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Favorite "Simon & Garfunkel" Song (1 Viewer)

Favorite "Simon & Garfunkel" Song

  • Bridge Over Troubled Water

    Votes: 13 16.5%

  • Sounds Of Silence

    Votes: 21 26.6%

  • The Boxer

    Votes: 18 22.8%

  • Homeward Bound

    Votes: 4 5.1%

  • Mrs. Robinson

    Votes: 9 11.4%

  • Hazy Shade Of Winter

    Votes: 5 6.3%

  • I Am A Rock

    Votes: 4 5.1%

  • Bleecker Street

    Votes: 2 2.5%

  • Kathy's Song

    Votes: 3 3.8%

  • Leaves That Are Green

    Votes: 3 3.8%

  • Cecilia

    Votes: 9 11.4%

  • Song For The Asking

    Votes: 2 2.5%

  • Other

    Votes: 15 19.0%
  • Total voters
    79
My favorite S&G song could well be whichever one I happen to be listening to, but I came into this thread looking for Scarborough Fair as a selection so voted 'other'. Actually don't believe they even wrote that one (?)

 
I like a lot of their songs. My favorite is Bridge Over Troubled Water simply because it I think it has a lot of utility.

 
'glumpy said:
My favorite S&G song could well be whichever one I happen to be listening to, but I came into this thread looking for Scarborough Fair as a selection so voted 'other'. Actually don't believe they even wrote that one (?)
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Art wrote it - which might be why you thought it was a cover, Paul wrote 90% of their hits.
 
'Uruk-Hai said:
Chose "Homeward Bound" but they had a ton of songs I like. Simon's writing could be a little (ok, a lot) pretentious & English-Lit-cute, but the singing makes up for it on their best records.
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Americans used to pretend to be more pretentious.
 
'Topes said:
'Uruk-Hai said:
Chose "Homeward Bound" but they had a ton of songs I like. Simon's writing could be a little (ok, a lot) pretentious & English-Lit-cute, but the singing makes up for it on their best records.
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Americans used to pretend to be more pretentious.
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:lmao: at Simon's writing being pretentious. Don't let Uruk ever hear Shostakovich, prog, or God forbid, Miles. Not everything has to be the Ramones playing three chords and singing about jerking off. Which is great and all, but there are other things people can do creatively.I think Simon's written a lot of perfect songs. With Art and solo. But with Art I think even among the perfect songs that Bridge Over Troubled Water and The Boxer stand out. They rank up with the best of any genre. It's a dead heat with those two. And if you've never seen the version of the Boxer that opened the first SNL after 9/11, you should check it out.

 
'BobbyLayne said:
'glumpy said:
My favorite S&G song could well be whichever one I happen to be listening to, but I came into this thread looking for Scarborough Fair as a selection so voted 'other'. Actually don't believe they even wrote that one (?)
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Art wrote it - which might be why you thought it was a cover, Paul wrote 90% of their hits.
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Scarborough Fair is an old English ballad. Not sure if it's just really old or Middle Ages old, but it goes back a long way.
 
'wdcrob said:
'BobbyLayne said:
'glumpy said:
My favorite S&G song could well be whichever one I happen to be listening to, but I came into this thread looking for Scarborough Fair as a selection so voted 'other'. Actually don't believe they even wrote that one (?)
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Art wrote it - which might be why you thought it was a cover, Paul wrote 90% of their hits.
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Scarborough Fair is an old English ballad. Not sure if it's just really old or Middle Ages old, but it goes back a long way.
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Thanks, indeed it is (good wiki on the evolution). My silly mp3/phone said it was Art's work.http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarborough_Fair_(ballad)
 
Hmm... Either the Boxer or Bookends for me. Both bring me back to when I discovered my parents' cold record collection in high school. The crackle and pops of the record as I blasted The Boxer was one of those "sparks" where I realized there was music beyond the garbage the radio was spewing at me. Bookends takes me back to a fun, wild weekend with a girl I knew ever so briefly :thumbup:

 
'Newslang said:
Poem on the underground wall, def. my favorite. "And his heart is laughing, screaming, poundingThe poem across the tracks reboundingShadowed by the exit lightHis legs take their ascending flightTo seek the breast of darkness and be suckled by the night."
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:greatposting: and it's even better with the music"And the train is gone suddenlyOn wheels spinning silentlyLike a gently tapping litanyAnd he hold his crayon rosaryTighter in his grasp"For me it's "other" - a toss up between this and "The Dangling Conversation"But they've got so many great songs that you could easily argue a dozen others that didn't make the poll list. Simon & Garfunkel gets :thumbup: :thumbup: from me - one of my all time fav's.
 
I love Simon and Garfunkel. In a way that always moves me. They were going through my head tonight. What an odd thread bump, but a cool one.

I went with "For Emily, Wherever I May Find Her," but that is subject to day-to-day changes.

"Bookends," too. Tie for first with those.

 
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Love me some S&G. There's a pretty good documentary I've seen a couple times on them back in the day, including the making of Bridge OTW and the first time they sang it live before it was released. I couldn't imagine sitting in the crowd and hearing that. One of the most powerful vocal performances ever by AG on that song. To answer the question, if I had to choose, probably America.

 
Another vote for "Only Living Boy In New York".

As great as S&G was, Paul's solo work over 40+ years is even better.

 
koby925 said:
Love me some S&G. There's a pretty good documentary I've seen a couple times on them back in the day, including the making of Bridge OTW and the first time they sang it live before it was released. I couldn't imagine sitting in the crowd and hearing that. One of the most powerful vocal performances ever by AG on that song. To answer the question, if I had to choose, probably America.
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That documentary was Songs of America.

Really poignant use honoring JFK and his funeral procession here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqEAXCge-vQ&feature=player_detailpage#t=716

And later in the doc, they show S&G performing it for the first time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqEAXCge-vQ&feature=player_detailpage#t=1743

One of the greatest songs of all time IMO.

 
Funny when I saw this thread again the first song that started playing in my mind was Scarborough Fair but it really is impossible to pick a favorite.

 
Other America

they are all good.

Who is our generation's (X) greatest songwriter. He (Simon) is definitely the Baby's Boomer's.

 
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