Paul Simon's 'Graceland'

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It's pretty much on par with "Nebraska" as far as songs in which the singer ends up strapped into an electric chair.

Eazy, Tuesday, 26 May 2009 22:20 (fifteen years ago) link

this is a totally ugly album (sounds really pretty tho) no wonder his audience didn't bite

sample chorus: "fucking puerto rican dope-dealing punk / get your shit-brown ass outta here"

Wrinkles, I'll See You On the Other Side (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 26 May 2009 22:21 (fifteen years ago) link

sounds like it was co-written with this guy
http://www.paul-simon.info/PHP/pictures/thumb2/1062290526_paul-reed(lou%20reed).jpg

tylerw, Tuesday, 26 May 2009 22:29 (fifteen years ago) link

It's pretty much on par with "Nebraska" as far as songs in which the singer ends up strapped into an electric chair.

just behind 'ride the lightning' though

Ømår Littel (Jordan), Tuesday, 26 May 2009 22:30 (fifteen years ago) link

lolz great pic of him and Lou

Wrinkles, I'll See You On the Other Side (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 26 May 2009 22:31 (fifteen years ago) link

talkin about puerto rican doo wop, i'm sure

tylerw, Tuesday, 26 May 2009 22:37 (fifteen years ago) link

("puerto rican doo wop" being the name of a sweet strain of cocaine in the late 70s)

tylerw, Tuesday, 26 May 2009 22:38 (fifteen years ago) link

one month passes...

okay, cheeseball me got a little choked up randomly hearing this "Father and Daughter" song off of "Surprise" while swimming with my daughter

Sleep Causes Cancer (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 22:50 (fifteen years ago) link

It's a good song!

My name is Kenny! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 22:52 (fifteen years ago) link

His singing especially: it's self-mocking yet totally sincere.

My name is Kenny! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 22:53 (fifteen years ago) link

I had never heard it before but yeah struck me as pretty vintage Simon right off the bat

Sleep Causes Cancer (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 22:57 (fifteen years ago) link

liked this song except for the cartoony backing vocals ...

tylerw, Wednesday, 8 July 2009 22:58 (fifteen years ago) link

three months pass...

This fucking album wow.

Bay-L.A. Bar Talk (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 05:59 (fifteen years ago) link

otm

iatee, Tuesday, 13 October 2009 06:02 (fifteen years ago) link

rulez

ice cr?m, Tuesday, 13 October 2009 06:02 (fifteen years ago) link

first cd ever owned and I think I want it to be last thing I listen to before I die

Bay-L.A. Bar Talk (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 06:11 (fifteen years ago) link

It was my soundtrack to this last summer. I kept putting on the song "Graceland" just to hear it alone, and then listening to the whole album anyway. And then I'd listen again.

Euler, Tuesday, 13 October 2009 07:48 (fifteen years ago) link

it has been the soundtrack to so many of my summers

just sayin, Tuesday, 13 October 2009 08:03 (fifteen years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GykbnvufIZE

I remember seeing the Graceland concert film this comes from in Music class back in Kindergarten onward whenever it was time to study "World Music." IIRC we never got to sing any of the songs.

Roomful of Moogs (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 14 October 2009 00:28 (fifteen years ago) link

My soundtrack to family car journeys in England. So many good memories.

sam500, Wednesday, 14 October 2009 00:31 (fifteen years ago) link

x post.

growing up, it was such a part of my family holidays in the car. I now have a copy just to repeat the experience with my family.

its a best of Paul Simon CD but 40% of it is Gracelend so I don't feel I'm missing out.

my opinionation (Hamildan), Wednesday, 14 October 2009 19:22 (fifteen years ago) link

growing up, it was such a part of my family holidays in the car.

Same for me. It always gives me flashbacks to the smell of hire cars and the South of France.

chap, Wednesday, 14 October 2009 19:24 (fifteen years ago) link

growing up, it was such a part of my family holidays in the car. I now have a copy just to repeat the experience with my family.

ha, me too! I had no idea this was a universal

Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 14 October 2009 19:28 (fifteen years ago) link

I didn't grow up with it, but it was the last "family record" we had, coming out just as we stopped being able to do things as a unit. So it's nostalgic, but in a bittersweet sort of way.

from alcoholism to fleshly concerns (contenderizer), Wednesday, 14 October 2009 19:28 (fifteen years ago) link

Since it was the first CD my family owned (and I think the ONLY pop/rock CD for some time) it was a family experience for me as well - I was still young enough that I would listen to the music my parents liked, and it was an album the whole family seemed to really like.

