Simon & Garfunkel Albums Ranked From Worst to Best
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- Simon & Garfunkel were an American folk-rock duo consisting of singer-songwriter Paul Simon and singer Art Garfunkel. One of the best-selling music groups of the 1960s, their biggest hits-including "The Sound of Silence" (1965), "Mrs. Robinson" (1968), "The Boxer" (1969), and "Bridge over Troubled Water" (1970)-reached number one on singles charts worldwide.
Today, Jason, Joe, and Kramzer ranked all 5 of the duo's studio albums.
Albums Discussed:
Wednesday Morning, 3 AM
Sounds of Silence
Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, & Thyme
Bookends
Bridge Over Troubled Water
Let us know how you rank 'em down in the comments.
Thanks for watching!
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Grew up listening to Simon & Garfunkel. Absolutely fantastic duo!
1 Bridge over Troubled Water
2 Sounds of Silence
3 Bookends
4 Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme
5 Wednesday Morning, 3 AM
Terrific review guys! All your comments were meaningful and to the point. Even when you disagreed, I could see the reasons for both parts. I really enjoyed it. Keep up the good work!
So great to hear you guys talking about Simon & Garfunkel! I first heard them as a child because my dad kept a cassette tape (a collection) in the car. Didn't understand a word, but I loved the sounds of the voices and the arrangements (although I couldn't have called it that back then, obviously). As a teenager I kind of discovered them for myself when I started singing and making music with my cousin. We tried to copy the two-part harmony arrangements of "Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M." (the song) and "The Boxer". I don't listen to Simon & Garufunkel constantly, but once a year or so, I really need to hear their music all over again. Their sound is still pure magic to me. Thanks for the interesting video (I know, I'm late)!
My ranking:
5: Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme
4: Sounds of Silence
3: Bookends
2: Bridge Over Troubled Water
1: Wednesday Morning 3 AM (I really dig The Sound of Silence and Bleecker Street)
Such a great treat on this Tuesday.
YEah. The guys have a great channel.
@@NaughtyVampireGod wholesome
I used to hate S & G with a passion, but in time I came to love their music and all their albums.
Really enjoy this channel, especially now that you’re doing it all three together. It makes the rankings so much more interesting. Last week I enjoyed your ranking of Joni Mitchell albums, and if you haven’t heard the version of Both Sides Now by The Tallest Man On Earth, you should check it out.
My ranking
1. Parsley sage rosemary and thyme (criminally underrated, my favourite album of all time)
2. Bookends
3. Sounds of silence
4. Bridge over troubled water
5. Wednesday morning 3am
Great description of Paul Simon's lyrics by Joe. He does sound like he's scattin and a bee boppin ,even on his later tunes.
5. Wednesday Morning, 3 AM, 4. Sounds of Silence, 3. Bridge Over Troubled Water, 2. Parsley, Sage...etc., 1. Bookends
Art Garfunkel's Angel Clare is a very good album.
I prefer Fate for Breakfast for sentimental reasons. I don't think Art Garfunkel's solo work is essential listening but I do think it is underrated.
It sucks.
Watermark breakaway and fate for breakfast have to be my favorites of his
Good job, guys. And I might add that Paul Simon's "American Tune" from "There Goes Rhymin' Simon" is as relevant today as it was in 1973.
You guys, go now and watch The Graduate, fall in love with Katherine Ross, and let the music wash over you. Unrequited love and longing - the best musical representation. Also Bookends theme appears a couple of times in Coming Home and it’s devastating.
First two lists I've seen so far that align with mine.
1. Bridge Over Troubled Water
2. Bookends
3. Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme
4. The Sounds of Silence
5. Wednesday Morning, 3 AM
Yeah, the literally just got better as they went on.
...1965...During the two-week sojourn, Barret and Gilmour got drunk, had fun, played their guitars, and were arrested for busking....that October at a country house in Great Shelford .. at birthday party...the bands performed on two stages at either end of a marquee. Also playing that night was an unknown American singer-songwriter called Paul Simon....Nobody knew who he was, ....He came up and said , "Can I Play with you? And we were like, "You're an acoustic folk singer: we're a rock'n'roll band". He said, " I can do 'Johnny B. Goode'. So we eventually let him get up and have a go....excerpt from a book PINK FLOYD - Pigs Might Fly - Mark Blake.
