Simon And Garfunkel

[bluestreak]

You gotta love em.

Keeping The Customer Satisfied is a fucking classic.

Bridge Over Troubled Water is a bit sappy but goodam, listen to the Cash version and weep.

Even the Sound Of Silence is great in a kind of grown up way.

love it!

 

[Dubversion]

i must admit, i am quite partial. a lot of it is quite sacharinne (sp) but there's a real beauty to some of that stuff.. i love America (and it's not often i type that )

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Can't forget The Boxer.

 

[bluestreak]

Can't forget The Boxer.

i'm listening to it RIGHT FUCKING NOW!

chooooon!

 

[clandestino]

i love simon and garfunkel
i spent the most i've ever spent on gig tickets last year to see them at hyde park. i took my mum. she loved it. and so did i.

 

[Roadkill]

I like 'em.

 

[LDR]

I'm a big fan too.

 

[fanta]

Aye, good stuff.

 

[Belushi]

Dont listen to them now but compulsory when I was a kid.

he Boxer has to be my favourite, and that one where they go to the zoo

 

[RubberBuccaneer]

Bridge Over Troubled Water is a bit sappy but goodam, listen to the Cash version and weep.

It's supposedly about heroin, (denied of course), but made me listen to it in a different light and can see why.

Althought you could say any love song could be a euphanism for heroin.

 

[foo]

i must admit, i am quite partial. a lot of it is quite sacharinne (sp) but there's a real beauty to some of that stuff.. i love America (and it's not often i type that )

this surprises me, i thought you'd hate them. dunno why really... probably cos they're kind of 'lite' if you see what i mean.

Sound of Silence fills me up with emotion & makes me dance and cry.

i've always loved them.

edit: a certain longstanding urbanite looks like a (much prettier version) of Garfunkel.

 

[Epona]

Another huge fan here, some absolutely classic songs.

It was them that inspired me to learn to play the guitar when I were a nipper

 

[souljacker]

Another big fan here. At the Zoo reminds of being a little kid.

 

[Funky_monks]

I like em too, but this:

i'm listening to it RIGHT FUCKING NOW!

chooooon!

Is the first time Ive heard that response to them.

Do we put our hands in the air now when we listen to "The Zoo"?

 

[Leica]

Paul Simon has written the first and only song about camera film.
(Kodachrome, they give us those nice bright colours...)

 

[Wolfie]

They were the sound track for a very unhappy part of my youth. Not a soundtrack that I chose but one that was imposed on my by the aggressive, no brain dullards I went to school with. As such I hate them with the kind of irrational loathing I usually reserve for the deputy headmaster who beat me and whose grave I would still gladly piss on if I could find where he was buried ...

Even Johnny Cash singing that turgid, sentimental bollocks Bridge Over Troubled Water can start my skin crawling and send me screaming from the room.
And that childish sing song America with its oh so clever lyrics makes me want to smash things - mainly Paul Simon's vocal chords and Garfunkles hands ....

 

[pootle]

I heart Simon and Garfunkel, I do.

Only Living Boy in New York is my favourite tune though.

 

[rennie]

i like em! mom used to listen to them when I was young n i've kept up the tradition!

 

[Wolfie]

Simon and Garfunkle - music for people who like pineapple on their pizza!

 

[rennie]

Simon and Garfunkle - music for people who like pineapple on their pizza!

i hate pineapple on my pizza but still like simon n Garfunkel!

 

[Biffo]

http://www.urban75.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=128983&highlight=simon+garfunkel

Pineapple on pizza...... hhhhhmmmmmmmmm

 

[RubberBuccaneer]

Simon and Garfunkle - music for people who like pineapple on their pizza!

What they fucking disrespected your familly or something?

 

[Mr Retro]

i must admit, i am quite partial. a lot of it is quite sacharinne (sp) but there's a real beauty to some of that stuff.. i love America (and it's not often i type that )

Beautiful song

"Kathy I'm lost I said
though I knew she was sleeping
I'm empty and aching
and I don't know why"



<edit> for quote accuracy

 

[belboid]

Bridge Over Troubled Water is a bit sappy but goodam, listen to the Cash version and weep.

why? over how fucking unbelievably awful it is?

It is dire, take a dull overplayed song and make it duller and devoid of any fucking feeling. One of the low points of that album. Oh he sounds old and he'd dragging the words out, so it must be full of rich pain and passion.

Bollocks, its just shit.

 

[Lisarocket]

Simon and Garfunkle - music for people who like pineapple on their pizza!

I like pineapple on pizza...and i like Simon and Garfunkel


The words of the Prophets are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls

...and maybe Urban 75.

There might be something in that Wolfie

 

[spanglechick]

Simon and Garfunkle - music for people who like pineapple on their pizza!

Guilty on both charges, sah!

Homeward Bound. I did a recording of it for my ex b/f when I was on tour (before the relationship turned to utter shit). Simple truths, innit?

 

[clandestino]

Beautiful song

"Kathy I'm scared I said
though I knew she was sleeping
I'm lost and alone
and I don't know why"

"and the moon rose over an open field..." *drum roll*

that's the key line for me

have to say i'm pleasantly surprised by the reponse on this thread. i mentioned s&g about a year and a half ago on the boards and was laughed out of town by the edgy anarkids.

'bridge over troubled water' is shit though, it has to be said.

 

[Biffo]

For Emily.....

"What I dream I had:
Pressed in organdy;
Clothed in crinoline of smoky Burgundy;
Softer than the rain.
I wandered empty streets
Down past the shop displays.
I heard cathedral bells
Tripping down the alley ways,
As I walked on.

And when you ran to me
Your cheeks flushed with the night.
We walked on frosted fields of juniper and lamplight,
I held your hand.
And when I awoke and felt you warm and near,
I kissed your honey hair with my grateful tears.
Oh I love you, girl.
Oh, I love you."

Hmmmmmm..... nice

 

[bluestreak]

why? over how fucking unbelievably awful it is?

It is dire, take a dull overplayed song and make it duller and devoid of any fucking feeling. One of the low points of that album. Oh he sounds old and he'd dragging the words out, so it must be full of rich pain and passion.

Bollocks, its just shit.

blimey, who shat in your cornflakes this morning. i think it sounds lovely, better than the original and the contrast between his cracked vocals and apple's higher tones is wonderful. IYAM anyway.

 

[belboid]

cornflakes??!! how dare you!

I just think its a dull song done badly. Much of the album is great. That piece leaves me completely and utterly cold.