I have no idea why I left "America" off my ballot. Helluva tune.
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 23 March 2012 19:28 (twelve years ago) link
sounds like a museum iirc
― the sir edmund hillary of sitting through pauly shore films (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 23 March 2012 19:29 (twelve years ago) link
That was it!
Actually, I bumped it off so I could vote for childhood favorite "The Big Bright Green Pleasure Machine"
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 23 March 2012 19:30 (twelve years ago) link
kinda figured that was gonna win, seems like the song you'd put in the paul simon time capsule
― iatee, Friday, 23 March 2012 19:31 (twelve years ago) link
I like Bowie's version of "America."
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 23 March 2012 19:33 (twelve years ago) link
"America" is so good, the swell of "counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike" is no museum piece.
― Euler, Friday, 23 March 2012 19:33 (twelve years ago) link
Okay, America - it didn't grab me on my run through the catalogue so I set it aside. I was surprised to see you all putting it down as a lock.
Listened there again and reassessed a little. It's beautiful, but complicated - I feel like I'd need to spend a lot of time with it to appreciate it properly, like there are links and resonances where I'm not making the connections. What it reminds me most of is Surf's Up, which is a good start I'd say.
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 23 March 2012 19:34 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FM1cPS6i24
― the sir edmund hillary of sitting through pauly shore films (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 23 March 2012 19:35 (twelve years ago) link
^^^ empty & aching
― Euler, Friday, 23 March 2012 19:36 (twelve years ago) link
"Be careful/His bow-tie is really a camera!"
― Mike Love Costume Jewelry on Etsy (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 23 March 2012 19:37 (twelve years ago) link
http://i1224.photobucket.com/albums/ee366/lamp11/04Duncan.jpg#04 DUNCAN1972470 points/18 votes/2 #1 voteshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngH4zZ-oiuY
― Lamp, Friday, 23 March 2012 19:38 (twelve years ago) link
his hand gestures/pantomiming in that video totally cracks me up
xp
― the sir edmund hillary of sitting through pauly shore films (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 23 March 2012 19:38 (twelve years ago) link
Duncan was my no.1
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 23 March 2012 19:39 (twelve years ago) link
wow! didnt expect duncan this high, but happy abt it
― just sayin, Friday, 23 March 2012 19:39 (twelve years ago) link
if i had voted, America and American Tune might've been my 1-2.
http://www.angelfire.com/al2/diggers/images/americanflag.gif
― JIM THOMETHEUS (zachlyon), Friday, 23 March 2012 19:39 (twelve years ago) link
Hearing the demo, how it's virtually a different song, is so strange.
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 23 March 2012 19:40 (twelve years ago) link
Duncan also real good, didn't expect to see it at this point
― JIM THOMETHEUS (zachlyon), Friday, 23 March 2012 19:41 (twelve years ago) link
... communists and fags, mm-hm desecrate the flag, just across the Canadian border ...
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 23 March 2012 19:44 (twelve years ago) link
america's great, glad to see it place so high. love it without question from "let us be lovers...", the way an almost angry passion blooms out at "it took me four days to hitchhike from saginaw, i've...", then recedes almost immediately. love so many things, the precision of observation and invention, wide-eyed naivete struggling for world-weary wisdom, "the man in the gabardine suit was a spy", "though i knew she was sleeping", the sense of being lost in youth, an almost impossible vastness of possibility
― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Friday, 23 March 2012 19:45 (twelve years ago) link
http://i1224.photobucket.com/albums/ee366/lamp11/03MeJulio.jpg#03 ME AND JULIO DOWN BY THE SCHOOLYARD1972491 points/19 votes/1 #1 votehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46Cfrl7hMoQ
― Lamp, Friday, 23 March 2012 19:48 (twelve years ago) link
Woah, I thought Julio was the certain winner.
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 23 March 2012 19:49 (twelve years ago) link
― Ismael Klata
Mine too. Love it to pieces.
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 23 March 2012 19:50 (twelve years ago) link
all the top ten solo simon thus far was also in my top ten, obvious child was num1, graceland and mrs robinson yet to come no
― lag∞n, Friday, 23 March 2012 19:55 (twelve years ago) link
This makes a really surprising top two imo
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 23 March 2012 19:56 (twelve years ago) link
Mrs. Robinson already placed I thought
― the sir edmund hillary of sitting through pauly shore films (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 23 March 2012 19:56 (twelve years ago) link
It did
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 23 March 2012 19:57 (twelve years ago) link
my bad
― lag∞n, Friday, 23 March 2012 19:57 (twelve years ago) link
http://i1224.photobucket.com/albums/ee366/lamp11/02Only2.jpg#02 THE ONLY LIVING BOY IN NEW YORK1970 507 points/19 votes/4 #1 voteshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IwYQ1Vqf_4
― Lamp, Friday, 23 March 2012 19:58 (twelve years ago) link
Beautiful song. What's it about?