Listening to "My Little Town" from 1975 really leaves me to lament what could have been. Simon had a great solo career, but those harmonies would have translated really well into the 70s songwriter era.
Best music ever!
I'm not American but surely these guys must be national treasures. Well, for the music-loving educated, middle-classes I suppose. The amount of classics of American songwriting they released in these few albums, forming part of the national consciousness but also the way the USA is viewed from Europe. The descendants if you will of Gershwin, Berlin and Cole Porter. Songs like I Am a Rock, America, Mrs Robinson, Homeward Bound, Bridge over troubled water seem like the kind of songs that were meant to be discovered and have existed over time immemorial, much like a sculptor would claim the statue he made was always hidden in the block of stone it was made out of. One of my favourite ever artists despite their limited discography. Bridge over troubled water is my third favourite song of all time. Art Garfunkel's vocals on this are out of this world and perfect.
I always imagined the Boxer as a down and out drifter on the fringes of society cuddled up with newspapers on a bench next to a soup kitchen far removed from the amenable trappings of the middle class.
Sounds of Silence was their breakout song becoming top 10 world wide ,number 1 in North America .
Mrs Robinson was also huge. Even a top 10 hit in the UK ,The Boxer ,Bridge Over Troubled Water were huge around the world as well.
The album itself was actually the top selling album before Michael Jackson's Thriller was released
Bookends gets my vote as the top S&G studio album. Why? The songs, of course. They speak to me in a way that the songs on Troubled Waters don't. Simple as that. Parsley and Sage would be my number two.
Yeah, probably the definitive example of a group that pretty much gets better as they went along.
1. Bridge Over Troubled Water
2. Bookends
3. Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme
4. Sounds of Silence
5. Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.
Frank Lloyd Wright is incredible. After the EPIC opening and closing tracks it is one of my favs on this album. Bookends is great but so short at 29 minutes.
Yes, Paul Simon often wrote tongue-in-cheek songs, so "59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)" is one of of those.The group Harpers Bizarre had a hit with it. It's certainly a happy- hippy-trippy pop song that fit the marijuana atmosphere of the times. I particularly like the phrase, "Hello lamp post, whatcha knowing? I come to watch your flowers growing, Ain't ya got no rhymes for me?" I think their song entered the American consciousness BEFORE Simon's version (not sure on that point) but it entered mine that way, I was about 8 - 9 years old at the time.
More Tongue In Cheek:
See how he name-checks Dylan in "A Simple Desultory Philippic (Or How I Was Robert McNamara'd Into Submission)" - - Robert McNamara was in both the Kennedy & Johnson administrations responsible for our Vietnam War effort for the younger folk who may not know that. And what's with the long titles using parentheses???
In the song, after playing a particularly bad harmonic part, "bad" as in "poorly," he says "I dropped my harmonica Albert." He's poking fun at Dylan, whom Simon considered his rival & often put down by claiming that Dylan was just doing more of the Beat poetry thing which came from the prior generation of the 1950s. Anyway, Albert Grossman was Dylan's manager. Hence the quip "I dropped my harmonica, Albert" near the end of the song.
P.S. - Funny how Simon writes the word Feeling as Feelin' - - that immediately makes the song a "folk song" as Dylan always used the contraction in his lyrics. Just saying...
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I have the same complete ranking as yours in chronological order. They just kept getting better. Agre that the procution of the Bridge over Troubled Water album is great but that the mixing on just a few occasions are off. Especially the harmonica in The Boxer is mixed so high that it steals too much focus from the song in my opinion. I see Bye Bye Love (live) as a filler on the album and I absoluty love the beauty of So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright. Genious chords and chord progressions fitting the beautifully sung melody.