Bay-L.A. Bar Talk (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 14 October 2009 20:06 (fifteen years ago) link

def universally approved of in my family too

ice cr?m, Thursday, 15 October 2009 05:58 (fifteen years ago) link

it was the first CD my family owned

Yup! Same here.

Binkie & The-Dream: One is a Terius, the other's insAY!ne (Alex in Montreal), Thursday, 15 October 2009 06:13 (fifteen years ago) link

lol i think it's the only pop cd my mum owns

jabba hands, Thursday, 15 October 2009 12:34 (fifteen years ago) link

haha i didn't really hear this album growing up but when i went on vacation w/ my wife's family in June i must've heard this in the car like 8 times

some dude, Thursday, 15 October 2009 13:11 (fifteen years ago) link

I have still never heard more than four songs from this album. For some reason, this one totally passed my family by even though I think it would have been right up their alley.

& other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 15 October 2009 13:14 (fifteen years ago) link

we listened to it on vinyl, made me the indie fukk i am today

congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 15 October 2009 13:15 (fifteen years ago) link

After listening to it again and again all summer, and getting kinda weirdly curious about what it would feel like to lose love and have a window to my heart, and then remembering that I'm happily married, I'm not sure what to think of this being a really popular family album, besides that the words must not be listened to very clearly.

Euler, Thursday, 15 October 2009 13:19 (fifteen years ago) link

what families cant appreciate having windows in their hearts plz

ice cr?m, Thursday, 15 October 2009 16:17 (fifteen years ago) link

lolz yeah the lyrics on this album are a total downer! par for the course with Simon

Remove This Vile Tweet (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 15 October 2009 16:20 (fifteen years ago) link

Well that was your mother,
And that was your father,
Before you was born dude,
When life was great,
You are the burden, of my generation,
I sure do love you,
But let's get that straight,

what a horrible thing to say to your child

Remove This Vile Tweet (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 15 October 2009 16:21 (fifteen years ago) link

haha, yeah, the narrator of that song is an incredible asshole

tylerw, Thursday, 15 October 2009 16:27 (fifteen years ago) link

yeah its sorta Steely Dan-ish the way it contrasts a really slick, joyful sounding tune with total asshole lyrics

Remove This Vile Tweet (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 15 October 2009 16:34 (fifteen years ago) link

ive always felt guilty for thinking the banter on i know what i know is smooth

ice cr?m, Thursday, 15 October 2009 16:51 (fifteen years ago) link

Also heard this a lot on family car rides through America's heartland.

kingkongvsgodzilla, Thursday, 15 October 2009 17:33 (fifteen years ago) link

OTMFM!

ok star grumbles (lukas), Thursday, 15 October 2009 17:36 (fifteen years ago) link

ive always felt guilty for thinking the banter on i know what i know is smooth

Hmmm, I might try "don't I know you from the cinematographer's party?" on the next nice girl I meet and see what reaction it gets.

chap, Thursday, 15 October 2009 19:02 (fifteen years ago) link

yeah who would she be to blow against the wind etc

ice cr?m, Thursday, 15 October 2009 19:07 (fifteen years ago) link

haha cant believe how universal this record is for so many ppl ... i had no idea

i got nothin (deej), Thursday, 15 October 2009 21:18 (fifteen years ago) link

for so many ppl's families, i mean ... it was for mine as well

i got nothin (deej), Thursday, 15 October 2009 21:18 (fifteen years ago) link

yeah, me too. I remember driving around in the vanagon circa 1987 listening to this tape constantly. It wasn't my fam's first CD -- I think Rhythm of the Saints was!

tylerw, Thursday, 15 October 2009 21:20 (fifteen years ago) link

Seriously, the playing on this is so good! I'm going to make a very embarrassing old man one day, earnestly beseeching some twelve-year-olds and their friends to 'just listen to that fretless bass'.

Ismael Klata, Thursday, 15 October 2009 21:25 (fifteen years ago) link

Mid-80's, this record was guaranteed to show up in two places: (1) right before the first speaker at a rally at my college to protest anything, they'd play it on the PA, and (2) the record collection of every adult lefty in my parents' circle of friends, along with the soundtrack to the Commitments.

dad a, Thursday, 15 October 2009 21:27 (fifteen years ago) link

srsly ill sound - why dont more musicians fuck w/the fretless

ice cr?m, Thursday, 15 October 2009 21:27 (fifteen years ago) link

ugh the Commitments, what an abortion of an album

Jesus, the Czar of Czars (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 15 October 2009 21:30 (fifteen years ago) link

I remember getting totally inordinately upset with people who actually insisted that the Commitments sdtk was better than the original Stax recordings (even tho they are like note-for-note covers!)

the mind boggles

Jesus, the Czar of Czars (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 15 October 2009 21:32 (fifteen years ago) link


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