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 23 March 2012 19:59 (twelve years ago) link
New York
― Euler, Friday, 23 March 2012 19:59 (twelve years ago) link
i think its supposed to be about simon feeling abandoned and frustrated after garfunkel went to mexico to shoot a movie but to me its sorta about insignificance and hope
― Lamp, Friday, 23 March 2012 20:01 (twelve years ago) link
It's about the "aaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh"s iirc
― Euler, Friday, 23 March 2012 20:02 (twelve years ago) link
It's great because it's abandoned and frustrated while also recognizing that the other person SHOULD go, this is what they need to do for them, etc. Sort of a "if you love someone, let them go" kind of song, but conveying how aching and scary and alone it is for the person doing the letting-go.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 23 March 2012 20:03 (twelve years ago) link
lol i get the image on this one!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKMeflQn7uQ
― tylerw, Friday, 23 March 2012 20:04 (twelve years ago) link
And then sort of whistling in the dark (the wordless syllables, do-dilly-da!), coming home at night on the streets of NYC and the lonesomeness somehow deflates itself - hey, I'm doing okay for myself here. I get the news I need on the weather report.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 23 March 2012 20:05 (twelve years ago) link
http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTgwNjgwNTU4N15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTYwNDIzMDQ2._V1._SX420_SY276_.jpg
Wow, didn't realize Marcel Dalio was the old man in Catch-22.
― Mike Love Costume Jewelry on Etsy (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 23 March 2012 20:08 (twelve years ago) link
Song also reminds me a lot of moments when I've been traveling on my own or something like that, walking around an unfamiliar city by yourself - - it's sort of stressful on the one hand but when you really roll into it, it can be really therapeutic like - Hey. I'm surviving. I'm this atomized, independent person and I can go where I feel like going today. Some major, huge life decisions have crystallized for me on days like that, you sort of sweep away the junk of other stuff that weighs you down (jobs you think you have to take, places you think you have to live) and just feel alive. The only living boy in New York.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 23 March 2012 20:08 (twelve years ago) link
http://i1224.photobucket.com/albums/ee366/lamp11/01Graceland.jpg#01 GRACELAND1986677 points/24 votes/4 #1 voteshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvliMzAFWHM
― Lamp, Friday, 23 March 2012 20:09 (twelve years ago) link
haha
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 23 March 2012 20:10 (twelve years ago) link
yeesssssss
― the sir edmund hillary of sitting through pauly shore films (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 23 March 2012 20:10 (twelve years ago) link
Only Living Boy was my #1 but this was close
Some legitimate surprises in the top 5. Great poll!
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 23 March 2012 20:11 (twelve years ago) link
Best Line in "Graceland"
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Friday, 23 March 2012 20:12 (twelve years ago) link
Paul will approve of this placing. Inexplicably I didn't vote for it, god knows why as it's sublime. If you can check out the 'Classic albums' doc on this just so you can hear the Everly Brothers backing vox unadorned.
― fun loving and xtremely tolrant (Billy Dods), Friday, 23 March 2012 20:12 (twelve years ago) link
challops: You Can POLL Me, Al: Paul Simon's "Graceland"
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Friday, 23 March 2012 20:13 (twelve years ago) link
Bravo and hooray for Lamp and for this poll! This is gonna be a thread worth reading back over, and the Spotify playlist makes about as good of a Simon "best-of" as you could ask for.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 23 March 2012 20:14 (twelve years ago) link
the TOP 40 as voted on by you, ilx:
#40 - FAKIN' IT#39 - THE LATE GREAT JOHNNY ACE#38 - THE 59th STREET BRIDGE SONG (FEELIN' GROOVY)#37 - AT THE ZOO#36 - KEEP THE CUSTOMER SATISFIED#35 - MY LITTLE TOWN#34 - TRAIN IN THE DISTANCE#33 - STILL CRAZY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS#32 - SO LONG, FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT#31 - GUMBOOTS
#30 - SCARBOROUGH FAIR/CANTICLE#29 - HOMEWARD BOUND#29 - BORN AT THE RIGHT TIME#27 - AMERICAN TUNE#25 - A HAZY SHADE OF WINTER#25 - THE COOL, COOL RIVER#24 - PEACE LIKE A RIVER#23 - I KNOW WHAT I KNOW#22 - SLIP SLIDIN' AWAY#21 - RENE & GEORGETTE MAGRITTE WITH THEIR DOG AFTER THE WAR
#20 - THE SOUND OF SILENCE#19 - I AM A ROCK#18 - YOU CAN CALL ME AL#17 - BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER#16 - MRS. ROBINSON#15 - LATE IN THE EVENING#14 - HEARTS AND BONES#13 - KODACHROME#12 - 50 WAYS TO LEAVE YOUR LOVER#11 - MOTHER AND CHILD REUNION
#10 - THE BOXER#09 - THE BOY IN THE BUBBLE#08 - DIAMONDS ON THE SOLES OF HER SHOES#07 - CECILIA#06 - THE OBVIOUS CHILD
#05 - AMERICA#04 - DUNCAN#03 - ME AND JULIO DOWN BY THE SCHOOLYARD#02 - THE ONLY LIVING BOY IN NEW YORK#01 - GRACELAND
― Lamp, Friday, 23 March 2012 20:15 (twelve years ago) link
YAY!!!!
― lag∞n, Friday, 23 March 2012 20:17 (twelve years ago) link
It won by a mile. It's brilliant, true, but then so is everything else.
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 23 March 2012 20:19 (twelve years ago) link
Great poll! "Only Living Boy" at #2 is a huge surprise for me. Thanks, Lamp, well run!
― any major prude will tell you (WmC), Friday, 23 March 2012 20:20 (twelve years ago) link