Do you remember the scene in "Jack Nicholson is OCD GRouch" when he has made all these mix CDs to impress Helen Hunt, and when he notices Helen Hunt does not like his OCD mix CDs, it is playing an Art Garfunkel cover of a boring standard?
― Word of Wisdom Robots (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 00:06 (twelve years ago) link
Should have gone with the dying rabbit!
hey abbott SPOILER ALERT much??
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 00:12 (twelve years ago) link
j/k i have heard enough about 'watership down' that i assume it just consists of rabbits exploding and nothing else
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 00:13 (twelve years ago) link
preferring paul simon solo to S&G seems completely insane to me, sort've on the level of preferring mccartney solo to the beatles -- i mean, mccartney solo is often pretty great, but c'mon!
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, May 28, 2012 11:59 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I tend to listen to Paul McCartney solo (or John Lennon or George Harrison solo, even) more than The Beatles, these days. But that's because I've listened to all of those Beatles songs hundreds upon thousands of times and I'm quite bored of them, whereas I haven't quite exhausted 30+ albums of solo material yet.
Anyway: S&G? Classic, without a doubt.
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 00:39 (twelve years ago) link
In addition to rabbit angst, rabbit gore, rabbit eschatology, and rabbit language, there is also a corvid with a comedy Eastern European accent
― Word of Wisdom Robots (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 00:53 (twelve years ago) link
In rabbit eschatology, Art Garfunkel figures as Frithrah, the black sun who singes the world with an Eb5 falsetto note
― Word of Wisdom Robots (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 00:56 (twelve years ago) link
this itself is an insane point! It's easy for me to hear that Paul Simon wrote better songs solo.
― go down on you in a thyatrr (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 00:58 (twelve years ago) link
whereas as much as I like a lot of solo Macca it quite often wasn't the case.
― go down on you in a thyatrr (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 00:59 (twelve years ago) link
yeah it's not a good analogy
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 01:06 (twelve years ago) link
it's a fine analogy, it's just that Paul McCartney sucks and Paul Simon doesn't
― Poliopolice, Wednesday, 30 May 2012 22:18 (twelve years ago) link
In the clearing stands a boxer and a fighter by his tradeand he carries the reminders of every glove that laid him downor cut him 'til he cried out in his anger and his shameI am leaving, I am leavingbut the fighter still remains.
Somebody posted these lyrics to facebook, and I didn't know what they were and immediately thought they were the perfect example of bathos. Just felt vindicated when I realized they were Simon & Garfunkel.
― PJ. Turquoise dealer. Chatroulette addict. Andersonville. (Hurting 2), Monday, 29 July 2013 13:41 (eleven years ago) link
but I agree with above, Paul Simon solo is better.
I wrote up a quick thought about the worst Simon & Garfunkel tune today, the abominable and unreleased "Cuba Si, Nixon No"
http://heystacks.tumblr.com/post/56781841001/simon-garfunkel-cuba-si-nixon-no-back-to
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 29 July 2013 14:04 (eleven years ago) link
I actually kind of like it, but I'm dumb.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Monday, 29 July 2013 14:10 (eleven years ago) link
It's basically the antithesis of why I like Simon & Garfunkel, but even a second rate Chuck Berry shuffle with third rate Phil Ochs lyrics on top has certain charms.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 29 July 2013 14:15 (eleven years ago) link
Garfunkel was definitely otm. What about the worst Simon & Garfunkel tune that was actually released, though? Not including the Tom & Jerry stuff they did before Simon & Garfunkel, of course.
― I wanna live like C'MOWN! people (Turrican), Monday, 29 July 2013 18:44 (eleven years ago) link
If you take out their covers I'm not sure. They did some bad covers, especially some of the ones that surfaced as bonus cuts on the early records.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 29 July 2013 18:47 (eleven years ago) link
Big bright green pleasure machine is so bad
― joe schmoladoo from 7-11 (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 29 July 2013 18:56 (eleven years ago) link
Simple desultory phillipic too, as noted
― joe schmoladoo from 7-11 (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 29 July 2013 18:57 (eleven years ago) link
I loved "The Big Bright Green Pleasure Machine" as a kid so can't fairly judge it.
