I mean, I can sorta picture somebody loudly explaining "You know I am like a human trampoline, people just keep jumping on me!!!" and thinking they were really clever but actually being annoying and lame.... I just think this song sort of deserves better acquaintances than that, especially since she's introduced as "there is a girl in New York City," somehow the equivalent of the former talk show host that you can only find by traveling over the mountains and down to the valley. You want these mythical characters to have something better to say for themselves.
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 21 August 2010 22:36 (thirteen years ago) link
i h8 all u guys who are h8ing on human trampoline tbh
― horseshoe, Saturday, 21 August 2010 22:46 (thirteen years ago) link
whenever people call something dylanesque all that means is it's awesome afaic
also the function of "there's a girl in new york city" is key to simon's whole slice of new york hipster community thing
― horseshoe, Saturday, 21 August 2010 22:49 (thirteen years ago) link
in conclusion, i'm mad
i'm not voting for "there's a girl in new york city who calls herself the human trampoline" as it is isolated in this poll but that section of the song, from "there's a girl" to "she means we're bouncing into graceland" is my favorite part, like something catches in my throat at "bouncing into graceland" half the time.
― horseshoe, Saturday, 21 August 2010 22:54 (thirteen years ago) link
Maybe her name is Maybelline or something else that rhymes with trampoline.
― Hideous Lump, Saturday, 21 August 2010 22:58 (thirteen years ago) link
i like gumboots more than this, and esp in terms of NYC hipster types portraiture
― plax (ico), Saturday, 21 August 2010 22:59 (thirteen years ago) link
MAYBE WHO CARES IF ITS IMPLAUSIBLE
― horseshoe, Saturday, 21 August 2010 22:59 (thirteen years ago) link
gumboots is gr8
horseshoe r u actually shouting all this out loud as u type srs q.
― plax (ico), Saturday, 21 August 2010 23:01 (thirteen years ago) link
best line(s) in that one either "I said hey you know breakdowns come and breakdowns go / so what are you going to do about it, that's what I'd like to know" largely bc of delivery or "believing i had supernatural powers i slammed into a brick wall"
― horseshoe, Saturday, 21 August 2010 23:01 (thirteen years ago) link
haha plax i am seething with rage and spoiling for a fight
u r rong it is "hey! ain't we walking down the same street, together, on the very same day"
― plax (ico), Saturday, 21 August 2010 23:02 (thirteen years ago) link
that is a v v nice delivery, also
― horseshoe, Saturday, 21 August 2010 23:02 (thirteen years ago) link
so conversational!
just listened to the youtube of this as ive lost the album. do all youtube comments have to have some bit of masochistic nostalgia going on? makes me despair for humantity. i went for 'everybody sees your blown apart, everybody feels the wind blow'.
― Michael B, Saturday, 21 August 2010 23:07 (thirteen years ago) link
i like how the words play off each other there
windowheartblown apartwindblow
― ('_') (omar little), Saturday, 21 August 2010 23:10 (thirteen years ago) link
otm
― horseshoe, Saturday, 21 August 2010 23:10 (thirteen years ago) link
great album. great song.
― plax (ico), Saturday, 21 August 2010 23:11 (thirteen years ago) link
best album of whatever year it was released
― Michael B, Saturday, 21 August 2010 23:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Alright in a kind of a limited way for an off-night.
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Saturday, 21 August 2010 23:35 (thirteen years ago) link
Really can't listen to this album anymore having heard it at so many cinematographers' parties.
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 22 August 2010 00:00 (thirteen years ago) link
If you listen to Live in Central Park, each NYC reference in the Simon oeuvre is met with extended whooping.
"There is a girl in New York City...."
WHOOWOOOWHOOWHWOHWOHOOOWHOOO
― Bag Smart, Street Stupid (Eazy), Sunday, 22 August 2010 00:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Haha, yeah. 'Counting the cars on the New Jersey turnpike' etc.
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Sunday, 22 August 2010 00:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Has anyone seen One Trick Pony? Is it any good?
