"El Condor Pasa" is my least favorite song on the record.
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 13 January 2012 00:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
boo
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Friday, 13 January 2012 00:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
the lyrics are like a holdover from a more cloying, less-self assured earlier period of Simon's songwriting imho
― job kreaytor (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 13 January 2012 00:38 (1 year ago) Permalink
you only say that because you would rather be a snail
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Friday, 13 January 2012 00:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
well I do leave a trail of slime wherever I go
― job kreaytor (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 13 January 2012 00:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
^^^(obscure Bloom County joke/ref that probably only Ned will get)
― job kreaytor (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 13 January 2012 00:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
plax i just want you to know that i am going to compile all your paul simon/simon and garfunkel-related posts and craft them into a book and read it while i listen to this album and all the paul simon albums. which is all i'm going to ever do for the rest of my life.
― horseshoe, Friday, 13 January 2012 00:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
have always wondered what the story was behind the sampled dialogue in the middle of Fakin' It, anyone know the background on that...?
― locally sourced stabbage (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, January 12, 2012 6:59 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Well, I know that it's not sampled, and was in fact voiced in the studio by Beverley Martyn (later to marry John Martyn). She's saying 'Good morning, Mr. Leitch' because they wanted to come up with a 'character' for this 'shop scene' in the middle of the song, and Beverley Martyn suggested using Donovan's surname.
That lyric is just basically Paul Simon saying if he'd existed a century ago, he wouldn't be earning money writing songs, he'd be a tailor instead.
― Turrican, Friday, 13 January 2012 00:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
haha waht that is so random
― job kreaytor (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 13 January 2012 00:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
love whatever that clinking-glasses sound is in the guitar breakdown of Cecilia
― The Silent Extreme (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, January 6, 2012 11:19 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Are you talking about the instrumental part? That's a heavily limited xylophone, played by Paul.
― Turrican, Friday, 13 January 2012 01:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
Only Boy in New York is the 'best', but my favourite is narrowly 'Song for the Asking'. That cello counterpoint! So beautiful. Especially given how it fades in from the audience applause at the end of Bye Bye Love.
― Somewhere between Fergie and Jesus (Alex in Montreal), Friday, 13 January 2012 01:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
I'm in two minds about the length of 'Song For The Asking'... some days I wish it was longer, but on others I think the length of it is just perfect.
― Turrican, Friday, 13 January 2012 01:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
wow what a great song "keep the customer satisfied" is!
― horseshoe, Friday, 13 January 2012 03:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
yeah it is, love that final orchestra hit
― sonderangerbot, Friday, 13 January 2012 03:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
baby driver rightfully marginalized as the james taylor cover it is
― Mordy, Friday, 13 January 2012 03:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
its also like magnificently sequenced the songs i already knew seemed so much punchier in this context.
this is so true! i finally get "the boxer."
― horseshoe, Friday, 13 January 2012 03:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
everywhere i goi get slanderedLIIIIIIIIIIBELEDi hear words i never heard in the bible
― horseshoe, Monday, 16 January 2012 23:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
but the best part of breaking upis when you're making up with me
― judith, Monday, 16 January 2012 23:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
the 75 minute doc i was burbling about upthread starts on BBC4 UK in about 25 minutes and will then be available to watch for about a week afterwards. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0171r6x
― piscesx, Friday, 20 January 2012 21:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
I just want to throw this on here:
http://lightbulbhead.tumblr.com/post/16178795155/b-b-s-g
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 20 January 2012 21:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
aw the BBC doc is UK only...
― AlXTC from Paris, Saturday, 21 January 2012 09:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
top two are abt right
― plax (ico), Saturday, 11 February 2012 02:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
i don't think i ended up voting, but it would have been "only living boy," though "keep the customer satisfied" was a delightful discovery i might never have made if not for this thread! i was seriously wrong about simon & garfunkel.
― horseshoe, Saturday, 11 February 2012 02:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
i know! how embarrassing. im saving bookends. dont anyone try to poll this without me or ill find out where you live
― judith, Saturday, 11 February 2012 03:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
listening to this LP back to back with solo simon stuff just reminds me how much he needed to cut artie out.
sorry artie.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Saturday, 11 February 2012 03:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
not that there isn't really good stuff on this LP, but that overall it feels kind of watery, and even the best songs are a bit hampered by the vocal arrangements.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Saturday, 11 February 2012 03:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
So Long FLW is the best wreckognize
― President Keyes, Saturday, 11 February 2012 03:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
I don't know David Browne's writing at all, but I'm really looking forward to this:
I ordered it the minute I saw it, not realizing it wouldn't be out for months.
