The John Adams coda to Johnny Ace is an oddity; I wonder why it's there?
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 19 March 2012 21:02 (twelve years ago) link
that's philip glass, right? i kinda like it, though it is a kind of odd touch.
― tylerw, Monday, 19 March 2012 21:26 (twelve years ago) link
Simon wrote the lyrics for this Glass piece (tho he didn't sing it)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1irfiYgf2pA
― tylerw, Monday, 19 March 2012 21:27 (twelve years ago) link
"'An Evening With Phillip Glass'--only an evening!"
― Mike Love Costume Jewelry on Etsy (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 19 March 2012 21:35 (twelve years ago) link
little bit off topic, but someone just played this for me. the intro has been sampled to death.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6NU1Ze5rHApaul simon, the father of hip hop?
― tylerw, Monday, 19 March 2012 21:39 (twelve years ago) link
are there Spanish-lang covers of "Julio," btw?
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Monday, 19 March 2012 21:41 (twelve years ago) link
O____O at the dude running onstage at the most key moment on the first performance of Johnny AceKudos to PS for barely flinching, not missing a note, etc.
― mom in the woods (Ówen P.), Monday, 19 March 2012 21:42 (twelve years ago) link
yeah apparently he never played it live again after that! little bit freaky.
dunno about spanish language versions of julio, but this is great if you haven't seen it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1dlWmrRstc
― tylerw, Monday, 19 March 2012 21:44 (twelve years ago) link
1) I was at that show
2) It wasn't me
xp
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Monday, 19 March 2012 21:45 (twelve years ago) link
You're "Soy Bomb", right?
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 19 March 2012 21:48 (twelve years ago) link
fwiw soy bomb has since become an established conceptual artist and surgeon
― mom in the woods (Ówen P.), Monday, 19 March 2012 22:03 (twelve years ago) link
yeah a little sad that gumboots is off the table so quickly. my favourite song off graceland. i love that little tight kit, how everything chirps away, all so compact and tight, all the rhythms ticking along together. everything jammed together into that little taxicab. its a song that's made me feel really romantic about new york too. the specific cosmopolitanism: a little overheard dialoge, fibre optic virgin mary on the dashboard, just drop me off at the next block. it makes sense to me that this was the seed of the whole project. the big themes haven't really opened out yet, its not the expansiveness of african skies, the lights over broadway, the big swaying rhythms, angels in the architecture. its just this little moment, this little portrait of a moment. but still so heartfelt along with the slight defensiveness. all glib urbanity and then this flash of vulnerability. you don't feel you could love me but i feel you could. i guess it wouldn't work for me if it wasn't so specific, a vignette. the cabdriver minding his own business, humming along w/ a highlife compilation.
― judith, Monday, 19 March 2012 22:05 (twelve years ago) link
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Monday, March 19, 2012 5:41 PM (39 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
btw i was today on my million listen of the song for the first time appreciating his good pronunciation of julio
― lag∞n, Monday, 19 March 2012 22:23 (twelve years ago) link
he always enunciates with perfect grace.
― estela, Thursday, August 19, 2010 10:18 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― horseshoe, Monday, 19 March 2012 22:27 (twelve years ago) link
is "julio" and "schoolyard" internal rhyme or assonance and consonance at the same time or what? whatever it is, it is very pleasant. also i didn't vote for that song because i am a big liar.
― horseshoe, Monday, 19 March 2012 22:28 (twelve years ago) link
Haha! I've never noticed that until now, when I tried it in a New York accent.
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 19 March 2012 22:30 (twelve years ago) link
it cracks me up so much how he cuts that kid off on sesame street.
― judith, Monday, 19 March 2012 22:33 (twelve years ago) link
haha i know i have always heard that he's kind of mean irl and that moment makes me believe it
― horseshoe, Monday, 19 March 2012 22:34 (twelve years ago) link
nobody steals the spotlight from paul simon! not even some cute as a button kid!
― tylerw, Monday, 19 March 2012 22:34 (twelve years ago) link
lol totally ok kid make way for the pro now
― lag∞n, Monday, 19 March 2012 22:35 (twelve years ago) link
― mom in the woods (Ówen P.), Monday, March 19, 2012 5:42 PM (45 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yah damn he is in THE MFN ZONE thats some srs intensity, its not that he doesnt react he gives the whole thing exactly the right space then slides back into the cut
Hahaha, thanks for getting me to watch that Sesame Street clip
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 19 March 2012 22:41 (twelve years ago) link
i like this post about me and julio from the 70s simon singles thread:
I played a bunch of these for my son (aged 5) one evening when we were driving around. He usually ignores most music that I play for him, but when Julio came on he said he related to it because "I don't know where I'm going". Made me get a bit misty eyed.
