PAUL SIMON POLL RESULTS THREAD AND DISCUSSION

Some legitimate surprises in the top 5. Great poll!

Best Line in "Graceland"

Paul will approve of this placing. Inexplicably I didn't vote for it, god knows why as it's sublime. If you can check out the 'Classic albums' doc on this just so you can hear the Everly Brothers backing vox unadorned.

challops: You Can POLL Me, Al: Paul Simon's "Graceland"

Bravo and hooray for Lamp and for this poll! This is gonna be a thread worth reading back over, and the Spotify playlist makes about as good of a Simon "best-of" as you could ask for.

the TOP 40 as voted on by you, ilx:

#40 - FAKIN' IT
#39 - THE LATE GREAT JOHNNY ACE
#38 - THE 59th STREET BRIDGE SONG (FEELIN' GROOVY)
#37 - AT THE ZOO
#36 - KEEP THE CUSTOMER SATISFIED
#35 - MY LITTLE TOWN
#34 - TRAIN IN THE DISTANCE
#33 - STILL CRAZY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS
#32 - SO LONG, FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
#31 - GUMBOOTS

#30 - SCARBOROUGH FAIR/CANTICLE
#29 - HOMEWARD BOUND
#29 - BORN AT THE RIGHT TIME
#27 - AMERICAN TUNE
#25 - A HAZY SHADE OF WINTER
#25 - THE COOL, COOL RIVER
#24 - PEACE LIKE A RIVER
#23 - I KNOW WHAT I KNOW
#22 - SLIP SLIDIN' AWAY
#21 - RENE & GEORGETTE MAGRITTE WITH THEIR DOG AFTER THE WAR

#20 - THE SOUND OF SILENCE
#19 - I AM A ROCK
#18 - YOU CAN CALL ME AL
#17 - BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER
#16 - MRS. ROBINSON
#15 - LATE IN THE EVENING
#14 - HEARTS AND BONES
#13 - KODACHROME
#12 - 50 WAYS TO LEAVE YOUR LOVER
#11 - MOTHER AND CHILD REUNION

#10 - THE BOXER
#09 - THE BOY IN THE BUBBLE
#08 - DIAMONDS ON THE SOLES OF HER SHOES
#07 - CECILIA
#06 - THE OBVIOUS CHILD

#05 - AMERICA
#04 - DUNCAN
#03 - ME AND JULIO DOWN BY THE SCHOOLYARD
#02 - THE ONLY LIVING BOY IN NEW YORK
#01 - GRACELAND

YAY!!!!

It won by a mile. It's brilliant, true, but then so is everything else.

Great poll! "Only Living Boy" at #2 is a huge surprise for me. Thanks, Lamp, well run!

Yeah great work lamp, thanks.

i didnt vote for 'graceland' but its p undeniable i have a bunch of sentimental faves from that album that i voted for instead but its a wonderful song. it was also on like 3/4 of the ballots i got

as much as i was hoping for a slightly broader spectrum of simon's career i really like this list and the pre-folkie stuff and the most recent album are probably p marginal compared to the stuff itl.

my #1 was #1. thanks for the poll, lamp! nicely done.

here's my ballot. can't believe i didn't put julio there. but i guess it had plenty of votes.

1. Graceland
2. Hearts and Bones
3. Homeward Bound
4. Mother and child reunion
5. Duncan
6. Peace like a river
7. Dazzling Blue
8. Slip Slidin Away
9. So Long Frank Lloyd Wright
10. Only Living Boy in New York
11. Rene & Georgette Magritte
12. You Can Call Me Al
13. Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes
14. Boy in the Bubble
15. Obvious Child
16. Duncan
17. Train in the Distance
18. Late In The Evening
19. Kodachrome
20. Born at the Right Time

1. The Only Living Boy in New York
2. Graceland
3. Still Crazy After All These Years
4. Me and Julio Down By the Schoolyard
5. Mrs. Robinson
6. Late in the Evening
7. The Boxer
8. At the Zoo
9. Save the Life of My Child
10. Mother and Child Reunion
11. 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover
12. So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright
13. I Am A Rock
14. The Myth of Fingerprints
15. America
16. Gumboots
17. Cloudy
18. Crazylove Vol2
19. Punky's Dilemma
20. Slip Slidin' Away

My ballot:

1. Duncan
2. The Obvious Child
3. Me And Julio Down By The Schoolyard
4. 50 Way To Leave Your Lover
5. A Hazy Shade Of Winter
6. The Boy In The Bubble
7. Graceland
8. A Poem On The Underground Wall
9. Can't Run But
10. Gumboots

11. Bleecker Street
12. A Simple Desultory Phillippic
13. I Am A Rock
14. The Only Living Boy In New York
15. Somewhere They Can't Find Me
16. American Tune
17. Born In Puerto Rico
18. I Know What I Know
19. El Condor Pasa
20. Darling Lorraine

The things I had to leave off... I shoulda had Think Too Much, Crazy Love and a few more later cuts on there, but I ain't complaining.

