i think what i love best about paul simon is his phrasing, how he works his voice, lyrics and guitar together so niftily and so beautifully, i adore the sweetness of it. every element is elevated.
― estela, Sunday, 7 August 2011 22:52 (thirteen years ago) link
and he enunciates like nobody's business.
― estela, Sunday, 7 August 2011 22:54 (thirteen years ago) link
otm he is tremendous at delivering complex lines
― call all destroyer, Monday, 8 August 2011 00:18 (thirteen years ago) link
tbh i just think "graceland" is maybe the best song anyone's ever written
― max, Monday, 8 August 2011 00:26 (thirteen years ago) link
i love the way the steady beat of the bass and drums sound like car wheels on the highway and the way all the lyrics sound like the kind of things you say when you are being overfriendly to people you meet at gas stations at convenience stores
― max, Monday, 8 August 2011 00:27 (thirteen years ago) link
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 00:30 (thirteen years ago) link
if someone said those things to me at a gas station i'd be a little overwhelmed
― horseshoe, Monday, 8 August 2011 00:30 (thirteen years ago) link
i'd be intrigued but alert.
― estela, Monday, 8 August 2011 00:32 (thirteen years ago) link
haha i dont know have you ever taken a big trip after a life change? i ended up being very over-share-y with strangers, and all did was graduate from college, not divorce anyone
― max, Monday, 8 August 2011 00:33 (thirteen years ago) link
yes i have and i probably did that, but not as prettily as paul simon
― horseshoe, Monday, 8 August 2011 00:33 (thirteen years ago) link
i made myself a paul simon playlist and went for a walk listening to it btw ty this thread
― horseshoe, Monday, 8 August 2011 00:34 (thirteen years ago) link
i wonder if my neighbours mind that i've sung 'the mississippi delta was shining like a national guitar' quite loudly about forty times in the past hour.
― estela, Monday, 8 August 2011 00:35 (thirteen years ago) link
i've noticed recently that every time i hear paul simon i think approvingly of horseshoe, so far she has commandeered paul simon and mark ruffalo.
― estela, Monday, 8 August 2011 00:36 (thirteen years ago) link
aw! people who routinely post in paul simon threads are some of my favorite ilxors.
― horseshoe, Monday, 8 August 2011 00:38 (thirteen years ago) link
not you, Alamac
― horseshoe, Monday, 8 August 2011 00:43 (thirteen years ago) link
s/t solo debut is a stone-cold classic. I like Graceland OK, but nothing has ever come even moderately close to that first record imo.
― golf n stuff (Pillbox), Monday, 8 August 2011 00:45 (thirteen years ago) link
when i was 13 i wanted to marry paul simon but i got snapped up before we ever had a chance to meet.
― estela, Monday, 8 August 2011 00:45 (thirteen years ago) link
By Jerry Lee Lewis?
― Scharlach Sometimes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 8 August 2011 00:46 (thirteen years ago) link
tsk.
― estela, Monday, 8 August 2011 00:47 (thirteen years ago) link
too bad, estela, b/c i'd venture to guess he's been looking for a way out of the whole Edie Brickell thing for some time now.
― golf n stuff (Pillbox), Monday, 8 August 2011 00:48 (thirteen years ago) link
is she a wrong'un.
― estela, Monday, 8 August 2011 00:52 (thirteen years ago) link
nah, actually I heard she's a pretty nice lady.
― golf n stuff (Pillbox), Monday, 8 August 2011 00:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Think a friend of Mrs. Redd's is a friend of hers but I never really heard too much about it.
― Scharlach Sometimes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 8 August 2011 00:58 (thirteen years ago) link
you could give us a report about what it is that she is.
― estela, Monday, 8 August 2011 01:02 (thirteen years ago) link
one of my college friends grew up in a house that was somehow adjacent to a summer home of theirs (LI I believe). Apparently they are totally folks that you wouldn't mind having as neighbors & who might even offer you the occasional porchside beverage from time to time!
― golf n stuff (Pillbox), Monday, 8 August 2011 01:06 (thirteen years ago) link
As you as you didn't get overly familiar and chatty whilst drinking that beverage.
