A Mark In Time
General Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: holaknopfler on September 23, 2010, 10:07:45 PM
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You should listen to Paul Simon sometimes! Really beautiful music, e.g Under African skies, great song! He has a lot of great songs, I think you`ll know him? ;D
Ciao,
Lars
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i grew up with Graceland, still love it
but you should talk to goldenheart :-)
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1985 Brothers In Arms
1985 Born in the USA
1985 Hounds of Love
1986 Graceland
1986 So
That were great times when I learned to listen to albums instead of singles... :lol I remember the video clip from "You can call me Al", which was and still is very funny...
LE
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Pauls first solo album is an organic classic, highly recommended - by me! :)
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I love Paul Simon, although his more recent solo stuff (last 20 years!) hasn't been all that great. OK, but not great.
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Nice to hear that there are people around who like him to!
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I made my first visit to Wembley Arena to see Paul Simon sometime in early 1990's - amazing - did music from Graceland etc. Colourful, band comprised members from South Africa - at least 3 different types of percussion.
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Just downloaded an awesome compilation of Paul Simon live performances from US TV from Demonoid, some great stuff I've never seen before.
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huh?
demonoid still live?
trying to get to the site (i have an account) but grt blank pages all the time..
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huh?
demonoid still live?
trying to get to the site (i have an account) but grt blank pages all the time..
It seems to say "Down for maintenance" or something, but then you click on the "retry here" link and it lets you in.
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I'm a little late here but I LOVE Paul Simon! He shaped my music taste. I'm a HUGE fan. If it wasn't for him, I'd still be listening to the Backstreet Boys. My favourite album is "Rhythm Of The Saints" :)
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I'm a little late here but I LOVE Paul Simon! He shaped my music taste. I'm a HUGE fan. If it wasn't for him, I'd still be listening to the Backstreet Boys. My favourite album is "Rhythm Of The Saints" :)
Oh that`s a very good song! :D
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I like PS too, I actually bought graceland on tape back in the good old days of walkmans :o :o
I always thought that he was in the John Lennon sort of mould with the apartheid thing but was probably about 10 years before his time - he was dancing on dangerous waters when it was dangerous to sail on them.The africano style of music definately opened up another line of music to the world.
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Great new Paul Simon Christmas song.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/2010/11/15/131334776/paul-simon-s-new-christmas-song
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Great new Paul Simon Christmas song.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/2010/11/15/131334776/paul-simon-s-new-christmas-song
You know Paul Simon is about Jewish as they come, right? :lol
At first I thought I read that wrong...
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Jews love Christmas too these days it seems.
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He is great, too bad he broke up with Garfunkel, to my opinion. Sometimes it seems that our course is not the one we imagine, but still we have to chase the dream. He had to get out of this thing with Garfunkel, (i am sure that you know that it is pure luck that Paul Simon made it. While on tour in England a famous producer added drums and bass and an electric guitar to his acoustic composition "Sounds of silence" and he turned it into a hit. The producer's name is Bob Johnston-if this name rings a bell, he produced all Dylan's albums from mid 60ies to early 70ies-. I don't know if Paul Simon was a purist, back then, but he surely was in need of cash and he just kept on going on the same path -good thing that he didn't manage to sell his rights in England when he desperately needed money-) and he only got his artistic freedom after the giga selling album "Bridge over troubled water". Columbia let him do whatever he wanted, but truth told, he never reached as high as he did with Garfunkel. But it was his dream to follow and drams are always stronger than the obvious talent.
Art Garfunkel gives a little theatrical explanation on his CD where he also sings "Why worry", but i guess that is the fate of the gifted, always having trouble with their past. Or maybe it is us , fans who read about them and we think we have everything figured out.
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Sorry for the bitter end, something i was reading really affected my judgment.
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I love Simon & Garfunkel but Paul Simon solo is an entirely different thing. I'm glad he pursued a solo career. If it hadn't been for his solo albums I'd still be listening to the Backstreet Boys now. Really looking forward to Paul's new solo album, "So Beautiful Or So What". Release date is April 12 :)