POLL paul simon - the rhythm of the saints

That's worth something, when you think about it, that is worth some monn-ehh!

i like this album more than graceland

Repoll this sometime!

this album is just fucking interesting. particular the interaction between the vocal melody of the obvious child and the drumming on the bridge.

cf. joni mitchell's jungle line.

i've been listening to this a lot recently and am good w/these poll results. the coast is a great song no question but the obvious child is just on another level.

i only got into obvious child recently and this is probably my favourite simon album. def abt the second half

SUMMER SKIES STARS ARE FALLING
ALL ALONG THE INJURED COAST

lamp can you like email me when this paul simon poll comes up, i took ilm off sna

i bookmarked the chillwave thread

did i start this? i dont think i voted

j0rdan started it, i think, which is not the most in character. i didn't vote either!!

i'm sure Lamp will email you when the paul simon poll happens, and i will too, obsessively, until you show up.

oh wait i didnt

this is my fav paul simon album fwiw

horseshoe i wish u knew how much i enjoy seeing yr name on sna

i was about to post about "born at the right time" and saw you already had! this is an album where my favorite song changes a lot. like all the paul simons, really.

xp awwww no i wish U knew

so pissed nobody IMed me abt thiss poll in
09

what up yall its the real me

here's the story of how i decided to make a poll about paul simon's the rhythm of the saints

last night i was drinking beer in my bedroom and deej im'd me and said "the rhythm of the saints" is dope. i said i'd never heard it so he linked me to a few songs. i downloaded the whole thing and played it through like 3 straight times. i continued to drink beer. eventually i listened to "the coast" a few more times before "falling asleep"

then i made this poll

― swag serf (J0rdan S.), Saturday, June 20, 2009 5:13 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^cuet, imo

i need to chill the fuck out i'm going to put this album on

but explains why none of the paul simon regulators showed up, except deej

respectfully can we do this again?

i feel like i started another paul simon poll recently tho. how did that pan out?

I still own this on cassette, and since I can still play tapes in my car this is a regular. I've worn out "Cool Cool River."

i always make ppl wait for the horns on that

"cool cool river" is probably what i would vote at this particular moment in my relationship with the music of paul simon. but who knows.

plax, that bridge over troubled water thread was great; i never knew what i was missing!

either did i!

man when I saw him in '90 the horn stabs were accompanied by stabbing colored spotlights from behind the stage. It was so damn cool watching him sing while this happened, wearing a sports coat.

can ppl continue to call me plax btw

this album is fucking magic

fucking "the cool, cool river"

i know, right???

the melody of the vocal line in that song is so urgent it's almost painful.

The sequencing is so unexpected -- the record ends so quietly.

lol

btw the guitar line on "Spirit Voices" is magic. It's uncanny how well Milton Nascimiento harmonizes with it.

Saudocoes
Da licenca um momento
Te lembro
Que amanha
Sera tudo ou sera naoa
Depende coracao
Sera breve ou sera grande
Depende da paixao
Sera sujo, sera sonho
Cuidado, coracao
Sera util, sera tarde
Se esmera, coracao
E confia
Na forca do amanha

christgau's review of this album is so condescending:

his life in the bush of a fully-formed middle-class music scene more sophisticated than he'll ever be

i like how he has to implicitly declare his allegiance to MPB and distance himself from P.S, like there's a natural need to oppose the do as opposed to show how they might intersect of complement one another.

also kind of makes you wonder what he means by "sophisticated". more rhythmically sophisticated? i guess so. but the beauty of simon's record is precisely the often counterintuitive way he combines a very distinct way with melody with various elements of brazilian music. i don't think he's trying and failing to make a MPB album.

I understand him not liking this; the rhythm patters along unvaryingly if you're not in the right mood. His long Graceland essay proves he was hip to Simon's jive.

on some songs that's true, yeah. not on all of them. and anyway christgau doesn't explain himself, so there's no way to know if that's the nature of his objection. he just couches it in terms of cultural opposition.

what up yall its the real me

here's the story of how i decided to make a poll about paul simon's the rhythm of the saints

last night i was drinking beer in my bedroom and deej im'd me and said "the rhythm of the saints" is dope. i said i'd never heard it so he linked me to a few songs. i downloaded the whole thing and played it through like 3 straight times. i continued to drink beer. eventually i listened to "the coast" a few more times before "falling asleep"

then i made this poll

― swag serf (J0rdan S.), Saturday, June 20, 2009 5:13 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^cuet, imo

― horseshoe, Friday, February 10, 2012 9:39 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yah this is a beautiful story

It's poignant, like when Sonny idly thumbs through the pages of his yearbook. Some have died, etc...

"It got me thinking when that first popped out," Paul Simon says, sitting in the living room of his Manhattan duplex, watching an early moon come up over Central Park. " 'The cross is in the ball park.' "The first thing I thought of was Billy Graham, or the Pope, or evangelical gatherings. But I came to feel what that's really about is the cross that we bear. The burdens that we carry are doable, they're in the ballpark." -Paul Simon

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,971667,00.html#ixzz1OLgp7kSo

barf

So this is happening...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2GN3wdfqbA

I say why why why why
I say why

was like a pencil point
a love bite

Then I fall to my knees
I grow weak, I go slack
As if she captured the breath of my
voice in a bottle
And I can't catch it back

But I feel good
It's a fine day
The way the sun hits off the runway
A cloud shifts
The plane lifts
She moves on

it doesnt even bother me that he says "the rose of jericho"

I always heard it as more literal than that, and one of my favorite couplets.

A family of musicians took shelter for the night in the little harbor church of St. Cecilia
Two guitars, bata, bass drum and tambourine, rows of Jericho and Bougainvillea

But I was wrong: http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/509803/rose-of-Jericho

i believe in the future
i may live in car
my radio tuned to the voice of a star
song dogs barking at the break of dawn
lightning pushes the edge of a thunderstorm
these old hopes and fears still at my side

ba ba ba ba ba ba Ba Ba Ba BA BA BA PROUST!

(bass solo)

There is a guy in North New Zealand
He calls himself the human trampoline
And sometimes when I'm falling, flying, tumbling in turmoil
I say, "Whoah, so this is what he means."
He means we're selling it on eBay

Selling it on eBay
to Memphis Tennessee
Selling it on eBay
The shipping will be free

(horn break)

Memphis being the home of FedEx of course

Of course.

You know the nearer your destination, the more you're FedExing away

Dracula FedExed himself to Memphis iirc.