The album also sports two of the most famous and well-loved non-singles in the duo’s catalog, the pensive and dramatic “America” and the tear-jerking, strings-laden ballad “Old Friends.” This is a true masterpiece and easily one of the greatest albums of the Sixties.īridge Over Troubled Water (1970, Columbia)Īn ever-so-slightly overrated album, there’s still little denying the brilliance of this album, and if Bookends isn’t the best album the duo ever made, then this is it. Robinson” is here, as are the wildly underrated Top 40 hits “Fakin’ It,” the surprisingly hard-hitting “A Hazy Shade of Winter”(arguably the best uptempo song Paul Simon has ever written and the closest the duo has ever come to cutting a power-pop song), and the playful “At the Zoo.” This album is so, so much more than its singles, though, and the quality of the surrounding album cuts like “Save the Life of My Child” and “Punky’s Dilemma” is first-rate indeed. It works brilliantly, though, the non-LP sides fitting in surprisingly well with the album’s concept. The album admittedly gets a tad pretentious at times, but Simon makes up for it with the high quality of cuts like “A Poem on the Underground Wall,” “Patterns,” and the jubilant “Cloudy.” The album also ends in spine-tingling fashion with “7 O’Clock News/Silent Night,” which features the duo singing the Christmas carol it shares part of its title with against a backdrop of tragic announcements from a news broadcast.Īrguably the best album the duo ever made, this concept album about friendship and aging was, in actuality, an odds-and-ends package coupling several previously-released non-LP singles with a side’s worth of new tracks. There are some singles to be found here, including the brilliant vocal interplay of the stunningly beautiful “Scarborough Fair/Canticle,” the poetic “The Dangling Conversation” (most likely the only Top 40 hit in history to ever name-check Emily Dickinson), and the wistful folk-rock of the Top Ten hit “Homeward Bound.” While never released as a single by the duo, “The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin’ Groovy)” would become one of their signature tunes and would nearly reach the Top Ten in the form of a cover by the folk duo Harpers Bizarre (whose members – fun trivia alert – included future Van Halen and Doobie Brothers producer Ted Templeman). The duo’s third full-length is the duo’s first true album piece, and it’s a pretty captivating one. Simon And Garfunkel – Cecilia – 2:53 (816 kbps, 16.Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme (1967, Columbia).Simon And Garfunkel – Bookends – 1:21 (578 kbps, 5.56 MB).
Simon & Garfunkel have two 3-CD box sets collecting their entire career output, one with out-takes and live recordings, but the duo who were among the bestselling acts of the 1960s only recorded five studio albums throughout the entire 1960s! Their studio perfectionism is never better served than here. Simon_And_Garfunkel-Greatest_Hits-REMASTERED-CD-FLAC-1990-FLACMEįLAC (tracks) 16 bit/ 44,1kHz | Time – 00:44:13 minutes | 218.87 MB | Genre: Rock
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