simons dork brio is otherworldly
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 11 August 2011 03:39 (thirteen years ago) link
haha yes
he changed "four in the morning, crapped out, yawning" to "tapped out," which is a bummer
― horseshoe, Thursday, 11 August 2011 03:41 (thirteen years ago) link
His very best work was done in 1983 (and late 60s)
Thought you meant Cohen here, 'cause I'd say that's true too.
I'd say Cohen is Yeats and Simon is Eliot.
― saint dominic's p4k review (Eazy), Thursday, 11 August 2011 03:44 (thirteen years ago) link
cohen is missy and simon is elliot
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 11 August 2011 03:46 (thirteen years ago) link
his early 70s longish hair w/ combover look was something to behold
― buzza, Thursday, 11 August 2011 03:46 (thirteen years ago) link
cohen is e.t. and simon is eliot
― max, Thursday, 11 August 2011 03:47 (thirteen years ago) link
late 70s i guess but
http://permanentplastichelmet.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/paul-simon.jpg
― horseshoe, Thursday, 11 August 2011 03:48 (thirteen years ago) link
xp there it is
cohen is robert culp and simon is elliott (gould)
― horseshoe, Thursday, 11 August 2011 03:49 (thirteen years ago) link
cohen is dickens and simon is eliot
― horseshoe, Thursday, 11 August 2011 03:52 (thirteen years ago) link
i don't know if the mustache really added to the look but hey 1975
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fwieE8fRwg&feature=related
― buzza, Thursday, 11 August 2011 03:54 (thirteen years ago) link
― horseshoe, Wednesday, August 10, 2011 11:52 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
came back here to do this one
― max, Thursday, 11 August 2011 03:55 (thirteen years ago) link
xpost Paul Kinison
― shining like national dog shit (Neanderthal), Thursday, 11 August 2011 03:58 (thirteen years ago) link
lol i'm your man
― surm, Thursday, 11 August 2011 04:01 (thirteen years ago) link
that "still crazy" performance sounds great, but simon sort of comports himself like will ferrell in the jazz flute scene from anchorman
― horseshoe, Thursday, 11 August 2011 04:01 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScG0wN05msA
― buzza, Thursday, 11 August 2011 04:03 (thirteen years ago) link
ok yeah a+
― big triffid in my backyard (Edward III), Thursday, 11 August 2011 04:09 (thirteen years ago) link
lolol
― shining like national dog shit (Neanderthal), Thursday, 11 August 2011 04:10 (thirteen years ago) link
A favorite Anton Corbijn photo of Cohen there.
As long as we're posting 70s photos:http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kp9rw15etK1qzcki4o1_250.jpg
― saint dominic's p4k review (Eazy), Thursday, 11 August 2011 04:21 (thirteen years ago) link
Simon showed the new composition to Garfunkel the same day, and shortly afterward, the duo began to perform it at folk clubs in New York. In the liner notes of their debut album, Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M., Garfunkel claims, "'The Sound of Silence' is a major work. We were looking for a song on a larger scale, but this is more than either of us expected."[6]
The duo recorded it for the first time on March 10, and included the track on Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M., which was released that October.[7] The album flopped upon its release, and the duo split up, with Simon going to England for much of 1965.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hUy9ePyo6Q
― big triffid in my backyard (Edward III), Thursday, 11 August 2011 04:29 (thirteen years ago) link
― horseshoe, Thursday, August 11, 2011 12:01 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
yeah this is like half the reason it rules!
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 11 August 2011 06:09 (thirteen years ago) link
That's an awful photo of Leonard Cohen, please remove it.
― Alamac, Thursday, 11 August 2011 12:49 (thirteen years ago) link
no way that pic is all-time
― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 11 August 2011 13:13 (thirteen years ago) link
haven't been following this terrifyingly long thread but i don't think anyone could argue that paul simon is cooler than leonard cohen
― full on... mask hysteria (history mayne), Thursday, 11 August 2011 13:14 (thirteen years ago) link
He's dressed like a teenage girl.
― Alamac, Thursday, 11 August 2011 14:06 (thirteen years ago) link
Ha ha that pic of cohen is amazing, is that death of a ladies man era
― om nom nom nnamdi asomugha (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 11 August 2011 14:18 (thirteen years ago) link
That was before a visit to NYC's Anvil in '78.
― a 'catch-all', almost humorous, 'Jeez' quality (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 11 August 2011 14:20 (thirteen years ago) link
watching that old s&g clip, you can see why execs thought simon wouldn't get much play as a solo artist, he's so ubernebbish even garfunkel looks cool next to him
but that's his bag, right? sad sack par excellence, which makes his carping about being second best to dylan kind of o_O
dude was never going to be dylan or young or cohen or whatever, just own yr shit and move on
― hello I love you but I've chosen darkness my old friend (Edward III), Thursday, 11 August 2011 14:21 (thirteen years ago) link
keep imagining an alternate history where s&g hang it up for good after their first album bombs, it subsequently becomes a cult fave from the 60s, and simon to this day records charming lo-fi albums in his motel room in ithaca
― hello I love you but I've chosen darkness my old friend (Edward III), Thursday, 11 August 2011 15:26 (thirteen years ago) link
first mention of Neil Young here - kinda interesting to consider him a contemporary/peer (and as another "also-ran" to Dylan)
― Richard Nixon's Field of Warmth (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 11 August 2011 15:59 (thirteen years ago) link
Judging by this thread, I'd say Simon is underrated as a lyricist. He has a very distinctive and memorable style. I don't think Cohen is a very apt comparison. I love Cohen (some of the time anyway), but his stuff screams "I am writing serious poetry" in a way that Simon's best work doesn't. The job of a lyricist is to put words & music together in a memorable way - I honestly don't care how the words look on the page - it has nothing to do with my enjoyment of the music. I think Simon implicitly gets this. His best stuff has a disarmingly casual, almost tossed-off feeling, but there's clearly a ton of craft behind it. He comes up with memorable conceits, and can evoke a lot of feeling without any watch-me-emote histrionics. I think actually David Byrne is a pretty good reference point, in the lyrics department. Both have a gift for finding the transcendent in the banal, and both hide more than a bit of prickliness underneath a surface cheeriness.