― Scharlach Sometimes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 8 August 2011 01:06 (thirteen years ago) link
Something So Right is my Simon jam
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― Neanderthal, Sunday, August 7, 2011 1:26 PM (7 hours ago) Bookmark
yes this is a good one!
― horseshoe, Monday, 8 August 2011 01:07 (thirteen years ago) link
i just tried listening to graceland but was so embarrassed about it when my boyfriend walked in the room that i had to turn it off
― surm, Monday, 8 August 2011 01:07 (thirteen years ago) link
alsurmac
― Autism Alamac (some dude), Monday, 8 August 2011 01:09 (thirteen years ago) link
paul simon: giving people something to be embarrassed about before radiohead
― surm, Monday, 8 August 2011 01:09 (thirteen years ago) link
well, my friend was a kid at the time, so I think it was more of an occasional 'lets treat the neighborhood scamps to fresh pitcher of lemonade' than anything that could have led to the leering and fawning of the rabble.
several xps to James
― golf n stuff (Pillbox), Monday, 8 August 2011 01:10 (thirteen years ago) link
lol at surm acting like Graceland = a real life version of Aldous Snow's "African Child"
― Neanderthal, Monday, 8 August 2011 01:10 (thirteen years ago) link
otm this is totally a thing
― g++ (gbx), Monday, 8 August 2011 01:11 (thirteen years ago) link
lol surm
― golf n stuff (Pillbox), Monday, 8 August 2011 01:12 (thirteen years ago) link
this is just terrible
― g++ (gbx), Monday, 8 August 2011 01:12 (thirteen years ago) link
this thread title is slowly driving me insane btw
― horseshoe, Monday, 8 August 2011 01:15 (thirteen years ago) link
it's really the m@rris$a m@rchant-y condescending "I'm sorry" that puts it over the top
― Neanderthal, Monday, 8 August 2011 01:16 (thirteen years ago) link
otm this is totally a thing― g++ (gbx), Sunday, August 7, 2011 9:11 PM (4 minutes ago)
. . . with canadian trucker ladies
― mookieproof, Monday, 8 August 2011 01:18 (thirteen years ago) link
the thread title should be changed to hello sb my old friend.
― estela, Monday, 8 August 2011 01:18 (thirteen years ago) link
hush
― g++ (gbx), Monday, 8 August 2011 01:19 (thirteen years ago) link
― estela, Sunday, August 7, 2011 9:18 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark
otm
― horseshoe, Monday, 8 August 2011 01:20 (thirteen years ago) link
max talking about having a 'life change' made me thought he was menopausal for a sec
― Autism Alamac (some dude), Monday, 8 August 2011 01:23 (thirteen years ago) link
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ApuDOB0eMd0/SQIdqPyREBI/AAAAAAAAAZo/E15mT-eb7Z8/s320/4653_elderly_menopause_woman_having_a_hot_flash.jpg
― Neanderthal, Monday, 8 August 2011 01:27 (thirteen years ago) link
still think it sounds like the kinda challoping you'd hear from an idiot teenager with a hand on her hip holding forth next to her locker
or like my mom getting defensive about not liking rap music or w/e
― g++ (gbx), Monday, 8 August 2011 01:31 (thirteen years ago) link
― horseshoe, Sunday, August 7, 2011 8:34 PM (55 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
link?
― ice cr?m, Monday, 8 August 2011 01:33 (thirteen years ago) link
spotify me
― g++ (gbx), Monday, 8 August 2011 01:33 (thirteen years ago) link
We're so sorry, Uncle Alamac
― Scharlach Sometimes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 8 August 2011 01:34 (thirteen years ago) link
― surm, Sunday, August 7, 2011 9:07 PM (25 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
i admit for a while graceland was considered a guilty pleasure to me, but ive liked this album since i was ten y/o so weve been through a lot together
― ice cr?m, Monday, 8 August 2011 01:35 (thirteen years ago) link
that might also be why I'm kinda w/e about aeros colonialist misgivings---I was jamming this as a kid, what is a colonialism anyway n/m who cares
― g++ (gbx), Monday, 8 August 2011 01:37 (thirteen years ago) link
personally, I was much more concerned about the fact that Chevy Chase was in the video
― golf n stuff (Pillbox), Monday, 8 August 2011 01:38 (thirteen years ago) link