― youn, Wednesday, 16 June 2004 06:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 13:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― eddie hurt (ddduncan), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 23:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― Kris (aqueduct), Thursday, 17 June 2004 00:07 (nineteen years ago) link
WhA?????
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 17 June 2004 00:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 17 June 2004 00:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― jim wentworth (wench), Thursday, 17 June 2004 02:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sonny A. (Keiko), Thursday, 17 June 2004 07:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 17 June 2004 08:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 9 May 2005 12:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 9 May 2005 12:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― 57 7th (calstars), Monday, 9 May 2005 12:53 (eighteen years ago) link
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― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 9 May 2005 13:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 9 May 2005 13:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 9 May 2005 13:34 (eighteen years ago) link
I've always wondered: Did Paul Simon steal that "Coo coo ca-choo" from John Lennon or vice versa?
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Monday, 9 May 2005 14:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Monday, 9 May 2005 14:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 9 May 2005 14:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Monday, 9 May 2005 14:55 (eighteen years ago) link
Several S&G songs are as classic as can be: "The Boxer," "Only Living Boy in New York," "America," "April Come She Will," "Mrs. Robinson."
But they also made some truly troublingly bad things. The swallowed-a-thesaurus 11th-grade-level poetry of "The Dangling Conversation," for example. Or
Pressed in organdyClothed in crinolineOf smoky burgundy
...it just smacks of Trying Too Hard.
And if I never hear "Feelin' Groovy" again, I will die a happy man.
Frankly, I've never really gotten the sense that Garfunkel added a lot. He sings pretty. He sings high. So the fuck what. The songs are where it's at--delete Art from most S&G tracks and you still have good songs.
So semiclassic, with reservations.
― The Mad Puffin (The Mad Puffin), Monday, 9 May 2005 15:07 (eighteen years ago) link
Couple in the next roomBound to win a prizeTheyve been going at it all night longWell, Im trying to get some sleepBut these motel walls are cheapLincoln Duncan is my nameAnd heres my song, heres my song.
Right up there with "Motel Blues" in the Best Motel Song category.
― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 9 May 2005 15:14 (eighteen years ago) link
The snare drum part on the intro of "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover" is easily one of the three or four best drum performances ever recorded. I am a drummer and I am telling you that it is utterly, indisputably perfect. But would you call the group that recorded that song "Simon & Gadd"? No.
― The Mad Puffin (The Mad Puffin), Monday, 9 May 2005 15:20 (eighteen years ago) link
Simon solo piques me more.
― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Monday, 9 May 2005 15:51 (eighteen years ago) link
I love those lyrics!
― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 9 May 2005 15:57 (eighteen years ago) link
POX (off the top of my head)
AmericaFor Emily, Whenever I May Find HerHazy Shade Of WinterPatternsScarborough Fair/CanticleFaking ItMrs RobinsonSeven O'Clock News (Silent Night)The Dangling Conversation
Albums
1. Parsley, Sage Rosemary and Thyme*2. Bookends3. Sounds of Silence4. Bridge Over Troubled Water5. Wednesday Morning, 3AM6. The Graduate OST
*Wins over Bookends because of the hilariously over-earnest sleevenotes.
― Ben Dot (1977), Monday, 9 May 2005 23:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 00:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― dl, Tuesday, 10 May 2005 01:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 14:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 12 May 2005 03:49 (eighteen years ago) link
i think his first solo record is the best, most coherent/satisfying thing he's done (though there are some songs on the second solo album that are incredible). but there sure are some awesome s&g songs, even if they all have a few lyrics and/or clipped diction that make me cringe. ("seeking out the poor-er quarters..." egads).
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 12 May 2005 05:35 (eighteen years ago) link
Also, why was S&G never mentioned as a massive "influence" on Belle and Sebastian?? It seems so glaringly obvious.
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 28 July 2005 19:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 12 June 2006 19:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Monday, 12 June 2006 20:07 (seventeen years ago) link
Classic.