Hi Guys: Yeah. Gotta go with the consensus here. Bridge is their best album. Strongest songs. Most consistent. Basically their albums improved each time out and they finished with the best. I think Bridge was my third favorite album of 1970 - certainly in the top 5.
1. Bookends
2. Bridge over troubled waters
3. Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme
4. Sounds of silence
5. Wednesday morning, 3 AM
In high school I bought Bookends and to me it is the best. It has to be listened to start to finish. There are a number of themes woven together in a Sargent Pepper's sort of way. I don't think that it can be picked apart song by song. S&G are using the studio in a whole new way. It edges out Bridge Over Troubled Waters.
I think of S&G as a singles band more than an album band really. A few of their singles are just magical. So cool. Bookends is really a compilation, an EP of new material + previously issued/recorded singles and Graduate soundtrack material more than an album conceived start to finish and done in one go. Parsley is probably my favorite whole-cloth album of theirs, very evocative of its time and the best production of all of them. Bridge has some wonderful songs but also has that live version of Bye Bye Love which makes the whole thing feel like a compilation, Frank Lloyd Wright is kinda weak, and Baby Driver drives me nuts for some reason. Those three tracks don't feel like they belong.
1. Parsely
2. Bridge
3. Bookends
4. Sound
5. Wednesday
5 - "Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M."
4 - "Bridge Over Troubled Water"
3 - "Sounds Of Silence"
2 - "Bookends"
1 - "PARSLEY, SAGE, ROSEMARY & THYME"
Scarborough Fair is the most beautiful song they did. It has "magic".....
To Joe...WTF??....That part of Bookends you don't care for is kind of the heart of that album!..It might mean more when you get older.It might be a matter of perspective....or maybe you just don't get it.
I don’t want it. - Joe
I think Bookends was my favorite whole album for a long while -- except for Voices of Old People. No one likes that. No one.
I do, It's tragic. Listen to what they say and especially how they say it.
Agreed I don’t mind it either, it’s sad and fits the mood
I love The Bangles version of "Hazy Shade of Winter"! Definitely agree that it's my favourite version.
My worst-best Simon and Garfunkel albums of all time.
5. Wesdney morning 3 A.M.
4. Bookends
3. Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme
2. The sound of silence
1. Bride over troubled water
5) Wednesday Morning, 3 AM - actually, I find several of the songs somewhat annoying and unlike much of the rest of their recordings...and that's my impression just four songs into the album. Clearly they had SOMETHING going for them...but the recordings on this album wasn't it. I liked 4 of the songs, 2 of them obvious choices. Otherwise, I liked "Bleecker Street" and the title track.
4) Sounds of Silence - This album starts off with 4 great tracks. Then it hits a snag. "A Most Peculiar Man" is OK. "April Come She Will" is clearly a classic, thanks to The Graduate. "I Am A Rock" takes me back to those high school days, listening to their Greatest Hits over and over again. Classic tune.
3) Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme - "For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her" is probably my 3rd favorite song of theirs behind a couple from the "Bridge" album. Boy, Paul Simon is in love with long song titles on this one. Paul Simon like himself some Paul Simon writing. I really like 7 of the songs...1 more than Sounds of Silence, which makes this their #3 album.
2) Bookends - I guess they just kept getting better and better as they went on. Joe is spot on about this record. On this one, I like 8 songs. 1 more than P, S, R & T. Side 2 is amazing. "America" is...just far too relevant these days. "Kathy, I said, I'm lost / though I knew she was sleeping." Our country is lost. Hopefully, the damage done will be healed over time.
1) Bridge Over Troubled Water - I think this album is just about perfect. "Bridge" and "The Boxer" are clearly 2 of the greatest songs ever written and performed. "The Only Living Boy In New York" is probably my favorite song of theirs behind "The Boxer." I always enjoyed "Baby Driver" and "Keep The Customer Satisfied." How can you not love "Cecilia" and "El Condor Pasa?" The rest of it is above average to good Simon and Garfunkel music.
Nice video guys. Just a few follow-up comments on things you've said.
