"the obvious child" placed staggeringly high, but yeah. bummer for "capeman" onward.
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 6 March 2018 03:48 (six years ago) link
Wristband is def a new classic
― niels, Tuesday, 6 March 2018 07:36 (six years ago) link
Let's rank albums!.
― The Silky Veils of Alfred (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 9 September 2018 02:17 (five years ago) link
7.
― Οὖτις, Sunday, 9 September 2018 02:18 (five years ago) link
hearts and bones has a couple of his worst songs, would keep it out of a top 10 for me
― Οὖτις, Sunday, 9 September 2018 02:19 (five years ago) link
Whoa. Not sure what happened. Here's the real link.
― The Silky Veils of Alfred (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 9 September 2018 11:57 (five years ago) link
Did you not do a favourite songs list on this one? I’d like to see one either way.
― piscesx, Sunday, 9 September 2018 16:15 (five years ago) link
GracelandPaul SimonRhythm of the SaintsThere Goes Rhymin’ SimonHearts and Bones
Still Crazy is half good and One Trick Pony is dreck. I’ve tried periodically to get into his albums from this century but have yet to find a compelling entry point.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Sunday, 9 September 2018 16:35 (five years ago) link
You didn't like So Beautiful, sc0tt? He played "Dazzling Blue" and "Rewrite" at my show last night and they sounded tite.
― The Silky Veils of Alfred (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 9 September 2018 16:47 (five years ago) link
― piscesx, Sunday, September 9, 2018
Oops -- thought I included it in the link. Anyway, here
― The Silky Veils of Alfred (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 9 September 2018 16:54 (five years ago) link
hey gang I have been listening to S&G all afternoon...or, “taking a stroll round the museum” you might say
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 02:07 (three years ago) link
strollin' around and feelin' musey
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 25 August 2020 11:35 (three years ago) link
hello placardwhatcha knowin'
man, i love Bookends the way it is, but "Save the Life of My Child" sets the bar SO high in this psych freak-out way. never really sat down with this album turned up loud enough to really enjoy the curtain-raising track (ahh, it's like i'm right there in the coffeeshop with the other beatniks...), which in turn means being absolutely bombarded by that first Moog blast in "Save." and then there are all these almost-dissonant shrieks during the breaks, like a succession of wispy, screaming Garfunkel heads dissolving into frame one after another. "America" then comes in to weld the same sonic fullness to something entirely more anthemic and harmonious. that suite right there could make an incredible first side of a double 10" or something.imagine if the whole album were all AS insane as that. eat your heart out, Smile! but then again it's a great album as is. feels like one of the best things to come out of that period of people being rocked by Sgt. Pepper and expanding their ambitions and all that (is that still considered more or less accurate or is it Beatle propaganda?). i get the sense it was received as a Major Album at the time, but i don't remember ever really seeing it namechecked when i was learning the musical metanarrative of "The Sixties." is it effectively S&G's Revolver?
― Bobo Honk, real name, no gimmicks (Doctor Casino), Friday, 4 June 2021 00:03 (two years ago) link
clemenza otm upthread about how jaw-dropping "America" is when i let myself listen with fresh ears. i know it was when i first got into them at like age 17. but damn!
― Bobo Honk, real name, no gimmicks (Doctor Casino), Friday, 4 June 2021 00:34 (two years ago) link
it’s a heavy album. “old friends” is especially intense. really love that weird little mini detour with the piccolo or whatever and the typewriter is very British-y to me and makes me think of that era of McCartney kinda
― brimstead, Friday, 4 June 2021 01:00 (two years ago) link
I mean the detour in “fakin it”, accidentally clipped a sentence about how much I dig that one
"Fakin' It" also has the crazy opening, with the Mellotron (?) and stomping, Cecilia-esque percussion bursting in while already fading out... anticipating by decades the sound of an album with continuous transitions getting chopped up by skipping to an individual track on CD or MP3. so yeah side 2 is a little trippier than I remembered last night while only on side 1!
― Bobo Honk, real name, no gimmicks (Doctor Casino), Friday, 4 June 2021 11:15 (two years ago) link
hello i am having a paul simon day today & remembering how great this poll was <3
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 31 March 2022 19:15 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_rHSTjyWNk
Life, I love you.
― clemenza, Thursday, 9 June 2022 21:55 (one year ago) link
Liberace was the last-minute fill-in for that number when Stravinsky was unavailable.
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 9 June 2022 22:12 (one year ago) link
And the Young Folks were subbing for the Fugs.
― clemenza, Thursday, 9 June 2022 23:09 (one year ago) link