Simon And Garfunkel The Essential Rar
Sony will issue Paul Simon The Ultimate Collection in April, a single disc compilation that will feature both Simon & Garfunkel classics and the best of solo Simon.The 19-track collection boasts an attractive front cover (an outtake from his 1972 eponymous solo debut) and springs no real surprises in terms of track listings. Man, is this lame! If one wants the best of Simon & Garfunkel/Paul Simon here’s what to get:Sound of Silence (the entire CD);Parsley, Sage (ditto)Bookends (ditto)Bridge Over (ditto)So get the above on the 5-disc studio recordings.As for Simon:Paul Simon (the entire CD)There Goes Rhymin’ (ditto)Still Crazy (ditto)Graceland (ditto)and the list could go on. My point is that they/him created flawless ALBUMS of material from which singles were picked for promotion via radio play. The very best material from their respective catalogues is missing in action on this compilation. A staggeringly awful selection.
I don’t know how much marketshare I represent, but I might be just who this is aimed at! I grew up in the 70s/80s with many of these songs seeping into my soul through repeated radio exposure. Graceland came out when I was 17 and in college. Some of Graceland’s radio hits were what inspired both the issuing of the Negotiations And Love Songs 1971-1986 comp and my buying it. 20 years later, I sold it without ever buying any other Simon material.For me, S&G/Simon is in the same boat as The Eagles, Bad Company, Joe Walsh, Steve Miller Band, Hall & Oates. All performers I learned to like from repeated radio exposure before developing any critical acumen (i.e.
Simon And Garfunkel The Essential Rar Collection
Going to college and being exposed to Punk and Indie/Post-Punk/College Rock). Imbibed in innocent times, running in my blood forever, but not anything I’m proud of.
For various reasons, I think people who like these performers are schmucks. But I still have 1-2 Disc comps from most of them.But I have nothing from Hall & Oates and Simon. Neither has a comp that clears all my bases for me.In H&O’s case, it’s ’cause I had 3 12″s from Big Bamm Boo, so my H&O comp needs to include most of those remixes and that will probably never happen. That and that when I do listen closely to any other song than She’s Gone, i realize they suck.But in Simon’s case it is likely the right comp will come for me. When I compared this to the one mentioned in the above article, this has A LOT more appeal to me: It has Graceland and Mrs.
If it goes cheap on Amazon I will buy it and hate myself in the morning!Maybe BMG-SONY-MegaCorp thinks there are thousands of me out there. (Or maybe they’re just gonna kill Simon for the big pre-release promo push!).