This was written in the sixties when the threat of nuclear war was new. This describes the impact a nuclear bomb would have on a community. Beautiful and horrible at the same time. Good for S & G as they tried to lessen the threat through music. I am enjoying your reactions. I don’t always agree but you give a different perspective in those instances and for that Thank you.
This was an outstanding album! I still remember the day I bought it. I probably remember that day because of the picture on the cover and the fact that I took a subway ride to buy it in a Cambridge Massachusetts record store. Great reaction too Harri! And yes, it was about a nuclear bomb. Shortly before this period we were still practicing drills in school where we would hide under our desks (like that would save us), air raid sirens were tested regularly and and a yellow civil defense symbol was painted on public buildings deemed to offer the best protection in case of a nuclear bomb attack.
I know quiet a few Simon and Garfunkel songs 😇😍 But never heard of this one 🤨😊 Poul Simons excellent skills as a singer and songwriter 🥰😇 topped with Art Garfunkels angelic voice 😇😇😇 Poul Simons voice is very pleasant by it self, but together they are diomonds 🤩😇😇
These two guys will always be my favorites when it comes to vocal harmony. Craig, thank you for requesting this gorgeous song. I had not heard this for three decades or more. Thanks to Harri for articulating the same ways I feel about these voices 🌺✌️
They kind of sound like angles. I believe this song would be good for fussy babies to listen to. Thank you HarriBest for your reaction; I love your Chanel.
There’s another song on this album that is called Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream which depicts the opposite, peace throughout the world. When it comes on from my music, I keep hitting repeat ❤️
I'm Japanese and loves your reactions to their songs. You are such an intelligent person. I've been such a S&G fan for almost 40 years. I'll be glad if you could react to the Wagakki Band next time. The lyrics of their songs are very deep and hope you''ll like the sounds of their songs!
The lyrics specifically reference a mushroom cloud. The song ends with people blinded by the nuclear flash and presumably burned and maimed by the heat, and in the darkness not just of blindness but nuclear winter as well. Definitely a beautiful if depressing, melancholic artifact of its era.
I was active in the anti-nuke movement in Cambridge, Mass. in the '80s, along with many people there, and this was one of the songs that got played a lot on "The Coffeehouse", an excellent radio show of Americana and British Isles acoustic music. But it was Kate Wolf's haunting version of the song that got most play, and I think because it sounds more serious. This one is too bright and frivolous, by comparison. Kate's version would put chills down your spine. th-cam.com/video/G7Ei_PQf2Lw/w-d-xo.html
I enjoyed your reaction, thanks for sharing. Although I treasure many of Simon and Garfunkel's songs, I prefer John McDermott's version of this song. If you haven't reacted to any of John's songs, his WWI songs are gems. My favorite is "The Green Fields of France". I also like "And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda" and "Christmas in the Trenches". There are surprisingly few songs about WWI.
Perfect representation of a pretty park in the evening with families, then a thermonuclear detonation (which is exactly what the sun is) followed by nuclear winter. Anti nuclear protest song done right.
A beautiful song isn’t it ? But I still find it a bit amusing how they sing so beautifully about death from a nuclear bomb! The difference is too stark and brings an odd reaction to the listener. The melody and the singing is great though.
This was written in the sixties when the threat of nuclear war was new. This describes the impact a nuclear bomb would have on a community. Beautiful and horrible at the same time. Good for S & G as they tried to lessen the threat through music.
I am enjoying your reactions. I don’t always agree but you give a different perspective in those instances and for that Thank you.
This was an outstanding album! I still remember the day I bought it. I probably remember that day because of the picture on the cover and the fact that I took a subway ride to buy it in a Cambridge Massachusetts record store. Great reaction too Harri! And yes, it was about a nuclear bomb. Shortly before this period we were still practicing drills in school where we would hide under our desks (like that would save us), air raid sirens were tested regularly and and a yellow civil defense symbol was painted on public buildings deemed to offer the best protection in case of a nuclear bomb attack.
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I know quiet a few Simon and Garfunkel songs 😇😍 But never heard of this one 🤨😊 Poul Simons excellent skills as a singer and songwriter 🥰😇 topped with Art Garfunkels angelic voice 😇😇😇 Poul Simons voice is very pleasant by it self, but together they are diomonds 🤩😇😇
These two guys will always be my favorites when it comes to vocal harmony. Craig, thank you for requesting this gorgeous song. I had not heard this for three decades or more. Thanks to Harri for articulating the same ways I feel about these voices 🌺✌️
You’re welcome!
