I'm sorry but Paul Simon is so overrated

paul simon invented ilx in "the dangling conversation"

― chief content officer (m coleman), Monday, 8 August 2011 04:00 (1 year ago) Permalink

oh man I'll praise Simon when he's good but I hate me some "Slip Slidin Away"

― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 8 August 2011 04:31 (1 year ago) Permalink

:(

― horseshoe, Monday, 8 August 2011 04:49 (1 year ago) Permalink

think too much (b) can't believe you picked b over a. when i was seventeen, me and the girls from st. augustine, up in the mezzanine, thinkin bout god yeah

― ℗⎣▲✘ (ico), Monday, 8 August 2011 04:58 (1 year ago) Permalink

maybe i think too much

― ℗⎣▲✘ (ico), Monday, 8 August 2011 04:58 (1 year ago) Permalink

haha i'm sorry i love them both!

― horseshoe, Monday, 8 August 2011 04:59 (1 year ago) Permalink

i think he was twelve going on thirteen, though. not seventeen.

― horseshoe, Monday, 8 August 2011 05:14 (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 Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
if someone said those things to me at a gas station i'd be a little overwhelmed

― horseshoe, Monday, 8 August 2011 Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
i'd be intrigued but alert.

― estela, Monday, 8 August 2011

this was good

some good things in this ill-titled thread

― the pinefox, Monday, 8 August 2011 08:22 (1 year ago) Permalink

I didn't know Horseshoe was a woman till a minute ago

― the pinefox, Monday, 8 August 2011 08:24 (1 year ago) Permalink

Wow, this thread is still going strong. Guess I hit a nerve. Sorry if some were offended. We all have our preferences.

― Alamac, Monday, 8 August 2011 10:55 (1 year ago) Permalink

Sorry, sorry, sorry. Just full of apologies.

― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 8 August 2011 11:38 (1 year ago) Permalink

some ppl's preferences are appalling, though, is the thing

― a chaos of crevasses at cape crozier (gbx), Monday, 8 August 2011 12:05 (1 year ago) Permalink

Alamac how you gon create a thread then scurry away while it explodes

― Neanderthal, Monday, 8 August 2011 12:08 (1 year ago) Permalink

oh man I'll praise Simon when he's good but I hate me some "Slip Slidin Away"

― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, August 8, 2011 12:31 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark

whoa what

― call all destroyer, Monday, 8 August 2011 12:21 (1 year ago) Permalink

Not scurrying away, just working, sleeping, etc.

― Alamac, Monday, 8 August 2011 12:46 (1 year ago) Permalink

I didn't know Horseshoe was a woman till a minute ago

― the pinefox, Monday, August 8, 2011 9:24 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark

whoa me too

― sarahel hath no fury (history mayne), Monday, 8 August 2011 12:56 (1 year ago) Permalink

thats some sixth sense shit huh

― max, Monday, 8 August 2011 13:13 (1 year ago) Permalink

love slip slidin away

*nears destination*

― Gatsby was a success, in the end, wasn't he? (D-40), Monday, 8 August 2011 13:52 (1 year ago) Permalink

Reminds me, gotta go over to that Jazz album poll and campaign for Destination... Out!

― Scharlach Sometimes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 8 August 2011 14:03 (1 year ago) Permalink

no offense john but people who hate slip slidin away are just not worth my time *shuts door on friendship*

― max, Monday, 8 August 2011 14:09 (1 year ago) Permalink

I'll wear my passion for our lost love like a thorny crown, max

― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 8 August 2011 14:40 (1 year ago) Permalink

seriously if I wanted that kinda prematurely world-weary hip-you-to-my-wisdom shit I'd listen to Jewel

― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 8 August 2011 14:46 (1 year ago) Permalink

peace like a river gumboots hearts and bones spirit voices born at the right time father and daughter diamonds on the souls of her shoes papa hobo me and julio down by the schoolyard think too much late in the evening under african skies how the heart approaches what it yearns graceland run that body down

― ℗⎣▲✘ (ico), Monday, 8 August 2011 14:54 (1 year ago) Permalink

i just made it through about 20 seconds of slip sliding away. it sounds like a children's song.

― surm, Monday, 8 August 2011 14:55 (1 year ago) Permalink

lol surm if anyone else was posting this stuff i would be hating on them but i am srsly just loving you more

― ℗⎣▲✘ (ico), Monday, 8 August 2011 14:57 (1 year ago) Permalink

prematurely world-weary

He was 36 when the song came out -- what is the age when the cosmic egg-timer dings and it's ok to be world weary?

― L.P. Hovercraft (WmC), Monday, 8 August 2011 14:57 (1 year ago) Permalink

I'm 36 and ILM weary.

