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Mike's Beard
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My favourite song by them is Cecilia esp the opening where people are just tapping random beats on different objects.
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Quote from: Death To Mike's Beard on February 10, 2013, 08:03:00 AM
My favourite song by them is Cecilia esp the opening where people are just tapping random beats on different objects.
Yeah, that song rules.
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Quote from: SMiLE-addict on February 09, 2013, 09:56:59 PM
Along with the Beatles and the BB, Simon and Garfunkel are my favorite groups. Personally I think Paul Simon was a better songwriter than even Brian Wilson.
Anji was actually a David Graham piece.
BTW, acoustic guitar players will appreciate this rendition of Scarborough Fair:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYHDQHQDS-4
As for their albums, I like all of them. However, I'm one of the few people I know who actually like their first album the best. It's the most "folk-y." This is one of the most outright, fantastically, indescribably beautiful songs ever written. Almost impossible for me to listen to it without shedding multiple tears:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1K0eknfuix8
His brother and him look exactly the same.
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Yeah when I first discovered that I freaked out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hokYyir4U7c
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February 10, 2013, 04:06:24 PM »
I like S&G best starting around the time of BOOKENDS. Simon's writing improved immensely when he got over his delusions of grandeur, a quality that marred (slightly) their earlier work.
Special faves: "The Only Living Boy in New York" and "My Little Town", which has always made me wonder how great a seventies studio LP may have been.
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February 10, 2013, 06:27:08 PM »
So, you're saying Paul had delusions of grandeur, but his later work was grand. How do you reckon that?
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Quote from: I. Just Beat Your Ass on February 10, 2013, 06:27:08 PM
So, you're saying Paul had delusions of grandeur, but his later work was grand. How do you reckon that?
Paul figured out that sometimes less is more. He also escaped Dylan's shadow.
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Quote from: Moon Dawg on February 10, 2013, 06:32:06 PM
Quote from: I. Just Beat Your Ass on February 10, 2013, 06:27:08 PM
So, you're saying Paul had delusions of grandeur, but his later work was grand. How do you reckon that?
Paul figured out that sometimes less is more. He also escaped Dylan's shadow. By BOOKENDS the English-major preciousness of "The Dangling Conversation" was gone.
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In that case, he merely traded English-major preciousness ("The Dangling Conversation") for production grandiosity (the entire Bookends album and "Bridge Over Troubled Water"). Not sure that either one is any more "grand" than the other.
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Yeah, Dangling Conversation is terrible, and there are a few other weak tracks early on. I don't think he ever wrote a better tune than Homeward Bound, tho. My favorite thing he ever did is his first solo LP, one of the most underrated albums I know of.
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Quote from: I. Just Beat Your Ass on February 10, 2013, 07:02:47 PM
My favorite thing he ever did is his first solo LP, one of the most underrated albums I know of.
Very true.
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February 11, 2013, 07:19:30 AM »
For the last few days or so I've been listening to Flowers Never Bend With The Rainfall on repeat. I love this song.
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Quote from: Bubba Ho-Tep on March 09, 2013, 04:59:49 PM
Which song: Inappropriate relationship with sister-in-law
Which song: Gonna straight up bang you with "the wood".
Which song: Weather conditions make me horny
Which song: Lack of proper shoes leads to potential blood poisoning and death.
Which song: Who needs church? Let's do it on the couch.
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Another one of my favourites - because of their limited number of albums, they have an incredibly high consistency rate. I love almost all of their stuff. I don't quite understand "Somewhere They Can't Find Me" -- probably a good song but it sounds too much to me like the soundtrack to The Maltese Falcon or something and that throws me off. But they're great - and, personally, I love Dangling Conversation despite the high-end references.
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Somewhere They Can't Find Me was a "rock and roll-ized" version of this song. I like the original version much better.
Quote from: SMiLE-addict on February 09, 2013, 09:56:59 PM
This is one of the most outright, fantastically, indescribably beautiful songs ever written. Almost impossible for me to listen to it without shedding multiple tears:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1K0eknfuix8
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Quote from: Cactus on February 11, 2013, 07:19:30 AM
For the last few days or so I've been listening to Flowers Never Bend With The Rainfall on repeat. I love this song.
That's a beautiful song.
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I'm a fan. 'Bookends' is my favorite album for sure. Rattling the teacups.
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They kick utter ass.
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Love them - though much prefer most of Simon's solo work.
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Fantastic duo. They've had a couple semi-misfires (not terribly fond of Cecilia or I Am A Rock), but the good stuff makes up for it ten times over. Their calmer, soothing songs are the best - Only Living Boy In New York, Frank Lloyd Wright, 59th Street Bridge Song, and April Come She Will are all wonderful. And like everyone else I love Bridge Over Troubled Water, The Boxer, and Sound of Silence.
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Smoking hash to Bookends is a good memory...as it were....
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Paul Simon has become one of my absolute favorites.
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I love "Graceland". In the category of unlikely music releases: a
Graceland Sessions
box set would be freakin' sweet. Paul's "Pet Sounds" for sure.
Besides the songs themselves I love how "Graceland" is relevant to the time it was made in (in a good way. haha) and yet it somehow clicks together nicely as a Paul Simon album. I'm sure there are others who would disagree but when I listen to it I don't think "Wow. This isn't Paul Simon. He shouldn't be doing stuff like this."
I'm not saying they should have worked with South African session musicians but, I think its a damn shame The Beach Boys weren't able to something as relevant and
good
as "Graceland" (Oh the BBs had the 'relevant' part down somewhat. There's no denying Beach Boys '85 is a product of the 80's but it's relevant to the 80's in the 'yuck' sense)
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Simon & Garfunkel are up there with The Beach Boys, Leonard Cohen and ABBA as one of the very best music acts ever. Unlike The Beach Boys Paul Simon actually knows how to write reflective, descriptive, thought evoking, poetic and meaningful lyrics.
I know all the S&G songs and all the Paul Simon solo songs, started listening to them when I was about 7-8.
Even got these three albums on my wall:
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Quote from: Letsgoawayforawhile on February 10, 2013, 07:48:59 AM
I've been playing the crap out of this one lately:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Vv6dh2W2gk
The first 4-5 seconds of Song for the Asking is the best in all of recorded history.
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And Paul Simon is quite funny too:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4-TmrWz2I4
Or maybe you don't like the leg frying motif.
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