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Poll Question: what is your favourite album
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 30 2016 at 08:01
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 30 2016 at 10:46
On the one hand, I think Bookends had higher highs, on the other, Bridge was a slightly more consistent record. In any event, if you want to get into Simon and Garfunkel, either one would be a good start.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 30 2016 at 12:32
oh man... bookends...  how I adore that album...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 07 2016 at 13:39
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Sounds of Silence, Richard Cory, Somewhere They Can't Find Me, I am a Rock. Love that album. 


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 07 2016 at 13:45
Originally posted by TheLionOfPrague TheLionOfPrague wrote:

Sounds of Silence, Richard Cory, Somewhere They Can't Find Me, I am a Rock. Love that album. 

It was the first album I ever owned.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 07 2016 at 15:10
Although I truly love all S&G albums fairly equally, I'll have to give a vote to Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme because it is somehow lacking a vote currently. Simply some of the best S&G songs on that album, including "Scarborough Fair/Canticle", "Homeward Bound", "For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her", "The Dangling Conversation" and the best rendition of "Silent Night" juxtaposed with a TV newsman reporting the day's grisly events. Some of it hasn't aged well (like "Big Bright Green Pleasure Machine" and "A Simple Desultory Philippic"), but even "Feelin' Groovy" is a welcome listen (you can't feel bad listening to that tune).
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 08 2016 at 05:35
BOTW has a phenomenal list of songs -
El Condor Pasa
Cecilia
Keep the Customer Satisfied
The Boxer (probably their best song)
Baby Driver
The Only Living Boy in New York
oh, and there's also the title track as well.
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 08 2016 at 06:29
Originally posted by The Dark Elf The Dark Elf wrote:

Although I truly love all S&G albums fairly equally, I'll have to give a vote to Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme because it is somehow lacking a vote currently. Simply some of the best S&G songs on that album, including "Scarborough Fair/Canticle", "Homeward Bound", "For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her", "The Dangling Conversation" and the best rendition of "Silent Night" juxtaposed with a TV newsman reporting the day's grisly events. Some of it hasn't aged well (like "Big Bright Green Pleasure Machine" and "A Simple Desultory Philippic"), but even "Feelin' Groovy" is a welcome listen (you can't feel bad listening to that tune).
 
I love them all but reading this reminded me of how much I always enjoyed PSR&T so it gets my vote.
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 08 2016 at 07:27
It's hard to beat Bridge Over Troubled Waters in my opinion.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 08 2016 at 08:33
Tough choice.....between Parsley and Bookends........
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 17 2016 at 09:11
Originally posted by lazland lazland wrote:

Originally posted by Slartibartfast Slartibartfast wrote:

I've never picked up any S&G albums, but I do have the Central Park DVD.  Also, the I Am A Rock song was very moving.

I fell in love with Bridge when my parents got it. I think the Central Park DVD is incredible.


Also love the DVD.  Don't have any albums except best of, but BOTW is undoubtedly one of the finest songs ever written.  And AG has possibly the most beautiful male voice ever.



So perhaps I should get the BOTW album?..............



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 18 2016 at 01:48
..........the saying goes. " If you have nothing good to say, don't say anything at all "
................so I say nothing..........................
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 18 2016 at 03:43
Originally posted by Tom Ozric Tom Ozric wrote:

..........the saying goes. " If you have nothing good to say, don't say anything at all "
................so I say nothing..........................
Oh, I dunno. I managed to keep silent for 4 years but since it has been decided to Lazarus this thread... They're pretty offensive to my ears and encapsulate everything I dislike about insipidly bland american pop music that is so arse-numbingly dull it makes Barry Manilow look f-king edgy so I think it's only fair to retaliate. This is easy-listening pap that my grandparents would play after exhausting their repertoire of Guy Mitchel and Pat Boone records. The albums in this poll would cure insomnia if it were not for the incessant whining and grating nasal harmonies - there are several resonant cavities in the human body that add richness and timbre to the human voice, but the nasal cavity isn't one of them - if you're atuned to that thin, reedy voice then good for you, I find it excruciating enough when spoken let alone sung - I'd divulge my secret plans for world domination to the CIA before side one of Bridge over Troubled Water had finished playing. The singing alone would be bad enough but add that to the triteness of self-obsessed lyrics that are so devoid of any emotional content that they make the doggerel poetry of a 14-year old adolescent seem positively laudable by comparison, sung over music that is so monotonous and uneventful that it results in every tune seeming to last twice as long as it actually does (ref: 59th St Bridge Song - lasts less than 2 minutes and even then outstays its welcome). How can I not like Simon & Garfunkel? ... by not being dead yet.  

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

I'd rather dip my ears in custard and treacle than listen to AOR Simon & Garfunkel.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 18 2016 at 04:58
Choice 3 should read : Hashish, Weed, Acid and Wine..............
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 20 2016 at 08:51
Hashish, Weed, Rose Mary and Wine.....my favorite album of all-time (a bit sexist but it's OK to dream here and again).

Pasley and Bookends are my two favorites.....always thought Bridge was overblown and the debut undercooked.....still, both are excellent - even their lows were highs.  
I like to feel the suspense when you're certain you know I am there.....
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