CD 8: Songs from The Capeman (1997)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks+Cue+Log + Scans ~ 404 Mb (incl 5%) |
Rock, Soft Rock, Folk Rock | Label: Warner | # 8122-78906-2 | Time: 01:06:20
專輯介紹:
During the production of The Rhythm of the Saints, Paul Simon latched upon the idea of turning the story of Salvador Agron -- a '50s Puerto Rican hoodlum nicknamed the Capeman -- into a musical. (Agron was convicted of stabbing two kids to death during a New York street fight; during his prison term, he educated himself and turned into a poet and activist.) Collaborating with poet Derek Walcott on the lyrics and book, Simon worked on the musical for seven years, writing a set of songs that evoked doo wop, '50s rock & roll, and Puerto Rican music. A few months before the Broadway premiere of The Capeman,Simon -- who was not performing in the musical -- released Songs from The Capeman, an album that functioned as a calling card for the play. The record suggests what a complex and ambitious musical The Capeman may be, but it doesn't succeed on its own terms.Simon's songs have the narrative drive of a stage musical, but are littered with idiosyncratic, conversational flourishes, profanities, and self-consciously literate wordplay that keep them insular and nearly impenetrable. Similarly, the music is forced and labored -- it often sounds like he has to push the melodies into unnatural paths -- and it never has the graceful, joyously organic spirit of doo wop and Puerto Rican music, which is what he needed to capture in order for The Capeman to succeed. Instead, the project is a cerebral exercise, not only in writing but also in white liberal guilt, and it's an exhausting one at that. [In 2004, Warner Strategic Marketing reissued Simon's studio albums as remastered editions with bonus tracks, packaged in cardboard digipacks. Like the other Simon reissues in this series, the remastering is excellent. Songs from The Capeman contains three bonus tracks, all previously unreleased. "Shoplifting Clothes" is an unreleased song from the recording sessions, while there are demos of "Can I Forgive Him" and "Born in Puerto Rico," the latter featuring José Feliciano.]Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Allmusic.com
曲目
01 - Adios Hermanos
02 - Born In Puerto Rico
03 - Satin Summer Nights
04 - Bernadette
05 - The Vampires
06 - Quality
07 - Can I Forgive Him
08 - Sunday Afternoon
09 - Killer Wants To Go To College
10 - Time Is An Ocean
11 - Virgil
12 - Killer Wants To Go To College II
13 - Trailways Bus
14 - Shoplifting Clothes (unreleased)
15 - Born In Puerto Rico (demo, Jose Feliciano)
16 - Can I Forgive Him (original demo)
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CD 9: You're the One (2000)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks+Cue+Log + Scans ~ 375 Mb (incl 5%) |
Genre: Rock, Soft Rock, Folk Rock | Label: Warner | # 8122-78907-2 | Time: 00:56:40
專輯介紹
The disaster of The Capeman hit Paul Simon particularly hard, so he decided to quickly record a new album, his first proper collection of songs since 1990's The Rhythm of the Saints -- his first album in ten years, really. Nevertheless, if this album has a relative, it's 1982's Hearts and Bones, since it's a deliberately low-key, insular record, especially when compared to the sweeping worldbeat explorations of Graceland and Rhythm. But where Hearts and Bones was a singer/songwriter album, no two ways about it, You're the One illustrates the influence of its predecessors, but it's not showy about it. The African and South American rhythms are as much a foundation of Simon's music as folk is, and his compositions reflect it, boasting surprisingly tricky rhythms that carry through to his melodies themselves. That, combined with Simon's determination to meet aging head-on, makes You're the One a bit of an acquired taste, especially since its compositions are never overtly accessible and melodic -- they're all tone poems, driven as much by tone and lyric as song itself. This all results in a record that may be a little too deliberately low-key and elliptical for most tastes, especially since it demands full concentration even from serious fans. But this does reward close listening, and even if it doesn't shine as brilliantly as Hearts and Bones (his most underappreciated record), it does share some similarities in that it's an unassumingly intellectual record that feels like it was made without an audience in mind. Which means it's more interesting than successful, but interesting can have its own rewards. [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. You're the One contains three bonus tracks, all taken from the live home video You're the One: In Concert: "That's Where I Belong," "Old," and "Hurricane Eye."]Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Allmusic.com
曲目
01 - That's Were I Belong
02 - Darling Lorraine
03 - Old
04 - You're The One
05 - The Teacher
06 - Look At That
07 - Senorita With A Necklace Of Tears
08 - Love
09 - Pigs, Sheep And Wolves
10 - Hurricane Eye
11 - Quiet
12 - That's Where I Belong (live)
13 - Old (live)
14 - Hurricane Eye (live)
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