― Moodles, Monday, February 16, 2009 1:20 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― horseshoe, Monday, 19 March 2012 23:10 (twelve years ago) link
I won't link to it and preempt the countdown, but Mickey Mantle's cameo in the late-'80s video for "Julio" is one of my favourite video moments ever. (Just re-watched it--John Madden's great too.)
― clemenza, Monday, 19 March 2012 23:11 (twelve years ago) link
Is anyone other than me puzzled by the very first image in this thread? Is that Peggy Lee? I don't get it. Sorry if this has already been answered.
― clemenza, Monday, 19 March 2012 23:12 (twelve years ago) link
(Way off-topic, but that reminds me of my friend's 6-year-old getting freaked out by the concept of "Time keeps on slipping, slipping, slipping into the future."
― "marvellously inoffensive" (Eazy), Monday, 19 March 2012 23:15 (twelve years ago) link
Sorry if this has already been answered.
nah I have no idea what the joke is either
― the sir edmund hillary of sitting through pauly shore films (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 19 March 2012 23:18 (twelve years ago) link
always thought that 80s 'julio' was kinda corny, part of that whole 'look at the celebs we rounded up for this!' video trend that runs from i guess 'ghostbusters' (still the best imo) to 'liberian girl', eg to an extent - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaGfW2Ifuts
― balls, Monday, 19 March 2012 23:21 (twelve years ago) link
True...but it's not just a celebrity--it's Mickey Mantle! And he's playing stickball in the streets of New York.
― clemenza, Monday, 19 March 2012 23:25 (twelve years ago) link
true! i think i'd rather just hear the damn song or failing that go the ghostbusters route and have various castmembers of taxi pop up to sing when the title pops up in the chorus
― balls, Monday, 19 March 2012 23:29 (twelve years ago) link
It's always been a dream of mine to play stickball with Marilu Henner, but enough about my bilious private life.
― clemenza, Monday, 19 March 2012 23:33 (twelve years ago) link
It's just now clicking for me that I was completely insane not to have "Crazy Love, Vol. II" anywhere on my ballot. Damn!
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 02:38 (twelve years ago) link
http://i1224.photobucket.com/albums/ee366/lamp11/30Scarbrough.jpg#30 SCARBOROUGH FAIR/CANTICLE1966/1968 (single)168 points/7 votes/1 #1 votehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYQaD2CAi9A
― Lamp, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 04:48 (twelve years ago) link
i will just say: i don't really get this song
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 04:48 (twelve years ago) link
and if "peace like a river" doesn't make this poll i choose to blame "scarborough fair" voters
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 04:49 (twelve years ago) link
http://i1224.photobucket.com/albums/ee366/lamp11/29Homeward.jpg#29 HOMEWARD BOUND1966170 points/8 votes/0 #1 voteshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsTNxVtS4c8
― Lamp, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 04:50 (twelve years ago) link
now we're talking. my #10, though i owed it better.
― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 04:50 (twelve years ago) link
gah, that was re: "scarborough fair"!
you move too fast, lamp...
― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 04:51 (twelve years ago) link
http://i1224.photobucket.com/albums/ee366/lamp11/28BornAt.jpg#29 BORN AT THE RIGHT TIME1990176 points/7 votes/0 #1 voteshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymjuHYKh7d4
― Lamp, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 04:52 (twelve years ago) link
― horseshoe, Monday, March 19, 2012 9:48 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
and how how how could you say such a thing? one of the most effortlessly beautiful songs i've ever heard.
― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 04:52 (twelve years ago) link
TOO LOW
xp i really think it's because my parents are immigrants
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 04:52 (twelve years ago) link
i myself voted "born at the right time" too low; so effortlessly beautiful
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 04:53 (twelve years ago) link
too many people on the bus from the airporttoo many holes in the earththe planet groans every time it registers another birth
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 04:54 (twelve years ago) link
holes in the crust of the earth, excuse me
while the results of this poll are racing by in a heedless blur, i'd like to say that "homeward bound" is yet another wonderful song that i didn't vote for. glad that others saw fit to rectify my helpless error.
― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 04:54 (twelve years ago) link
http://i1224.photobucket.com/albums/ee366/lamp11/27AmericanTune.jpg#27 AMERICAN TUNE1973189 points/9 votes/0 #1 voteshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0wIbgDVp5c
― Lamp, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 04:54 (twelve years ago) link
"american tune" is nice; i didn't vote for it; apparently it was used in a commercial for barack obama?
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 04:55 (twelve years ago) link
^^morbz bair
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 04:56 (twelve years ago) link
bait. what is wrong with me
"scarborough fair" is a song that kids in middle school would always make a big deal of and i would be like, i literally have no idea what is happening right now.
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 04:57 (twelve years ago) link