1 The Only Living Boy in New York
2 Bridge over Troubled Water
3 The Boy in the Bubble
4 The Sound of Silence
5 Father and Daughter
6 I am a Rock
7 America
8 Homeward Bound
9 Late in the Evening
10 The 59th Street Bridge Song
11 A Hazy Shade of Winter
12 You Can Call Me Al
13 Getting Ready For Christmas day
14 Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard
15 Rene and George Magritte with Their Dog After The War
16 The Late Great Johnny Ace
17 Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes
18 The Obvious Child
19 Old Friends
20 The Boxer

As said above, I should've voted for 'Graceland' otherwise a very enjoyable poll. Cheers, Lamps.

1. Rene and Georgette Magritte With Their Dog After The War
2. Still Crazy After All These Years
3. Mother And Child Reunion
4. Train In The Distance
5. Kodachrome
6. 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover
7. The Late Great Johnny Ace
8. Loves Me Like A Rock
9. American Tune
10. So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright
11. Homeward Bound
12. Can I Forgive Him
13. The Boxer
14. Bridge Over Troubled Water
15. Duncan
16. America
17. Slip Slidin' Away
18. Hearts And Bones
19. Graceland
20. Under African Skies

1. America
2. Hearts and Bones
3. Adios Hermanos
4. Bridge Over Troubled Water
5. Born at the Right Time
6 .Graceland
7. The Obvious Child
8. The Cool, Cool River
9. Train in the Distance
10. Long Long Day 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd8ePfu7_pg

11. Darling Lorraine
12. Feelin' Groovy
13. 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover
14. Old
15. Gumboots
16. Slip Slidin' Away
17. Late in the Evening
18. One Trick Pony
19. Boy in the Bubble
20. Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes

i made my ballot into a p sweet itunes playlist that ive jamming for a couple of weeks.

01 diamonds on the soles of her shoes
02 lone teen ranger
03 only living boy in new york
04 50 ways to leave your lover
05 the cool, cool river
06 dazzling blue
07 peace like a river
08 i am a rock
09 the myth of fingerprints
10 duncan
11 darling lorraine
12 anji
13 the obvious child
14 one man's ceiling is another man's floor
15 lisa
16 think too much (a)
17 play me a sad song
18 kodachrome
19 red rubber ball
20 cecilia

My ballot. Bold didn't place:

1. Duncan
2. For Emily, Wherever I May Find Her
3. Leaves That Are Green
4. American Tune
5. Armistace Day
6. The Sound Of Silence
7. So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright
8. The Only Living Boy In New York
9. Something So Right
10. Old Friends
11. Paranoia Blues
12. Fakin' It
13. The Boxer
14. 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover
15. Cecelia
16. Mother And Child Reunion
17. Kodachrome
18. One Man's Ceiling Is Another Man's Floor
19. Still Crazy After All These Years
20. The Big Bright Green Pleasure Machine

not even going to post my ballot i hate it so much right now

Question: could the winner in any other artist poll be a track made 30 years into their career?

1. Hearts and Bones
2. Paranoid Blues
3. Duncan
4. I Know What I Know
5. The Boy in the Bubble
6. Kodachrome
7. Run That Body Down
8. The Cool Cool River
9. Graceland
10. Song About the Moon
11. Congratulations
12. Something So Right
13. Can't Run But
14. That Was Your Mother
15. American Tune
16. Late in the Evening
17. Further to Fly
18. Dazzling Blue
19. Father and Daughter
20. Train in the Distance

get over yr S&G boycott

poor max

my ballot:

Kodachrome
Me And Julio Down By The Schoolyard
Bleecker Street
Cecilia
Keep the Customer Satisfied
Mrs. Robinson
50 Ways To Leave Your Lover
The Sounds of Silence
Diamonds On the Soles of Her Shoes
Scarborough Fair/Canticle
A Hazy Shade of Winter
El Condor Pasa
The Boxer
The Only Living Boy In New York
America
Late In The Evening
Graceland
Mother and Child Reunion
René And Georgette Magritte With Their Dog After The War
I Am a Rock

"bleecker street" is the song i most desperately wanted to see place that did not