― clemenza, Saturday, 11 February 2012 04:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
and even the best songs are a bit hampered by the vocal arrangements.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, 10 February 2012 22:26 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― flopson, Saturday, 11 February 2012 05:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
I GET SLANDERED, LIIIIBELED, I HEAR WORDS I NEVER HEARD IN THE BIBLE
― flopson, Saturday, 11 February 2012 06:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
UPGRADE TO PRO TODAY!
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Saturday, 11 February 2012 08:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
UPGRADE YR OPINIONS TODAY!
― dayove cool (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 11 February 2012 10:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
it was picardfacepalm.gif ftr
― flopson, Saturday, 11 February 2012 14:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
What, clemenza, that book came out last year.
― Only the RONG Survive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 11 February 2012 15:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
I ordered the trade paperback, so I guess that's what comes out in the summer. Dumb--the hardcover wasn't all that much more.
― clemenza, Saturday, 11 February 2012 15:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
Heard the best version ever of "El Condor Pasa" tonight.
I GET SLANDERED, LIIIIBELED, I HEAR WORDS I NEVER HEARD IN THE BIBLE― flopson, Saturday, February 11, 2012 1:32 AM (Yesterday)
― flopson, Saturday, February 11, 2012 1:32 AM (Yesterday)
― Only the RONG Survive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 12 February 2012 06:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
Wow I might need to read the 1970 book
― black Emanuelle did costume design for Troll 2 (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 19 February 2012 03:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
The thing about this record is that "The Only Living Boy In New York" is SUCH a "last song" that everything after that feels like a bonus track, and ALSO feels like a "last song." It makes the album simultaneously seem way too short and way too long, for me anyway.
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 18:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
Wasn't feeling well today and decided to watch "The Harmony Game" which turned out to be what the doctor ordered
― Ian Hunter Is Learning the Game (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 23:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
yeah amazing innit.
― piscesx, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 00:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
El condor pasa is from 1910 or so and is inspired by Andean (Peruvian) music. I don't know if it became even more popular in latin grounds after Paul Simon's version but it is quite surely the second most overplayed Andean-style song after 'Huamaqueño' (aka carnavalito)'. There's too many versions of the later in youtube (even a King Africa one which I find hilarious and that predates reggaeton)... I kind of hate the ones I've found so I'll post a random live version because it captures better how I often hear the song anyways.
― Moka, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 07:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
Funny thing about those two songs is that they're the ones that define Andean music for pretty much all the world and 'Huamahuaqueña' is actually from Argentina, not Peru and I believe most people think 'el condor pasa' is originally by Paul Simon.
― Moka, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 07:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
this is the only version of "el condor pasa" that truly matters
― cock chirea, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 08:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
btw these are the guys who played with simon & garfunkel (as 'los incas' at the time) for their rendition of "el condor pasa". they renamed themselves URUBAMBA and made an album produced by PS at the early 70s.
super cool groovy andean music, anyone knows this particular record?
― cock chirea, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 08:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
i feel like even as a kid i knew "El Condor Pasa" was a trad arr tune
― melodic yew (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 08:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
a robbie basho el condor pasa wld be such an obviously splendid fit it must surely exist already, on another plane if not this one
― ogmor, Friday, 25 May 2012 16:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
I groaned when I was at the Valley of the Moon, just outside La Paz, Bolivia in the midst of the Andes, & a guy on a pan flute showed up & played "El Condor Pasa". like, we're tourists, but pretty hardcore ones given where we're at: surely you can appease us with something that we haven't heard before?
― Euler, Friday, 25 May 2012 17:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
How did I miss this poll? Would've voted for Customer, which is fucking raucous, on the assumption that TOLBINY would win anyway.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 25 May 2012 18:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
I don't know where to post this unusual detail in a Wikipedia article so I am posting it here:
Halee grew up on Long Island, New York. His father, also named Roy Halee, provided the singing voice for Mighty Mouse in late 1940s Terrytoons cartoons, as well as the voices of Heckle and Jeckle from 1951 through 1961.
― Ian Hunter Is Learning the Game (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 26 May 2012 22:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
And a link to an interesting interview with Roy: http://www.mixonline.com/mag/audio_roy_halee/
― Ian Hunter Is Learning the Game (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 26 May 2012 22:22 (1 year ago) Permalink