Simon & Garfunkel : C/D

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Custos wrote : For Bridge Over Troubled Waters read Bookends

Yeah, Bookends is great. Been relistening to a lot of Simon and Garfunkel recently. How dark is that!

Suicide, loneliness, drugs, urban degeneration, suicide, suicide, more drugs, more loneliness, war, envy, meaninglessness, intimations of mortality.

Leonard Cohen! Goths! Death Metal heads! You're all wimps in comparison. Hail Paul Simon, lord of dispair.

― phil, Tuesday, 28 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

You might enjoy this. I did.

― Mark, Tuesday, 28 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Has anyone done a "Simon vs. Garfunkel" thread yet? Who won?

― Andy, Tuesday, 28 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

definite classics "I thought I told you" old farts in bookends so beautiful - an album that got me through my adolescne, but i try tellling ppl three yrs younger than me that this is the stufff we used to sing at high shcool parties and they look at me like a freak, and walk off singing cypress hill songs.

― Queen of the Mentalist Gs, Tuesday, 28 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Which one has worse hair?

― Sean, Tuesday, 28 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Artie's hair kicks ass. Grew up on lots of S&G and still hold them very close to my heart.

― Chris, Tuesday, 28 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Can someone explain Punky's Dilemma to me? What the hell were they on when they wrote this one.

― Chris, Tuesday, 28 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

classic. even though paul simon is a bit of a thieving tinker if he sees any ideas going spare (witness martin carthy's version of "scarborough fair" utterly nicked AND COPYRIGHTED by the unscrupulous mr simon. does not come out well in colin harper's "dazzling stranger" at all...)

― commonswings, Tuesday, 28 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Punky's Dilemma = an extremely tongue-in-cheek stream-of- consciousness rumination on whether or not to dodge the (Vietnam War) draft. (or so it's rumoured.)

― rh, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

oh, and don't forget to take note of Roy Halee's production, especially on the latter albums (Bookends, Bridge Over Troubled Water). these records are a LOT of fun to listen to. thank goodness for the remastered versions, which really bring out just how beautifully these records were crafted.

― rh, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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