The stupid sub-Dylan "A Simple Desultory Philippic (or How I Was Robert McNamara'd into Submission)" is horrid except for that organ bass line or whatever it is that anchors it. Great music, shit lyrics. I feel the same way about "Patterns".
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 29 July 2013 18:58 (eleven years ago) link
Best unreleased tune is "Groundhog":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaKCN44w-T0
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 29 July 2013 18:59 (eleven years ago) link
The stupid sub-Dylan "A Simple Desultory Philippic (or How I Was Robert McNamara'd into Submission)" is horrid
Yep, I'd agree with this... I've never been fond of it!
― I wanna live like C'MOWN! people (Turrican), Monday, 29 July 2013 23:46 (eleven years ago) link
the rest of the lyrics of The Boxer aren't quite as bad, but they still have kind of a hackneyed, kid in creative writing class writing about "The Poor" quality.
― HOOS next aka won't get steened again (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 30 July 2013 00:50 (eleven years ago) link
Philippic: YA CAN UNNERSTAN DA WOIDS
― playwright Greg Marlowe, secretly in love with Mary (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 30 July 2013 01:05 (eleven years ago) link
Mrs. Robinson is a pretty mediocre song.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Thursday, 3 March 2016 20:25 (eight years ago) link
line about Dimaggio gets me every time and I don't even like baseball
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 3 March 2016 20:28 (eight years ago) link
well i mean imagine a whole nation's worth of eyes
― leet gentlemen's club (contenderizer), Thursday, 3 March 2016 20:43 (eight years ago) link
'Mrs. Robinson' isn't a favourite of mine, but I don't mind it. 'The Only Living Boy In New York', though... ALL TIME.
― // D I R E S T R A I T S W A L K O F L I F E // LOVE (Turrican), Thursday, 3 March 2016 20:46 (eight years ago) link
'Mrs. Robinson' was an unfinished song they had lying around til Mike Nichols needed a song called Mrs Robinson
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 3 March 2016 20:56 (eight years ago) link
― wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 3 March 2016 20:56 (eight years ago) link
$50 for a lawn seat at my local summer outdoor venue on his summer tour. Feels like a lot to pay to sit on the grass (straining our nation's worth of eyes)
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 3 March 2016 21:19 (eight years ago) link
got in the car this morning, turned on the radio and... this came on
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOGqZJC0_Xs
i don't mean to get all alex in nyc on y'all, but there oughta be a law
― wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 5 May 2016 19:43 (eight years ago) link
It took some time for the YouTube embed to load, all the while I was assuming it'd be this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9Dg-g7t2l4
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Thursday, 5 May 2016 20:21 (eight years ago) link
"I Am A Rock" is the first song I have exercised my veto over in my dad cover band. It's a bridge to far, which, incidentally, sounds like it would be the name of a Simon and Garfunkel album.
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Monday, 28 August 2017 18:01 (seven years ago) link
so I found something rather interesting on wikipedia
In 2015, someone edited the Wikipedia page for "The Sound of Silence," claiming the original first lyric was "Aloha darkness, my old friend." It is still there. https://t.co/uB7mBnA1sQ pic.twitter.com/1EFP7uEXsj— katherine morayati (@morayati) March 9, 2018
― algorithm is a dancer (katherine), Friday, 9 March 2018 18:36 (six years ago) link
So, I'm listening to Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme for the first time in ages tonight and I've pretty much reminded myself why this is the last Simon & Garfunkel album I tend to reach for. Such a frustrating mix of high quality classics ('Scarborough Fair', 'Patterns', 'Cloudy', 'The 59th Street Bridge Song') and supreme duds ('A Simple Desultory Philippic') ... Sounds of Silence was a relative rush job, but I much prefer it.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Thursday, 13 December 2018 23:26 (five years ago) link
i've lost my harmonica, albert
― meaulnes, Friday, 14 December 2018 10:53 (five years ago) link
I'd never seen this before. Really enjoyed it--don't know if Simon's a little stoned, or if he's always like that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDqIsuIpVy4
― clemenza, Monday, 14 June 2021 22:28 (three years ago) link