Subject: RE: What's your favourite Paul Simon song? From: Neil D Date: 29 Jan 24 - 07:48 PM Any song that features bass player, Bakithi Kumalo. |
Subject: RE: What's your favourite Paul Simon song? From: Sol Date: 26 Jan 24 - 04:37 PM This is probably common knowledge however, here we go. Paul Simon asked Linda Ronstadt what were her earliest childhood memories. She replied she remembered lying in her crib in Tuscon, Arizona and hearing the Mission bells ringing. Hence .... In early memory Mission music Was ringing 'round my nursery door I said take this child, Lord From Tucson, Arizona Give her the wings to fly through harmony And she won't bother you no more (From "Under African Skies") |
Subject: RE: What's your favourite Paul Simon song? From: gillymor Date: 26 Jan 24 - 04:19 PM and The Boy in the Bubble, also off Graceland. |
Subject: RE: What's your favourite Paul Simon song? From: Dave the Gnome Date: 26 Jan 24 - 02:49 PM Good to see you sir John. How are you? Diamonds on the souls of my shoes |
Subject: RE: What's your favourite Paul Simon song? From: Mrrzy Date: 25 Jan 24 - 09:25 PM Now, Kodachrome. |
Subject: RE: What's your favourite Paul Simon song? From: GUEST,jOhn Date: 25 Jan 24 - 04:09 PM Some good songs here. Thought I recognised this thread, I started it 22 years ago! |
Subject: Lyr Add: WRISTBAND (Paul Simon) From: Jim Dixon Date: 24 Jan 24 - 05:54 PM Considering his whole long career, I’d have to say The Boxer or maybe Bridge Over Troubled Water. Some lighter ones I like are: Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard, 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover, Loves Me Like a Rock, and Cecilia. But the one I’m grooving on lately is this one. It’s about as political as Simon ever gets: WRISTBAND As recorded by Paul Simon on “Stranger to Stranger” (2016) VERSE 1: I stepped outside the backstage door to breathe some nicotine And maybe check my mailbox, see if I can read the screen; Then I heard a click, the stage door lock, I knew just what that meant: I'm gonna have to walk around the block if I wanna get in. CHORUS 1: Wristband, my man, you've got to have a wristband. If you don't have a wristband, my man, you don't get through the door. Wristband, my man, you've got to have a wristband. And if you don't have a wristband, my man, you don't get through the door. VERSE 2: I can't explain it; I don't know why my heart beats like a fist When I meet some dude with an attitude saying: "Hey, you can't do that, or this," And the man was large, a well-dressed six-foot-eight, And he's acting like Saint Peter standing guard at the Pearly— CHORUS 2: Wristband, my man, you've got to have a wristband. If you don't have a wristband, you don't get through the door. And I said: "Wristband? I don't need a wristband! My axe is on the bandstand! My band is on the floor!" BRIDGE: I mean it's just... [Scat] (Wristband) [Scat] (Wristband) [etc.] VERSE 3: The riots started slowly with the homeless and the lowly. Then they spread into the heartland towns that never get a wristband— Kids that can't afford the cool brand, whose anger is a shorthand For “You'll never get a wristband,” And if you don't have a wristband, then you can't get through the door. No, you can't get through the door. No, you can't get through the door. Say, you can't get through the door, no. |
Subject: RE: What's your favourite Paul Simon song? From: robomatic Date: 23 Jan 24 - 11:47 PM I find myself often singing (trying to sing) "American Tune". |
Subject: RE: What's your favourite Paul Simon song? From: gillymor Date: 23 Jan 24 - 08:13 PM I've grown to appreciate Red Rubber Ball. |