1. Their second album, "Sounds Of Silence" probably sounds "rushed" because the two were broken up at that point. Their first album sunk like a stone & sold so poorly that Paul Simon left for the London scene to pursue a solo career. Garfunkel I believe was attending college. They had no plans to get back together. Simon did a radio interview at the time overseas there, where lots of his new songs showed up like "Kathy's Song" & "Homeward Bound" sung just by himself on guitar. In fact, you can find THAT album of songs which was released a few years back, not part of the Simon & Garfunkel catalogue. Interesting to compare the songs as a solo acoustic performer in contrast to the sweet harmonies of the duo.
Another Thing:
The story goes that Bob Dylan wanted to go electric, so his producer Tom Wilson, purely as an experiment more-or-less, took Simon's song "The Sound Of Silence" from their first album & turned the acoustic song into "folk rock" by using a backing band. I'm pretty sure it was more for Wilson's benefit for him to get a better understanding in the studio of what Dylan might have wanted.
Well, the song became a big hit. Simon & Garfunkel were caught totally unawares. They heard it on the radio ! So Paul came back to NYC & Columbia of course wanted them to do an entire album to cash in on the song. So, in a weird way, if it weren't for Dylan wanting to go electric, we may not have heard of "Simon & Garfunkel" at all.
2. Someone mentioned the organ as being a highlight instrument on one of the albums, saying something to the effect that it sounded like "Blonde On Blonde" & may have preceded Dylan's release of that album.
Okay, but it's still little backwards - - because after Dylan told Wilson "I don't care who's playing the organ, turn it up" in the mix of his mega-hit song "Like A Rolling Stone," it seems EVERYONE wanted the organ sound on their album from then on. Al Kooper who played that organ wasn't even supposed to have been on the studio floor (he was in the control booth with Wilson) but he snuck out when Wilson had to take a phone call. Kooper wasn't even an organ player. He played guitar. But he put his guitar away when Dylan arrived with the great guitar player Mike Bloomfield. Kooper knew he couldn't match that guy's chops. He only went on the organ because the keyboard player had moved to piano, freeing up the organ spot. When Wilson realized he was out there, he said on the overhead mike, "What are you doing out there?"
But after a few more takes (I think they did about 2 dozen), Dylan had the song as he wanted it except for the organ, which Wilson kept burying in the mix. Dylan liked the "wild mercury sound" it was giving him in conjunction with his harmonica.
Anyway, the rest is history.
"Like A Rolling Stone" certainly preceded whatever Simon & Garfunkel album you were referring to.
Al Kooper was handed an entire career as a session keyboard player because of Dylan's song. So, the point I'm making is that the organ appearing on a Simon & Garfunkel album had a lot to do with the new sound of what the music press dubbed "folk rock" as advanced by Dylan & his producer Tom Wilson. Both Dylan & Simon & Garfunkel were on the Columbia label. Some of their albums share the same producer Bob Johnston (after Dylan dropped Wilson who was really more of a jazz producer).
Sidenote:
I just checked Dylan's album"Highway 61 Revisited" in which "Like A Rolling Stone" kicks it off. Bob Johnston produced that album, except for that one song. So Dylan might have changed his mind about Wilson after the organ 'disagreement.' Johnston produced S&G's "Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme." (I always thought "Time" should have been used instead of "Thyme but that's just me.)
Bruhhh
Wikipedia gives a slightly mixed story as to when The Sound of Silence was re-recorded with the folk-rock backing. According to the recording dates...the song was overdubbed on THE SAME DAY (June 15, 1965) that "Like A Rolling Stone" was first recorded. Further down in the Wikipedia article, it makes it sound like "Like A Rolling Stone" had already been out a while. I'm sure some musicologist knows the exact truth about this.
@@chrisdelisle3954 Just be aware that those are two separate things:
1. The producer put the band backing on "Sounds Of Silence" to give Dylan an idea of what his new hybrid of folk & rock might sound like. The fact that it happened on the same day lends credence to what I've learned before, that it was a 'test example' for Dylan. It probably was never intended to be released as a single or charting song.
