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But I won't say that there isn't a time and place for everything. Now every so often I go visit some friends of mine in the city. Just about every song is just as, if not more so, beautiful than the first. I have always declared myself as a non Simon and Garfunkel fan. There is a fine mix of style here, and really (in my opinion of course), the best showcase of the Simon and Garfunkel talents with rich accompianment and solid harmonies. Even when I was really young, I could see the beauty in this song. I can smell the attic dust on the record cover just thinking about it but you will love it if you are at least fifteen beers deep on those dank nights.
If so, then I would have to make this Simon and Garfunkel album the one. I realized that the title track is only the beggining. On a particularly drunken evening, I threw this album on the turntable and cranked it. The Sounds Of Silence. These friends of mine never seem to be able to keep up with my pace of steady beer drinking until the sun comes up, and at some point in the night, I will find myself alone in the living room, still drinking whats left of my beers, and rummaging through the records.
Meaning, for the most part, they do nothing for me. Usually when I do this (I gotta take two trains to get there)I end up spending the night, because navigating my way back becomes way too much of a process. For the two minute duration, I freeze. Sometimes Simon and Garfunkel are just whats needed. That title track has always put me on hold when I hear it.
Great stuff. This is one of the all-time best albums, and one of my all-time favorites (there IS a difference). This re-release is excellent for the inclusion of a couple of extra tracks.
I hate when this happens. ts it, if it doesnt work, thats as good as it gets.I rated it in stars, I entered a title for the review, and I typed a review. So whats this OOPS.
It did not revel in its own lyrical cleverness like Dylan, yet the lyric messages were poignant and well developed and despite the simplicity never lacked thematic depth. What I like most is Simon's atatention to melody and music AS well as the lyrics. So redolent of the times, this was a coherently brilliantly album that shoots through the mush of drab 'folk rock' clones like a flashlight in the dark. This album lacked the self-aggrandazing bombast of 'Bridge Over Trouble Water' (which I hold was a little too comfortable with its brilliance, although with a touch more humility than the Beatles Sgt. Pepper), but more importantly, I don't see it as a rawer sketch of Bridge Over Troubled Water of the work Simon and Garfunkel produced in between, but I believe this IS their definitive statement, their magnum opus.
You cant help but envision scenes from the "Graduate" while listening to it. This is an absolutely perfect CD.
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