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PX9Bb-RsQw

You Can Call Me Al
Graceland
50 Ways To Leave Your Lover
Hearts & Bones
America
Take Me To The Mardi Gras
Mother & Child Reunion
Kodachrome
Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes
Gumboots
Think Too Much (b)
The Only Living Boy In New York
The Obvious Child
My Little Town
I Know What I Know
Born In Puerto Rico
Cool, Cool River
Crazy Love, Vol. II
Killer Wants To Go To College II
Cecilia

I, a non-fan who did not vote, find the best music here to be the stuff polled at 25 - 15 (with a couple of exceptions, of course). And the Graceland stuff I don't like and Obvious Child which I don't like for the same reasons ("Paul Simon will now improve intellectually inferior yet compelling rhythmic musics with complex lyrics") did really well, so probably best that I didn't vote.

But I'm a Los Lobos fan, so I don't have a lot of goodwill left over for Mr. Simon.

Spotify playlist is up-to-date, if anyone wants an-hour-and-a-bit of pure pleasure.

Paul Simon will now improve intellectually inferior yet compelling rhythmic musics with complex lyrics

uhh

1 Obvious Child
2 Graceland
3 Duncan
4 The Boy in the Bubble
5 Mother and Child Reunion
6 Hearts & Bones
7 Me and Julio Down by the School Yard
8 Born at the Right Time
9 I Know What I Know
10 Allergies
11 Peace Like a River
12 Under African Skies
13 Mrs. Robinson
14 All Around the World or the Myth of Fingerprints
15 Kodachrome
16 Gumboots
17 Spirt Voices
18 Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes
19 Proof
20 You Can Call Me Al

btw i was just putting together a playlist of the results and i found an hilarious sinatra cover of mrs robinson complete w/surprise additional verse lmao

But I'm a Los Lobos fan, so I don't have a lot of goodwill left over for Mr. Simon.

so am I but David Hidalgo comes off at best naive and at worst a moron in That Incident.

"...with his complex lyrics" I meant to say. I suppose I should add that that is me mocking Simon's position.

wow really thx 4 tip

Dunno what you think was moronic about Hidalgo there. Naive I can see, but only naive in expecting a dick not to be a dick.

of course, Paul calls him "David Hilldegger" in his version... (xposts)

ohhhhhh u were mocking simons position ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Oh shut it.

Take away a zingerbator's favorite zing and three lame ones grow in its place.

go now plz, youve done enough

what are u even

pardon my lazy non-googling but what is Los Lobos/Paul Simon 'incident'?

or is this a bad time

for interest i have #41 - #60 after that its p much just stuff that got 1 or 2 votes each

#60 - A POEM ON AN UNDERGROUND WALL
#59 - BORN IN PUERTO RICO
#58 - STRANDED IN A LIMOUSINE
#57 - ALL AROUND THE WORLD (THE MYTH OF FINGERPRINTS)
#56 - BLEEKER STREET
#55 - PAPA HOBO
#54 - PARANOIA BLUES
#53 - FATHER AND DAUGHTER
#52 - ST. JUDY'S COMET
#51 - DARLING LORRAINE

#50 - ARMISTICE DAY
#49 - THINK TOO MUCH (B)
#48 - APRIL COME SHE WILL
#47 - OLD FRIENDS
#46 - THINK TOO MUCH (A)
#45 - EL CONDOR PASA (IF I COULD)
#44 - DAZZLING BLUE
#43 - RUN THAT BODY DOWN
#42 - CAN'T RUN BUT
#41 - SOMETHING SO RIGHT

whoa, so if you'd combined both "Think Too Much"s, where would they have ended up?

hilarious sinatra cover of mrs robinson

"Jilly loves u more than u will know"
(Jilly was a restaurateur pal of Frank's)

I saw Los Lobos at Carnegie Hall circa '85, and spotted Paul heading backstage after the show.

paul simon said mean things about los lobos' mom back in the 80s

Scroll down a bit for the Lobos version: http://blogs.laweekly.com/westcoastsound/teenage-kicks/los-lobos-on-paul-simon-do-you-1/

paul simon made los lobos drummer play drums, it was... terrible

"Paul Simon will now improve intellectually inferior yet compelling rhythmic musics with complex lyrics"

jesus christ, where the fuck would you have to start to have this be your takeaway?

pardon my lazy non-googling but what is Los Lobos/Paul Simon 'incident'?

Hidalgo/Los Lobos are pissed that Simon took full credit for the "Myth of Fingerprints", claims they had the track finished and all he did was come in and sing on it, then months later release it on his record and took credit for it.

xp