Voices Of Poll People - The "Bookends" Poll

And. Well... "Save The Life Of a Child". Great synth bass.

Also love "America", "Old Friends", "A Hazy Shade Of Winter", "Fakin' It" and "Punky's Dilemma"

amazing album (with a few glaring exceptions). Could kinda vote for almost anything here. Almost wanna go for "At the Zoo"

At first I was like, 'Who is this new Poll People band?' Oh man fucking title 'wordplay,' it is like being nibbled to death by guppies.

ANYWAY I love this album. It was the second album I ever bought! This is some tough stuff to choose.

voted Punky's

Voted the title track, "America" a close second, cd have been any really.

"Save the Life of My Child," but there isn't a bad track on this album.

Almost dead even between "Mrs. Robinson" and "At the Zoo"--I voted for the latter. I can't remember whether the "Mrs. Robinson" here is identical to the movie version.

Different than the one on the movie soundtrack. They sound...less stoned.

Because it was too hard to decide, I went with "Bookends" because it's such an exquisitely melancholy little fragment.

This is the album where Paul Simon almost completely stopped writing black-turtleneck-and-Gauloises high school poetry. Still a few cringeworthy moments (the payoff to "America," for one, though it's still a great song), but his growth as a lyricist over the earlier S&G albums is pretty significant.

"America" b/c the line "counting the cars on the new jersey turnpike" after the empty and aching bit is classic beyond belief, an epiphany

but "Old Friends" is a close #2 but only coupled with "Voices of Old People" first

Great, great album. Oddly, was the last S & G I heard; my Mom had everything else, but this I had to find for myself in my late teens. As such, it is oft-times my favorite, but without the lived-in nostalgia I seem to play it less.

Listening now, "Old Friends" is shatteringly good.

They sound...less stoned

Heh, I can never look at this album cover without remembering Frances McDormand in "Almost Famous" pointing out their dilated pupils and confiscating the daughter's copy...

Think I'm gonna go with "Hazy Shade"

but "Old Friends" is a close #2 but only coupled with "Voices of Old People" first

^^^ugh, hate this part

i would vote "hazy shade" but i can't disentangle my love for it from my love for the bangles' cover. so, "mrs. robinson," which, hoary chestnut and all, is unfuckwithable.

goodass poll yo

dude this is seriously so hard

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wtf someone actually voted for 'Voices of Old People '?

This is one of those cult ILM records like Tusk.