2. The fact that it was released as a single for the radio airwaves AFTER the success of "Like A Rolling Stone" makes perfect sense. Once Columbia saw Dylan's song climbing the charts, they would want to cash in on "the new sound." So "Simon & Garfunkel" was reborn as folk-rock. They didn't even know about it. When they learned that their song was getting airplay in its new rock clothes, they got their duo act back together, when they had already gone their separate ways. It was their most obvious path to musical success.
1. Bridge Over Troubled Water (Oh, I do really enjoy the acoustic translucence of the sound in this album. And Simon starting to venture in the music of the world... there's even bossa-nova - even being the weakest track!)
2. Bookends (A lot more memorable songs; "Mrs. Robinson" is, definetely, their best guitar track. A better version than the one(s) in "The Graduate" movie. "America" is a great composition too.)
3. Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme (They are just starting to perfect their craft... "Scarborough Fair/Canticle" is AMAZING.)
4. The Sounds of Silence (I do prefer the electric version of "The Sound of Silence", even though I don't dislike the original at all.)
5. Wednesday, Morning 3AM (It doesn't do much to me. Passable only. But "The Sound of Silence" is a highlight.)
Very nice, breezy discography. No. 5 and no. 1 is pretty much set in stone, but the other three are basically just as good.
5. Wednesday Morning, 3 AM (1964) ★★★
4. Bookends (1968) ★★★★
3. Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme (1966) ★★★★
2. Sounds of Silence (1966) ★★★★
1. Bridge Over Troubled Water (1970) ★★★★★
★★★★★ - Masterpiece
★★★★½ - Really great
★★★★ - Great
★★★½ - Really good
★★★ - Good
★★½ - OK
★★ - Bad
★½ - Really bad
★ - Awful
½ - The worst
My obligatory ranking:
1.Bridge Over Troubled Water: 10/10 : Amazing collection of different ideas that are executed perfectly.
2.Bookends: 10/10 : The whole Bookends suite is my favorite thing Simon & Garfunkel ever did with the rest being a collection of awesome tracks.
3.Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.: 8,5/10 : Great album that does get significantly worse in the 2nd half with mostly ok and good tracks but the first half is extremely consistent.
4.Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme: 8,4/10 : Great album with A weird flow. This album goes from Amazing tracks to good and ok tracks which makes the average go down. Also the final track isn't really that great of an ending for the album.
5.Sounds of Silence: 8,1/10: Great album with mostly good and ok tracks with a few standsout that put it higher. The one thing about this album is that the production is easily their worst on ANY album and it's not the entire album either. Some tracks sound amazing and others sound like a mid 60s rolling stones album. It ruins a couple of tracks. Overall it is really solid but it could have been better.
I too think Bridge is their best album and yes it is overproduced/orchestrated especially on The Boxer (the echo drum and voices) and the final verse/chorus of Bridge which takes a way from the album a little bit but not much.
I love Garfunkel’s solo work. Fate for breakfast and breakaway showcase his vocal gift
Finally, an Art defender! He’s taken some hits in the comments so far. - Joe
I am more team Art. He’s a musical instrument that made those poems music
I wrote a very positive review of "Breakaway" on the long-defunct CD Now website back in 2000... Art rules..
Breakaway is really good.
Simon and Garfunkel have a lot of quintessentially classic songs, impeccable harmonies, some fantastic albums, but for me Bookends is the best. Maybe the overly earnest and neurotic urban nerd label was erroneously attached to try to trash their image among the misguided hip, but this music speaks to many who are alienated in quiet desperation if not always at least at times in their life and their music also inspires an uplifting Feeling Groovy smile as a soothing interlude to the reflective and gloomy mood.
