Simon and Garfunkel (Official Thread)

[annie]

Re: Simon and Garfunkel

This is my signature on another forum...

Still Crazy After All These Years

 

[annie]

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I Am a Rock

 

[LG]

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You are not Crazy...just delightfully eccentric......But that is an excellent moniker.

I always used to think "Why Simon & Garfunkel"?...Paul Simon writes the music, and the lyrics almost by himself so he is the main element that makes them go. But then I listen to his solo work(Which I like a lot), and I see why they are both named as partners. Simon first because he is the bigger contributor in the creative sense, but Garfunkel adds the Magic to the songs. So I have changed my opinion over the years and now believe it is 50-50, one of those instances where the totality of the whole is far greater than the sum of the individual parts. Sorry to be philosophical about it but I really spent some time thinking about all this a few years ago.

 

[annie]

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I guess you can tell that these guys are my all time heroes!!

Homeward Bound

 

[Soot and Stars]

Re: Simon and Garfunkel

You are not Crazy...just delightfully eccentric......But that is an excellent moniker.

I always used to think "Why Simon & Garfunkel"?...Paul Simon writes the music, and the lyrics almost by himself so he is the main element that makes them go. But then I listen to his solo work(Which I like a lot), and I see why they are both named as partners. Simon first because he is the bigger contributor in the creative sense, but Garfunkel adds the Magic to the songs. So I have changed my opinion over the years and now believe it is 50-50, one of those instances where the totality of the whole is far greater than the sum of the individual parts. Sorry to be philosophical about it but I really spent some time thinking about all this a few years ago.

I was thinking about this when I wrote the thread LG but I wasn't able to put it into words like you just did.

 

[annie]

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How I loved this one

Kodachrome

 

[LG]

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That is the first solo song of Paul's I remember, and I like that album a lot. Great title too..."There Goes Rhymin' Simon".

 

[annie]

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I was thinking about this when I wrote the thread LG but I wasn't able to put it into words like you just did.

I agree, Art's voice is irreplaceable. Bridge Over Troubled Waters was the album I listened to most in the late 60s. I love Paul's solo work but it is different, lacks that magic.

 

[Hepcat]

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Simon & Garfunkel are one of those groups that had hits with material I regarded as positively ethereal e.g. "Sounds of Silence", "Hazy Shade of Winter", "I Am a Rock", "At the Zoo" but then brought down their whole catalogue by scoring big hits with releases I thought vapid, e.g. "Scarborough Fair/Canticle" and "Bridge Over Troubled Water".

They're still perhaps the best duo from the sixties though.

 

[LG]

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Hep you just slandered two of my fave songs from this duo...but that's fine Annie and I make up for your disenchantment and then some.