I'm sorry but Paul Simon is so overrated

horseshoes reading would be less convincing if paul simon didnt look like a guy who stares at you intensely on the subway

lol he does! btw i don't think paul simon, the actual historical person, killed a dude.

nah i just think he thinks about it, like, all the time

http://hem.passagen.se/hakangbg/paulsimon.jpg
saw a guy like this on the bus, he definitely was thinking about killing me

Most murderrific material was his Broadway musical The Capeman... which I saw, for free! It wasn't the worst thing I've ever experienced.

Capeman album is very strange

i don't know that one at all, but it's on Spotify!

best song title: "You Fucked Up My Life"

I'll just say that I don't think Derek Walcott's style really jibes well with Simon. Hearing Simon employing declarative "motherfuckers" and "n******" is very jarring.

"Adios Hermanos" is a great song. Don't really like the rest.

I think the MFs and Ns are more Simon writing in the full-on voice of a character than Wolcott's doing. (I don't think DW co-wrote "Adios", which makes me think a) it was the song that convinced Simon he could write a bunch of songs on this same thing and b) working with a Nobel-prize winning poet doesn't improve what Simon does.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRWMWktpNHA

I'll just say that I don't think Derek Walcott's style really jibes well with Simon. Hearing Simon employing declarative "motherfuckers" and "n******" is very jarring.

for the record this is not Walcott's style either.

I'm more apt to credit or blame Simon for it.

sorry my post was poorly worded, didn't mean to imply a direct causal relationship between the two sentences. It's more like Walcott's style doesn't work AND Paul's writing "in character" is sorta off-putting

adios hermanos is a great song that i cant really listen to

best interpreted via the SNL turkey suit performance

― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, August 30, 2011

This was great.

listening again to the radio programme on BBC iPlayer

he played the song, again, and said it suggested a quiet killer
and told of the turkey shoot, I mean, turkey suit, performance

glad to see this thread revival happened.

he played the song, again, and said it suggested a quiet killer

wait Simon's actually said this...?!

They brought him out to do "Sounds of Silence" at the 9/11 memorial.

it was Russell Davies who talked about the song, on the radio

I'd like to see that latest performance. saw James Taylor playing in a suit on BBC!

http://gawker.com/5839085/watch-paul-simon-perform-sound-of-silence-at-the-911-memorial

Not a bad version by the way.

Once in high school in the pitch black of a cold winter morning I heard the click of my clock radio alarm coming on and then those words "Hello darkness my old friend" and it freaked me out for a few minutes.

I, too, saw The Capeman on Broadway. Thought the music was going to have more of a genuine Latin feel given the vocalists involved and was disappointed by what it turned out to be, especially the second-rate Leiber and Stoller imitation "Shoplifting Clothes"- heck, back in the day Jerry and Mike were already borrowing from Latin music and it was a lot better than what PS came up with. My fellow theatergoer Quincy Jones liked it even less than I did, according to the conversation I overheard during the break.

Talked to a gal this weekend who thought for decades that the song was called "Coat of Chrome."

― The Freewheelin' Rebecca Black (Eazy), Monday, August 22, 2011 3:20 PM (2 weeks ago)

NOTHING BUT THE DEAD AND DYING BACK IN MY LITTLE TOWN

was just jammin rhythm of the saints, those later tracks they sneak up on you

yeah that album rules. "spirit voices"!

Loved his Simon & Garfunkel work... I never really delved too far into his solo work (I've heard the self-titled debut, Rhymin' Simon, Graceland and Rhythm Of The Saints), but it never really did that much for me aside from a few moments. I think 'The Coast' is one of the best songs he's ever written.

born at the right time through rhythm of the saints is an awesome stretch

http://i14.ebayimg.com/02/i/000/a9/c6/7bd0_2.JPG
this was the first concert t-shirt i ever got. 6th grade! i was so cool.

he def looks like he killed a man on that t-shirt

I love 'The Obvious Child', 'Proof', 'The Coast' (of course, this track is beautiful - and lovely guitar work), 'Born At The Right Time' and 'Spirit Voices'. The rest of the album kinda bores me.

rhythm of the saints is my favourite i think

you are my favorite!

Born At The Right Time ... For Me To Kill You

rolfz

♡U♡

(thats supposed to be a horseshoe in the middle)

how can you be bored by the "the cool, cool river"?

YES, BOSS

xp <3

i guess if you find almost painfully beautiful things boring

i feel like w/the later tracks on that album at first they seem beautiful but somewhat spacey and unstructured, then after a while the depth of the songwriting starts to reveal itself, its p subtle

cool cool river has the best moment on the album, when the horns come in, just amazing, religious experience if done right

can we start a commune devoted to listening to paul simon albums or what

brb going to listen to the cool cool river on repeat

i guess if you find almost painfully beautiful things boring

― horseshoe, Thursday, November 3, 2011 6:01 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark

It's not that I find 'almost painfully beautiful things boring', it's that I don't find 'The Cool Cool River' beautiful in the first place. I like the 'yes, boss' moment, actually, and it's unusual 9/8 time signature, they're neat ideas. Ultimately though, I find the track too meandering to engage me.

cool cool river has the best moment on the album, when the horns come in, just amazing, religious experience if done right

― max, Thursday, November 3, 2011 1:06 PM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this this this this

there is nothing meandering about that song, its a fact of life so

Maybe not to you.

you didn't finish that last sentence D

Maybe not to you.

― Turrican, Thursday, November 3, 2011 7:59 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

no this is a universal established objective truth

If you say so.

These streets
quiet as a sleeping army

(Like "Quiet as a burglar/Who's stepped on a thumbtack")