Subject: ADD: A Most Peculiar Man (Paul Simon) From: Joe Offer Date: 23 Jan 24 - 07:08 PM Not my absolute favorite, but one of many favorites. A MOST PECULIAR MAN (Paul Simon) He was a most peculiar man That's what Mrs. Reardon says, and she should know She lived upstairs from him She said he was a most peculiar man He was a most peculiar man He lived all alone within a house Within a room, within himself A most peculiar man He had no friends, he seldom spoke And no one in turn ever spoke to him 'Cause he wasn't friendly and he didn't care And he wasn't like them Oh, no, he was a most peculiar man He died last Saturday He turned on the gas and he went to sleep With the windows closed so he'd never wake up To his silent world and his tiny room And Mrs. Reardon says he has a brother somewhere Who should be notified soon And all the people said, "What a shame that he's dead But wasn't he a most peculiar man?" Source: Musixmatch Songwriters: Paul Simon A Most Peculiar Man lyrics © Sony/atv Songs Llc From S&G Sounds of Silence album:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhT97UIOaUs Paul Simon Solo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpJo7LSSUyU |
Subject: RE: What's your favourite Paul Simon song? From: GUEST,Malcolm Storey Date: 26 Apr 22 - 06:20 PM Too many to say |
Subject: RE: What's your favourite Paul Simon song? From: voyager Date: 24 Apr 22 - 03:01 PM It's a tie for me - #1 - The Sound of Silence performed w/Art at Monterey Pop Festival ('67) Sound of Silence #1 - Graceland (the whole album/movie) #1 - The Boxer and this is my shortlist. Paul Simon - American Musician extraordinaire voyager |
Subject: RE: What's your favourite Paul Simon song? From: SPB-Cooperator Date: 23 Apr 22 - 06:53 AM The Obvious Child - I am a fan of Olodum |
Subject: RE: What's your favourite Paul Simon song? From: GUEST, Lin Date: 23 Apr 22 - 04:56 AM By far it is "Kathy's Song." I just love this song so much. I could listen to it over and over again and never tire of hearing it. I also enjoy hearing some of the covers on YouTube just to hear how other people sing it. There are some pretty good covers of this song. |
Subject: RE: What's your favourite Paul Simon song? From: Sol Date: 22 Apr 22 - 07:36 PM Like with a lot of great artists, there are many great songs to choose from however, there's always one special song that you consider your own personal favourite because it wasn't 'a biggie'. With regards to Paul Simon, it has to be "Kathy's Song" for me. Beautifully composed, sung and played, based on a real person. It's just perfection. |
Subject: RE: What's your favourite Paul Simon song? From: Stringsinger Date: 22 Apr 22 - 01:17 PM For me, the song "The Dangling Conversation" because it reflects the ennui of the privileged class of young college students who grew up with everything given to them. It highlights just how spoiled Americans and Brits have become with material possessions and part of the dubious "meritocracy" so revered among academics and upper classes. |
Subject: RE: What's your favourite Paul Simon song? From: GUEST,jondoe Date: 22 Apr 22 - 09:01 AM Which is your favorite child, or pet? I'd say American Tune and Armistice Day have a special place. But he's like Joni Mitchell. There are way too many to mention. He had a song in Shampoo, where Warren Beatty is screwing Julie Christie in the pool house - and his GF happens to see it. A lyric-less version of Silent Eyes. Such a moving scene - and movie! And if we include his wife, I'd add Steve Martin's Pretty Little One! |
Subject: ADD: Grounds for Violence (Sound of Silence parody From: Joe Offer Date: 22 Apr 22 - 03:12 AM Elizabeth Block sent a Canadian parody of Sound of Silence. Grounds for Violence With apologies to Simon & Garfunkel Hello winter, my old friend I don't believe you'll ever end Because the snowbanks are still towering And my despair is overpowering A ridge of ice has just encrusted my whole lane It's quite insane These are the grounds for violence On slippery streets I try to walk I cannot make it round the block Because a water main has snapped again My gate can't open; it has frozen in I cannot stand the mere idea of April snow It has to go These are the grounds for violence And when I try to take the bus I see the scars on all of us No one talking, never mind speaking Without relief, people just freaking Reporters ruining songs their voices can not sing It's now a thing These are the grounds for violence I want tomatoes in my yard Right now the