Simon & Garfunkel - Columbia Studio Recordings 1964-70
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Artist: Simon & GarfunkelBrand: Columbia
Edition: Music CD
Music CD: Region Code 1
Format: Box set, Limited Edition, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2001-08-21
Audience Rating: Unrated
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- You Can Tell The World
- Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream
- Bleecker Street
- Sparrow
- Benedictus
- The Sound Of Silence
- He Was My Brother
- Peggy-O
- Go Tell It On The Mountain
- The Sun Is Burning
- The Times They Are A-Changin'
- Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.
- Bleecker Street
- He Was My Brother
- The Sun Was Burning
- The Sound Of Silence
- Leaves That Are Green
- Blessed
- Kathy's Song
- Somewhere They Can't Find Me
- Anji
- Richard Cory
- A Most Peculiar Man
- April Come She Will
- We've Got A Groovy Thing Goin'
- I Am A Rock
- Blues Run The Game
- Barbriallen
- Rose Of Aberdeen
- Roving Gambler
- Scarborough Fair/Canticle
- Patterns
- Cloudy
- Homeward Bound
- The Big Bright Green Pleasure Machine
- The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)
- The Dangling Conversation
- Flowers Never Bend With The Rainfall
- A Simple Desultory Philippic (Or How I Was Robert McNamara's Into Submission)
- For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her
- A Poem On The Underground Wall
- 7 O'Clock News/Silent Night
- Patterns
- A Poem On The Underground Wall
- Bookends Theme
- Save The Life Of My Child
- America
- Overs
- Voices Of Old People
- Old Friends
- Bookends Theme
- Fakin' It
- Punky's Dilemna
- Mrs. Robinson (From The Motion Picture 'The Graduate')
- A Hazy Shade Of Winter
- At The Zoo
- You Don't Know Where Your Interest Lies
- Old Friends
- Bridge Over Troubled Water
- El Conder Pasa (If I Could)
- Cecilia
- Keep The Customer Satisfied
- So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright
- The Boxer
- Baby Driver
- The Only Living Boy In New York
- Why Don't You Write Me
- Bye Bye Love
- Song For The Asking
- Feuilles-O
- Bridge Over Troubled Water
Music reviews of Columbia Studio Recordings 1964-70
Music Review: What a dream I had, pressed in organdy ...
Rating: 5 Stars
"... Clothed in crinoline of smoky burgundy, softer than the rain."
Def: Organdy (noun): Organdy or organdie is the sheerest cotton cloth made. Combed yarns contribute to its appearance and it is very prone to wrinkling.
God only knows what Paul Simon was thinking when he penned the bulk of his lyrics, but his perversion of the usage of fabric oriented terms, archaic language and obtuse symbolism is enough to make one wonder.
Having searched far and wide for the ultimate Simon & Garfunkel collection to own and having purchased all of these albums that are contained herein before, I'm pleased to say that this is the way to go without any doubt.
Simply boxed with miniature album covers that double as CD cases and individually shrink wrapped, a booklet with the original album liner notes are included as well as a small essay on each album by Bud Scoppa.
The photographs are the only questionable material within this package. Several of the photos have a very homo-male-bonded look to them that in several shots look more than unsettling and have a very 'Olan Mills' wedding quality.
The albums are as follows:
1. Wednesday Morning, 3 AM - c. 1964
2. Sounds of Silence - c. 1966
3. Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme - c. 1966
4. Bookends - c. 1968
5. Bridge Over Troubled Water - c. 1970
These albums are what was originally known as "concept albums" back when Rock and Roll was young and ideas were shaping the music industry rather than what we have today, the industry shaping the albums and the artists themselves.
Strangely for that reason, young people will continually drift towards music like this as it is often seen and understood as unassuming, unpretentious and pure. It may sound over the top, but when you consider the vacuum that exists in modern music today, it's no wonder that Simon & Garfunkel albums continue to sell surprising numbers worldwide.
Most are probably experiencing these albums for the first time, but I feel I should tell you that the best way to hear these albums is to play them from start to finish and without impatience and with an impartial ear. Simon & Garfunkel were writing these songs much in the same way that Bob Dylan was writing albums like Blood on the Tracks & The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan. They are a response to the social constrictions, the poverty, the hopelessness, the freedom, the infrastructure that was place for some but not for others and the political landscape. It may not be heard like that today, but in its day it was all too obvious and was a vanguard of the counter-culture and the subversive underclass of America. These albums were the soundtrack of the youth in the middle of their struggle. But one should not feel alienated by this when listening, as it's just as much your music as it was any one else's for that matter. If you're hearing `For Emily, whenever I may find her' for the first time, then the effect it has on you, is just as genuine as it was back then, but probably moreso. Things must first `wear tear' in the mind to seat into its proper place, to paraphrase a great American author and poet.
Some people have only experienced Simon & Garfunkel through Greatest Hits collections, and while that's fine, in and of itself, it's actually a disservice to the mood and message that's surgically removed when listening to collections rather than the core. Some songs may come across like juvenile playground anthems, and some as just a Beckettian whisper over a trash-pile, but each has their rightful place within the consciousness of the sound of the album and shouldn't be missed at all.
Description of Columbia Studio Recordings 1964-70
This deluxe collector's box contains all five of the original Simon & Garfunkel studio albums recorded for Columbia Records. Every album has been digitally remastered and contains rare and/or previously unreleased bonus tracks. Each CD comes packaged in a special sleeve that replicates the original LP artwork. A separate booklet containing rare and never-before-seen photos, new liner notes, detailed track information, lyrics and all original album information is also included inside. A special tribute to one of the greatest popular ever!Though the American folk movement of the early '60s would influence bands like the Byrds and Buffalo Springfield and a score of oh-so-sensitive '70s singer-songwriters, its two most looming successes during the decade--Bob Dylan and Simon and Garfunkel--couldn't have seemed more disparate. While Dylan turned hard-left, outraging many a folk purist by zealously embracing rootsy blues-rock and its electrified cacophony, S&G veered toward the center, equally infuriating snooty pundits by embracing a Top 40 pop sense whose ostensible shallowness often belied its rich musical diversity. In retrospect, Simon and Garfunkel's career as a duo was remarkably brief (five albums in six years), if no less commercially potent (a slew of Top 40 singles, two Number One albums, and the requisite handful of Grammy Awards). This box set compiles digitally remastered versions of the original S&G albums, each expanded to include bonus tracks (mostly previously unissued demos with a few scattered outtakes, the quartet on Sounds of Silence the best of the lot) and a booklet featuring new notes for each album and song lyrics. It's a rewarding journey, wending from the almost slavish folk devotion of Wednesday Morning 3 AM through the greeting-card iconoclasm of Sounds of Silence, the madrigal-pop of Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme to the increasingly impressionistic lyrical landscape of Bookends. It also covers the rich musical tapestry of Bridge over Troubled Waters, which foreshadowed Simon's own diverse solo career by embracing everything from the Everlys and Jan & Dean to Andean folk and R&B. --Jerry McCulley
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