PAUL SIMON POLL RESULTS THREAD AND DISCUSSION

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#29 BORN AT THE RIGHT TIME
1990
176 points/7 votes/0 #1 votes

https://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 airport
too many holes in the earth
the 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

horseshoe, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 04:54 (twelve years ago) link

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

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#27 AMERICAN TUNE
1973
189 points/9 votes/0 #1 votes

https://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

horseshoe, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 04:56 (twelve years ago) link

"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?

horseshoe, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 04:58 (twelve years ago) link

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

O
T
M

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 WINTER
1966
217 points/10 votes/1 #1 vote

https://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

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#25 THE COOL, COOL RIVER
1990
219 points/9 votes/0 #1 votes

https://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

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#24 PEACE LIKE A RIVER
1972
225 points/8 votes/1 #1 vote

https://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

horseshoe, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 05:07 (twelve years ago) link

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

horseshoe, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 05:08 (twelve years ago) link

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

horseshoe, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 05:09 (twelve years ago) link

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

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#23 I KNOW WHAT I KNOW
1986
236 points/13 votes/0 #1 votes

https://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

horseshoe, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 05:14 (twelve years ago) link

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

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#22 SLIP SLIDIN' AWAY
1977
247 points/11 votes/1 #1 vote

https://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 wires
you can beat us with chains
you 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

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#21 RENE & GEORGETTE MAGRITTE WITH THEIR DOG AFTER THE WAR
1983
249 points/12 votes/1 #1 vote

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfBDDbE7lcQ

Lamp, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 05:20 (twelve years ago) link

I love slip slidin away, it is another big nostalgia song for me that's hard to consider objectively.

Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 05:20 (twelve years ago) link

i didn't vote for "peace like a river", which i now regret. "the cool, cool river" is nice, but just that, imo. "peace like a river" is amazing, and i only slight it cuz i didn't grow up with it. silly me.

Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 05:21 (twelve years ago) link

and plax so, so otm about the "loosening up from within" (paraphrased) as it applies to "peace like a river". it's like a S&G song left to grow wild, so loose and lazy, in a weird way reminiscent of african blues a la ali farka toure in the guitar arrangement.

Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 05:23 (twelve years ago) link


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