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*Editor's Note: New Canaan Police initially told NBC Connecticut Simon was facing a domestic violence charge, but now say the singer was charged with disorderly conduct.

she hummed "What I Am" around the condo once too often

― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, April 28, 2014 11:25 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

not funny

What about: she kept shooting rubberbands at him?

Brickell's mom called the cops.

If u don't see joeks in this, get a fucking enema.

man, you couldn't make that joke without threatening people colonically.

I find it kinda funny that Paul Simon has a mother-in-law. I mean, what is he, 75?

Somebody didn't want somebody else to make a ballsy record...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgdJQ3L8W38

haha wtf at that sdtk edit

Is Paul Simon gaining new fans, or was he pretty much capped out after Rhythm of the Saints?

I dunno, younger folks I talk to have no idea who he is

Listening to his older stuff, he writes in a style that doesn't seem to translate well today. Very personal, but detailed and abstract in a way that you might have to "be there" to really appreciate, i.e. approaching his solo work with nothing to go on except the "name" is like walking into a one-man show where you're already supposed to know the backstory but don't.

I was never a huge fan, but my mom was, and so his name was kind of always floating around. It was easy to want to check him out, even if I didn't really ever latch on super tight to most of the albums.

Xp shakey is that a joke?

He's got those Sting fans now

Is Paul Simon gaining new fans, or was he pretty much capped out after Rhythm of the Saints?

― Dominique, Tuesday, April 29, 2014 5:13 PM (32 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'd guess that people are still retrospectively checking out Graceland, or Simon & Garfunkel at the very least.

why would that be a joke?
xp

The whole Vampire Weekend generation grew up listening to Graceland in their single-digit years.

did they? I was 13 when it came out. Am I in the Vampire Weekend generation?

no

You have to be of an age, and have the kind of parents, where it would have been one of five cassettes in the car for years of your childhood. People I know my age (32) and down a few years all love that album, know every word, quote lyrics to each other on Facebook. Bigger than Born in the USA, bigger than any other 80s rock record possibly in this way.

Yeah but I'm talking about teenagers and people in their 20s (coworkers, relatives etc.) who literally have no idea who he is. because I have played his music for them and they are like "never heard of it"

That is interesting/strange, I would believe that his profile has gone down a bit, but I still hear ''Mrs. Robinson'' a lot.

i'm 26 and graceland car trips are indeed practically my first memory but yeah i wouldn't be surprised if i'm on the tail end of that.

honestly I think the only thing they might recognize is "Me & Julio" from Royal Tenenbaums

Are people in their early 20s into the Royal Tenenbaums?

that thing is on cable all the time

it seems to have been canonized pretty quickly afaict

surely some young ppl know him as "very mellow" in Annie Hall

Some young people probably call him "Al".

did Don 'n' Glenn like him?

well, yeah

I'm sure that must have been a long 5 minute wait for you, Al

DON: Paul Simon was one of those game-changing songwriters, someone who really opened the door for their peers to write about anything in poetic terms. Song's like "The Boxer", "At The Zoo" and "Fakin' It" spent hours on my turntable while we where brainstorming our own tracks like "The Sad Cafe" and "Hotel California".

GLENN: Also, if I'm not mistaken, "Fakin' It At The Hotel California" sums up the ol'Donster's sex life...for his girlfriends, of course!

DON: Well, yeah.

I can't even imagine that people do not know who Paul Simon is.

never met anyone who doesn't know who Paul Simon is and his S&G LPs in partic seem vv popular with college aged kids.

I get maybe not knowing Hearts & Bones or something, but at very least it's easy enough to be exposed to Simon & Garfunkel, Graceland and various greatest hits. Paul Simon's best work is Beatles/Stones-level inescapable. You know it even if you're not trying to know it.

fwiw my four-year-old's favorite bedtime song is "Leaves are Green."

Would you say it's inescapable as pizza?

No, pizza might as well be oxygen.

guys I'm just talking about my own personal world of young people

!!!
http://www.vulture.com/2014/04/paul-simon-and-edie-brickell-release-new-duet.html

is that a new record for fastest time between between being arrested for domestic violence and releasing a new track?

first of all, never let it be said that Paul Simon doesn't understand the nature of music publicity in 2014. Secondly, I cannot believe Edie Brickell stole my song a day idea. (Is it just a Dallas thing?)

She's quite aware of a few many things

WTMF is this new song, mofo?

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/22/arts/music/paul-simon-stranger-to-stranger-interview.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fmusic&action=click&contentCollection=music®ion=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=sectionfront

The music for “Wristband” grew out of the sliding tones of a West African talking drum track. Mr. Simon asked Carlos Henriquez, from the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, to duplicate them on the bass, and found a stretch that felt like a montuno, a Latin dance vamp. Mr. Simon’s son Adrian pointed him toward the electronic music of an Italian producer, Digi G’Alessio, who calls himself Clap! Clap!; Mr. Simon met with him while touring Europe with Sting and later visited his studio in Sardinia to choose some bubbling electronic syncopation. There are also handclaps from a flamenco group — Mr. Simon recorded the whole group together and isolated the clapping, then slowed it down digitally — along with percussion and horns from Mr. Simon’s touring band. And the whole multitracked assemblage simply jumps.

The album’s sounds also include instruments invented by the composer Harry Partch — among them chromelodeon and cloud-chamber bowls — that divide an octave into 43 steps, which are used to bend the harmonic ambience of “Insomniac’s Lullaby.” And they include the gospel voices of the Golden Gate Quartet, recorded in 1939, pitch-shifted and played forward and backward. Listening to the group’s vocals in reverse, Mr. Simon heard the words, “Street Angel,” giving him a song title and a character mentioned in two of the album’s songs: a homeless, poetry-spouting schizophrenic who ends up in the hospital. “Too much dopamine, and you’re schizophrenic,” Mr. Simon said. “But just over here, and you’re a visionary.”

Who produced this? I can't imagine Simon wanted the Partch stuff, but, like, Hal Wilner would.

Huh, just his usual guys, it looks like.

Yep, usual guys --Andy Smith and Roy Halee

Simon re Partch--

Most of the album was recorded at Simon's home studio in Connecticut, with Clap! Clap! and Simon communicating via e-mail. But in 2013, the sessions briefly moved to Montclair State University where unique, custom-made instruments, such as the Cloud-Chamber Bowls and the Chromelodeon, created by the mid-20 century music theorist Harry Partch, are stored. "Parch said there were 43 tones to an octave and not 12," says Simon. "He had a totally different approach to what music is and had to build his own instruments so he could compose on a microtonal scale. That microtonal thinking pervades this album."

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/inside-paul-simons-genre-bending-new-album-stranger-to-stranger-20160407#ixzz49KDbvkCO

http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=21380

Put me down with the 5s

Carl Wilson writes the Paul Simon review I've always wanted: a fan grappling with what a smug shithead Simon often comes off as in his lyrics.

I've problems with the review despite my agreeing with most of it. I won't explain now. He's right about The Rhythm of the Saints though.

So far the new album's a bore.