I'm sorry but Paul Simon is so overrated

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it's really the m@rris$a m@rchant-y condescending "I'm sorry" that puts it over the top

still think it sounds like the kinda challoping you'd hear from an idiot teenager with a hand on her hip holding forth next to her locker

or like my mom getting defensive about not liking rap music or w/e

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

― horseshoe, Sunday, August 7, 2011 8:34 PM (55 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

link?

spotify me

We're so sorry, Uncle Alamac

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

― surm, Sunday, August 7, 2011 9:07 PM (25 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i admit for a while graceland was considered a guilty pleasure to me, but ive liked this album since i was ten y/o so weve been through a lot together

that might also be why I'm kinda w/e about aeros colonialist misgivings---I was jamming this as a kid, what is a colonialism anyway n/m who cares

personally, I was much more concerned about the fact that Chevy Chase was in the video

which was awesome, naturally

silver lining

I was jamming this as a kid, what is a colonialism anyway n/m who cares

― g++ (gbx), Sunday, August 7, 2011 9:37 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

haha i actually vaguely recall said lefty protestations at the time of release, then later i stared posting to ilx

I don't like the idea that people who aren't adolescents make records. Adolescents make the best records. Except for Paul Simon. Except for Graceland. He's hit a new plateau there, but he's writing to his own age group. Graceland is something new. That song to his son is just as good as "Blue Suede Shoes": "Before you were born dude when life was great." That's just as good as "Blue Suede Shoes," and that is a new dimension.

Joe Strummer interviewed by Richard Cromelin for the Los Angeles Times on January 31, 1988[8]

hahah!

And when I wear that starry crown
I won't be wanting anymore

theres the part in 'slip slidin' away' where he sings of a man who wore his passion for his woman as a thorny crown that i really love! but i think that whole song is really great

lol @ joe strummer too btw

can i just list the songs on my playlist?

late in the evening
dazzling blue
you can call me al
peace like a river
old
something so right
the obvious child
hearts and bones
american tune
paranoia blues
slip slidin' away
that was your mother
my little town
congratulations
gone at last
so beautiful or so what
think too much (b)

nb: it is hard when listening to a song off the self-titled or graceland not to want to listen to the whole album.

joe strummer otm. paul simon songs about his kids are the best.

slip slidin' away is a perfect song

sometimes i sing st judy's comet to my little dog when he's sleepy.

aw!

trust you to like that.

haha i have been known to *get something in my eye* when that song comes on

i saw paul simon and edie brickell once, not sure if they were married yet but i remember thinking they are very well matched height-wise

i once saw paul simon rescue a special needs child who had fallen down a well--he brushed it off and said, "all in a day's work. does anybody here play the pan flute?"

paul simon invented ilx in "the dangling conversation"

oh man I'll praise Simon when he's good but I hate me some "Slip Slidin Away"

:(

think too much (b) can't believe you picked b over a. when i was seventeen, me and the girls from st. augustine, up in the mezzanine, thinkin bout god yeah

maybe i think too much

haha i'm sorry i love them both!

i think he was twelve going on thirteen, though. not seventeen.

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"

― max, Monday, 8 August 2011 Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
if someone said those things to me at a gas station i'd be a little overwhelmed

― horseshoe, Monday, 8 August 2011 Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
i'd be intrigued but alert.

― estela, Monday, 8 August 2011

this was good

some good things in this ill-titled thread

I didn't know Horseshoe was a woman till a minute ago

Wow, this thread is still going strong. Guess I hit a nerve. Sorry if some were offended. We all have our preferences.

Sorry, sorry, sorry. Just full of apologies.

some ppl's preferences are appalling, though, is the thing

Alamac how you gon create a thread then scurry away while it explodes

oh man I'll praise Simon when he's good but I hate me some "Slip Slidin Away"

― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, August 8, 2011 12:31 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark

whoa what

Not scurrying away, just working, sleeping, etc.

I didn't know Horseshoe was a woman till a minute ago

― the pinefox, Monday, August 8, 2011 9:24 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark

whoa me too

thats some sixth sense shit huh

love slip slidin away

*nears destination*

Reminds me, gotta go over to that Jazz album poll and campaign for Destination... Out!

no offense john but people who hate slip slidin away are just not worth my time *shuts door on friendship*

I'll wear my passion for our lost love like a thorny crown, max

seriously if I wanted that kinda prematurely world-weary hip-you-to-my-wisdom shit I'd listen to Jewel

peace like a river gumboots hearts and bones spirit voices born at the right time father and daughter diamonds on the souls of her shoes papa hobo me and julio down by the schoolyard think too much late in the evening under african skies how the heart approaches what it yearns graceland run that body down

i just made it through about 20 seconds of slip sliding away. it sounds like a children's song.

lol surm if anyone else was posting this stuff i would be hating on them but i am srsly just loving you more

prematurely world-weary

He was 36 when the song came out -- what is the age when the cosmic egg-timer dings and it's ok to be world weary?

I'm 36 and ILM weary.

xxp phew ok good, i was a little worried