that song is pretty jesusy!
― horseshoe, Sunday, 7 August 2011 20:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
The only thing that does put me off PS is that he sings quite a lot about god and religiosity. These are not my kind of thing.
i can guess which you'd prefer between paul simon and leonard cohen then
― max, Sunday, 7 August 2011 20:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
pinefox, do you like R&B or gospel?
― livin in my own private Biden hole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 7 August 2011 20:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
haha i was thinking!!!
― Lamp, Sunday, 7 August 2011 20:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
do you guys think the speaker of "still crazy after all these years" killed his ex-girlfriend? i sort of do.
― horseshoe, Sunday, 7 August 2011 20:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
Horseshoe, I love 'the obvious child'.
I don't listen to Leonard Cohen. I've never owned any of his work.
I like R&B in a general way, as on the Paul Jones radio programme. I don't really know gospel except in the distant way that anyone does, and on RATTLE & HUM.
Horsehoe, I don't know 'still crazy' well enough to say.
― the pinefox, Sunday, 7 August 2011 20:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
I don't really know gospel except in the distant way that anyone does, and on RATTLE & HUM.
haha good answer
― livin in my own private Biden hole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 7 August 2011 20:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
he says, "i fear i'll do some damage one fine day," but there are so many ellipses in that song, like
I met my old loverOn the street last nightShe seemed so glad to see meI just smiledAnd we talked about some old timesAnd we drank ourselves some beersStill crazy after all these years
and it's like, what happened between the beers and the crazy?
― horseshoe, Sunday, 7 August 2011 20:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
i love the god bothering stuff
― ℗⎣▲✘ (ico), Sunday, 7 August 2011 20:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
hat happened between the beers and the crazy?
^^^^ good lyric
― livin in my own private Biden hole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 7 August 2011 20:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
* what
― ℗⎣▲✘ (ico), Sunday, August 7, 2011 4:34 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark
yeah it's there from the beginning, that yearning for transcendental experience or whatever
― horseshoe, Sunday, 7 August 2011 20:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
angels in the architecture, spinning in infinity, sweet angels sing "hallelujah"
― ℗⎣▲✘ (ico), Sunday, 7 August 2011 20:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
And I will lay my burden downRest my head upon that shoreAnd when I wear that starry crownI won't be wanting anymore
― horseshoe, Sunday, 7 August 2011 20:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
starry is such a pretty word
― ℗⎣▲✘ (ico), Sunday, 7 August 2011 20:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
I believe I BELIEVEin the Kingdom ComeIN THE KINGDOM COMEThen all the coloursALLLL THE COLOURS will bleed into oneBLEEEEED INTO O--O-OONE
You broke the bondsBROKE THE BONDSAnd you loosed the chainsLOOSED THE CHAINSCarried the crossCARRIED THE CROSS of my shameOF MY SHAMEyou know I believe it.
I BELIEVE IT!
You know, I do
― the pinefox, Sunday, 7 August 2011 21:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
The god talk gets annoying on the new one.
― livin in my own private Biden hole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 7 August 2011 21:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
ok Bono lyrics do not even belong on the same board as paul simon lyrics
― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Sunday, 7 August 2011 21:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
like there should be a separate board for bono lyrics and the board should be called "i love sucking ass"
one time i read a bono quote where he said it was a pleasure to listen to michael jackson as long as you ignored the lyrics, and i was like, that's pretty rich coming from you, bono.
― horseshoe, Sunday, 7 August 2011 21:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
I mainly just posted that last one to tempt DJP
― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Sunday, 7 August 2011 21:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
Wtf you atheists and "god talk" as if mentions of god make someone jerry falwell
― Gatsby was a success, in the end, wasn't he? (D-40), Sunday, 7 August 2011 21:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
^^
― Autism Alamac (some dude), Sunday, 7 August 2011 21:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
i will take all of your silence as confirmation of my theory that "still crazy after all these years" is about a murderer.