ground is really hard I want to sit outside on patios I want to lose my winter fat, it's gross But my wishes do not hasten warmer air Life isn't fair These are the grounds for violence -- Bartley Kives, reporter for the Winnipeg Free Press (Winnipeg aka Winterpeg) SOUND OF SILENCE (DT Lyrics) (Paul Simon) Hello darkness, my old friend I've come to talk with you again Because a vision softly creeping Left its seeds while I was sleeping And the vision that was planted in my brain Still remains Within the sound of silence In restless dreams I walked alone Narrow streets of cobblestone 'Neath the halo of a street lamp I turned my collar to the cold and damp When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light That split the night And touched the sound of silence And in the naked light I saw Ten thousand people, maybe more, People talking without speaking People hearing without listening People writing songs that voices never share And no-one dare, Disturb the sounds of silence Fools said I "You do not know Silence like a cancer grows." Hear my words that I might teach you Take my arms that I might reach you But my words, like silent raindrops fell And echoed in the wells of silence And the people bowed and prayed To the neon God they made And the sign flashed out its warning In the words that it was forming And the sign said "The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenement halls." And whispered in the sounds of silence. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Words and music by Paul Simon. Copyright 1964 and 1965 by Charing Cross Music. @political filename[ SOUNDSIL DC |
Subject: RE: What's your favourite Paul Simon song? From: Tony Rees Date: 16 Jul 18 - 07:51 PM Further to the above lyric and song title, it helps to know (as I did not at first) that the "Jonah" of the song is the protagonist - a somewhat washed up musician - in Paul Simon's (sole?) movie "One Trick Pony", of which the album is notionally the soundtrack. The the "Jonah" references suddenly make sense... Regards - Tony |
Subject: Lyr Add: JONAH (Paul Simon) From: Tony Rees Date: 16 Jul 18 - 06:37 PM Lyrics to "Jonah" ... always seem so evocative - especially with the wistful melody. Regards - Tony JONAH (Paul Simon) As recorded by Paul Simon on "One Trick Pony" (1980)
Half an hour; change your strings and tune up
They say Jonah he was swallowed by a whale
No one gives their dreams away too lightly
They say Jonah he was swallowed by a whale
Here's to all the boys who came along |
Subject: RE: What's your favourite Paul Simon song? From: Tony Rees Date: 16 Jul 18 - 05:48 PM Far too many great songs to pick a favourite, but I have a soft spot for (most of) his least commercially successful albums i.e. "One Trick Pony" and "Hearts and Bones". Both title tracks are spot on in my humble opinion. And the opening guitar lick in E on "Hearts and Bones" is simply a thing of beauty. |
Subject: RE: What's your favourite Paul Simon song? From: GUEST,WNC Gal Date: 16 Jul 18 - 12:53 PM The tune used for a good bit of "American Tune" is quite similar to the hymn tune "Passion Chorale" composed by Hans Leo Hassler in 1601. These days the tune is most frequently associated with the hymn "O Sacred Head Now Wounded." Was listening to Ronnie Norton's show at Bluegrasscountry.org earlier today, and he played several outstanding bluegrass covers of Simon songs, including Emmylou Harris's lovely version of "The Boxer." Ronnie mentioned having attended the Paul Simon/James Taylor/Bonnie Raitt show in Dublin last week. |
Subject: RE: What's your favourite Paul Simon song? From: gillymor Date: 16 Jul 18 - 12:30 PM I still like to play "Kathy's Song" and "April Comes She Will" after all these decades and I like to listen to "Boy in a Bubble" among the later stuff. |
Subject: RE: What's your favourite Paul Simon song? From: GUEST Date: 16 Jul 18 - 02:37 AM Refresh |
Subject: RE: What's your favourite Paul Simon song? From: GUEST Date: 17 Aug 06 - 08:38 PM "American Tune" surely rates - but isn't the melody traditional or something? Seems to me I've heard it somewhere else. |
