Simon & Garfunkel - Wednesday Morning 3 Am (Exp)
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Artist: Simon & GarfunkelEdition: Music CD
Format: Extra tracks, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2001-08-21
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- You Can Tell The World
- Last night I Had The Strongest 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 Is Burning
Music reviews of Wednesday Morning 3 Am (Exp)
Music Review: It's Folk Music
Rating: 4 Stars
Well, the title kind of says it all. This is what Simon and Garfunkel were before a producer got it in his head to incorporate some electric sounds with Sound of Silence. Taken for what it is, it's a passable record (a better-than-average folk recording, if that counts for anything), but it suffers from some serious problems.
So what's wrong with it? Well, to start, it's a folk record from the sixties, which is to say that it's whiny, plaintive, and, for the most part, a little adolescent. The songwriting is not up to the standard that you'd expect if you're a latter-day Paul Simon (there's a reason he's divorced himself from a number of these songs). It's still better than average, but compared to other Paul Simon and Simon and Garfunkel recordings, it's clearly second-tier.
More importantly, it's a FOLK record. A great many of the previous reviewers have evidenced a marked disappointment with that fact. It's SUPPOSED to only have acoustic guitars and vocals. You're not going to find the radio versions of any song whose name you might recognize on the track list. In the catalog of Simon and Garfunkel recordings, this is the red-headed stepchild, taken from the time before their big break with the reworked (and, yes, not included here--you'll have to go to the album of the same name for the radio version) Sound of Silence.
That said, Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel have better talent for singing than most folk performers (and I kind of mean, you know, ever--Bob Dylan is charming and all, but let's not confuse ourselves into thinking that he has any talent for actually singing). The two harmonize very effectively, and while the songwriting has its occasional cringeworthy moments (He Was My Brother is simplistic to say the least, and I would avoid reading the liner notes entirely), it is still mostly above the bar.
As part of a Paul Simon collection, you pretty much have to include this record. It's one of the five Simon and Garfunkel albums, after all, even if more of the memorable releases from the duo on their other four. I'd also recommend it to fans in the folk music genre. For a casual listener just looking for a good Simon and Garfunkel record, however, I'd try something else first.
Finally, a note regarding the bonus material. If you're considering purchasing the new release of the CD to get the included bonus songs, don't. In some cases with the Simon and Garfunkel rereleases, it's worth it, but in this case, you just get virtually identical versions of three songs you already have.
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