Voices Of Poll People - The "Bookends" Poll

Because it was too hard to decide, I went with "Bookends" because it's such an exquisitely melancholy little fragment.

This is the album where Paul Simon almost completely stopped writing black-turtleneck-and-Gauloises high school poetry. Still a few cringeworthy moments (the payoff to "America," for one, though it's still a great song), but his growth as a lyricist over the earlier S&G albums is pretty significant.

"America" b/c the line "counting the cars on the new jersey turnpike" after the empty and aching bit is classic beyond belief, an epiphany

but "Old Friends" is a close #2 but only coupled with "Voices of Old People" first

Great, great album. Oddly, was the last S & G I heard; my Mom had everything else, but this I had to find for myself in my late teens. As such, it is oft-times my favorite, but without the lived-in nostalgia I seem to play it less.

Listening now, "Old Friends" is shatteringly good.

They sound...less stoned

Heh, I can never look at this album cover without remembering Frances McDormand in "Almost Famous" pointing out their dilated pupils and confiscating the daughter's copy...

Think I'm gonna go with "Hazy Shade"

but "Old Friends" is a close #2 but only coupled with "Voices of Old People" first

^^^ugh, hate this part

i would vote "hazy shade" but i can't disentangle my love for it from my love for the bangles' cover. so, "mrs. robinson," which, hoary chestnut and all, is unfuckwithable.

goodass poll yo

dude this is seriously so hard

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wtf someone actually voted for 'Voices of Old People '?

This is one of those cult ILM records like Tusk.