I'm sorry but Paul Simon is so overrated

I believe
I BELIEVE
in the Kingdom Come
IN THE KINGDOM COME
Then all the colours
ALLLL THE COLOURS
will bleed into one
BLEEEEED INTO O--O-OONE

You broke the bonds
BROKE THE BONDS
And you loosed the chains
LOOSED THE CHAINS
Carried the cross
CARRIED THE CROSS
of my shame
OF MY SHAME
you know I believe it.

I BELIEVE IT!

You know, I do

The god talk gets annoying on the new one.

ok Bono lyrics do not even belong on the same board as paul simon lyrics

like there should be a separate board for bono lyrics and the board should be called "i love sucking ass"

one time i read a bono quote where he said it was a pleasure to listen to michael jackson as long as you ignored the lyrics, and i was like, that's pretty rich coming from you, bono.

I mainly just posted that last one to tempt DJP

Wtf you atheists and "god talk" as if mentions of god make someone jerry falwell

^^

i will take all of your silence as confirmation of my theory that "still crazy after all these years" is about a murderer.

No one but pinefox said that.

I wrote in my review a couple of months ago that Simon doesn't really illuminate some tired religious tropes. I wish he'd gone Al Green in his old age.

still crazy after all these years is abt how garfunkel reads so many books and murdering him

people caring about lyrics too much itt

what are the names of the songs in Paul Simon's album Graceland?

― anne alison, Monday, February 16, 2004

You gotta fill out a form first.

and stick it up your ass

still crazy after all these years is abt how garfunkel reads so many books and murdering him
--ice cr?m

I don't believe Alamac is actually sorry.

in answer to the thread title in particular, i generally don't feel like paul simon is overrated - it seems to me that people have a very mixed reception of him

i think what i love best about paul simon is his phrasing, how he works his voice, lyrics and guitar together so niftily and so beautifully, i adore the sweetness of it. every element is elevated.

and he enunciates like nobody's business.

otm he is tremendous at delivering complex lines

tbh i just think "graceland" is maybe the best song anyone's ever written

i love the way the steady beat of the bass and drums sound like car wheels on the highway and the way all the lyrics sound like the kind of things you say when you are being overfriendly to people you meet at gas stations at convenience stores

the sort of cheerfully mournful "she comes back to tell me shes gone" and the over-indignant "as if i didnt know that/as if i didnt know my own bed" and then that gorgeous pause that drifts off into the heartbreaking "as if id never noticed the way she brushed her hair from her forehead"

if someone said those things to me at a gas station i'd be a little overwhelmed

i'd be intrigued but alert.

haha i dont know have you ever taken a big trip after a life change? i ended up being very over-share-y with strangers, and all did was graduate from college, not divorce anyone

yes i have and i probably did that, but not as prettily as paul simon

i made myself a paul simon playlist and went for a walk listening to it btw ty this thread

i wonder if my neighbours mind that i've sung 'the mississippi delta was shining like a national guitar' quite loudly about forty times in the past hour.

i've noticed recently that every time i hear paul simon i think approvingly of horseshoe, so far she has commandeered paul simon and mark ruffalo.

aw! people who routinely post in paul simon threads are some of my favorite ilxors.

not you, Alamac

s/t solo debut is a stone-cold classic. I like Graceland OK, but nothing has ever come even moderately close to that first record imo.

when i was 13 i wanted to marry paul simon but i got snapped up before we ever had a chance to meet.

By Jerry Lee Lewis?

tsk.

too bad, estela, b/c i'd venture to guess he's been looking for a way out of the whole Edie Brickell thing for some time now.

is she a wrong'un.

nah, actually I heard she's a pretty nice lady.

Think a friend of Mrs. Redd's is a friend of hers but I never really heard too much about it.

you could give us a report about what it is that she is.

one of my college friends grew up in a house that was somehow adjacent to a summer home of theirs (LI I believe). Apparently they are totally folks that you wouldn't mind having as neighbors & who might even offer you the occasional porchside beverage from time to time!

As you as you didn't get overly familiar and chatty whilst drinking that beverage.

Something So Right is my Simon jam

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― Neanderthal, Sunday, August 7, 2011 1:26 PM (7 hours ago) Bookmark

yes this is a good one!

i just tried listening to graceland but was so embarrassed about it when my boyfriend walked in the room that i had to turn it off

alsurmac

paul simon: giving people something to be embarrassed about before radiohead

well, my friend was a kid at the time, so I think it was more of an occasional 'lets treat the neighborhood scamps to fresh pitcher of lemonade' than anything that could have led to the leering and fawning of the rabble.

several xps to James