the only solo Garfunkel I know is 'Bright Eyes'
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 17:16 (twelve years ago) link
we should poll art after paul. dude has got some jams.
lol Art's solo work is pretty dire imho. His album cover makes a great tryptich with similar covers for Leonard Cohen and Pete Townsend tho. The "sad balding men of the 70s" motif
― the sir edmund hillary of sitting through pauly shore films (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 17:17 (twelve years ago) link
can't even deal with bright eyes, too intense. that whole "Breakaway" album is pretty sweet imo. worth it if you find it for 75 cents in the used bin.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 17:18 (twelve years ago) link
Bright Eyes makes me sad for all the bunny rabbits
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 17:18 (twelve years ago) link
paul simon's saccharine-free take on "when i'm 64": a sentimental but understated song about the shared things that sustain us as we age.
Totally - - - and thus a kind of bracket piece for "Old Friends," which was by a young guy imagining oldness, and here's a guy getting into middle age and working out what musical memory and nostalgia can actually mean to somebody who's stacked up some experiences.
like to think it's about a different rene and georgette magritte. people who happen to share only a name with that famous couple.
yup.
and who have a dog named "after the war".
lol!
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 17:19 (twelve years ago) link
COFFEE BREAK
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yrl3T8MaX8E
― "marvellously inoffensive" (Eazy), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 17:21 (twelve years ago) link
cover connections!http://www.shugarecords.com/images/records/b0cf0838-fcb4-45ec-b70d-adba339fceb9-0.JPGhttp://images.junostatic.com/full/CS437504-01A-BIG.jpghttp://www.musicko.com/wp-content/uploads/Pete-Townshend-Empty-Glass.jpg
― the sir edmund hillary of sitting through pauly shore films (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 17:22 (twelve years ago) link
*poor bunnies*https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wrV870TiF0&
― tylerw, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 17:22 (twelve years ago) link
But Art was in this movie:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OvpzV6fF1Mw/TwhFDzEH-9I/AAAAAAAACXk/Mi9s4TC0ejk/s1600/short1.jpg
Which has amazing Go-Go performances from Trouble Funk and Chuck Brown.
Makes up for a myriad of sins.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 17:24 (twelve years ago) link
i'm sorry is this the ART GARFUNKEL POLL RESULTS AND DISCUSSION thread
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 17:24 (twelve years ago) link
xp whoa that movie looks amazing. we should poll garfunkel's movies too. paul really blew it by not using this as a cover photohttp://www.paul-simon.info/PHP/pictures/upload/gallery/484_pssdcf.jpg
― tylerw, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 17:24 (twelve years ago) link
I am NOT watching that video tyler, until I am home and have a box of kleenex at my disposal
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 17:24 (twelve years ago) link
Garfunkel's peak postbreak moment is his performance in Nic Roeg's Bad Timing, no contest
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 17:25 (twelve years ago) link
That 'Breakaway' cover...like, does anyone HONESTLY believe that Garfunkel has any game at all, let alone enough to pull that off convincingly?
