this is a poll to decide which is the best track on bridge over troubled water by simon and garfunkel

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everywhere i go
i get slandered
LIIIIIIIIIIBELED
i 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 up
is 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

3 weeks pass...

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.

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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)


Walking through the Times Square Tunnel tonight and looking at the posters I started to think this was a sly tribute to an Ira Gershwin line in "It Ain't Necessarily So," accidentally or on purpose.

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

1 month passes...

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

1 month passes...

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 (11 months 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 (11 months 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 (11 months ago) Permalink

this is the only version of "el condor pasa" that truly matters

cock chirea, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 08:20 (11 months 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 (11 months 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 (11 months 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 (11 months 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 (11 months 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 (11 months 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 (11 months 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 (11 months ago) Permalink

The revive inspired my choice at last night's Devon Record Club. http://devonrecordclub.wordpress.com/2012/06/07/simon-and-garfunkel-bridge-over-troubled-water-round-29-nicks-choice/

Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 7 June 2012 08:49 (11 months ago) Permalink


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