yeah i get what you mean except that i have never heard there goes rhymin simon
― judith, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:00 (twelve years ago) link
i feel like in many ways his first album is his most *accomplished*
― judith, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:01 (twelve years ago) link
i feel like what i like about paul simon is more about this sense of drift that he has in his songs despite the fact that they tend to be really obsessively structured. like the boxer is a good example, that melody line that keeps threading through, or like hearts and bones where it just gently plateaus several times instead of ever really reaching a crescendo.
― judith, Tuesday, January 31, 2012 1:54 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
yah i like this v much abt him too, leaving those songs out prob has more to do w/how i think abt 'mixes' than paul simon
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:02 (twelve years ago) link
i have never heard there goes rhymin simon
!!!
― Full Frontal Newtity (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:05 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i guess i'm thinking of this how somebody who djs ambient house might do a paul simon mix is my problem
― judith, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:06 (twelve years ago) link
haha, i am abt to make yr mix and listen to it btw
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:07 (twelve years ago) link
i have been slowly rolling out paul simon since i realised how much i love his first album a few years ago after having grown up with graceland on car trips which seems to be the like ultimate cliche. maybe its that that album is so colorful but why does it seem to have lodged in so many ppls memorys as this album from their childhood. except for like old people i guess.
― judith, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:08 (twelve years ago) link
because it was a huge album that was marketed at our parents, unlike, say, the other massive 80s albums which were directed at a younger generation (Thriller, Madonna, etc. Springsteen's kinda in the middle I guess)
― Full Frontal Newtity (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:11 (twelve years ago) link
i have also not heard you're the one
― judith, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:13 (twelve years ago) link
wait what age are you shakey mo?
I think Shakes andI are both in our late thirties.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:14 (twelve years ago) link
all I heard on road trips were Anita Baker, Najee, Basia, and Genesis.
it was graceland and rumours
― judith, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:15 (twelve years ago) link
as in they were literally the only tapes in our house
later my dad bought some christy moore albums and born in the usa
it's entirely possible I'm projecting, it just seems to me that Simon had an appeal to my parents generation - white, middle class, vaguely liberal - that things like Madonna and MJ did not. Like, my parents would be happy to listen to Graceland, Thriller was more something to be tolerated and confused by.
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― Full Frontal Newtity (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:16 (twelve years ago) link
One of my fondest memories is dancing in the living room on a Friday night with Mom and my sister to Thriller, then freaking out because something in the toaster oven started to burn.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:18 (twelve years ago) link
having grown up with graceland on car trips which seems to be the like ultimate cliche. maybe its that that album is so colorful but why does it seem to have lodged in so many ppls memorys as this album from their childhood.
― judith, Tuesday, January 31, 2012 2:08 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
haha otm, im p sure graceland is the album ive heard the most in my life because of this, and then i just never really stopped listening to it
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:18 (twelve years ago) link
my parents would be like the generation between you and your parents. graceland was released before i was born.
― judith, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:19 (twelve years ago) link
btw the transition from hearts and bones to 50 ways is like amazing.
― judith, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:20 (twelve years ago) link
i recommend it.
― judith, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:21 (twelve years ago) link
i was 10 when graceland came out, my dad LOVED it
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:21 (twelve years ago) link
cool, hearts and bones is just wrapping up
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:22 (twelve years ago) link
hell the transition from Hearts and Bones and Graceland is amazing.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:23 (twelve years ago) link
graceland was like the concensus between my parents. my dad likes folk-rock and smooth jazz pop. my mam likes classical music and stuff like james last, who was until like her forties the only person she had ever seen live in concert. with his orchestra.
― judith, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:24 (twelve years ago) link
you know whats kind of interesting is the word graceland sounds kind of african, it some how vibes to the post colonial milieu at least to me a guy who has never set foot in africa, it sounds religious but on the edge of a more expansive animism, its v lively and virtuous feeling, but lol its just the name of elvises house
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:29 (twelve years ago) link
btw plax listening to yr mix u were otm re the limitations of mine, i really doesnt capture my full feeling toward the art of paul simon
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:30 (twelve years ago) link
heard Graceland so many times growing up
<3 judith for <3in <3s n bones
― i love pinfold cricket (gbx), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:31 (twelve years ago) link
i have added the songs from plaxs mix not already on my mix to the end of my mix, the universe is at peace
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:35 (twelve years ago) link
the logic i was working on in my mix is that they are generally more atmospheric and groove based right up until obvious child where there is the big breakdown that lets you have the more angular and mother and child reunion followed by the comedown of spirit voices and finally fade out on train in the distance, looking out onto the horizon, remembering old times.