― o. nate, Thursday, 11 August 2011 17:51 (thirteen years ago) link
I honestly don't care how the words look on the page - it has nothing to do with my enjoyment of the music. I think Simon implicitly gets this.
he literally says this word for word in the Playboy interview linked upthread
― Richard Nixon's Field of Warmth (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 11 August 2011 17:58 (thirteen years ago) link
i agree w/ that argument about lyrics ... i mean i basically have to as a rap fan, the idea that its about how it looks on a page is basically an anathema to the genre in many ways
― Gatsby was a success, in the end, wasn't he? (D-40), Thursday, 11 August 2011 18:04 (thirteen years ago) link
he's a fantastic lyricist, he tucks a lot of idiosyncratic details in his stuff and still makes them come off as conversational and natural
― Richard Nixon's Field of Warmth (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 11 August 2011 18:09 (thirteen years ago) link
angels in the architecture
― ℗⎣▲✘ (ico), Thursday, 11 August 2011 18:54 (thirteen years ago) link
I'll revise my earlier statement. As a lyricist, Simon is talented, with the exception of "My Bodyguard" and a few others. However as a melodian, his work in the last 35 years has been dreadful.
― Alamac, Thursday, 11 August 2011 19:52 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/images/wiki/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/42/Shrug.jpg/250px-Shrug.jpg
― a 'catch-all', almost humorous, 'Jeez' quality (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 11 August 2011 20:02 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, paul is great in this moviehttp://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41RKH7KAG0L._SL500_AA300_.jpg
― tylerw, Thursday, 11 August 2011 20:05 (thirteen years ago) link
It's true that Simon makes a terrible melodian, but have you ever tried using him as a harmonium?
― the wheelie king (wk), Thursday, 11 August 2011 20:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Artie's got a squeeze box he wears on his chest,And when Edie gets home she never gets no rest
― L.P. Hovercraft (WmC), Thursday, 11 August 2011 20:27 (thirteen years ago) link
http://adamsalamon.files.wordpress.com/2007/10/sorry.jpg
― buzza, Thursday, 11 August 2011 21:23 (thirteen years ago) link
"You Can Call Me Al" is the actual title? Even worse.
― Alamac, Thursday, 11 August 2011 22:18 (thirteen years ago) link
nah the actual ACTUAL title is Don't Go Home With Your Hard-on
― Richard Nixon's Field of Warmth (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 11 August 2011 22:21 (thirteen years ago) link
Dude invented the phrase "bridge over troubled water"!
Dude invented the phrase "slip-sliding away"!
Like, invented them out of thin air!
― saint dominic's p4k review (Eazy), Friday, 12 August 2011 00:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Just had a "Kodachrome" flashback. It's 1973 and I'm nine and my cousin (15) and my sister (19) and I are riding around in our white LTD when this song comes on. And my cousin, he goes "Listen to this!" and the two of them laugh hysterically and conspiratorily over the fact that the word "crap" is used in a song on the radio.
― Alamac, Friday, 12 August 2011 00:47 (thirteen years ago) link
There had never been a time I didn't feel soft in the middle. I walked by an American Apparel party on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles and finally understood the line "I don’t want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon graveyard." I was enamored of unrequited love, and the plea "You don't feel you could love me, but I feel you could" became a mantra. This of course went hand in hand with "Losing love is like a window in your heart." You don't even need to be divorced to know that. You don't need to know what a National guitar is, either—I didn’t until I looked it up just now. I had always imagined some kind of "national guitar of America," not a guitar made of metal, but both meanings have some potency, I think.
http://nplusonemag.com/graceland-at-twenty-five
― o. nate, Friday, 12 August 2011 20:10 (thirteen years ago) link
I think "Graceland" is overrated, but not Paul Simon in general.
Gotta love anyone who has a hit song about Kodachrome.... did Simon have any comments on the discontinuation of said film last year? I loved the stuff. The colors on other films fade with time, and who knows if we'll still be able to read our SD cards, CD-ROMs, and hard drives 40 years from now, or if ink-jet prints won't crumple, but 1930s Kodachrome slides and movies still look as vibrant as the day they were made.
― Lee626, Friday, 12 August 2011 23:02 (thirteen years ago) link
― o. nate, Friday, August 12, 2011 4:10 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
this is an amzing piece, all the same id like to hear it read in the voice of 'earl' of 'my name is earl'
― ice cr?m, Monday, 15 August 2011 12:59 (thirteen years ago) link
http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lps6v2NEaE1qjpaxko1_250.gif
― Gatsby was a success, in the end, wasn't he? (D-40), Monday, 22 August 2011 18:23 (thirteen years ago) link
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lptpdpWgA51qjpaxko1_250.gif
― Gatsby was a success, in the end, wasn't he? (D-40), Monday, 22 August 2011 18:24 (thirteen years ago) link