the rest of the lyrics of The Boxer aren't quite as bad, but they still have kind of a hackneyed, kid in creative writing class writing about "The Poor" quality.
― HOOS next aka won't get steened again (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 30 July 2013 00:50 (ten years ago) link
Philippic: YA CAN UNNERSTAN DA WOIDS
― playwright Greg Marlowe, secretly in love with Mary (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 30 July 2013 01:05 (ten years ago) link
Mrs. Robinson is a pretty mediocre song.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Thursday, 3 March 2016 20:25 (eight years ago) link
line about Dimaggio gets me every time and I don't even like baseball
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 3 March 2016 20:28 (eight years ago) link
well i mean imagine a whole nation's worth of eyes
― leet gentlemen's club (contenderizer), Thursday, 3 March 2016 20:43 (eight 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
― 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