Subject: RE: What's your favourite Paul Simon song? From: GUEST,katia Date: 17 Aug 06 - 08:38 AM Little joke! |
Subject: RE: What's your favourite Paul Simon song? From: Big Al Whittle Date: 17 Aug 06 - 08:27 AM I used to play that song endlessly when I was a youndg alienated student. then my room mate said to me This song.......that line about 'the slient shroud of snow'. You know what its like....? Its like a bloody Christmas card verse from a manic depressive! |
Subject: RE: What's your favourite Paul Simon song? From: Hovering Bob Date: 17 Aug 06 - 07:41 AM Not my favourite, but the one that had the greatest instant impact was "I am a Rock." It was the song he started his first set with at Huntingdon Folk Club way back in 196? It was the first time I ever went to a folk club, earth shattering! BobH |
Subject: RE: What's your favourite Paul Simon song? From: Tootler Date: 17 Aug 06 - 06:10 AM And recorded by Art Garfunkel. |
Subject: RE: What's your favourite Paul Simon song? From: Terry K Date: 17 Aug 06 - 01:19 AM Guest Katia - Bright Eyes was written by the chief Womble, Mike Batt. cheers, Terry |
Subject: RE: What's your favourite Paul Simon song? From: Janice in NJ Date: 16 Aug 06 - 06:23 PM Poem on the Underground Wall. |
Subject: RE: What's your favourite Paul Simon song? From: Little Hawk Date: 16 Aug 06 - 01:56 PM "Homeward Bound" is a great song. So is "Slip Slidin' Away". |
Subject: RE: What's your favourite Paul Simon song? From: GUEST,Katia Date: 16 Aug 06 - 01:46 PM Bright Eyes - got to be |
Subject: RE: What's your favourite Paul Simon song? From: Mr Red Date: 16 Aug 06 - 12:48 PM Well, it would be Scarborough Fair - if he had written it - or arranged it. I tend not to have favourites - it is all music from my youth and that is always special. |
Subject: RE: What's your favourite Paul Simon song? From: bobad Date: 15 Aug 06 - 09:34 PM Homeward Bound - It brings me back to a particular time and place in my younger days. |
Subject: RE: What's your favourite Paul Simon song? From: Alba Date: 15 Aug 06 - 09:25 PM Lincoln Duncan. No doubt:) Coming in a close second, I dream we are lying on top of a Hill Headlights slide passed the Moon I fold in your arms and your voice is the heat of the night. I'm on fire In a phone booth at some local Bar and grill, rehearsing what I'll say my coin returns How the Heart approaches what it yearns Jude |
Subject: RE: What's your favourite Paul Simon song? From: Greg B Date: 15 Aug 06 - 08:40 PM 'Homeless' from Graceland with Ladysmith Black Mambazo. Nothing more need be said. Just listen. |
Subject: RE: What's your favourite Paul Simon song? From: GUEST,Desdemona Date: 15 Aug 06 - 08:36 PM I always liked "Fakin' It", and "Bookends" never fails to make me cry...come to think of it, they're both from the same album, aren't they? ~D |
Subject: RE: What's your favourite Paul Simon song? From: GUEST,Pelrad Date: 15 Aug 06 - 08:28 PM I have too many favorites to choose from. When I was three years old, my favorite song was "Slip Slidin' Away," and I would request it several times a day. I listened to Paul Simon's music at least once a day for ten years straight. I used to find ways to quote him in my school essays. "Baby Driver" - I can never hear it without seeing the skit from the Muppet Show with the babies hot-rodding in their buggies. "Hearts and Bones" "Song about the Moon" If you want to write a song about the moon, Walk along the craters of the afternoon When the shadows are deep And the light is alien And gravity leaps like a knife off the pavement "The Coast" from Rhythm of the Saints "Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes" from Graceland "That's Where I Belong" from You're the One Somewhere in a burst of glory Sound becomes a song I'm bound to tell a story Thats where I belong "The Cool, Cool River" from Rhythm of the Saints has my absolute favorite quote: Sometimes even music cannot substitute for tears. |