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Sunday, 22 August 2010 00:16 (thirteen years ago) link
its ... entertaining
― NOT FUNNY NEEDS MORE GUCCI (deej), Sunday, 22 August 2010 01:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, xps, 'Gumboots' is the best
― Ismael Klata, Sunday, 22 August 2010 07:46 (thirteen years ago) link
i voted "for reasons i cannot explain some part of me wants to see graceland" -- b/c that's what I feel about graceland (and any number of other tourist traps).
― Voting with My Dollars for More Swill to be Made (Eisbaer), Sunday, 22 August 2010 14:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Some One Trick Pony discussion here:
Paul Simon - One Trick Pony, C or D
and maybe here:
http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=41&threadid=31830
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 22 August 2010 15:07 (thirteen years ago) link
(that's "Do you believe Paul Simon when, in "Late in the Evening", he describes how he returns to the club after smoking a "J" and proceeds to turn up his amp and "(blow) that room away"?")
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 22 August 2010 15:08 (thirteen years ago) link
classic alex in nyc on that thread:
I believe the bit about smokin' the "j", but not about the room-blowin' (like he suddenly morphed into a diminutive clone of Yngwie Malmsteen).― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, July 22, 2004 8:59 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark
― Voting with My Dollars for More Swill to be Made (Eisbaer), Sunday, 22 August 2010 15:13 (thirteen years ago) link
is there anyone right now writing lyrics this good and self-aware about the nyc hip-art-music-whatever scene? vampire weekend is the only band thats even attempting this i think and--i think theyre good lyricists--but theyre not paul simon
― max, Sunday, 22 August 2010 21:12 (thirteen years ago) link
tbf they've had two albums, what album was graceland for him.
― plax (ico), Sunday, 22 August 2010 21:17 (thirteen years ago) link
all his albums have v good lyrics post-simon and garfunkel it's kind of his "thing"
― horseshoe, Sunday, 22 August 2010 21:19 (thirteen years ago) link
the 70s solo simon albums are so new york-y
like woody allen movies they have had a debilitating effect on my adult life
im not saying vampire weekend "should" be the new paul simon of lyrics, im just wondering if there is a 2000s paul simon
― max, Sunday, 22 August 2010 21:20 (thirteen years ago) link
like if there was ever a 'scene' that could use a self aware lyricist with a good sense of humor about 'the scene'... its brooklyn ca 2010
― max, Sunday, 22 August 2010 21:21 (thirteen years ago) link
and the thing is vw are UWS brats not brooklyn brats
― max, Sunday, 22 August 2010 21:22 (thirteen years ago) link
i think it's clear what you have to do, max
― horseshoe, Sunday, 22 August 2010 21:22 (thirteen years ago) link
zinging is my art
― max, Sunday, 22 August 2010 21:23 (thirteen years ago) link
not lyrics
it's a fine line!!!!!
― horseshoe, Sunday, 22 August 2010 21:23 (thirteen years ago) link
too true, too true
in a lot of ways my tumblr is my graceland
― max, Sunday, 22 August 2010 21:24 (thirteen years ago) link
i mean you dont really need a graceland when you have the ny times in 2010:
http://celebraterickysargulesh.tumblr.com/post/418545344/brooklyn-2010
yeah i still think he did take a while to "mature" as a songwriter. the s+gf stuff is only intermittently good lyrically
― plax (ico), Sunday, 22 August 2010 21:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Come Anticipate Norah Jones's NYC Zingers.
I do think Craig Finn works at combining stuff that's never been in a song with specific snapshots of times and spaces with stream-of-consciousness, but it's not NYC.
― Bag Smart, Street Stupid (Eazy), Sunday, 22 August 2010 21:25 (thirteen years ago) link
the s+gf stuff is only intermittently good lyrically
― plax (ico), Sunday, August 22, 2010 5:25 PM (43 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
it's true; i don't really like simon and garfunkel that much at all
― horseshoe, Sunday, 22 August 2010 21:26 (thirteen years ago) link