Essential Simon & Garfunkel

Simon & Garfunkel - Essential Simon & Garfunkel

Essential Simon & Garfunkel
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Artist: Simon & Garfunkel
Edition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2003-10-14
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. Live
  2. Bleecker Street
  3. The Sound Of Silence
  4. Leaves That Are Green Live
  5. A Most Peculiar Man Live
  6. I Am A Rock
  7. Richard Cory
  8. Kathy's Song Live
  9. Scarborough Fair/Canticle
  10. Homeward Bound
  11. Sparrow Live
  12. The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)
  13. The Dangling Conversation
  14. A Poem On The Underground Wall Live
  15. A Hazy Shade Of Winter
  16. At The Zoo
Music CD 2
  1. Mrs. Robinson
  2. Fakin' It
  3. Old Friends
  4. Bookends Theme
  5. America
  6. Overs Live
  7. El Condor Pasa (If I Could)
  8. Bridge Over Troubled Water
  9. Cecilia
  10. Keep The Customer Satisfied
  11. So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright
  12. The Boxer
  13. Baby Driver
  14. The Only Living Boy In New York
  15. Song For The Asking
  16. For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her Live
  17. My Little Town

Music reviews of Essential Simon & Garfunkel

Music Review: Better Off With The Single Disc Collection
Rating: 3 Stars

Simon & Garfunkel are one of my all time favorite groups. They rank right up there with Zeppelin, Dylan, The Beatles, The Who, the Stones, Queen and all my other favorite musicians.

I loved my very first S & G cd, "The Best Of Simon & Garfunkel". Since that collection had but a mere 20 songs and had a somewhat short running time of only 64 minutes, I felt I hadn't gottent the full extent of their work. I thought I'd get a far greater view with the two cd, 31 song "The Essential Simon & Garfunkel". Unfortunately, I was wrong. Why? Read on for the positives and the negatives.

Positives:
-You do get the most well known hits from the band. "The Sound Of Silence", "Homeward Bound", "I Am A Rock", "Scarbourough Fair/ Canticle", "Hazy Shade Of Winter", "The 59th Street Bridge (Feelin' Groovy)", "Mrs. Robinson", "The Boxer", "Bridge Over Troubled Water" and all the rest of the band's biggest hits are here.
-A few underrated gems are included as well, such as "Keep The Customer Satisfied", "So Long Frank Lloyd Wright" and "Baby Driver".
-Good sound quality.
-Affordable enough.
-Easy to locate.

Negatives:
-As many reviewers pointed out, several of the songs are different than the original versions, most notably "Homeward Bound", "The Sound Of Silence" and "I Am A Rock".
-Too many live versions! If they wanted to make a far more concise S & G collection that could've perhaps been definitive, they should've put the original versions.
-Neither disc fills up the eighty minute time limit. Stuff like "He Was My Brother", "7 O'Clock News/Silent Night", "Save The Life Of My Child", "Punky's Dilemma", not to mention the studio versions of the live tracks, could've easily been included.
-"Old Friends" and "Bookends" are separated. I've always preferred them together, like on "The Best Of Simon & Garfunkel".
-Sound quality is good, but the earlier "The Best Of Simon & Garfunkel" is better IMO.

Overall, this is a decent collection, but I feel that the single disc "The Best Of Simon & Garfunkel" is BY FAR a better bet. I hope to one day acquire the "Columbia Studio Recordings" boxed set, but until then, "The Best Of Simon & Garfunkel" is the best I can do. I prefer it to "The Essential Simon & Garfunkel", which I find pretty weak.
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Description of Essential Simon & Garfunkel

Japanese Blu-Spec CD pressing of this classic album. The Blue Spec format takes Blu-ray disc technology to create CD's which are compatible with normal CD players but provides ultra high quality sound. Sony. 2009.

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