― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 00:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― dl, Tuesday, 10 May 2005 01:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 14:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 12 May 2005 03:49 (eighteen years ago) link
i think his first solo record is the best, most coherent/satisfying thing he's done (though there are some songs on the second solo album that are incredible). but there sure are some awesome s&g songs, even if they all have a few lyrics and/or clipped diction that make me cringe. ("seeking out the poor-er quarters..." egads).
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 12 May 2005 05:35 (eighteen years ago) link
Also, why was S&G never mentioned as a massive "influence" on Belle and Sebastian?? It seems so glaringly obvious.
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 28 July 2005 19:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 12 June 2006 19:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Monday, 12 June 2006 20:07 (seventeen years ago) link
Classic.
― shorty (shorty), Monday, 12 June 2006 21:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 12 June 2006 21:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Monday, 12 June 2006 22:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― Steve Schneeberg (Steve Goldberg), Monday, 12 June 2006 23:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 01:31 (seventeen years ago) link
But Graceland is really good.
― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 02:28 (seventeen years ago) link
god, I hadn't heard "Mrs. Robinson" in ages. So good.
― Curt1s Stephens, Monday, 19 November 2007 08:23 (sixteen years ago) link
spent many a car journey in my childhood listening to S&G so i have a nostalgic bias. But their best work still holds up very well in my opinion - so definite CLASSIC!
― sam500, Monday, 19 November 2007 08:34 (sixteen years ago) link
simon: classic garfunkel: dud
― abanana, Monday, 19 November 2007 10:39 (sixteen years ago) link
super mega classic.
― wanko ergo sum, Monday, 19 November 2007 14:14 (sixteen years ago) link
I command everybody to listen to the Aretha Franklin version of Bridge Over Troubled Water right now this minute, and never listen to the original again.
― ecuador_with_a_c, Monday, 19 November 2007 18:54 (sixteen years ago) link
FUCK U IF YOU DON'T THINK CLASSIC
― I'm into SB (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 2 January 2010 13:21 (fourteen years ago) link
lye la lye*PUNCH*lye la lye lye (*PUNCH*) lye lye lyelye la lye*PUNCH*lye la lye lye (*PUNCH*) la la lye lye lye
― Word of Wisdom Robots (Abbbottt), Saturday, 26 May 2012 20:17 (eleven years ago) link
it looks like a knitting pattern written out like that
Bookends is classic.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 26 May 2012 21:56 (eleven years ago) link
Funny story about how that *PUNCH* was recorded
― Ian Hunter Is Learning the Game (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 26 May 2012 22:02 (eleven years ago) link
Which has already been posted here Studio Stories although not the part about the security guard.
― Ian Hunter Is Learning the Game (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 26 May 2012 22:09 (eleven years ago) link
I refuse to believe it is anything but the sound of a boxer punching someone.
― Word of Wisdom Robots (Abbbottt), Sunday, 27 May 2012 01:48 (eleven years ago) link
preferring paul simon solo to S&G seems completely insane to me, sort've on the level of preferring mccartney solo to the beatles -- i mean, mccartney solo is often pretty great, but c'mon!
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 28 May 2012 23:59 (eleven years ago) link
How I woul;d rank these1. beatles2. paul mccartney solo3. s&g4. the song where a rabbit dies in Watreship Down5. paul simon solo
― Word of Wisdom Robots (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 00:01 (eleven years ago) link
6. *PUNCH*
4. the song where a rabbit dies in Watreship Down
Isn't that the only solo Garfunkel song anyone likes?
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 00:03 (eleven years ago) link
cool cool watre
― buzza, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 00:05 (eleven years ago) link
Do you remember the scene in "Jack Nicholson is OCD GRouch" when he has made all these mix CDs to impress Helen Hunt, and when he notices Helen Hunt does not like his OCD mix CDs, it is playing an Art Garfunkel cover of a boring standard?
― Word of Wisdom Robots (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 00:06 (eleven years ago) link
Should have gone with the dying rabbit!
hey abbott SPOILER ALERT much??
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 00:12 (eleven years ago) link
j/k i have heard enough about 'watership down' that i assume it just consists of rabbits exploding and nothing else
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 00:13 (eleven years ago) link
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, May 28, 2012 11:59 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I tend to listen to Paul McCartney solo (or John Lennon or George Harrison solo, even) more than The Beatles, these days. But that's because I've listened to all of those Beatles songs hundreds upon thousands of times and I'm quite bored of them, whereas I haven't quite exhausted 30+ albums of solo material yet.
Anyway: S&G? Classic, without a doubt.
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 00:39 (eleven years ago) link
In addition to rabbit angst, rabbit gore, rabbit eschatology, and rabbit language, there is also a corvid with a comedy Eastern European accent
― Word of Wisdom Robots (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 00:53 (eleven years ago) link
In rabbit eschatology, Art Garfunkel figures as Frithrah, the black sun who singes the world with an Eb5 falsetto note
― Word of Wisdom Robots (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 00:56 (eleven years ago) link
this itself is an insane point! It's easy for me to hear that Paul Simon wrote better songs solo.
― go down on you in a thyatrr (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 00:58 (eleven years ago) link
whereas as much as I like a lot of solo Macca it quite often wasn't the case.
― go down on you in a thyatrr (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 00:59 (eleven years ago) link
yeah it's not a good analogy
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 01:06 (eleven years ago) link
it's a fine analogy, it's just that Paul McCartney sucks and Paul Simon doesn't
― Poliopolice, Wednesday, 30 May 2012 22:18 (eleven years ago) link
In the clearing stands a boxer and a fighter by his tradeand he carries the reminders of every glove that laid him downor cut him 'til he cried out in his anger and his shameI am leaving, I am leavingbut the fighter still remains.
Somebody posted these lyrics to facebook, and I didn't know what they were and immediately thought they were the perfect example of bathos. Just felt vindicated when I realized they were Simon & Garfunkel.
― PJ. Turquoise dealer. Chatroulette addict. Andersonville. (Hurting 2), Monday, 29 July 2013 13:41 (ten years ago) link
but I agree with above, Paul Simon solo is better.
I wrote up a quick thought about the worst Simon & Garfunkel tune today, the abominable and unreleased "Cuba Si, Nixon No"
http://heystacks.tumblr.com/post/56781841001/simon-garfunkel-cuba-si-nixon-no-back-to
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 29 July 2013 14:04 (ten years ago) link
I actually kind of like it, but I'm dumb.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Monday, 29 July 2013 14:10 (ten years ago) link
It's basically the antithesis of why I like Simon & Garfunkel, but even a second rate Chuck Berry shuffle with third rate Phil Ochs lyrics on top has certain charms.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 29 July 2013 14:15 (ten years ago) link
Garfunkel was definitely otm. What about the worst Simon & Garfunkel tune that was actually released, though? Not including the Tom & Jerry stuff they did before Simon & Garfunkel, of course.
― I wanna live like C'MOWN! people (Turrican), Monday, 29 July 2013 18:44 (ten years ago) link
If you take out their covers I'm not sure. They did some bad covers, especially some of the ones that surfaced as bonus cuts on the early records.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 29 July 2013 18:47 (ten years ago) link
Big bright green pleasure machine is so bad
― joe schmoladoo from 7-11 (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 29 July 2013 18:56 (ten years ago) link