I've been ignoring my little record collection ever since I've found last.fm . It's poison I tell you. So I'm going to make an effort to listen to my records more, and review or just fawn over them. Mostly fawn over certain albums though.
I can honestly say that I love every song on this album:
2) LEAVES THAT ARE GREEN: Aging sucks. And Simon & Garfunkel convey this quite nicely.
3) BLESSED: A song about how god doesn't love everyone and how religion can be just darn stifling at times. I can relate some how, even though I walk the line between atheist and maybe-just maybe - an agnostic.
4) KATHY'S SONG: A love song. Duh.
5) SOMEWHERE THEY CAN'T FIND ME: Simon & Garfunkel could totally pass for being bad ass with this song. Too bad a jew and a short guy don't look bad ass.
6) ANJI: An awesome instrumental blues track.
7) RICHARD CORY: A song about a well-off man blowing his brains out. Pretty much a standard "the grass isn't always greener on the other side" song.
8) A MOST PECULIAR MAN: Depressing as fuck, and for a minute it doesn't make me love solitude.
9) APRIL COME SHE WILL: It's just beautiful.
10) WE'VE GOT A GROOVEY THING GOIN' : It's a fun and fast song, what can I say?
11) I AM A ROCK: Pretty much a song about avoiding emotional conflict and not putting yourself out there. Or not even wanting to show emotion. At times, I can definitely relate to this. I think everybody can more than once in their lives.
From this album (and a majority of their work) you can tell that Art Garfunkel's main contribution to the duo was his jew fro. Paul Simon is god when it comes to writing lyrics, above anything else. I mean, come on! There's a reason why we sold more records of Paul Simon than Art Garfunkel in our record store.
4 comments:
THIS IS FANTASTIC!!! Your love of this album gives me hope for humanity. It is truly one of the best albums ever and yes Paul Simon is a god. Who else could write lyrics that trancend generations. You need to get more followers and /or transpose these blogs to the store. Its time to branch out Erin .It really is. Love
ps your dad wants you to listen to the whos quadrophenia the first rock opera. It is in the misent box. Good next album blog.
pps Love MOM it disapeared!!!
This post reminds me of being 17 and listening to Bridge Over Troubled Water with me girlfriend...We were making out on my bed, and I remember getting up and putting that record on cuz I thought she would think it would be cute. She totally did!!! That afternoon was like the second or third time we made love together, and cumming during Cecilia was magnificent...I think I was singing along during it, as well...This is totally awkward, I have no idea why I'm leaving this post after your mom's declaration of love-- ha ha ha
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