1. Bookends- an intoxicating haze of nostalgia. longing and earnest searching hovers like a phantom over the whole album and gives it kind of a thematic unity like a trippy going on a journey of discovery feel. I also believe it has their most stand out tracks, especially America, Mrs. Robinson (great guitar), Fakin It (shades of Jefferson Airplane and Mamas and Papas), A Hazy Shade of Winter and At the Zoo. Bookends and Old Friends are also an emotionally affecting and poignant interlude in my opinion. I also find Save the Life of My Child is their best and most experimental psychedelic song a spacy sense that At the Zoo one of their best lyrical compositions also suggests. I wonder if the movie scene in The Graduate where Dustin Hoffman stares at the apes while following the woman he is in love with and her boyfriend to the zoo was an inspiration for At the Zoo, since the album was released shortly after the movie. For me, a group's music has never been linked to so many scenes or established such a profound psychological feel for a flick. Overs and Voices of Old People is a dip in quality comparatively with a pick up coming with Punky's Dilemma which is a bit more effective as a spacy tongue and cheek scooby snack interlude.
America and Mrs. Robinson are anthemic.
2. Sounds of Silence really close has the least filler and the rawest most direct edge. I actually like the continuity and flow of songs best on Sound of Silence combined with a bit of a harder edge sound. Sound of Silence and I Am a Rock are two of my favorite tracks by the group.
3. Bridge Over Troubled Waters I really like the Boxer, Keep the Customer Satisfied (my favorite especially the line I get slandered I get libeled / I hear words that aren't even in The Bible), Baby Driver and if in the proper melancholy mood Bridge Over Troubled Waters (the Sail on Silver Girl part is great) and CeCelia which is really sunny and pop friendly despite the neurotic feeling of the singer while having the most innovative percussion with stomping and hand claps, but a few songs seem a bit slick in production or covers Bye Bye and a tad slow in pace like Frank Lloyd Wright (just OK for me), though El Condor Pass is impressive in setting a laid back pace like a swan soaring seaside against a russet manteled sky at sunset. The Only Living Boy in New York does a fine job at recreating some of the intensity of atmosphere and earnestness in the song America from Bookends and reminds me some of the mood and production in an early Pink Floyd song, but lacks the melodic hook or sense of human connection present in the song America- one of their best. Also despite their excellence, Bridge Over Troubled Water and THe Boxer can potentially plunge the listener into a forlorn state of melancholy, so let the listener beware especially with no companionship there.
4. Scarborough Fair mainly for the stand out tracks Scarborough Fair, Feeling Groovy Homeward Bound, Take me Home Country Roads and Leaving on a Jet Plane by John Denver are really good, but I always get the sense that Homeward Bound captures this lugubrious dip into loneliness at its most intense and was a likely inspiration for the latter.
5. Wednesday Morning more immediate better continuity than Bridge and Scarborough Fair but the composition highs aren't nearly as great or as original
1. Bridge Over Troubled Water
2. Bookends
3. Sounds of Silence
4. Parsley, Sage Rosemary and Thyme
5. Wednesday Morning 3 A.M.
One of Robert Christgau’s most infamous opinions was: He loves Paul Simon and almost creamed in his jeans when he put out his debut self-titled solo album, but he hated Garfunkel and thought he was a total hack and a stifling impediment to Simon’s true potential and genius. I’m curious to hear what you guy think about that lol 😂
Someday you’ll find out
I revisited them last week and agree with Kramzer’s order. Not much separation between the top 4.
My Ranking:
1)Bookends,
2)Sounds of Silence,
3)Bridge over Troubled Water,
4)Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme,
5) Wednesday Morning, 3 AM
Exactly the same for me
BOTW was their best selling by a mile. Some major rock mags have called it somewhat overrated, possibly because of the production (use of strings). The people who grew up in the 60s probably have more of a fondness of the first 4 albums (Almost Famous movie)
1. Bridge Over Troubled Water
2. Bookends
3. Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme
4. Sounds Of Silence
5. Wednesday Morning 3AM
Para mim purista da sacrossanta música acústica o melhor é wednesdsy
Not much to add with the ranking. I think most lists would look more or less like yours.. Perhaps some really diehard fan who over-played all the hits would rank it differently all together.
One cool thing though. A few years ago Paul Simon toured with Sting. Both artists had their time and own bands so lots of musicians on stage. I went there because of Paul Simon mostly but it was Sting who made the most memorable performance. He was doing the song America and I thought it was time to get a beer. Sting doing Art Garfunkel vocals? Really? But he nailed it. Made the song his own and it sounded fantastic!