― shorty (shorty), Monday, 12 June 2006 21:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 12 June 2006 21:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Monday, 12 June 2006 22:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― Steve Schneeberg (Steve Goldberg), Monday, 12 June 2006 23:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 01:31 (seventeen years ago) link
But Graceland is really good.
― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 02:28 (seventeen years ago) link
god, I hadn't heard "Mrs. Robinson" in ages. So good.
― Curt1s Stephens, Monday, 19 November 2007 08:23 (sixteen years ago) link
spent many a car journey in my childhood listening to S&G so i have a nostalgic bias. But their best work still holds up very well in my opinion - so definite CLASSIC!
― sam500, Monday, 19 November 2007 08:34 (sixteen years ago) link
simon: classic garfunkel: dud
― abanana, Monday, 19 November 2007 10:39 (sixteen years ago) link
super mega classic.
― wanko ergo sum, Monday, 19 November 2007 14:14 (sixteen years ago) link
I command everybody to listen to the Aretha Franklin version of Bridge Over Troubled Water right now this minute, and never listen to the original again.
― ecuador_with_a_c, Monday, 19 November 2007 18:54 (sixteen years ago) link
FUCK U IF YOU DON'T THINK CLASSIC
― I'm into SB (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 2 January 2010 13:21 (fourteen years ago) link
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― Word of Wisdom Robots (Abbbottt), Saturday, 26 May 2012 20:17 (eleven years ago) link
it looks like a knitting pattern written out like that
Bookends is classic.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 26 May 2012 21:56 (eleven years ago) link
'Mrs. Robinson' isn't a favourite of mine, but I don't mind it. 'The Only Living Boy In New York', though... ALL TIME.
― // D I R E S T R A I T S W A L K O F L I F E // LOVE (Turrican), Thursday, 3 March 2016 20:46 (eight years ago) link
'Mrs. Robinson' was an unfinished song they had lying around til Mike Nichols needed a song called Mrs Robinson
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 3 March 2016 20:56 (eight years ago) link
well i mean imagine a whole nation's worth of eyes
― wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 3 March 2016 20:56 (eight years ago) link
$50 for a lawn seat at my local summer outdoor venue on his summer tour. Feels like a lot to pay to sit on the grass (straining our nation's worth of eyes)
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 3 March 2016 21:19 (eight years ago) link
got in the car this morning, turned on the radio and... this came on
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOGqZJC0_Xs
i don't mean to get all alex in nyc on y'all, but there oughta be a law
― wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 5 May 2016 19:43 (eight years ago) link
It took some time for the YouTube embed to load, all the while I was assuming it'd be this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9Dg-g7t2l4
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Thursday, 5 May 2016 20:21 (eight years ago) link
"I Am A Rock" is the first song I have exercised my veto over in my dad cover band. It's a bridge to far, which, incidentally, sounds like it would be the name of a Simon and Garfunkel album.
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Monday, 28 August 2017 18:01 (six years ago) link
so I found something rather interesting on wikipedia
In 2015, someone edited the Wikipedia page for "The Sound of Silence," claiming the original first lyric was "Aloha darkness, my old friend." It is still there. https://t.co/uB7mBnA1sQ pic.twitter.com/1EFP7uEXsj— katherine morayati (@morayati) March 9, 2018
― algorithm is a dancer (katherine), Friday, 9 March 2018 18:36 (six years ago) link
So, I'm listening to Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme for the first time in ages tonight and I've pretty much reminded myself why this is the last Simon & Garfunkel album I tend to reach for. Such a frustrating mix of high quality classics ('Scarborough Fair', 'Patterns', 'Cloudy', 'The 59th Street Bridge Song') and supreme duds ('A Simple Desultory Philippic') ... Sounds of Silence was a relative rush job, but I much prefer it.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Thursday, 13 December 2018 23:26 (five years ago) link
i've lost my harmonica, albert
― meaulnes, Friday, 14 December 2018 10:53 (five years ago) link
I'd never seen this before. Really enjoyed it--don't know if Simon's a little stoned, or if he's always like that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDqIsuIpVy4
― clemenza, Monday, 14 June 2021 22:28 (two years ago) link