They kind of sound like angles. I believe this song would be good for fussy babies to listen to. Thank you HarriBest for your reaction; I love your Chanel.
You have to remember when this song was written, then you'll understand why it's so important.
Mushroom cloud is a pretty big hint.
This song hit me like a ton of bricks when I bought this album on the sale rack in 1978.
Written by the brilliant Scottish folksinger Ian Campbell. There's another fantastic version of this song done by the great Luke Kelly.
This was my first S&G album and I love it. My mom bought it for her but I think I wore it out. Such great music!!!
There’s another song on this album that is called Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream which depicts the opposite, peace throughout the world. When it comes on from my music, I keep hitting repeat ❤️
Love these guys and they never had a bad song, and those harmonies!
Beautiful, delicate harmony. I thought of the atomic bombs dropped on Japan that brought WWII to an end. Tragedy all around. Enjoyed your reaction.
I'm Japanese and loves your reactions to their songs. You are such an intelligent person. I've been such a S&G fan for almost 40 years. I'll be glad if you could react to the Wagakki Band next time. The lyrics of
their songs are very deep and hope you''ll like the sounds of their songs!
My English teachers in 1969- 71 would teach Simon and Garfunkel lyrics in class As well as Shakespeare..
Go figure.
The tiny blossom that blooms is the drag chute of a nuclear bomb.
The lyrics specifically reference a mushroom cloud. The song ends with people blinded by the nuclear flash and presumably burned and maimed by the heat, and in the darkness not just of blindness but nuclear winter as well.
Definitely a beautiful if depressing, melancholic artifact of its era.
It's an anti-nuke song.
The mushroom cloud in the lyrics refers to a nuclear explosion
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Craig, I have to thank you for this one. I haven't heard this in way too long. Gear submission and review by Harri.
Interesting to see you work out the meaning, Harri!
Atomic bomb 💥 ☢️
You missed the “mushroom cloud” line, of a nuclear bomb.
Have you done Bridge over Troubled Waters yet? If you ever hear an angel sing it will sound just like Art Garfunkel singing this!
I was active in the anti-nuke movement in Cambridge, Mass. in the '80s, along with many people there, and this was one of the songs that got played a lot on "The Coffeehouse", an excellent radio show of Americana and British Isles acoustic music. But it was Kate Wolf's haunting version of the song that got most play, and I think because it sounds more serious. This one is too bright and frivolous, by comparison. Kate's version would put chills down your spine. th-cam.com/video/G7Ei_PQf2Lw/w-d-xo.html
I enjoyed your reaction, thanks for sharing. Although I treasure many of Simon and Garfunkel's songs, I prefer John McDermott's version of this song. If you haven't reacted to any of John's songs, his WWI songs are gems. My favorite is "The Green Fields of France". I also like "And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda" and "Christmas in the Trenches". There are surprisingly few songs about WWI.
Green Fields of France is a masterpiece
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"But here in this graveyard it's still no mans land."
Perfect representation of a pretty park in the evening with families, then a thermonuclear detonation (which is exactly what the sun is) followed by nuclear winter. Anti nuclear protest song done right.
Look up : Sun is Burning Terminator 2.
It superimposed the nuclear war scene over the song.
Nice song. I've heard a lot of their songs, just not this one. It didn't get much airplay, I guess.
It's about a nuclear explosion!
Nuclear War. This was the 60's. Anti- nukes.
Uh, things haven’t changed.
About the dropping of the atom bomb on Japan. Mushroom cloud.
More like over the United States.
During the 1960s.
This song was released sometime after the Cuban Missile Crisis.
A beautiful song isn’t it ? But I still find it a bit amusing how they sing so beautifully about death from a nuclear bomb! The difference is too stark and brings an odd reaction to the listener. The melody and the singing is great though.
I think it must be about a nuclear explosion, so yes, war.
Perhaps it is not sun, but son - Jesus and the end times rapture and resurrection.
Nope. Not at all.
Feel free to believe that though.
Sorry Paul and Art but the most outstanding rendition has to be Luke Kelly.
I agree, Luke's is the best version. The way he sings 'blinding FLASH'. Written by Ian Campbell in the early 1960s.