Subject: RE: What's your favourite Paul Simon song? From: Haruo Date: 15 Aug 06 - 05:27 PM Hey, last month I watched the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike going the other direction! Life finally imitating art, or perhaps in this case imitating paul. Haruo |
Subject: RE: What's your favourite Paul Simon song? From: Tootler Date: 15 Aug 06 - 05:22 PM My own personal favourites are The Boxer Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes Look for America Between us, (me + wife), my sister and some friends we almost managed to "Look for America" I didn't quite go to Saginaw, though I got pretty close My sister didn't board a Greyhound in Pittsburgh, but she nearly boarded one to Pittsburgh Our friends actually did manage to watch the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike on their way from Newark Airport to NYC. |
Subject: RE: What's your favourite Paul Simon song? From: Haruo Date: 15 Aug 06 - 04:59 PM Only one I actually have the lyrics to in Esperanto is "The Sound of Silence": La Son' Silenta Translated by Roel Haveman Kara nokto, venis mi Por paroli plu kun vi Ĉar vizio bildojn formis, Lasis semojn dum mi dormis. Kaj la vizio, Enplantita en la kor' Ne iras for De la son' silenta. Ensonĝe solas la anim' Dum vagas mi sur s^tonpavim' Ĉe bril' de stratlanterna aŭreol' Mi froste ŝovas jakon al la kol' Dum l' okulojn Trafpikas neona fulm' Tra la mallum', Tra la son' silenta En nuda lumo vidas mi Dek mil homojn, eble pli. Dum parolo diro mankas. Dum aŭdad' aŭskulto haltas. Iliajn versojn Voĉoj certe kantos ne, Kuraĝas ne Pro la son' silenta. "Stultuloj, vi ne scias ke Silent' kancere kreskas se Miajn manojn vi neglektas, Miajn vortojn ne respektas." Sed forfluas Silente mia vort', Hm hm hm hm, Drona sort' Silenta Klino, preĝo, eu(fori' Por memkreita neondi'. La signo fulmas nun averton Per vortoj kiuj spiras certon Kaj ĝi diras ke La vortojn profetajn Vi trovos sur metroa mur' Kun flustro nur Kie la son' silentas |
Subject: RE: What's your favourite Paul Simon song? From: Terry Allan Hall Date: 24 Feb 05 - 07:03 PM Too many to choose from, but "Duncan", "Hazy Shade Of Winter", "America", and "Hobo's Blues" (his instrumental duet/jam with Stephane Grapelli on "Paul Simon") always kill me! |
Subject: RE: What's your favourite Paul Simon song? From: wanderhope Date: 24 Feb 05 - 11:50 AM One thing I remember was when he got the Grammy for Album of the Year (for "Graceland") and his acceptance speech was, "I want to thank Stevie Wonder for not recording anything this year." Also -- my favorite of the many I love to sing -- Graceland, itself. Especially since Simon said, "It's not about Elvis.' |
Subject: RE: What's your favourite Paul Simon song? From: GUEST,Jim Date: 24 Feb 05 - 10:49 AM Any song that gets some mileage out of sitting on a Widnes station platform has got to be an award winner |
Subject: RE: What's your favourite Paul Simon song? From: Georgiansilver Date: 23 Feb 05 - 03:38 PM Any of his songs with African influence.....great! Best wishes, Mike. |
Subject: RE: What's your favourite Paul Simon song? From: Genie Date: 23 Feb 05 - 03:30 PM LOL, Sorethroat! Fear not. We in the states also love to pop a Fisherman's Friend in our mouths PRN. §:-D |
Subject: RE: What's your favourite Paul Simon song? From: Crystal Date: 23 Feb 05 - 09:52 AM 50 ways to leave your lover! or any spoof done by the muppets! |
Subject: RE: What's your favourite Paul Simon song? From: GUEST,Sorethroat Date: 23 Feb 05 - 09:46 AM Way back on this thread in 02 someone mentioned the line "My father was a fisherman, my mother was a fisherman's friend" to which another replied, 'There is no such thing!' Well, there certainly IS - I'm suckin' on one right now. Makin' me feel much better too. For Stateside viewers benefit (and elsewhere), fear not! It's a brand name for a throat remedy over here in the UK. |
Subject: RE: What's your favourite Paul Simon song? From: just john Date: 23 Feb 05 - 09:16 AM So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright Architects may come and architects may go and never change your point of view. |
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