Scarborough Fair is the most beautiful song they did. It has "magic".....
*g* about Kramser's "favorite herbs" comment--I use 'em on pizza, among other things.
I've always thought Baby Driver and Why Don't You Write Me off "Bridge" were both rather weak. Great album though, as are all the S&G albums. "Parsley" was my favorite for many years, "Bridge" is obviously great, and "Bookends" also needs a mention.
Trifecta was Pet Sounds too
I GOT A DISDAINFUL SHOUTOUT.
Have you guys ranked albums by Weezer?
Not all of us.
@@TastesLikeMusic I did find and watch yours. I like them more than you do. But it's weird because I had not even heard the "Blue" or "Pinkerton" or ANY Weezer record until a deep dive into the Ric Ocasek solo stuff lead me to weezer (he produced a few of their albums). And Blue and Pinkerton are near the bottom of my ranking. White is my favorite. Happiness and Peace. Maybe you'll get around to doing one with all three of you? I would watch it. lol. Thanks.
I quote Joe "I like some of their songs but not so much their albums" (not exact quote). They are part of my youth's soundtrack and I know their stuff by heart, but not much of it has aged well. Some hits and some deep cuts never lost their charm.
I never cared for Art Garfunkel. The first two Paul Simon albums are masterpieces, the rest of his catalogue has a song here and there but otherwise I find most of it overrated.
5. Wednesday Morning 3 AM (Just like the Dylan debut, not yet there)
4. Bridge Over Troubled Water (Cecilia is still nice, the rest is just...too much, they try everything to sound classic and great and it is so boring...Still not crazy after all these years...)
3. Bookends (Yes covered America, check it out even if you do not like Yes.)
2. Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme (The title song and Dangling Conversation are great but the production "glue" is terrible)
1. Sounds of Silence (Not a single bad track here, the lean arrangements do them good, almost like Blonde on Blonde, it never gets old. It is their only album I still enjoy listening to as a whole, it is fresh and unambitious and just makes its points.)
Dangling Conversation is such a sleeper hit. My favorite song of the group, I won't say it's the best I reserve that for The Only Living Boy in New York.
GO BUCS!
YOU STRUGGLE TO SEE IF PAUL SIMON IS A GREAT LYRICIST. SIR.
Early Paul Simon can be endearingly overly '60s, though. His 1965 solo album is probably peak that (which would make sense).
I'm love Simon & Garfunkel, but Paul Simon's solo albums are better (IMO).
I prefer Garfunkel's solo work over Simons. Each of their debut albums proved to be their best efforts. Angel Clare and Watermark are as a good as any S&G album.
I really don't know their records but they have 20 good songs (I sort of remember bands that way). But Bookends is great. Just love "At the Zoo". The worst song (not on Bookends) that annoys me more than any song by the duo is "The Boxer". I know it's loved by so many but it's just so annoying and boring to me. I usually like a lot of folk rock but the steel pedal guitar, bass harmonic, piccolo trumpet .. makes the song worse. I understand Life is a boxing match. I hate the li la lies.
Trolls
Your life experience may be too narrow to properly appreciate Frank Lloyd Wright.
Bill Thompson that’s a bit presumptuous. I’m at least 8 years older than he was when he wrote it.
@@TastesLikeMusic hahahaha
We grew up less than an hour from falling water....
So Long Frank Lloyd Wright is my fav song of theirs.
Of course it's about Art Garfunkel and not the architect. Apparently Garfunkel didn't even know that till much later, though I'm sure he must have got some of the references I suppose he didn't understand the whole song was about him going away. Garfunkel had studied architecture.
Anyway if this album does have problems with production it definitely isn't on this song, and the end with that comment left in on the fade out is so neat. The bossa-nova rhythm shows Paul Simon trying out different styles again, as he would on his solo albums (hope you cover that eventually).
If there's a weakish song I think Why Don't You Write Me could be it. Not that catchy or that deep sounding, ok though.