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I’m equally enamored with and indifferent to Paul Simon’s catalogue, but the dude is multifaceted. He works in the border regions of folk, pop and rock, but he’s not particularly edgy. He’s collaborated with famous musicians, while others claim he stole from them. He’s a Jew, yet Jesus pops up here and there in his work. He’s sometimes awkwardly and seriously self-conscious, yet found it in himself to cut loose on Saturday Night Live on more than one occasion. And he was FUNNY.
When I was a kid, we would sing out the line, “slip slidin’ away” when appropriate, in winter. None of us kids knew the rest of the lyrics. If we had, we might have grown up jaded.
All the way from 1977, here’s Rhymin’ Simon with some help from the Oak Ridge Boys, of all people. A non-LP track that was originally tacked on to a greatest hits album. A “close, but not cigar” somber ditty for a Saturday night when everything just seems to slip away.
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Ya mean I shouldn't have listened to the lyrics? I wouldn't have wound up like this?
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Simon's music falls easy on the ear and he is masterful at creating hooks that stay inside our heads.
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One of my favorites. I listened to the lyrics as a kid but I'm ok...really
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You seem okay to me.
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And then there was this:
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