― judith, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:41 (twelve years ago) link
this is a fairly comprehensive list of highlights for me but omits like gumboots or papa hobo and a few other songs.
― judith, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:42 (twelve years ago) link
are we still doing the artist specific album polls on ilm? i had signed up to run a paul simon one and as a result made a really extensive youtube playlist of all his best songs so i could put together a perfect ballot
― the parable is the parable of the (Lamp), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 20:44 (twelve years ago) link
the only one of those i ever enjoyed was the rem one just because of how the results were rolled out over the course of about a year. it was such a gentle appreciation.
― judith, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 20:46 (twelve years ago) link
anyway i think my perfect paul simon mix would lean more heavily towards the kinda wistful and yearning and sweet songs i like those songs where hes explaining s.thing to you abt how it is to be alive but its not garish or forced or w/e and theres always a part that you can sing-along to w/o really like SINGING stuff like 'diamonds on the soles of her shoes' or 'lisa' or 'duncan' even
― the parable is the parable of the (Lamp), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 20:51 (twelve years ago) link
diamonds is definite top 5
― judith, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 20:53 (twelve years ago) link
i think for me his best upbeat and rhythmic stuff is like 'all around the worlds' where hes still just telling you this story and it sometimes means something and sometimes doesnt and you can just vibe out to the sound of it, like the shape of the thing, but there are still these jarring and thoughtful bits that aim to haunt you like 'abandoned now just like the war'
― the parable is the parable of the (Lamp), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 20:58 (twelve years ago) link
― the parable is the parable of the (Lamp), Tuesday, January 31, 2012 2:44 PM (14 minutes ago)
Yeah, you'll be up pretty soon. Thread for coordinating the order and timing of ILM ballot polls
― Rotary Boy of the Month (WmC), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 21:01 (twelve years ago) link
I was outta college when Graceland came out, but my slightly younger sister was a manic Simon fan from the age of EIGHT so I heard all the LPs as they were released in the '70s and '80s. We went to the Graceland tour at Radio City.
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 21:14 (twelve years ago) link
the only one of those i ever enjoyed was the rem one just because of how the results were rolled out over the course of about a year. it was such a gentle appreciation.― judith, Tuesday, January 31, 2012 3:46 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― judith, Tuesday, January 31, 2012 3:46 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
<3 you for this, the funny thing of course is that that only happened through total incompetence and getting-behind-on-shit on my part. It also overlapped with me moving to India for a while, I remember using about 15 minutes a day of my pre-work internet time throwing together a result to post...good times.
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 03:55 (twelve years ago) link
it is hard to make a paul simon mix because he has so many good songs
it is! and because some songs fit so well in the context of their own albums but rub up against each other weirdly on a mix. i had to take "the boxer" off a paul simon mix for my sister for this reason. also she really vibed on specific songs like "slip slidin' away" and "the obvious child" but she says she finds it hard to listen to the mix in its entirety. it's like too much unvariegated goodness.
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 04:29 (twelve years ago) link
whereas, the first thirty times you listen to the self-titled, something like "papa hobo" kind of slides past your ears unobtrusively and then one day you're like, oh this song rules.
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 04:31 (twelve years ago) link
oh plax i didn't even see that you singled out papa hobo, too <3
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 04:32 (twelve years ago) link
this thread title still makes me hulk out a little tbh
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 04:34 (twelve years ago) link
man i so want a horseshoe, plax, jho paul simon top ten but i dont want to ruin my poll also you all have to participate even if u dont normally otherwise ill be really mad
― the parable is the parable of the (Lamp), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 04:34 (twelve years ago) link
my dumb immigrant parents did not expose me to graceland as a child btw; clearly gross negligence
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 04:35 (twelve years ago) link
i am so freaking excited for that poll that it is a little sad
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 04:36 (twelve years ago) link
i like those songs where hes explaining s.thing to you abt how it is to be alive but its not garish or forced or w/e and theres always a part that you can sing-along to w/o really like SINGING stuff like 'diamonds on the soles of her shoes' or 'lisa' or 'duncan' even
this is so otm; so satisfying speak-singing along to all the repeated lines in "duncan"
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 04:38 (twelve years ago) link
My friend was one of those ppl whose parents never played it growing up, i made him listen to it for the first time a couple years ago. The other night we put it on when we were drunk and he said 'you know what, i've kinda decided this is my fav album of all-time now'. <3
― just sayin, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 07:52 (twelve years ago) link
other friend quoted you can call me al in his wedding speech over the wkend <3
― just sayin, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 07:55 (twelve years ago) link
really good post / mix by judith (plax?) itt
― D-40, Monday, 6 February 2012 02:06 (twelve years ago) link