http://i1224.photobucket.com/albums/ee366/lamp11/29Homeward.jpg#29 HOMEWARD BOUND1966170 points/8 votes/0 #1 voteshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsTNxVtS4c8
― Lamp, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 04:50 (twelve years ago) link
now we're talking. my #10, though i owed it better.
― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 04:50 (twelve years ago) link
gah, that was re: "scarborough fair"!
you move too fast, lamp...
― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 04:51 (twelve years ago) link
http://i1224.photobucket.com/albums/ee366/lamp11/28BornAt.jpg#29 BORN AT THE RIGHT TIME1990176 points/7 votes/0 #1 voteshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymjuHYKh7d4
― Lamp, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 04:52 (twelve years ago) link
i will just say: i don't really get this song
― horseshoe, Monday, March 19, 2012 9:48 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
and how how how could you say such a thing? one of the most effortlessly beautiful songs i've ever heard.
― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 04:52 (twelve years ago) link
TOO LOW
xp i really think it's because my parents are immigrants
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 04:52 (twelve years ago) link
i myself voted "born at the right time" too low; so effortlessly beautiful
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 04:53 (twelve years ago) link
too many people on the bus from the airporttoo many holes in the earththe planet groans every time it registers another birth
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 04:54 (twelve years ago) link
holes in the crust of the earth, excuse me
while the results of this poll are racing by in a heedless blur, i'd like to say that "homeward bound" is yet another wonderful song that i didn't vote for. glad that others saw fit to rectify my helpless error.
― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 04:54 (twelve years ago) link
http://i1224.photobucket.com/albums/ee366/lamp11/27AmericanTune.jpg#27 AMERICAN TUNE1973189 points/9 votes/0 #1 voteshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0wIbgDVp5c
― Lamp, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 04:54 (twelve years ago) link
"american tune" is nice; i didn't vote for it; apparently it was used in a commercial for barack obama?
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 04:55 (twelve years ago) link
^^morbz bair
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 04:56 (twelve years ago) link
bait. what is wrong with me
"scarborough fair" is a song that kids in middle school would always make a big deal of and i would be like, i literally have no idea what is happening right now.
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 04:57 (twelve years ago) link
i assumed it was a song their parents loved; maybe i am wrong
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 04:58 (twelve years ago) link
i know art garfunkel's voice is a beautiful instrument and all but also, maybe he is a robot?
I like Scarborough/Canticle, it's nice
And maybe Lamp only has a small window of time to provide us results? I dunno that it's really fair to give him too much heat for how the results roll out. Hard work being pollmaster iirc.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 04:59 (twelve years ago) link
just a few things:
- i only have an hour or so tonight before i have to go to bed to post stuff and this week is shaping up to be p busy. its obv not the ideal roll-out schedule but its what ive got.
- the #1 vote for scarb fair is by far the most perplexing of the 33
ok so actually only two things
― Lamp, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 05:00 (twelve years ago) link
Lamp you're a hero
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 05:00 (twelve years ago) link
OTM
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 05:01 (twelve years ago) link
http://i1224.photobucket.com/albums/ee366/lamp11/26AHazy.jpg#25 A HAZY SHADE OF WINTER1966217 points/10 votes/1 #1 votehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnZdlhUDEJo
― Lamp, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 05:01 (twelve years ago) link
damn people be lovin all this garfunkel
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 05:03 (twelve years ago) link
http://i1224.photobucket.com/albums/ee366/lamp11/25TheCool.jpg#25 THE COOL, COOL RIVER1990 219 points/9 votes/0 #1 voteshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEQzaS4CnL8
― Lamp, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 05:04 (twelve years ago) link
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 05:05 (twelve years ago) link
cool cool river was my #2. it has never not made me cry, any of the one million times i've listened to it.