― horseshoe, Sunday, 7 August 2011 21:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
No one but pinefox said that.
― livin in my own private Biden hole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 7 August 2011 21:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
I wrote in my review a couple of months ago that Simon doesn't really illuminate some tired religious tropes. I wish he'd gone Al Green in his old age.
― livin in my own private Biden hole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 7 August 2011 21:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
still crazy after all these years is abt how garfunkel reads so many books and murdering him
― ice cr?m, Sunday, 7 August 2011 21:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
people caring about lyrics too much itt
― stop listening to the lyrics so much. you're ruining music (CaptainLorax), Sunday, 7 August 2011 21:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
what are the names of the songs in Paul Simon's album Graceland?
― anne alison, Monday, February 16, 2004
― buzza, Sunday, 7 August 2011 21:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
You gotta fill out a form first.
― livin in my own private Biden hole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 7 August 2011 21:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
and stick it up your ass
― stop listening to the lyrics so much. you're ruining music (CaptainLorax), Sunday, 7 August 2011 21:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
still crazy after all these years is abt how garfunkel reads so many books and murdering him --ice cr?m
― Scharlach Sometimes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 7 August 2011 21:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
I don't believe Alamac is actually sorry.
― L.P. Hovercraft (WmC), Sunday, 7 August 2011 21:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
in answer to the thread title in particular, i generally don't feel like paul simon is overrated - it seems to me that people have a very mixed reception of him
― surm, Sunday, 7 August 2011 22:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
i think what i love best about paul simon is his phrasing, how he works his voice, lyrics and guitar together so niftily and so beautifully, i adore the sweetness of it. every element is elevated.
― estela, Sunday, 7 August 2011 22:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
and he enunciates like nobody's business.
― estela, Sunday, 7 August 2011 22:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
otm he is tremendous at delivering complex lines
― call all destroyer, Monday, 8 August 2011 00:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
tbh i just think "graceland" is maybe the best song anyone's ever written
― max, Monday, 8 August 2011 00:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
i love the way the steady beat of the bass and drums sound like car wheels on the highway and the way all the lyrics sound like the kind of things you say when you are being overfriendly to people you meet at gas stations at convenience stores
― max, Monday, 8 August 2011 00:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
the sort of cheerfully mournful "she comes back to tell me shes gone" and the over-indignant "as if i didnt know that/as if i didnt know my own bed" and then that gorgeous pause that drifts off into the heartbreaking "as if id never noticed the way she brushed her hair from her forehead"
― max, Monday, 8 August 2011 00:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
if someone said those things to me at a gas station i'd be a little overwhelmed
― horseshoe, Monday, 8 August 2011 00:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
i'd be intrigued but alert.
― estela, Monday, 8 August 2011 00:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
haha i dont know have you ever taken a big trip after a life change? i ended up being very over-share-y with strangers, and all did was graduate from college, not divorce anyone
― max, Monday, 8 August 2011 00:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
yes i have and i probably did that, but not as prettily as paul simon
― horseshoe, Monday, 8 August 2011 00:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
i made myself a paul simon playlist and went for a walk listening to it btw ty this thread
― horseshoe, Monday, 8 August 2011 00:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
i wonder if my neighbours mind that i've sung 'the mississippi delta was shining like a national guitar' quite loudly about forty times in the past hour.
― estela, Monday, 8 August 2011 00:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
i've noticed recently that every time i hear paul simon i think approvingly of horseshoe, so far she has commandeered paul simon and mark ruffalo.
― estela, Monday, 8 August 2011 00:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
aw! people who routinely post in paul simon threads are some of my favorite ilxors.
― horseshoe, Monday, 8 August 2011 00:38 (1 year ago) Permalink
not you, Alamac
― horseshoe, Monday, 8 August 2011 00:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
s/t solo debut is a stone-cold classic. I like Graceland OK, but nothing has ever come even moderately close to that first record imo.
― golf n stuff (Pillbox), Monday, 8 August 2011 00:45 (1 year ago) Permalink