Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel


-noah

I think you mean Paul Crap and Art GarCrap.


I just wanted to write that.


Paul Simon was a good songwriter and Art Garfunkel was Jewish. They each had their gifts.

Anyone see the episode of Letterman where they periodically cutaway to ‘a man who looks a lot like Art Garfunkel shooting hoops in the parking lot’ throughout the entire show? I think that’s the most Garfunkel-related pleasure I’ve ever taken part in.

CRAP considering that anyone who says they like this band only like the songs from The Graduate and this includes me.

Well, when one knows more songs than that...


N/C - beautiful harmonies, great folky material. Bookends is a captivating record of a band trying to come to terms with their past and the psychedelic present. They make folk music palatable for me.

One of my earliest musical memories is of the album "Bridge Over Troubled Water." Probably the first record I ever put on a record player by myself - 3-4 years old? Anyway, listened to it for years. When I was in college, I put the record on after not hearing it for close to 10 years and knew all of the music and movement and lyrics. Freaky.

Anyway, not crap, but I have heard some of their songs way too many times. Coincidentally, those songs are not on BOTW.

Anyone who derives enjoyment from the song "Feelin' Groovy" can go shit a rock.

The arrangements on a lot of S & G songs were actually pretty cool. I'm thinking of the 'America' song in particular. I think that was on Bookends?

You couldn't release this music now. It would be filed immediately under 'Gae Adult Contemporary' or some such thing.

Not Crap.

not everything but most of it...

But I also like Ida.

i really like the album "parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme"






-noah

overrated, and sometimes irritating, but i heard 'i am a rock' on the radio the other day and was struck by what a fine song it is

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not crap?

If you go back and read a lot of the original old-school rock critics (Christgau, Marcus, Tosches, Bangs, Meltzer, etc.), you find that a lot of them went out of their way to talk about how awful S&G was. I don't even know what the equivalent band would be today. It's like S&G somehow epitomized everything awful about middle-brow music. And I sort of get it when I hear a song like "Dangling Conversation" ("you read your Emily Dickenson and I my Robert Frost"--yeech), but for the most part I kind of think you had to be there. For me, hearing "Parsley, Sage..." and "Homeward Bound" just conjures up nice warm little-kid memories.

Has anyone ever noticed how completely insane the production on the song "Bridge Over Troubled Water" is? It's like Trevor Horn trying to do Lee Perry trying to Phil Spector. Or something.

By the way, the first Paul Simon album is not crap. And you know what? Neither is "Graceland."