― livin in my own private Biden hole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 8 August 2011 14:57 (1 year ago) Permalink

xxp phew ok good, i was a little worried

― surm, Monday, 8 August 2011 14:57 (1 year ago) Permalink

well there's nothing wrong with a children's song! "slip sliding"'s music is pleasant enough. the lyric is the kinda thing that if it weren't beloved Paul S everybody'd be "thanks dad for the preachy information, can't make it out to the house this weekend but I'll be sure to write" about

― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 8 August 2011 14:58 (1 year ago) Permalink

yeah i'm not a huge fan of slip sliding away either

― a chaos of crevasses at cape crozier (gbx), Monday, 8 August 2011 14:58 (1 year ago) Permalink

He was 36 when the song came out -- what is the age when the cosmic egg-timer dings and it's ok to be world weary?

when you've retired from writing pop songs

― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 8 August 2011 14:59 (1 year ago) Permalink

for me hearts and bones is his number one best song, i also love born at the right time and peace like a river

― ℗⎣▲✘ (ico), Monday, 8 August 2011 14:59 (1 year ago) Permalink

It's not a favorite but it's on my short list of Good Songs Recorded for Compilations. Plus, I love that part after the chorus where he sticks in a couple of faster acoustic strums.

― livin in my own private Biden hole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 8 August 2011 15:00 (1 year ago) Permalink

sometimes i listen to hearts and bones and i am amazed

― ℗⎣▲✘ (ico), Monday, 8 August 2011 15:00 (1 year ago) Permalink

c'mon aero, dude was about 23 or 24 when he wrote "Richard Cory," you know well that most lyricists hit their stride mid-30s.

― satan club sandwich (Dr Morbius), Monday, 8 August 2011 15:01 (1 year ago) Permalink

also i love those strums

― ℗⎣▲✘ (ico), Monday, 8 August 2011 15:01 (1 year ago) Permalink

(xp)
Yes, the list of Not So Good Songs Recorded for Compilations is a lot longer.

He was 36 when the song came out -- what is the age when the cosmic egg-timer dings and it's ok to be world weary?

― L.P. Hovercraft (WmC), Monday, August 8, 2011 10:57 AM (1 minute ago)]

― Scharlach Sometimes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 8 August 2011 15:02 (1 year ago) Permalink

most of the S&G stuff, esp early, is way too coffeehouse earnest

― satan club sandwich (Dr Morbius), Monday, 8 August 2011 15:02 (1 year ago) Permalink

sometimes i listen to hearts and bones and i am amazed

― ℗⎣▲✘ (ico), Monday, August 8, 2011 10:00 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

<3 u

― a chaos of crevasses at cape crozier (gbx), Monday, 8 August 2011 15:04 (1 year ago) Permalink

c'mon aero, dude was about 23 or 24 when he wrote "Richard Cory," you know well that most lyricists hit their stride mid-30s.

― satan club sandwich (Dr Morbius), Monday, August 8, 2011 11:01 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this is what im saying--leonard cohen didnt start singing till he was in his mid 30s

― max, Monday, 8 August 2011 15:04 (1 year ago) Permalink

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peace like a river gumboots hearts and bones spirit voices born at the right time father and daughter diamonds on the souls of her shoes papa hobo me and julio down by the schoolyard think too much late in the evening under african skies how the heart approaches what it yearns graceland run that body down

― ℗⎣▲✘ (ico), Monday, August 8, 2011 10:54 AM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark

^^

― the goon with the braggin tattoo (Pillbox), Monday, 8 August 2011 15:08 (1 year ago) Permalink

I'm talking about taking it out and chopping it up

― Scharlach Sometimes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 8 August 2011 15:11 (1 year ago) Permalink

sheesh, btwn some of the opinions expressed on this thread, the OUTRAGE over the john maus non-controversy, and someone saying that Caroline No's lyrics are misogynistic, and someone else saying that Don't Worry Baby is mostly about some guy and his car i have never been smdh so much reading ilm as i have in the past couple of days

― dell (del), Monday, 8 August 2011 15:22 (1 year ago) Permalink

when people are praising the lyrics to "That Was Your Mother" upthread (incl Joe Strummer, I guess)... are they agreeing with the sentiments expressed? Cuz narrator of that song seems like a total asshole to me.

― Richard Nixon's Field of Warmth (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 8 August 2011 15:52 (1 year ago) Permalink

I never identify songs with the singer but that's me.

― livin in my own private Biden hole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 8 August 2011 15:53 (1 year ago) Permalink

― chief content officer (m coleman), Monday, 8 August 2011 15:59 (1 year ago) Permalink

I never identify songs with the singer but that's me.

yeah I don't either, Joe Strummer and other people referring to Paul's "songs about his kids" however....

― Richard Nixon's Field of Warmth (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 8 August 2011 16:02 (1 year ago) Permalink

The walrus was Paul Simon.

― Scharlach Sometimes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 8 August 2011 16:12 (1 year ago) Permalink

Simonon?

― Scharlach Sometimes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 8 August 2011 16:13 (1 year ago) Permalink

not to throw another log on the bonofire here but if simon wanted to be taken more seriously maybe he should've figured out a way to lean into a topic w/ some fury, that's what separates him from dylan/cohen/young etc imo

― big triffid in my backyard (Edward III), Monday, 8 August 2011 16:15 (1 year ago) Permalink