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
xpost
― 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
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
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
i made myself a paul simon playlist and went for a walk listening to it btw ty this thread
― 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
which was awesome, naturally
― golf n stuff (Pillbox), Monday, 8 August 2011 01:39 (thirteen years ago) link
silver lining
― surm, Monday, 8 August 2011 01:40 (thirteen years ago) link
I was jamming this as a kid, what is a colonialism anyway n/m who cares
― g++ (gbx), Sunday, August 7, 2011 9:37 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
haha i actually vaguely recall said lefty protestations at the time of release, then later i stared posting to ilx
― ice cr?m, Monday, 8 August 2011 01:43 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't like the idea that people who aren't adolescents make records. Adolescents make the best records. Except for Paul Simon. Except for Graceland. He's hit a new plateau there, but he's writing to his own age group. Graceland is something new. That song to his son is just as good as "Blue Suede Shoes": "Before you were born dude when life was great." That's just as good as "Blue Suede Shoes," and that is a new dimension.
Joe Strummer interviewed by Richard Cromelin for the Los Angeles Times on January 31, 1988[8]
― ice cr?m, Monday, 8 August 2011 02:16 (thirteen years ago) link
hahah!
― call all destroyer, Monday, 8 August 2011 02:19 (thirteen years ago) link
And when I wear that starry crownI won't be wanting anymore
theres the part in 'slip slidin' away' where he sings of a man who wore his passion for his woman as a thorny crown that i really love! but i think that whole song is really great
lol @ joe strummer too btw
― Lamp, Monday, 8 August 2011 02:22 (thirteen years ago) link
can i just list the songs on my playlist?
late in the eveningdazzling blueyou can call me alpeace like a riveroldsomething so rightthe obvious childhearts and bonesamerican tuneparanoia bluesslip slidin' awaythat was your mothermy little towncongratulationsgone at lastso beautiful or so whatthink too much (b)
nb: it is hard when listening to a song off the self-titled or graceland not to want to listen to the whole album.
joe strummer otm. paul simon songs about his kids are the best.
― horseshoe, Monday, 8 August 2011 02:25 (thirteen years ago) link
slip slidin' away is a perfect song
― horseshoe, Monday, 8 August 2011 02:26 (thirteen years ago) link
sometimes i sing st judy's comet to my little dog when he's sleepy.
― estela, Monday, 8 August 2011 02:29 (thirteen years ago) link
aw!
― horseshoe, Monday, 8 August 2011 02:30 (thirteen years ago) link
trust you to like that.
― estela, Monday, 8 August 2011 02:37 (thirteen years ago) link
haha i have been known to *get something in my eye* when that song comes on
― horseshoe, Monday, 8 August 2011 02:38 (thirteen years ago) link
i saw paul simon and edie brickell once, not sure if they were married yet but i remember thinking they are very well matched height-wise
― buzza, Monday, 8 August 2011 02:40 (thirteen years ago) link