he says he paid the shit outta those ingrates
― second set all dead boys covers (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 27 January 2014 19:20 (ten years ago) link
"he said he heard it from his friend henry kissinger" is my favorite unsourced bit of character assassination literally ever
― i want to say one word to you, just one word:buzzfeed (difficult listening hour), Monday, 27 January 2014 19:22 (ten years ago) link
ha no p sure someone was just monkeying around on wikipedia
― lag∞n, Monday, 27 January 2014 19:23 (ten years ago) link
probably los lobos
― tylerw, Monday, 27 January 2014 19:23 (ten years ago) link
i want to say one word to you, just one word:buzzfeed (difficult listening hour)Posted: January 27, 2014 at 7:22:00 PM"he said he heard it from his friend henry kissinger" is my favorite unsourced bit of character assassination literally ever
lol yes virtuoso shit
― lag∞n, Monday, 27 January 2014 19:25 (ten years ago) link
did paul simon even write la bamba
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Monday, 27 January 2014 19:25 (ten years ago) link
I did used to think that was Paul Simon on the cover of the La Bamba soundtrack when I was a little kid.
― president of the people's republic of antarctica (Arctic Mindbath), Monday, 27 January 2014 19:27 (ten years ago) link
forbidden link, he's killed them already
― Euler, Monday, 27 January 2014 19:27 (ten years ago) link
no fingerprints were ever found, it was a myth
― Euler, Monday, 27 January 2014 19:28 (ten years ago) link
still so fucking crazy after all these years
― tylerw, Monday, 27 January 2014 19:29 (ten years ago) link
I always thought it was a coincidence that call me al was an anagram of la bamba
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Monday, 27 January 2014 19:30 (ten years ago) link
wish that synth/horn hook in "You Can Call Me Al" would go on forever and ever.
― president of the people's republic of antarctica (Arctic Mindbath), Monday, 27 January 2014 19:44 (ten years ago) link
http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view/983970/paul-simon-you-can-call-me-al-o.gif
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Monday, 27 January 2014 19:46 (ten years ago) link