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 05:06 (twelve years ago) link
http://i1224.photobucket.com/albums/ee366/lamp11/24PeaceLike.jpg#24 PEACE LIKE A RIVER1972225 points/8 votes/1 #1 votehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAmPfEMI16g
― Lamp, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 05:06 (twelve years ago) link
paul simon songs that are about rivers/sonically reproduce the constant movement of a river are a-okay by me
xp okay i am dead. "peace like a river" was my #1.
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 05:07 (twelve years ago) link
damn people be lovin all this rivers
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 05:07 (twelve years ago) link
there are not 23 songs better than "peace like a river" ON THIS EARTH
damn horseshoe be lovin all this rivers
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 05:08 (twelve years ago) link
if by "people" you mean paul simon
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 05:08 (twelve years ago) link
lol xp
no really there is something smart plax said in one of the paul simes thread about the structure of "peace like a river" and i think it applies to "cool cool river" too i will try to find it
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 05:09 (twelve years ago) link
"peace like a river" is the best song, though, just fyi
lol morbz bair
http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj242/donaldparsley/bair.jpg
― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 05:10 (twelve years ago) link
http://i1224.photobucket.com/albums/ee366/lamp11/23IKnow.jpg#23 I KNOW WHAT I KNOW1986 236 points/13 votes/0 #1 voteshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4w3CBdLfGqw
― Lamp, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 05:10 (twelve years ago) link
i think for somebody that started out with like straight acoustic guitar and voice songwriting, he has spent a lot of recording time like *loosening* up the structures of his songs, from his first solo album on you get the sense of him moving in different directions (the lush jazziness and disco flourishes on h+b, the jam band vibe on one trick pony) that open out the rigid structures of his songs (his s/t is so good because he does this more successfully inside the songs themselves than ever again, peace like a river is the best example of what i mean but i don't know if i'm explaining this in any intelligible way at all)
― ℗⎣▲✘ (ico), Sunday, August 7, 2011 1:24 PM (7 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 05:11 (twelve years ago) link
both those songs flow, like rivers
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 05:12 (twelve years ago) link
peace like a river! i am obsessed with that song!
― horseshoe, Sunday, August 7, 2011 1:25 PM (7 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 05:12 (twelve years ago) link
they do flow! otm!
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 05:13 (twelve years ago) link
'peace like a river' is a song i vastly underrated before i started working on this poll. it ended up really high on my ballot and i just find it incredibly moving, i think the way it shifts perspective multiple times throughout the song, going from sitting 'starry-eyed' in the midst of history to having nowhere to go but 'back to bed'. the obvious child does something kinda similar i think but in a more schematic way the false endings and shift in tempo lack the ambiguity and resignation that 'peace like a river' has, the way it sort of sputters into the second half of the song. it really is a deeply beautiful song, one of his best i think.
― Lamp, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 05:13 (twelve years ago) link
<3
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 05:14 (twelve years ago) link
"starry" is a word i always vibe to; it's in "take me to the mardi gras" too
in a way i think "peace like a river" is of a piece with simon's 60s political activist leanings but it's so humble and just beautiful about it. i just love it.
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 05:15 (twelve years ago) link
http://i1224.photobucket.com/albums/ee366/lamp11/22Slip.jpg#22 SLIP SLIDIN' AWAY1977247 points/11 votes/1 #1 votehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_H-LY4Jb2M
― Lamp, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 05:16 (twelve years ago) link
These results are really interesting so far
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 05:16 (twelve years ago) link
you can beat us with wiresyou can beat us with chainsyou can run out your roles but you know you can't outrun the history train
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 05:18 (twelve years ago) link
i didn't vote for "slip slidin' away" but i love it; i think aero's hatred of it in the I'm sorry, but Paul Simon is so overrated thread affected me somewhat.
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 05:19 (twelve years ago) link
http://i1224.photobucket.com/albums/ee366/lamp11/21ReneGeorgette.jpg#21 RENE & GEORGETTE MAGRITTE WITH THEIR DOG AFTER THE WAR1983249 points/12 votes/1 #1 votehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfBDDbE7lcQ
― Lamp, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 05:20 (twelve years ago) link