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Favorite "Simon & Garfunkel" Song (1 Viewer)

Simon & Garfunkel

  • The Boxer

    Votes: 44 33.1%

  • Hazy Shade Of Winter

    Votes: 3 2.3%

  • The Sound Of Silence

    Votes: 20 15.0%

  • 59th Street Bridge

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • I Am A Rock

    Votes: 2 1.5%

  • Mrs. Robinson

    Votes: 5 3.8%

  • The Only Living Boy In New York

    Votes: 9 6.8%

  • Scarborough Fair

    Votes: 5 3.8%

  • Cecilla

    Votes: 5 3.8%

  • Kathy's Song

    Votes: 4 3.0%

  • Homeward Bound

    Votes: 4 3.0%

  • America

    Votes: 9 6.8%

  • Bridge Over Troubled Water

    Votes: 21 15.8%

  • Other

    Votes: 2 1.5%
  • Total voters
    133
TheWinz said:
Well, I guess I am a Rock, since I stand alone on the vote.  I almost went with Bridge, but I consider it more a song written by Paul and performed by Art.

The only live performance that can compete with Bridge Over Troubled Water in Central Park is Bob Dylan singing Like A Rolling Stone in 1966.  The crowd booed and he just had the band play louder and sang his heart out.
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It's a great song (I almost picked it, too) , but there are many others.

 
I was a percussionist back from fifth grade, so I tended to focus on rhythms and instrumentals rather than lyrics.  When it comes to a group like S&G, I have bigly regrets about not wrapping myself in lyrics like these two put out.  

 
Sorry I couldn't really pick a favorite. Biggest hit for sure was BOTW. Let' say my least favorite on this group is probably Cecelia.

There were many good songs that missed the cut. how about : Leaves That Are Green; Baby Driver; April Come She Will;

El Cóndor Pasa (If I Could); and just a fun song    A Simple Desultory Philippic (Or How I Was Robert McNamara'd into Submission).

How about I leave it at that, and leave you with this set list from Aug 1966.

-Anji                                                      CBS Holland
-Richard Cory
-Homeward Bound
-Leaves That Are Green
-I Am A Rock
-A Most Peculiar Man
-A Poem On The Under­ground Wall
-He Was My Brother
-The Sound Of Silence
-Anji

 
Impossible choice. When I was really young (like 4 or 5) I'd make my parents play the Wednesday Morning 3 AM,  and Bridge Over Troubled water albums all the time. At one point I think I had them all memorized. So I can't choose one as a favorite. Even things like Bleeker Street, Peggy-O, So Long Frank Lloyd Wright, Keep The Customer Satisfied, Song For The Asking are in consideration.

 
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As great as Bridge is, it became even more powerful to me when I watched S&G's "Songs of America" special. Originally aired in 1969, but PBS re-aired it for the first time not too long ago.

It plays over various scenes of JFK, MLK and RFK, including their funeral processions: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x51647l (go to 11:57 mark). 

 
zamboni said:
Hard to choose, but gun to head I’d go with  Bridge Over Troubled Water.

 IMO one of the few virtually perfect songs ever written.
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I agree with this, and am wondering if it's crazy to think that they've written several such songs.  Ended up not even voting in the poll because I find it impossible to decide between them all. 

 
Alex P Keaton said:
One of my good friends attended that concert as a pre-teen with his parents.  So jealous.
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I was at the Paul Simon one in around 1989 - it was insanity for the volume of people in Central Park. We were off to the side among the trees so I couldn't see anything but they had speakers all over the place and it was such a fun event.

 
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