CD 2: There Goes Rhymin' Simon (1973)EAC | FLAC | Tracks+Cue+Log + Scans ~ 309 Mb (incl 5%) |
Genre: Rock, Soft Rock, Folk Rock | Label: Warner | # 8122-78900-2 | Time: 00:50:08
Retaining the buoyant musical feel of Paul Simon, but employing a more produced sound,There Goes Rhymin' Simon found Paul Simon writing and performing with assurance and venturing into soulful and R&B-oriented music. Simon returned to the kind of vocal pyrotechnics heard on the Simon & Garfunkel records by using gospel singers. On "Love Me Like a Rock" and "Tenderness" (which sounded as though it could have been written to Art Garfunkel), the Dixie Hummingbirds sang prominent backup vocals, and on "Take Me to the Mardi Gras," Reverend Claude Jeter contributed a falsetto part that Garfunkel could have handled, though not as warmly. For several tracks, Simon traveled to the Muscle Shoals Sound Studios to play with its house band, getting a variety of styles, from the gospel of "Love Me Like a Rock" to the Dixieland of "Mardi Gras." Simon was so confident that he even included a major ballad statement of the kind he used to give Garfunkel to sing: "American Tune" was his musical State of the Union, circa 1973, but this time Simon was up to making his big statements in his own voice. Though that song spoke of "the age's most uncertain hour," otherwise Rhymin' Simon was a collection of largely positive, optimistic songs of faith, romance, and commitment, concluding, appropriately, with a lullaby ("St. Judy's Comet") and a declaration of maternal love ("Loves Me Like a Rock") -- in other words, another mother-and-child reunion that made Paul Simon and There Goes Rhymin' Simon bookend masterpieces Simon would not improve upon (despite some valiant attempts) until Graceland in 1986.Review by William Ruhlmann, Allmusic.com
曲目:
01 - Kodachrome
02 - Tenderness
03 - Take Me To The Mardi Gras
04 - Something So Right
05 - One Man's Ceilling Is Another Man's Floor
06 - American Tune
07 - Was A Sunny Day
08 - Learn How To Fall
09 - St. Judy's Comet
10 - Loves Me Like A Rock
11 - Let Me Live In Your City (work-in-progress)
12 - Take Me To The Mardi Gras (acoustic demo)
13 - American Tune (unfinished demo)
14 - Loves Me Like A Rock (acoustic demo)
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CD 6: Graceland (1986)EAC | FLAC | Tracks+Cue+Log + Scans ~ 365 Mb (incl 5%) |
Genre: Rock, Soft Rock, Folk Rock | Label: Warner | # 8122-78904-2 | Time: 00:53:58
With Graceland, Paul Simon hit on the idea of combining his always perceptive songwriting with the little-heard mbaqanga music of South Africa, creating a fascinating hybrid that re-enchanted his old audience and earned him a new one. It is true that the South African angle (including its controversial aspect during the apartheid days) was a powerful marketing tool and that the catchy music succeeded in presenting listeners with that magical combination: something they'd never heard before that nevertheless sounded familiar. As eclectic as any record Simon had made, it also delved into zydeco and conjunto-flavored rock & roll while marking a surprising new lyrical approach (presaged on some songs on Hearts and Bones); for the most part, Simon abandoned a linear, narrative approach to his words, instead drawing highly poetic ("Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes"), abstract ("The Boy in the Bubble"), and satiric ("I Know What I Know") portraits of modern life, often charged by striking images and turns of phrase torn from the headlines or overheard in contemporary speech. An enormously successful record, Graceland became the standard against which subsequent musical experiments by major artists were measured. [In 2004, Warner Strategic Marketing reissued Simon's studio albums as remastered editions with bonus tracks, packaged in cardboard digipacks. Like the otherSimon reissues in this series, the remastering is excellent. Graceland has three bonus tracks, all previously unreleased. There's a demo of "Homeless" that consists largely ofSimon singing the chorus over an acoustic guitar; there's a spare unreleased version of "Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes" that's close to being Simon's vocal and rhythm track from the released version; finally, there's an "Early Version" of "All Around the World or the Myth of Fingerprints" that sounds closer to a full-on Los Lobos track than the finished version.]Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Allmusic.com
曲目:
01 - The Boy In The Bubble
02 - Graceland
03 - I Know What I Know
04 - Gumboots
05 - Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes
06 - You Can Call Me Al
07 - Under African Skies
08 - Homeless
09 - Crazy Love Vol. II
10 - That Was Your Mother
11 - All Around The World Or The Myth Of Fingerprints
12 - Homeless (demo)
13 - Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes (unreleased version)
14 - All Around The World Or The Myth Of Fingerprints (early version)
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