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 17:26 (twelve years ago) link
have you seen Carnal Knowledge
― the sir edmund hillary of sitting through pauly shore films (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 17:27 (twelve years ago) link
no
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 17:28 (twelve years ago) link
Paul Simon will play 'Graceland' in its entirety at this year's Hard Rock Calling in Hyde Park on July 15
― just sayin, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 17:40 (twelve years ago) link
I dunno if I'd recommend it (haven't seen it since I was a teenager and it was rather inexplicably on TV), but it's pretty much all about Jack Nicholson and Art Garfunkel fighting over women
― the sir edmund hillary of sitting through pauly shore films (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 17:48 (twelve years ago) link
(primarily Sybil Sheppard and Ann Margaret, iirc)
― the sir edmund hillary of sitting through pauly shore films (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 17:49 (twelve years ago) link
I can't take Garfunkel's hair seriously, is my problem I think
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 17:49 (twelve years ago) link
tsk tsk Shakey, Candice Bergen
also Garfunkel disappears for a good chunk of the film
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 17:51 (twelve years ago) link
ah right. sorry
― the sir edmund hillary of sitting through pauly shore films (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 17:56 (twelve years ago) link
garfunkel rocks a sweet 'stache at the end, iirc. the guy has crazy game are you kidding me? http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1d/Watermark_%28Art_Garfunkel_album%29.jpg
― tylerw, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 17:59 (twelve years ago) link
THIS IS A PAUL SIMON POLL YOU CRAZY STAN
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 17:59 (twelve years ago) link
I want to push him in the water
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 18:00 (twelve years ago) link
and I don't even hate him, why does Garfunkel bring up these terrible feelings in me
lol sorry, i'll save it for my blog http://artgarfunkelisneat.wordpress.com
― tylerw, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 18:00 (twelve years ago) link
he sings like a museum iirc
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 18:01 (twelve years ago) link
lol
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 18:01 (twelve years ago) link
I wouldn't hate on Watermark too hard -- it's all Jimmy Webb songs.
I'm not even sure if my poll made it in on time, but when I first saw this, I just assumed it was a Paul Simon solo poll and figured I didn't know enough beyond the hits, Graceland and TRotS, both of which my parents had on cassette (interesting how many people seem to have gotten into this through their parents). And for S&G, all I really know is the hits + the BoTW album, which I taped off a friend when I was 14.
At any rate, as a result, my ballot is this odd combination of hits and a handful of obscure album tracks that only obsessives of the records themselves would know.
― Naive Teen Idol, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 18:01 (twelve years ago) link
I just want Garfunkel to not be looking at me with his weird hair all the time, imo
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 18:02 (twelve years ago) link
Ach, everyone's ballot always looks like that unless they're trying to be too clever xp
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 18:04 (twelve years ago) link
oh yeah i didn't vote in this poll because all i know is graceland and rhythm of the saints, but they're two of my favorite records ever ever
― Whiney vs. (BradNelson), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 18:10 (twelve years ago) link
and the thing is i feel like i would've put "graceland" at no. 1, which no one needs
can't deny songs that unfailingly start me crying
― Whiney vs. (BradNelson), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 18:11 (twelve years ago) link
nothing wrong with "graceland" at no.1 imo; what a great song! paul simon is a wizard and making people cry afaic.
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 18:11 (twelve years ago) link
a wizard at
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 18:13 (twelve years ago) link
paul simon is a wizard, making people cry
― some dude, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 18:14 (twelve years ago) link
getting a mental image of the strangest possible version of 'the sorcerer's apprentice' right now
listening to "love is eternal sacred light" off of so beautiful or so what; kind of thinking i should have voted for this but it would have been mathematically impossible
xp the tears multiply and drown everyone in the room
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 18:15 (twelve years ago) link
paul simon bully wizard
― max, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 18:15 (twelve years ago) link
Paul Simon is a wizardArt Garfunkel is a museum
themoreyouknow.jpg
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 18:21 (twelve years ago) link
xxpost some dude: Paul Simon's shorter than Mickey Mouse, iirc
he's shorter than Woody Allen!
― the sir edmund hillary of sitting through pauly shore films (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 18:26 (twelve years ago) link
you can fit Paul Simon into a shoebox iirc
― the sir edmund hillary of sitting through pauly shore films (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 18:27 (twelve years ago) link
Is he < 5'2"?
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 18:31 (twelve years ago) link
When S&G were on the road Art Garfunkel carried Paul Simon in a teacup iirc
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 18:31 (twelve years ago) link
one inch (not) rock
― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 18:34 (twelve years ago) link
― the sir edmund hillary of sitting through pauly shore films (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 18:34 (twelve years ago) link
lol 1980
http://paulsimonweb.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/19801103-750-0.jpg
― buzza, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 18:35 (twelve years ago) link
poll thread should've been titled "still creative after all these years"
― some dude, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 18:36 (twelve years ago) link